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The many deaths of Optimus Prime

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{{disambig3|Death of Optimus Prime}}
[[File:Afterdeath-gameoverman.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Oh, he's gone and died again. Botheration! Most inconvenient.]]
Across the various continuities, '''Optimus Prime dies a lot.''' This happens for various reasons:

*It allows for him to be replaced by [[Hot Rod (G1)|a new character]] (and thus [[To sell toys|a new toy]]).
*It allows for him to come back from the dead in a new body (again, a new toy).
*It's dramatic (or it used to be).
*It makes him into something of a [[Jesus|Christ]]-figure.
*It allows for numerous [[Optimus Prime memorial|memorials]] to be constructed in his honor (though they're sometimes built even ''before'' he dies, morbidly enough).
*It allows him to come back stronger than before as a sort of Deus ex Machina just when it seems the Decepticons are on the verge of victory.

Nearly every continuity family has featured Optimus Prime dying at least once; notable outliers are the Primes from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon]] (though an alternate version [[Shell Game|wasn't so lucky]]) and ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' (since in that case, it's [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]]'s job).

{{quote|Oh, you Optimuses do love to sacrifice yourselves, don't you?|A very genre-savvy [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]|"[[Other Voices, Part 2]]"}}

==Generation 1 cartoon continuity==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[File:Wardawn orion dies.jpg|right|upright=1.15|thumb|Dying before he's even Optimus Prime (he's that good).]]
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Orion Pax]] died (or was at least severely damaged by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]) and had to be rebuilt into Optimus Prime by [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. It's possible that if Orion had not been repaired, Optimus Prime would have ceased to exist. Pax's girlfriend Ariel was also heavily damaged, and rebuilt into [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]. They were with their friend [[Dion (G1)|Dion]] when they were attacked by Megatron, but he was never rebuilt and presumably died. {{storylink|War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn}}

===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
[[File:TFTM dead gray Prime.jpg|left|thumb|{{w|Oscar Wilde#Exile|"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."}}]]
This is the best known example, in which [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] infamously dies of wounds from his battle with Megatron. Notably, his body [[Aggressive depigmentation|turns gray]] as he dies. ([[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers|Urban legend]] says his body also ''crumbles,'' but no such footage is known to exist.) Being the first time he died, it was actually unexpected. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}} Hasbro have since regretted killing Optimus, not realising how much little boys were attached to him.<ref>https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/transformers/28748/the-writer-of-transformers-the-movie-on-killing-optimus-prime</ref>

===''Kiss Players''===
Sometime between [[The Transformers: The Movie|2005]] and [[The Transformers (cartoon)|2010]], [[Marissa Faireborn]] revives Optimus using the Galvatron cells in her body... by kissing him. Ultimately, all the cells are put back into [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]], and without them, Optimus promptly dies again. {{storylink|Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)#CD_collections_and_special_episodes|You, I and the Spinning Earth}}

===''The Transformers'' Season 3===
[[File:Optimusg1zombie.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|"He's passed on! This Optimus is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his rectifier coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-AUTOBOT!!"]]
He returns from the dead ''twice;'' first as a [[zombie]] under [[Quintesson]] control as part of a plan to destroy the [[Autobot]]s, only to die again when he overcomes the Quintesson control through the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] and possibly the strength of his will, and sacrifices himself to save the Autobots. {{storylink|Dark Awakening (episode)|Dark Awakening}} He then was brought to life again (and stayed alive). {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

===''The Headmasters''===
[[File:Headmasters-primedies.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"...I'm dead." "YES, you are!" "You think that's funny, Jennings?!"]]
Prime's death in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' was sort-of recreated in a flashback montage, but not really. Rather than die while taking down his ultimate nemesis in a one-on-one struggle to the death to defend his city, his comrades, the planet [[Earth]], and freedom itself, he just kind of gets randomly shot while in the middle of an ordinary battle outside of the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], and turns gray. Nobody else seems to notice this. It's not clear that ''Prime himself'' notices it. It's about the most half-hearted death ever. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}}

Optimus Prime later died again — in another act of self-sacrifice, of course — when he walked into [[Vector Sigma]] and tried to bring it back under control directly. His body turned gray as he died, followed by a (likely only symbolic) scene of him telling [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] that it would be his responsibility to keep leading the Autobots and to continue his work, seen as a transparent, light-haloed figure against the sky and heard in third person narration as Rodimus stared into the sky. (Then again, given the [[Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime|proven]] [[Starscream's Ghost|exis]][[Ghost in the Machine (G1)|tence]] of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|gho]][[Alpha Trion (G1)|sts]]...) {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

===''Unite Warriors''===
Optimus Prime is revived through the efforts of Vector Sigma and [[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]]'s new healing unit, but his multiple previous deaths have left their mark and Vector Sigma's power can only keep him alive for seven days. {{storylink|Megatronia Chapter}} After a week has passed, Optimus dies again until a more powerful energy source can be found. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}}

===''Return of Convoy''===
The [[Battlestars]] managed to restore Optimus's life with the power of the [[Zodiac]], evolving him into Star Convoy. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars}}

===''Generation 2''===
In the Japanese version of ''Generation 2'', Optimus Prime was badly wounded by Megatron's [[fusion cannon]] and almost died, but was resurrected and evolved yet again, this time into [[Laser Rod]] Optimus Prime, by the power of the [[Reconfiguration Matrix]]. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (pack-in manga)##13 Battle Convoy (2-pages)|G-2 #13}}

===''Henkei!'' manga===
{{Stub|{{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}}}}

==Marvel Comics continuity==
===Generation 1===
[[File:Pmoptimusprimedeath.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|"Give me my face!"]]
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], after failing to live up to his moral principles while playing a video game against [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], actually ''volunteers'' to be killed. The Autobots launch his [[Transformer funerary practices|funeral]] bier into space. Fortunately, the creator of the video game, [[Ethan Zachary]], saves a backup copy of Prime's mind on a [[floppy disk]]. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}} We first meet this virtual Prime sixteen issues later. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}} He gets his new [[Powermaster]] body two issues thereafter. {{storylink|People Power!}} A previous attempt was made at making virtual Prime a new body. The body ''spontaneously blew up''. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

About thirty issues later, Prime sacrifices himself again to defeat [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}} and dies. {{storylink|Still Life!}} However, his Powermaster partner, [[Hi-Q]], survives, and almost immediately begins babbling about how he's ''really'' Optimus Prime. This turns out to be true, and the [[Last Autobot]] metamorphoses Hi-Q into Prime (with a new [[Action Master]] body) in the last issue of the original Marvel US series. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

===''Generation 2''===
[[File:Swarmoptimus.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Unleashing the light of the Matrix upon a great evil. Again.]]
This Prime wasn't done dying yet. His adventures continued in the G2 comics, and he died defeating the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]]. The Swarm reconstituted him three pages later (in a body based on his then-current [[Hero (G2)|Hero]] toy). {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}

===''Regeneration One''===
Despite being possessed by the [[Dark Matrix]] creature, a wounded Optimus Prime was able to help [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]] stop the creature's plan to spread across the multiverse from [[Zero Space]]. At the conclusion of the conflict, Rodimus and Spike bore witness as Optimus died in his protege's arms in the Primus chamber. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
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==2005 IDW continuity==
[[File:Unicron6 The Last Hug.jpg|thumb|200px|]]
{{quote|Optimus will be back. He '''always''' comes back.|[[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]]|"[[The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing]]"}}

It looks like [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|this Optimus Prime]] made a habit of almost dying even before he became a Prime - [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] shoots him in the back, {{storylink|Overthrown}} and one issue later every Autobot believes Orion Pax is dead... but is he? (SPOILER ALERT: No, he's not.) {{storylink|Transformation (issue)|Transformation}}

In his first battle with the [[Ore-13]] powered Megatron, Optimus was killed. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5}} Or at least, his ''main body'' was: by quickly downloading his consciousness into [[Combat Deck (G1)|Combat Deck]] (and then back again), Optimus was able to survive. Being that close to death meant he briefly existed in a [[infraspace|limbo]] state, which got him noticed by [[Nova Prime]] in the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}

He then spends a considerable period badly damaged and near death. He is revived, however, when [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] and his crew arrive. {{storylink|The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron}}

A rare ''metaphorical'' version occurs when he leaves Cybertron to appease the anti-Autobot [[NAIL]]s. With no duties or lives to mind but his own, and no Matrix to carry, he claims that Optimus Prime is dead, but Orion Pax has been reborn. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} Of course, just like the real deaths, this one doesn't stick; Orion later reclaims the Optimus name during his final battle with [[Nova Prime]]. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

Ultimately, Prime finally met his end by jumping into the black hole at the heart of Unicron. Within the confines of Infraspace, he extended a hand of compassion to [[Unicron's creator]], allowing the two to peacefully pass on as Unicron's body collapsed in on itself. {{storylink|Ceremony}}

Meanwhile, [[Domitius Major|a guy who ''thought'' he was Optimus Prime]] died on Earth during [[World War I]]. The closest he came to returning to life was having a bunch of [[IRON Trooper]]s wear his dead body like a suit. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}}

==''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoon continuity==
[[File:Machinima-Titans-Return-Ep10-OptimusDies.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by you...]]
At some point during the Great War, Megatron killed Optimus, but he eventually came back. Years later, Megatron sarcastically asked if Optimus was still mad at him for it. {{storylink|The Fight Begins}} When [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] returned, Optimus attempted to stop him, but Megatronus shot a beam clean through his chest and he died once again. {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}} His [[spark]] passed on to the [[Well of All Sparks|Well of Sparks]], but thanks to his connection to the Matrix and the Primes, it was freed after Megatronus's destruction, and he emerged from the Well with a shiny new body. {{storylink|Saga's End}}
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==''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
[[File:Smelt Prime.JPG|right|upright=1.1|thumb|"I'm not quite dead yet! I feel happy!"]]
In ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', you could mark the end of a season by the near-death experience of one [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus]] or [[Optimus Prime (G1)|another]]...

At the end of the first season of ''Beast Wars'', Optimus Primal piloted a bomb-equipped [[stasis pod]] in an attempt to destroy the [[Planet Buster]]. Unfortunately, [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] had sealed the pod's hatch, and Optimus blew up with it. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}} Early in the second season (a few hours later as far as the characters were concerned), [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] managed to unite Optimus's drifting [[spark]] with a [[blank]] [[protoform]], thus bringing him back to life (and in a new [[Transmetal]] [[:File:BadSpark Optimus robot mode.jpg|body]], too). {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

At the end of the second season, the ''Beast Wars'' Megatron came very close to killing the original Optimus Prime. But [[Optimal Situation|Prime didn't ''quite'' die]], so we really shouldn't count it. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

(Strangely, the end of the third season of ''Beast Wars'' had no Optimus deaths whatsoever! A half-dozen others died, but not Optimus.) {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

===''Beast Machines'' cartoon===
At the end of the first season of ''Beast Machines'', Optimus and Megatron had a cataclysmic battle, using the energies of [[Vector Sigma]] and the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]]. This would have destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but Optimus took the warring energies into himself and disintegrated. However, his spark was trapped within the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], and the other [[Maximal]]s convinced him to return to the real world at [[Fallout (episode)|the start of second season]]. The Oracle kindly gave him a new body (which, believe it or not, was ''not'' a new toy). {{storylink|End of the Line}}

During a trip to the underground ruins of Iacon, Optimus Primal encountered a hologram of the original Optimus Prime, who claimed to have perished in "the final battle", presumably in the Great War. The hologram was a ruse by Megatron, so make of that what you will. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search|The Search}}

At the end of the series, Optimus Primal gave his life to defeat Megatron once and for all, pushing him into the [[technorganic]] [[organic core|core of the planet]]. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}} In assorted ancillary media, he comes back to life yet again. {{storylink|Transformers: Universe (comic)|Transformers: Universe}} {{storylink|Beast Wars Reborn}} {{storylink|Transformers: Alternators}}

==IDW Beast Wars comics==
In the final conflict of the Great War in 2035, Optimus Prime and Galvatron were both killed on Cybertron. Command of the Autobot forces subsequently fell to the [[Primal Council]]. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

==''Beast Wars: Uprising''==
''This'' Optimus Prime has been through a hell of a lot.

In this particular universe, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] succeeded in his time-travelling gambit to kill Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime died, and as a result of his death the Maximals and Predacons that had engineered his death succumbed to the history-altering [[timestorm]] as the timeline spun off onto a new course. {{storylink|A Change to the Agenda}} Without Optimus's inspiring presence, the Great War was much more violent, and Earth was ravaged by the depredations of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}}

By 2033, the Autobots had managed to revive their leader through unknown means, and when the war spread to [[Master (planet)|Master]] he binary-bonded himself to a trio of [[Cyberdroid]]s, including [[Diac]], who replaced Prime's damaged head. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}} [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] fondly recalled a moment when he crushed Optimus's new head, which can't have ended well for ol' Prime. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Ultimately, Optimus Prime would die for good after sacrificing himself to the Swarm in an attempt to save the [[Human Confederacy]], taking the Matrix with him. {{storylink|Book of Logos}}

In the 24th century, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] was one of several rebels against the new [[Builder of Cybertron|Builder]] status quo, but her breaking point came when her colleagues [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] died. When her commander Optimus Primal refused to turn against the Builders, Blackarachnia and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] killed him. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|"TransTech" Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25}}

==''Robots in Disguise'' continuity family==
===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
This [[Optimus Prime (RID)#Notes|Optimus Prime]] is one of the only Primes that ''didn't'' die! However, he came ''very'' close in the final battle, when he planned to sacrifice himself to stop [[Megatron (RID)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}}

===Shell Game===
[[File:ShellGame optimusprime.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1|Good thing we didn't see what happened to him, or else [[The Transformers: The Movie|history would've repeated itself.]]]]
And scratch what we said above, because a 2015 retcon says a version of him was killed by [[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]] in [[Viron 704.31 Epsilon]]. {{storylink|Shell Game}} The tyrannical Decepticon's victory had come about in part due to the transdimensional abductions of several of Prime's loyal Autobots by [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/30}}
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==Unicron Trilogy continuity family==
===''Armada'' cartoon===
[[File:Crisis Optimus Prime dies.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Now Optimus, don't go all to pieces. You say you have to split? Well, you're a chip off the ol' block.]]
[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] used his body to block the blast of [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s [[Hydra Cannon]], protecting the [[Earth]]. When the cannon's energy is spent, we see Optimus turn grayish-white, then ''actually'' crumble to bits. {{storylink|Crisis (Armada)|Crisis}} A bunch of [[Mini-Con]]s use the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to resurrect him three episodes later. {{storylink|Miracle}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
''An'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from [[Primax 703.02 Gamma|a Primax universe]] where he was fatally wounded by Unicron briefly appears before dying. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} Yep, practically all we know about this Optimus is that he died. He doesn't turn gray, but his colors are faded.

===''Cybertron'' comic===
[[File:Nemesisprimetfuclone.jpg|left|thumb|Technically, this is the clone.]]
The corpse of [[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]] (killed by [[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]]) from [[Aurex 304.0 Epsilon]] was cloned by Unicron to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe)|Nemesis Prime]]. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 2}} {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Once again, practically all we know about this Optimus is that he died.
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==Live-action film series==
{{Note|Though Optimus Prime doesn't die in the first [[Transformers (film)|movie itself]], he does consider fusing the [[AllSpark]] into his own spark, an action that would destroy them both, if necessary to keep it out of Decepticon hands.}}

===''Transformers The Game''===
In Decepticon mode storyline, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was beaten to the ground, and as he crawled for the [[AllSpark]], [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] smashed his head with his flail... poor Prime, he gets the most violent death. {{Storylink|Transformers The Game (console)}}

===''Transformers Decepticons''===
While Megatron sought the Allspark, which Starscream had stolen, he was confronted by Optimus. The two brothers fought, Optimus telling him he would never build an empire, until Megatron vanquished him. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Decepticons}}

===Titan movie comics===
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Optimus was left in a frozen, ''near''-death state. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
[[File:ROTF Optimus death.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|Shot through the heart, and [[Megatron (Movie)|you're]] to blame, you give love a bad name!]]
This is perhaps the most brutal Prime death to date, in keeping with the rather more graphic nature of combat in the live-action movies. To protect [[Sam Witwicky]], Optimus Prime engaged in a fierce battle with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]]. Despite injuring Starscream and destroying Grindor by ripping his head apart, Optimus is viciously run-through from behind by Megatron and then blasted through the back, killing him. While dead, Optimus' body is depicted with faded colours in reference to his history of turning gray upon death. This event causes Sam to follow the symbols the AllSpark sliver placed in his mind to find the ancient [[Matrix of Leadership#Live-action film series|Matrix of Leadership]], the only thing that could restore life to Optimus. Unfortunately, it crumbled into dust upon touching it in the [[Tomb of the Primes]] on the border between [[Egypt]] and [[Jordan]]. During the climactic battle in Egypt between [[NEST]] and the Decepticons, Sam was seemingly killed by Megatron, only to be taken to another plane of existence where he met [[Dynasty of Primes|the Primes who died]] to prevent [[The Fallen]] from achieving victory, and they bestowed upon him the true Matrix, which allowed Sam to revive Optimus. {{Storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
{{Note|In the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]] of ''Revenge of the Fallen'', unlike the movie, it is explicitly stated that Optimus Prime survived Megatron's attack, but was so badly damaged his body had gone into [[stasis lock]], and would likely stay that way for many years while his body repaired itself if not for Sam's intervention.}}

===''Dark of the Moon'' film===
When Sentinel Prime revealed he had made a deal with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] long ago, and coerced the human governments to exile the Autobots from Earth, Optimus and the Autobots were forced to board the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' and leave Earth. After it had successfully lifted off from the [[Kennedy Space Center]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] destroyed the craft during its ascent into Earth's atmosphere, seemingly killing its occupants (including Optimus). Fortunately for humanity, Optimus and the Autobots had hid themselves inside the booster rockets, which were jettisoned and landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean and Optimus evaded dying yet again. He later killed Megatron ''and'' Sentinel, making things even. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

===''Age of Extinction'' film===
Optimus Prime is SO good at dying, that he ''started the movie'' effectively dead after a human ambush in between movies - obligatory human [[Cade Yeager|Cade]] brought him back to life with a few repairs and a jump-start with a car battery. Even if it's not the miracle of rebirth we're used to, ''nothing'' kills our Prime for long - not even treacherous humans with exploding heavy artillery. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

===''The Last Knight'' film===
Optimus ran out fuel on his way to meet the mysterious Creators around [[Jupiter]] and was left floating in space in stasis lock for quite some time. When Cybertron entered the solar system, Optimus crash-landed on his ravaged home and was brought back to life by the impact. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

==''Animated''==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:TFAnimated transformandrollout DEATH.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|It's a new record, Primey!]]
In part three of the series premiere, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] dies after his battle with [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]. Like the Generation 1 Prime before him, he turns gray upon dying. Seventy-five seconds later - for us AND for the characters - [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] uses the mysterious [[AllSpark Key]] to revive him. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

===''The Cool'' comic===
During their final battle on Earth, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] fired a devastating blast from his [[fusion cannon]] which was super charged by Starscream's [[AllSpark]]-fragment-powered head before driving one of his swords straight through Optimus' chest and [[spark]]. However this, somehow, did not completely kill him as [[Burning justice|his cries of justice and heroics caused his spark to shine and made a reaction]] from the shard in Starscream's head, which flew at Optimus giving him new power and a new body. {{storylink|The Cool Episode Final}}

==Aligned continuity family==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[File:Rebellion-eyes.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|[[Dinobot (BW)|Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly - the ill deeds along with the good - and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.]]]]

Following the creation of a [[Darkmount (Earth)|Decepticon fortress]] practically on the Autobots' doorstep, Optimus had the others evacuate the base while he heroically stayed behind to destroy the [[GroundBridge]] to cover their retreat. He was still in the base when the Decepticons blew it up. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}} [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] pulled him from the rubble and he lay dying in a cavern for several days. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} His lingering death seemed like it was coming to an end when he had a vision of the bright light of the Allspark and spoke with [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]. In the real world, the light faded from Optimus's optics and his chest opened to reveal the Matrix, at which point Smokescreen used the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] to return him to life in a new, upgraded body. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

To defeat Unicron the second time, Optimus had to merge the [[AllSpark]] with the Matrix of Leadership so he could use the empty container to entrap his foe. This essentially resulted in his own spark becoming one with the AllSpark, and thus in order to restore the AllSpark to its rightful place, Optimus was required to make the ultimate act of self-sacrifice, giving up his own existence so that Cybertron might bear new life. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}
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===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
Moments before death, the [[Thirteen]] plucked Optimus Prime's spark before it was extinguished. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} Despite not being in the realm of the living, Optimus Prime appeared to [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] in visions, first guiding Bumblebee to Earth. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} Optimus was able to physically manifest himself for a brief period in order to help Bumblebee's team defeat [[Underbite]]. Afterwards, Optimus stated that he wasn't sure if he was alive or not, nor did he know what the fates had for him. He then disappeared. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 2)}} In another vision to Bumblebee, Optimus stated that he can only reappear when the need for him is most dire, as decided by the Thirteen. {{storylink|W.W.O.D.?}} It was later revealed that Optimus existed in the [[Realm of the Primes]], undergoing training for a new mission on Earth. {{storylink|Out of Focus}} When the Primes could sense the coming to that planet of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], Optimus had to convince the Thirteen that he was ready to face him, despite not completing his training. In order to him to face Megatronus, the Thirteen had to put segments of their own sparks into Optimus, causing him to upgrade into a new form. Optimus was thus sent to Earth, re-entering the mortal plane and cheating death once more. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}}

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
While traveling back in time to the year 1939 in order to save the [[Rescue Bot]]s from [[Doctor Morocco]], the Autobots and the human children attempted to escape through the time portal to the present.
However, while the rest of the team made it through the portal back to the future, it abruptly closed, seemingly trapping Optimus. It appeared that the Autobot leader was lost in time. The portal however, suddenly reopened, and Optimus jumped out. When they emerged from the lab, they found [[Griffin Rock]] greatly changed. This was another near death experience for Optimus Prime. {{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}

==See also==
*[[Primus apotheosis]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark]] - The short story explores the question of where <s>all</s> [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|most]] [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|of]] those Optimus-es go when they die. (Answer: someplace dull.)
*[[Ginrai (robot)#Victory cartoon|God Ginrai]] - Often erroneously put in this category.
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] - The appropriately named, yet very unlucky guy who gets [[:File:Dirge DeathSerpentor.jpg|killed]] [[:File:Dirge DeathSwarm.jpg|off]] [[:File:Dirge DeathTimelines.jpg|in]] [[:File:Dirge DeathUnicron.jpg|many]] [[:File:Dirge DeathArmada.jpg|continuities]] (but less than [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime]]).
*[[Sentinel Prime (disambiguation)|Sentinel Prime]] - The [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] [[:File:Sentinel prime lou.jpg|who]] [[:File:Sentinel prime dw.jpg|must]] [[Megatron Origin issue 4|always]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|die]] ([[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Usually]]).
*[[Cy-Kill (disambiguation)|Cy-Kill]], who is repeatedly killed COS HE SUCKS LOLOLOLOL.
*[[Starscream (disambiguation)|Starscream]] - [[Starscream (G1)|He]] [[Starscream (Armada)|dies]] [[Starscream (Animated)|a]] [[Starscream (Movie)|lot]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Stories]]

The many deaths of Optimus Prime

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{{disambig3|Death of Optimus Prime}}
[[File:Afterdeath-gameoverman.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Oh, he's gone and died again. Botheration! Most inconvenient.]]
Across the various continuities, '''Optimus Prime dies a lot.''' In fact, he's gone up to that big garage in the sky '''23(!) times''' (ignoring the many near-death experiences). This happens for various reasons:

*It allows for him to be replaced by [[Hot Rod (G1)|a new character]] (and thus [[To sell toys|a new toy]]).
*It allows for him to come back from the dead in a new body (again, a new toy).
*It's dramatic (or it used to be).
*It makes him into something of a [[Jesus|Christ]]-figure.
*It allows for numerous [[Optimus Prime memorial|memorials]] to be constructed in his honor (though they're sometimes built even ''before'' he dies, morbidly enough).
*It allows him to come back stronger than before as a sort of Deus ex Machina just when it seems the Decepticons are on the verge of victory.

Nearly every continuity family has featured Optimus Prime dying at least once; notable outliers are the Primes from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon]] (though an alternate version [[Shell Game|wasn't so lucky]]) and ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' (since in that case, it's [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]]'s job).

{{quote|Oh, you Optimuses do love to sacrifice yourselves, don't you?|A very genre-savvy [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]|"[[Other Voices, Part 2]]"}}

==Generation 1 cartoon continuity==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[File:Wardawn orion dies.jpg|right|upright=1.15|thumb|Dying before he's even Optimus Prime (he's that good).]]
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Orion Pax]] died (or was at least severely damaged by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]) and had to be rebuilt into Optimus Prime by [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. It's possible that if Orion had not been repaired, Optimus Prime would have ceased to exist. Pax's girlfriend Ariel was also heavily damaged, and rebuilt into [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]. They were with their friend [[Dion (G1)|Dion]] when they were attacked by Megatron, but he was never rebuilt and presumably died. {{storylink|War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn}}

===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
[[File:TFTM dead gray Prime.jpg|left|thumb|{{w|Oscar Wilde#Exile|"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."}}]]
This is the best known example, in which [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] infamously dies of wounds from his battle with Megatron. Notably, his body [[Aggressive depigmentation|turns gray]] as he dies. ([[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers|Urban legend]] says his body also ''crumbles,'' but no such footage is known to exist.) Being the first time he died, it was actually unexpected. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}} Hasbro have since regretted killing Optimus, not realising how much little boys were attached to him.<ref>https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/transformers/28748/the-writer-of-transformers-the-movie-on-killing-optimus-prime</ref>

===''Kiss Players''===
Sometime between [[The Transformers: The Movie|2005]] and [[The Transformers (cartoon)|2010]], [[Marissa Faireborn]] revives Optimus using the Galvatron cells in her body... by kissing him. Ultimately, all the cells are put back into [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]], and without them, Optimus promptly dies again. {{storylink|Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)#CD_collections_and_special_episodes|You, I and the Spinning Earth}}

===''The Transformers'' Season 3===
[[File:Optimusg1zombie.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|"He's passed on! This Optimus is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his rectifier coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-AUTOBOT!!"]]
He returns from the dead ''twice;'' first as a [[zombie]] under [[Quintesson]] control as part of a plan to destroy the [[Autobot]]s, only to die again when he overcomes the Quintesson control through the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] and possibly the strength of his will, and sacrifices himself to save the Autobots. {{storylink|Dark Awakening (episode)|Dark Awakening}} He then was brought to life again (and stayed alive). {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

===''The Headmasters''===
[[File:Headmasters-primedies.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"...I'm dead." "YES, you are!" "You think that's funny, Jennings?!"]]
Prime's death in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' was sort-of recreated in a flashback montage, but not really. Rather than die while taking down his ultimate nemesis in a one-on-one struggle to the death to defend his city, his comrades, the planet [[Earth]], and freedom itself, he just kind of gets randomly shot while in the middle of an ordinary battle outside of the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], and turns gray. Nobody else seems to notice this. It's not clear that ''Prime himself'' notices it. It's about the most half-hearted death ever. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}}

Optimus Prime later died again — in another act of self-sacrifice, of course — when he walked into [[Vector Sigma]] and tried to bring it back under control directly. His body turned gray as he died, followed by a (likely only symbolic) scene of him telling [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] that it would be his responsibility to keep leading the Autobots and to continue his work, seen as a transparent, light-haloed figure against the sky and heard in third person narration as Rodimus stared into the sky. (Then again, given the [[Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime|proven]] [[Starscream's Ghost|exis]][[Ghost in the Machine (G1)|tence]] of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|gho]][[Alpha Trion (G1)|sts]]...) {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

===''Unite Warriors''===
Optimus Prime is revived through the efforts of Vector Sigma and [[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]]'s new healing unit, but his multiple previous deaths have left their mark and Vector Sigma's power can only keep him alive for seven days. {{storylink|Megatronia Chapter}} After a week has passed, Optimus dies again until a more powerful energy source can be found. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}}

===''Return of Convoy''===
The [[Battlestars]] managed to restore Optimus's life with the power of the [[Zodiac]], evolving him into Star Convoy. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars}}

===''Generation 2''===
In the Japanese version of ''Generation 2'', Optimus Prime was badly wounded by Megatron's [[fusion cannon]] and almost died, but was resurrected and evolved yet again, this time into [[Laser Rod]] Optimus Prime, by the power of the [[Reconfiguration Matrix]]. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (pack-in manga)##13 Battle Convoy (2-pages)|G-2 #13}}

===''Henkei!'' manga===
{{Stub|{{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}}}}

==Marvel Comics continuity==
===Generation 1===
[[File:Pmoptimusprimedeath.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|"Give me my face!"]]
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], after failing to live up to his moral principles while playing a video game against [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], actually ''volunteers'' to be killed. The Autobots launch his [[Transformer funerary practices|funeral]] bier into space. Fortunately, the creator of the video game, [[Ethan Zachary]], saves a backup copy of Prime's mind on a [[floppy disk]]. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}} We first meet this virtual Prime sixteen issues later. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}} He gets his new [[Powermaster]] body two issues thereafter. {{storylink|People Power!}} A previous attempt was made at making virtual Prime a new body. The body ''spontaneously blew up''. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

About thirty issues later, Prime sacrifices himself again to defeat [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}} and dies. {{storylink|Still Life!}} However, his Powermaster partner, [[Hi-Q]], survives, and almost immediately begins babbling about how he's ''really'' Optimus Prime. This turns out to be true, and the [[Last Autobot]] metamorphoses Hi-Q into Prime (with a new [[Action Master]] body) in the last issue of the original Marvel US series. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

===''Generation 2''===
[[File:Swarmoptimus.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Unleashing the light of the Matrix upon a great evil. Again.]]
This Prime wasn't done dying yet. His adventures continued in the G2 comics, and he died defeating the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]]. The Swarm reconstituted him three pages later (in a body based on his then-current [[Hero (G2)|Hero]] toy). {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}

===''Regeneration One''===
Despite being possessed by the [[Dark Matrix]] creature, a wounded Optimus Prime was able to help [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]] stop the creature's plan to spread across the multiverse from [[Zero Space]]. At the conclusion of the conflict, Rodimus and Spike bore witness as Optimus died in his protege's arms in the Primus chamber. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
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==2005 IDW continuity==
[[File:Unicron6 The Last Hug.jpg|thumb|200px|]]
{{quote|Optimus will be back. He '''always''' comes back.|[[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]]|"[[The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing]]"}}

It looks like [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|this Optimus Prime]] made a habit of almost dying even before he became a Prime - [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] shoots him in the back, {{storylink|Overthrown}} and one issue later every Autobot believes Orion Pax is dead... but is he? (SPOILER ALERT: No, he's not.) {{storylink|Transformation (issue)|Transformation}}

In his first battle with the [[Ore-13]] powered Megatron, Optimus was killed. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5}} Or at least, his ''main body'' was: by quickly downloading his consciousness into [[Combat Deck (G1)|Combat Deck]] (and then back again), Optimus was able to survive. Being that close to death meant he briefly existed in a [[infraspace|limbo]] state, which got him noticed by [[Nova Prime]] in the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}

He then spends a considerable period badly damaged and near death. He is revived, however, when [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] and his crew arrive. {{storylink|The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron}}

A rare ''metaphorical'' version occurs when he leaves Cybertron to appease the anti-Autobot [[NAIL]]s. With no duties or lives to mind but his own, and no Matrix to carry, he claims that Optimus Prime is dead, but Orion Pax has been reborn. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} Of course, just like the real deaths, this one doesn't stick; Orion later reclaims the Optimus name during his final battle with [[Nova Prime]]. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

Ultimately, Prime finally met his end by jumping into the black hole at the heart of Unicron. Within the confines of Infraspace, he extended a hand of compassion to [[Unicron's creator]], allowing the two to peacefully pass on as Unicron's body collapsed in on itself. {{storylink|Ceremony}}

Meanwhile, [[Domitius Major|a guy who ''thought'' he was Optimus Prime]] died on Earth during [[World War I]]. The closest he came to returning to life was having a bunch of [[IRON Trooper]]s wear his dead body like a suit. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}}

==''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoon continuity==
[[File:Machinima-Titans-Return-Ep10-OptimusDies.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by you...]]
At some point during the Great War, Megatron killed Optimus, but he eventually came back. Years later, Megatron sarcastically asked if Optimus was still mad at him for it. {{storylink|The Fight Begins}} When [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] returned, Optimus attempted to stop him, but Megatronus shot a beam clean through his chest and he died once again. {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}} His [[spark]] passed on to the [[Well of All Sparks|Well of Sparks]], but thanks to his connection to the Matrix and the Primes, it was freed after Megatronus's destruction, and he emerged from the Well with a shiny new body. {{storylink|Saga's End}}
{{-}}

==''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
[[File:Smelt Prime.JPG|right|upright=1.1|thumb|"I'm not quite dead yet! I feel happy!"]]
In ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', you could mark the end of a season by the near-death experience of one [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus]] or [[Optimus Prime (G1)|another]]...

At the end of the first season of ''Beast Wars'', Optimus Primal piloted a bomb-equipped [[stasis pod]] in an attempt to destroy the [[Planet Buster]]. Unfortunately, [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] had sealed the pod's hatch, and Optimus blew up with it. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}} Early in the second season (a few hours later as far as the characters were concerned), [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] managed to unite Optimus's drifting [[spark]] with a [[blank]] [[protoform]], thus bringing him back to life (and in a new [[Transmetal]] [[:File:BadSpark Optimus robot mode.jpg|body]], too). {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

At the end of the second season, the ''Beast Wars'' Megatron came very close to killing the original Optimus Prime. But [[Optimal Situation|Prime didn't ''quite'' die]], so we really shouldn't count it. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

(Strangely, the end of the third season of ''Beast Wars'' had no Optimus deaths whatsoever! A half-dozen others died, but not Optimus.) {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

===''Beast Machines'' cartoon===
At the end of the first season of ''Beast Machines'', Optimus and Megatron had a cataclysmic battle, using the energies of [[Vector Sigma]] and the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]]. This would have destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but Optimus took the warring energies into himself and disintegrated. However, his spark was trapped within the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], and the other [[Maximal]]s convinced him to return to the real world at [[Fallout (episode)|the start of second season]]. The Oracle kindly gave him a new body (which, believe it or not, was ''not'' a new toy). {{storylink|End of the Line}}

During a trip to the underground ruins of Iacon, Optimus Primal encountered a hologram of the original Optimus Prime, who claimed to have perished in "the final battle", presumably in the Great War. The hologram was a ruse by Megatron, so make of that what you will. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search|The Search}}

At the end of the series, Optimus Primal gave his life to defeat Megatron once and for all, pushing him into the [[technorganic]] [[organic core|core of the planet]]. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}} In assorted ancillary media, he comes back to life yet again. {{storylink|Transformers: Universe (comic)|Transformers: Universe}} {{storylink|Beast Wars Reborn}} {{storylink|Transformers: Alternators}}

==IDW Beast Wars comics==
In the final conflict of the Great War in 2035, Optimus Prime and Galvatron were both killed on Cybertron. Command of the Autobot forces subsequently fell to the [[Primal Council]]. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

==''Beast Wars: Uprising''==
''This'' Optimus Prime has been through a hell of a lot.

In this particular universe, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] succeeded in his time-travelling gambit to kill Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime died, and as a result of his death the Maximals and Predacons that had engineered his death succumbed to the history-altering [[timestorm]] as the timeline spun off onto a new course. {{storylink|A Change to the Agenda}} Without Optimus's inspiring presence, the Great War was much more violent, and Earth was ravaged by the depredations of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}}

By 2033, the Autobots had managed to revive their leader through unknown means, and when the war spread to [[Master (planet)|Master]] he binary-bonded himself to a trio of [[Cyberdroid]]s, including [[Diac]], who replaced Prime's damaged head. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}} [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] fondly recalled a moment when he crushed Optimus's new head, which can't have ended well for ol' Prime. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Ultimately, Optimus Prime would die for good after sacrificing himself to the Swarm in an attempt to save the [[Human Confederacy]], taking the Matrix with him. {{storylink|Book of Logos}}

In the 24th century, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] was one of several rebels against the new [[Builder of Cybertron|Builder]] status quo, but her breaking point came when her colleagues [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] died. When her commander Optimus Primal refused to turn against the Builders, Blackarachnia and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] killed him. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|"TransTech" Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25}}

==''Robots in Disguise'' continuity family==
===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
This [[Optimus Prime (RID)#Notes|Optimus Prime]] is one of the only Primes that ''didn't'' die! However, he came ''very'' close in the final battle, when he planned to sacrifice himself to stop [[Megatron (RID)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}}

===Shell Game===
[[File:ShellGame optimusprime.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1|Good thing we didn't see what happened to him, or else [[The Transformers: The Movie|history would've repeated itself.]]]]
And scratch what we said above, because a 2015 retcon says a version of him was killed by [[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]] in [[Viron 704.31 Epsilon]]. {{storylink|Shell Game}} The tyrannical Decepticon's victory had come about in part due to the transdimensional abductions of several of Prime's loyal Autobots by [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/30}}
{{--}}

==Unicron Trilogy continuity family==
===''Armada'' cartoon===
[[File:Crisis Optimus Prime dies.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Now Optimus, don't go all to pieces. You say you have to split? Well, you're a chip off the ol' block.]]
[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] used his body to block the blast of [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s [[Hydra Cannon]], protecting the [[Earth]]. When the cannon's energy is spent, we see Optimus turn grayish-white, then ''actually'' crumble to bits. {{storylink|Crisis (Armada)|Crisis}} A bunch of [[Mini-Con]]s use the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to resurrect him three episodes later. {{storylink|Miracle}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
''An'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from [[Primax 703.02 Gamma|a Primax universe]] where he was fatally wounded by Unicron briefly appears before dying. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} Yep, practically all we know about this Optimus is that he died. He doesn't turn gray, but his colors are faded.

===''Cybertron'' comic===
[[File:Nemesisprimetfuclone.jpg|left|thumb|Technically, this is the clone.]]
The corpse of [[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]] (killed by [[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]]) from [[Aurex 304.0 Epsilon]] was cloned by Unicron to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe)|Nemesis Prime]]. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 2}} {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Once again, practically all we know about this Optimus is that he died.
{{-}}

==Live-action film series==
{{Note|Though Optimus Prime doesn't die in the first [[Transformers (film)|movie itself]], he does consider fusing the [[AllSpark]] into his own spark, an action that would destroy them both, if necessary to keep it out of Decepticon hands.}}

===''Transformers The Game''===
In Decepticon mode storyline, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was beaten to the ground, and as he crawled for the [[AllSpark]], [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] smashed his head with his flail... poor Prime, he gets the most violent death. {{Storylink|Transformers The Game (console)}}

===''Transformers Decepticons''===
While Megatron sought the Allspark, which Starscream had stolen, he was confronted by Optimus. The two brothers fought, Optimus telling him he would never build an empire, until Megatron vanquished him. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Decepticons}}

===Titan movie comics===
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Optimus was left in a frozen, ''near''-death state. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
[[File:ROTF Optimus death.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|Shot through the heart, and [[Megatron (Movie)|you're]] to blame, you give love a bad name!]]
This is perhaps the most brutal Prime death to date, in keeping with the rather more graphic nature of combat in the live-action movies. To protect [[Sam Witwicky]], Optimus Prime engaged in a fierce battle with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]]. Despite injuring Starscream and destroying Grindor by ripping his head apart, Optimus is viciously run-through from behind by Megatron and then blasted through the back, killing him. While dead, Optimus' body is depicted with faded colours in reference to his history of turning gray upon death. This event causes Sam to follow the symbols the AllSpark sliver placed in his mind to find the ancient [[Matrix of Leadership#Live-action film series|Matrix of Leadership]], the only thing that could restore life to Optimus. Unfortunately, it crumbled into dust upon touching it in the [[Tomb of the Primes]] on the border between [[Egypt]] and [[Jordan]]. During the climactic battle in Egypt between [[NEST]] and the Decepticons, Sam was seemingly killed by Megatron, only to be taken to another plane of existence where he met [[Dynasty of Primes|the Primes who died]] to prevent [[The Fallen]] from achieving victory, and they bestowed upon him the true Matrix, which allowed Sam to revive Optimus. {{Storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
{{Note|In the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]] of ''Revenge of the Fallen'', unlike the movie, it is explicitly stated that Optimus Prime survived Megatron's attack, but was so badly damaged his body had gone into [[stasis lock]], and would likely stay that way for many years while his body repaired itself if not for Sam's intervention.}}

===''Dark of the Moon'' film===
When Sentinel Prime revealed he had made a deal with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] long ago, and coerced the human governments to exile the Autobots from Earth, Optimus and the Autobots were forced to board the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' and leave Earth. After it had successfully lifted off from the [[Kennedy Space Center]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] destroyed the craft during its ascent into Earth's atmosphere, seemingly killing its occupants (including Optimus). Fortunately for humanity, Optimus and the Autobots had hid themselves inside the booster rockets, which were jettisoned and landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean and Optimus evaded dying yet again. He later killed Megatron ''and'' Sentinel, making things even. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

===''Age of Extinction'' film===
Optimus Prime is SO good at dying, that he ''started the movie'' effectively dead after a human ambush in between movies - obligatory human [[Cade Yeager|Cade]] brought him back to life with a few repairs and a jump-start with a car battery. Even if it's not the miracle of rebirth we're used to, ''nothing'' kills our Prime for long - not even treacherous humans with exploding heavy artillery. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

===''The Last Knight'' film===
Optimus ran out fuel on his way to meet the mysterious Creators around [[Jupiter]] and was left floating in space in stasis lock for quite some time. When Cybertron entered the solar system, Optimus crash-landed on his ravaged home and was brought back to life by the impact. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

==''Animated''==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:TFAnimated transformandrollout DEATH.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|It's a new record, Primey!]]
In part three of the series premiere, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] dies after his battle with [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]. Like the Generation 1 Prime before him, he turns gray upon dying. Seventy-five seconds later - for us AND for the characters - [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] uses the mysterious [[AllSpark Key]] to revive him. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

===''The Cool'' comic===
During their final battle on Earth, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] fired a devastating blast from his [[fusion cannon]] which was super charged by Starscream's [[AllSpark]]-fragment-powered head before driving one of his swords straight through Optimus' chest and [[spark]]. However this, somehow, did not completely kill him as [[Burning justice|his cries of justice and heroics caused his spark to shine and made a reaction]] from the shard in Starscream's head, which flew at Optimus giving him new power and a new body. {{storylink|The Cool Episode Final}}

==Aligned continuity family==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[File:Rebellion-eyes.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|[[Dinobot (BW)|Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly - the ill deeds along with the good - and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.]]]]

Following the creation of a [[Darkmount (Earth)|Decepticon fortress]] practically on the Autobots' doorstep, Optimus had the others evacuate the base while he heroically stayed behind to destroy the [[GroundBridge]] to cover their retreat. He was still in the base when the Decepticons blew it up. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}} [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] pulled him from the rubble and he lay dying in a cavern for several days. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} His lingering death seemed like it was coming to an end when he had a vision of the bright light of the Allspark and spoke with [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]. In the real world, the light faded from Optimus's optics and his chest opened to reveal the Matrix, at which point Smokescreen used the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] to return him to life in a new, upgraded body. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

To defeat Unicron the second time, Optimus had to merge the [[AllSpark]] with the Matrix of Leadership so he could use the empty container to entrap his foe. This essentially resulted in his own spark becoming one with the AllSpark, and thus in order to restore the AllSpark to its rightful place, Optimus was required to make the ultimate act of self-sacrifice, giving up his own existence so that Cybertron might bear new life. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}
{{-}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
Moments before death, the [[Thirteen]] plucked Optimus Prime's spark before it was extinguished. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} Despite not being in the realm of the living, Optimus Prime appeared to [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] in visions, first guiding Bumblebee to Earth. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} Optimus was able to physically manifest himself for a brief period in order to help Bumblebee's team defeat [[Underbite]]. Afterwards, Optimus stated that he wasn't sure if he was alive or not, nor did he know what the fates had for him. He then disappeared. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 2)}} In another vision to Bumblebee, Optimus stated that he can only reappear when the need for him is most dire, as decided by the Thirteen. {{storylink|W.W.O.D.?}} It was later revealed that Optimus existed in the [[Realm of the Primes]], undergoing training for a new mission on Earth. {{storylink|Out of Focus}} When the Primes could sense the coming to that planet of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], Optimus had to convince the Thirteen that he was ready to face him, despite not completing his training. In order to him to face Megatronus, the Thirteen had to put segments of their own sparks into Optimus, causing him to upgrade into a new form. Optimus was thus sent to Earth, re-entering the mortal plane and cheating death once more. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}}

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
While traveling back in time to the year 1939 in order to save the [[Rescue Bot]]s from [[Doctor Morocco]], the Autobots and the human children attempted to escape through the time portal to the present.
However, while the rest of the team made it through the portal back to the future, it abruptly closed, seemingly trapping Optimus. It appeared that the Autobot leader was lost in time. The portal however, suddenly reopened, and Optimus jumped out. When they emerged from the lab, they found [[Griffin Rock]] greatly changed. This was another near death experience for Optimus Prime. {{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}

==See also==
*[[Primus apotheosis]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark]] - The short story explores the question of where <s>all</s> [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|most]] [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|of]] those Optimus-es go when they die. (Answer: someplace dull.)
*[[Ginrai (robot)#Victory cartoon|God Ginrai]] - Often erroneously put in this category.
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] - The appropriately named, yet very unlucky guy who gets [[:File:Dirge DeathSerpentor.jpg|killed]] [[:File:Dirge DeathSwarm.jpg|off]] [[:File:Dirge DeathTimelines.jpg|in]] [[:File:Dirge DeathUnicron.jpg|many]] [[:File:Dirge DeathArmada.jpg|continuities]] (but less than [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime]]).
*[[Sentinel Prime (disambiguation)|Sentinel Prime]] - The [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] [[:File:Sentinel prime lou.jpg|who]] [[:File:Sentinel prime dw.jpg|must]] [[Megatron Origin issue 4|always]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|die]] ([[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Usually]]).
*[[Cy-Kill (disambiguation)|Cy-Kill]], who is repeatedly killed COS HE SUCKS LOLOLOLOL.
*[[Starscream (disambiguation)|Starscream]] - [[Starscream (G1)|He]] [[Starscream (Armada)|dies]] [[Starscream (Animated)|a]] [[Starscream (Movie)|lot]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Many deaths of Optimus Prime}}
[[Category:Stories]]

Talk:The Transformers (Marvel comic)

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Halfshell25:

==Organization==

It's good to see some summaries showing up, but I think we need to think about how to organize things. IMO, there should be a "main" article for every comic book series which includes an overview and a list of issues. Each issue of the comic will then have its own article.

That does, however, raise the question of how to name the pages for comic issues, especially the original comic where even using issue names may cause conflict between the US and UK editions. I think that issue names are a better way to go than issue numbers, at least.

I'm inclined to say that the UK comic should be treated as the "real" comic series because of its additional material. The US comic is a subset of it.

A page for a UK comic issue then, in my ideal world, would be named after the issue. Among other information near the top of the article, it would state whether that UK story appeared in a US issue or not, and if so, what issue (number and name).

A page for a US comic issue has two possibilities: If the issue name was also an issue name for the UK version, there simply is no separate page for the US issue. If the US issue name was not duplicated in the UK (and I don't even know if that ever happened) then the US issue article should just redirect to the appropriate UK issue which reprints the first part of that US issue.

This all just off the top of my head, and shouldn't be taken as authoritative or anything. Still, I am really big on the idea of organizing things in a systematic way, and I think that this would make things a lot easier. I would welcome comments from others.

--[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 06:47, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

(G.B. Blackrock: 2006/03/07 - 7:24 pm PST) While I can see the reason for wanting to make the UK comic primary, and the US comic a subset, that would pretty much make it impossible for me to complete any more entries, as I have no idea where the breaks would come in the middle of the US stories, even assuming I consulted a chart telling me which UK issue lined up with which US story....

If someone would set up a template, I'm happy to make my existing entries match the template. As it is, I'm creating stuff from scratch. Seemed necessary with so little existing on the board already.... [[User:G.B. Blackrock]]

(G.B. Blackrock: 2006/03/09 - 10:14 am PST) I've held off on making any further additions for the moment in hopes that someone else might come on with input. I certainly agree that a standardized organizational scheme would be helpful. I'm inclined at the moment to go ahead with my US entries, and let anyone who has the UK comics make their entries in the still-separate UK comics page. It would be a reasonably simple matter to link the appropriate UK issues to their US counterparts, but then I don't have to worry about incorporating UK continuity into the US line, since I don't have these issues.

Furthermore, while the UK continuity does ''mostly'' contain all of the US continuity, there are a few rather significant differences, such as the reason why Bumblebee was rebuilt into Goldbug.

For these reasons, I'm inclined to continue treating US continuity as separate from the UK continuity, and not as a subset. I am still open to other opinions, especially in regard to standardization.[[User:G.B. Blackrock]]

As I understand it, about 90% of the comic is identical between the versions (excluding the additional content for the UK comics). So it would be far simpler to just use the UK comics, and just mention any differences as they appear, when appropriate, within the article itself.

This is, of course, assuming I'm not mistaken, which I am quite often.--[[User:OctopusPrime|Octopus Prime- King of the Road!]] 19:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

(G.B. Blackrock: 2006/03/09 - 4:56 pm PST) At the risk of sounding US-centric, I still think making the US entries a "sub-set" of the UK ones would cause more confusion than help. If someone can actually ''demonstrate'' how this would play out be actualy creating some entries that I could follow the pattern of, I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though.[[User:G.B. Blackrock]]

I don't think necessarily either need to be considered a sub-set; but over IRC, Jhi raised a few valid points. The headers for comic issue pages should give the US and UK issue numbers equal billing, especially if we're just going to have the UK issue list link to them. Individual articles should be about the story as it appears in ''both'' countries' issues. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 00:02, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

My thought was to give the original publisher primacy, and list other versions of the same story below. So "Man of Iron" would list the UK printing up top, but the US reissues below, for example.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 00:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

==Main G1 comics==
It occurs to me that our current listing has one link for the G1 Marvel comics, but that the three separate DW comics (none of which have pages, it would seem) are given separate links. Either we should add the Marvel Headmasters, TFU, and the GI/Joe crossover (which was in the same continuity, even if it WAS later ignored) here, or we should consolidate the DW entries. The latter is my preference, but I'm wondering if that would create unforeseen problems elsewhere. Thoughts?--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 18:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

==UK "issue" pages==

(snipping a lot of stuff that's probably not of any further interest. People can get them back out with "history" if they disagree....)

I wonder if, especially for UK comics, we should change the links so that each UK issue links to a separate "issue" page, with the separate stories being linked as they currently are (all current comic pages are organized by story title). Besides the "back-up" features you mention, later UK TF comics often have TWO TF stories running concurrently, and the current system does not account for this well. But I'm not the best person to suggest an alternative. My expertise is in the US comic, which tended to have just one story per issue, and little else. The US comic even tended to break up story arcs into individual titles for each issue more often than not....

Shouldn't we have talked about merging the UK and US comics into one entry before actually doing it?....--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 23:35, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

:Should we have? It's easily fixed if that's deemed not acceptable. The real big change here was making [[List of Generation 1 comics|Generation 1 (comic)]] be a disambiguation rather than blurb on the Marvel US comic, because that is most certainly ''not'' the only Generation 1 comic, and it's probably not even the one that most people would be interested in.
:I decided to just fold the content in that article into Marvel UK, because do we ''really'' need two seperate pages on the two Marvel comics? If we actually do get enough content to warrant two articles, it's easy enough to split the two. But like I said, the major change her isn't the merge, it's putting a proper disambiguation page at the G1 comic link.
:Apologies for the alleged "UK bias" in the little blurb. I've never actually read any significant part of either Marvel comic, and know next to nothing about either, so I can say that definitely was not intended. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 00:24, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

It's not a big deal to have them merged, and the way it was done (leaving the US and UK sections separate within the same page) I can live with. I'm absolutely opposed to folding all the US stuff into the UK page, though, as I've said elsewhere. I do ''not'' see these two as the same entity, but rather as two distinct, yet often similar and occasionally overlapping, entities. I just would have liked to be aware of the change beforehand, is all.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 00:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I've written a bit more on the UK comic, trying to explain its format and its relationship with the US comic. I think I'm right in identifying the 'Perchance to Dream' storyline as the point where US and UK separate, but I can't remember when the original UK material dried up. Was it around #290? --[[User:Tribimat|Tribimat]] 02:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

:Actually, I see it differently. I don't see the US and the UK as "separating," because I see them as ''already separate.'' They may look the same in many cases, but they're separate. This is borne out by the few, but significant, differences between them, such as how Bumblebee is turned into Goldbug. Clearly, there is room for differences of opinion on how individuals look at the canon, but the fact that there ARE these distinctions are part of why I oppose any attempt to force US stories ''into'' the UK continuity on this Wiki, which should essentially present the facts as they appear. (Incidentally, the way you describe the UK version in the actual article is fine with me)--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 03:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Seperating the UK and US comics would give legitimate space to discuss the various special features the UK comic had which had no counterpart in the US comic. Things like the letters pages answered by Transformer characters, fact files (which, in the early days weren't straight reprints of Transformers: The Universe), back up strips, competitions, humourous strips (Robo Capers, Matt and the Cat, Combat Colin - some of which had directly Transformer-related content). Sorry, can't sign this comment as I'm just a visitor.

==How to deal with UK issues with multiple stories==
I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with the issues in the UK (especially around the late-200s) that have more than one story contained therein. The current set-up probably won't continue to work for these issues. How's this for an option?

{|style="margin:0 auto;padding:0 auto" align=center id=toc
!align=center bgcolor=#6699CC|'''Marvel UK issues (lead stories):'''
|-
|| [[Kings of the Wild Frontier.|#284]] | [[Kings of the Wild Frontier.|#285]] | [[Deadly Obsession|#286]] | [[Deadly Obsession|#287]] | [[Deadly Obsession|#288]] | [[Deadly Obsession|#289]]
|}

{|style="margin:0 auto;padding:0 auto" align=center id=toc
!align=center bgcolor=#6699CC|'''Marvel UK issues (back-up stories):'''
|-
|| [[Assassins|#284]] | [[External Forces!|#285]] | [[The Lesser Evil!|#286]] | [[Inside Story!|#287]] | [[Front Line! (issue)|#288]] | [[End of the Road! (UK)|#289]]
|}
Note that the back-up to UK #289 is a different "End of the Road" than US #80 (Which is actually entitled "The End of the Road," which may or may not seem significant.)--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 18:48, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
: Looks good to me. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 22:18, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

: Is there a way to get all information on a particular issue onto an entry for that issue? For instance, issue 213 will have a "US Story" link that refers to the relevant US strip (which will be identical for 214-216), a "UK Story" section that gives a full account of the UK strip (in this instance, I think it's Megatron's return to Cybertron with Ravage), and a "Back-up Story" section that gives a brief account of the back-up strip. I realise that the back-up stories in most cases aren't TF-related, but they were an integral part of the UK comic experience. I'll try to put an example entry together this week and you can see what you think.

: Incidentally, I take the point about the UK and US continuities not being the same. I'm not at all hung up on "canon" and am much more interested in detailing the things as stories. I just wanted to say that #255-60 is where the two parallel continuities go in completely and irreconcilably different directions. At some point I'd also like to write something about how Furman used his knowledge of what was happening in the US stories to foreshadow later events - the story 'Prey' and the return to Cybertron (UK #97-104) is a classic example, featuring both Optimus Prime's "death" and Megatron's madness.

: Now that I think about it, the letters page was often used as a vehicle for explaining how the US and UK stories fitted together. They should be an excellent resource for this sort of thing. When I've got access to the original issues again, I'll see what comes up.--[[User:Tribimat|Tribimat]] 00:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

::Actually, my preference (other things being equal) would be to have the comics entries organized by issue number, but it was decided early on that it would be redundant to have separate pages for issues of the UK comic that were largely already duplicated on the US page for the similar story. (US stories tend to be 1-per-issue. This not often the case in the UK comic.) A compromise position was to make the pages story-specific, rather than issue-specific. This is working for now, but as I've already noted, appears as though it may be unwieldy as we look at UK issues in the future. I could do this issue-by-issue for the entire US series with no trouble at all, but I'm not arrogant enough to think that the US is the only, or even the "most correct," way of looking at it. I've argued fairly strongly for US comic integrity, but have tried to stop short of giving it "supremacy." It's just that the US comic is what I know. I know it fairly well. But I don't have the background to say much about the UK comic beyond what I know from the Internet.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 02:51, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I've come across some issues of the UK comic that have two TF-related stories, but the "lead" story is just a reprint, while the "back-up" black-and-white story is new. (So far, I've only put links for #221-228 that fit this description) Under the rubric I proposed above, I've felt compelled to make the link in the main (i.e. "lead story") UK chart go to the reprinted story, while the new story is relegated to the "back-up" chart. This technically seems to work, but seems rather unsatisfying. Thoughts?--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 20:41, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

:I've decided that it would be simpler to only put 2nd stories in the bottom grid in the cases where one of the two TF stories contained has not already been printed in the UK previously. This means that some "back up" black and whites are actually in the top grid, but since these tend to be the stories featured on the front cover (since the "main" color story is a reprint), that makes more sense, I think.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 02:49, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

==The UK Annuals==
Hi. I was just wondering if there should be a space on this page for the UK Annuals and if so what format it should take? There were a couple of annual stories that linked heavily into the main UK strip so it seems like something that is needed for the sake of completion.

As each annual contains several stories and there are only a few of them I was going to suggest a seperate table for each annual with links to individual stories. Does anyone have any opinions/guidance on this?--[[User:Omnisvalidus|Omnisvalidus]] 18:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

:As nobody has comented on this I have added the annuals in. [[User:Omnisvalidus|Omnisvalidus]] 18:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

==Issue Numbers, Issue Titles==
This is a very useful page, what with having all the issues linked by number. Unfortunately, it's also a somewhat difficult page to find. Few if any of the individual issues link back to it. Instead, they link back to [[:Category:Marvel_US_issues]], which lo and behold doesn't list the issue numbers.

So if you're browsing along, and suddenly find yourself on, say, [[Trial by Fire!]], good luck finding the page about the next issue. Shouldn't the issue titles in the category also mention a number, and shouldn't there be a sequential listing that all the issues link back to?

OR OR OR, as Sipher just mentioned, there's a "Next issue/Previous issue" box floating around on a few issues' pages. That'd at least provide continuity if it got worked onto all the pages. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 07:14, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

=="Comic" or "Comics"? (also, upper or lower-case?)==
A recent revision was made to the Marvel G1 link so that it wouldn't have to "redirect" to the actual site. I agree with this, in principle. However, it highlights an inconsistency, as we now have links for [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Generation 1 (Marvel Comics)]] and [[Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave) |Generation 1 (Dreamwave comic)]]. One or both of these should be changed to resemble the other. Do we go with the singular "comic" or the plural "comics"? (Also, capitalization should be consistent. I'm assuming that lower-case is preferred. Indeed, I'd suggest "comic" as the preferable form, since the title of this very page uses the lower-case singular form.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 00:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
: "Marvel Comics" is the name of the company, so that is why it is capitalized. Dreamwave's company title does not have "Comics" in it, so "comics" is added so we know what kind medium the fiction is. The difference in capitalization between the two is INTENTIONAL. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:03, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
::I don't know if I buy that explanation... Or, rather, even if you are literally sure it's intentional and aren't rationalizing a mistake, I don't think that explanation suffices. There is no need to specify the media type in the parenthetical. The two should match in structure, being either "Dreamwave" and "Marvel Comics" or "Dreamwave comic" and "Marvel Comics comic" (which sounds stupid). I'd also accept dropping the "Comics" part of Marvel's name since it's not really needed, and also that's not their name anymore anyway. That would give us "Dreamwave"/"Marvel" or "Dreamwave comic"/"Marvel comic". --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 01:01, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
::::"rationalizing a mistake"? Dude, I go through pages and FIX the capitalization it so it's that way, for that reason. This is almost entirely in the fiction sections of all the articles, but specifying "comics" in some fashion after "Marvel" after "Generation 1" is crucial, as, well, you know, the cartoon was co-produced by Marvel. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 04:07, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
:::::So, obviously its intentional. Still, I'd rather see something more consistent. It looks more and more like this particular convention exists only because it's never been noticed as being inconsistent before. By all means, point out "comic" in some fashion after "Marvel." But I still think that "comic" is more appropriate than "Comics", the fact (is it still a fact? Steve-o suggests it isn't anymore.) of Marvel's name being "Marvel Comics" notwithstanding.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 05:29, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
:::Having [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 (cartoon)]] and "Generation 1 (Marvel)" co-exists bothers me.
:::I vote for "Generation 1 (Marvel comic)" and "Generation 1 (Dreamwave comic)".
:::There's probably 20 different articles that can be called "Generation 1 (somedisambig)". Just for comics we've had Marvel, Blackthorne, Benchpress (well, not really) 2 different manga publishers, Dreamwave, and IDW. And that's not even all G1 TF comics (Devil's Due's version of the TFU has a non-generic name that avoids it being chronicled under the generic 'Generation 1' label.)
:::Are there ''any'' other articles of this sort where we ''don't'' put the media type in the disambig? I think... in any franchise with more than 1 type of media, the media-type should be ''standard'' as part of the disambig.
:::Disambigs don't ''have'' to provide contextual information, but I think in G1's case, with ''so many'' articles, it's a good idea. Additionally, it would make the G1 articles better fit with the disambiging format used by other franchises. (For the most part other franchises don't have to deal with multiple publishers of a single kind of media, so their sub-pages are ''always'' disambig'd by type of media.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
It really shouldn't matter that it's just "Marvel" now; we should only be concerned about the name in effect when the comics were actually being published. Unless we're retconning all instances of "Takara" into "TakaraTomy". [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 01:11, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
:Perhaps not, but I still prefer "Marvel comic" for the sake of consistency to "Dreamwave comic". "Marvel" is descriptive enough that everyone knows what's being talked about. It need not be precisely the name of the company.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 02:40, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

==Annual years and releases==

(I'm raising this here as there isn't a generic article for the annuals and it could affect all of them.)

It's my recollection that the annuals released 1985-1987 were always referenced as being the annual for the year of publication (e.g. issue #65, printed in 1986, has a caption referring to "this year's annual"), but from 1988 onwards the annuals are referred to as the next's years, even though the books themselves don't give specific dates (whereas other Marvel UK annuals for Action Force, Thundercats and Visionaries released in 1988 all explicitly say they're the 1989 annual). This has led to quite a bit of confusion over the years as to which annual is which. [[Transformers Annual 1986#Items of Note]] currently states:

''This was the first annual, published for Christmas 1985. Due to the 1985 print date in the cover it is frequently mistakenly referred to as the 1985 annual, however annuals are always printed at the end of the year before.''

Whilst this is the main practice, is there any evidence it specifically applied to Marvel UK in 1985-1987?

Also most of the annuals state they were released in December, but I recall the announcements and adverts for them tended to be in the summer. Further to this the annual released in 1987 is explicitly followed up in stories printed that autumn (issues 135-138) which would have been awkward if the annual wasn't yet on sale. [[User:Timrollpickering|Timrollpickering]] 21:48, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

:The annuals usually appeared in the shops in August or September, believe it or not, so the 1987 annual appeared before ''Grudge Match'' did, and only a few weeks after ''Fire on High'' (the story to which it concluded). What confuses the issue for a lot of people who were kids at the time is that traditionally they didn't get the annuals until Christmas, whilst the comics seemed to often assume that kids would rush out and get them the second they came out. As for which album came out in which year, going by the copyright date seems to be a fairly accurate way of doing it, as that refers to the year in which it was physically published.--[[User:Werthead|Werthead]] 23:07, 26 April 2009 (EDT)

::I did post something on this somewhere but it's gone astray. Looking through the comics from the time, the annuals (including other Marvel UK output) released in 1986 and 1987 are usually explicitly named as that year's annual. The 1988 release, however, is ambiguous with either "this year's" or "the [Transformers] annual". The 1989-1991 annuals were described with the following year's date.
::Within the annuals themselves only the 1991 release identifies itself in the copyright info as being the "1992" annual. It's notable that the 1988 release doesn't give a year when the contemporary Action Force, Thundercats and Visionaries annuals all identify themselves as the 1989 annual.
::The early Marvel UK practice appears to be in contrast to the general UK trend in children's annuals which is to use the following year, since they are targetted at the Christmand market (and it also gives leftover stock a longer shelf-life). [[User:Timrollpickering|Timrollpickering]] 11:20, 25 June 2009 (EDT)

==Somes changes to the UK section==

I adjusted the UK section with more accurate information on the comic's format changes, which were more complex than originally stated. Most notably, the comic returned to a fortnightly schedule from issue 309 onwards, which is also when they ditched the three-strip structure and returned to the 'classic' format of one Transformers story and one back-up strip. Since I still have almost the whole run of Transformers UK comics in fairly good condition (issues #24-#332), I might take a look at going through the UK comics and adding in any missing information. On the issue of how 'canon' the UK/USA intermingling of stories are, my assessment is that the combined UK/US run is the 'correct' one, given that the later Furman comics refer to events in the UK continuity (Deathbringer, Xaaron, the UK 'creation myth' which appeared many years before in the US etc), with a nod at the headache-inducing Goldbug-creation issue.--[[User:Werthead|Werthead]] 21:58, 26 April 2009 (EDT)

:Hold on, didn't the format change with 310, not 309?

:309 contained three strips - "The Price of Life" (Part 1), a partial reprint of "The Enemy Within" (Part 2), and topped off with a Machine Man backup as the third strip.

:The change to two strips actually ocurred in 310, which had "The Price of Life" (Part 2) and Machine Man.

:As such, there was a gap in "The Enemy Within" reprints so they could tie up the Machine Man story (issues 310-312).

:The change to two strips (instead of three) was why "The Enemy Within" was put on ice for three issues, because they had to finish off the Machine Man run before they could continue with the reprints.

:I've taken the liberty of tweaking the text to reflect this.--[[User:Ryan Frost|Ryan Frost]] 18:19, 6 June 2012 (EDT)

==(Marvel Comics) vs. (Marvel comic)==
I think this parenthetical should change to "(Marvel comic)". It's always confusing to me when I'm linking here, since we don't say "[[Transformers: Armada (Dreamwave)|(DW Productions)]]" or "[[Transformers: Armada (Panini)|(Panini Comics)]]". - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 23:32, 28 June 2009 (EDT)
:Why not just (Marvel)? -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 23:52, 28 June 2009 (EDT)
::Unless you're suggesting a sitewide change, that would still have the inconsistency problem. '''Edit:''' And now that I've actually ''read'' all that discussion I just moved from [[Talk:List of Generation 1 comics|Talk:Generation 1 (comic)]]... it looks like everybody but Walky who put in a vote was agreeing on "(Marvel comic)", with some pretty firm reasoning. So based on that, I'm going to go ahead and move the article. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 00:13, 29 June 2009 (EDT)
:::Again, why two words when one will do? What other "The Transformers" by Marvel are we distinguishing it from? The same goes for Dreamwave and anyone else. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 01:48, 29 June 2009 (EDT)
:::To clarify... "Dreamwave comic" is meant to distinguish it from "Panini comic" or whatever other ''Armada'' comics exist. But in that context, the "comic" becomes unnecessary and should be dropped completely. The ONLY viable argument for keeping it is that Dreamwave also did the mini-comics that came with the toys, but a (mini-comic) disambig should be enough to distinguish between the two.
:::The purposes of a diambig is to allow the co-existence of similarly-named pages, and to allow the reader to figure out which one they're looking for -- not to serve as a descriptor of the page's contents. I say we kill the "comic", across the board. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 01:56, 29 June 2009 (EDT)
::::I see your logic, and the only counterpoint I can think of is that we ''have'' made concessions in our parentheticals for the sake of consistency within a small group. For instance, "Nightstick (Cyclonus)" used to be "Nightstick (Decepticon)", but part of [[Talk:Nightstick_(G1)#Move|the argument for moving it]] was that it didn't "fit" with [[Nightstick (Headmasters)|Nightstick (Artfire)]] and [[Nebulon (Headmasters)|Nightstick (Ricochet)]]. Likewise, the ''Shattered Glass'' pages used to be a hodgepodge of "(Shattered Glass)" and "(Timelines)" parentheticals, but they've since all been moved to the former for group-consistency, despite the valid logic that had made them different as individuals. And in this case, as Derik pointed out above, the disparity between [[The Transformers (cartoon)]] and "The Transformers (Marvel)" is kind of jarring. If we use the media in one, it seems fitting to use it in all. I admit that this is a judgement-call area, and I'm by no means steadfastly defending it. But if forced to choose between one or the other, I prefer keeping the media in. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 02:10, 29 June 2009 (EDT)
:::::You know, we actually could move it to The Transformers (comic), since there's only one comic by that name.
:::::But regardless, it should be either The Transformers (Marvel) or The Transformers (comic). It makes sense just fine to me to first disambiguate by medium, then switch to by company only if a medium has more than one same-named series by more than one company. But using both medium ''and'' company in cases where either by itself would be sufficient is redundant and makes more work for editors.
:::::Alternatively we could think about switching to differentiating always by company if we really want to keep things consistent, since that seems like it would also produce only one word parentheticals most of the time, but I just don't see having both "cartoon" and "Marvel" as a problem really. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 07:23, 29 June 2009 (EDT)
::::::''You know, we actually could move it to The Transformers (comic), since there's only one comic by that name.''
::::::That's so obvious, it never even occurred to me. It should absolutely be "The Transformers (comic)". Anyone disagree?
::::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 12:57, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
:::::::[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:G1_Vol.3_Issue0_1.jpg] --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:11, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
::::::::The "Generation One" subtitle pretty handily wipes away that problem! -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 13:29, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::[[The Transformers (Madman)]]. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 01:17, 1 July 2009 (EDT)
::::::::::Ah, thank you. That actually brings up a good point: Nowhere in that article does it actually SAY it's a comic book. It even says "Cartoon continuity" (which is of course correct, but it still obscures the fact). It's not hard to intuit that it's printed material, but we should really be clearer than that. If we kept up the trend of including media-type in the parenthetical, then it wouldn't be a problem. But really, that isn't the parenthetical's job. What we need is maybe a standard addition to the infobox. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 01:31, 1 July 2009 (EDT)
:As I'm going through *all* the Marvel comics, trying to clean them up, I'd appreciate it if the Jackass who moved the article could spend a bit of time fixing the millions of links too? Or should we hold off until there's another completely pointless page move? --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 08:47, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
::You DO realize we have a bot that's made just for fixing exactly this sort of thing, right? -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 09:11, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:::Requests for moves can be put up at [[User:Deceptitran/Requests]]. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 09:18, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:::Well if I was the one moving pages for no apparent reason, the first thing I'd do is set the bot to fix the links. I can only assume that happened here...
:::...except it seems to have changed only the links to ''The Transformers'' (US) on each page. Most ''The Transformers'' (UK) links still point to "Generation 1 (Marvel Comics)" or "The Transformers (Marvel Comics)", either with or without the #Marvel UK rider. The whole thing's a clusterfuck right now and I was looking forward to basking in the gentle glow of victory, having uploaded the last of the Marvel UK covers last night. I just don't see the point of creating all the extra work for ourselves because someone is "confused" by the difference between (Marvel Comics) and (Marvel comic). --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 09:28, 11 July 2009 (EDT)

== Marvel UK reprints of American strips ==

Just to clarify without having to check every link - the Marvel UK section says that the UK comic reprinted "the American stories". Does this mean ''every'' American story was reprinted in the UK comic? And if not, which ones weren't? [[User:Flicky1991|Flicky1991]] 10:21, 20 April 2012 (EDT)

:Off the top of my head the only one we didn't get was the US colored version of Man of Iron (although some other Marvel US colorings of Marvel UK material did come back across the Altlantic). The AtoZ feature missed out a few characters who were in the original limited series and the Movie adaptation was done in a special. Otherwise we got the lot. [[User:Timrollpickering|Timrollpickering]] ([[User talk:Timrollpickering|talk]]) 14:15, 30 November 2013 (EST)

==Sales numbers==
Walky dug this Usenet post up that has some distribution/sales numbers for the Marvel comic.

[https://groups.google.com/d/topic/alt.toys.transformers/1yi-ArhSo9k/discussion https://groups.google.com/d/topic/alt.toys.transformers/1yi-ArhSo9k/discussion]

I was thinking this info should be integrated somehow. Maybe on each relevant issue's page? -- [[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 01:04, 9 August 2012 (EDT)

:Probably more on a general page as the figures don't actually refer to the issue they appear in. Also this is an area where it's very easy to misunderstand the data (especially the "nearest issue" which is generally incomplete, confusing and useless data) and a general explanation as to what all the figures mean would be handy. The Comichron website is probably the best place to find industry comparison data. [[User:Timrollpickering|Timrollpickering]] ([[User talk:Timrollpickering|talk]]) 14:13, 30 November 2013 (EST)

Talk:The Transformers (Marvel comic)

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Transformers: The Last Knight (film)

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[[File:TLK Poster.JPG|thumb|upright=1.67|So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot.]]
'''''Transformers: The Last Knight''''' is the fifth film in the [[live-action film series]], serving as a sequel to ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]'', and was released on [[June 21]], [[2017]].

When he is gifted a [[Talisman (TLK)|Talisman]] by a [[Talisman Knight|dying Transformer knight]], [[Cade Yeager]] finds himself pursued by both the [[Decepticon]]s and the [[Transformers Reaction Force]]. He is soon recruited along with [[Viviane Wembly]] by [[Edmund Burton|Sir Edmund Burton]], last of the [[Order of the Witwiccans]], to once again save the world from a new impending threat.

{{quote|One hundred billion trillion planets in the cosmos. You want to know, don't you? Why they keep coming ''here?''|[[Edmund Burton|Sir Edmund Burton]]|''Transformers: The Last Knight''}}

==Synopsis==
[[File:TLK Knight gives staff.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Eternal life, Doctor Jones! The gift of youth to whoever drinks from the Grail.]]
It is the year [[484]] in [[England]]. A medieval battle rages. [[King Arthur]] and his [[Knights of the Round Table|knight]]s are looking down the barrel of defeat at the hands of the [[Saxon]]s, and their only hope lies with the magician [[Merlin]]. Elsewhere Merlin, in reality merely a drunkard, rides up to a [[Guardian Knights' ship|long-crashed alien ship]] and beseeches [[Guardian Knight|the occupants]] for help. He has kept their secret, but now needs their help. The other knights are losing hope, but Arthur believes Merlin will come through. Merlin manages to convince [[Stormreign|a giant metal red-armored knight]] at the ship to help, and it presents him with a [[Staff of Merlin|staff]], allowing him to return to the battle with a [[Dragonstorm|giant metal dragon]]. The battle is won in favor of Camelot.

Present day: five years have passed since the battle of [[Hong Kong]]. [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] drifts apparently lifeless in space. Both he and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] have vanished from [[Earth]], and Transformers have been declared illegal, with the [[Transformers Reaction Force]] set up to track them down, though they've found refuge in some places such as [[Cuba]], where [[Seymour Simmons]] is hanging out with some displaced Autobots. Meanwhile, Transformers continue to arrive in waves while [[NASA]]'s [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] detects something large incoming.

[[File:TLK Canopy downed.jpg|thumb|right|300px|He speaks a dozen languages and knows every local custom. He'll blend in, disappear and you'll never see him again.]]

Four kids, craving adventure, breach a fence and enter a section of [[Chicago]] ruined by a previous Transformer battle. They stumble on a [[Talisman Knight's ship|crashed Transformer ship]] containing a still-living occupant. TRF [[Sentinel (TLK)|Sentinels]] close in on them and warn them that they're trespassing; however [[Izabella]] appears out of nowhere to help, slinging bottles of green ooze which result in one Sentinels shooting another. Izabella's tiny robot [[Sqweeks]] wraps a cable around the legs of the remaining Sentinel and it topples over, allowing the kids time to get away. Pursued by another Sentinel, Izabella takes the kids to shelter — a Transformer named [[Canopy]] whose back is a hollow mound of rubble. They're joined by Sqweeks, who's lost his arm in the battle. Canopy and the kids start moving, unaware the TRF has spotted them. Unable to determine what faction Canopy is and with kids possibly in danger, TRF commander [[Santos]] orders an air strike. The missile takes out Canopy, who thanks a tearful Izabella before dying. The kids are soon rescued by [[Cade Yeager]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] who destroy another Sentinel.

Cade drives the kids to the border of the no-go zone and drops them off before returning to the crashed ship. Despite his efforts, the pilot within dies, but not before attempting to present Cade with the [[Talisman (TLK)|Talisman]]. Cade does not take it. He reports the pilot's death to Bumblebee shortly before [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] appears and Cade is suddenly surrounded by TRF forces. Meanwhile, the Talisman sprouts legs and crawls away from the ship. Cade refuses to divulge where the other Transformers are. Bumblebee arrives, only to be blown to pieces by the TRF. Moments later, the parts start reconnecting as Bumblebee reassembles himself, sending the TRF forces into disarray as he does so. He and Cade take Santos hostage, but the standoff is interrupted by the arrival of [[William Lennox|Lennox]] who tries to talk Cade and Bee into standing down. [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]'s appearance settles things however, and Cade, Bee, and Hound leave, though the TRF manages to surreptitiously attach a tracking device onto Bumblebee.

Lennox reports to [[Morshower|General Morshower]] who plays a recording of Barricade reporting back to Megatron. Megatron is disappointed Barricade failed to secure the Talisman as it is the object they need to lead them to the staff, but Barricade believes the TRF will lead them to it. Morshower orders Lennox to return to his covert infiltration of the TRF.

[[File:TLK Optimus chained.jpg|thumb|left|300px|My soul is prepared. How's yours?]]

Optimus's voyage through space comes to an end as he crashes on the ravaged surface of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], which has been mysteriously disassembled into many pieces. He encounters and attacks [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]], who claims to be his creator and the "Prime of Life," but she easily restrains him.

As he returns to the [[Junkyard (TLK)|junkyard]] he calls home, Cade realizes that the Talisman has somehow ended up in his vehicle. In England, [[Cogman]] alerts [[Edmund Burton|Sir Edmund Burton]] to the arrival of the Talisman. Elsewhere in England, [[Viviane Wembly]] wins a game of polo for her team before returning to the [[University of Oxford]]. She lectures her class on King Arthur, someone she believes to be a made-up legend, unaware she's being watched by Burton. Burton gives instructions to a nearby parked car.

Quintessa tells Optimus that he must retrieve her staff, stolen by her knight guardians and hidden on Earth.

[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] are hanging out in the junkyard. Cade, Hound, and Bumblebee stop off on their way back so Cade can banter with the local authority, Chief [[Sherman]], who complains that his cruiser has been stolen. The trio continue to the junkyard where [[Jimmy (TLK)|Jimmy]] and [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] are looking at online photos of custom cars. They are unaware Izabella and Sqweeks have stowed away on Hound. While Bumblebee and Crosshairs come to blows, Cade persuades [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]] to cough up Sherman's cruiser, or what's left of it. [[Daytrader]] arrives, bringing [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s head and a new voicebox for Bumblebee. He's interested in Cade's Talisman, and says it's a sign of the impending apocalypse. Izabella fronts up to Cade and attempts to pursuade him to let her stay. They return to Cade's trailer for antics with the [[Mini Dinobot]]s and trade stories of lost family members. Izabella manages to impress Cade with her knowledge of Cybertronian physiology and he's convinced to let her stay.

In [[Namibia]], scientists arrive at a location to find a giant metal horn poking out of the ground. News of the horn, and five more like it, get back to Simmons and Burton. Meanwhile the NASA scientists meet with [[President of the United States|presidential]] staff to report they have detected an approaching planet, which they say will arrive in three days.

Helped by Hound, Cade makes an untraceable satellite phone call to [[Tessa Yeager|his daughter]] at college, but is unable to speak to her for fear that his voice will be recognized by the [[CIA]], and can only listen as she tries to convince him to get a girlfriend.

Lennox meets Morshower at the [[Pentagon]] for a briefing on the horns — Megatron has been spotted visiting them and has snatched up two CIA operatives as hostages. Lennox and some lawyers meet with Megatron to negotiate the return of some of his men. They agree to release [[Mohawk]], [[Dreadbot]], and [[Nitro Zeus]]; [[Berserker]], however, turns out to be a step too far, and Megatron is forced to select [[Onslaught (ROTF)|Onslaught]] instead. Morshower believes they can use Megatron so they can get hold of Cade's Talisman themselves.

[[File:TLKIzzyAndDecepticons.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Grail is mine, and you're going to get it for me.]]

As morning breaks over the junkyard, the Decepticons prepare to move in, observed by the TRF. Izabella attaches a new arm to Sqweeks, before helping Cade fit Bumblebee's new voicebox. Bee is not happy with the result, which sounds like a GPS. Sherman gives the group advanced warning of the impending Decepticon assault, and the Autobots and humans scramble to get ready to escape. Megatron's group arrives to find the junkyard deserted, at least until Hound pops up and starts shooting. Megatron returns fire. The Autobot group heads into the nearby town, where Drift finds the tracking device on Bee. Grimlock and [[Slug (AOE)|Slug]] ambush the TRF forces en route to the town. Santos has a swarm of unmanned drones sent in. The Decepticons arrive in the middle of town and immediately spot Sqweeks, which draws Izabella out in an attempt to save the tiny Autobot. Cade detonates the explosives hidden around town and flees with Izabella, pursued by Barricade. The 'Con is knocked aside by Grimlock, who also devours Dreadbot. As the battle rapidly turns against the Decepticons, with Onslaught being killed by Drift and Crosshairs, Megatron calls a retreat. Mohawk, however, is left behind and is subsequently reduced to a head by Bumblebee. Cade, Izabella, and Jimmy take cover in a disused church as the TRF drones move in, however the drones continue to pursue them through the church. Cade and Izabella take two of them out, but Jimmy tries to bluff a third, banking on the idea it's using facial recognition. He gets shot anyway, but fortunately it was only a beanbag.

The trio head into another disused building and enter a lift where they encounter Cogman, who announces he's come to collect Cade. The discussion ends when a drone arrives, and Cade ends up clinging to it as it flies wildly around the street. Cogman phones Sir Burton to report the bad news, but fortunately Cade survives his impromptu flight, partly thanks to the Talisman protecting him from bullets. He manages to ride another drone to the ground and is met by Cogman who explains that he's important because of the Talisman. Crosshairs attempts to prevent Cogman from doing anything, only for the smaller robot to break his finger. Cogman convinces Cade to go with him and leave the others. Cade and Bee accompany Cogman on a plane to England.

Morshower and Lennox track the flight, and note that Megatron's group is giving pursuit. Lennox is ordered to take the TRF team to the UK as well.

Simmons calls Sir Burton to let him know a book has been tracked down. NASA continues tracking the incoming planet, now identified as Cybertron. Quintessa reveals to Optimus that Earth is actually [[Unicron]] and that they're going to kill him with the staff, an act which will destroy Earth and restore Cybertron. Optimus's optics turn purple as Quintessa addresses him as "Nemesis Prime". Optimus swears to fight anyone who interferes with his new mission.

[[File:TLKWW2Flashback.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|Nazis. I hate those guys.]]
Viviane and her family watch a news report on the giant horns. Conversation turns to her dead father, and her mother suggests she check her father's study in case there's anything useful for her work. Disinterested, she instead gets into her car where an invitation falls out of the glove compartment. The car takes off of its own accord and starts driving her through the streets of [[London]]. When she smashes a window, the car complains in a French accent and throws her into the trunk. She calls for help, having realized she's in a Transformer, and the car [[scanning|scans]] a passing Lamborghini, reconfiguring itself into a copy of the other vehicle.

Cade's plane lands at Sir Burton's castle, where he and Bumblebee are shot at by [[Bulldog (TLK)|a tank Transformer]]. Sir Burton apologizes and takes a look at the Talisman. [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] arrives carrying Viviane, who is unhappy at being kidnapped. Once things calm down, Sir Burton explains he's the last of the [[Order of the Witwiccans]]. Cade's boorish behavior towards Viviane results in him being assaulted by Cogman. Sir Burton shows off portraits of his family tree and the Witwiccans, and relates how the Transformers have been helping humans for centuries, such as when Bumblebee and Hot Rod took part in [[World War II]]. They head to another building which houses the original [[Round Table]] used by King Arthur and his knights when they teamed up with the twelve [[Guardian Knight]]s. Further there is a legend that a last knight would be found and thanks to possessing the Talisman, that's Cade. Only Merlin's DNA can unlock the power of the staff, which is where Viviane comes in as a direct descendant of Merlin. She has no idea where the staff might be though. Further discussion is halted as [[MI6]] and TRF forces arrive to assault the castle. Despite [[Spitfire Autobot|one of the elderly Autobots]] attempting to defend the castle only to power down as a result of his aging, Hot Rod's time stopper weapon gives the group enough time to escape.

[[File:TLK Bumblebee car attack.jpg|thumb|right|300px|How does one get off this thing?!]]
Simmons makes an irate call to Sir Burton, who is currently being pursued through London and is late for the appointment at [[Trinity Library]]. Bumblebee arrives at Viviane's house with her and Cade, and the pair start rifling through her father's study in search of a clue. Sir Burton's dropped off at the library, but Simmons demands to be inducted into the Order of Witwiccans before he'll point Sir Burton to the book, which reveals Earth is Unicron and points them to [[Stonehenge]]. Cade and Viviane find a clue in an old popup book which points them to the [[HMS Alliance|HMS ''Alliance'']] at a [[Rotal British Submarine Museum|naval museum]]. The TRF arrive at the house. Meanwhile, Sir Burton and Cogman switch cars and a high-speed chase through the streets of London ensues. Cade and Viviane, now also making a getaway in Bumblebee, let them know about the navy museum. Cogman manages to shake his pursuers while Bumblebee manages to shake Barricade by blasting the Decepticon.

Bumblebee reaches the naval museum at the same time as Cogman and Sir Burton, and they have the HMS ''Alliance'' evacuated. Sir Burton leaves the others to it, explaining that the submarine, in reality a Transformer, knows the way to the staff. The sub launches, with Bumblebee clinging to the exterior so he cam come along for the ride. The sub's departure is noted by TRF and they track it as it heads away from England. The TRF scramble their own submersibles to give chase. A nuclear sub fires missiles at the ''Alliance'' which responds by ramming the other sub and diving deeper into the ocean. Cogman fires himself out through a torpedo tube.

Sir Burton arrives at Number 10 to see the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], but is turned away. Cogman returns to the sub with a couple of fish he's caught. Viviane and Cade share clumsy sexual chemistry until Cogman reveals he's made sushi as a "last meal". Sir Burton takes a secret back entrance into Number 10 to talk to the PM, holding off security by threatening to release the [[watch that killed Hitler]]. Sir Burton tells the PM to mobilize the military to Stonehenge. The ''Alliance'' zeros in on a vast undersea Transformer ship, which lights up as they approach. The pursuing TRF subs also spot the ship, but have to make their own way in after the airlock doors close behind the ''Alliance''. The ''Alliance'' surfaces beyond the airlock, and the group starts exploring.

[[File:TLKOptimusVsBumblebee.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|Two selfless martyrs. Jesus Christ!]]
Back at the junkyard, Izabella, Sqweeks, and Crosshairs look up at the approaching Cybertron. Elsewhere, NASA and [[European Space Agency|ESA]] scientists give a briefing as the approaching planet scrapes the surface of the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. The doomsday news is broadcast on [[television]] around the world. The subs carrying the TRF teams led by Lennox and Santos emerge into an air pocket, and they move out. Daytrader arrives back at the junkyard with the [[Knight Ship|Autobots' ship]], and the group there prepares to head to England to help out. Cade and Viviane find a chamber holding motionless Knights of Iacon. Cybertron moves into Earth's atmosphere, passing the [[International Space Station]]. Viviane touches a Celtic engraving which reveals Merlin's sarcophagus, inside which they find a wooden staff. As the TRF moves through the same chamber, [[Skullitron|one of the knights]] springs to life. Cade keeps it distracted as the TRF attacks it, eventually bringing it down. Viviane grabs the wooden staff which transforms into metal in her hands. Lennox and Santos attempt to get her to hand it over, but she reveals only she can use it. More knights revive and attack, however a short time later, Optimus kills them and forces Viviane to turn the staff over to him. Sending the others back to the sub, Cade, Lennox, and Bumblebee go after Optimus.

[[File:TLK-Cade wields Excalibur.jpg|right|thumb|300px|You're strangely dressed... for a knight.]]
Bumblebee fights with Optimus atop the vast ship as it comes to the surface. Bumblebee manages to get the better of his former leader, and Cade attempts to persuade Optimus to stop fighting. As the ship rises out of the water, Optimus is able to get the upper hand and is prepared to end Bumblebee when Bee manages to talk in his own voice. Shaking Quintessa's influence, Optimus drops his sword, just in time for Megatron to swoop in and claim the staff. After the Decepticons leave, the remaining Knights of Iacon emerge from the ship and are ready to execute Optimus for aiding Quintessa's cause. The Talisman transforms into a sword which Cade uses to block the killing strike, and the Knights recognize Cade as a knight. Though Prime is ready to die, Cade talks him out of sacrificing himself, and Optimus announces they have to destroy Quintessa with the other Autobots show up in their ship.

[[File:TLK-Knightstogether.jpg|thumb|left|300px|He chose poorly.]]

Cybertron makes touchdown on Earth, causing untold destruction. Megatron arrives at Stonehenge with the staff. Lennox contacts Morshower with the coordinates for the "end game", an [[ignition chamber]] which is part of one of the dangling pieces of Cybertron and military forces move in. Cade comes up with a plan to load Ospreys onto the Autobot ship so they can get close enough to the ignition chamber to land. NASA thinks this is a bad plan and works on an alternate idea. The massive ship continues towards Stonehenge where the Decepticons, along with Sir Burton and the military forces, are waiting. At Sir Burton's signal, the military opens fire on the Decepticons as the massive ship arrives directly overhead. The Autobots regroup with Cade and the TRF, and Optimus Prime gives a stirring speech before blasting off. Cogman manages to find Sir Burton, who had been blasted by Megatron sometime prior to the Autobots' arrival, shortly before he expires.

Megatron returns to the Ignition Chamber where Quintessa is waiting. She plugs the staff into the floor, and lightning starts arcing about. The pieces of Cybertron start moving about and joining together, causing those on the ground to run for their lives. Massive worldwide destruction ensues. As the Autobot ship carries Autobots, knights and humans up to their fates, Cade asks Viviane out on a date. Jets soften up the defenses around the ignition chamber while the humans all board the Ospreys, and Cade has it out with Santos. Shamed, the TRF troops all rip off their insignias. The Ospreys launch, and Izabella and Sqweeks reveal they've stowed away on the one carrying Cade and Viviane. Covered by the jets and the giant three-headed dragon, the Ospreys head to the ignition chamber, and crash-land on the surface. The landing site is immediately a war zone as Megatron and his Decepticons stand in their way. Lennox spots the entrance to the chamber, but the team is pinned down by a gun emplacement. Izabella instructs Sqweeks to go blow the gun emplacement up. [[Infernocus]] forms under Megatron's orders and knocks Bumblebee and company out of the air.

[[File:TLKEnding.jpg|right|upright=1.6|thumb|May we go home now, please?]]
Meanwhile, the NASA scientists have come up with a plan to use nukes to cause a nearby chunk of Cybertron to destroy the ignition chamber. Morshower contacts Lennox to let him know the new plan, and the TRF forces start withdrawing. Sqweeks succeeds in blowing up the gun emplacement. Optimus arrives aboard the dragon and takes out Infernocus. As the TRF troops parachute off the platform, the jets nuke the neighbouring chunk of Cybertron. Viviane drops her parachute and heads back towards the chamber, followed by Cade. The chunk hits the platform containing the chamber, however despite the devastating impact, the chamber continues to function.

[[File:Transformers_5_Unicron.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|Trust no one.]]
The chamber tumbles down until it comes to rest on another part of Cybertron. Inside, chaos reigns as the Autobots and Decepticons fight and Viviane grabs the staff. Optimus kicks Megatron through a wall shortly before another impact sends the chamber tumbling out of the sky. Bumblebee kills Nitro Zeus and blasts Quintessa as Optimus manages to distract her. Quintessa vanishes in a flash of blue light. Viviane finally pulls the staff free, shutting down the Ignition Chamber just before it crashes to the ground. Optimus dramatically drives out of the cloud of debris raised by its impact, carrying Cade and Viviane. As everyone reunites, Optimus gives another stirring speech about how Earth and Cybertron are now joined as one before the Autobots depart for Cybertron alongside the guardian knights.

Meanwhile back in Namibia, Quintessa, now in a human form, walks up to one of the scientists studying the giant metal horn and offers to tell him how to kill Unicron.

==Quotes==
"All right, I am what they say. I'm a liar, a charlatan. I've deceived my whole life, but if I could, for one moment, change this world for the better, I would give up everything! Everything! I'd give up drink! Money! Wom- ...Drink and money!"
:—'''Merlin'''

"Your world is dying. I've been waiting for you, Optimus...Come meet your ''maker''."
:—'''Quintessa'''

"You dare to strike your ''God?!'' Your war ''doomed'' Cybertron!" 
"Megatron started the war-" 
"''You'' destroyed your world, you fool!"
:—'''Quintessa''' shows '''Optimus''' who's boss after slapping him.

"There is a way to heal your world. My power of creation, the staff, was stolen from me by my twelve Guardian Knights. They betrayed me, and hid it on Earth. Gave it to your ''precious'' humans...the staff is the only way to bring life back to Cybertron. You are going to find it for me. Do you seek redemption, Prime? ''Do'' you?" 
"My maker, I ''do''." 
:—'''Quintessa''' coaxes a half-brainwashed '''Optimus''' to her side.

"The end is near, my old treacherous friend... what a shame you'll be unable to see it."
:—'''Megatron''' musing to the decapitated head of Starscream

"Go to hell!" 
"'This planet ''is'' hell!"
:—'''Izabella''' and '''Megatron''' exchange smack talk

"Don't kill the messenger... or the messenger will kill ''you''."
:—'''Cogman'''

"You are needed, sir. Urgently. My master is fond of saying that all the important decisions in life often come down to just one moment."
:—'''Cogman''' impresses on Cade the gravity of the situation.

[Cogman is playing the organ] 
"Stop that!" 
"I was trying to make the moment more epic"
:—'''Cogman''' annoying '''Sir Edmond Burton''' and practicing for Britain's Got Talent.

"Move, bitch, get out my way!"
:—'''Cogman''' sure loves somewhat dated references...

"Optimus...it is time you knew the truth. The place you call Earth has another name: Unicron." 
"Earth...Unicron? Cybertron's ancient enemy?" 
"Yes. You are going to kill him. With my staff, we will drain the very life from Unicron. Earth ''will die''. 
"Yes..." 
"And your world will be reborn... ''Nemesis Prime''. 
"I will fight anyone who stands in my way."
:—'''Quintessa''' coaxes a completely brainwashed <s>'''Optimus'''</s> '''Nemesis Prime''' to her side.

"Introductions. Miss Viviane Wembly: Master of History, Oxford; Doctor of Philosophy, also Oxford; and Doctor of Letters, Oxford again, I think. Anything else? Anyway, meet Cade." 
"...''Yeager''. Cade Yeager. I'm an inventor."
:—'''Sir Edmund Burton''' and '''Cade Yeager'''

'''Hot Rod:''' "Bonjour, chérie! Je M'appelle Hot Rôd." 
'''Viviane:''' "Ut what?" 
'''Hot Rod:''' "Hot ''Rôd.''" 
'''Viviane''' "Hut Rud?" 
'''Hot Rod:''' "''Hot Rôd!''" 
'''Sir Edmund Burton:''' "Hot. Rod." 
'''Hot Rod:''' "Mhmm." 
'''Sir Edmund Burton:''' "It's his French accent." 
'''Viviane:''' "Is he French?" 
'''Sir Edmund Burton:''' "No, he just likes the accent." 
'''Hot Rod:''' "Non! No no no, I ''HATE'' the accent! But I can't get rid of it! I'm ''stuck'' with the accent!"
:—Everybody loves '''Hot Rod'''.

"Bee?" 
"Yes." 
"But he's so nice." 
"Behind the lines during the war they called him many things... nice was never one of them." 
:—'''Cade''' and '''Sir Edmund''' on Bumblebee's past.

"I-I am Bumblebee... Your oldest friend! Optimus... I would lay down my life for you."
:—'''Bumblebee''' regains his voice, and Optimus regains his mind.

[In a Siri-type voice] 
"Daytrader is a punk-ass bitch."
:—'''Bumblebee''' isn't happy.

"I knew you couldn't do it! Your time is over, Prime. You ''FAILED''! You turned your back on Cybertron, now you will watch Earth ''DIE''!"
:—'''Megatron''' denounces Optimus after his redemption

"Knights, Autobots - this cannot and will not be the end. To save Earth and her people, we are going to steal Quintessa's staff. Only you, Viviane, can take it back. I will lead the way into her chamber, and when the account of the ages is etched into the cosmos, let those who exist long after us know that this was our finest hour!"
:—'''Optimus''' rallies his new and old allies before the final battle

"Did you forget who I am? ''I AM OPTIMUS PRIME!''"
:—'''Optimus''' as he effortlessly kills the Infernocons. They should've run for cover, or at least DUCKED.

"We were brothers once!" 
"''Once.''"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"At the heart of every legend, there is truth: a few brave souls unite to save the world. We can be heroes in our own lives, every one of us, if we only have the courage to try. Our fates were always intertwined, but now our worlds are joined as one. We need to repair our planets, work together, if we wish to survive. A dangerous secret is buried deep inside the Earth. There is more to this planet than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime, calling all Autobots... It is time to come ''home''."
:—'''Optimus Prime'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s closing narration.

==Characters==
{{featuredcharacters|
h1=[[Autobot]]s|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime/Nemesis Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] ([[Erik Aadahl]])
*[[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] ([[Omar Sy]])*
*[[Hound (Movie)|Hound]] ([[John Goodman]])
*[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] ([[Ken Watanabe]])
*[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] ([[John DiMaggio]])
*[[Cogman]] ([[Jim Carter]])
*[[Sqweeks]] ([[Reno Wilson]])
*[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
*[[Slug (AOE)|Slug]]
*[[Mini Dinobot|Mini-Dinobots]]
**Mini Grimlock
**Mini Slug
**Mini Strafe
*[[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] ([[Tom Kenny]])
*[[Daytrader]] ([[Steve Buscemi]])
*[[Topspin (DOTM)|Topspin/"Volleybot"]] ([[Steven Barr]])
*[[Canopy]]†
*"[[Bulldog (TLK)|Bulldog]]" ([[Mark Ryan]])
*[[Trench]]
*[[Spitfire Autobot]]†
*[[Northrop Autobot]]
*[[HMS Alliance|HMS ''Alliance'']] Autobot

|h2=[[Decepticon]]s|c2=
*[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] ([[Frank Welker]])
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] ([[Jess Harnell]])*
*[[Nitro Zeus]] (John DiMaggio/Steven Barr)**
*[[Mohawk]] (Reno Wilson)
*[[Onslaught (ROTF)|Onslaught]]†
*[[Dreadbot]]
*[[Berserker]]†
*[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s head
*Decepticon [[protoform]]s

|h3=[[Human]]s|c3=
*[[Cade Yeager]] ([[Mark Wahlberg]])
*[[Viviane Wembly]] ([[Laura Haddock]])
*[[William Lennox]] ([[Josh Duhamel]])
*[[Izabella]] ([[Isabela Moner]])
*[[Edmund Burton|Sir Edmund Burton]] ([[Anthony Hopkins]])
*[[Seymour Simmons]] ([[John Turturro]])
*[[Santos]] ([[Santiago Cabrera]])
*[[Jimmy (TLK)|Jimmy]] ([[Jerrod Carmichael]])
*[[Morshower]] ([[Glenn Morshower]])
*[[Merlin]] ([[Stanley Tucci]])
*[[King Arthur|King Arthur]] ([[Liam Garrigan]])
*[[JPL Engineer]] ([[Tony Hale]])

|h4=[[Knights of Iacon]]|c4=
*[[Dragonstorm]]
**[[Stormreign]]†
**[[Dragonicus]]
**[[Steelbane]]
*[[Skullitron]]†
*[[Talisman Knight]]†

|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] ([[Gemma Chan]])
*[[Infernocus]]
**[[Infernocon]]s
*[[Unicron]]
*The [[watch that killed Hitler]]
*[[Vatti Bot]]
|nonumbering=true
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Certain lines from these characters are not delivered by their credited actors, but the fill-in actors who performed the "scratch track" for the movie, whose recordings have survived into the finished film. 
<nowiki>**</nowiki>Nitro Zeus' voice actor varies depending on the version of the film (see "[[#Other versions|Other versions]]," below). The "finished" version shown in English-speaking countries features John DiMaggio, and the other, shown internationally, features Steven Barr. Both actors are credited on the official digital release, as line readings from both make it into that version of the film. 
<nowiki>†</nowiki>Denotes a character who speaks, but has no credited voice actor. The internet has popularly attributed these roles to DiMaggio, Barr, and Welker, variously, but often incorrectly, and with no proof; more likely, at least some are performed by scratch track actors and were not replaced for the finished film.

==Continuity notes==
*Optimus left Earth at the end of [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|the last movie]], to look for the mysterious [[Creator (AOE)|Creators]]. The [[Seed]] he was carrying is absent and its fate is unmentioned, but he ''did'' say he was going to take it where "it could never be found," so perhaps he accomplished that first. As for the Creators, they are left ambiguous; Quintessa professes to have created the [[Transformer|Cybertronian]] race, but no attempt is made to connect or reconcile her with the biomechanical alien arm seen in ''Age of Extinction'', and she is labelled "the great deceiver" by the knights, throwing anything she claims into question.
*It seemed as though Cybertron was disintegrated at the end of ''Dark of the Moon'', but it was unclear if what we were seeing was literal, or just an exaggerated visual of the space bridge collapsing and the planet disappearing with it (this was a film in which a planet could be "half-teleported" and be absolutely fine, after all). Here, it appears partially broken-apart, chunks of the planet tethered to the rest by cables.
*Merlin mentions that Cybertron was "destroyed"; he's referring not to ''Dark of the Moon'' (which, obviously, hadn't happened yet at that time), but to the planet being ravaged by the war, and left barren and lifeless by the loss of the [[AllSpark]] prior to the [[Transformers (film)|first movie]].
*As per the end of ''Age of Extinction'', Drift has only one of his two longswords, having evidently never recovered the other after he hurled it into a [[Trax (AOE)|Trax]] during the final act of the film. However, see "[[#Errors|Errors]]".
*Wheelie reappears following his absence from the previous film, revealed to have survived [[Cemetery Wind]]'s Autobot hunt. Given that [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] was also mentioned to have been killed by Cemetery Wind in ''Age of Extinction'' tie-in material, the only Autobots who survived the end of ''Dark of the Moon'' whose current statuses are unknown are [[Mirage (Movie)|Dino]] and [[Roadbuster (DOTM)|Roadbuster]].
*The Dinobots were "set free" by Optimus at the end of the last movie, though at least some of them have since joined up with the main Autobot team in hiding, presumably for pragmatic reasons. Unnamed in dialogue in the previous film, Grimlock is here called by name (by Cade), the only Dinobot named on-screen.
*Izabella mentions that her parents were killed during the Decepticon invasion of Chicago in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''.
*We can see [[Jolt_(ROTF)|Jolt]]´s head in the Junkyard, that ties perfectly with [[Rising_Storm_issue_4|Rising Storm issue 4]], where Jolt is killed.
*Cade's daughter Tessa was a soon to graduate high school student in ''Age of Extinction'', and she has since gone on to college.
*Starscream was killed by a [[NEST]] boomstick at the climax of ''Dark of the Moon''. ''Age of Extinction'' established that scavengers had salvaged many objects from the Battle of Chicago, explaining why Daytrader found his head in Buffalo.
*The T.R.F.'s prison facility is labeled "[[N.B.E.]] Supermax", in reference to [[Sector Seven]]'s acronym for the Transformers.
*Megatron addresses Starscream's disembodied head as "my treacherous old friend". Back in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', Megatron accused Starscream of abandoning him to die in the [[Transformers (film)|first movie]]. We wouldn't call that a justified accusation, but what can we do? It's the word of a dead skull against that of the universe's greatest warlord.
*When Viviane is abducted by Hot Rod, she asks if her captor is a famous Transformer such as [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] or [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], unaware that they both died in ''Dark of the Moon''.
*Pictures of [[Sam Witwicky]], [[Archibald Witwicky]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], and [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] are briefly visible in Burton's mansion. Burton's claim that he is the last living member of the Witwiccans indirectly implies that Sam died off-screen after his last appearance in ''Dark of the Moon''.
*Daytrader gives the Autobots [[Knight Ship|Lockdown's ship]], which was last seen being attacked by [[People's Liberation Army|Chinese military]] jets in Hong Kong.
*The ''Ark'' is briefly seen on the Moon, where it was revealed to be back in ''Dark of the Moon'', having been left there untouched in the years since, along with the site of the [[Apollo 11]] moon landing.
*Among the landmarks trashed by the hanging chunks of Cybertron is the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], where the climax of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' took place, recognizable by the top missing to reveal the Star Harvester hidden underneath.
*The Decepticons are seen using several [[Orbital Assault Carrier]]s, as they were in ''Dark of the Moon''.

==Transformers references==
*[[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] and [[Onslaught (ROTF)|Onslaught]] take their names from Generation 1 characters, but they have little relevance to their progenitors as far as appearance, personality, or role in the story goes.
*Quintessa is inspired by the [[Quintesson]]s, the extraterrestrials antagonists from season 3 of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original 1980's cartoon]]. In the cartoon continuity, the Quintessons were the creators of the Transformers, in the same way that Quintessa claims to be in the film. She seems to be physically based off of [[Quintus Prime]], a relatively new character introduced through 2013's ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus]]'', who has the power to create life (as Quintessa claims she does) and was responsible for creating the Quintessons.
*[[Unicron]] is the ancient enemy of [[Primus]]/Cybertron, who was introduced in ''The Transformers: The Movie''. The idea of Unicron being Earth is derived from the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' cartoon, in which the planet formed around his dormant body. Whether or not these particulars hold true for the movie's incarnation of Unicron remains to be seen.
* When Optimus Prime falls under Quintessa's control, he is dubbed "[[Nemesis Prime (disambiguation)|Nemesis Prime]]", an obvious reference to the evil clone of Optimus Prime that has appeared in many continuities.
* Several Transformers introduced in this film have altered designs from past films, yet are entirely new characters nevertheless. Onslaught and [[Canopy]] are both altered versions of [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]], [[Nitro Zeus]] employs the same body design as the [[KSI Boss]]es but has a head identical to [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]'s, [[Dreadbot]] is an altered version of [[Crowbar]], [[Berserker]] is a homage to [[Crankcase (DOTM)|Crankcase]], and [[Trench]] is the same body-type as [[Scrapper (ROTF)|Scrapper]] and [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)|Scrapmetal]]. Also, despite being based off Constructicons, Canopy and Trench are both Autobots.
* Edmund Burton claims Cogman is a [[Headmaster (technology)|"headmaster"]], which is typically a human-sized bot that transforms into the head of a larger bot. While this reference ''is'' borne out by his [[Cogman#Toys|Deluxe Class toy]], which features a larger vehicle body and a detachable head, indicating it was ''supposed'' to be part of the film, it didn't happen on-screen.
* Burton's walking stick makes the classic transformation sound when it turns into a gun.

==Real-life references==
*King Arthur, Merlin and the associated knights are from British legend. The battle depicted at the beginning of the movie is the [[w:Battle of Badon|Battle of Badon]].
*The TRF Sentinel that attacks Bumblebee and the kids bears resemblance to the ED-209 from ''Robocop'', with a nearly identical leg design.
*The bogus voice box Bumblebee gets from Daytrader has the voice of {{w|Siri}}, the AI assistant found in most iPhones.
*Crosshairs calls Cogman a "[[Star_Wars_(film)|C-3PO]] ripoff".
*Sir Edmund Burton quotes the song ''[[w:It's a Long Way to Tipperary|It's a Long Way to Tipperary]]'' in reference to World War I.
*While evading the constabulary in London, Cogman breaks into an impromptu rendition of Ludacris's 2002 hit "[[w:Move Bitch|Move Bitch]]", though he incorrectly sings "get out of my way" rather than "get out the way".
*Optimus saying "Say hello to my friend, Bumblebee!" is loosely based off of the line "Say hello to my little friend!" from ''Scarface''.

==Other editions==
==="International" version===
Two versions of the film were released to theaters: one screened in English-speaking countries, which seems to be the "finished" version, and another shown internationally, with foreign language subtitles, which appears to be an earlier version. There are numerous differences in dialogue between the two versions, with some lines being dropped, added, or changed completely for the finished version, including ones that even help to make the film make more sense!
*When Hound shows up when TRF are talking to Bee and Cade, in the finished version he says, "Sorry I'm late! My invitation to this ass-kicking must have gotten lost in the mail." The alternate version has him say "Mornin', fellas! I like showing up to a gun fight! This round mound's gonna mow you down. Translation: Sayonara, suckers!"
*When Crosshairs sits on the orbital assault carrier in the junkyard, in the finished version he says, "Losing our heads sitting around here, So tired of hiding.", while in the alternate version, he says "Ughhhhh, so bored on this forsaken rock.". Take note that his lip syncing is supposed to pair up with the alternate version's dialogue.
*When Hound arrives in the junkyard, he tosses aside a weapons cache that explodes on impact behind him. For some reason, the film plays this as a "flatulence" gag, though it differs between versions; in the finished version, Hound says "I shouldn't have eaten all of that Tijuana street machinery!" while in the alternate version, he says "Woah, been holding that one in for a while!"
*When Daytrader says "You always resort to violence, right off the bat!", in the finished version Hound replies "I love violence!". Hound does not reply in the alternate version.
*Hound has an extra line about wanting to "deep-six" Daytrader in the alternate cut right before the Vatti Bot appears, whereas he remains silent in the final edition.
*Izabella laughs at Cade's attempts to make Grimlock spit out the cruiser in the alternate cut. She smiles, but remains silent in the final version.
*When Jimmy and Wheelie argue, the finished version has Wheelie back down a bit when Jimmy threatens and grabs him, with Wheelie adding that Jimmy is the worst "senior vice president ever". In the alternate cut, Wheelie continues to berate him , threatening "I'll have my Autobot brethren kick your ass!". Oddly, he still flails his hands around when he's not saying anything in the latter version, meaning his animation is meant to be paired with the "finished" audio.
*In the "earlier" version, all of Nitro Zeus's dialogue is provided by Steven Barr, and the actor receives an on-screen credit for the role. For the "finished" version, it was all re-recorded by John DiMaggio (with the credits altered to reflect the change), with some differences. During his introduction, for instance, the finished version has him say: "I know where you live, Enrique, say hello to your wife for me!" while the other, he says: "By the way, Enrique, Chet's sleeping with your wife!" Though in the international version, after said dialogue, DiMaggio's laughter can be heard.
*When arriving at the Junkyard, DiMaggio-Nitro remarks "Aw man, I kicked more ass in prison!" upon learning that Cade and co. have left, while in the alternate version Barr-Nitro says "Unfortunate, because I was looking to knock some heads!".
*While Megatron is musing to the head of Starscream, as he says "The end is near", DiMaggio-Nitro cuts in with "Oh, she's coming!" while Barr-Nitro remains silent.
*When the Decepticons arrive in the abandoned town, Barr-Nitro says: "I know they're close!" while DiMaggio-Nitro says: "Oh, I feel a fight comin'!"
*In the final film, when the Autobots discover the tracker planted on Bumblebee, Crosshairs remarks "The tracker led 'em right to us! When are you gonna grow up?" but in the alternate version, he says "What's this? You brought 'em right to us!"
*In the final film, after Drift kills Onslaught ("and his fat head!"), Crosshairs remarks, "Don't get any deader than that!" In the alternate version, Crosshairs is silent, and Drift instead says "Fantastic!" after his quip about Onslaught's head. In the final film, Drift's lips are still visibly moving at the point when he says "Fantastic!" in the alternate cut.
**Also, note that Crosshairs' gun's sound effect fires faster in the international version than the finished version's.
*After the town battle, Crosshairs calls the TRF drones "gnats" as he shoots them down in the finished version. He remains silent in the alternate version.
*In the finished version, when Crosshairs is talking about Cogman he says, "Hey Cade, what's with the C-3PO ripoff?", but in the alternate version he says, "I'll swat this metal cockroach for you Cade."
*Crosshairs whines that his finger is broken in the background when Cogman is speaking to Cade in the finished version. He remains silent in the alternate version.
*As the WWII flashback begins, a closeup of the Nazi stronghold's entrance is added in the international version, while the final version has the clip omitted.
*Before the end of the WWII flashback, Hot Rod screams a French language version of "Kill them!" in the finished version. He screams it twice in the alternate version.
*When Megatron steals the staff from Optimus, the "finished" film features Nitro Zeus saying: "You blew your chance to kill Unicron!" followed by Megatron saying: "I knew you couldn't do it. Your time is over, Prime! You failed!" The other has no Nitro Zeus dialogue, and instead features Megatron saying: "Quintessa, the most ruthless of our Gods, knew you couldn't do it. She knows I'm strong and you're weak."
*When the Guardian Knights attack Optimus, in the alternate version one of the Knights tells Prime "She put you under a spell!". In the finished version, that line was removed.
*Barricade has an extra line at Stonehenge in the alternate version, where he says "Yes! Drain Unicron! He will be powerless!"
*When Hot Rod flies to attack Infernocus, he responds "I got him!" in the finished version. In the international version, the original line is "I got him, Hound!".
*The finished version adds an extra line between Cade and Lennox on Cybertron about Optimus never having made it to the Ignition Chamber, while the alternate version never acknowledges his absence.
*When Optimus Prime attacks Quintessa, In the finished version she says, "You traitor!", and Optimus retracts his faceplate. In the alternate version she says, "Nemesis! You traitor!", and Optimus's faceplate does not retract.
*The final version has Quintessa scream as Bumblebee blasts her, while Bumblebee quips "Sting like a bee!"—but in the other version, Quintessa is silent, and Bumblebee's dialogue is very slightly different, with him saying "''I'' sting like a bee."

===Home video===
[[File:TLK_BlueHound_vs_RedHound.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Hound was feeling a little ''blue.'']]
The DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the film use the theatrical version, but with Hound's Red Cross symbols digitally recolored blue. The digital version, however, changes a few other things:
*The scene of Wheelie checking the used car website has been removed.
*Hound's "Tijuana street machinery" line is replaced with his "been holding that one in" from the alternate version.
*A scene where Daytrader rummages through his backpack and accidentally pulls out a small [[Vatti Bot]] which Bumblebee angrily squashes, has been cut.
*While both DiMaggio and Barr are credited for Nitro Zeus in the film's credits, all of DiMaggio's lines were present in the home video release.

==Errors==
===Continuity errors===
*Sir Edmund says the battle depicted at the start of the movie took place in 484 AD, while a caption over the first present day scene says it takes place 1600 years later, which would result in the rest of the film taking place in 2084.
*Cybertron appears as smaller than Earth, when in ''Dark of the Moon'', it was significantly larger than it.
*No explanation is offered for how Megatron met/became loyal to Quintessa, nor how Galvatron became Megatron again. He even transforms normally now, as opposed to bursting into a cloud of [[Transformium]] and reforming the way he did in ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''.
*When Optimus first crash lands onto Cybertron, he makes grunting sounds but his lips don't move.
*Cade blows up the cockpit of the dying knight's ship, yet as he walks away from it the cockpit is intact.
*After Cade says "I don't sell out friends", he looks to his right, but in the next shot he's looking to his left.
*When Barricade throws the truck door, several fiery papers are strewn across the ground. Yet when the door hits the ground, none of the papers are there, nor is the area illuminated by flames.
*During the scene where Bumblebee reassembles his body, Cade hits someone over the head with his door and shatters the glass. When Bumblebee later transforms and drives off, both windows are intact.
*Speaking of, how Bumblebee gained the ability to reassemble himself is completely unexplained.
*The removal of the Vatti Bot sequence in the digital version introduces a continuity error: Cade can be seen falling over when parts fall off Daytrader's back, but is suddenly standing up in the next shot.
*Absent for the rest of the film, Drift suddenly has his second longsword for one scene, using the two blades to raise himself into a meditation pose on the morning of the Decepticons' attack on the junkyard.
*When Cade and Izzy are fitting a new voice box into Bumblebee, it is clear that they are using a prop on set, with no sign of Bumblebee's body. It is possible that due to his reforming ability, Bee was able to remove his head for the procedure.
**A similar scene occurs later in the film: after Cade produces the Excalibur sword, he's standing on Optimus's back—which is obviously a prop as Optimus isn't moving at all.
*Bumblebee tears out the "defective" voicebox yet is able to talk to Optimus later with no voicebox. Maybe he put the old one back in offscreen?
*Sqweeks is missing his scavenged Decepticon arm when the Decepticons invade the junkyard, his original arm appearing back in its place. It returns in all subsequent scenes with the character.
*The abandoned town the Autobots and humans seek refuge in has buildings which are a few stories tall at most, then Jimmy, Cade and Izabella are abruptly in a multi-story building with janitorial staff and an external lift when they encounter Cogman. After Cade's ride on a drone, they're suddenly back in the area with no tall buildings in sight.
*When the Decepticons arrive at the abandoned town, Nitro Zeus transforms and lands in front of the group, on the right side of the screen. However, when Izabella begins approaching the Decepticons, Nitro Zeus is now in the back and on the left of the screen.
*Brief shots of the Witwiccans and some of their artifacts depict various Transformers such as Hot Rod and Optimus Prime with their "modern" forms, years before they would take on such bodies.
*When leaving Burton's mansion, the order of the vehicles are (from front to back) Bumblebee, Hot Rod and the Aston Martin. However, several shots later, Hot Rod and the Aston Martin have switched places.
*Optimus remarks that he has not heard Bumblebee's voice "since Cybertron fell". Bumblebee actually spoke with his real voice briefly at the end of the [[Transformers (film)|first film]], albeit with a different voice actor.
*When the knights charge at Optimus, at least eleven can be seen running across the ship. This excludes [[Skullitron]] and the [[Talisman Knight]], who died by this point—however, Quintessa confirms there are "twelve guardian knights"—not thirteen.
*When Optimus shouts, "Viviane! Get in here!", he and the Autobots are shooting at Megatron and Nitro Zeus from a distance, as the Decepticons guard the entrance to the ignition chamber. However, two shots later, they're both gone and the Autobots have moved all the way to the chamber's entrance.

===Technical/animation errors===
*A shot of two horsemen being hit by arrows and fireballs during the opening battle is "reused" five minutes later; the same scene was shot but from a different angle/camera.
*When Hound arrives at the junkyard and transforms, several guns are briefly visible in the back of his truck mode—yet they weren't there when he drove in.
*Before crashing on Cybertron, Optimus's sword was attached to his back—yet when he crash-lands, he's kneeling in a crater holding his sword.
*When Optimus meets Quintessa and tosses his shield away, it reappears on his arm in the very next shot before disappearing again.
*Onslaught is shown to have a redesigned head in his intro scene, one which resembles Brawl's, to showcase exaggerated speech. Yet it strangely reverts to Long Haul's head for the remainder of his screentime.
*Despite transforming into a larger vehicle, Dreadbot is visibly shorter than Barricade.
*When Megatron picks up Sqweeks, the handle to his ikakalaka sword is constantly flipping around between shots, before the sword itself disappears after Cade sets off the explosives, and reappearing as he shoots at Cade and Izabella before Grimlock arrives.
*After Cade sets off the explosions, Megatron can be heard shouting, "Get those vile beings!" When he rises from the smoke, his mouth opens as if he shouts something, but no words are heard.
*When Mohawk jumps on top of the car, Onslaught's head is shown leaning against the vehicle's left door. However, when Drift decapitated Onslaught, his head fell behind the car.
**And for some reason, two different cars are used for the shots. The doors of the car were also open when Drift decapitated Onslaught, but are closed when Mohawk jumps onto the car.
*For two separate scenes, Hot Rod and Barricade's voices are not provided by their credited actors. The performers delivering these lines appear to be the fill-in actors who performed the "scratch track" for the movie, whose recordings survived into the finished film.
**Hot Rod's anomalous line—"She's very difficult!"—comes when he and Viviane arrive at Burton's estate. We can tell this is the scratch track because a promotional clip of the scene released before the film featured ''all'' of Hot Rod's dialogue being delivered by this actor, before Omar Sy recorded over it; his first line in the clip ("Leetle lady, non!") is replaced in the film (with "Non non non, leetle lady, why do you have to be zat way? Pour quoi?") but "She's very difficult!" remains unchanged.
**Barricade's non-Jess Harnell dialogue can be heard when the Decepticons arrive at Stonehenge ("I've lived for this! I've lived to kill a planet!" and "Drain Unicron! He will be powerless.").
*When Cade, Viviane, and Cogman are aboard HMS ''Alliance'', there is a camera shot of Cade looking through the periscope with Cogman to the right of screen. The camera angle then changes and shows Viviane in another part of the chamber. The camera returns to Cade, Cogman has vanished. The camera pans back to Viviane again, then returns to Cade, with Cogman back in the shot.
*When the HMS ''Alliance'' Transformer crashes into the submarine, a similar scene, the shot of Megatron crashing into a submarine in ''Revenge of the Fallen'', is reused. This wouldn't be nearly as bad had Megatron not been removed from the shot—he can be seen flying towards the ocean's surface.
*After Bumblebee speaks and says "Optimus.", the subsequent shot of Optimus staring lasts too long, as his wristblade can briefly be seen retracting—however, this happens two shots later.
*When the Autobots are commenting on the Guardian Knights, Hound's mouth is animated to be saying something too soon before he actually begins speaking.
*When the group begins advancing on the ignition chamber, Hound is missing from his previous position behind them. He returns in the very next shot.
*As Optimus shouts, "Viviane! Get in here!", the ignition chamber can be seen in the background. However, the lightning Quintessa is producing between the giant knights is absent.
*When Optimus attacks Quintessa in the final battle, his faceplate is on, yet it disappears in the subsequent shot when he's being electrocuted. Then, after Quintessa is vanquished, it is put on again.
**Oddly, in the film's special edition, Optimus has the faceplate on throughout this scene—fixing the error.

===Geographic discontinuities===
*A road trip from the outskirts of Chicago to the Badlands of South Dakota takes about twelve hours, but Cade, Bumblebee, and Hound make the commute to and from Chicago all in the same day and are back by mid-afternoon.
*When the authorities arrive at Burton's mansion, it is noted that "TRF and MI6" are in pursuit. In real life, MI6 is the UK's ''external'' intelligence agency; it is more likely that {{w|MI5}}, the UK's domestic intelligence agency, would be the British central government's agency present.
*American street signs of the hanging green-coloured variety can be seen during the chase scene in London.
*Viviane leads her class from a large, expansive archaeological museum into the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. While there is an archaeological museum attached to the Natural History Museum, it looks nothing like the one featured in the film.
*The Royal Navy's submarine museum is nowhere near London as the movie depicts; it is actually in Gosport, Hampshire.
*Stonehenge is not as isolated in open countryside and from main roads as portrayed—the A303 among other roads runs past the monument. Also, the town of Amesbury is across said main road, less than two miles away.

==Tie-in material==
Two tie-in comic were published for the film: "[[A New Friend]]" by IDW Publishing as the promotion for both the film and Schick's Hydro line of electric razors, and "[[Mission to Cybertron]]" released exclusively for the Toys"R"Us exclusive Transformers: The Last Knight Blu-Ray Combo Pack.

==Music==
===Score===
:''Main Article'': [[The Last Knight (Music From the Motion Picture)]]
Continuing the tradition of the previous films, the music is once again composed by [[Steve Jablonsky]]. The ending theme of the movie is Torches by [[X Ambassadors]].

==Home video releases==

==Theatrical posters==
<center><gallery>
File:TLK Poster wide Dragonstorm.jpg|The big dragon is advertised as the big bad fighting Optimus. Now Dragonstorm knows how [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] felt!
File:TLK Poster Rethink Heroes.jpg
File:TLK Poster.JPG|Divided We Fall.
File:TLK Poster Stonehenge.jpg|It's time for the Jedi to end.
File:TLK Poster Legend Secret.jpg|Yeah, this is like a 40 second scene in the film, so...
File:TLK Poster Here Forever.jpg
File:TLK Poster IMAX 3D.jpg|Dragonstorm, you forgot to wear clothes today!
File:TLK Poster char Optimus Prime.jpg|Optimus "Barely Appearing in this Movie" Prime
File:TLK Poster char Megatron.jpg|It took ten years, but we finally got [[Frank Welker|the king]] on the big screen, baby!
File:TLK Poster char Bumblebee.jpg
File:TLK Poster char Hound.jpg
File:TLK Poster char Hot Rod.jpg|''Watch me engagin' em, escapin' em, enragin' em!''
File:TLK Poster char Cogman.jpg
File:TLK Poster char Burton.jpg
File:TLK Poster char Lennox.jpg
File:TLK Poster char Yeager.jpg
File:TLK Poster char Izabella.jpg
File:TLK Poster char Jimmy.jpg
File:TLK Poster char Wembly.jpg
</gallery></center>

==Reception==

{{quote|[sighs] Here we go again.|BBC Radio 5 critic Mark Kermode on ''The Last Knight''<ref>[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ee6xh5AmQo Mark Kermode review]</ref>}}

After four films where critics hated it but the audience showered it with money, ''The Last Knight'' broke the trend by ''not'' being showered with money. It had been projected to make $70-75m in its first days in North America, itself the lowest opening<ref>[http://deadline.com/2017/06/spider-man-homecoming-hoping-to-catch-opening-in-the-100m-vicinity-1202114641/ Deadline, June 15th 20917: "‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Hoping To Catch Opening In The $100M Vicinit"]</ref>, but that was downgraded to $63m after the first few days were even lower than the lowest expected.<ref>[http://deadline.com/2017/06/transformers-the-last-knight-opening-weekend-box-office-1202118976/ "Deadline: ‘Transformers’ Still Rusty At $63M+"]</ref> In the end it made almost $70m over the first five days, better than the revised projection but lower than all of the previous films. <ref>[http://deadline.com/2017/06/transformers-the-last-knight-opening-weekend-box-office-1202118976/ Deadline: "Why ‘Transformers’ Is Screaming For Reboot After $69M Start; ‘Wonder Woman’ & ‘Cars 3’ Fight Over 2nd Place"], 25th June 2017</ref> By mid-July, after over three weeks, the film had grossed $122.1m in North America against a $217m budget (not counting marketing costs). This meant a lot of critics began to zero in on the sluggish profit, taking the view that American audiences were just getting bored of Bay's version of the franchise.

Internationally the film did $196.2m in the same first five days, of which $123.4m came from [[China]] alone<ref>[http://deadline.com/2017/06/transformers-the-last-knight-opening-weekend-box-office-1202118976/ Deadline: "Why ‘Transformers’ Is Screaming For Reboot After $69M Start; ‘Wonder Woman’ & ‘Cars 3’ Fight Over 2nd Place"], 25th June 2017</ref>(who love the franchise so much delaying ''The Last Knight'' reduced 2016 cinema growth to 3%, down from 48% in 2015!)<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/06/11/transformers-gears-up-for-another-1-billion-box-office-bounty/#659ff09e2325 Forbes: "'Transformers' Gears Up For Another $1 Billion Box Office Bounty"]</ref> The Chinese had been expected to spend up to $290m on the film's run. <ref>[http://variety.com/2017/film/asia/chinas-weying-boards-paramounts-transformers-the-last-knight-1202465635/ Variety:"China’s Weying Boards Paramount’s ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’"]</ref> However, in its second week in China takings dropped by a harsh 75% and after 10 days it had only grossed $198 million, which was seen as a disappointment—some pundits had expected $400m from China—and left it unlikely the film would perform as well as ''Age of Extinction'' had.<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-box-office-transformers-5-crashes-back-earth-75-percent-slide-second-weekend-1018449]</ref> ''The Hollywood Reporter'' visited a [[Shanghai]] screening and reported "walkouts, general disinterest and plenty of snickering over a conspicuous abundance of [Chinese] product placement" despite a truly massive PR campaign and the fourth film's mega-popularity. Chinese social media made it clear the plot was too complicated and the product placement, all products the Chinese knew weren't in America, was too dumb; the audience found it ''very'' funny when Wheelie looked up a Chinese used car website.<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/transformers-last-knight-has-pandering-chinese-audiences-hurt-transformers-5-1016926 The Hollywood Reporter: "Has Pandering to Chinese Audiences Hurt 'Transformers 5'?", July 2 2017]</ref>

In the end, the film finished a 65 day run in cinemas with a worldwide gross of only $604m. <ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=transformers5.htm]</ref> It even did not exceed the gross of the first film, which concluded with a worldwide gross of $709m, with domestic numbers over double what ''The Last Knight'' was able to take home. <ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=transformers06.htm]</ref>

==Production staff==
The film was directed by [[Michael Bay]], and was written by [[Art Marcum]], [[Matt Holloway]], and [[Ken Nolan]].

==Development details==
[[File:Transformers 5 provisional logo.png|thumb|right|143px|Transfivemers doesn't have the same ring to it.]]
*December 18, 2014 — [[Mark Wahlberg]] confirms to MTV that he is signed on for the next two Transformers films.<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/news/2030612/mark-wahlberg-transformers-5/ Mark Wahlberg Just Found A 'Transformers' Sequel] on MTV.com</ref>
*March 27, 2015 — [[Paramount Pictures]] negotiates with [[Akiva Goldsman]], hiring him to create a "writer's room" with the intention of building a cinematic universe.<ref name="goldsman">[http://deadline.com/2015/03/transformers-akiva-goldsman-paramount-sequels-spinoffs-1201400027/ Paramount Enlisting Akiva Goldsman To Ramp Up 'Transformers' Output] on deadline.com</ref> Goldsman goes on to hire a number of writers over the next few months: [[Steven DeKnight]] (''Daredevil''),<ref>[http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/transformers-cinematic-universe/35696/transformers-cinematic-details-more-writers-over-10-films Transformers cinematic details]</ref> [[Robert Kirkman]] (''The Walking Dead''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom">[http://deadline.com/2015/05/transformers-writers-robert-kirkman-zak-penn-art-marcum-matt-holloway-jeff-pinkner-1201430601/ 'Transformers' Spinoff & Sequel Scribes Set] on Deadline.com</ref> [[Art Marcum]] and [[Matt Holloway]] (''Iron Man''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Christina Hodson]] (''Shut In'', ''The Fugitive''),<ref name="hodsonbeer">[http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/446175-christina-hodson-and-lindsey-beer-join-transformers-writing-team Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer Join the Transformers Writing Team]</ref> [[Lindsey Beer]] (''Dig''),<ref name="hodsonbeer" /> [[Zak Penn]] (''Pacific Rim 2''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Jeff Pinkner]] (''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', ''Lost''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Andrew Barrer]] and [[Gabriel Ferrari]] (''Ant-Man''),<ref name="barrerferrari">[http://deadline.com/2015/05/transformers-ant-man-andrew-barrer-gabriel-ferrari-cybertron-1201433402/ 'Ant-Man' Scribes Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari Join 'Transformers' Writers Room] on Deadline</ref> [[Ken Nolan]] (''Black Hawk Down''), and [[Geneva Robertson-Dworet]].<ref name="nolandworet">[http://www.slashfilm.com/transformers-writers-room/ Akiva Goldsman Teases 'Transformers' Franchise Plans]</ref> Involved in the pitching process are [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Michael Bay]], [[Brian Goldner]], [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]], [[Mark Vahradian]], and [[Don Murphy]].<ref name="deadlinereveal">[http://deadline.com/2015/09/transformers-writers-room-akiva-goldsman-transformers-5-1201531918/ 'Transformers' Writers Room Wraps] on Deadline</ref>
*May 27, 2015 — As part of the news surrounding Barrer and Ferrari joining the room, it's revealed that another pitch is an animated prequel movie set on Cybertron, with the working title of ''[[Transformers One]]''.<ref name="barrerferrari" />
*June 8, 2015 — The writers meet on the Paramount lot for the writer's room.<ref name="nolandworet" /> The writers work for the next three months to plot out the next ten years of ''Transformers'' films.<ref name="stephendaviskeynote">[https://youtu.be/F_P2fw_DlS4?t=812 Stephen Davis's keynote speech] at MIPJunior.</ref>
*July 28, 2015 — DeKnight reports that as a result of the gathering of writers, Goldsman and Pinkner will be co-writing Transformers 5.<ref name="deknightreveals">[http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/07/28/daredevils-steven-deknight-on-the-transformers-writers-room-and-planning-ahead Daredevil's Steven DeKnight on the Transformers Writers Room and Planning Ahead] on IGN</ref>
*September 17, 2015 — Deadline reveals more about the writer's room process and reports that Barrer and Ferrari will write the animated feature, with Pinkner and Beer writing later films.<ref name="deadlinereveal" /> Bay remains uncommitted to directing.<ref>[https://twitter.com/michaelbay/status/644622092110032896 Tweet by Michael Bay]</ref>
*October 3, 2015 — [[Hasbro Studios]]'s [[Stephen J. Davis]] relates more details of the writing process in a keynote speech at the MIP Junior Conference.<ref name="stephendaviskeynote" />
*November 20, 2015 — With Goldsman now enlisted to create a writer's room for ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' and ''[[Microman|Micronauts]]'', Paramount begins negotiating with Marcum, Holloway and Nolan to write the film.<ref>[http://deadline.com/2015/11/transformers-g-i-joe-micronauts-akiva-goldsman-paramount-hasbro-1201632388/ Akiva Goldsman 'Transformers' Writers Room Leads Paramount & Hasbro To Set One For 'G.I. Joe', 'Micronauts'] on Deadline</ref>
*December 14, 2015 — Wahlberg re-confirms in an interview with CinePop that he'll be back in Transformers 5.<ref>[http://cinepop.com.br/exclusivo-mark-wahlberg-confirma-ao-cinepop-que-estara-em-transformers-5-109295 Mark Wahlberg interview with CinePop]</ref>
*January 4, 2016 — Bay confirms he will be returning to direct.<ref name="rollingstone">[http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/13-hours-can-michael-bay-pull-off-a-gritty-movie-about-benghazi-20160104 '13 Hours': Can Michael Bay Pull Off a Gritty Movie About Benghazi?] on Rolling Stone</ref>
*January 12, 2016 — It's totally definitely the last ''Transformers'' film for him this time though.<ref>[https://youtu.be/Yn9bkPNV4JA?t=472 Michael Bay interview with Collider]</ref>
*February 12, 2016 — Transformers 5 is now being released on June 23, 2017. In addition, [[Bumblebee: The Movie|Transformers 6]], acting as a [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] spin-off, and [[Transformers 7]] are set to be released respectively on [[June 8]], 2018 and [[June 28]], 2019.<ref name="toyfairreveal">[http://news.tfw2005.com/2016/02/12/transformers-5-transformers-6-bumblebee-spin-off-movie-revealed-309503 Transformers 5, Transformers 6 And Bumblebee Spin-Off Movie Revealed] ToyFair news at TFW2005</ref><ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2016/02/12/transformers-6-tentative-title-revealed-bumblebee-movie-309597 Transformers 6 Tentative Title Revealed – The Bumblebee Movie] at TFW2005</ref>
*February 18, 2016 — Casting calls go out for June filming in [[London]] and [[Detroit]], also confirming [[Peter Cullen]]'s return as [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]].<ref>[http://www.acting-auditions.org/2016/02/transformers-5-casting-calls-for-new-lead-roles.html Transformers 5 casting call for new lead roles] on acting-auditions.org</ref>
*February 26, 2016 — After negotiations, it's announced that Michigan will provide $21 million in incentives towards the film.<ref>[http://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MIEDC/bulletins/138dd29 'Transformers 5' lands in Detroit] from the Michigan Film & Digital Media Office</ref>
[[File:TLK Optiface Prime.jpg|thumb|right|300px|5 movies in and [[Michael Bay]] is still finding ways to make my face even more ridiculously detailed.]]
*April 6, 2016 — Cinematographer [[Jonathan Sela]] is reported as being booked to work on the film.<ref>[http://variety.com/2016/artisans/news/agencies-book-artisans-on-fast-8-transformers-5-to-the-bone-macgyver-and-altered-carbon-1201747892/ Agencies Book Artisans on 'Fast 8,' 'Transformers 5,' 'To the Bone,' 'MacGyver' and 'Altered Carbon'] on Variety</ref>
*April 13, 2016 — Filming dates are revealed via a casting call on acting-auditions.org.<ref>[http://www.acting-auditions.org/2016/04/transformers-5-casting-calls-auditions-information.html 'Transformers 5' Casting Calls and Auditions Information] on acting-auditions.org</ref>
*May 12, 2016 — [[Isabela Moner]] tweets that she's been cast in the movie.<ref>[https://twitter.com/isabelamoner/status/730835465163530241 Tweet by Isabela Moner]</ref>
*May 14, 2016 — Bay suggests [[Tyrese Gibson]] is under consideration to return.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BFXbTA2IWpr/]</ref>
*May 16, 2016 — The film's title is officially revealed to be ''Transformers: The Last Knight'' in [https://www.instagram.com/p/BFfCGhRoMmW/?taken-by=transformersmoviea teaser trailer] posted on a newly-launched Transformers Movie Instagram.
*May 17, 2016 — [[Josh Duhamel]] announced to be returning for ''Transformers: The Last Knight''.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BFg6ffIoMvx/]</ref>
*May 25, 2016 — Michael Bay posts a [https://www.instagram.com/p/BF1sPamoWtc/?taken-by=michaelbay photo] as production begins in Cuba.
*May 27, 2016 — A [https://twitter.com/transformers/status/736286302870605824 teaser] is posted containing morse code which translates to "I'm coming for you May 31st."
*May 31, 2016 — Michael Bay posts [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGFEZ9vIWv1/a video] of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and announces production is about to start.
*June 3, 2016 — [[Anthony Hopkins]] joins the cast.<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/anthony-hopkins-joins-transformers-5-899343]</ref>
*June 4, 2016 — [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGPsjYZoMpq/?taken-by=transformersmovie&hl=en First look] at [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s vehicle mode, which is a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BGPsjYZoMpq/?taken-by=transformersmovie&hl=en Bumblebee vehicle mode reveal]</ref>
*June 4, 2016 — The [[Freya|World's Loneliest Dog]] is cast.<ref>[http://michaelbay.com/2016/06/04/freya/ MichaelBay.com - Freya]</ref>
*June 10, 2016 — [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] is confirmed to return as a 2016 Ford Mustang.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BGes1IfoMqf/?taken-by=transformersmovie&hl=en]</ref>
*June 18, 2016 — [[Mitch Pileggi]] reveals he has a role.<ref>[https://twitter.com/mitchpileggi1/status/743667068138979329 Tweet from Mitch Pileggi]</ref>
[[File:TLK Bumblebee profile.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Back to the basics.]]
*June 20, 2016 — [[Laura Haddock]] joins the cast.<ref>[https://twitter.com/laurajhaddock/status/744915023299026944 Tweet from Laura Haddock]</ref>
*June 22, 2016 — New robot character [[Sqweeks]] is revealed.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BG-IEBroWgA/ Michael Bay on Instagram]</ref>
*June 28, 2016 — Tyrese Gibson is confirmed to return.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLBipSDqcO/ Tyrese on Instagram]</ref>
*June 30, 2016 — [[Santiago Cabrera]] joins the cast.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHSfP9EAIi_/ Official movie Instagram reveal of Santiago Cabrera]</ref>
*July 1, 2016 — [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] is confirmed to return with a new Mercedes alt-mode.<ref>[http://michaelbay.com/2016/07/01/drift/ Drift - MichaelBay.com]</ref>
*July 27, 2016 — [[Onslaught (ROTF)|Onslaught]] is confirmed to appear in the film.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1112021768833269/?type=3&theater Onslaught photo] on the official Transformers movie Facebook page.</ref>
*August 4–13, 2016 — A series of character profiles are released on the official movie Facebook. New character [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]]<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1116775651691214/?type=3&theater Hot Rod Facebook reveal]</ref> is first to be revealed, and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]]<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1119387291430050/?type=3&theater Crosshairs Facebook reveal]</ref> and [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1120161021352677/?type=3&theater Hound Facebook reveal]</ref> are confirmed to return. Also shown are profiles for Drift,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1117988908236555/?type=3&theater Drift Facebook reveal]</ref> Sqweeks,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1118574891511290/?type=3&theater Sqweeks Facebook reveal]</ref> Barricade,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1120871694614943/?type=3&theater Barricade Facebook reveal]</ref> Megatron,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1121491451219634/?type=3&theater Megatron Facebook reveal]</ref> and Bumblebee.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1122785391090240/?type=3&theaterBumblebee Facebook reveal]</ref>
*August 9, 2016 — Members of a number of ''Transformers'' fan sites, including TFWiki, are treated to [[Transformers 5 set visit|a set visit]].
*September 4, 2016 — [[Stanley Tucci]] is back as [[Joshua Joyce]] (He later turned out to be playing Merlin, but it's unclear from the article where the confusion originated).<ref>[http://variety.com/2016/film/global/stanley-tucci-to-reprise-transformers-role-in-the-last-knight-1201852108/ Stanley Tucci to Reprise 'Transformers' Role in 'The Last Knight'] on Variety</ref>
[[File:TLK Izabella trailer speech.jpg|thumb|right|250px|True fact: Isabela had to beat Megatron in an arm wrestling contest to get this part.]]
*September 24, 2016 — Location shooting at Blenheim Palace in England proved controversial as [[Winston Churchill]]'s birthplace became draped in Nazi banners. Bay told BBC News that veterans shouldn't be too upset as Churchill is a "big hero" in the film.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-37453284 Transformers' Blenheim Palace 'Nazi' scenes defended] from the BBC</ref>
*October 14, 2016 — Bay announces via Facebook that [[John Turturro]] will be back as [[Seymour Simmons]] & [[John Goodman]] back to voice [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/videos/1174984035870375/ Michael Bay video on Facebook]</ref>
*December 5, 2016 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyVKK87hYYM teaser trailer] is released.
*February 3, 2017 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npaVgxxtKxQ "Big Game Spot"] is released on YouTube.
*March 12, 2017 — The [https://twitter.com/transformers/status/840751026693062656 Kid's Choice Award Clip] is revealed.
*March 17, 2017 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVYSyiL4iis "Izzy Stays and Fights" preview], a family-aimed trailer attached to ''{{w|Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)|Beauty and the Beast}}'', is released.
*March 22, 2017 — Eight [http://ew.com/movies/2017/03/22/transformers-last-knight-motion-posters/ "motion posters"] for the film's robot cast are released.
*April 12, 2017 — Another [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIH1TeIS9Q trailer] is released.
*April 24, 2017 — As part of the "[[Reveal Your Shield]]" promotion, Hasbro releases [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWXj0JSZQjE a video] featuring [[Peter Cullen]] and [[Frank Welker]] credited as the voices of Optimus and Megatron.
*May 5, 2017 — Variety reports that the film's release is being moved forward two days to June 21.<ref name="datemove">[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/mark-wahlberg-transformers-the-last-knight-1202410380/ 'Transformers: The Last Knight' Moves Forward Two Days]</ref>
*May 7, 2017 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7toS4s_79ZA "Optimus Prime Dialog Coach" teaser] is released.
*May 9, 2017 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVZhsL3vV8M "Secret Past" TV spot] is released.
*May 15, 2017 — A preview of an Empire Magazine feature on the film includes the news that [[Jim Carter]] has been cast as Cogman.<ref>[http://www.empireonline.com/movies/transformers-last-knight/exclusive-explosive-new-look-bumblebee-transformers-last-knight/ Exclusive, Explosive New Look At Bumblebee In Transformers: The Last Knight] on Empire Online</ref>
*May 17, 2017 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue7cNNfjCyc International Trailer] is released.
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=== Changes before, during and after production ===
*Tyrese Gibson was intended to return as [[Robert Epps]], but the logistics of filming in Europe and a scheduling conflict with ''[[Wikipedia:The Fate of the Furious|The Fate of the Furious]]'' resulted in him being unable to take part.<ref>[http://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/1104536/tyrese-gibson-transformers-the-last-knight-robert-epps-josh-duhamel-mark-wahlberg-michael-bay Tyrese Gibson exclusively admits he was 'p****d' to miss out on filming Transformers: The Last Knight alongside original co-star Josh Josh Duhamel] on OK! Online</ref>
[[File:TLK Primal concept.jpg|upright=1.55|thumb|This would ''probably'' start another era of [[Trukk not munky]].]]
*Concept art was made for a movie incarnation of [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and a Cybertronian snake that never made into the final film.<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/26/optimus-primal-concept-art-last-knight-345543]</ref><ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/08/02/transformers-last-knight-new-unused-snake-concept-art-furio-tedeschi-346195]</ref>

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==Notes==
*Topspin, seen in Cuba with Simmons, is credited as "Volleybot", initially leaving it unclear whether or not he was meant to actually be Topspin, especially since he's sporting [[Leadfoot (DOTM)|Leadfoot]]'s head. A later Transformers Fan Favorite poll held on the Transformers Movie web site credited Topspin as appearing in both ''Dark of the Moon'' and ''The Last Knight'', along with using a picture of Volleybot as his mug shot, confirming that Volleybot is Topspin.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/official-confirmation-that-volleybot-is-topspin.1122432/]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''''Transformers Saigo no Kishiō''''' (トランスフォーマー最後の騎士王, "Transformers: The Last Knight King")
*''Finnish:'' '''''Transformers: Viimeinen Ritari''''' ("Transformers: The Last Knight")
*''Italian:'' '''''Transformers - L'ultimo cavaliere''''' ("Transformers: The Last Knight")
*''Korean:'' '''''Transformers: Choehuui Gisa''''' (트랜스포머: 최후의 기사, "Transformers: The Last Knight")
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng 5: Zuìhòu de Qíshì''''' (Taiwan, 變形金剛5：最後的騎士, "Transformers 5: The Last Knight"), '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng 5: Zuìhòu de Qíshì''''' (China, 变形金刚5：最后的骑士, "Transformers 5: The Last Knight")
*''Portuguese:'' '''''Transformers: O Último Cavaleiro''''' (Brazil, "Transformers: The Last Knight"), '''''Transformers 5''''' (Portugal)
*''Russian:'' '''''Transformery: Posledniy rytsar' ''''' (Трансформеры: Последний рыцарь, "Transformers: The Last Knight")
*''Spanish:'' '''''Transformers: El último caballero''''' ("Transformers: The Last Knight")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''''Трансформери - Останній лицар''''' ("Transformers: The Last Knight")
*''Czech:'' '''''Transformers: Poslední Rytíř''''' ("Transformers: The Last Knight")

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

==External links==
* [http://www.transformersmovie.com/ Transformersmovie.com]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3371366/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ''The Last Knight'' at IMDB.com]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_The_Last_Knight ''The Last Knight'' film on Wikipedia]
* [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_the_last_knight/ ''The Last Knight'' on RottenTomatoes.com]

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Chorus of the Primes

2017-11-16T15:13:05Z

Halfshell25:

[[File:TF-TR-Cartoon-Ep1-Chorus.jpg|300px|thumb|Ancient spirits of evil, transform this robotic form into [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], the ever living!]]

The '''Chorus of the Primes''' are a council consisting of deceased [[Prime (rank)|Primes]] who reside in the [[Primal Basilica]]. Speaking in unison, they are known to give advice to Matrix bearers. They are very hard to understand.

==Fiction==
===Titans Return===
In the aftermath of the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] went to the [[Primal Basilica]] to seek advice from the [[Chorus of the Primes]]. Believing his poor judgment allowed Starscream's plan to nearly succeed, he asked to return the [[Matrix of Leadership]], no longer thinking himself worthy. Though the Primes assured him that he had performed admirably and Matrix holders are not meant to be infallible, Rodimus insisted his decision was final and that he wanted to go back to who he was. The Primes acquiesced and reformated his body, including restoring his destroyed arm. When the process was completed, Rodimus happily asserted that he is Hot Rod once again, and drove off.
{{storylink|Aftermath and Rebirth}}

==Notes==
*The poor audio mixing that plagued ''Combiner Wars'' returns with a vengeance. The scene inside the Primal Basilica is a particularly bad offender, with the Chorus of the Primes garbled by overzealous distortion effects, and Rodimus's dialogue only just audible over the background music.

Chorus of the Primes

2017-11-16T01:00:29Z

Halfshell25:

[[File:TF-TR-Cartoon-Ep1-Chorus.jpg|300px|thumb|Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form into [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], the ever living!]]

The '''Chorus of the Primes''' are a council consisting of deceased [[Prime (rank)|Primes]] who reside in the [[Primal Basilica]]. Speaking in unison, they are known to give advice to Matrix bearers. They are very hard to understand.

==Fiction==
===Titans Return===
In the aftermath of the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] went to the [[Primal Basilica]] to seek advice from the [[Chorus of the Primes]]. Believing his poor judgment allowed Starscream's plan to nearly succeed, he asked to return the [[Matrix of Leadership]], no longer thinking himself worthy. Though the Primes assured him that he had performed admirably and Matrix holders are not meant to be infallible, Rodimus insisted his decision was final and that he wanted to go back to who he was. The Primes acquiesced and reformated his body, including restoring his destroyed arm. When the process was completed, Rodimus happily asserted that he is Hot Rod once again, and drove off.
{{storylink|Aftermath and Rebirth}}

==Notes==
*The poor audio mixing that plagued ''Combiner Wars'' returns with a vengeance. The scene inside the Primal Basilica is a particularly bad offender, with the Chorus of the Primes garbled by overzealous distortion effects, and Rodimus's dialogue only just audible over the background music.

Chorus of the Primes

2017-11-16T01:00:13Z

Halfshell25:

Chorus of the Primes

2017-11-16T00:59:51Z

Halfshell25:

[[File:TF-TR-Cartoon-Ep1-Chorus.jpg|300px|thumb|Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form into [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], the ever living!]]

The '''Chorus of the Primes''' are a council consisting of deceased [[Prime (rank)|Primes]] who reside in the [[Primal Basilica]]. Speaking in unison, they are known to give advice to Matrix bearers. They are very hard to understand.

==Fiction==
===Titans Return===
In the aftermath of the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] went to the [[Primal Basilica]] to seek advice from the [[Chorus of the Primes]]. Believing his poor judgment allowed Starscream's plan to nearly succeed, he asked to return the [[Matrix of Leadership]], no longer thinking himself worthy. Though the Primes assured him that he had performed admirably and Matrix holders are not meant to be infallible, Rodimus insisted his decision was final and that he wanted to go back to who he was. The Primes acquiesced and reformated his body, including restoring his destroyed arm. When the process was completed, Rodimus happily asserted that he is Hot Rod once again, and drove off. {{storylink|Aftermath and Rebirth}}

==Notes==
*The poor audio mixing that plagued ''Combiner Wars'' returns with a vengeance. The scene inside the Primal Basilica is a particularly bad offender, with the Chorus of the Primes garbled by overzealous distortion effects, and Rodimus's dialogue only just audible over the background music.

Chorus of the Primes

2017-11-16T00:55:11Z

Halfshell25:

[[File:TF-TR-Cartoon-Ep1-Chorus.jpg|300px|thumb|Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form into [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], the ever living!]]

The '''Chorus of the Primes''' are a council consisting of deceased [[Prime (rank)|Primes]] who reside in the [[Primal Basilica]]. Speaking in unison, they are known to give advice to Matrix bearers. They are very hard to understand.

==Fiction==
===Titans Return===
In the aftermath of the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] went to the [[Primal Basilica]] to seek advice from the [[Chorus of the Primes]]. Believing his poor judgment allowed Starscream's plan to nearly succeed, he asked to return the [[Matrix of Leadership]], no longer thinking himself worthy. Though the Primes assured him that he had performed admirably and Matrix holders are not meant to be infallible, Rodimus insisted his decision was final and that he wanted to go back to who he was. The Primes acquiesced and reformated his body, including restoring his destroyed arm. When the process was completed, Rodimus happily asserted that he is Hot Rod once again, and drove off.

==Notes==
*The poor audio mixing that plagued ''Combiner Wars'' returns with a vengeance. The scene inside the Primal Basilica is a particularly bad offender, with the Chorus of the Primes garbled by overzealous distortion effects, and Rodimus's dialogue only just audible over the background music.

Chorus of the Primes

2017-11-16T00:53:19Z

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[[File:TF-TR-Cartoon-Ep1-Chorus.jpg|300px|thumb|Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form into [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], the ever living!]]

The '''Chorus of the Primes''' are a council consisting of deceased [[Prime (rank)|Primes]] who reside in the [[Primal Basilica]]. Speaking in unison, they are known to give advice to Matrix bearers. They are very hard to understand.

==Fiction==
===Titans Return===
In the aftermath of the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] went to the [[Primal Basilica]] to seek advice from the counsel of the [[Chorus of the Primes]]. Believing his poor judgment allowed Starscream's plan to nearly succeed, he asked to return the [[Matrix of Leadership]], no longer thinking himself worthy. Though the Primes assured him that he had performed admirably and Matrix holders are not meant to be infallible, Rodimus insisted his decision was final and that he wanted to go back to who he was. The Primes acquiesced and reformated his body, including restoring his destroyed arm. When the process was completed, Rodimus happily asserted that he is Hot Rod once again, and drove off.

==Notes==
*The poor audio mixing that plagued ''Combiner Wars'' returns with a vengeance. The scene inside the Primal Basilica is a particularly bad offender, with the Chorus of the Primes garbled by overzealous distortion effects, and Rodimus's dialogue only just audible over the background music.

Talk:UNECOM

2017-06-13T21:14:57Z

Halfshell25:

UNECOM is mentioned several times in "Renegade Rhetoric." I think this page should stay, since it is relevant to Transformers stories. -- Halfshell25 5:14, 13 June 2017 (EDT)

Talk:UNECOM

2017-06-13T21:12:41Z

Halfshell25: Created page with "UNECOM is mentioned several times in "Renegade Rhetoric." I think this page should stay, since it is relevant to Transformers stories."

UNECOM is mentioned several times in "Renegade Rhetoric." I think this page should stay, since it is relevant to Transformers stories.

Spychanger

2017-03-27T00:37:28Z

Halfshell25:

{{faction|autobot}}
:''The Spy Changers are a group of stealthy [[Autobot]]s from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|2001 Robots in Disguise]] and the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[Continuity family|continuity families]].''
[[Image:Spychangers Rescue Spychangers Hit.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Looks awfully [[Dreamwave Productions|familiar]]...]]

The '''Spy Changers''' are a special team of Autobot stealth ninjas. They have a number of special abilities: they can drive along almost any surface, turn invisible, and phase through solid objects.

==Fiction==
===''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon continuity===
====2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
[[Image:SpyChangersRescue Ironhide WARS Mirage.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Air Team, form Strato Fighter!]]
The six Spy Changers aided [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] on [[Earth]] in his battle against [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]]. Although they were highly intelligent, unfortunately, they weren't very strong in a head-on fight. (The comic relief trio of [[Gas Skunk]], [[Slapper (RID)|Slapper]], and [[Dark Scream]] gave them trouble.)

When the [[Predacon (RID)|Predacons]] stole a plutonium energy generator, [[T-AI]] called in the Spy Changers. [[Hot Shot (RID)|Hot Shot]], Crosswise, and [[R.E.V.]] responded first, pursuing the Predacons onto the beach, where they were joined by the other three Spy Changers. The Predacons eventually escaped with a fake generator which the Spy Changers had swapped for the real one. {{storylink|Spychangers to the Rescue}}

After Optimus was captured and tortured by Megatron, the Spy Changers joined the [[Autobot Brothers]] in rescuing their leader and seeing off the Predacons. {{storylink|Sideburn's Obsession}}

Later, the team tried to protect a ruby from Predacon theft, and Mirage's failure to take a shot resulted in the Predacons escaping. When Mirage pretended to defect and led the Spy Changers to [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]]'s [[Mega-Laser Cannon]], the team destroyed the weapon using the [[Global Space Bridge]]. {{storylink|Mirage's Betrayal}}

The Spy Changers also took part in the [[International Grand Prix]] in an attempt to find [[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]] and were blinded by Megatron a short time into the race. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}} On another occasion, the Spy Changers were called back to base to watch footage of various battles, but had to wrap up a fight with the Predacons first. {{storylink|Hope for the Future}}

[[Image:Volcano Rev HotShot Crosswise.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Land Team, form Turbo Terrain Fighter!]]
The Spy Changers accompanied [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] to [[Montrose Island]], where Predacon activity was causing the volcano there to become violent. They attempted to keep [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] and [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] busy while Optimus went to use his blizzard storm on the volcano. When the volcano was ruptured and lava threatened the nearby resort, the Spy Changers used their [[Inferno Blast]] formation to divert its path. {{storylink|Volcano (episode)|Volcano}}

Sent to stop the Decepticons from finding [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Fortress Maximus]], the Spy Changers jumped out in front of the foe and were soundly trounced by [[Armorhide (RID)|Armorhide]] and [[Rollbar (RID)|Rollbar]]. {{storylink|Fortress Maximus (episode)|Fortress Maximus}}

The Spy Changers took part in the ambush of the Decepticons after the Autobot base was discovered. {{storylink|Surprise Attack!}} After Galvatron's defeat, they celebrated by racing with Skid-Z. {{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}}

====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====e-Hobby=====
The trans-dimensional [[G1 GoBots|GoBots]] used their unique transporter and bio-mechanical technologies to help produce the newest generation of Transformers. The Spy Changers were among them.

=====Super Spy Changers catalog=====
With [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|God Magnus]] having departed Earth aboard [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Brave Maximus]], the Autobots were unable to call upon his power when a new menace suddenly arose to challenge them in 2002. A plan was put into motion to upgrade the Spy Changers with [[Spark Engine]]s, granting them Super Modes.<ref>[http://tflab.net/japaspe/carrobo/ssc.html Super Spy Changers story and bios in Japanese]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090622060902/http://www.allspark.com/content/view/731/37/ English translation of story and bios]</ref>

=====Ask Vector Prime=====
The Spy Changers were the only Autobots left on Earth when [[Chainsaw]] led the [[Mutant (G1)|Mutants]] there. Utterly outclassed, the Spark Engines were created thanks to Professor [[Haruma Gō]]'s new substance, [[Go-Brillium|go-brillium]]. They notched up many solo victories but had to relearn the importance of teamwork to finally win: under Super Artfire's newly improved leadership, they mastered the partial invisibility upgrade Super X-Car had been tinkering with and used it to defeat the Mutants.

With the go-brillium used up, they were regular Spy Changers again. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 1/8/2015}}

===Spy Changer continuity===
In [[Viron 1103.12 Gamma]], [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and her troops had to downsize with Spy Changer technology after [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] poisoned Earth's energon supply. [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] was the only Predacon/Decepticon who also downsized, but she alone was no match for the 13 Spy Changers active on Earth. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 18/8/2015}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[File:BrainProblemSituationAVP.jpg|thumb|right]]
In [[Primax 085.0 Eta]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and five of his Autobots [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Bluestreak (G1)|Silverstreak]], [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] became Spy Changers, hoping to achieve their mission with stealth and diplomacy when they needed to travel to [[Gargent 087.0 Kappa]] due to [[Moebius|a planet]] in that universe threatening to overwrite the existence of their [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. They were able to achieve their mission with the help of the [[Guardian (GoBots)|Guardian]]s. In a later encounter with the Guardians, [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] became a Spy Changer as well. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 30/9/2015}}

In [[Quadwal 1215.15 Epsilon]], these escapades were told in a [[Fun Publications]] convention comic called "Brain Problem Solution". {{Storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 21/12/2015}}

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==Toys==
===''Robots in Disguise'' (2001)===
[[Image:RIDHotShot-RIDtoy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hot Shot]]
[[Image:RID Mirage Toy.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Clear Mirage]]
*'''Spy Changers''' (2001)

: Spy Changers are small, 1:64-scale cars with axles designed in the style of "Matchbox" and "Hot Wheels" cars. The concept was first introduced in the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' toyline with the [[Go-Bot (G2)|Go-Bots]], but was greatly expanded with ''Robots in Disguise''. The typical Spy Changers feature simple transformations with articulation limited to rotator joints at the shoulders. Most come with hand weapons.

:'''Previously released sculpts'''
:*[[Crosswise (RID)|Crosswise]]
:*[[Hot Shot (RID)|Hot Shot]]
:*[[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]]
:*[[Mirage (RID)|Mirage]]
:*[[R.E.V.]]
:*[[W.A.R.S.]]

:The first batch of Spy Changers were previously used molds from ''Generation 2''. This group would undergo seemingly endless redecos and re-releases for several years.

[[Image:RID-toy_Daytonus.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Daytonus]]
:'''Previously unreleased sculpts'''
:*[[Daytonus]] & [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]]
:*[[Prowl 2]] & [[Side Swipe (RID)|Side Swipe]]

:A second group of Spy Changer toys was created from four molds that were created for ''Generation 2'' but never released. This group is notable for being able to store their hand weapons while in vehicle mode.

[[Image:TF-RID2001-Spychanger-Ultra-Magnus.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ultra Magnus]]
: '''New sculpts'''
:*[[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]]
:*[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]
:*[[X-Brawn]] vs. [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]]

:A third group of Spy Changers were created from scratch, based on characters from the series who had larger toys. Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, while still racetrack-compatible, are considerably larger than the typical Spy Changer toy.

===''Universe'' (2003)===
:*[[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] & [[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]] two-pack
:*[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] & [[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]] two-pack

{{note|Four ''Generation 2'' molds already used in 2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' toyline were redecoed as [[Walmart]] exclusives for the 2003 ''Universe'' toyline.}}

'''Wave 1 (2004, February 2005)'''

:*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
:*[[Jazz (G1)/toys|Autobot Jazz]]
:*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
:*[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
:*[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys|Silverstreak]]
:*[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys|Wheeljack]]

{{note|These Spy Changers, found at Dollar General and Family Dollar stores, were unchanged from the "G1" Spy Changers exclusively available from KB toys a year earlier. The only change was the packaging.}}

'''Wave 2 (August 2006)'''

:*[[Camshaft (G1)|Autobot Camshaft]]
:*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
:*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]

{{note|The second wave, found at Dollar General, Family Dollar, CVS Pharmacy, and Roses stores, mixed Optimus Prime, Prowl, and Autobot Jazz from the first wave with the new additions Autobot Camshaft, Hoist, and Mirage...which were unchanged from the second version of the KB Toys exclusive clear redecos of the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] Spy Changers [[W.A.R.S.]], [[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]], and [[Mirage (RID)|Mirage]], respectively, other than the names and the packaging.}}

===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*'''Optimus Prime''' (2007)

: A redeco of ''Robots in Disguise'' Spy Changer Scourge as [[Movie (franchise)|Movie]] [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was released in Japan as a preorder exclusive for the ''Transformers'' DVD or HD-DVD.

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spychanger''' (スパイチェンジャー ''Supaichenjā'')
*''Korean:'' '''Spychanger''' (스파이체인져 ''Seupaicheinjyeo'')

==References==
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[[Category:Autobot subgroups]]
[[Category:Generation 1 subgroups]]
[[Category:Ninjas| ]]
[[Category:Spy Changers| ]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2001) subgroups]]
[[Category:Toys]]

Technorganic

2017-03-24T20:32:57Z

Halfshell25:

{{disambig2|the part organic, part mechanical Transformers|the part organic, part mechanical creations of the Quintessons|Trans-Organic}}

[[File:Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|They changed bodies...''[[To sell toys|again]]''?]]

'''Technorganic'''—or less often, '''techno-organic'''—describes certain types of [[Transformer]]s whose physiology includes both technological and biological components.

{{quote|What can I say, it's the next big thing!|[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]|"[[Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{quote|So what are we? Robots, or animals?" "Both... and neither.|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] and [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]|"[[Master of the House]]"}}

The [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] possessed the ability to [[Reformatting|reformat]] any compatible Transformer into a technorganic body, as part of its mission to perpetuate the [[Great Reformatting]]. To this end, it sought out the recently returned [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] and guided him to the [[Vector Sigma Chamber]]. There, the Oracle reformatted the four [[Maximal]]s, creating the first technorganic Transformers. {{storylink|The Reformatting}} The Oracle used the organic matter brought back from prehistoric [[Earth]] by Primal's crew as the basis for this dramatic upgrade. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse|Apocalypse}} These new technorganic forms melded organic tissue and technology at the cellular level, combining the strengths of both. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

Though they still retained the ability to change between two modes, the Maximals had to re-learn how to transform by conscious thought and effort, a practice long since abandoned in favour of automating the process via the [[onboard computer]]s that their new bodies lacked. Their new bodies transformed through fluid shape-shifting, accompanied by a burst of brightly-coloured energy. {{storylink|Master of the House}} To do so, they practiced a mental discipline that saw them achieve a zen-like "still point". Some of them used the mantra "I am transformed" to help until they got the hang of doing it on their own.

If this state of mental balance was lost, a technorganic Transformer in [[robot mode]] would usually revert to their [[beast mode]]. {{storylink|Master of the House}} Several later technorganics seemed to get the knack of transforming right away; [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] seem to master the process immediately. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} {{storylink|In Darkest Knight}} {{storylink|Home Soil}} Transformers were invisible to traditional scanners while in beast mode, no longer giving off an "[[energy signature]]" like ordinary machines. However, when in their robot mode, they were as readily detectable as any other Transformer. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}}

Representing the next evolutionary leap in Transformer life, technorganic Transformers possessed a suite of abilities that bordered on the supernatural. They were immune to most anti-Transformer viruses, including [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s debilitating [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide}} Conventional [[CR chamber]]s had no effect on them; while in robot mode, they could utilize biologically-enhanced nanosurgical capabilities, allowing them to heal faster. {{storylink|Survivor}} Several of them displayed telepathic abilities. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} Botanica possessed several unusual abilities even beyond the ken of her fellow technorganics. Most notably, she developed a symbiotic connection to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[organic core]], growing sick and weak if cut off from its energy. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} She could also create technorganic plants at will. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

In combat, technorganic Maximals mostly possessed powerful built-in weapons such as deflector shields, sonic attacks, and electrical blasters.

Though powerful and durable, the technorganics were not invulnerable. Sufficient conventional firepower could render them unconscious {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} or even physically damage them, and they were vulnerable to the same sort of [[Spark extractor]]s which [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] used on conventional Transformers. On one occasion, ingesting a seemingly organic fruit caused Primal and his team to mentally devolve into primitives. When the tree that generated this fruit was slashed by Cheetor, it shattered into fragments, as if it were a digital illusion, and the fruit's effect was immediately undone. Primal concluded that the fruit's purely-organic nature was devolving their bodies. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} Another vulnerability came from the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], a device which converted organics into "[[technomatter]]". When applied to the technorganic Maximals, it caused them to convert to a metalized state, resulting in pain and hysteria; it could eventually have resulted in deactivation if its effects were not reverted. {{storylink|The Key}}

Optimus and his Maximals would eventually extend the Oracle's ethos to new plant life, {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}} and eventually the planet itself. Cybertron had long been a planet of metal upon metal, "technology" alone. At the end of the conflict, Cybertron was reformatted planet-wide, creating a new [[Earth]]-like world, a mix of technorganic flora and fauna, oceans (presumably full of [[water]]), and vast green cities. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

====3H comics====
The "new" Cybertron possessed cities of varying construction; some largely technorganic in nature, {{storylink|Abduction}} others retaining more "traditional" inorganic metal or stonework construction, depending on the part of the planet. The technorganic reformatting created trees bearing [[Energon]] fruits, in addition to purifying several highly-polluted areas. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Evidence arose that the [[Quintesson]]s had seemingly orchestrated the entire Great Reformatting, hoping to invade the planet and take advantage of its weakened, disoriented inhabitants. {{storylink|Disclosure}} When they followed through on this plan, they discovered that the technorganic inhabitants of the planet had developed beyond their specifications, and were more than capable of besting their [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] invasion force; not only were they invisible to Quintesson scanners, but their rapid healing also meant that they could easily recover from grevious injuries.

Ultimately, however, it was revealed that [[Primus]] had indeed masterminded the entire plan, using the Quintessons as pawns in his own game. He thanked them for helping his children achieve this great leap forward. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

{{note|Just what the [[Great Reformatting]] implied for [[Primus]] himself, whose body usually ''is'' Cybertron, is unknown. [[Marv Wolfman]], who did the series outline for ''Beast Machines'', did not have the Primus origin in mind: "No thoughts were ever made re: the Marvel version while I worked on the concept. Fact is, I never even read that. I did what I thought would make a good series concept."<ref>[http://tfarchive.com/fandom/interviews/marvwolfman/ Interview with Marv Wolfman at TFarchive.com]</ref>}}

====''Wings Universe''====
Cybertron's transition to technorganic state meant that it no longer operated on pure energon. When the [[Star Seeker]]s attempted to use [[Unicron]]'s head to drain all of Cybertron's energon in [[2984]], their scheme failed due to this development. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}

====Waspscream continuity====
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], the Oracle instead reformatted [[Starscream (G1)|Waspscream]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], and [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]], granting them technorganic bodies and an immunity to Megatron's [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/8/2015}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
[[File:MTMTEArmada-Predacon.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Predacon loves marching in Iacon's "Organic Pride Day" parade.]]

[[Predacon (Armada)|Predacon]] experimented on himself with "biomechanical" technology to integrate organic tissue into his Cybertronian robotics, something that most other Transformers were said to find repulsive. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada|''More Than Meets The Eye'' bio}}
{{-}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:TFAni Predacons Rising Blackarachina sans Helmet.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Not a being currently found at your local rave club.]]
When [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] was attacked by [[Archa Seven arachnid|alien spiders]] on the planet [[Archa Seven]], she attempted to use her ability to download and replicate the abilities of other mechanoids on the creatures, which wound up mutating her into a technorganic form. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}} Taking the name "Blackarachnia", she was initially revulsed by her unnatural new form—as were many around her—but she eventually embraced her transformation and sought to replicate it on other Transformers, successfully cross-mutating the fugitive Autobot [[Wasp]] with an ''actual'' wasp and creating "Waspinator". {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising}}

Technology and organics were also blended in a different manner when a Cybertronian [[protoform]] materialized in [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]]'s lab and scanned the scientist's DNA, rather than a customary mechanical [[alternate mode]]. The result was [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]], outwardly an ordinary organic human by all appearances whose true nature was unknown even to her, but whose Cybertronian abilities were unlocked when she was upgraded by the [[AllSpark Key]]. {{storylink|TransWarped}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===''Shattered Glass Animated''===
As with the "normal" ''Animated'' universe, [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] discovered a protoform in his lab and touched it, the protoform absorbing his DNA becoming his daughter [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]. Unlike in the "normal" universe, however, this Sari had a violent nature, and Isaac raised her as a slave for scientific experiments. Her true powers were unlocked by forcible implantation of AllSpark fragments, which continue to protrude from her body. {{storylink|BotCon 2011|BotCon 2011 attendee lithograph}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] modified the organic population of [[Gorlam Prime]] into [[Micromaster|mechanical beings]]. They first went through a transitional techno-organic state. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}} {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

=="Technorganic" in ''Beast Wars''==
[[File:Optimusprimalbw.jpg|right|upright=0.9|thumb|He's furry, but was he organic?]]

Though ''Beast Machines'' introduced the term "technorganic" and used it to refer very specifically to living entities blending machine and organic at the cellular level, subsequent media under the ''Beast Wars'' banner has occasionally used the term to describe to pre-''Beast Machines'' characters.

* IDW's ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' makes frequent references to characters possessing features like "technorganic musculature".
* The [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|Ultimate Guide]] refers both to [[Optimus Primal]]'s beast mode and all [[Transmetal]]s as "techno-organic".
* The term '''bio-mechanical''' crops up occasionally in bios and reference books, used synonymously with this use of "technorganic" in reference to pre-''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' beast warriors.

By all rights, this is incorrect in the face of the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon, since it would render the distinction, and thus their reformatting, meaningless. That said, it does remain unclear exactly what the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''-era characters were: [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon]] never clearly explained whether their animal parts were composed of genuinely living organic tissue (making the Beast Warriors akin to ''[[wikipedia:Terminator (character)|Terminator]]''-style cyborgs), or were alternatively made of faux-biological synthetic matter (akin to [[wikipedia:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]-style beast "androids"). ''Beast Machines'' itself would later canonize the former option, explaining that they had brought real organic matter back from Earth for the Oracle to use in their reformatting. Regardless, in either case, most evidence points toward their beast modes essentially being a fleshy "shell" or "fur coat" surrounding the inner robot à la [[Pretender]] shells, rather than the cellular fusion described by ''Beast Machines''.

[[Larry DiTillio]] once commented on this issue on alt.toys.transformers, saying, "When BW's transform into beast mode, they
become FULLY organic. This means they are vulnerable to anything the animal they become is. They get hurt worse when hit in beast mode, they have to breathe and eat, they are for all and intents and purposes animals." In a later post, he clarified, "Now a quick reply to the "full organic" message. Take any G1 who was a car or truck. They had glove compartments, they had mirrors, they had tires, they had uh, car stuff. BW's have animal stuff... It's their "outer shell" you might say, it is what makes them "robots in disguise". When the shell is pierced (such as when Megatron bites into it), you get to circuitry underneath (yes there is metal beneath the fur and skin and the bones are metallic superstructure)... And no Cheetor doesn't have real blood, just mech fluid."<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/authormsg$3Aalt.toys.transformers$2C-GCtfsO_cVoJ$20after$3A1997$2F1$2F1$20before$3A1997$2F2$2F1%7Csort:date%7Cspell:false/alt.toys.transformers/Tbk9A-giwV8/HpG751F9KAwJ]</ref>

The terms "technorganic" and "biomechanical" have been used to describe characters from other, non-[[Beast Era]] ''Transformers'' franchises—generally characters based on redecoed [[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|''Beast Wars'' toys]] such as [[Cheetor (Armada)|''Armada'' Cheetor]]. In the absence of a full backstory, however, the exact meaning of those terms in those continuities is unclear.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Armada]]
[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Beast Machines]]
[[Category:Beast Wars]]
[[Category:Biology]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Transformer culture]]

Technorganic

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Halfshell25:

{{disambig2|the part organic, part mechanical Transformers|the part organic, part mechanical creations of the Quintessons|Trans-Organic}}

[[File:Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|They changed bodies...''[[To sell toys|again]]''?]]

'''Technorganic'''—or less often, '''techno-organic'''—describes certain types of [[Transformer]]s whose physiology includes both technological and biological components.

{{quote|What can I say, it's the next big thing!|[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]|"[[Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{quote|So what are we? Robots, or animals?" "Both... and neither.|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] and [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]|"[[Master of the House]]"}}

The [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] possessed the ability to [[Reformatting|reformat]] any compatible Transformer into a technorganic body, as part of its mission to perpetuate the [[Great Reformatting]]. To this end, it sought out the recently returned [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] and guided him to the [[Vector Sigma Chamber]]. There, the Oracle reformatted the four [[Maximal]]s, creating the first technorganic Transformers. {{storylink|The Reformatting}} The Oracle used the organic matter brought back from prehistoric [[Earth]] by Primal's crew as the basis for this dramatic upgrade. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse|Apocalypse}} These new technorganic forms melded organic tissue and technology at the cellular level, combining the strengths of both. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

Though they still retained the ability to change between two modes, the Maximals had to re-learn how to transform by conscious thought and effort, a practice long since abandoned in favour of automating the process via the [[onboard computer]]s that their new bodies lacked. Their new bodies transformed through fluid shape-shifting, accompanied by a burst of brightly-coloured energy. {{storylink|Master of the House}} To do so, they practiced a mental discipline that saw them achieve a zen-like "still point". Some of them used the mantra "I am transformed" to help until they got the hang of doing it on their own.

If this state of mental balance was lost, a technorganic Transformer in [[robot mode]] would usually revert to their [[beast mode]]. {{storylink|Master of the House}} Several later technorganics seemed to get the knack of transforming right away; [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] seem to master the process immediately. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} {{storylink|In Darkest Knight}} {{storylink|Home Soil}} Transformers were invisible to traditional scanners while in beast mode, no longer giving off an "[[energy signature]]" like ordinary machines. However, when in their robot mode, they were as readily detectable as any other Transformer. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}}

Representing the next evolutionary leap in Transformer life, technorganic Transformers possessed a suite of abilities that bordered on the supernatural. They were immune to most anti-Transformer viruses, including [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s debilitating [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide}} Conventional [[CR chamber]]s had no effect on them; while in robot mode, they could utilize biologically-enhanced nanosurgical capabilities, allowing them to heal faster. {{storylink|Survivor}} Several of them displayed telepathic abilities. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} Botanica possessed several unusual abilities even beyond the ken of her fellow technorganics. Most notably, she developed a symbiotic connection to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[organic core]], growing sick and weak if cut off from its energy. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} She could also create technorganic plants at will. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

In combat, technorganic Maximals mostly possessed powerful built-in weapons such as deflector shields, sonic attacks, and electrical blasters.

Though powerful and durable, the technorganics were not invulnerable. Sufficient conventional firepower could render them unconscious {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} or even physically damage them, and they were vulnerable to the same sort of [[Spark extractor]]s which [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] used on conventional Transformers. On one occasion, ingesting a seemingly organic fruit caused Primal and his team to mentally devolve into primitives. When the tree that generated this fruit was slashed by Cheetor, it shattered into fragments, as if it were a digital illusion, and the fruit's effect was immediately undone. Primal concluded that the fruit's purely-organic nature was devolving their bodies. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} Another vulnerability came from the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], a device which converted organics into "[[technomatter]]". When applied to the technorganic Maximals, it caused them to convert to a metalized state, resulting in pain and hysteria; it could eventually have resulted in deactivation if its effects were not reverted. {{storylink|The Key}}

Optimus and his Maximals would eventually extend the Oracle's ethos to new plant life, {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}} and eventually the planet itself. Cybertron had long been a planet of metal upon metal, "technology" alone. At the end of the conflict, Cybertron was reformatted planet-wide, creating a new [[Earth]]-like world, a mix of technorganic flora and fauna, oceans (presumably full of [[water]]), and vast green cities. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

====3H comics====
The "new" Cybertron possessed cities of varying construction; some largely technorganic in nature, {{storylink|Abduction}} others retaining more "traditional" inorganic metal or stonework construction, depending on the part of the planet. The technorganic reformatting created trees bearing [[Energon]] fruits, in addition to purifying several highly-polluted areas. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Evidence arose that the [[Quintesson]]s had seemingly orchestrated the entire Great Reformatting, hoping to invade the planet and take advantage of its weakened, disoriented inhabitants. {{storylink|Disclosure}} When they followed through on this plan, they discovered that the technorganic inhabitants of the planet had developed beyond their specifications, and were more than capable of besting their [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] invasion force; not only were they invisible to Quintesson scanners, but their rapid healing also meant that they could easily recover from grevious injuries.

Ultimately, however, it was revealed that [[Primus]] had indeed masterminded the entire plan, using the Quintessons as pawns in his own game. He thanked them for helping his children achieve this great leap forward. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

{{note|Just what the [[Great Reformatting]] implied for [[Primus]] himself, whose body usually ''is'' Cybertron, is unknown. [[Marv Wolfman]], who did the series outline for ''Beast Machines'', did not have the Primus origin in mind: "No thoughts were ever made re: the Marvel version while I worked on the concept. Fact is, I never even read that. I did what I thought would make a good series concept."<ref>[http://tfarchive.com/fandom/interviews/marvwolfman/ Interview with Marv Wolfman at TFarchive.com]</ref>}}

====''Wings Universe''====
Cybertron's transition to technorganic state meant that it no longer operated on pure energon. When the [[Star Seeker]]s attempted to use [[Unicron]]'s head to drain all of Cybertron's energon in [[2984]], their scheme failed due to this development. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}

====Waspscream continuity====
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], the Oracle instead reformatted [[Starscream (G1)|Waspscream]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], and [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]], granting them technorganic bodies and an immunity to Megatron's [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/8/2015}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
[[File:MTMTEArmada-Predacon.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Predacon loves marching in Iacon's "Organic Pride Day" parade.]]

[[Predacon (Armada)|Predacon]] experimented on himself with "biomechanical" technology to integrate organic tissue into his Cybertronian robotics, something that most other Transformers were said to find repulsive. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada|''More Than Meets The Eye'' bio}}
{{-}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:TFAni Predacons Rising Blackarachina sans Helmet.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Not a being currently found at your local rave club.]]
When [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] was attacked by [[Archa Seven arachnid|alien spiders]] on the planet [[Archa Seven]], she attempted to use her ability to download and replicate the abilities of other mechanoids on the creatures, which wound up mutating her into a technorganic form. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}} Taking the name "Blackarachnia", she was initially revulsed by her unnatural new form—as were many around her—but she eventually embraced her transformation and sought to replicate it on other Transformers, successfully cross-mutating the fugitive Autobot [[Wasp]] with an ''actual'' wasp and creating "Waspinator". {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising}}

Technology and organics were also blended in a different manner when a Cybertronian [[protoform]] materialized in [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]]'s lab and scanned the scientist's DNA, rather than a customary mechanical [[alternate mode]]. The result was [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]], outwardly an ordinary organic human by all appearances whose true nature was unknown even to her, but whose Cybertronian abilities were unlocked when she was upgraded by the [[AllSpark Key]]. {{storylink|TransWarped}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===''Shattered Glass Animated''===
As with the "normal" ''Animated'' universe, [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] discovered a protoform in his lab and touched it, the protoform absorbing his DNA becoming his daughter [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]. Unlike in the "normal" universe, however, this Sari had a violent nature, and Isaac raised her as a slave for scientific experiments. Her true powers were unlocked by forcible implantation of AllSpark fragments, which continue to protrude from her body. {{storylink|BotCon 2011|BotCon 2011 attendee lithograph}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] modified the organic population of [[Gorlam Prime]] into [[Micromaster|mechanical beings]]. They first went through a transitional techno-organic state. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}} {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

=="Technorganic" in ''Beast Wars''==
[[File:Optimusprimalbw.jpg|right|upright=0.9|thumb|He's furry, but was he organic?]]

Though ''Beast Machines'' introduced the term "technorganic" and used it to refer very specifically to living entities blending machine and organic at the cellular level, subsequent media under the ''Beast Wars'' banner has occasionally used the term to describe to pre-''Beast Machines'' characters.

* IDW's ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' makes frequent references to characters possessing features like "technorganic musculature".
* The [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|Ultimate Guide]] refers both to [[Optimus Primal]]'s beast mode and all [[Transmetal]]s as "techno-organic".
* The term '''bio-mechanical''' crops up occasionally in bios and reference books, used synonymously with this use of "technorganic" in reference to pre-''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' beast warriors.

By all rights, this is incorrect in the face of the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon, since it would render the distinction, and thus their reformatting, meaningless. That said, it does remain unclear exactly what the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''-era characters were: [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon]] never clearly explained whether their animal parts were composed of genuinely living organic tissue (making the Beast Warriors akin to ''[[wikipedia:Terminator (character)|Terminator]]''-style cyborgs), or were alternatively made of faux-biological synthetic matter (akin to [[wikipedia:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]-style beast "androids"). ''Beast Machines'' itself would later canonize the former option, explaining that they had brought real organic matter back from Earth for the Oracle to use in their reformatting. Regardless, in either case, most evidence points toward their beast modes essentially being a fleshy "shell" or "fur coat" surrounding the inner robot à la [[Pretender]] shells, rather than the cellular fusion described by ''Beast Machines''.

[[Larry DiTillio]] once commented on this issue on alt.toys.transformers, saying, "When BW's transform into beast mode, they
become FULLY organic. This means they are vulnerable to anything the animal they become is. They get hurt worse when hit in beast mode, they have to breathe and eat, they are for all and intents and purposes animals." In a later post, he clarified, "Now a quick reply to the "full organic" message. Take any G1 who was a car or truck. They had glove compartments, they had mirrors, they had tires, they had uh, car stuff. BW's have animal stuff... It's their "outer shell" you might say, it is what makes them "robots in disguise". When the shell is pierced (such as when Megatron bites into it), you get to circuitry underneath (yes there is metal beneath the fur and skin and the bones are metallic superstructure)... And no Cheetor doesn't have real blood, just mech fluid.." <ref [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/authormsg$3Aalt.toys.transformers$2C-GCtfsO_cVoJ$20after$3A1997$2F1$2F1$20before$3A1997$2F2$2F1%7Csort:date%7Cspell:false/alt.toys.transformers/Tbk9A-giwV8/HpG751F9KAwJ]</ref>}}

The terms "technorganic" and "biomechanical" have been used to describe characters from other, non-[[Beast Era]] ''Transformers'' franchises—generally characters based on redecoed [[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|''Beast Wars'' toys]] such as [[Cheetor (Armada)|''Armada'' Cheetor]]. In the absence of a full backstory, however, the exact meaning of those terms in those continuities is unclear.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Armada]]
[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Beast Machines]]
[[Category:Beast Wars]]
[[Category:Biology]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Transformer culture]]

Technorganic

2017-03-22T23:13:27Z

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{{disambig2|the part organic, part mechanical Transformers|the part organic, part mechanical creations of the Quintessons|Trans-Organic}}

[[File:Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|They changed bodies...''[[To sell toys|again]]''?]]

'''Technorganic'''—or less often, '''techno-organic'''—describes certain types of [[Transformer]]s whose physiology includes both technological and biological components.

{{quote|What can I say, it's the next big thing!|[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]|"[[Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{quote|So what are we? Robots, or animals?" "Both... and neither.|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] and [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]|"[[Master of the House]]"}}

The [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] possessed the ability to [[Reformatting|reformat]] any compatible Transformer into a technorganic body, as part of its mission to perpetuate the [[Great Reformatting]]. To this end, it sought out the recently returned [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] and guided him to the [[Vector Sigma Chamber]]. There, the Oracle reformatted the four [[Maximal]]s, creating the first technorganic Transformers. {{storylink|The Reformatting}} The Oracle used the organic matter brought back from prehistoric [[Earth]] by Primal's crew as the basis for this dramatic upgrade. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse|Apocalypse}} These new technorganic forms melded organic tissue and technology at the cellular level, combining the strengths of both. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

Though they still retained the ability to change between two modes, the Maximals had to re-learn how to transform by conscious thought and effort, a practice long since abandoned in favour of automating the process via the [[onboard computer]]s that their new bodies lacked. Their new bodies transformed through fluid shape-shifting, accompanied by a burst of brightly-coloured energy. {{storylink|Master of the House}} To do so, they practiced a mental discipline that saw them achieve a zen-like "still point". Some of them used the mantra "I am transformed" to help until they got the hang of doing it on their own.

If this state of mental balance was lost, a technorganic Transformer in [[robot mode]] would usually revert to their [[beast mode]]. {{storylink|Master of the House}} Several later technorganics seemed to get the knack of transforming right away; [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] seem to master the process immediately. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} {{storylink|In Darkest Knight}} {{storylink|Home Soil}} Transformers were invisible to traditional scanners while in beast mode, no longer giving off an "[[energy signature]]" like ordinary machines. However, when in their robot mode, they were as readily detectable as any other Transformer. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}}

Representing the next evolutionary leap in Transformer life, technorganic Transformers possessed a suite of abilities that bordered on the supernatural. They were immune to most anti-Transformer viruses, including [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s debilitating [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide}} Conventional [[CR chamber]]s had no effect on them; while in robot mode, they could utilize biologically-enhanced nanosurgical capabilities, allowing them to heal faster. {{storylink|Survivor}} Several of them displayed telepathic abilities. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} Botanica possessed several unusual abilities even beyond the ken of her fellow technorganics. Most notably, she developed a symbiotic connection to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[organic core]], growing sick and weak if cut off from its energy. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} She could also create technorganic plants at will. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

In combat, technorganic Maximals mostly possessed powerful built-in weapons such as deflector shields, sonic attacks, and electrical blasters.

Though powerful and durable, the technorganics were not invulnerable. Sufficient conventional firepower could render them unconscious {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} or even physically damage them, and they were vulnerable to the same sort of [[Spark extractor]]s which [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] used on conventional Transformers. On one occasion, ingesting a seemingly organic fruit caused Primal and his team to mentally devolve into primitives. When the tree that generated this fruit was slashed by Cheetor, it shattered into fragments, as if it were a digital illusion, and the fruit's effect was immediately undone. Primal concluded that the fruit's purely-organic nature was devolving their bodies. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} Another vulnerability came from the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], a device which converted organics into "[[technomatter]]". When applied to the technorganic Maximals, it caused them to convert to a metalized state, resulting in pain and hysteria; it could eventually have resulted in deactivation if its effects were not reverted. {{storylink|The Key}}

Optimus and his Maximals would eventually extend the Oracle's ethos to new plant life, {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}} and eventually the planet itself. Cybertron had long been a planet of metal upon metal, "technology" alone. At the end of the conflict, Cybertron was reformatted planet-wide, creating a new [[Earth]]-like world, a mix of technorganic flora and fauna, oceans (presumably full of [[water]]), and vast green cities. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

====3H comics====
The "new" Cybertron possessed cities of varying construction; some largely technorganic in nature, {{storylink|Abduction}} others retaining more "traditional" inorganic metal or stonework construction, depending on the part of the planet. The technorganic reformatting created trees bearing [[Energon]] fruits, in addition to purifying several highly-polluted areas. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Evidence arose that the [[Quintesson]]s had seemingly orchestrated the entire Great Reformatting, hoping to invade the planet and take advantage of its weakened, disoriented inhabitants. {{storylink|Disclosure}} When they followed through on this plan, they discovered that the technorganic inhabitants of the planet had developed beyond their specifications, and were more than capable of besting their [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] invasion force; not only were they invisible to Quintesson scanners, but their rapid healing also meant that they could easily recover from grevious injuries.

Ultimately, however, it was revealed that [[Primus]] had indeed masterminded the entire plan, using the Quintessons as pawns in his own game. He thanked them for helping his children achieve this great leap forward. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

{{note|Just what the [[Great Reformatting]] implied for [[Primus]] himself, whose body usually ''is'' Cybertron, is unknown. [[Marv Wolfman]], who did the series outline for ''Beast Machines'', did not have the Primus origin in mind: "No thoughts were ever made re: the Marvel version while I worked on the concept. Fact is, I never even read that. I did what I thought would make a good series concept."<ref>[http://tfarchive.com/fandom/interviews/marvwolfman/ Interview with Marv Wolfman at TFarchive.com]</ref>}}

====''Wings Universe''====
Cybertron's transition to technorganic state meant that it no longer operated on pure energon. When the [[Star Seeker]]s attempted to use [[Unicron]]'s head to drain all of Cybertron's energon in [[2984]], their scheme failed due to this development. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}

====Waspscream continuity====
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], the Oracle instead reformatted [[Starscream (G1)|Waspscream]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], and [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]], granting them technorganic bodies and an immunity to Megatron's [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/8/2015}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
[[File:MTMTEArmada-Predacon.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Predacon loves marching in Iacon's "Organic Pride Day" parade.]]

[[Predacon (Armada)|Predacon]] experimented on himself with "biomechanical" technology to integrate organic tissue into his Cybertronian robotics, something that most other Transformers were said to find repulsive. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada|''More Than Meets The Eye'' bio}}
{{-}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:TFAni Predacons Rising Blackarachina sans Helmet.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Not a being currently found at your local rave club.]]
When [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] was attacked by [[Archa Seven arachnid|alien spiders]] on the planet [[Archa Seven]], she attempted to use her ability to download and replicate the abilities of other mechanoids on the creatures, which wound up mutating her into a technorganic form. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}} Taking the name "Blackarachnia", she was initially revulsed by her unnatural new form—as were many around her—but she eventually embraced her transformation and sought to replicate it on other Transformers, successfully cross-mutating the fugitive Autobot [[Wasp]] with an ''actual'' wasp and creating "Waspinator". {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising}}

Technology and organics were also blended in a different manner when a Cybertronian [[protoform]] materialized in [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]]'s lab and scanned the scientist's DNA, rather than a customary mechanical [[alternate mode]]. The result was [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]], outwardly an ordinary organic human by all appearances whose true nature was unknown even to her, but whose Cybertronian abilities were unlocked when she was upgraded by the [[AllSpark Key]]. {{storylink|TransWarped}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===''Shattered Glass Animated''===
As with the "normal" ''Animated'' universe, [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] discovered a protoform in his lab and touched it, the protoform absorbing his DNA becoming his daughter [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]. Unlike in the "normal" universe, however, this Sari had a violent nature, and Isaac raised her as a slave for scientific experiments. Her true powers were unlocked by forcible implantation of AllSpark fragments, which continue to protrude from her body. {{storylink|BotCon 2011|BotCon 2011 attendee lithograph}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] modified the organic population of [[Gorlam Prime]] into [[Micromaster|mechanical beings]]. They first went through a transitional techno-organic state. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}} {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

=="Technorganic" in ''Beast Wars''==
[[File:Optimusprimalbw.jpg|right|upright=0.9|thumb|He's furry, but was he organic?]]

Though ''Beast Machines'' introduced the term "technorganic" and used it to refer very specifically to living entities blending machine and organic at the cellular level, subsequent media under the ''Beast Wars'' banner has occasionally used the term to describe to pre-''Beast Machines'' characters.

* IDW's ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' makes frequent references to characters possessing features like "technorganic musculature".
* The [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|Ultimate Guide]] refers both to [[Optimus Primal]]'s beast mode and all [[Transmetal]]s as "techno-organic".
* The term '''bio-mechanical''' crops up occasionally in bios and reference books, used synonymously with this use of "technorganic" in reference to pre-''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' beast warriors.

By all rights, this is incorrect in the face of the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon, since it would render the distinction, and thus their reformatting, meaningless. That said, it does remain unclear exactly what the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''-era characters were: [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon]] never clearly explained whether their animal parts were composed of genuinely living organic tissue (making the Beast Warriors akin to ''[[wikipedia:Terminator (character)|Terminator]]''-style cyborgs), or were alternatively made of faux-biological synthetic matter (akin to [[wikipedia:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]-style beast "androids"). ''Beast Machines'' itself would later canonize the former option, explaining that they had brought real organic matter back from Earth for the Oracle to use in their reformatting. Regardless, in either case, most evidence points toward their beast modes essentially being a fleshy "shell" or "fur coat" surrounding the inner robot à la [[Pretender]] shells, rather than the cellular fusion described by ''Beast Machines''.

[[Larry DiTillio]] once commented on this issue on alt.toys.transformers, saying, "When BW's transform into beast mode, they
become FULLY organic. This means they are vulnerable to anything the animal they become is. They get hurt worse when hit in beast mode, they have to breathe and eat, they are for all and intents and purposes animals." In a later post, he clarified, "Now a quick reply to the "full organic" message. Take any G1 who was a car or truck. They had glove compartments, they had mirrors, they had tires, they had uh, car stuff. BW's have animal stuff... It's their "outer shell" you might say, it is what makes them "robots in disguise". When the shell is pierced (such as when Megatron bites into it), you get to circuitry underneath (yes there is metal beneath the fur and skin and the bones are metallic superstructure)... And no Cheetor doesn't have real blood, just mech fluid.." "<ref [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/authormsg$3Aalt.toys.transformers$2C-GCtfsO_cVoJ$20after$3A1997$2F1$2F1$20before$3A1997$2F2$2F1%7Csort:date%7Cspell:false/alt.toys.transformers/Tbk9A-giwV8/HpG751F9KAwJ]</ref>}}

The terms "technorganic" and "biomechanical" have been used to describe characters from other, non-[[Beast Era]] ''Transformers'' franchises—generally characters based on redecoed [[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|''Beast Wars'' toys]] such as [[Cheetor (Armada)|''Armada'' Cheetor]]. In the absence of a full backstory, however, the exact meaning of those terms in those continuities is unclear.

==References==
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[[Category:Armada]]
[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Beast Machines]]
[[Category:Beast Wars]]
[[Category:Biology]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Transformer culture]]

Technorganic

2017-03-22T23:11:41Z

Halfshell25: /* "Technorganic" in Beast Wars */

{{disambig2|the part organic, part mechanical Transformers|the part organic, part mechanical creations of the Quintessons|Trans-Organic}}

[[File:Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|They changed bodies...''[[To sell toys|again]]''?]]

'''Technorganic'''—or less often, '''techno-organic'''—describes certain types of [[Transformer]]s whose physiology includes both technological and biological components.

{{quote|What can I say, it's the next big thing!|[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]|"[[Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{quote|So what are we? Robots, or animals?" "Both... and neither.|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] and [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]|"[[Master of the House]]"}}

The [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] possessed the ability to [[Reformatting|reformat]] any compatible Transformer into a technorganic body, as part of its mission to perpetuate the [[Great Reformatting]]. To this end, it sought out the recently returned [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] and guided him to the [[Vector Sigma Chamber]]. There, the Oracle reformatted the four [[Maximal]]s, creating the first technorganic Transformers. {{storylink|The Reformatting}} The Oracle used the organic matter brought back from prehistoric [[Earth]] by Primal's crew as the basis for this dramatic upgrade. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse|Apocalypse}} These new technorganic forms melded organic tissue and technology at the cellular level, combining the strengths of both. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

Though they still retained the ability to change between two modes, the Maximals had to re-learn how to transform by conscious thought and effort, a practice long since abandoned in favour of automating the process via the [[onboard computer]]s that their new bodies lacked. Their new bodies transformed through fluid shape-shifting, accompanied by a burst of brightly-coloured energy. {{storylink|Master of the House}} To do so, they practiced a mental discipline that saw them achieve a zen-like "still point". Some of them used the mantra "I am transformed" to help until they got the hang of doing it on their own.

If this state of mental balance was lost, a technorganic Transformer in [[robot mode]] would usually revert to their [[beast mode]]. {{storylink|Master of the House}} Several later technorganics seemed to get the knack of transforming right away; [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] seem to master the process immediately. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} {{storylink|In Darkest Knight}} {{storylink|Home Soil}} Transformers were invisible to traditional scanners while in beast mode, no longer giving off an "[[energy signature]]" like ordinary machines. However, when in their robot mode, they were as readily detectable as any other Transformer. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}}

Representing the next evolutionary leap in Transformer life, technorganic Transformers possessed a suite of abilities that bordered on the supernatural. They were immune to most anti-Transformer viruses, including [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s debilitating [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide}} Conventional [[CR chamber]]s had no effect on them; while in robot mode, they could utilize biologically-enhanced nanosurgical capabilities, allowing them to heal faster. {{storylink|Survivor}} Several of them displayed telepathic abilities. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} Botanica possessed several unusual abilities even beyond the ken of her fellow technorganics. Most notably, she developed a symbiotic connection to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[organic core]], growing sick and weak if cut off from its energy. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} She could also create technorganic plants at will. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

In combat, technorganic Maximals mostly possessed powerful built-in weapons such as deflector shields, sonic attacks, and electrical blasters.

Though powerful and durable, the technorganics were not invulnerable. Sufficient conventional firepower could render them unconscious {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} or even physically damage them, and they were vulnerable to the same sort of [[Spark extractor]]s which [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] used on conventional Transformers. On one occasion, ingesting a seemingly organic fruit caused Primal and his team to mentally devolve into primitives. When the tree that generated this fruit was slashed by Cheetor, it shattered into fragments, as if it were a digital illusion, and the fruit's effect was immediately undone. Primal concluded that the fruit's purely-organic nature was devolving their bodies. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} Another vulnerability came from the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], a device which converted organics into "[[technomatter]]". When applied to the technorganic Maximals, it caused them to convert to a metalized state, resulting in pain and hysteria; it could eventually have resulted in deactivation if its effects were not reverted. {{storylink|The Key}}

Optimus and his Maximals would eventually extend the Oracle's ethos to new plant life, {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}} and eventually the planet itself. Cybertron had long been a planet of metal upon metal, "technology" alone. At the end of the conflict, Cybertron was reformatted planet-wide, creating a new [[Earth]]-like world, a mix of technorganic flora and fauna, oceans (presumably full of [[water]]), and vast green cities. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

====3H comics====
The "new" Cybertron possessed cities of varying construction; some largely technorganic in nature, {{storylink|Abduction}} others retaining more "traditional" inorganic metal or stonework construction, depending on the part of the planet. The technorganic reformatting created trees bearing [[Energon]] fruits, in addition to purifying several highly-polluted areas. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Evidence arose that the [[Quintesson]]s had seemingly orchestrated the entire Great Reformatting, hoping to invade the planet and take advantage of its weakened, disoriented inhabitants. {{storylink|Disclosure}} When they followed through on this plan, they discovered that the technorganic inhabitants of the planet had developed beyond their specifications, and were more than capable of besting their [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] invasion force; not only were they invisible to Quintesson scanners, but their rapid healing also meant that they could easily recover from grevious injuries.

Ultimately, however, it was revealed that [[Primus]] had indeed masterminded the entire plan, using the Quintessons as pawns in his own game. He thanked them for helping his children achieve this great leap forward. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

{{note|Just what the [[Great Reformatting]] implied for [[Primus]] himself, whose body usually ''is'' Cybertron, is unknown. [[Marv Wolfman]], who did the series outline for ''Beast Machines'', did not have the Primus origin in mind: "No thoughts were ever made re: the Marvel version while I worked on the concept. Fact is, I never even read that. I did what I thought would make a good series concept."<ref>[http://tfarchive.com/fandom/interviews/marvwolfman/ Interview with Marv Wolfman at TFarchive.com]</ref>}}

====''Wings Universe''====
Cybertron's transition to technorganic state meant that it no longer operated on pure energon. When the [[Star Seeker]]s attempted to use [[Unicron]]'s head to drain all of Cybertron's energon in [[2984]], their scheme failed due to this development. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}

====Waspscream continuity====
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], the Oracle instead reformatted [[Starscream (G1)|Waspscream]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], and [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]], granting them technorganic bodies and an immunity to Megatron's [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/8/2015}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
[[File:MTMTEArmada-Predacon.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Predacon loves marching in Iacon's "Organic Pride Day" parade.]]

[[Predacon (Armada)|Predacon]] experimented on himself with "biomechanical" technology to integrate organic tissue into his Cybertronian robotics, something that most other Transformers were said to find repulsive. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada|''More Than Meets The Eye'' bio}}
{{-}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:TFAni Predacons Rising Blackarachina sans Helmet.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Not a being currently found at your local rave club.]]
When [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] was attacked by [[Archa Seven arachnid|alien spiders]] on the planet [[Archa Seven]], she attempted to use her ability to download and replicate the abilities of other mechanoids on the creatures, which wound up mutating her into a technorganic form. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}} Taking the name "Blackarachnia", she was initially revulsed by her unnatural new form—as were many around her—but she eventually embraced her transformation and sought to replicate it on other Transformers, successfully cross-mutating the fugitive Autobot [[Wasp]] with an ''actual'' wasp and creating "Waspinator". {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising}}

Technology and organics were also blended in a different manner when a Cybertronian [[protoform]] materialized in [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]]'s lab and scanned the scientist's DNA, rather than a customary mechanical [[alternate mode]]. The result was [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]], outwardly an ordinary organic human by all appearances whose true nature was unknown even to her, but whose Cybertronian abilities were unlocked when she was upgraded by the [[AllSpark Key]]. {{storylink|TransWarped}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===''Shattered Glass Animated''===
As with the "normal" ''Animated'' universe, [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] discovered a protoform in his lab and touched it, the protoform absorbing his DNA becoming his daughter [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]. Unlike in the "normal" universe, however, this Sari had a violent nature, and Isaac raised her as a slave for scientific experiments. Her true powers were unlocked by forcible implantation of AllSpark fragments, which continue to protrude from her body. {{storylink|BotCon 2011|BotCon 2011 attendee lithograph}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] modified the organic population of [[Gorlam Prime]] into [[Micromaster|mechanical beings]]. They first went through a transitional techno-organic state. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}} {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

=="Technorganic" in ''Beast Wars''==
[[File:Optimusprimalbw.jpg|right|upright=0.9|thumb|He's furry, but was he organic?]]

Though ''Beast Machines'' introduced the term "technorganic" and used it to refer very specifically to living entities blending machine and organic at the cellular level, subsequent media under the ''Beast Wars'' banner has occasionally used the term to describe to pre-''Beast Machines'' characters.

* IDW's ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' makes frequent references to characters possessing features like "technorganic musculature".
* The [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|Ultimate Guide]] refers both to [[Optimus Primal]]'s beast mode and all [[Transmetal]]s as "techno-organic".
* The term '''bio-mechanical''' crops up occasionally in bios and reference books, used synonymously with this use of "technorganic" in reference to pre-''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' beast warriors.

By all rights, this is incorrect in the face of the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon, since it would render the distinction, and thus their reformatting, meaningless. That said, it does remain unclear exactly what the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''-era characters were: [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon]] never clearly explained whether their animal parts were composed of genuinely living organic tissue (making the Beast Warriors akin to ''[[wikipedia:Terminator (character)|Terminator]]''-style cyborgs), or were alternatively made of faux-biological synthetic matter (akin to [[wikipedia:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]-style beast "androids"). ''Beast Machines'' itself would later canonize the former option, explaining that they had brought real organic matter back from Earth for the Oracle to use in their reformatting. Regardless, in either case, most evidence points toward their beast modes essentially being a fleshy "shell" or "fur coat" surrounding the inner robot à la [[Pretender]] shells, rather than the cellular fusion described by ''Beast Machines''.

[[Larry DiTillio]] once commented on this issue on alt.toys.transformers, saying, "When BW's transform into beast mode, they
become FULLY organic. This means they are vulnerable to anything the animal they become is. They get hurt worse when hit in beast mode, they have to breathe and eat, they are for all and intents and purposes animals." In a later post, he clarified, "Now a quick reply to the "full organic" message. Take any G1 who was a car or truck. They had glove compartments, they had mirrors, they had tires, they had uh, car stuff. BW's have animal stuff... It's their "outer shell" you might say, it is what makes them "robots in disguise". When the shell is pierced (such as when Megatron bites into it), you get to circuitry underneath (yes there is metal beneath the fur and skin and the bones are metallic superstructure)... And no Cheetor doesn't have real blood, just mech fluid.." <ref [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/authormsg$3Aalt.toys.transformers$2C-GCtfsO_cVoJ$20after$3A1997$2F1$2F1$20before$3A1997$2F2$2F1%7Csort:date%7Cspell:false/alt.toys.transformers/Tbk9A-giwV8/HpG751F9KAwJ]</ref>}}

The terms "technorganic" and "biomechanical" have been used to describe characters from other, non-[[Beast Era]] ''Transformers'' franchises—generally characters based on redecoed [[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|''Beast Wars'' toys]] such as [[Cheetor (Armada)|''Armada'' Cheetor]]. In the absence of a full backstory, however, the exact meaning of those terms in those continuities is unclear.

Technorganic

2017-03-22T23:11:05Z

Halfshell25: /* "Technorganic" in Beast Wars */

{{disambig2|the part organic, part mechanical Transformers|the part organic, part mechanical creations of the Quintessons|Trans-Organic}}

[[File:Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|They changed bodies...''[[To sell toys|again]]''?]]

'''Technorganic'''—or less often, '''techno-organic'''—describes certain types of [[Transformer]]s whose physiology includes both technological and biological components.

{{quote|What can I say, it's the next big thing!|[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]|"[[Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{quote|So what are we? Robots, or animals?" "Both... and neither.|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] and [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]|"[[Master of the House]]"}}

The [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] possessed the ability to [[Reformatting|reformat]] any compatible Transformer into a technorganic body, as part of its mission to perpetuate the [[Great Reformatting]]. To this end, it sought out the recently returned [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] and guided him to the [[Vector Sigma Chamber]]. There, the Oracle reformatted the four [[Maximal]]s, creating the first technorganic Transformers. {{storylink|The Reformatting}} The Oracle used the organic matter brought back from prehistoric [[Earth]] by Primal's crew as the basis for this dramatic upgrade. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse|Apocalypse}} These new technorganic forms melded organic tissue and technology at the cellular level, combining the strengths of both. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

Though they still retained the ability to change between two modes, the Maximals had to re-learn how to transform by conscious thought and effort, a practice long since abandoned in favour of automating the process via the [[onboard computer]]s that their new bodies lacked. Their new bodies transformed through fluid shape-shifting, accompanied by a burst of brightly-coloured energy. {{storylink|Master of the House}} To do so, they practiced a mental discipline that saw them achieve a zen-like "still point". Some of them used the mantra "I am transformed" to help until they got the hang of doing it on their own.

If this state of mental balance was lost, a technorganic Transformer in [[robot mode]] would usually revert to their [[beast mode]]. {{storylink|Master of the House}} Several later technorganics seemed to get the knack of transforming right away; [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] seem to master the process immediately. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} {{storylink|In Darkest Knight}} {{storylink|Home Soil}} Transformers were invisible to traditional scanners while in beast mode, no longer giving off an "[[energy signature]]" like ordinary machines. However, when in their robot mode, they were as readily detectable as any other Transformer. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}}

Representing the next evolutionary leap in Transformer life, technorganic Transformers possessed a suite of abilities that bordered on the supernatural. They were immune to most anti-Transformer viruses, including [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s debilitating [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide}} Conventional [[CR chamber]]s had no effect on them; while in robot mode, they could utilize biologically-enhanced nanosurgical capabilities, allowing them to heal faster. {{storylink|Survivor}} Several of them displayed telepathic abilities. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} Botanica possessed several unusual abilities even beyond the ken of her fellow technorganics. Most notably, she developed a symbiotic connection to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[organic core]], growing sick and weak if cut off from its energy. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} She could also create technorganic plants at will. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

In combat, technorganic Maximals mostly possessed powerful built-in weapons such as deflector shields, sonic attacks, and electrical blasters.

Though powerful and durable, the technorganics were not invulnerable. Sufficient conventional firepower could render them unconscious {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} or even physically damage them, and they were vulnerable to the same sort of [[Spark extractor]]s which [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] used on conventional Transformers. On one occasion, ingesting a seemingly organic fruit caused Primal and his team to mentally devolve into primitives. When the tree that generated this fruit was slashed by Cheetor, it shattered into fragments, as if it were a digital illusion, and the fruit's effect was immediately undone. Primal concluded that the fruit's purely-organic nature was devolving their bodies. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} Another vulnerability came from the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], a device which converted organics into "[[technomatter]]". When applied to the technorganic Maximals, it caused them to convert to a metalized state, resulting in pain and hysteria; it could eventually have resulted in deactivation if its effects were not reverted. {{storylink|The Key}}

Optimus and his Maximals would eventually extend the Oracle's ethos to new plant life, {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}} and eventually the planet itself. Cybertron had long been a planet of metal upon metal, "technology" alone. At the end of the conflict, Cybertron was reformatted planet-wide, creating a new [[Earth]]-like world, a mix of technorganic flora and fauna, oceans (presumably full of [[water]]), and vast green cities. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

====3H comics====
The "new" Cybertron possessed cities of varying construction; some largely technorganic in nature, {{storylink|Abduction}} others retaining more "traditional" inorganic metal or stonework construction, depending on the part of the planet. The technorganic reformatting created trees bearing [[Energon]] fruits, in addition to purifying several highly-polluted areas. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Evidence arose that the [[Quintesson]]s had seemingly orchestrated the entire Great Reformatting, hoping to invade the planet and take advantage of its weakened, disoriented inhabitants. {{storylink|Disclosure}} When they followed through on this plan, they discovered that the technorganic inhabitants of the planet had developed beyond their specifications, and were more than capable of besting their [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] invasion force; not only were they invisible to Quintesson scanners, but their rapid healing also meant that they could easily recover from grevious injuries.

Ultimately, however, it was revealed that [[Primus]] had indeed masterminded the entire plan, using the Quintessons as pawns in his own game. He thanked them for helping his children achieve this great leap forward. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

{{note|Just what the [[Great Reformatting]] implied for [[Primus]] himself, whose body usually ''is'' Cybertron, is unknown. [[Marv Wolfman]], who did the series outline for ''Beast Machines'', did not have the Primus origin in mind: "No thoughts were ever made re: the Marvel version while I worked on the concept. Fact is, I never even read that. I did what I thought would make a good series concept."<ref>[http://tfarchive.com/fandom/interviews/marvwolfman/ Interview with Marv Wolfman at TFarchive.com]</ref>}}

====''Wings Universe''====
Cybertron's transition to technorganic state meant that it no longer operated on pure energon. When the [[Star Seeker]]s attempted to use [[Unicron]]'s head to drain all of Cybertron's energon in [[2984]], their scheme failed due to this development. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}

====Waspscream continuity====
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], the Oracle instead reformatted [[Starscream (G1)|Waspscream]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], and [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]], granting them technorganic bodies and an immunity to Megatron's [[transformation virus]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/8/2015}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
[[File:MTMTEArmada-Predacon.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Predacon loves marching in Iacon's "Organic Pride Day" parade.]]

[[Predacon (Armada)|Predacon]] experimented on himself with "biomechanical" technology to integrate organic tissue into his Cybertronian robotics, something that most other Transformers were said to find repulsive. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada|''More Than Meets The Eye'' bio}}
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===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[File:TFAni Predacons Rising Blackarachina sans Helmet.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Not a being currently found at your local rave club.]]
When [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] was attacked by [[Archa Seven arachnid|alien spiders]] on the planet [[Archa Seven]], she attempted to use her ability to download and replicate the abilities of other mechanoids on the creatures, which wound up mutating her into a technorganic form. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}} Taking the name "Blackarachnia", she was initially revulsed by her unnatural new form—as were many around her—but she eventually embraced her transformation and sought to replicate it on other Transformers, successfully cross-mutating the fugitive Autobot [[Wasp]] with an ''actual'' wasp and creating "Waspinator". {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising}}

Technology and organics were also blended in a different manner when a Cybertronian [[protoform]] materialized in [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]]'s lab and scanned the scientist's DNA, rather than a customary mechanical [[alternate mode]]. The result was [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]], outwardly an ordinary organic human by all appearances whose true nature was unknown even to her, but whose Cybertronian abilities were unlocked when she was upgraded by the [[AllSpark Key]]. {{storylink|TransWarped}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===''Shattered Glass Animated''===
As with the "normal" ''Animated'' universe, [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] discovered a protoform in his lab and touched it, the protoform absorbing his DNA becoming his daughter [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]. Unlike in the "normal" universe, however, this Sari had a violent nature, and Isaac raised her as a slave for scientific experiments. Her true powers were unlocked by forcible implantation of AllSpark fragments, which continue to protrude from her body. {{storylink|BotCon 2011|BotCon 2011 attendee lithograph}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] modified the organic population of [[Gorlam Prime]] into [[Micromaster|mechanical beings]]. They first went through a transitional techno-organic state. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}} {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

=="Technorganic" in ''Beast Wars''==
[[File:Optimusprimalbw.jpg|right|upright=0.9|thumb|He's furry, but was he organic?]]

Though ''Beast Machines'' introduced the term "technorganic" and used it to refer very specifically to living entities blending machine and organic at the cellular level, subsequent media under the ''Beast Wars'' banner has occasionally used the term to describe to pre-''Beast Machines'' characters.

* IDW's ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' makes frequent references to characters possessing features like "technorganic musculature".
* The [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|Ultimate Guide]] refers both to [[Optimus Primal]]'s beast mode and all [[Transmetal]]s as "techno-organic".
* The term '''bio-mechanical''' crops up occasionally in bios and reference books, used synonymously with this use of "technorganic" in reference to pre-''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' beast warriors.

By all rights, this is incorrect in the face of the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon, since it would render the distinction, and thus their reformatting, meaningless. That said, it does remain unclear exactly what the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''-era characters were: [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon]] never clearly explained whether their animal parts were composed of genuinely living organic tissue (making the Beast Warriors akin to ''[[wikipedia:Terminator (character)|Terminator]]''-style cyborgs), or were alternatively made of faux-biological synthetic matter (akin to [[wikipedia:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]-style beast "androids"). ''Beast Machines'' itself would later canonize the former option, explaining that they had brought real organic matter back from Earth for the Oracle to use in their reformatting. Regardless, in either case, most evidence points toward their beast modes essentially being a fleshy "shell" or "fur coat" surrounding the inner robot à la [[Pretender]] shells, rather than the cellular fusion described by ''Beast Machines''.

[[Larry DiTillio]] once commented on this issue on alt.toys.transformers, saying, "When BW's transform into beast mode, they
become FULLY organic. This means they are vulnerable to anything the animal they become is. They get hurt worse when hit in beast mode, they have to breathe and eat, they are for all and intents and purposes animals." In a later post, he clarified, "Now a quick reply to the "full organic" message. Take any G1 who was a car or truck. They had glove compartments, they had mirrors, they had tires, they had uh, car stuff. BW's have animal stuff... It's their "outer shell" you might say, it is what makes them "robots in disguise". When the shell is pierced (such as when Megatron bites into it), you get to circuitry underneath (yes there is metal beneath the fur and skin and the bones are metallic superstructure)... And no Cheetor doesn't have real blood, just mech fluid.." "<ref [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/authormsg$3Aalt.toys.transformers$2C-GCtfsO_cVoJ$20after$3A1997$2F1$2F1$20before$3A1997$2F2$2F1%7Csort:date%7Cspell:false/alt.toys.transformers/Tbk9A-giwV8/HpG751F9KAwJ]</ref>}}

The terms "technorganic" and "biomechanical" have been used to describe characters from other, non-[[Beast Era]] ''Transformers'' franchises—generally characters based on redecoed [[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|''Beast Wars'' toys]] such as [[Cheetor (Armada)|''Armada'' Cheetor]]. In the absence of a full backstory, however, the exact meaning of those terms in those continuities is unclear.

==References==
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Megatron (Movie)

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:''Megatron is the [[Decepticon]] leader from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Movie Megatron Defiance3.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Friends, [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticonians]], countrybots, lend me your audio receptors!]]

'''Megatron''' was not always the viciously powerful and brutally direct leader of the Decepticons: he was once brothers-in-arms with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] and a student of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], appointed to be Cybertron's [[Lord High Protector|Protector]] and commander of its [[Defense Force]]. But Megatron resented his comrade, knowing he was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] and therefore Sentinel's favored son. This anger allowed [[The Fallen]] to ensnare him and led to the revival of the Decepticons. Even without The Fallen, it's not hard to imagine that Megatron would have erupted Cybertron into war to rid himself of Optimus.

Megatron tends to become so obsessed with the object of his desires that he can ignore "secondary" matters, glaring flaws in his plans. Otherwise, he likely wouldn't have chased after the [[AllSpark]] alone, and spent centuries entombed in the [[Arctic]]. Trying to talk Megatron out of blindly going for his goals is useless. He will risk his world, his troops, and even his own [[spark]] to achieve his goals; these things do not matter to Megatron. Like his master, Megatron feels a violent hatred towards [[human]]s and views them as only slightly above bacteria, a feeling exacerbated by spending decades as their prisoner.

Despite this fatal flaw, Megatron did not achieve his dreaded status through simple warmongering. He's a manipulative, cunning strategist who can plan [[Ark (DOTM)|multiple]] [[Star Harvester|schemes]] spanning millennia, and while they may overlap, they all help him towards his one, true goal: the restoration of Cybertron. For all his evils, Megatron genuinely strives to save his home planet some day, and with it, the [[Transformer|Cybertronian race]]: even if it means he has to rule it with his iron fist and put his bloodlust to good use to do so.

He sometimes goes by the name '''C-81'''.

{{quote|You still fight for the weak! That is why ''you lose!''|Megatron to Optimus|[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]}}

==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The five movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}
====2007 ''Transformers'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[José Santa Cruz]] (Brazil), [[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German) [[Luca Biagini]] (Italian), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:Movie2007 Megatron ArchibaldWitwicky.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Oh baby, you know just the spot to turn me on!]]

Megatron eventually succeeded in tracking the AllSpark to [[Earth]], where he rather embarrassingly crash-landed in the Arctic Circle and was frozen solid for thousands of years. In [[1897]], some 100 Earth-years before the arrival of the other Transformers, he was discovered by an explorer named [[Archibald Witwicky|Archibald Amundsen Witwicky]]. Captain Witwicky accidentally activated Megatron's navigation system and caused the coordinates of the AllSpark to be etched onto the explorer's glasses. Megatron remained imprisoned in the Arctic until the 1930s, when he was dug out by the United States government and moved to a secret [[Sector Seven]] stronghold inside [[Hoover Dam]]. In the years that followed, many modern devices (by Earth standards) were reverse-engineered from his frozen body.

[[File:Movie Megatron breakout.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Mace isn't for spraying, it's for hitting.]]

In the present day, having searched the galaxy for the AllSpark and being drawn to Earth, the remaining Decepticons learned of Witwicky's glasses. Through the Internet, they determined the location of both Megatron and the AllSpark inside Hoover Dam. [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] infiltrated the dam and shut down the power systems, while Starscream attacked the external powerlines, resulting in Megatron's thawing out. Once again online, the leader of the Decepticons informed the worthless insects of his true name, shouting "I am Megatron!" (to clear up all that N.B.E.-01/Ice Man nonsense), randomly killed a few of them while destroying his former prison, then transformed and flew off after the AllSpark again. He met up with Starscream for the first time in thousands of years on the outside, and, never one for pleasantries, immediately demanded to know where the Cube was. Upon learning that the humans had moved the AllSpark, Megatron berated Starscream for yet another failure.

[[File:Movie2007 Megatron Starscream.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|You fail me yet again Starscream... will I ever meet [[Starscream (SG)|a Starscream that is truly loyal?]]]]

After Starscream and Devastator's opening attacks in [[Mission City]], Megatron arrived, and again declared his name (he really wants people to know who he is). The Autobots were so panicked by the sight of their long lost nemesis that [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] called for a temporary retreat. Megatron blasted [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] backwards when the diminutive Autobot attempted to attack, then threw him into the air before crushing him on top of a tower with his clawed talons. Jazz valiantly fought on, asking if Megatron wanted a "piece" of him, but doing little damage to the Decepticon leader. Megatron viciously killed the Autobot by tearing him in half, callously declaring that he wanted "two".

[[File:Movie Megatron jetmode cityfight.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Whoa, that energon's not settling too well.]]

As [[Sam Witwicky|the human boy]] ran off with the AllSpark, Megatron ordered the Decepticons to [[Decepticons, attack|attack]]. Devastator attacked the armed insects, while Starscream and [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] fought [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and Ratchet for the AllSpark. At that moment, Optimus Prime appeared and challenged Megatron. Millennia in the ice had done nothing to lessen the animosity Megatron felt for his brother, however. Barely managing to growl out Prime's name, he transformed and flew at Prime at full speed. The Autobot leader leapt and grabbed a hold of Megatron, who slammed him into a building before flying right through a skyscraper. Both leaders landed in the middle of an intersection, but Megatron was the first to recover and leaped upon his brother, snarling that the humans were undeserving of life. Optimus Prime replied that they had the right to choose for themselves. Hearing this, the snarling Megatron tossed Optimus aside. Megatron declared that if Prime wished to defend them, he should "join them in extinction", forming his [[fusion cannon]]. Before he could fire, the Autobot leader drew his [[ion blaster]] and fired, hitting Megatron. The Decepticon leader shrugged off this attack, spun around from the momentum and fired his cannon, sending Optimus Prime flying into the side of a building.

[[File:Movie Megatron Samonroof.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Oh look I found a stray human... wonder if I can keep him as a pet... come on boy, don't be scared. I'll take you to a new home.]]

Megatron pursued the young human who had removed the AllSpark from Hoover Dam, destroying everything that stood in his way. The boy ran to a dilapidated building that was the designated coordinates for a human military evacuation team, and Megatron smashed his way through, yelling that he could smell the human maggot. Starscream destroyed the helicopter intended to take the AllSpark, and Megatron burst through the floor, inquiring if it was courage or fear that compelled him. Finally cornering him on a ledge, Megatron offered that if the human gave him the AllSpark, the boy might live as [[Ravage (G1)|his]] [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet]]. The Decepticon leader relished the human's defiant refusal and destroyed the ledge the human was standing upon, sending the boy tumbling to the ground.

[[File:Movie2007 Prime Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Get up, so I can knock you back down!]]

Unfortunately, the human was caught by Optimus Prime, who then tried to escape down the side of the building before Megatron tackled him and sent all three slamming into the pavement. As a nearby [[Michael Bay|human bystander]] attempted to crawl away, the Decepticon expressed his disgust at the insect's proximity and flicked it away. Protecting the young boy, Prime declared that their war would end here and it was now just between the two brothers. Though lusting for the AllSpark, Megatron decided to indulge his brother's obvious death wish, declaring that only he was in this fight. Despite Optimus Prime's best efforts, Megatron was relentless, matching the Autobot leader with blow after devastating blow until he collapsed. Adding insult to injury, Megatron informed Prime that his defense of the "weak" was the real reason he lost.

[[File:Megatron allspark merge.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb| The AllSpark will give you sparkburn!]]

The Decepticon leader turned his attention back to the human boy, but was suddenly attacked by the human fighter jets and [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]]'s ground soldiers firing sabot rounds. Optimus took this chance, striking Megatron and knocking him down. His armor a damaged, shattered mess, Megatron ignored the punishment and focused on the human boy, growling that he would kill the boy and that the AllSpark was his. As Optimus Prime ordered the boy to place the AllSpark into his chest, the human instead pushed it into the now-exposed [[spark]] in Megatron's chest, overloading him with energy and extinguishing the Decepticon's life force. As Optimus Prime stood over Megatron's lifeless shell, watching the light flicker out of his brother's [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optics]], he remarked somberly, yet remorsefully, that Megatron had left him no choice, and removed a shard of the AllSpark from his brother's spark core.

Megatron's body was dumped into the [[Laurentian Abyss]] at its deepest point, along with the remains of the other Decepticons, where the near-freezing temperatures would, hopefully, keep them dormant indefinitely. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]],” “[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]],” and "[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"; the "[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; the activity book "[[Look and Find Transformers]]"; and the storybooks “[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]],” “[[Transformers (interactive Play-a-Sound Storybook)|Transformers Play-a-Sound]],” "[[Meet the Autobots]]," "[[Meet the Decepticons]]," "[[Transformers Mix & Match]]" and "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]."}}
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====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japan)|[[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German), [[José Santa Cruz]] (Brazil) [[Luca Biagini]] (Italian), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:ROTFMegatronRising.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Now, where's Starscream? I want to give him a piece of my mind.]]

Megatron's death would not last long, however. [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] tapped into a conversation between [[NEST]] and General [[Morshower]], listening to Director [[Theodore Galloway]] mention that 1) a shard of the [[AllSpark]] was in storage in [[Diego Garcia]] and 2) Megatron's body lay in the [[Laurentian Abyss]]. [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] was sent to steal the shard, and swam to the Abyss with [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]], [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]], [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]], [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]] and [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)|Scrapmetal]]. Scalpel ordered spare parts be used to repair Megatron's body with "ze little one", who was torn apart by his larger brethren, and then struck Megatron with the shard: the Decepticon leader was reborn as a Cybertronian tank with flight capabilities and a [[death-lock pincer]]. Megatron flew up to the surface, striking a [[USS Topeka|submarine]] on his way, before journeying into space to find the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]''.

[[File:TheFallen-ROTFNemesis.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"My Master, I have fai--" "I'm trying to watch the game here!"]]

On the ruined ship, Megatron met up with [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and chastised his subordinate for leaving him to die on Earth. Starscream defended his actions by saying that he had to take care of the [[hatchling]]s, who were dying without [[energon]], as someone had to take command in Megatron's absence. Furious, Megatron bashed Starscream into a wall containing protoform sacks, and told Starscream that even in death, there is no command but Megatron's. Megatron met up with [[The Fallen]], who was weakened and in a life support chair. Megatron told his master he had failed and allowed the AllSpark to be destroyed, but The Fallen told Megatron that the knowledge of the AllSpark had instead been transferred to the human boy who killed him, [[Sam Witwicky]]. With the knowledge within Sam's mind, they could find another energon source, hidden away from The Fallen eons ago. Already eager to avenge himself, Megatron begged The Fallen for the chance to strip the flesh from Sam, but The Fallen asked for patience. Before they could act, Megatron was to kill [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], who was the last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] and the only one that could defeat the Fallen. Megatron knew that Optimus would protect the boy, and ordered him captured.

[[File:ROTF Megatron tank mode.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Don't blink. He isn't like this much.]]

Megatron sprang a trap, dispatching [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]] to take [[Sam Witwicky]], [[Mikaela Banes]] and [[Leo Spitz]] to him at an abandoned factory. Although Megatron would have rather killed Sam slowly and painfully, Sam had valuable information as to the energon source's location in his mind, which he had received from his own AllSpark fragment. Megatron held the boy down while Scalpel performed several invasive probes of Sam's mind. Scalpel's probes confirmed The Fallen's claims, and Scalpel declared that they needed Sam's brain on the table, something Megatron had no objections to. Just as Scalpel was ready to dissect Sam's brain, Optimus and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] burst in to rescue the humans. Megatron attempted to attack Optimus, but was shot out of the factory as he pounced. Optimus drove Sam to a forest, with Megatron in hot pursuit. The Autobot and Decepticon leaders transformed and battled as Sam fled. Optimus was pretty easily dominating the fight, trash talking Megatron all the while, eventually forcing Megatron to call his Decepticons for help.

[[File:ROTFPrimePunch.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Body or face, Megatron?" "Not the face!" "Too bad!"]]

Starscream and Grindor immediately arrived to aid their commander. Megatron told Optimus that Sam could lead them to another energon source, then counterattacked his foe, kicking off Prime's [[mouthplate]] and blasting him backwards. Appearing to have a slight advantage, Megatron taunted the Autobot leader, asking if one boy was worth the future of the Cybertronians. Prime replied that he'd never stop at killing just one, then took on all three Decepticons. Surprisingly, he was winning, punching and stabbing Megatron multiple times, ripping off Starscream's right arm, and tearing Grindor apart. However, as a weary Prime tried to find Sam, Megatron [[Death-lock pincer|stabbed]] him in the back and blasted through his spark: Prime fell, mortally wounded. As Megatron moved for the boy, the rest of the Autobots arrived and provided enough cover for Bumblebee to spirit Sam away. Already injured from the battle with Prime, Megatron and Starscream were forced to retreat.

[[File:ROTF movie MegatronStarscream roofchat.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|"That's IT! No more Mr. Nice Megatron!" "But you were never—" "SHUT UP!"]]

With Prime dead, Megatron was quite pleased, until Starscream informed him that the boy had escaped. Furious, Megatron smacked his lieutenant with his own severed arm and ran his treads on him for a moment for losing track of a single insect, but Starscream countered that he was one of seven billion, and could be anywhere. Considering the situation, Megatron decided it was time to end their secret war, and that if they couldn't find the boy, they'd have the humans bring him to the Decepticons. Soundwave used his scanning abilities to locate the boys parents, the rejuvenated Fallen broadcast a message to deliver Sam to them across the planet. Megatron himself broadcasted the Fallen's message by rewiring the [[Empire State Building]]'s radio tower.

[[File:ROTFMegatronSam.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Hey, he stole my purse! Wallet! I mean wallet!]]

He then flew to [[Egypt]], where nineteen thousand years before, the Fallen had built a [[Star Harvester]] to harness the [[Sun]] for energon. Starscream informed him that the human soldiers had brought Prime's body with them, and Megatron surmised the boy's intentions. Commanding the rest of the Decepticons to begin their [[Operation: Firestorm|assault]], Megatron ordered [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] to destroy the pyramid that was built over the harvester, while he himself chased Sam for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which would activate the harvester. Megatron almost killed Sam, but was overwhelmed by human gunfire, and flew off.

[[File:ROTF Megatron not over.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.4|It's just a flesh wound. Err, armor wound.]]

Fortunately, The Fallen managed to take the Matrix and activate the harvester, but it had already been used to resurrect Optimus. Optimus combined with [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] and destroyed the harvester, knocking Megatron off the pyramid while Prime went for The Fallen. Quickly recovering, Megatron came to the aid of his master and attacked Optimus from behind. After a brief but brutal tussle, Optimus used Megatron's own cannon to blast half his face off, and then severed the Decepticon's right arm. Finally, Optimus used his afterburners to send Megatron flying through some ruins, ending his role in the battle. Badly damaged, Megatron called out for "Tharscweam!" in agony, but it soon mattered little as Optimus Prime killed the Fallen. Horrified at the demise of his master, Megatron acknowledged Starscream's advice that they should flee, but vowed that "This isn't over." {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]],” “[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]” and “[[The Last Prime]]"; the “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]],” “[[Rise of the Decepticons]],” “[[When Robots Attack!]],” "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]," "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Electronic Voice Changer]]" and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]." Several include an abandoned plot point from the film, in which The Fallen has promised to make Megatron a Prime in return for his services, only for this to be exposed as a lie by Optimus during the final battle (since Primes are born, not made), leading Megatron to abandon his master.}}
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====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin American Spanish)}}

{{quote|Cybertron... you are saved, at last.|Megatron|[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]}}

[[File:Dotm-megatron-face.jpg|left|thumb|250 px|[[Doctor Doom|Curse you]], [[Fantastic Four]]!]]

Three years after Operation: Firestorm and the death of the Fallen, Megatron finally adopted an Earth form - ironically, a large tractor-trailer not unlike that of his most hated enemy - and hid out in the plains of Namibia, Africa, in exile. There, still visibly bearing the scars of his battle with Optimus Prime, he spent most of his time sitting on a ramshackle throne of junk, with only [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (DOTM)|Laserbeak]], and the diminutive [[Igor]] to command. Megatron regularly went out to find food for the [[Hatchling]]s that lived in a collection of oil drums at the camp, occasionally scaring the local wildlife with his roaring and bellowing. Starscream expressed his concern for his master's wounds, but Megatron was not fooled by his sucking up. Laserbeak returned after observing [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]'s fight with Optimus, and he and Soundwave told Megatron that the Autobots had discovered a fuel cell from the Ark, which had been thought lost. Megatron noted his approval of the two's work, and decided that the humans that were working for them had served their purpose, and ordered them to be eliminated.

[[File:DOTM-MegatronLincolnMemorialchair.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Finally, a reference to "[[Atlantis, Arise!]]"]]
After [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] betrayed the Autobots, Megatron and Starscream travelled to Washington D.C., where Megatron outlined his scheme to his second-in-command. Apparently, Sentinel was supposed to rendezvous with Megatron there on Earth, but the circumstances caused them both to be deactivated, and Sentinel was the only one who knew how to activate the [[space bridge]]. However, Megatron had a contingency plan: since they already had the pillars on the Moon and Optimus had recovered the Matrix of Leadership, he merely needed Optimus to revive Sentinel, so he could activate the pillars. And so arrived that moment, and Megatron blasted President Lincoln off his stone throne, and used the remains as a seat. Optimus arrived to stop Sentinel but was too late. Megatron watched this happen, after which he declared, "Here we are. Fight us ''now''."

[[File:DOTM-SentinelandMegatron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Megatron just needs to crash on Sentinel's couch for a few days until he can get back on his feet.]]

Soon, they travelled to Chicago, Illinois, where Sentinel and Megatron planned to start their global takeover. They set up their base of operations on the [[wikipedia:35 East Wacker|Jewelers' Building]]. Human [[Dylan Gould]], who was working for the Decepticons, came with [[Carly Spencer]] to watch, but Megatron ordered him to leave. Dylan did so but muttered to Carly "he's such a dick". After the Decepticons successfully occupied Chicago, Megatron stated that this was the world that he promised, that this way Cybertron would be restored. Sentinel, feeling his partner was getting too chummy, violently reminded Megatron of his place; Sentinel did not work ''for'' Megatron, he worked ''with'' Megatron, and warned the Decepticon to remember the difference.

Much later, Dylan shouted to Megatron that the Autobots, who were seemingly destroyed by Starscream, were still alive. Megatron ordered the bridges to be raised and all [[Orbital Assault Carrier|Decepticon fighter ships]] to find the Autobots.

[[File:DOTM off with his head.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Insert your own "Give me your face" joke here.]]
Sentinel would take control of the Decepticon forces in the fight against the Autobots, and so, as the battle raged Megatron lay on another throne of junk, sulking, though his spirit was suitably lifted as Cybertron appeared in the sky above. That is until [[Carly Spencer]] approached him and mocked that Sentinel had apparently usurped him. Megatron denied this and maintained that he would rule. As Carly pushed him further, he prepared to crush the Human for daring to speak so defiantly to him, but paused, realizing how far he had fallen from power within the past few years, and decided to once again take his rightful place at the top of the command chain. That is what he came close to doing; just as Sentinel was about to deal the fatal blow to Optimus, Megatron attacked and severely wounded Sentinel. Meanwhile, the Autobots destroyed the control pillar, thus destroying the space bridge and presumably Cybertron with it. Seeing this, Megatron offered Optimus a truce, as long he could remain in charge of the Decepticons. "After all," he asked, "Who would you be without me, Prime?" Prime's response was to announce that it was "Time to find out," as he promptly tore Megatron's head from his shoulders with his axe, finally killing the tyrant. Optimus then used his nemesis' fusion shotgun to end Sentinel's life as well. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]” and “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel]]”; the “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks “[[Autobots Versus Decepticons]],” "[[The Lost Autobot]]," "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," “[[Bumblebee's Best Friend]],” "[[Dark of the Moon: Action Pop-ups!]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mix & Match]]." The novelization and comic adaptation feature an alternate ending in which Optimus accepts Megatron's offer of a truce and Megatron and the remaining Decepticons are allowed to leave.}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
:''See: [[Galvatron (AOE)]]
[[File:Megatron Head at KSI.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Aw, look at that, the humans wiped off all the rust! And wasn't my face split in two?]]
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Ryūzaburō Ōtomo]] (Japanese)|[[Mario Arvizu]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Mario Bombardieri]] (Italian)}}
Unknown to all, Megatron's mind actually survived his destruction, and was in a stasis inside his severed head. A few years after the Chicago war, Megatron's remains were acquired by KSI, who forced [[Brains]] to transfer data from the Decepticon leader's brain to the man-made Transformer [[Galvatron (AOE)|Galvatron]]. Unknown to all except Brains, Megatron was secretly influencing the creation of Galvatron to serve as a new body for himself, as well as making it possible for him to take control of all the other KSI drones once his body was complete. Brains declined to notify his captors of any of this, because seriously, ''screw'' those guys. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====''The Last Knight'' film====
{{coming soon|when=23 June 2017}}

===IDW movie comics===
During the dark age of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after the fall of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], Megatron became a follower of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Sentinel recovered the [[AllSpark]], and planned to transport a sun to repower it and the rest of Cybertron. The [[Thetacon (tribe)|Thetacon]]s, who believed Sentinel to be a mad heretic, launched an attack on the AllSpark's facility. Megatron, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]], [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] and [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] fended off the Thetacons when Sentinel and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] successfully transported a star to Cybertron. The Thetacons laid down their arms, but Megatron resented that so many of his comrades had died before Cybertron's new dawn, and it was only by Optimus's persuasion that Megatron found it within himself to forgive his enemies and shake the Thetacon [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]'s hand. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1}}

That evening, Megatron eavesdropped on a conversation between Sentinel and Optimus. Sentinel claimed Optimus was also a Prime, and intended to make him the new ruler of Cybertron. Optimus refused, unable to accept he was a Prime and somehow superior to his comrades. The next day, Megatron grumbled to Shockwave that if he were Optimus, he would have accepted Sentinel's offer. They came across a [[Driller]] attacking a [[hatchling]] field trip, and successfully shot the creature to pieces. Megatron asked for the name of the Cybertronian who volunteered to guard the hatchlings: his name was [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]].

Three days later at the capital city of [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]], Sentinel Prime officially declared Cybertron's unification, and announced the planet would be governed by Optimus's [[Science Division]], and Megatron's [[Defense Force]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2}} For two generations, Optimus and Megatron ruled Cybertron successfully, creating a balance of fair and firm leadership. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} When [[Malcontent]] activity increased on Cybertron, Megatron met with Optimus and requested supreme authority in protecting the planet. Optimus obliged. Megatron then requested to be called [[Lord High Protector]] and to be addressed as "sir". {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}}

[[File:Defiance1 Megs Prime argument.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|"Know your place, boy!"]]

After Commander Starscream returned from his patrol in the [[Eshems Nebula]], Optimus was reporting on his science sector's continuing excavation of the site near [[Simfur Temple]] and the unusual pulse waves that the AllSpark had been emitting ever since work began. At the excavation site, while Optimus' scientists were concerned with disturbing the ancient artifacts, all Megatron cared about was whether these relics might provide the same revitalising energy as the AllSpark. He was nettled when Optimus asserted the sector's dominion over all scientific and archaeological discoveries and reminded his junior that it was his defence force that protected this world, demanding to be informed of all possible threats from the excavation's findings. When Optimus dared to remind Megatron of the military's treatment of such discoveries as hostile, Megatron told Optimus that when ''he'' tried to be the leader of Cybertron, he could make those decisions, not ''now''. When a mysterious relic was discovered, Megatron ordered it removed at once, a demand that Optimus disagreed with. Just as the pair were about to launch into another argument, Cybertron fell under attack from Nebula inhabitants. Megatron had the relic quickly moved to his quarters under the guise of protecting it from the invaders. Arriving to find [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] seeking cover within the temple of Simfur, Megatron chastised their alleged lack of courage before he was hit by an alien tank vehicle. After destroying it, he told Starscream to keep Optimus' team out of the military's way and staggered back to his quarters in Trypticon. Drawn towards the relic, he ignored his injuries and scraped away at the layers of debris encrusting it before losing consciousness. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}}

[[File:Defiance2 Megatron warrally.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Mein Führer!]]

The relic used what little power it had left to repair Megatron's wounds. At first Megatron was angry, demanding the being to show himself to the Protector of all Cybertron. The relic explained that it was unable to do so without Megatron's help, and ''if'' he helped, the relic would truly make him '''Lord''' of Cybertron. The relic then fired beams of energy into Megatron's mind (turning his white optic sensors red), explaining what needed to be done, filling him with delusions of grandeur. When Optimus came looking for the Protector, Megatron had changed; he had become even more aggressive in his speech and demeanor, and what's more, he demanded Optimus gather his scientists to go to war. When Optimus explained the sector was not combat-trained, Megatron shot back that the scientists should have known what the aliens were after: the AllSpark. Optimus refused, stating that the army's mission was of defense, and it went against everything their society was based upon to exacerbate war. Megatron slammed Optimus into the wall and stated that their society then needed to ''change''. He held a massive saber-rattling war rally outside Trypticon, demanding vengeance upon the alien aggressors. He claimed that until the war ended, he would assume full control of the military, and everybody would answer only to him. Megatron ordered all flight-capable Cybertronians accompany him to the Eshems Nebula, where they launched a surprise attack against the still-unknown aliens. Megatron fought his way inside the alien flagship and personally executed the alien leader. He then ordered Starscream and his units to conduct a war of genocide: ''none'' of the aliens were to survive. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[File:Defiance3 wearenowDECEPTICONS.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.]]

Megatron returned from the front with news of their success and awaited further instructions from his master. The relic ordered Megatron to prepare the way for his return by expanding the army, and at the end, Cybertron would be Megatron's, while everything else the master's. Megatron was enraged when the relic informed him that Optimus had snooped inside his quarters while he was fighting the aliens, and convinced the Protector that Optimus was after the same power the relic had promised ''him''. Now seeing that there were "enemies" within Cybertron as well as without, Megatron arranged to have the "traitors" taken care of by ordering [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]]'s security team to arrest Optimus, and sent Starscream's soldiers to kill all bar Optimus. However, Megatron underestimated Optimus, who personally defeated Starscream's squad. Nonetheless, he used the survivors as propaganda that treacherous malcontents sought to betray them all, and declared that Megatron's followers would now be reformed under a new image and a new name: '''Decepticons'''. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}} He ordered the execution of the "false" Primes — though he knew Sentinel and Optimus were Primes, he needed to give his followers a villain. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}}

Optimus's forces having eluded him for now, Megatron was given new orders by his master: build a [[Nemesis (ROTF)|mighty starship]] that would scour the stars for something very important to the relic's plans. The relic counseled Megatron to not make the same mistakes he did thousands of years ago, that his protege should strike without mercy or hesitation. The relic told Megatron the story of his mighty race, and how the AllSpark granted them great power and created the Transformer race, but it needed to be recharged by draining the power of a sun using specially-constructed [[Star Harvester|harvesting]] devices, and their under-construction starship would be used to search for the last harvester in the galaxy. When Megatron presumed to believe he would accompany his master, he was rebuked and punished. Much later, the ''Nemesis'' was finally completed, and Megatron assigned [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] to command the ship. The relic praising Megatron for his fine work, and ordered him to stay behind to continue the war. Over the next thousand years, the Autobots and Decepticons clashed in a bloody struggle. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

As Cybertron was devastated by the worsening war, Sentinel Prime was forced to make a deal with Megatron to seek out another planet whose resources they can exploit to restore their homeworld. The chosen planet was the resting place of the Primes' Star Harvester. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}{{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 3}}

Ironhide led an attack on Simfur Temple. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} Megatron stood at the gate and slaughtered many Autobots as Elita-One and [[Chromia (ROTF)|her]] [[Arcee (Movie)|sisters]] used the AllSpark to activate a "torch" made by Sentinel. Optimus finally appeared to fend off Megatron and ensure Elita-One escaped to give Sentinel the torch. Sentinel boarded the [[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]] with the torch to retrieve Optimus from Simfur, but to both Optimus and Megatron's horror, Starscream attacked the Ark, destroying it. The Autobots fled, but Megatron correctly deduced Optimus would return with a vengeance. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}} From his [[Lord High Protector citadel|citadel]], Megatron watched as Optimus and Ironhide battled their way through his defenses. When Optimus finally entered the tower, he found Megatron covered in hatchlings and daring him to kill them with him, gloating that Optimus would never go far enough. Optimus revealed he didn't: it had all been a distraction as Wheeljack, Chromia and Arcee stole the AllSpark aboard a second [[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]. With the AllSpark removed from Sentinel's device, the sun it held in place disappeared. Optimus escaped, rescuing Ironhide from Starscream and Shockwave while leaving Megatron to free himself of his hungry hatchlings. Megatron swore he would recover the AllSpark, and that if he would have to travel across the entire universe to do so, he would kill every Autobot. {{storylink|Transformers: Foundation|Foundation #1-4}}

[[File:Movie Megatron Targetcomic sure.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|"Sit, boy — or I'll beat you to death."]]

During an assault on the Autobots personally led by Megatron and his hound, [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], the tyrant crushed an Autobot opponent's spark before casually tossing his corpse over his shoulder. He declared that the AllSpark would be his again, to which Blackout assured his leader that he would personally see to it. Megatron was pleased by his minion's loyalty, but decided to dispatch him to assist Starscream's unit to prevent Optimus Prime's reinforcements from entering [[Tyger Pax]]. He then left to meet his destiny, but it slipped from his grasp; Prime had commissioned the AllSpark to be launched into the abyss of outer space. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall}}

[[File:MovieMegatron Bumblebee torture comic.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Better get some ice on that.]]
After realizing Bumblebee had stalled him from claiming the Cube so the operation could be completed, Megatron tore off Bumblebee's arm—removing his weapon—and crushed his voice box, destroying his vocal processors so that the young Autobot would never speak of the affront to his destiny. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 1|The Reign of Starscream #1}} Megatron, believing Prime to be a desperate, inexperienced fool, gave chase. On the way, he detected the ''Nemesis's'' distress signal and soon found the mighty starship on a barren world, abandoned by all but his master. Megatron was berated for allowing the Cube to slip away from his grasp and ordered to thoroughly continue his chase. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} As Megatron tracked the AllSpark through space, he mused about his reasons for the war and how he and his "brother" were not all that different, as seen by Optimus' sentencing their home to a slow death by launching the Cube into space. Tracing the AllSpark via energy signature to [[Earth|a primitive world]], he lost contact with it upon atmospheric entry and crashed into the planet's icy northern pole. Low on [[energon]], his safety buffers exhausted, Megatron went into [[stasis lock]].

[[File:MoviePrequel2-Megatrondownfall.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"I HAVE WALKED INTO THIS!"]]

Millennia later, in the year [[1897]], [[Archibald Witwicky]], the leader of the National Arctic Circle Expedition, discovered Megatron buried deep in the ice. Accidentally triggering Megatron's navigation system, Witwicky was blinded by a burst of light from the Decepticon leader's eyes, which imprinted the location of the AllSpark on his [[glasses]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Witwicky was subsequently driven insane by the experience, and upon his return to land, became the subject of attention by the United States government, who recruited adventurers [[Walter Simmons]] and [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] to investigate his fantastic claims. Simmons, Wells and their group followed Witwicky's route back to the Arctic, arriving early [[1898]], where they discovered Megatron's frozen body, and like Witwicky before them, inadvertently activated one of his systems upon entry into the cave, bringing him partially back on-line. The energy pulse this released caught the attention of [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], a [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]] abandoned on Earth by The Fallen, who quickly made his way to the Arctic, believing that The Fallen himself was the source of the pulse. Discovering the truth, Jetfire angrily informed Megatron that he has never heard of him, and punched him in the face. Simmons and Wells's group subsequently used explosives to send Jetfire punging into the freezing ocean; Megatron, too, was submerged, but jut before the cold overwhelmed him and he shut down again, he weakly proclaimed his name, which Simmons mis-heard as "Mega-Man". {{storylink|Original}} Simmons's organization set about constructing an environment dome around Megatron so he could be excavated and studied, which was completed in [[1899]]. Then, in [[1902]], the group discovered the AllSpark in the Colorado River, and quickly drew a correlation between it and their frozen "Mega-Man" because of the similar symbols that they were both decorated with. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}}

Eventually naming itself [[Sector Seven]] and arranging construction of the [[Hoover Dam]] to contain the AllSpark, the group initially planned to move Megatron to the dam as well in [[1935]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}} Unfortunately, some delays in the installation of the cryo-block system that would keep Megatron frozen delayed the planned move, however, and the outbreak of [[World War II]] put it on permanent hold. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}} It was in [[1954]] when Sector Seven definitively learned that they could not trust the Arctic cold to keep Megatron frozen when Communist sabotage of the organization's Arctic command post caused the Decepticon leader to thaw out, threatening the lives of the skeleton crew manning the base. Walter Simmons called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the base, freezing Megatron solid once more only minutes after he awoke. {{storylink|Frozen}} In [[1969]], Megatron was at last transferred from the Arctic to the Hoover Dam headquarters. as Walter Simmons stayed looking at him. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}}

In the aftermath of the battle in Mission City, [[Sector Seven]] hauled away Megatron's corpse along with the other Decepticon bodies. The clandestine human organisation brought the bodies to a secret facility in the Nevada desert, with the intention of getting every bit of information they can out of the dead Decepticons before they were forced to dump them into the sea. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1}} When he arrived to oversee the burial of those who fell in Mission City, Optimus Prime noticed the surviving AllSpark fragment glowed when near Megatron's body, and gave it to [[Vine|Professor Vine]] for safekeeping. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2}} Weeks later, Megatron, along with Blackout, was dumped into the Laurentian Abyss. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

Later, after Megatron's machinations with The Fallen were undone by Optimus and his Autobots, Megatron freed Shockwave, whose inactive body had been captured by humans much as his had been. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} He sent out Shockwave to retrieve Starscream, who had clandestinely begun dealing Cybertronian weaponry to humans. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 1|Rising Storm #1}} As he waited, Megatron fumed about Optimus Prime's past decision to send out the AllSpark into space, internally justifying to himself all his past deeds as necessary evils in the face of Optimus's own transgressions against their species. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} While Shockwave and Starscream did their parts in Megatron's scheme, Megatron stayed behind in Nambia, teaching the hatchlings under his care to recognize the image of Optimus Prime, presumably to know him as their enemy. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

When Starscream dared to question Megatron's latest scheme, the Decepticon leader took out his frustration by pummeling his underling, reminding him to always remember his place in the Decepticon hierarchy. Fed up with being pushed around, Starscream shoved Megatron back and took to the air. Megatron didn't bother to pursue, as he knew that one way or another, Starscream would always return to him. {{storylink|Transformers: Starscream}}
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====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

===Titan movie comics===
[[File:MegatronMovie GeoffSenior.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|''The Beast and its armies shall rise from the pit to make war against God.'']]

Even as [[Lord High Protector]], {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} Megatron was scheming to take power of Cybertron and worlds beyond. He believed the Transformers could gain ultimate power via the All Spark, power to reshape their [[alternate mode]]s into anything they imagined. Breaking all Cybertronian laws, he made direct contact with the All Spark to test his theory and found himself with a mighty new alternate mode. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4|Megatron V. Optimus Prime}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Megatron Profile}} War was declared and Megatron's army of Decepticons swept the planet.

Ratchet tried to negotiate a peace and was almost murdered by Megatron in the process. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3|Ratchet Profile}} When [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] fought injustices outside of any faction, Megatron personally made an example of her. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Arcee bio}}

To stop Megatron getting the AllSpark, the Autobots tricked him into looking for it at [[Tyger Pax]] {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} while they launched towards the [[Alkaris Anomaly]], a wormhole that could potentially transport the cube to any one of an infinite number of locations in the universe. Megatron, noticing the launch, was fully capable of catching up to the cube before it would enter the wormhole, but as he passed Cybertron's moon, he found himself ensnared by an Autobot tractor beam of remarkable strength that pulled him down to the moon's surface.

Megatron was able to create a drone unit capable of zeroing in on Optimus Prime's unique energy matrix signature within his spark core. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prelude: Optimus Prime}}

Enraged by the ignominy of it all, Megatron turned his weapons on the Autobots responsible, but quickly calmed down enough to realize that this was only playing into their hands, and instead ordered [[Brawl (Movie)|Devastator]] to take his place in the battle. Megatron swooped back into space, hot on the AllSpark's heels, but was unable to stop the cube from falling through the anomaly. Determined to have the AllSpark's power, Megatron chose to enter the wormhole himself, only to be spat out in some far-off star system, with no trace of the AllSpark... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Prelude: Megatron}}

Megatron entered the [[Solar System]], where he freed [[The Fallen]] from his pocket dimension prison on one of [[Saturn]]'s moons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|The Fallen's profile}}

{{note|This leads into [[Movie Prequel issue 2|''Movie Prequel'' #2]].}}

Even when Megatron was missing in action, the idea he might come back was enough to stop [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] from killing Decepticons who'd ticked him off. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.1|Adrift in Space and Time}} The only exception was [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] but in early 2011, Megatron (with [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] was his catspaw) attacked and defeated this upstart. None of Bludgeon's men ''dared'' mess with Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson!}}

====Alternate timeline====
In [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma|another reality]], Megatron defeated Optimus at [[Mission City]], killed Sam Witwicky and took control of the AllSpark. He was fully linked to it and drew on its power—"It is me and I am it!"—giving him greater might and the ability to heal any wound. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}}

After conquering an unknown chunk of Earth (including the entire [[United States of America]]) with [[Dropkick]] as his second-in-command, he used the AllSpark's power to start turning Earth from an organic world into a new Cybertron. Optimus Prime lay frozen in the [[Hoover Dam|old Sector Seven base]], Autobot resistance was scattered, and NATO's threat to nuke occupied America was hardly much of one. [[File:Megatron Bumbleslap.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|"''Sigh'' Even mindless violence seems boring today..."]] The only thing bothering Megatron was those rebels breaking into Hoover Dam... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

Megatron personally arrived to face [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and hunted for him, trying to bait him into appearing. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}} Realising the Autobot must have come with a human ally, he deliberately threatened to go after the human and thus got an emotional Bumblebee to make a defiant attack... at which point he backhanded Bumblebee into the wall and prepared to eviscerate him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 11|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3}} He gave the Autobot a chance at a swift death if he begged for mercy, and was quite impressed when Bumblebee merely asked "that all you got?", but was less impressed when Autobot reinforcements arrived. [[File:Megatron Titan12.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|Megatron's BDSM Dungeon just wasn't meeting expectations.]] He effortlessly smashed them aside and was about to kill [[Skyblast (Movie)|Skyblast]] when a new challenger arrived: the revived Optimus! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}}

Optimus Prime got the snot beaten out of him, every attack he landed on Megatron being repaired by AllSpark power. However, he distracted Megatron long enough for Bumblebee to hit him with the ''other'' thing they'd broken into the Dam for: Sector Seven's greatest weapon, a nanovirus that targeted AllSpark operation frequencies. Infected, the tyrant was consumed from within by his own power and collapsed dead. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

Or so it appeared. He'd downloaded his mind into the AllSpark interface module, knowing Starscream would take it and assimilate it into himself. And so Megatron was able to be a voice in Starscream's head for weeks and weeks—and finally, when Starscream had suffered a setback and wanted a plan to stop the Autobots, Megatron gave him one: to let him out... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

While Starscream didn't, he ''did'' follow Megatron's tactical suggestions. He had the Decepticons use both carrot (promise of truce) ''and'' stick (multiple attacks) to make the US government, prompted by [[Theodore Allen|the mind-controlled President Allen]], boot out the Autobots—and then nuke them as they left, giving the Decepticons a clear shot at reconquest! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution Part 1}} This plan backfired when [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] intervened, and Megatron visited a broken, gibbering Starscream to once again tell him the only way out was to release him and let him walk the Earth again. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Revolution Part 2}}
[[File:Starscreamseesthings Titan25.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|''You're looking throooough me...'']]

This time Starscream ''did''... much to his dismay when he realised what he'd done. And so, when Stockade's New Decepticons stormed the [[Decepticon Heartland]], Megatron was there to "greet" them with fiery death!

Megatron fought Stockade in single combat, and [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]]-fueled punches rained down on him—only for him to ''grab'' a punch and use the momentum to hurl his opponent, berating him for lacking clear ambition to support his strength. This fight would've carried on except then the Autobots turned up. Trashing a rebellion, conquering Earth, ''and'' killing Optimus Prime in one day?! WOOOOO!

But Optimus drew first blood, and before Megatron could truly fight back, he was forcibly teleported with his Decepticons to Cybertron. A dead Cybertron. A dead Cybertron that itself teleported to an unknown area of space, leaving them trapped with no way back and no way off, ''forever''.

{{bigquote|'''PRIIIIIME!'''}}

{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}

===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
"The Ice Man" was kept in deep freeze by [[Sector Seven]] in their super-secret [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base|High Arctic Base]] until they decided to move him closer to the [[Allspark]] in [[1969]]. The convoy was disrupted when the driver of the lead truck spun out causing the rest of the vehicles to pile up on the icy roads. It was determined later that the driver was the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] spy [[Sergei Tasarov]] who had taken the place of the Sector Seven agent Peter Hodgson.

While the convoy prepared their defenses and a Soviet strike force attacked trying to obtain the Ice Man.

When Megatron came partially online, it was obvious that some time had passed. Not only was he encased in a primitive transport, but there were [[Human|lifeforms]] fighting over him. Before Megatron could properly exterminate them, another crude transport crashed into his, causing a massive (but not spark-threatening) explosion. Megatron would have been pleased to know that the fire only added to his terrifying visage in the eyes of the maggots. Regaining his composure, Megatron noticed [[Philip Nolan|an insect]] standing near him. As Megatron reached out to grab it, [[Thomas Kinnear|another insect]], this one terminally damaged, began firing crude projectiles which his body armor easily deflected. Waiting until after the creature had expended its ammunition, Megatron grabbed it in his hand, only to discover that it had packed itself with explosives, which threw Megatron to the ground when they detonated. Then, the aforementioned first insect began spraying liquid nitrogen on Megatron, causing him to go back into stasis. Unable to escape, Megatron screamed a dark vengeance upon his captors. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

===Toy bios===
Megatron was ''born'' evil, always wanting domination of everything. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Voyager Megatron}} His fiery diatribes still managed to sway thousands, however. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Robot Replicas|Robot Replica Megatron}}

At some point, he took a stealth mode so he could attack Optimus without warning. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Battlers|Night Attack Megatron}}

When frozen on Earth, he remained vaguely conscious and remembers a few things from when he warmed up slightly. At one point, his body was worshipped as a god by [[protohuman]]s. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Premium Series Megatron}}

He was blasted into stasis lock by the AllSpark and dumped in the sea, trapped and seething with rage. The Decepticons fixed him using cannibalised parts from themselves but Megatron gave no shits: he just wanted revenge! Now, feeling the AllSpark's power flowing inside him, he had the power to finally destroy Prime! {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 2|Megatron (Voyager)}} {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Leader Class toys 2|Megatron (Leader)}}

In the end, that did nothing and he swapped bodies for a new Blastwave Weapons Base arsenal. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Cyberverse|Blastwave Weapons Base}}

===Beast Wars Diorama Story===
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On Earth in the past and in another universe, a group of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], led by another [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], battled a contingent of [[Maximal]]s in a forest. {{storylink|Optimus Primal Chapter}}

Some time into the battle, a warp opened, bringing with it [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], and [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]. After being defeated by the Maximals, Starscream joined the Predacons. {{storylink|Tigatron Chapter}} [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] later appeared and joined the Predacons, as well. As the battled raged, Megatron came in through the warp. {{storylink|Gimlet Chapter}}

The Decepticon Megatron brought along [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], and the two Megatrons combined their troops into a fearsome force against the Autobots and Maximals. In the ensuing skirmish, Megatron stood on a cliff edge and loomed over the battle. The two factions then took formation against each other with the intention of combining their energies to attack the opposing side. The Predacon Megatron led the combined Predacon/Decepticon force. With [[Motorarm (BWII)|Motorarm]] leading the charge, the Maximals and the Autobots attacked first. {{storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}
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===Cyber Missions===
{{voiceactor|[[Tony Gialluca II]] (English)|[[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
[[File:CyberMissions4 Megatron.JPG|right|thumb|300|You wants a Megatron more ugly?]]

Hiding in a disused factory, Megatron was able to cloak the energy signature of his spark, so that when Optimus and Sideswipe turned up, they didn't notice him hiding under a pile of girders. He was able to get the drop on them and sneeringly mocked them as they fought, until Sideswipe jabbed him in the foot. Optimus suggested he surrender, but Megatron instead transformed to tank mode and brought the roof down on them. By the time the two Autobots recovered, Megatron was gone. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 4}}

Not soon after the encounter, Megatron ordered his subordinate [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] to rendezvous somewhere in the Arctic, and revealed that he knew of his ambition to take over leadership of the Decepticons. However, due to the Autobots tracking Starscream en route to Megatron's location, Optimus Prime appeared not long after. Starscream and Megatron double-teamed Optimus for a brief time before the other members of Optimus's team arrived. Ordering Starscream to deal with the others, Megatron continued to attack. Megatron is soon beaten down and asks his foe if he will finish him, but Optimus grants him mercy and allows him to escape. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}}

Megatron received the energy signature of [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], and tracked him to a bullet train, which he soon stopped dead in its tracks (literally). [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], Starscream, and [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]] soon arrived on the scene. As Megatron attempted to retrieve his fallen communications officer, he discovered that it was in fact a hologram created by [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]], and was a distraction while the Autobots arrived. Megatron once again fought Optimus, who pointed out that Megatron's alliances were merely because of fear, unlike the Autobots' alliances. The human military arrived, and the Decepticons were backed into a corner. Optimus then declared that they leave Earth or face the consequences. The other 'Cons retreated, while Megatron made one final promise to destroy Earth the next time around, and blasted off into space. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===''I Can Read!'' books===
[[File:MegatronandStarsscreamdig-TrainingDay.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.75]]
Megatron's latest scheme to defeat the Autobots was to dig a series of underground tunnels to ambush his enemies wherever they may be. Or, more precisely, his plan was to have Starscream dig the tunnels while Megatron supervised. When the two Decepticons surfaced to attack Optimus, Sideswipe, Bumblebee and Ironhide, they were thwarted despite the element of surprise being on their side. {{storylink|Training Day (book)|Training Day}}
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===''Hunt for the Decepticons'' storybooks===
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Megatron planted a [[New lab assistant|Decepticon spy]] at Sam's university to exploit Optimus's friendship with the boy. He had his agent send a false distress signal to Optimus through Sam's computer, prompting Optimus to arrive alone at the University's science lab. There, Megatron used a supermagnet to lock Optimus in his vehicle mode. Now holding his enemy at a disadvantage, Megatron began to brutalize Optimus Prime. If not for Sam arriving at that moment and turning the supermagnet against Megatron, the Decepticon leader would have surely slain Optimus. With Megatron stuck to the magnet, he was reduced to relying on Starscream's help to be freed while Optimus and Sam escaped his clutches once more. {{storylink|Prime Target (book)|Prime Target}}

Upon witnessing Megatron being defeated by Optimus one too many times, Soundwave concocted a plan to damage the Autobots' reputation in the humans' eyes, whom he blamed for the Decepticons' continued failures. {{storylink|Satellite Meltdown}}
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===''Spot the 'Bots''===
Megatron was hiding in broad daylight behind a tree when Optimus spotted him. Megatron tried to get away in his tank mode, but more Autobots joined the chase. Nonetheless, Megatron managed to make it to an old warehouse, where Starscream and Ravage were waiting for him. The two factions then battled it out for the fate of the Earth! {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Spot the 'Bots}}
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===''Unite for the Universe''===
Megatron entrusted [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] with a mission to steal the fruits of N.E.S.T.'s most recent labor: the Unite Weapons Program. Megatron promised Bludgeon command of his Earth-stationed troops if he succeeded. Starscream protested, claiming that Earth should rightfully be his to command. Megatron dismissed his second-in-command, reminding him that all of Earth was his, and that those under him were little more than stewards to his reign. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}}

Starscream managed to acquire newfound power behind Megatron's back by imitating the human-Autobot alliance's process of recycling fallen Cybertronian bodies into upgrades. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|Bludgeon's Revenge}} The upgrade affected Starscream's mental stability, however, and seeing his subordinate sowing unnecessary destruction, Megatron decided to put an immediate end to his power play. Through [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], he tasked [[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]] and [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] with taking Starscream down, but Starscream proved too powerful for them. Enraged, Megatron headed out to deal with Starscream himself. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}}

Slamming into the battlefield, Megatron warned Starscream that resisting him would only lead to greater suffering on his part. Uncowed, Starscream boasted that nothing could stop him, and the two Decepticons wrestled fiercely, ignoring the nearby Autobots. Optimus and his troops soon stepped in to interfere, prompting Megatron to focus on Optimus instead of the rebellious Decepticon. When Optimus refused to withdraw, as Megatron deemed the fight to be none of his concern, the Decepticon leader called in additional troops to support him. During the chaos, Ratchet managed to burn out Starscream's upgrades, rendering them unsalvageable. With any prize worth fighting for destroyed, Megatron sounded a retreat, vowing that soon he would have his reckoning against the Autobots. {{storylink|The Strongest Weapon}}
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===''The Creation Revoltech!''===
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===''Prepare to Battle'' prequel material===
Long ago, during his search for [[AllSpark]], Megatron knew that the [[Knights of Cybertron]] would stand between him and the AllSpark, so he approached them offering to surrender in return for amnesty, in reality planning to get rid of them. The Knights reluctantly accepted and the entirety of their group arrived for the meeting. Megatron and his forces used this occasion to trap and destroy them.

Centuries later, [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] reported an intercepted transmission from [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]], the last of the Knights. Realizing that Evac represented an era of Cybertron before him, an era he wished to erase, and that he was also after the last shard of the All Spark, Megatron knew the destruction of the Knights and possession of the shard were in his reach. {{storylink|Prepare for Battle (website)}}

===Mega-Mouth===
[[Megatron (WFC)|A certain Megatron]] from an alternate universe seemed to think he was ''this'' Megatron, as he claimed he attacked Sentinel. {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.1#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #1}} He also explained why he wore a cowl in ''Dark of the Moon'', {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.4#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #4}} and claimed that he survived ''Dark of the Moon''... well that Megatron was ''not so wrong'' about the last one... {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.5#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #5}}

===''Cheetos'' comics===
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{{storylink|Cheetos/Transformers: Age of Extinction|Cheetos/''Transformers: Age of Extinction''}}

===''TransTech''===
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In one timeline, moments before Optimus Prime was able to dispatch Megatron after the Decepticons' destruction of Chicago, a mysterious force caused Megatron's position to spontaneously shift. Now finding himself behind his foe, Megatron killed both Optimus and Sentinel Prime. Megatron then proceeded to rebuild his Cybertronian empire, repairing himself bit by bit along the way. Despite Megatron's victory on Earth, a new Autobot leader eventually rose up to challenge him: [[Rodimus (DOTM)|Rodimus Prime]]. The Autobot/Decepticon war began anew, culminating in the final showdown between Rodimus and Megatron. The two warriors battled atop a space bridge, with Rodimus gaining the upper hand. The duel ended when Megatron, dangling from the space bridge, decided to simply let go and fall into the abyss instead of letting Rodimus's final blow strike its target. Megatron then awoke in [[Axiom Nexus]]. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Megatron's bio card}}

Allegedly, when the Transcendent Technomorphs came upon Megatron, they mistook him for a derelict heap, and only to identified his three Mini-Con companions, [[Boombox]], [[Heavyweight]], and [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]]. Megatron somehow obtained a counterfeit [[identification bolt]], and renamed himself "C-81" to avoid complications with Axiom Nexus's "Dux non Intruitus" law. C-81 then proceeded to gather a crew to work under him, including [[Battletrap]], [[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]], and [[Nebulon (SG)|Nebulon]]. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} Together, they were Cybertron's most wanted criminals... save for C-81 himself, as the TransTechs were not specifically aware of him. Keeping his anonymity all the while, C-81 allowed other crime bosses take credit for his work while he committed several thefts. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/06/16}} {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} With the technology he acquired, C-81 planned to build an interuniversal gate, and provide paying customers with an "off-the-books" travel agency. On his final raid, his greed got the better of him, and his crew wound up on the run from the local police force. Despite his efforts to cut through [[Seeker-Shinai]], an [[Axiom Nexus Security Administration|OZSA]] team led by [[Hound (G1)|Sergeant Hound]] caught up with him, and C-81 was brought to the offworlder maximum security prison.

[[File:C-81ripsBeet-ChitfromZaptrap-CMW.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5]]
While being held, C-81's crew met two more criminals that ranked amongst the most wanted on the planet, [[Oilmaster]] and [[Packrat]]. With these new recruits, the whole gang managed to escape the prison, only to find Axiom Nexus shut down on the outside. They then headed to Axiom Nexus's underground tunnel system, and made their way to one of their hidden weapons stashes. There, they bumped into [[Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)|Lift-Ticket]], [[Burn Out]], and [[Spy-Eye (Diaclone)|Spy-Eye]], who immediately took off. Suspecting this trio might report them to the authorities, C-81's crew gave chase, only to wind up in the middle of a [[Waruder]] nest. They battled these extradimensional invaders for a time, but found themselves overwhelmed by sheer numbers. The tables turned when [[Optimus Prime (G1)|General Optimus Prime]] and Sergeant Hound joined in, along with the returning Burn Out and Lift-Ticket. C-81 was instrumental to the victory against the Waruders. He ripped out [[Beet-Chit|their commander]] from [[Zaptrap (Diaclone)|his exo-suit]], and forced him to negotiate. Offering a Cybertron free of opposition in exchange for their peaceful departure, C-81 completed his interuniversal gate and escorted the Waruders to the abandoned planet. General Optimus Prime informed C-81 that he could not allow him to keep his gate, but agreed to keep C-81's identity a secret out of gratitude. In the end, C-81 was simply glad to have had the adventure. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}
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===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa]], Megatron rather than Optimus Prime killed the Fallen. Galvanized by his victory, Megatron returned to space to gather his army. He considered conquering Earth but realized that the true prize was Cybertron. With his troops ready for combat, Megatron led them on a successful campaign all over Earth against the Autobots and NEST. He also had Soundwave plant clues about the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s presence on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] for Sam Witwicky to discover. Optimus Prime fell for the bait and took the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' to the Moon to revive [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Backed into a corner by the Decepticons' offensive, Optimus hastily revived Sentinel on the Moon's surface, and Megatron captured Optimus with the traitorous Sentinel's aid. With the aid of human collaborators, Megatron used [[space bridge]] technology to bring Cybertron into Earth orbit. Under the leadership of Dylan Gould, humans were put to work strip-mining Earth for resources to repair Cybertron.

Everything changed with the arrival of [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], who demanded that Prime be handed over to him. Megatron and Sentinel both refused, the former out of pride and the latter out of loyalty. However, when Sentinel was tempted by Lockdown's offer of a protomatter [[seed]], Optimus used the opportunity to reignite Sentinel's sense of justice. Sentinel pretended to hand over Optimus, proceeding to ambush Lockdown, defeat him, and capture his [[Knight Ship|vessel]]. Allying themselves with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]]s, Sentinel and Optimus Prime waged a long guerilla campaign against Megatron's Decepticons, eventually restoring humankind's freedom and revitalizing Cybertron with the seed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 22/7/2015}}

In [[Tyran 511.0 Kappa]], Megatron also returned as Galvatron, but his old subordinate [[Wild Rider]] remained loyal to his new Autobot comrades even in the face of Megatron's rebirth. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/9/2015}}

==Commercial appearances==
Megatron smashed some guys' cars just as they were about to retrieve them from the valet service. He did exactly the same thing to some woman's car too. It was awesome. Well, not for the car's owner. Otherwise, it was awesome. {{storylink|Commercial/Transformers (2007)#General Motors|Transformers Chevy tie-in commercial}}

==Games==
{{main|Megatron (Movie)/games}}

==Toys==

{{main|Megatron (Movie)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Movie Megatron olduglyface.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|I'm blind!]]
*The prototype photographs on the back of Fast Action Battler, Leader, and Voyager class Megatron's packaging show him with a completely different head based upon an earlier version of CGI design (seen on the right) that was dropped after much negative fan reaction. Legends class Megatron retains this head shape.
*According to The Movie Guide, Megatron is one of the few Transformers capable of space travel without reverting to a protoform. This explains how he was capable of chasing the AllSpark ''immediately'' after its launch.
[[File:EarlyMegsMovieConceptartwithG1headandbody.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|This would've shut [[GEEWUN|them]] up.]]
*The earliest concept designs of Megatron gave him a look very much inspired by his ''Generation One'' counterpart. Unlike the Cybertronic jet seen in the first movie, this Megatron was intended to transform into an army tank.
*According to [[The Quest for the AllSpark]] paperback's opening paragraph, "...Most revered were Optimus and Megatron. They were twin brothers of the Prime dynasty." (This implies that Megatron may have also had the surname "Prime" at one time.) Similarly, in the ''Autobots'' version of the same DS game, it is noted that Megatron "took the spark" of his and Optimus' father. However, in the [[Transformers Comic issue 2.12|twelfth issue of Titan's ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comic]], [[Barricade (Movie)|"Barricade"]] informed readers that Megatron and Optimus weren't related, the term "brother" was just because they'd known each other for so long. However, the ''[[Transformers: Foundation|Foundation]]'' comic series sheds more light on this, with Optimus and Megatron being LIKE brothers and Sentinel being like a father to them and his supposed death on Megatron's order brings the whole scenario full circle.
*Early script drafts and a [[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron|children's picture book]] featured Megatron consuming the [[spark]]s of his fallen foes, but this didn't make it into the final film due to time constraints. The novelization of the movie, on the other hand, sees him chow down on Jazz in the final battle; similarly, although not outright stated in dialogue, his animalistic pouncing on the fallen bodies of various characters (including Optimus Prime, Starscream, Jazz and the [[Create-A-Bot (Decepticon)|Decepticon Create-A-Bot]]) in the Movie Nintendo DS games, following by what appears to be rooting around in their innards, seems to suggest he's doing the same there.
*Despite his undeniable hatred of humans, Megatron is the only Decepticon in the movie who doesn't speak [[Cybertronian languages|Cybertronian]] for the majority of his dialogue. In fact, he speaks ''fluent'' English upon reviving, despite the fact that [[wikipedia:Modern English|Modern English]] came into existence around the Sixteenth century, when he was presumably still frozen in the ice. This could suggest that he still was somehow conscious when he was studied by Sector Seven (which he also overtly states upon awakening in the IDW comic adaptation). This would explain why his first action after thawing was declaring his name—imagine being frozen for generations being referred to as "N.B.E. 1", or even worse: "Mega-Man" ''and'' "Ice-man".
*[[Detroit]] Lions American football player Calvin Johnson has earned the nickname Megatron, due to his large stature and unstoppability. Since he got the nickname around the same time as the movie was in theaters, we assume he was named for this Megatron. Johnson has worn a hat with the Decepticon logo on it.<ref>[http://larrybrownsports.com/football/calvin-johnson-now-rocks-a-megatron-transformers-hat-picture/92078 Calvin Johnson now rocks a Megatron Transformers hat]</ref> Nike came out with a limited edition line "Megatron" styled sports gear for the 2012 Thanksgiving Day game.<ref>[http://www.nikeblog.com/2012/11/22/nike-calvin-johnson-megatron-collection/ Nike Calvin Johnson ‘Megatron’ Collection]</ref>
*The Megatron computer generated model consisted of 2411 individual pieces, 433,949 polygons, 8924 rig nodes, and 1437 texture maps. The pieces combined gave a volume of 10,325 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>
[[File:MBMovieMegatronAttacks.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|You'll find battling me A COSTLY MISTAKE, Optimus Prime!]]
*The [[Milton Bradley]] [[Transformers Battling Card Game]] depicts a couple of unique attacks for Megatron's original form; one card gives him a pair of forearm-mounted blades as an "Arm Sword", and another shows him firing a swarm of missiles from his chest in a "Missile Attack".
*It was decided that Megatron would not be renamed Galvatron in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' for the sake of the general audience.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/180451-welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions-229.html#post3421064 Roberto Orci answers fan questions on the TFW2005 boards.]
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*While ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe]]'' and the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation|comic adaptation]] create the idea that Megatron is a [[Triple Changer]] that alternates between his robot, jet, and tank modes, there is absolutely nothing to support this in the movie. Throughout the entire film, he only transforms into a winged tank portrayed by the Voyager figure and is more than capable of flying in said mode. Of course, whether or not his flying tank mode is considered a third mode is up to interpretation.
*According to his bio on the Hasbro sticker sheets, ''Revenge'' Megatron weighs in at 5.7 metric tons, is 35 feet tall, uses an 'Ion-fused chain whip' for his primary weapon, has a 'Strength power level' of 10, and changes into an 'Interstellar jet.' The mention of a chain whip and a jet mode seem to indicate the card's stats were based on his original form, rather than his ''Revenge of the Fallen'' tank mode. The card also surmises that Megatron's might will 'make the Earth quake, and the stars fall from the sky.' The two-disc special edition of the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' DVD also gives him a height of 35 feet.
*In the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe]]'', it states Megatron possesses an internal self-regenerating dark matter power core which is possibly of alien origin.
*His weatherbeaten Mack tanker truck mode and Cybertronian sawed-off shotgun as seen in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' are fairly straightforward nods to the 1981 film ''[[Wikipedia:Mad Max 2|Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior]]''.
*The whole notion of him even being [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 4|a tanker truck]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' in the first place might be a nod to executive producer [[Steven Spielberg]]'s first movie, [[Wikipedia:Duel (1971 film)|Duel]], where a similar truck is the main "bad guy".
*Early concepts for his ''Dark of the Moon'' design called him Cyclonus in an attempt to curb leaks and spread misinformation.
*Megatron's story was altered significantly twice during development of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Dark of the Moon'': the climax of the second film would have revealed Megatron served The Fallen under the pretense of becoming a Prime, which Optimus exposes a lie, explaining Primes are born, not made. An angered Megatron refused to aid The Fallen in his final battle, and returned to the ''Nemesis'' via The Fallen's space bridge to raise an army of hatchlings. In the film he is removed from the battle by having Optimus disfigure him with his own cannon, forcing him to hide as a truck in Africa. Megatron would have survived ''Dark of the Moon'', with Optimus accepting the truce after helping kill Sentinel, with Megatron returning to Cybertron and leaving the possibility open to a fourth film. On screen, Megatron's offer comes across as less than sincere, allowing Optimus to finally tear his head off.
*Megatron is the only character to have appeared in all three movies to have received a distinctly different body design and alternate form for each film. Each subsequent change having an in-story reason as well (brought back from the dead and repaired in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', and being forced into hiding due to injuries he sustained at the end of the former-mentioned film in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''). This trend even follows into ''[[Transformers: The Ride – 3D]]'', wherein Megatron appears in his DOTM body, but with the ROTF "Murder arm".
*In all three movies, Megatron's fusion cannon makes a distinctive noise as it charges that none of the other weapons in the films make. Generation 1 Megatron's fusion cannon also had a unique sound effect.
*In "Age of Extinction", the "axe wound" in Megatron's head has shrunk considerably since its appearance in "Dark of the Moon"; although, if Megatron was alive, then he may have been able to heal his wounds to some degree.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Megatron''' (メガトロン ''Megatoron'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Megaton''' (Taiwan, 密卡登 ''Mìkǎdēng''), '''Wēi Zhèn Tīan''' (China, 威震天, "Extremely Prestigious", literally "Heaven-shaking Might")

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/toytables/movie_megatron.htm Megatron at TFU.info]

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Megatron (Movie)

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:''Megatron is the [[Decepticon]] leader from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

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'''Megatron''' was not always the viciously powerful and brutally direct leader of the Decepticons: he was once brothers-in-arms with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] and a student of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], appointed to be Cybertron's [[Lord High Protector|Protector]] and commander of its [[Defense Force]]. But Megatron resented his comrade, knowing he was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] and therefore Sentinel's favored son. This anger allowed [[The Fallen]] to ensnare him and led to the revival of the Decepticons. Even without The Fallen, it's not hard to imagine that Megatron would have erupted Cybertron into war to rid himself of Optimus.

Megatron tends to become so obsessed with the object of his desires that he can ignore "secondary" matters, glaring flaws in his plans. Otherwise, he likely wouldn't have chased after the [[AllSpark]] alone, and spent centuries entombed in the [[Arctic]]. Trying to talk Megatron out of blindly going for his goals is useless. He will risk his world, his troops, and even his own [[spark]] to achieve his goals; these things do not matter to Megatron. Like his master, Megatron feels a violent hatred towards [[human]]s and views them as only slightly above bacteria, a feeling exacerbated by spending decades as their prisoner.

Despite this fatal flaw, Megatron did not achieve his dreaded status through simple warmongering. He's a manipulative, cunning strategist who can plan [[Ark (DOTM)|multiple]] [[Star Harvester|schemes]] spanning millennia, and while they may overlap, they all help him towards his one, true goal: the restoration of Cybertron. For all his evils, Megatron genuinely strives to save his home planet some day, and with it, the [[Transformer|Cybertronian race]]: even if it means he has to rule it with his iron fist and put his bloodlust to good use to do so.

He sometimes goes by the name '''C-81'''.

{{quote|You still fight for the weak! That is why ''you lose!''|Megatron to Optimus|[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]}}

==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The five movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}
====2007 ''Transformers'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[José Santa Cruz]] (Brazil), [[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German) [[Luca Biagini]] (Italian), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:Movie2007 Megatron ArchibaldWitwicky.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Oh baby, you know just the spot to turn me on!]]

Megatron eventually succeeded in tracking the AllSpark to [[Earth]], where he rather embarrassingly crash-landed in the Arctic Circle and was frozen solid for thousands of years. In [[1897]], some 100 Earth-years before the arrival of the other Transformers, he was discovered by an explorer named [[Archibald Witwicky|Archibald Amundsen Witwicky]]. Captain Witwicky accidentally activated Megatron's navigation system and caused the coordinates of the AllSpark to be etched onto the explorer's glasses. Megatron remained imprisoned in the Arctic until the 1930s, when he was dug out by the United States government and moved to a secret [[Sector Seven]] stronghold inside [[Hoover Dam]]. In the years that followed, many modern devices (by Earth standards) were reverse-engineered from his frozen body.

[[File:Movie Megatron breakout.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Mace isn't for spraying, it's for hitting.]]

In the present day, having searched the galaxy for the AllSpark and being drawn to Earth, the remaining Decepticons learned of Witwicky's glasses. Through the Internet, they determined the location of both Megatron and the AllSpark inside Hoover Dam. [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] infiltrated the dam and shut down the power systems, while Starscream attacked the external powerlines, resulting in Megatron's thawing out. Once again online, the leader of the Decepticons informed the worthless insects of his true name, shouting "I am Megatron!" (to clear up all that N.B.E.-01/Ice Man nonsense), randomly killed a few of them while destroying his former prison, then transformed and flew off after the AllSpark again. He met up with Starscream for the first time in thousands of years on the outside, and, never one for pleasantries, immediately demanded to know where the Cube was. Upon learning that the humans had moved the AllSpark, Megatron berated Starscream for yet another failure.

[[File:Movie2007 Megatron Starscream.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|You fail me yet again Starscream... will I ever meet [[Starscream (SG)|a Starscream that is truly loyal?]]]]

After Starscream and Devastator's opening attacks in [[Mission City]], Megatron arrived, and again declared his name (he really wants people to know who he is). The Autobots were so panicked by the sight of their long lost nemesis that [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] called for a temporary retreat. Megatron blasted [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] backwards when the diminutive Autobot attempted to attack, then threw him into the air before crushing him on top of a tower with his clawed talons. Jazz valiantly fought on, asking if Megatron wanted a "piece" of him, but doing little damage to the Decepticon leader. Megatron viciously killed the Autobot by tearing him in half, callously declaring that he wanted "two".

[[File:Movie Megatron jetmode cityfight.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Whoa, that energon's not settling too well.]]

As [[Sam Witwicky|the human boy]] ran off with the AllSpark, Megatron ordered the Decepticons to [[Decepticons, attack|attack]]. Devastator attacked the armed insects, while Starscream and [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] fought [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and Ratchet for the AllSpark. At that moment, Optimus Prime appeared and challenged Megatron. Millennia in the ice had done nothing to lessen the animosity Megatron felt for his brother, however. Barely managing to growl out Prime's name, he transformed and flew at Prime at full speed. The Autobot leader leapt and grabbed a hold of Megatron, who slammed him into a building before flying right through a skyscraper. Both leaders landed in the middle of an intersection, but Megatron was the first to recover and leaped upon his brother, snarling that the humans were undeserving of life. Optimus Prime replied that they had the right to choose for themselves. Hearing this, the snarling Megatron tossed Optimus aside. Megatron declared that if Prime wished to defend them, he should "join them in extinction", forming his [[fusion cannon]]. Before he could fire, the Autobot leader drew his [[ion blaster]] and fired, hitting Megatron. The Decepticon leader shrugged off this attack, spun around from the momentum and fired his cannon, sending Optimus Prime flying into the side of a building.

[[File:Movie Megatron Samonroof.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Oh look I found a stray human... wonder if I can keep him as a pet... come on boy, don't be scared. I'll take you to a new home.]]

Megatron pursued the young human who had removed the AllSpark from Hoover Dam, destroying everything that stood in his way. The boy ran to a dilapidated building that was the designated coordinates for a human military evacuation team, and Megatron smashed his way through, yelling that he could smell the human maggot. Starscream destroyed the helicopter intended to take the AllSpark, and Megatron burst through the floor, inquiring if it was courage or fear that compelled him. Finally cornering him on a ledge, Megatron offered that if the human gave him the AllSpark, the boy might live as [[Ravage (G1)|his]] [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet]]. The Decepticon leader relished the human's defiant refusal and destroyed the ledge the human was standing upon, sending the boy tumbling to the ground.

[[File:Movie2007 Prime Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Get up, so I can knock you back down!]]

Unfortunately, the human was caught by Optimus Prime, who then tried to escape down the side of the building before Megatron tackled him and sent all three slamming into the pavement. As a nearby [[Michael Bay|human bystander]] attempted to crawl away, the Decepticon expressed his disgust at the insect's proximity and flicked it away. Protecting the young boy, Prime declared that their war would end here and it was now just between the two brothers. Though lusting for the AllSpark, Megatron decided to indulge his brother's obvious death wish, declaring that only he was in this fight. Despite Optimus Prime's best efforts, Megatron was relentless, matching the Autobot leader with blow after devastating blow until he collapsed. Adding insult to injury, Megatron informed Prime that his defense of the "weak" was the real reason he lost.

[[File:Megatron allspark merge.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb| The AllSpark will give you sparkburn!]]

The Decepticon leader turned his attention back to the human boy, but was suddenly attacked by the human fighter jets and [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]]'s ground soldiers firing sabot rounds. Optimus took this chance, striking Megatron and knocking him down. His armor a damaged, shattered mess, Megatron ignored the punishment and focused on the human boy, growling that he would kill the boy and that the AllSpark was his. As Optimus Prime ordered the boy to place the AllSpark into his chest, the human instead pushed it into the now-exposed [[spark]] in Megatron's chest, overloading him with energy and extinguishing the Decepticon's life force. As Optimus Prime stood over Megatron's lifeless shell, watching the light flicker out of his brother's [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optics]], he remarked somberly, yet remorsefully, that Megatron had left him no choice, and removed a shard of the AllSpark from his brother's spark core.

Megatron's body was dumped into the [[Laurentian Abyss]] at its deepest point, along with the remains of the other Decepticons, where the near-freezing temperatures would, hopefully, keep them dormant indefinitely. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]],” “[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]],” and "[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"; the "[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; the activity book "[[Look and Find Transformers]]"; and the storybooks “[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]],” “[[Transformers (interactive Play-a-Sound Storybook)|Transformers Play-a-Sound]],” "[[Meet the Autobots]]," "[[Meet the Decepticons]]," "[[Transformers Mix & Match]]" and "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]."}}
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====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japan)|[[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German), [[José Santa Cruz]] (Brazil) [[Luca Biagini]] (Italian), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:ROTFMegatronRising.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Now, where's Starscream? I want to give him a piece of my mind.]]

Megatron's death would not last long, however. [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] tapped into a conversation between [[NEST]] and General [[Morshower]], listening to Director [[Theodore Galloway]] mention that 1) a shard of the [[AllSpark]] was in storage in [[Diego Garcia]] and 2) Megatron's body lay in the [[Laurentian Abyss]]. [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] was sent to steal the shard, and swam to the Abyss with [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]], [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]], [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]], [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]] and [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)|Scrapmetal]]. Scalpel ordered spare parts be used to repair Megatron's body with "ze little one", who was torn apart by his larger brethren, and then struck Megatron with the shard: the Decepticon leader was reborn as a Cybertronian tank with flight capabilities and a [[death-lock pincer]]. Megatron flew up to the surface, striking a [[USS Topeka|submarine]] on his way, before journeying into space to find the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]''.

[[File:TheFallen-ROTFNemesis.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"My Master, I have fai--" "I'm trying to watch the game here!"]]

On the ruined ship, Megatron met up with [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and chastised his subordinate for leaving him to die on Earth. Starscream defended his actions by saying that he had to take care of the [[hatchling]]s, who were dying without [[energon]], as someone had to take command in Megatron's absence. Furious, Megatron bashed Starscream into a wall containing protoform sacks, and told Starscream that even in death, there is no command but Megatron's. Megatron met up with [[The Fallen]], who was weakened and in a life support chair. Megatron told his master he had failed and allowed the AllSpark to be destroyed, but The Fallen told Megatron that the knowledge of the AllSpark had instead been transferred to the human boy who killed him, [[Sam Witwicky]]. With the knowledge within Sam's mind, they could find another energon source, hidden away from The Fallen eons ago. Already eager to avenge himself, Megatron begged The Fallen for the chance to strip the flesh from Sam, but The Fallen asked for patience. Before they could act, Megatron was to kill [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], who was the last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] and the only one that could defeat the Fallen. Megatron knew that Optimus would protect the boy, and ordered him captured.

[[File:ROTF Megatron tank mode.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Don't blink. He isn't like this much.]]

Megatron sprang a trap, dispatching [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]] to take [[Sam Witwicky]], [[Mikaela Banes]] and [[Leo Spitz]] to him at an abandoned factory. Although Megatron would have rather killed Sam slowly and painfully, Sam had valuable information as to the energon source's location in his mind, which he had received from his own AllSpark fragment. Megatron held the boy down while Scalpel performed several invasive probes of Sam's mind. Scalpel's probes confirmed The Fallen's claims, and Scalpel declared that they needed Sam's brain on the table, something Megatron had no objections to. Just as Scalpel was ready to dissect Sam's brain, Optimus and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] burst in to rescue the humans. Megatron attempted to attack Optimus, but was shot out of the factory as he pounced. Optimus drove Sam to a forest, with Megatron in hot pursuit. The Autobot and Decepticon leaders transformed and battled as Sam fled. Optimus was pretty easily dominating the fight, trash talking Megatron all the while, eventually forcing Megatron to call his Decepticons for help.

[[File:ROTFPrimePunch.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Body or face, Megatron?" "Not the face!" "Too bad!"]]

Starscream and Grindor immediately arrived to aid their commander. Megatron told Optimus that Sam could lead them to another energon source, then counterattacked his foe, kicking off Prime's [[mouthplate]] and blasting him backwards. Appearing to have a slight advantage, Megatron taunted the Autobot leader, asking if one boy was worth the future of the Cybertronians. Prime replied that he'd never stop at killing just one, then took on all three Decepticons. Surprisingly, he was winning, punching and stabbing Megatron multiple times, ripping off Starscream's right arm, and tearing Grindor apart. However, as a weary Prime tried to find Sam, Megatron [[Death-lock pincer|stabbed]] him in the back and blasted through his spark: Prime fell, mortally wounded. As Megatron moved for the boy, the rest of the Autobots arrived and provided enough cover for Bumblebee to spirit Sam away. Already injured from the battle with Prime, Megatron and Starscream were forced to retreat.

[[File:ROTF movie MegatronStarscream roofchat.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|"That's IT! No more Mr. Nice Megatron!" "But you were never—" "SHUT UP!"]]

With Prime dead, Megatron was quite pleased, until Starscream informed him that the boy had escaped. Furious, Megatron smacked his lieutenant with his own severed arm and ran his treads on him for a moment for losing track of a single insect, but Starscream countered that he was one of seven billion, and could be anywhere. Considering the situation, Megatron decided it was time to end their secret war, and that if they couldn't find the boy, they'd have the humans bring him to the Decepticons. Soundwave used his scanning abilities to locate the boys parents, the rejuvenated Fallen broadcast a message to deliver Sam to them across the planet. Megatron himself broadcasted the Fallen's message by rewiring the [[Empire State Building]]'s radio tower.

[[File:ROTFMegatronSam.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Hey, he stole my purse! Wallet! I mean wallet!]]

He then flew to [[Egypt]], where nineteen thousand years before, the Fallen had built a [[Star Harvester]] to harness the [[Sun]] for energon. Starscream informed him that the human soldiers had brought Prime's body with them, and Megatron surmised the boy's intentions. Commanding the rest of the Decepticons to begin their [[Operation: Firestorm|assault]], Megatron ordered [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] to destroy the pyramid that was built over the harvester, while he himself chased Sam for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which would activate the harvester. Megatron almost killed Sam, but was overwhelmed by human gunfire, and flew off.

[[File:ROTF Megatron not over.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.4|It's just a flesh wound. Err, armor wound.]]

Fortunately, The Fallen managed to take the Matrix and activate the harvester, but it had already been used to resurrect Optimus. Optimus combined with [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] and destroyed the harvester, knocking Megatron off the pyramid while Prime went for The Fallen. Quickly recovering, Megatron came to the aid of his master and attacked Optimus from behind. After a brief but brutal tussle, Optimus used Megatron's own cannon to blast half his face off, and then severed the Decepticon's right arm. Finally, Optimus used his afterburners to send Megatron flying through some ruins, ending his role in the battle. Badly damaged, Megatron called out for "Tharscweam!" in agony, but it soon mattered little as Optimus Prime killed the Fallen. Horrified at the demise of his master, Megatron acknowledged Starscream's advice that they should flee, but vowed that "This isn't over." {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]],” “[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]” and “[[The Last Prime]]"; the “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]],” “[[Rise of the Decepticons]],” “[[When Robots Attack!]],” "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]," "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Electronic Voice Changer]]" and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]." Several include an abandoned plot point from the film, in which The Fallen has promised to make Megatron a Prime in return for his services, only for this to be exposed as a lie by Optimus during the final battle (since Primes are born, not made), leading Megatron to abandon his master.}}
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====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin American Spanish)}}

{{quote|Cybertron... you are saved, at last.|Megatron|[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]}}

[[File:Dotm-megatron-face.jpg|left|thumb|250 px|[[Doctor Doom|Curse you]], [[Fantastic Four]]!]]

Three years after Operation: Firestorm and the death of the Fallen, Megatron finally adopted an Earth form - ironically, a large tractor-trailer not unlike that of his most hated enemy - and hid out in the plains of Namibia, Africa, in exile. There, still visibly bearing the scars of his battle with Optimus Prime, he spent most of his time sitting on a ramshackle throne of junk, with only [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (DOTM)|Laserbeak]], and the diminutive [[Igor]] to command. Megatron regularly went out to find food for the [[Hatchling]]s that lived in a collection of oil drums at the camp, occasionally scaring the local wildlife with his roaring and bellowing. Starscream expressed his concern for his master's wounds, but Megatron was not fooled by his sucking up. Laserbeak returned after observing [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]'s fight with Optimus, and he and Soundwave told Megatron that the Autobots had discovered a fuel cell from the Ark, which had been thought lost. Megatron noted his approval of the two's work, and decided that the humans that were working for them had served their purpose, and ordered them to be eliminated.

[[File:DOTM-MegatronLincolnMemorialchair.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Finally, a reference to "[[Atlantis, Arise!]]"]]
After [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] betrayed the Autobots, Megatron and Starscream travelled to Washington D.C., where Megatron outlined his scheme to his second-in-command. Apparently, Sentinel was supposed to rendezvous with Megatron there on Earth, but the circumstances caused them both to be deactivated, and Sentinel was the only one who knew how to activate the [[space bridge]]. However, Megatron had a contingency plan: since they already had the pillars on the Moon and Optimus had recovered the Matrix of Leadership, he merely needed Optimus to revive Sentinel, so he could activate the pillars. And so arrived that moment, and Megatron blasted President Lincoln off his stone throne, and used the remains as a seat. Optimus arrived to stop Sentinel but was too late. Megatron watched this happen, after which he declared, "Here we are. Fight us ''now''."

[[File:DOTM-SentinelandMegatron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Megatron just needs to crash on Sentinel's couch for a few days until he can get back on his feet.]]

Soon, they travelled to Chicago, Illinois, where Sentinel and Megatron planned to start their global takeover. They set up their base of operations on the [[wikipedia:35 East Wacker|Jewelers' Building]]. Human [[Dylan Gould]], who was working for the Decepticons, came with [[Carly Spencer]] to watch, but Megatron ordered him to leave. Dylan did so but muttered to Carly "he's such a dick". After the Decepticons successfully occupied Chicago, Megatron stated that this was the world that he promised, that this way Cybertron would be restored. Sentinel, feeling his partner was getting too chummy, violently reminded Megatron of his place; Sentinel did not work ''for'' Megatron, he worked ''with'' Megatron, and warned the Decepticon to remember the difference.

Much later, Dylan shouted to Megatron that the Autobots, who were seemingly destroyed by Starscream, were still alive. Megatron ordered the bridges to be raised and all [[Orbital Assault Carrier|Decepticon fighter ships]] to find the Autobots.

[[File:DOTM off with his head.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Insert your own "Give me your face" joke here.]]
Sentinel would take control of the Decepticon forces in the fight against the Autobots, and so, as the battle raged Megatron lay on another throne of junk, sulking, though his spirit was suitably lifted as Cybertron appeared in the sky above. That is until [[Carly Spencer]] approached him and mocked that Sentinel had apparently usurped him. Megatron denied this and maintained that he would rule. As Carly pushed him further, he prepared to crush the Human for daring to speak so defiantly to him, but paused, realizing how far he had fallen from power within the past few years, and decided to once again take his rightful place at the top of the command chain. That is what he came close to doing; just as Sentinel was about to deal the fatal blow to Optimus, Megatron attacked and severely wounded Sentinel. Meanwhile, the Autobots destroyed the control pillar, thus destroying the space bridge and presumably Cybertron with it. Seeing this, Megatron offered Optimus a truce, as long he could remain in charge of the Decepticons. "After all," he asked, "Who would you be without me, Prime?" Prime's response was to announce that it was "Time to find out," as he promptly tore Megatron's head from his shoulders with his axe, finally killing the tyrant. Optimus then used his nemesis' fusion shotgun to end Sentinel's life as well. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]” and “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel]]”; the “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks “[[Autobots Versus Decepticons]],” "[[The Lost Autobot]]," "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," “[[Bumblebee's Best Friend]],” "[[Dark of the Moon: Action Pop-ups!]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mix & Match]]." The novelization and comic adaptation feature an alternate ending in which Optimus accepts Megatron's offer of a truce and Megatron and the remaining Decepticons are allowed to leave.}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
:''See: [[Galvatron (AOE)]]
[[File:Megatron Head at KSI.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Aw, look at that, the humans wiped off all the rust! And wasn't my face split in two?]]
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Ryūzaburō Ōtomo]] (Japanese)|[[Mario Arvizu]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Mario Bombardieri]] (Italian)}}
Unknown to all, Megatron's mind actually survived his destruction, and was in a stasis inside his severed head. A few years after the Chicago war, Megatron's remains were acquired by KSI, who forced [[Brains]] to transfer data from the Decepticon leader's brain to the man-made Transformer [[Galvatron (AOE)|Galvatron]]. Unknown to all except Brains, Megatron was secretly influencing the creation of Galvatron to serve as a new body for himself, as well as making it possible for him to take control of all the other KSI drones once his body was complete. Brains declined to notify his captors of any of this, because seriously, ''screw'' those guys. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====''The Last Knight'' film====
{{coming soon|when=23 June 2017}}

===IDW movie comics===
During the dark age of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after the fall of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], Megatron became a follower of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Sentinel recovered the [[AllSpark]], and planned to transport a sun to repower it and the rest of Cybertron. The [[Thetacon (tribe)|Thetacon]]s, who believed Sentinel to be a mad heretic, launched an attack on the AllSpark's facility. Megatron, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]], [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] and [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] fended off the Thetacons when Sentinel and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] successfully transported a star to Cybertron. The Thetacons laid down their arms, but Megatron resented that so many of his comrades had died before Cybertron's new dawn, and it was only by Optimus's persuasion that Megatron found it within himself to forgive his enemies and shake the Thetacon [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]'s hand. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1}}

That evening, Megatron eavesdropped on a conversation between Sentinel and Optimus. Sentinel claimed Optimus was also a Prime, and intended to make him the new ruler of Cybertron. Optimus refused, unable to accept he was a Prime and somehow superior to his comrades. The next day, Megatron grumbled to Shockwave that if he were Optimus, he would have accepted Sentinel's offer. They came across a [[Driller]] attacking a [[hatchling]] field trip, and successfully shot the creature to pieces. Megatron asked for the name of the Cybertronian who volunteered to guard the hatchlings: his name was [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]].

Three days later at the capital city of [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]], Sentinel Prime officially declared Cybertron's unification, and announced the planet would be governed by Optimus's [[Science Division]], and Megatron's [[Defense Force]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2}} For two generations, Optimus and Megatron ruled Cybertron successfully, creating a balance of fair and firm leadership. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} When [[Malcontent]] activity increased on Cybertron, Megatron met with Optimus and requested supreme authority in protecting the planet. Optimus obliged. Megatron then requested to be called [[Lord High Protector]] and to be addressed as "sir". {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}}

[[File:Defiance1 Megs Prime argument.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|"Know your place, boy!"]]

After Commander Starscream returned from his patrol in the [[Eshems Nebula]], Optimus was reporting on his science sector's continuing excavation of the site near [[Simfur Temple]] and the unusual pulse waves that the AllSpark had been emitting ever since work began. At the excavation site, while Optimus' scientists were concerned with disturbing the ancient artifacts, all Megatron cared about was whether these relics might provide the same revitalising energy as the AllSpark. He was nettled when Optimus asserted the sector's dominion over all scientific and archaeological discoveries and reminded his junior that it was his defence force that protected this world, demanding to be informed of all possible threats from the excavation's findings. When Optimus dared to remind Megatron of the military's treatment of such discoveries as hostile, Megatron told Optimus that when ''he'' tried to be the leader of Cybertron, he could make those decisions, not ''now''. When a mysterious relic was discovered, Megatron ordered it removed at once, a demand that Optimus disagreed with. Just as the pair were about to launch into another argument, Cybertron fell under attack from Nebula inhabitants. Megatron had the relic quickly moved to his quarters under the guise of protecting it from the invaders. Arriving to find [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] seeking cover within the temple of Simfur, Megatron chastised their alleged lack of courage before he was hit by an alien tank vehicle. After destroying it, he told Starscream to keep Optimus' team out of the military's way and staggered back to his quarters in Trypticon. Drawn towards the relic, he ignored his injuries and scraped away at the layers of debris encrusting it before losing consciousness. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}}

[[File:Defiance2 Megatron warrally.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Mein Führer!]]

The relic used what little power it had left to repair Megatron's wounds. At first Megatron was angry, demanding the being to show himself to the Protector of all Cybertron. The relic explained that it was unable to do so without Megatron's help, and ''if'' he helped, the relic would truly make him '''Lord''' of Cybertron. The relic then fired beams of energy into Megatron's mind (turning his white optic sensors red), explaining what needed to be done, filling him with delusions of grandeur. When Optimus came looking for the Protector, Megatron had changed; he had become even more aggressive in his speech and demeanor, and what's more, he demanded Optimus gather his scientists to go to war. When Optimus explained the sector was not combat-trained, Megatron shot back that the scientists should have known what the aliens were after: the AllSpark. Optimus refused, stating that the army's mission was of defense, and it went against everything their society was based upon to exacerbate war. Megatron slammed Optimus into the wall and stated that their society then needed to ''change''. He held a massive saber-rattling war rally outside Trypticon, demanding vengeance upon the alien aggressors. He claimed that until the war ended, he would assume full control of the military, and everybody would answer only to him. Megatron ordered all flight-capable Cybertronians accompany him to the Eshems Nebula, where they launched a surprise attack against the still-unknown aliens. Megatron fought his way inside the alien flagship and personally executed the alien leader. He then ordered Starscream and his units to conduct a war of genocide: ''none'' of the aliens were to survive. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[File:Defiance3 wearenowDECEPTICONS.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.]]

Megatron returned from the front with news of their success and awaited further instructions from his master. The relic ordered Megatron to prepare the way for his return by expanding the army, and at the end, Cybertron would be Megatron's, while everything else the master's. Megatron was enraged when the relic informed him that Optimus had snooped inside his quarters while he was fighting the aliens, and convinced the Protector that Optimus was after the same power the relic had promised ''him''. Now seeing that there were "enemies" within Cybertron as well as without, Megatron arranged to have the "traitors" taken care of by ordering [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]]'s security team to arrest Optimus, and sent Starscream's soldiers to kill all bar Optimus. However, Megatron underestimated Optimus, who personally defeated Starscream's squad. Nonetheless, he used the survivors as propaganda that treacherous malcontents sought to betray them all, and declared that Megatron's followers would now be reformed under a new image and a new name: '''Decepticons'''. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}} He ordered the execution of the "false" Primes — though he knew Sentinel and Optimus were Primes, he needed to give his followers a villain. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}}

Optimus's forces having eluded him for now, Megatron was given new orders by his master: build a [[Nemesis (ROTF)|mighty starship]] that would scour the stars for something very important to the relic's plans. The relic counseled Megatron to not make the same mistakes he did thousands of years ago, that his protege should strike without mercy or hesitation. The relic told Megatron the story of his mighty race, and how the AllSpark granted them great power and created the Transformer race, but it needed to be recharged by draining the power of a sun using specially-constructed [[Star Harvester|harvesting]] devices, and their under-construction starship would be used to search for the last harvester in the galaxy. When Megatron presumed to believe he would accompany his master, he was rebuked and punished. Much later, the ''Nemesis'' was finally completed, and Megatron assigned [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] to command the ship. The relic praising Megatron for his fine work, and ordered him to stay behind to continue the war. Over the next thousand years, the Autobots and Decepticons clashed in a bloody struggle. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

As Cybertron was devastated by the worsening war, Sentinel Prime was forced to make a deal with Megatron to seek out another planet whose resources they can exploit to restore their homeworld. The chosen planet was the resting place of the Primes' Star Harvester. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}{{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 3}}

Ironhide led an attack on Simfur Temple. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} Megatron stood at the gate and slaughtered many Autobots as Elita-One and [[Chromia (ROTF)|her]] [[Arcee (Movie)|sisters]] used the AllSpark to activate a "torch" made by Sentinel. Optimus finally appeared to fend off Megatron and ensure Elita-One escaped to give Sentinel the torch. Sentinel boarded the [[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]] with the torch to retrieve Optimus from Simfur, but to both Optimus and Megatron's horror, Starscream attacked the Ark, destroying it. The Autobots fled, but Megatron correctly deduced Optimus would return with a vengeance. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}} From his [[Lord High Protector citadel|citadel]], Megatron watched as Optimus and Ironhide battled their way through his defenses. When Optimus finally entered the tower, he found Megatron covered in hatchlings and daring him to kill them with him, gloating that Optimus would never go far enough. Optimus revealed he didn't: it had all been a distraction as Wheeljack, Chromia and Arcee stole the AllSpark aboard a second [[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]. With the AllSpark removed from Sentinel's device, the sun it held in place disappeared. Optimus escaped, rescuing Ironhide from Starscream and Shockwave while leaving Megatron to free himself of his hungry hatchlings. Megatron swore he would recover the AllSpark, and that if he would have to travel across the entire universe to do so, he would kill every Autobot. {{storylink|Transformers: Foundation|Foundation #1-4}}

[[File:Movie Megatron Targetcomic sure.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|"Sit, boy — or I'll beat you to death."]]

During an assault on the Autobots personally led by Megatron and his hound, [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], the tyrant crushed an Autobot opponent's spark before casually tossing his corpse over his shoulder. He declared that the AllSpark would be his again, to which Blackout assured his leader that he would personally see to it. Megatron was pleased by his minion's loyalty, but decided to dispatch him to assist Starscream's unit to prevent Optimus Prime's reinforcements from entering [[Tyger Pax]]. He then left to meet his destiny, but it slipped from his grasp; Prime had commissioned the AllSpark to be launched into the abyss of outer space. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall}}

[[File:MovieMegatron Bumblebee torture comic.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Better get some ice on that.]]
After realizing Bumblebee had stalled him from claiming the Cube so the operation could be completed, Megatron tore off Bumblebee's arm—removing his weapon—and crushed his voice box, destroying his vocal processors so that the young Autobot would never speak of the affront to his destiny. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 1|The Reign of Starscream #1}} Megatron, believing Prime to be a desperate, inexperienced fool, gave chase. On the way, he detected the ''Nemesis's'' distress signal and soon found the mighty starship on a barren world, abandoned by all but his master. Megatron was berated for allowing the Cube to slip away from his grasp and ordered to thoroughly continue his chase. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} As Megatron tracked the AllSpark through space, he mused about his reasons for the war and how he and his "brother" were not all that different, as seen by Optimus' sentencing their home to a slow death by launching the Cube into space. Tracing the AllSpark via energy signature to [[Earth|a primitive world]], he lost contact with it upon atmospheric entry and crashed into the planet's icy northern pole. Low on [[energon]], his safety buffers exhausted, Megatron went into [[stasis lock]].

[[File:MoviePrequel2-Megatrondownfall.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"I HAVE WALKED INTO THIS!"]]

Millennia later, in the year [[1897]], [[Archibald Witwicky]], the leader of the National Arctic Circle Expedition, discovered Megatron buried deep in the ice. Accidentally triggering Megatron's navigation system, Witwicky was blinded by a burst of light from the Decepticon leader's eyes, which imprinted the location of the AllSpark on his [[glasses]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Witwicky was subsequently driven insane by the experience, and upon his return to land, became the subject of attention by the United States government, who recruited adventurers [[Walter Simmons]] and [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] to investigate his fantastic claims. Simmons, Wells and their group followed Witwicky's route back to the Arctic, arriving early [[1898]], where they discovered Megatron's frozen body, and like Witwicky before them, inadvertently activated one of his systems upon entry into the cave, bringing him partially back on-line. The energy pulse this released caught the attention of [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], a [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]] abandoned on Earth by The Fallen, who quickly made his way to the Arctic, believing that The Fallen himself was the source of the pulse. Discovering the truth, Jetfire angrily informed Megatron that he has never heard of him, and punched him in the face. Simmons and Wells's group subsequently used explosives to send Jetfire punging into the freezing ocean; Megatron, too, was submerged, but jut before the cold overwhelmed him and he shut down again, he weakly proclaimed his name, which Simmons mis-heard as "Mega-Man". {{storylink|Original}} Simmons's organization set about constructing an environment dome around Megatron so he could be excavated and studied, which was completed in [[1899]]. Then, in [[1902]], the group discovered the AllSpark in the Colorado River, and quickly drew a correlation between it and their frozen "Mega-Man" because of the similar symbols that they were both decorated with. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}}

Eventually naming itself [[Sector Seven]] and arranging construction of the [[Hoover Dam]] to contain the AllSpark, the group initially planned to move Megatron to the dam as well in [[1935]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}} Unfortunately, some delays in the installation of the cryo-block system that would keep Megatron frozen delayed the planned move, however, and the outbreak of [[World War II]] put it on permanent hold. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}} It was in [[1954]] when Sector Seven definitively learned that they could not trust the Arctic cold to keep Megatron frozen when Communist sabotage of the organization's Arctic command post caused the Decepticon leader to thaw out, threatening the lives of the skeleton crew manning the base. Walter Simmons called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the base, freezing Megatron solid once more only minutes after he awoke. {{storylink|Frozen}} In [[1969]], Megatron was at last transferred from the Arctic to the Hoover Dam headquarters. as Walter Simmons stayed looking at him. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}}

In the aftermath of the battle in Mission City, [[Sector Seven]] hauled away Megatron's corpse along with the other Decepticon bodies. The clandestine human organisation brought the bodies to a secret facility in the Nevada desert, with the intention of getting every bit of information they can out of the dead Decepticons before they were forced to dump them into the sea. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1}} When he arrived to oversee the burial of those who fell in Mission City, Optimus Prime noticed the surviving AllSpark fragment glowed when near Megatron's body, and gave it to [[Vine|Professor Vine]] for safekeeping. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2}} Weeks later, Megatron, along with Blackout, was dumped into the Laurentian Abyss. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

Later, after Megatron's machinations with The Fallen were undone by Optimus and his Autobots, Megatron freed Shockwave, whose inactive body had been captured by humans much as his had been. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} He sent out Shockwave to retrieve Starscream, who had clandestinely begun dealing Cybertronian weaponry to humans. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 1|Rising Storm #1}} As he waited, Megatron fumed about Optimus Prime's past decision to send out the AllSpark into space, internally justifying to himself all his past deeds as necessary evils in the face of Optimus's own transgressions against their species. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} While Shockwave and Starscream did their parts in Megatron's scheme, Megatron stayed behind in Nambia, teaching the hatchlings under his care to recognize the image of Optimus Prime, presumably to know him as their enemy. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

When Starscream dared to question Megatron's latest scheme, the Decepticon leader took out his frustration by pummeling his underling, reminding him to always remember his place in the Decepticon hierarchy. Fed up with being pushed around, Starscream shoved Megatron back and took to the air. Megatron didn't bother to pursue, as he knew that one way or another, Starscream would always return to him. {{storylink|Transformers: Starscream}}
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====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

===Titan movie comics===
[[File:MegatronMovie GeoffSenior.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|''The Beast and its armies shall rise from the pit to make war against God.'']]

Even as [[Lord High Protector]], {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} Megatron was scheming to take power of Cybertron and worlds beyond. He believed the Transformers could gain ultimate power via the All Spark, power to reshape their [[alternate mode]]s into anything they imagined. Breaking all Cybertronian laws, he made direct contact with the All Spark to test his theory and found himself with a mighty new alternate mode. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4|Megatron V. Optimus Prime}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Megatron Profile}} War was declared and Megatron's army of Decepticons swept the planet.

Ratchet tried to negotiate a peace and was almost murdered by Megatron in the process. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3|Ratchet Profile}} When [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] fought injustices outside of any faction, Megatron personally made an example of her. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Arcee bio}}

To stop Megatron getting the AllSpark, the Autobots tricked him into looking for it at [[Tyger Pax]] {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} while they launched towards the [[Alkaris Anomaly]], a wormhole that could potentially transport the cube to any one of an infinite number of locations in the universe. Megatron, noticing the launch, was fully capable of catching up to the cube before it would enter the wormhole, but as he passed Cybertron's moon, he found himself ensnared by an Autobot tractor beam of remarkable strength that pulled him down to the moon's surface.

Megatron was able to create a drone unit capable of zeroing in on Optimus Prime's unique energy matrix signature within his spark core. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prelude: Optimus Prime}}

Enraged by the ignominy of it all, Megatron turned his weapons on the Autobots responsible, but quickly calmed down enough to realize that this was only playing into their hands, and instead ordered [[Brawl (Movie)|Devastator]] to take his place in the battle. Megatron swooped back into space, hot on the AllSpark's heels, but was unable to stop the cube from falling through the anomaly. Determined to have the AllSpark's power, Megatron chose to enter the wormhole himself, only to be spat out in some far-off star system, with no trace of the AllSpark... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Prelude: Megatron}}

Megatron entered the [[Solar System]], where he freed [[The Fallen]] from his pocket dimension prison on one of [[Saturn]]'s moons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|The Fallen's profile}}

{{note|This leads into [[Movie Prequel issue 2|''Movie Prequel'' #2]].}}

Even when Megatron was missing in action, the idea he might come back was enough to stop [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] from killing Decepticons who'd ticked him off. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.1|Adrift in Space and Time}} The only exception was [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] but in early 2011, Megatron (with [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] was his catspaw) attacked and defeated this upstart. None of Bludgeon's men ''dared'' mess with Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson!}}

====Alternate timeline====
In [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma|another reality]], Megatron defeated Optimus at [[Mission City]], killed Sam Witwicky and took control of the AllSpark. He was fully linked to it and drew on its power—"It is me and I am it!"—giving him greater might and the ability to heal any wound. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}}

After conquering an unknown chunk of Earth (including the entire [[United States of America]]) with [[Dropkick]] as his second-in-command, he used the AllSpark's power to start turning Earth from an organic world into a new Cybertron. Optimus Prime lay frozen in the [[Hoover Dam|old Sector Seven base]], Autobot resistance was scattered, and NATO's threat to nuke occupied America was hardly much of one. [[File:Megatron Bumbleslap.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|"''Sigh'' Even mindless violence seems boring today..."]] The only thing bothering Megatron was those rebels breaking into Hoover Dam... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

Megatron personally arrived to face [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and hunted for him, trying to bait him into appearing. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}} Realising the Autobot must have come with a human ally, he deliberately threatened to go after the human and thus got an emotional Bumblebee to make a defiant attack... at which point he backhanded Bumblebee into the wall and prepared to eviscerate him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 11|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3}} He gave the Autobot a chance at a swift death if he begged for mercy, and was quite impressed when Bumblebee merely asked "that all you got?", but was less impressed when Autobot reinforcements arrived. [[File:Megatron Titan12.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|Megatron's BDSM Dungeon just wasn't meeting expectations.]] He effortlessly smashed them aside and was about to kill [[Skyblast (Movie)|Skyblast]] when a new challenger arrived: the revived Optimus! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}}

Optimus Prime got the snot beaten out of him, every attack he landed on Megatron being repaired by AllSpark power. However, he distracted Megatron long enough for Bumblebee to hit him with the ''other'' thing they'd broken into the Dam for: Sector Seven's greatest weapon, a nanovirus that targeted AllSpark operation frequencies. Infected, the tyrant was consumed from within by his own power and collapsed dead. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

Or so it appeared. He'd downloaded his mind into the AllSpark interface module, knowing Starscream would take it and assimilate it into himself. And so Megatron was able to be a voice in Starscream's head for weeks and weeks—and finally, when Starscream had suffered a setback and wanted a plan to stop the Autobots, Megatron gave him one: to let him out... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

While Starscream didn't, he ''did'' follow Megatron's tactical suggestions. He had the Decepticons use both carrot (promise of truce) ''and'' stick (multiple attacks) to make the US government, prompted by [[Theodore Allen|the mind-controlled President Allen]], boot out the Autobots—and then nuke them as they left, giving the Decepticons a clear shot at reconquest! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution Part 1}} This plan backfired when [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] intervened, and Megatron visited a broken, gibbering Starscream to once again tell him the only way out was to release him and let him walk the Earth again. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Revolution Part 2}}
[[File:Starscreamseesthings Titan25.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|''You're looking throooough me...'']]

This time Starscream ''did''... much to his dismay when he realised what he'd done. And so, when Stockade's New Decepticons stormed the [[Decepticon Heartland]], Megatron was there to "greet" them with fiery death!

Megatron fought Stockade in single combat, and [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]]-fueled punches rained down on him—only for him to ''grab'' a punch and use the momentum to hurl his opponent, berating him for lacking clear ambition to support his strength. This fight would've carried on except then the Autobots turned up. Trashing a rebellion, conquering Earth, ''and'' killing Optimus Prime in one day?! WOOOOO!

But Optimus drew first blood, and before Megatron could truly fight back, he was forcibly teleported with his Decepticons to Cybertron. A dead Cybertron. A dead Cybertron that itself teleported to an unknown area of space, leaving them trapped with no way back and no way off, ''forever''.

{{bigquote|'''PRIIIIIME!'''}}

{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}

===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
"The Ice Man" was kept in deep freeze by [[Sector Seven]] in their super-secret [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base|High Arctic Base]] until they decided to move him closer to the [[Allspark]] in [[1969]]. The convoy was disrupted when the driver of the lead truck spun out causing the rest of the vehicles to pile up on the icy roads. It was determined later that the driver was the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] spy [[Sergei Tasarov]] who had taken the place of the Sector Seven agent Peter Hodgson.

While the convoy prepared their defenses and a Soviet strike force attacked trying to obtain the Ice Man.

When Megatron came partially online, it was obvious that some time had passed. Not only was he encased in a primitive transport, but there were [[Human|lifeforms]] fighting over him. Before Megatron could properly exterminate them, another crude transport crashed into his, causing a massive (but not spark-threatening) explosion. Megatron would have been pleased to know that the fire only added to his terrifying visage in the eyes of the maggots. Regaining his composure, Megatron noticed [[Philip Nolan|an insect]] standing near him. As Megatron reached out to grab it, [[Thomas Kinnear|another insect]], this one terminally damaged, began firing crude projectiles which his body armor easily deflected. Waiting until after the creature had expended its ammunition, Megatron grabbed it in his hand, only to discover that it had packed itself with explosives, which threw Megatron to the ground when they detonated. Then, the aforementioned first insect began spraying liquid nitrogen on Megatron, causing him to go back into stasis. Unable to escape, Megatron screamed a dark vengeance upon his captors. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

===Toy bios===
Megatron was ''born'' evil, always wanting domination of everything. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Voyager Megatron}} His fiery diatribes still managed to sway thousands, however. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Robot Replicas|Robot Replica Megatron}}

At some point, he took a stealth mode so he could attack Optimus without warning. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Battlers|Night Attack Megatron}}

When frozen on Earth, he remained vaguely conscious and remembers a few things from when he warmed up slightly. At one point, his body was worshipped as a god by [[protohuman]]s. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Premium Series Megatron}}

He was blasted into stasis lock by the AllSpark and dumped in the sea, trapped and seething with rage. The Decepticons fixed him using cannibalised parts from themselves but Megatron gave no shits: he just wanted revenge! Now, feeling the AllSpark's power flowing inside him, he had the power to finally destroy Prime! {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 2|Megatron (Voyager)}} {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Leader Class toys 2|Megatron (Leader)}}

In the end, that did nothing and he swapped bodies for a new Blastwave Weapons Base arsenal. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Cyberverse|Blastwave Weapons Base}}

===Beast Wars Diorama Story===
[[File:BWDiorama Megatrons.jpg|thumb|left]]
On Earth in the past and in another universe, a group of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], led by another [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], battled a contingent of [[Maximal]]s in a forest. {{storylink|Optimus Primal Chapter}}

Some time into the battle, a warp opened, bringing with it [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], and [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]. After being defeated by the Maximals, Starscream joined the Predacons. {{storylink|Tigatron Chapter}} [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] later appeared and joined the Predacons, as well. As the battled raged, Megatron came in through the warp. {{storylink|Gimlet Chapter}}

The Decepticon Megatron brought along [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], and the two Megatrons combined their troops into a fearsome force against the Autobots and Maximals. In the ensuing skirmish, Megatron stood on a cliff edge and loomed over the battle. The two factions then took formation against each other with the intention of combining their energies to attack the opposing side. The Predacon Megatron led the combined Predacon/Decepticon force. With [[Motorarm (BWII)|Motorarm]] leading the charge, the Maximals and the Autobots attacked first. {{storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}
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===Cyber Missions===
{{voiceactor|[[Tony Gialluca II]] (English)|[[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
[[File:CyberMissions4 Megatron.JPG|right|thumb|300|You wants a Megatron more ugly?]]

Hiding in a disused factory, Megatron was able to cloak the energy signature of his spark, so that when Optimus and Sideswipe turned up, they didn't notice him hiding under a pile of girders. He was able to get the drop on them and sneeringly mocked them as they fought, until Sideswipe jabbed him in the foot. Optimus suggested he surrender, but Megatron instead transformed to tank mode and brought the roof down on them. By the time the two Autobots recovered, Megatron was gone. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 4}}

Not soon after the encounter, Megatron ordered his subordinate [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] to rendezvous somewhere in the Arctic, and revealed that he knew of his ambition to take over leadership of the Decepticons. However, due to the Autobots tracking Starscream en route to Megatron's location, Optimus Prime appeared not long after. Starscream and Megatron double-teamed Optimus for a brief time before the other members of Optimus's team arrived. Ordering Starscream to deal with the others, Megatron continued to attack. Megatron is soon beaten down and asks his foe if he will finish him, but Optimus grants him mercy and allows him to escape. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}}

Megatron received the energy signature of [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], and tracked him to a bullet train, which he soon stopped dead in its tracks (literally). [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], Starscream, and [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]] soon arrived on the scene. As Megatron attempted to retrieve his fallen communications officer, he discovered that it was in fact a hologram created by [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]], and was a distraction while the Autobots arrived. Megatron once again fought Optimus, who pointed out that Megatron's alliances were merely because of fear, unlike the Autobots' alliances. The human military arrived, and the Decepticons were backed into a corner. Optimus then declared that they leave Earth or face the consequences. The other 'Cons retreated, while Megatron made one final promise to destroy Earth the next time around, and blasted off into space. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===''I Can Read!'' books===
[[File:MegatronandStarsscreamdig-TrainingDay.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.75]]
Megatron's latest scheme to defeat the Autobots was to dig a series of underground tunnels to ambush his enemies wherever they may be. Or, more precisely, his plan was to have Starscream dig the tunnels while Megatron supervised. When the two Decepticons surfaced to attack Optimus, Sideswipe, Bumblebee and Ironhide, they were thwarted despite the element of surprise being on their side. {{storylink|Training Day (book)|Training Day}}
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===''Hunt for the Decepticons'' storybooks===
[[File:Megatronstucktoelectromagnet-PrimeTarget.jpeg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Megatron planted a [[New lab assistant|Decepticon spy]] at Sam's university to exploit Optimus's friendship with the boy. He had his agent send a false distress signal to Optimus through Sam's computer, prompting Optimus to arrive alone at the University's science lab. There, Megatron used a supermagnet to lock Optimus in his vehicle mode. Now holding his enemy at a disadvantage, Megatron began to brutalize Optimus Prime. If not for Sam arriving at that moment and turning the supermagnet against Megatron, the Decepticon leader would have surely slain Optimus. With Megatron stuck to the magnet, he was reduced to relying on Starscream's help to be freed while Optimus and Sam escaped his clutches once more. {{storylink|Prime Target (book)|Prime Target}}

Upon witnessing Megatron being defeated by Optimus one too many times, Soundwave concocted a plan to damage the Autobots' reputation in the humans' eyes, whom he blamed for the Decepticons' continued failures. {{storylink|Satellite Meltdown}}
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===''Spot the 'Bots''===
Megatron was hiding in broad daylight behind a tree when Optimus spotted him. Megatron tried to get away in his tank mode, but more Autobots joined the chase. Nonetheless, Megatron managed to make it to an old warehouse, where Starscream and Ravage were waiting for him. The two factions then battled it out for the fate of the Earth! {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Spot the 'Bots}}
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===''Unite for the Universe''===
Megatron entrusted [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] with a mission to steal the fruits of N.E.S.T.'s most recent labor: the Unite Weapons Program. Megatron promised Bludgeon command of his Earth-stationed troops if he succeeded. Starscream protested, claiming that Earth should rightfully be his to command. Megatron dismissed his second-in-command, reminding him that all of Earth was his, and that those under him were little more than stewards to his reign. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}}

Starscream managed to acquire newfound power behind Megatron's back by imitating the human-Autobot alliance's process of recycling fallen Cybertronian bodies into upgrades. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|Bludgeon's Revenge}} The upgrade affected Starscream's mental stability, however, and seeing his subordinate sowing unnecessary destruction, Megatron decided to put an immediate end to his power play. Through [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], he tasked [[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]] and [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] with taking Starscream down, but Starscream proved too powerful for them. Enraged, Megatron headed out to deal with Starscream himself. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}}

Slamming into the battlefield, Megatron warned Starscream that resisting him would only lead to greater suffering on his part. Uncowed, Starscream boasted that nothing could stop him, and the two Decepticons wrestled fiercely, ignoring the nearby Autobots. Optimus and his troops soon stepped in to interfere, prompting Megatron to focus on Optimus instead of the rebellious Decepticon. When Optimus refused to withdraw, as Megatron deemed the fight to be none of his concern, the Decepticon leader called in additional troops to support him. During the chaos, Ratchet managed to burn out Starscream's upgrades, rendering them unsalvageable. With any prize worth fighting for destroyed, Megatron sounded a retreat, vowing that soon he would have his reckoning against the Autobots. {{storylink|The Strongest Weapon}}
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===''The Creation Revoltech!''===
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===''Prepare to Battle'' prequel material===
Long ago, during his search for [[AllSpark]], Megatron knew that the [[Knights of Cybertron]] would stand between him and the AllSpark, so he approached them offering to surrender in return for amnesty, in reality planning to get rid of them. The Knights reluctantly accepted and the entirety of their group arrived for the meeting. Megatron and his forces used this occasion to trap and destroy them.

Centuries later, [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] reported an intercepted transmission from [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]], the last of the Knights. Realizing that Evac represented an era of Cybertron before him, an era he wished to erase, and that he was also after the last shard of the All Spark, Megatron knew the destruction of the Knights and possession of the shard were in his reach. {{storylink|Prepare for Battle (website)}}

===Mega-Mouth===
[[Megatron (WFC)|A certain Megatron]] from an alternate universe seemed to think he was ''this'' Megatron, as he claimed he attacked Sentinel. {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.1#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #1}} He also explained why he wore a cowl in ''Dark of the Moon'', {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.4#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #4}} and claimed that he survived ''Dark of the Moon''... well that Megatron was ''not so wrong'' about the last one... {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.5#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #5}}

===''Cheetos'' comics===
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{{storylink|Cheetos/Transformers: Age of Extinction|Cheetos/''Transformers: Age of Extinction''}}

===''TransTech''===
[[File:C-81andScalpel-CMW.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|left]]
In one timeline, moments before Optimus Prime was able to dispatch Megatron after the Decepticons' destruction of Chicago, a mysterious force caused Megatron's position to spontaneously shift. Now finding himself behind his foe, Megatron killed both Optimus and Sentinel Prime. Megatron then proceeded to rebuild his Cybertronian empire, repairing himself bit by bit along the way. Despite Megatron's victory on Earth, a new Autobot leader eventually rose up to challenge him: [[Rodimus (DOTM)|Rodimus Prime]]. The Autobot/Decepticon war began anew, culminating in the final showdown between Rodimus and Megatron. The two warriors battled atop a space bridge, with Rodimus gaining the upper hand. The duel ended when Megatron, dangling from the space bridge, decided to simply let go and fall into the abyss instead of letting Rodimus's final blow strike its target. Megatron then awoke in [[Axiom Nexus]]. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Megatron's bio card}}

Allegedly, when the Transcendent Technomorphs came upon Megatron, they mistook him for a derelict heap, and only to identified his three Mini-Con companions, [[Boombox]], [[Heavyweight]], and [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]]. Megatron somehow obtained a counterfeit [[identification bolt]], and renamed himself "C-81" to avoid complications with Axiom Nexus's "Dux non Intruitus" law. C-81 then proceeded to gather a crew to work under him, including [[Battletrap]], [[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]], and [[Nebulon (SG)|Nebulon]]. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} Together, they were Cybertron's most wanted criminals... save for C-81 himself, as the TransTechs were not specifically aware of him. Keeping his anonymity all the while, C-81 allowed other crime bosses take credit for his work while he committed several thefts. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/06/16}} {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} With the technology he acquired, C-81 planned to build an interuniversal gate, and provide paying customers with an "off-the-books" travel agency. On his final raid, his greed got the better of him, and his crew wound up on the run from the local police force. Despite his efforts to cut through [[Seeker-Shinai]], an [[Axiom Nexus Security Administration|OZSA]] team led by [[Hound (G1)|Sergeant Hound]] caught up with him, and C-81 was brought to the offworlder maximum security prison.

[[File:C-81ripsBeet-ChitfromZaptrap-CMW.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5]]
While being held, C-81's crew met two more criminals that ranked amongst the most wanted on the planet, [[Oilmaster]] and [[Packrat]]. With these new recruits, the whole gang managed to escape the prison, only to find Axiom Nexus shut down on the outside. They then headed to Axiom Nexus's underground tunnel system, and made their way to one of their hidden weapons stashes. There, they bumped into [[Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)|Lift-Ticket]], [[Burn Out]], and [[Spy-Eye (Diaclone)|Spy-Eye]], who immediately took off. Suspecting this trio might report them to the authorities, C-81's crew gave chase, only to wind up in the middle of a [[Waruder]] nest. They battled these extradimensional invaders for a time, but found themselves overwhelmed by sheer numbers. The tables turned when [[Optimus Prime (G1)|General Optimus Prime]] and Sergeant Hound joined in, along with the returning Burn Out and Lift-Ticket. C-81 was instrumental to the victory against the Waruders. He ripped out [[Beet-Chit|their commander]] from [[Zaptrap (Diaclone)|his exo-suit]], and forced him to negotiate. Offering a Cybertron free of opposition in exchange for their peaceful departure, C-81 completed his interuniversal gate and escorted the Waruders to the abandoned planet. General Optimus Prime informed C-81 that he could not allow him to keep his gate, but agreed to keep C-81's identity a secret out of gratitude. In the end, C-81 was simply glad to have had the adventure. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}
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===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa]], Megatron rather than Optimus Prime killed the Fallen. Galvanized by his victory, Megatron returned to space to gather his army. He considered conquering Earth but realized that the true prize was Cybertron. With his troops ready for combat, Megatron led them on a successful campaign all over Earth against the Autobots and NEST. He also had Soundwave plant clues about the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s presence on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] for Sam Witwicky to discover. Optimus Prime fell for the bait and took the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' to the Moon to revive [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Backed into a corner by the Decepticons' offensive, Optimus hastily revived Sentinel on the Moon's surface, and Megatron captured Optimus with the traitorous Sentinel's aid. With the aid of human collaborators, Megatron used [[space bridge]] technology to bring Cybertron into Earth orbit. Under the leadership of Dylan Gould, humans were put to work strip-mining Earth for resources to repair Cybertron.

Everything changed with the arrival of [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], who demanded that Prime be handed over to him. Megatron and Sentinel both refused, the former out of pride and the latter out of loyalty. However, when Sentinel was tempted by Lockdown's offer of a protomatter [[seed]], Optimus used the opportunity to reignite Sentinel's sense of justice. Sentinel pretended to hand over Optimus, proceeding to ambush Lockdown, defeat him, and capture his [[Knight Ship|vessel]]. Allying themselves with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]]s, Sentinel and Optimus Prime waged a long guerilla campaign against Megatron's Decepticons, eventually restoring humankind's freedom and revitalizing Cybertron with the seed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 22/7/2015}}

In [[Tyran 511.0 Kappa]], Megatron also returned as Galvatron, but his old subordinate [[Wild Rider]] remained loyal to his new Autobot comrades even in the face of Megatron's rebirth. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/9/2015}}

==Commercial appearances==
Megatron smashed some guys' cars just as they were about to retrieve them from the valet service. He did exactly the same thing to some woman's car too. It was awesome. Well, not for the car's owner. Otherwise, it was awesome. {{storylink|Commercial/Transformers (2007)#General Motors|Transformers Chevy tie-in commercial}}

==Games==
{{main|Megatron (Movie)/games}}

==Toys==

{{main|Megatron (Movie)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Movie Megatron olduglyface.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|I'm blind!]]
*The prototype photographs on the back of Fast Action Battler, Leader, and Voyager class Megatron's packaging show him with a completely different head based upon an earlier version of CGI design (seen on the right) that was dropped after much negative fan reaction. Legends class Megatron retains this head shape.
*According to The Movie Guide, Megatron is one of the few Transformers capable of space travel without reverting to a protoform. This explains how he was capable of chasing the AllSpark ''immediately'' after its launch.
[[File:EarlyMegsMovieConceptartwithG1headandbody.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|This would've shut [[GEEWUN|them]] up.]]
*The earliest concept designs of Megatron gave him a look very much inspired by his ''Generation One'' counterpart. Unlike the Cybertronic jet seen in the first movie, this Megatron was intended to transform into an army tank.
*According to [[The Quest for the AllSpark]] paperback's opening paragraph, "...Most revered were Optimus and Megatron. They were twin brothers of the Prime dynasty." (This implies that Megatron may have also had the surname "Prime" at one time.) Similarly, in the ''Autobots'' version of the same DS game, it is noted that Megatron "took the spark" of his and Optimus' father. However, in the [[Transformers Comic issue 2.12|twelfth issue of Titan's ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comic]], [[Barricade (Movie)|"Barricade"]] informed readers that Megatron and Optimus weren't related, the term "brother" was just because they'd known each other for so long. However, the ''[[Transformers: Foundation|Foundation]]'' comic series sheds more light on this, with Optimus and Megatron being LIKE brothers and Sentinel being like a father to them and his supposed death on Megatron's order brings the whole scenario full circle.
*Early script drafts and a [[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron|children's picture book]] featured Megatron consuming the [[spark]]s of his fallen foes, but this didn't make it into the final film due to time constraints. The novelization of the movie, on the other hand, sees him chow down on Jazz in the final battle; similarly, although not outright stated in dialogue, his animalistic pouncing on the fallen bodies of various characters (including Optimus Prime, Starscream, Jazz and the [[Create-A-Bot (Decepticon)|Decepticon Create-A-Bot]]) in the Movie Nintendo DS games, following by what appears to be rooting around in their innards, seems to suggest he's doing the same there.
*Despite his undeniable hatred of humans, Megatron is the only Decepticon in the movie who doesn't speak [[Cybertronian languages|Cybertronian]] for the majority of his dialogue. In fact, he speaks ''fluent'' English upon reviving, despite the fact that [[wikipedia:Modern English|Modern English]] came into existence around the Sixteenth century, when he was presumably still frozen in the ice. This could suggest that he still was somehow conscious when he was studied by Sector Seven (which he also overtly states upon awakening in the IDW comic adaptation). This would explain why his first action after thawing was declaring his name—imagine being frozen for generations being referred to as "N.B.E. 1", or even worse: "Mega-Man" ''and'' "Ice-man".
*[[Detroit]] Lions American football player Calvin Johnson has earned the nickname Megatron, due to his large stature and unstoppability. Since he got the nickname around the same time as the movie was in theaters, we assume he was named for this Megatron. Johnson has worn a hat with the Decepticon logo on it.<ref>[http://larrybrownsports.com/football/calvin-johnson-now-rocks-a-megatron-transformers-hat-picture/92078 Calvin Johnson now rocks a Megatron Transformers hat]</ref> Nike came out with a limited edition line "Megatron" styled sports gear for the 2012 Thanksgiving Day game.<ref>[http://www.nikeblog.com/2012/11/22/nike-calvin-johnson-megatron-collection/ Nike Calvin Johnson ‘Megatron’ Collection]</ref>
*The Megatron computer generated model consisted of 2411 individual pieces, 433,949 polygons, 8924 rig nodes, and 1437 texture maps. The pieces combined gave a volume of 10,325 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>
[[File:MBMovieMegatronAttacks.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|You'll find battling me A COSTLY MISTAKE, Optimus Prime!]]
*The [[Milton Bradley]] [[Transformers Battling Card Game]] depicts a couple of unique attacks for Megatron's original form; one card gives him a pair of forearm-mounted blades as an "Arm Sword", and another shows him firing a swarm of missiles from his chest in a "Missile Attack".
*It was decided that Megatron would not be renamed Galvatron in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' for the sake of the general audience.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/180451-welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions-229.html#post3421064 Roberto Orci answers fan questions on the TFW2005 boards.]
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*While ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe]]'' and the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation|comic adaptation]] create the idea that Megatron is a [[Triple Changer]] that alternates between his robot, jet, and tank modes, there is absolutely nothing to support this in the movie. Throughout the entire film, he only transforms into a winged tank portrayed by the Voyager figure and is more than capable of flying in said mode. Of course, whether or not his flying tank mode is considered a third mode is up to interpretation.
*According to his bio on the Hasbro sticker sheets, ''Revenge'' Megatron weighs in at 5.7 metric tons, is 35 feet tall, uses an 'Ion-fused chain whip' for his primary weapon, has a 'Strength power level' of 10, and changes into an 'Interstellar jet.' The mention of a chain whip and a jet mode seem to indicate the card's stats were based on his original form, rather than his ''Revenge of the Fallen'' tank mode. The card also surmises that Megatron's might will 'make the Earth quake, and the stars fall from the sky.' The two-disc special edition of the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' DVD also gives him a height of 35 feet.
*In the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe]]'', it states Megatron possesses an internal self-regenerating dark matter power core which is possibly of alien origin.
*His weatherbeaten Mack tanker truck mode and Cybertronian sawed-off shotgun as seen in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' are fairly straightforward nods to the 1981 film ''[[Wikipedia:Mad Max 2|Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior]]''.
*The whole notion of him even being [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 4|a tanker truck]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' in the first place might be a nod to executive producer [[Steven Spielberg]]'s first movie, [[Wikipedia:Duel (1971 film)|Duel]], where a similar truck is the main "bad guy".
*Early concepts for his ''Dark of the Moon'' design called him Cyclonus in an attempt to curb leaks and spread misinformation.
*Megatron's story was altered significantly twice during development of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Dark of the Moon'': the climax of the second film would have revealed Megatron served The Fallen under the pretense of becoming a Prime, which Optimus exposes a lie, explaining Primes are born, not made. An angered Megatron refused to aid The Fallen in his final battle, and returned to the ''Nemesis'' via The Fallen's space bridge to raise an army of hatchlings. In the film he is removed from the battle by having Optimus disfigure him with his own cannon, forcing him to hide as a truck in Africa. Megatron would have survived ''Dark of the Moon'', with Optimus accepting the truce after helping kill Sentinel, with Megatron returning to Cybertron and leaving the possibility open to a fourth film. On screen, Megatron's offer comes across as less than sincere, allowing Optimus to finally tear his head off.
*Megatron is the only character to have appeared in all three movies to have received a distinctly different body design and alternate form for each film. Each subsequent change having an in-story reason as well (brought back from the dead and repaired in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', and being forced into hiding due to injuries he sustained at the end of the former-mentioned film in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''). This trend even follows into ''[[Transformers: The Ride – 3D]]'', wherein Megatron appears in his DOTM body, but with the ROTF "Murder arm".
*In all three movies, Megatron's fusion cannon makes a distinctive noise as it charges that none of the other weapons in the films make. Generation 1 Megatron's fusion cannon also had a unique sound effect.
*The "axe wound" in Megatron's head has shrunk considerably; although, if Megatron was alive, then he may have been able to heal his wounds to some degree.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Megatron''' (メガトロン ''Megatoron'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Megaton''' (Taiwan, 密卡登 ''Mìkǎdēng''), '''Wēi Zhèn Tīan''' (China, 威震天, "Extremely Prestigious", literally "Heaven-shaking Might")

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/toytables/movie_megatron.htm Megatron at TFU.info]

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Megatron (Movie)

2017-02-26T00:54:38Z

Halfshell25: /* Notes */ I'm almost certain Megatron's head wasn't CGI in the film. I'm pretty sure that's the prop.

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:''Megatron is the [[Decepticon]] leader from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Movie Megatron Defiance3.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Friends, [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticonians]], countrybots, lend me your audio receptors!]]

'''Megatron''' was not always the viciously powerful and brutally direct leader of the Decepticons: he was once brothers-in-arms with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] and a student of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], appointed to be Cybertron's [[Lord High Protector|Protector]] and commander of its [[Defense Force]]. But Megatron resented his comrade, knowing he was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] and therefore Sentinel's favored son. This anger allowed [[The Fallen]] to ensnare him and led to the revival of the Decepticons. Even without The Fallen, it's not hard to imagine that Megatron would have erupted Cybertron into war to rid himself of Optimus.

Megatron tends to become so obsessed with the object of his desires that he can ignore "secondary" matters, glaring flaws in his plans. Otherwise, he likely wouldn't have chased after the [[AllSpark]] alone, and spent centuries entombed in the [[Arctic]]. Trying to talk Megatron out of blindly going for his goals is useless. He will risk his world, his troops, and even his own [[spark]] to achieve his goals; these things do not matter to Megatron. Like his master, Megatron feels a violent hatred towards [[human]]s and views them as only slightly above bacteria, a feeling exacerbated by spending decades as their prisoner.

Despite this fatal flaw, Megatron did not achieve his dreaded status through simple warmongering. He's a manipulative, cunning strategist who can plan [[Ark (DOTM)|multiple]] [[Star Harvester|schemes]] spanning millennia, and while they may overlap, they all help him towards his one, true goal: the restoration of Cybertron. For all his evils, Megatron genuinely strives to save his home planet some day, and with it, the [[Transformer|Cybertronian race]]: even if it means he has to rule it with his iron fist and put his bloodlust to good use to do so.

He sometimes goes by the name '''C-81'''.

{{quote|You still fight for the weak! That is why ''you lose!''|Megatron to Optimus|[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]}}

==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The five movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}
====2007 ''Transformers'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[José Santa Cruz]] (Brazil), [[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German) [[Luca Biagini]] (Italian), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:Movie2007 Megatron ArchibaldWitwicky.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Oh baby, you know just the spot to turn me on!]]

Megatron eventually succeeded in tracking the AllSpark to [[Earth]], where he rather embarrassingly crash-landed in the Arctic Circle and was frozen solid for thousands of years. In [[1897]], some 100 Earth-years before the arrival of the other Transformers, he was discovered by an explorer named [[Archibald Witwicky|Archibald Amundsen Witwicky]]. Captain Witwicky accidentally activated Megatron's navigation system and caused the coordinates of the AllSpark to be etched onto the explorer's glasses. Megatron remained imprisoned in the Arctic until the 1930s, when he was dug out by the United States government and moved to a secret [[Sector Seven]] stronghold inside [[Hoover Dam]]. In the years that followed, many modern devices (by Earth standards) were reverse-engineered from his frozen body.

[[File:Movie Megatron breakout.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Mace isn't for spraying, it's for hitting.]]

In the present day, having searched the galaxy for the AllSpark and being drawn to Earth, the remaining Decepticons learned of Witwicky's glasses. Through the Internet, they determined the location of both Megatron and the AllSpark inside Hoover Dam. [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] infiltrated the dam and shut down the power systems, while Starscream attacked the external powerlines, resulting in Megatron's thawing out. Once again online, the leader of the Decepticons informed the worthless insects of his true name, shouting "I am Megatron!" (to clear up all that N.B.E.-01/Ice Man nonsense), randomly killed a few of them while destroying his former prison, then transformed and flew off after the AllSpark again. He met up with Starscream for the first time in thousands of years on the outside, and, never one for pleasantries, immediately demanded to know where the Cube was. Upon learning that the humans had moved the AllSpark, Megatron berated Starscream for yet another failure.

[[File:Movie2007 Megatron Starscream.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|You fail me yet again Starscream... will I ever meet [[Starscream (SG)|a Starscream that is truly loyal?]]]]

After Starscream and Devastator's opening attacks in [[Mission City]], Megatron arrived, and again declared his name (he really wants people to know who he is). The Autobots were so panicked by the sight of their long lost nemesis that [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] called for a temporary retreat. Megatron blasted [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] backwards when the diminutive Autobot attempted to attack, then threw him into the air before crushing him on top of a tower with his clawed talons. Jazz valiantly fought on, asking if Megatron wanted a "piece" of him, but doing little damage to the Decepticon leader. Megatron viciously killed the Autobot by tearing him in half, callously declaring that he wanted "two".

[[File:Movie Megatron jetmode cityfight.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Whoa, that energon's not settling too well.]]

As [[Sam Witwicky|the human boy]] ran off with the AllSpark, Megatron ordered the Decepticons to [[Decepticons, attack|attack]]. Devastator attacked the armed insects, while Starscream and [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] fought [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and Ratchet for the AllSpark. At that moment, Optimus Prime appeared and challenged Megatron. Millennia in the ice had done nothing to lessen the animosity Megatron felt for his brother, however. Barely managing to growl out Prime's name, he transformed and flew at Prime at full speed. The Autobot leader leapt and grabbed a hold of Megatron, who slammed him into a building before flying right through a skyscraper. Both leaders landed in the middle of an intersection, but Megatron was the first to recover and leaped upon his brother, snarling that the humans were undeserving of life. Optimus Prime replied that they had the right to choose for themselves. Hearing this, the snarling Megatron tossed Optimus aside. Megatron declared that if Prime wished to defend them, he should "join them in extinction", forming his [[fusion cannon]]. Before he could fire, the Autobot leader drew his [[ion blaster]] and fired, hitting Megatron. The Decepticon leader shrugged off this attack, spun around from the momentum and fired his cannon, sending Optimus Prime flying into the side of a building.

[[File:Movie Megatron Samonroof.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Oh look I found a stray human... wonder if I can keep him as a pet... come on boy, don't be scared. I'll take you to a new home.]]

Megatron pursued the young human who had removed the AllSpark from Hoover Dam, destroying everything that stood in his way. The boy ran to a dilapidated building that was the designated coordinates for a human military evacuation team, and Megatron smashed his way through, yelling that he could smell the human maggot. Starscream destroyed the helicopter intended to take the AllSpark, and Megatron burst through the floor, inquiring if it was courage or fear that compelled him. Finally cornering him on a ledge, Megatron offered that if the human gave him the AllSpark, the boy might live as [[Ravage (G1)|his]] [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet]]. The Decepticon leader relished the human's defiant refusal and destroyed the ledge the human was standing upon, sending the boy tumbling to the ground.

[[File:Movie2007 Prime Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Get up, so I can knock you back down!]]

Unfortunately, the human was caught by Optimus Prime, who then tried to escape down the side of the building before Megatron tackled him and sent all three slamming into the pavement. As a nearby [[Michael Bay|human bystander]] attempted to crawl away, the Decepticon expressed his disgust at the insect's proximity and flicked it away. Protecting the young boy, Prime declared that their war would end here and it was now just between the two brothers. Though lusting for the AllSpark, Megatron decided to indulge his brother's obvious death wish, declaring that only he was in this fight. Despite Optimus Prime's best efforts, Megatron was relentless, matching the Autobot leader with blow after devastating blow until he collapsed. Adding insult to injury, Megatron informed Prime that his defense of the "weak" was the real reason he lost.

[[File:Megatron allspark merge.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb| The AllSpark will give you sparkburn!]]

The Decepticon leader turned his attention back to the human boy, but was suddenly attacked by the human fighter jets and [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]]'s ground soldiers firing sabot rounds. Optimus took this chance, striking Megatron and knocking him down. His armor a damaged, shattered mess, Megatron ignored the punishment and focused on the human boy, growling that he would kill the boy and that the AllSpark was his. As Optimus Prime ordered the boy to place the AllSpark into his chest, the human instead pushed it into the now-exposed [[spark]] in Megatron's chest, overloading him with energy and extinguishing the Decepticon's life force. As Optimus Prime stood over Megatron's lifeless shell, watching the light flicker out of his brother's [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optics]], he remarked somberly, yet remorsefully, that Megatron had left him no choice, and removed a shard of the AllSpark from his brother's spark core.

Megatron's body was dumped into the [[Laurentian Abyss]] at its deepest point, along with the remains of the other Decepticons, where the near-freezing temperatures would, hopefully, keep them dormant indefinitely. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]],” “[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]],” and "[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"; the "[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; the activity book "[[Look and Find Transformers]]"; and the storybooks “[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]],” “[[Transformers (interactive Play-a-Sound Storybook)|Transformers Play-a-Sound]],” "[[Meet the Autobots]]," "[[Meet the Decepticons]]," "[[Transformers Mix & Match]]" and "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]."}}
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====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japan)|[[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German), [[José Santa Cruz]] (Brazil) [[Luca Biagini]] (Italian), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:ROTFMegatronRising.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Now, where's Starscream? I want to give him a piece of my mind.]]

Megatron's death would not last long, however. [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] tapped into a conversation between [[NEST]] and General [[Morshower]], listening to Director [[Theodore Galloway]] mention that 1) a shard of the [[AllSpark]] was in storage in [[Diego Garcia]] and 2) Megatron's body lay in the [[Laurentian Abyss]]. [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] was sent to steal the shard, and swam to the Abyss with [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]], [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]], [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]], [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]] and [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)|Scrapmetal]]. Scalpel ordered spare parts be used to repair Megatron's body with "ze little one", who was torn apart by his larger brethren, and then struck Megatron with the shard: the Decepticon leader was reborn as a Cybertronian tank with flight capabilities and a [[death-lock pincer]]. Megatron flew up to the surface, striking a [[USS Topeka|submarine]] on his way, before journeying into space to find the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]''.

[[File:TheFallen-ROTFNemesis.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"My Master, I have fai--" "I'm trying to watch the game here!"]]

On the ruined ship, Megatron met up with [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and chastised his subordinate for leaving him to die on Earth. Starscream defended his actions by saying that he had to take care of the [[hatchling]]s, who were dying without [[energon]], as someone had to take command in Megatron's absence. Furious, Megatron bashed Starscream into a wall containing protoform sacks, and told Starscream that even in death, there is no command but Megatron's. Megatron met up with [[The Fallen]], who was weakened and in a life support chair. Megatron told his master he had failed and allowed the AllSpark to be destroyed, but The Fallen told Megatron that the knowledge of the AllSpark had instead been transferred to the human boy who killed him, [[Sam Witwicky]]. With the knowledge within Sam's mind, they could find another energon source, hidden away from The Fallen eons ago. Already eager to avenge himself, Megatron begged The Fallen for the chance to strip the flesh from Sam, but The Fallen asked for patience. Before they could act, Megatron was to kill [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], who was the last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] and the only one that could defeat the Fallen. Megatron knew that Optimus would protect the boy, and ordered him captured.

[[File:ROTF Megatron tank mode.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Don't blink. He isn't like this much.]]

Megatron sprang a trap, dispatching [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]] to take [[Sam Witwicky]], [[Mikaela Banes]] and [[Leo Spitz]] to him at an abandoned factory. Although Megatron would have rather killed Sam slowly and painfully, Sam had valuable information as to the energon source's location in his mind, which he had received from his own AllSpark fragment. Megatron held the boy down while Scalpel performed several invasive probes of Sam's mind. Scalpel's probes confirmed The Fallen's claims, and Scalpel declared that they needed Sam's brain on the table, something Megatron had no objections to. Just as Scalpel was ready to dissect Sam's brain, Optimus and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] burst in to rescue the humans. Megatron attempted to attack Optimus, but was shot out of the factory as he pounced. Optimus drove Sam to a forest, with Megatron in hot pursuit. The Autobot and Decepticon leaders transformed and battled as Sam fled. Optimus was pretty easily dominating the fight, trash talking Megatron all the while, eventually forcing Megatron to call his Decepticons for help.

[[File:ROTFPrimePunch.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Body or face, Megatron?" "Not the face!" "Too bad!"]]

Starscream and Grindor immediately arrived to aid their commander. Megatron told Optimus that Sam could lead them to another energon source, then counterattacked his foe, kicking off Prime's [[mouthplate]] and blasting him backwards. Appearing to have a slight advantage, Megatron taunted the Autobot leader, asking if one boy was worth the future of the Cybertronians. Prime replied that he'd never stop at killing just one, then took on all three Decepticons. Surprisingly, he was winning, punching and stabbing Megatron multiple times, ripping off Starscream's right arm, and tearing Grindor apart. However, as a weary Prime tried to find Sam, Megatron [[Death-lock pincer|stabbed]] him in the back and blasted through his spark: Prime fell, mortally wounded. As Megatron moved for the boy, the rest of the Autobots arrived and provided enough cover for Bumblebee to spirit Sam away. Already injured from the battle with Prime, Megatron and Starscream were forced to retreat.

[[File:ROTF movie MegatronStarscream roofchat.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|"That's IT! No more Mr. Nice Megatron!" "But you were never—" "SHUT UP!"]]

With Prime dead, Megatron was quite pleased, until Starscream informed him that the boy had escaped. Furious, Megatron smacked his lieutenant with his own severed arm and ran his treads on him for a moment for losing track of a single insect, but Starscream countered that he was one of seven billion, and could be anywhere. Considering the situation, Megatron decided it was time to end their secret war, and that if they couldn't find the boy, they'd have the humans bring him to the Decepticons. Soundwave used his scanning abilities to locate the boys parents, the rejuvenated Fallen broadcast a message to deliver Sam to them across the planet. Megatron himself broadcasted the Fallen's message by rewiring the [[Empire State Building]]'s radio tower.

[[File:ROTFMegatronSam.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Hey, he stole my purse! Wallet! I mean wallet!]]

He then flew to [[Egypt]], where nineteen thousand years before, the Fallen had built a [[Star Harvester]] to harness the [[Sun]] for energon. Starscream informed him that the human soldiers had brought Prime's body with them, and Megatron surmised the boy's intentions. Commanding the rest of the Decepticons to begin their [[Operation: Firestorm|assault]], Megatron ordered [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] to destroy the pyramid that was built over the harvester, while he himself chased Sam for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which would activate the harvester. Megatron almost killed Sam, but was overwhelmed by human gunfire, and flew off.

[[File:ROTF Megatron not over.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.4|It's just a flesh wound. Err, armor wound.]]

Fortunately, The Fallen managed to take the Matrix and activate the harvester, but it had already been used to resurrect Optimus. Optimus combined with [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] and destroyed the harvester, knocking Megatron off the pyramid while Prime went for The Fallen. Quickly recovering, Megatron came to the aid of his master and attacked Optimus from behind. After a brief but brutal tussle, Optimus used Megatron's own cannon to blast half his face off, and then severed the Decepticon's right arm. Finally, Optimus used his afterburners to send Megatron flying through some ruins, ending his role in the battle. Badly damaged, Megatron called out for "Tharscweam!" in agony, but it soon mattered little as Optimus Prime killed the Fallen. Horrified at the demise of his master, Megatron acknowledged Starscream's advice that they should flee, but vowed that "This isn't over." {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]],” “[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]” and “[[The Last Prime]]"; the “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]],” “[[Rise of the Decepticons]],” “[[When Robots Attack!]],” "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]," "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Electronic Voice Changer]]" and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]." Several include an abandoned plot point from the film, in which The Fallen has promised to make Megatron a Prime in return for his services, only for this to be exposed as a lie by Optimus during the final battle (since Primes are born, not made), leading Megatron to abandon his master.}}
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====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin American Spanish)}}

{{quote|Cybertron... you are saved, at last.|Megatron|[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]}}

[[File:Dotm-megatron-face.jpg|left|thumb|250 px|[[Doctor Doom|Curse you]], [[Fantastic Four]]!]]

Three years after Operation: Firestorm and the death of the Fallen, Megatron finally adopted an Earth form - ironically, a large tractor-trailer not unlike that of his most hated enemy - and hid out in the plains of Namibia, Africa, in exile. There, still visibly bearing the scars of his battle with Optimus Prime, he spent most of his time sitting on a ramshackle throne of junk, with only [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (DOTM)|Laserbeak]], and the diminutive [[Igor]] to command. Megatron regularly went out to find food for the [[Hatchling]]s that lived in a collection of oil drums at the camp, occasionally scaring the local wildlife with his roaring and bellowing. Starscream expressed his concern for his master's wounds, but Megatron was not fooled by his sucking up. Laserbeak returned after observing [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]'s fight with Optimus, and he and Soundwave told Megatron that the Autobots had discovered a fuel cell from the Ark, which had been thought lost. Megatron noted his approval of the two's work, and decided that the humans that were working for them had served their purpose, and ordered them to be eliminated.

[[File:DOTM-MegatronLincolnMemorialchair.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Finally, a reference to "[[Atlantis, Arise!]]"]]
After [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] betrayed the Autobots, Megatron and Starscream travelled to Washington D.C., where Megatron outlined his scheme to his second-in-command. Apparently, Sentinel was supposed to rendezvous with Megatron there on Earth, but the circumstances caused them both to be deactivated, and Sentinel was the only one who knew how to activate the [[space bridge]]. However, Megatron had a contingency plan: since they already had the pillars on the Moon and Optimus had recovered the Matrix of Leadership, he merely needed Optimus to revive Sentinel, so he could activate the pillars. And so arrived that moment, and Megatron blasted President Lincoln off his stone throne, and used the remains as a seat. Optimus arrived to stop Sentinel but was too late. Megatron watched this happen, after which he declared, "Here we are. Fight us ''now''."

[[File:DOTM-SentinelandMegatron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Megatron just needs to crash on Sentinel's couch for a few days until he can get back on his feet.]]

Soon, they travelled to Chicago, Illinois, where Sentinel and Megatron planned to start their global takeover. They set up their base of operations on the [[wikipedia:35 East Wacker|Jewelers' Building]]. Human [[Dylan Gould]], who was working for the Decepticons, came with [[Carly Spencer]] to watch, but Megatron ordered him to leave. Dylan did so but muttered to Carly "he's such a dick". After the Decepticons successfully occupied Chicago, Megatron stated that this was the world that he promised, that this way Cybertron would be restored. Sentinel, feeling his partner was getting too chummy, violently reminded Megatron of his place; Sentinel did not work ''for'' Megatron, he worked ''with'' Megatron, and warned the Decepticon to remember the difference.

Much later, Dylan shouted to Megatron that the Autobots, who were seemingly destroyed by Starscream, were still alive. Megatron ordered the bridges to be raised and all [[Orbital Assault Carrier|Decepticon fighter ships]] to find the Autobots.

[[File:DOTM off with his head.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Insert your own "Give me your face" joke here.]]
Sentinel would take control of the Decepticon forces in the fight against the Autobots, and so, as the battle raged Megatron lay on another throne of junk, sulking, though his spirit was suitably lifted as Cybertron appeared in the sky above. That is until [[Carly Spencer]] approached him and mocked that Sentinel had apparently usurped him. Megatron denied this and maintained that he would rule. As Carly pushed him further, he prepared to crush the Human for daring to speak so defiantly to him, but paused, realizing how far he had fallen from power within the past few years, and decided to once again take his rightful place at the top of the command chain. That is what he came close to doing; just as Sentinel was about to deal the fatal blow to Optimus, Megatron attacked and severely wounded Sentinel. Meanwhile, the Autobots destroyed the control pillar, thus destroying the space bridge and presumably Cybertron with it. Seeing this, Megatron offered Optimus a truce, as long he could remain in charge of the Decepticons. "After all," he asked, "Who would you be without me, Prime?" Prime's response was to announce that it was "Time to find out," as he promptly tore Megatron's head from his shoulders with his axe, finally killing the tyrant. Optimus then used his nemesis' fusion shotgun to end Sentinel's life as well. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]” and “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel]]”; the “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks “[[Autobots Versus Decepticons]],” "[[The Lost Autobot]]," "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," “[[Bumblebee's Best Friend]],” "[[Dark of the Moon: Action Pop-ups!]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mix & Match]]." The novelization and comic adaptation feature an alternate ending in which Optimus accepts Megatron's offer of a truce and Megatron and the remaining Decepticons are allowed to leave.}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
:''See: [[Galvatron (AOE)]]
[[File:Megatron Head at KSI.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Aw, look at that, the humans wiped off all the rust! And wasn't my face split in two?]]
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Ryūzaburō Ōtomo]] (Japanese)|[[Mario Arvizu]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Mario Bombardieri]] (Italian)}}
Unknown to all, Megatron's mind actually survived his destruction, and was in a stasis inside his severed head. A few years after the Chicago war, Megatron's remains were acquired by KSI, who forced [[Brains]] to transfer data from the Decepticon leader's brain to the man-made Transformer [[Galvatron (AOE)|Galvatron]]. Unknown to all except Brains, Megatron was secretly influencing the creation of Galvatron to serve as a new body for himself, as well as making it possible for him to take control of all the other KSI drones once his body was complete. Brains declined to notify his captors of any of this, because seriously, ''screw'' those guys. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====''The Last Knight'' film====
{{coming soon|when=23 June 2017}}

===IDW movie comics===
During the dark age of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after the fall of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], Megatron became a follower of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Sentinel recovered the [[AllSpark]], and planned to transport a sun to repower it and the rest of Cybertron. The [[Thetacon (tribe)|Thetacon]]s, who believed Sentinel to be a mad heretic, launched an attack on the AllSpark's facility. Megatron, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]], [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] and [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] fended off the Thetacons when Sentinel and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] successfully transported a star to Cybertron. The Thetacons laid down their arms, but Megatron resented that so many of his comrades had died before Cybertron's new dawn, and it was only by Optimus's persuasion that Megatron found it within himself to forgive his enemies and shake the Thetacon [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]'s hand. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1}}

That evening, Megatron eavesdropped on a conversation between Sentinel and Optimus. Sentinel claimed Optimus was also a Prime, and intended to make him the new ruler of Cybertron. Optimus refused, unable to accept he was a Prime and somehow superior to his comrades. The next day, Megatron grumbled to Shockwave that if he were Optimus, he would have accepted Sentinel's offer. They came across a [[Driller]] attacking a [[hatchling]] field trip, and successfully shot the creature to pieces. Megatron asked for the name of the Cybertronian who volunteered to guard the hatchlings: his name was [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]].

Three days later at the capital city of [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]], Sentinel Prime officially declared Cybertron's unification, and announced the planet would be governed by Optimus's [[Science Division]], and Megatron's [[Defense Force]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2}} For two generations, Optimus and Megatron ruled Cybertron successfully, creating a balance of fair and firm leadership. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} When [[Malcontent]] activity increased on Cybertron, Megatron met with Optimus and requested supreme authority in protecting the planet. Optimus obliged. Megatron then requested to be called [[Lord High Protector]] and to be addressed as "sir". {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}}

[[File:Defiance1 Megs Prime argument.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|"Know your place, boy!"]]

After Commander Starscream returned from his patrol in the [[Eshems Nebula]], Optimus was reporting on his science sector's continuing excavation of the site near [[Simfur Temple]] and the unusual pulse waves that the AllSpark had been emitting ever since work began. At the excavation site, while Optimus' scientists were concerned with disturbing the ancient artifacts, all Megatron cared about was whether these relics might provide the same revitalising energy as the AllSpark. He was nettled when Optimus asserted the sector's dominion over all scientific and archaeological discoveries and reminded his junior that it was his defence force that protected this world, demanding to be informed of all possible threats from the excavation's findings. When Optimus dared to remind Megatron of the military's treatment of such discoveries as hostile, Megatron told Optimus that when ''he'' tried to be the leader of Cybertron, he could make those decisions, not ''now''. When a mysterious relic was discovered, Megatron ordered it removed at once, a demand that Optimus disagreed with. Just as the pair were about to launch into another argument, Cybertron fell under attack from Nebula inhabitants. Megatron had the relic quickly moved to his quarters under the guise of protecting it from the invaders. Arriving to find [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] seeking cover within the temple of Simfur, Megatron chastised their alleged lack of courage before he was hit by an alien tank vehicle. After destroying it, he told Starscream to keep Optimus' team out of the military's way and staggered back to his quarters in Trypticon. Drawn towards the relic, he ignored his injuries and scraped away at the layers of debris encrusting it before losing consciousness. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}}

[[File:Defiance2 Megatron warrally.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Mein Führer!]]

The relic used what little power it had left to repair Megatron's wounds. At first Megatron was angry, demanding the being to show himself to the Protector of all Cybertron. The relic explained that it was unable to do so without Megatron's help, and ''if'' he helped, the relic would truly make him '''Lord''' of Cybertron. The relic then fired beams of energy into Megatron's mind (turning his white optic sensors red), explaining what needed to be done, filling him with delusions of grandeur. When Optimus came looking for the Protector, Megatron had changed; he had become even more aggressive in his speech and demeanor, and what's more, he demanded Optimus gather his scientists to go to war. When Optimus explained the sector was not combat-trained, Megatron shot back that the scientists should have known what the aliens were after: the AllSpark. Optimus refused, stating that the army's mission was of defense, and it went against everything their society was based upon to exacerbate war. Megatron slammed Optimus into the wall and stated that their society then needed to ''change''. He held a massive saber-rattling war rally outside Trypticon, demanding vengeance upon the alien aggressors. He claimed that until the war ended, he would assume full control of the military, and everybody would answer only to him. Megatron ordered all flight-capable Cybertronians accompany him to the Eshems Nebula, where they launched a surprise attack against the still-unknown aliens. Megatron fought his way inside the alien flagship and personally executed the alien leader. He then ordered Starscream and his units to conduct a war of genocide: ''none'' of the aliens were to survive. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[File:Defiance3 wearenowDECEPTICONS.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.]]

Megatron returned from the front with news of their success and awaited further instructions from his master. The relic ordered Megatron to prepare the way for his return by expanding the army, and at the end, Cybertron would be Megatron's, while everything else the master's. Megatron was enraged when the relic informed him that Optimus had snooped inside his quarters while he was fighting the aliens, and convinced the Protector that Optimus was after the same power the relic had promised ''him''. Now seeing that there were "enemies" within Cybertron as well as without, Megatron arranged to have the "traitors" taken care of by ordering [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]]'s security team to arrest Optimus, and sent Starscream's soldiers to kill all bar Optimus. However, Megatron underestimated Optimus, who personally defeated Starscream's squad. Nonetheless, he used the survivors as propaganda that treacherous malcontents sought to betray them all, and declared that Megatron's followers would now be reformed under a new image and a new name: '''Decepticons'''. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}} He ordered the execution of the "false" Primes — though he knew Sentinel and Optimus were Primes, he needed to give his followers a villain. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}}

Optimus's forces having eluded him for now, Megatron was given new orders by his master: build a [[Nemesis (ROTF)|mighty starship]] that would scour the stars for something very important to the relic's plans. The relic counseled Megatron to not make the same mistakes he did thousands of years ago, that his protege should strike without mercy or hesitation. The relic told Megatron the story of his mighty race, and how the AllSpark granted them great power and created the Transformer race, but it needed to be recharged by draining the power of a sun using specially-constructed [[Star Harvester|harvesting]] devices, and their under-construction starship would be used to search for the last harvester in the galaxy. When Megatron presumed to believe he would accompany his master, he was rebuked and punished. Much later, the ''Nemesis'' was finally completed, and Megatron assigned [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] to command the ship. The relic praising Megatron for his fine work, and ordered him to stay behind to continue the war. Over the next thousand years, the Autobots and Decepticons clashed in a bloody struggle. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

As Cybertron was devastated by the worsening war, Sentinel Prime was forced to make a deal with Megatron to seek out another planet whose resources they can exploit to restore their homeworld. The chosen planet was the resting place of the Primes' Star Harvester. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}{{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 3}}

Ironhide led an attack on Simfur Temple. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} Megatron stood at the gate and slaughtered many Autobots as Elita-One and [[Chromia (ROTF)|her]] [[Arcee (Movie)|sisters]] used the AllSpark to activate a "torch" made by Sentinel. Optimus finally appeared to fend off Megatron and ensure Elita-One escaped to give Sentinel the torch. Sentinel boarded the [[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]] with the torch to retrieve Optimus from Simfur, but to both Optimus and Megatron's horror, Starscream attacked the Ark, destroying it. The Autobots fled, but Megatron correctly deduced Optimus would return with a vengeance. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}} From his [[Lord High Protector citadel|citadel]], Megatron watched as Optimus and Ironhide battled their way through his defenses. When Optimus finally entered the tower, he found Megatron covered in hatchlings and daring him to kill them with him, gloating that Optimus would never go far enough. Optimus revealed he didn't: it had all been a distraction as Wheeljack, Chromia and Arcee stole the AllSpark aboard a second [[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]. With the AllSpark removed from Sentinel's device, the sun it held in place disappeared. Optimus escaped, rescuing Ironhide from Starscream and Shockwave while leaving Megatron to free himself of his hungry hatchlings. Megatron swore he would recover the AllSpark, and that if he would have to travel across the entire universe to do so, he would kill every Autobot. {{storylink|Transformers: Foundation|Foundation #1-4}}

[[File:Movie Megatron Targetcomic sure.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|"Sit, boy — or I'll beat you to death."]]

During an assault on the Autobots personally led by Megatron and his hound, [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], the tyrant crushed an Autobot opponent's spark before casually tossing his corpse over his shoulder. He declared that the AllSpark would be his again, to which Blackout assured his leader that he would personally see to it. Megatron was pleased by his minion's loyalty, but decided to dispatch him to assist Starscream's unit to prevent Optimus Prime's reinforcements from entering [[Tyger Pax]]. He then left to meet his destiny, but it slipped from his grasp; Prime had commissioned the AllSpark to be launched into the abyss of outer space. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall}}

[[File:MovieMegatron Bumblebee torture comic.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Better get some ice on that.]]
After realizing Bumblebee had stalled him from claiming the Cube so the operation could be completed, Megatron tore off Bumblebee's arm—removing his weapon—and crushed his voice box, destroying his vocal processors so that the young Autobot would never speak of the affront to his destiny. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 1|The Reign of Starscream #1}} Megatron, believing Prime to be a desperate, inexperienced fool, gave chase. On the way, he detected the ''Nemesis's'' distress signal and soon found the mighty starship on a barren world, abandoned by all but his master. Megatron was berated for allowing the Cube to slip away from his grasp and ordered to thoroughly continue his chase. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} As Megatron tracked the AllSpark through space, he mused about his reasons for the war and how he and his "brother" were not all that different, as seen by Optimus' sentencing their home to a slow death by launching the Cube into space. Tracing the AllSpark via energy signature to [[Earth|a primitive world]], he lost contact with it upon atmospheric entry and crashed into the planet's icy northern pole. Low on [[energon]], his safety buffers exhausted, Megatron went into [[stasis lock]].

[[File:MoviePrequel2-Megatrondownfall.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"I HAVE WALKED INTO THIS!"]]

Millennia later, in the year [[1897]], [[Archibald Witwicky]], the leader of the National Arctic Circle Expedition, discovered Megatron buried deep in the ice. Accidentally triggering Megatron's navigation system, Witwicky was blinded by a burst of light from the Decepticon leader's eyes, which imprinted the location of the AllSpark on his [[glasses]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Witwicky was subsequently driven insane by the experience, and upon his return to land, became the subject of attention by the United States government, who recruited adventurers [[Walter Simmons]] and [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] to investigate his fantastic claims. Simmons, Wells and their group followed Witwicky's route back to the Arctic, arriving early [[1898]], where they discovered Megatron's frozen body, and like Witwicky before them, inadvertently activated one of his systems upon entry into the cave, bringing him partially back on-line. The energy pulse this released caught the attention of [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], a [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]] abandoned on Earth by The Fallen, who quickly made his way to the Arctic, believing that The Fallen himself was the source of the pulse. Discovering the truth, Jetfire angrily informed Megatron that he has never heard of him, and punched him in the face. Simmons and Wells's group subsequently used explosives to send Jetfire punging into the freezing ocean; Megatron, too, was submerged, but jut before the cold overwhelmed him and he shut down again, he weakly proclaimed his name, which Simmons mis-heard as "Mega-Man". {{storylink|Original}} Simmons's organization set about constructing an environment dome around Megatron so he could be excavated and studied, which was completed in [[1899]]. Then, in [[1902]], the group discovered the AllSpark in the Colorado River, and quickly drew a correlation between it and their frozen "Mega-Man" because of the similar symbols that they were both decorated with. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}}

Eventually naming itself [[Sector Seven]] and arranging construction of the [[Hoover Dam]] to contain the AllSpark, the group initially planned to move Megatron to the dam as well in [[1935]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}} Unfortunately, some delays in the installation of the cryo-block system that would keep Megatron frozen delayed the planned move, however, and the outbreak of [[World War II]] put it on permanent hold. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}} It was in [[1954]] when Sector Seven definitively learned that they could not trust the Arctic cold to keep Megatron frozen when Communist sabotage of the organization's Arctic command post caused the Decepticon leader to thaw out, threatening the lives of the skeleton crew manning the base. Walter Simmons called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the base, freezing Megatron solid once more only minutes after he awoke. {{storylink|Frozen}} In [[1969]], Megatron was at last transferred from the Arctic to the Hoover Dam headquarters. as Walter Simmons stayed looking at him. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}}

In the aftermath of the battle in Mission City, [[Sector Seven]] hauled away Megatron's corpse along with the other Decepticon bodies. The clandestine human organisation brought the bodies to a secret facility in the Nevada desert, with the intention of getting every bit of information they can out of the dead Decepticons before they were forced to dump them into the sea. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1}} When he arrived to oversee the burial of those who fell in Mission City, Optimus Prime noticed the surviving AllSpark fragment glowed when near Megatron's body, and gave it to [[Vine|Professor Vine]] for safekeeping. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2}} Weeks later, Megatron, along with Blackout, was dumped into the Laurentian Abyss. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

Later, after Megatron's machinations with The Fallen were undone by Optimus and his Autobots, Megatron freed Shockwave, whose inactive body had been captured by humans much as his had been. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} He sent out Shockwave to retrieve Starscream, who had clandestinely begun dealing Cybertronian weaponry to humans. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 1|Rising Storm #1}} As he waited, Megatron fumed about Optimus Prime's past decision to send out the AllSpark into space, internally justifying to himself all his past deeds as necessary evils in the face of Optimus's own transgressions against their species. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} While Shockwave and Starscream did their parts in Megatron's scheme, Megatron stayed behind in Nambia, teaching the hatchlings under his care to recognize the image of Optimus Prime, presumably to know him as their enemy. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

When Starscream dared to question Megatron's latest scheme, the Decepticon leader took out his frustration by pummeling his underling, reminding him to always remember his place in the Decepticon hierarchy. Fed up with being pushed around, Starscream shoved Megatron back and took to the air. Megatron didn't bother to pursue, as he knew that one way or another, Starscream would always return to him. {{storylink|Transformers: Starscream}}
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====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

===Titan movie comics===
[[File:MegatronMovie GeoffSenior.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|''The Beast and its armies shall rise from the pit to make war against God.'']]

Even as [[Lord High Protector]], {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} Megatron was scheming to take power of Cybertron and worlds beyond. He believed the Transformers could gain ultimate power via the All Spark, power to reshape their [[alternate mode]]s into anything they imagined. Breaking all Cybertronian laws, he made direct contact with the All Spark to test his theory and found himself with a mighty new alternate mode. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4|Megatron V. Optimus Prime}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Megatron Profile}} War was declared and Megatron's army of Decepticons swept the planet.

Ratchet tried to negotiate a peace and was almost murdered by Megatron in the process. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3|Ratchet Profile}} When [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] fought injustices outside of any faction, Megatron personally made an example of her. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Arcee bio}}

To stop Megatron getting the AllSpark, the Autobots tricked him into looking for it at [[Tyger Pax]] {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} while they launched towards the [[Alkaris Anomaly]], a wormhole that could potentially transport the cube to any one of an infinite number of locations in the universe. Megatron, noticing the launch, was fully capable of catching up to the cube before it would enter the wormhole, but as he passed Cybertron's moon, he found himself ensnared by an Autobot tractor beam of remarkable strength that pulled him down to the moon's surface.

Megatron was able to create a drone unit capable of zeroing in on Optimus Prime's unique energy matrix signature within his spark core. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prelude: Optimus Prime}}

Enraged by the ignominy of it all, Megatron turned his weapons on the Autobots responsible, but quickly calmed down enough to realize that this was only playing into their hands, and instead ordered [[Brawl (Movie)|Devastator]] to take his place in the battle. Megatron swooped back into space, hot on the AllSpark's heels, but was unable to stop the cube from falling through the anomaly. Determined to have the AllSpark's power, Megatron chose to enter the wormhole himself, only to be spat out in some far-off star system, with no trace of the AllSpark... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Prelude: Megatron}}

Megatron entered the [[Solar System]], where he freed [[The Fallen]] from his pocket dimension prison on one of [[Saturn]]'s moons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|The Fallen's profile}}

{{note|This leads into [[Movie Prequel issue 2|''Movie Prequel'' #2]].}}

Even when Megatron was missing in action, the idea he might come back was enough to stop [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] from killing Decepticons who'd ticked him off. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.1|Adrift in Space and Time}} The only exception was [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] but in early 2011, Megatron (with [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] was his catspaw) attacked and defeated this upstart. None of Bludgeon's men ''dared'' mess with Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson!}}

====Alternate timeline====
In [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma|another reality]], Megatron defeated Optimus at [[Mission City]], killed Sam Witwicky and took control of the AllSpark. He was fully linked to it and drew on its power—"It is me and I am it!"—giving him greater might and the ability to heal any wound. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}}

After conquering an unknown chunk of Earth (including the entire [[United States of America]]) with [[Dropkick]] as his second-in-command, he used the AllSpark's power to start turning Earth from an organic world into a new Cybertron. Optimus Prime lay frozen in the [[Hoover Dam|old Sector Seven base]], Autobot resistance was scattered, and NATO's threat to nuke occupied America was hardly much of one. [[File:Megatron Bumbleslap.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|"''Sigh'' Even mindless violence seems boring today..."]] The only thing bothering Megatron was those rebels breaking into Hoover Dam... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

Megatron personally arrived to face [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and hunted for him, trying to bait him into appearing. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}} Realising the Autobot must have come with a human ally, he deliberately threatened to go after the human and thus got an emotional Bumblebee to make a defiant attack... at which point he backhanded Bumblebee into the wall and prepared to eviscerate him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 11|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3}} He gave the Autobot a chance at a swift death if he begged for mercy, and was quite impressed when Bumblebee merely asked "that all you got?", but was less impressed when Autobot reinforcements arrived. [[File:Megatron Titan12.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|Megatron's BDSM Dungeon just wasn't meeting expectations.]] He effortlessly smashed them aside and was about to kill [[Skyblast (Movie)|Skyblast]] when a new challenger arrived: the revived Optimus! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}}

Optimus Prime got the snot beaten out of him, every attack he landed on Megatron being repaired by AllSpark power. However, he distracted Megatron long enough for Bumblebee to hit him with the ''other'' thing they'd broken into the Dam for: Sector Seven's greatest weapon, a nanovirus that targeted AllSpark operation frequencies. Infected, the tyrant was consumed from within by his own power and collapsed dead. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

Or so it appeared. He'd downloaded his mind into the AllSpark interface module, knowing Starscream would take it and assimilate it into himself. And so Megatron was able to be a voice in Starscream's head for weeks and weeks—and finally, when Starscream had suffered a setback and wanted a plan to stop the Autobots, Megatron gave him one: to let him out... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

While Starscream didn't, he ''did'' follow Megatron's tactical suggestions. He had the Decepticons use both carrot (promise of truce) ''and'' stick (multiple attacks) to make the US government, prompted by [[Theodore Allen|the mind-controlled President Allen]], boot out the Autobots—and then nuke them as they left, giving the Decepticons a clear shot at reconquest! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution Part 1}} This plan backfired when [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] intervened, and Megatron visited a broken, gibbering Starscream to once again tell him the only way out was to release him and let him walk the Earth again. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Revolution Part 2}}
[[File:Starscreamseesthings Titan25.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|''You're looking throooough me...'']]

This time Starscream ''did''... much to his dismay when he realised what he'd done. And so, when Stockade's New Decepticons stormed the [[Decepticon Heartland]], Megatron was there to "greet" them with fiery death!

Megatron fought Stockade in single combat, and [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]]-fueled punches rained down on him—only for him to ''grab'' a punch and use the momentum to hurl his opponent, berating him for lacking clear ambition to support his strength. This fight would've carried on except then the Autobots turned up. Trashing a rebellion, conquering Earth, ''and'' killing Optimus Prime in one day?! WOOOOO!

But Optimus drew first blood, and before Megatron could truly fight back, he was forcibly teleported with his Decepticons to Cybertron. A dead Cybertron. A dead Cybertron that itself teleported to an unknown area of space, leaving them trapped with no way back and no way off, ''forever''.

{{bigquote|'''PRIIIIIME!'''}}

{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}

===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
"The Ice Man" was kept in deep freeze by [[Sector Seven]] in their super-secret [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base|High Arctic Base]] until they decided to move him closer to the [[Allspark]] in [[1969]]. The convoy was disrupted when the driver of the lead truck spun out causing the rest of the vehicles to pile up on the icy roads. It was determined later that the driver was the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] spy [[Sergei Tasarov]] who had taken the place of the Sector Seven agent Peter Hodgson.

While the convoy prepared their defenses and a Soviet strike force attacked trying to obtain the Ice Man.

When Megatron came partially online, it was obvious that some time had passed. Not only was he encased in a primitive transport, but there were [[Human|lifeforms]] fighting over him. Before Megatron could properly exterminate them, another crude transport crashed into his, causing a massive (but not spark-threatening) explosion. Megatron would have been pleased to know that the fire only added to his terrifying visage in the eyes of the maggots. Regaining his composure, Megatron noticed [[Philip Nolan|an insect]] standing near him. As Megatron reached out to grab it, [[Thomas Kinnear|another insect]], this one terminally damaged, began firing crude projectiles which his body armor easily deflected. Waiting until after the creature had expended its ammunition, Megatron grabbed it in his hand, only to discover that it had packed itself with explosives, which threw Megatron to the ground when they detonated. Then, the aforementioned first insect began spraying liquid nitrogen on Megatron, causing him to go back into stasis. Unable to escape, Megatron screamed a dark vengeance upon his captors. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

===Toy bios===
Megatron was ''born'' evil, always wanting domination of everything. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Voyager Megatron}} His fiery diatribes still managed to sway thousands, however. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Robot Replicas|Robot Replica Megatron}}

At some point, he took a stealth mode so he could attack Optimus without warning. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Battlers|Night Attack Megatron}}

When frozen on Earth, he remained vaguely conscious and remembers a few things from when he warmed up slightly. At one point, his body was worshipped as a god by [[protohuman]]s. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Premium Series Megatron}}

He was blasted into stasis lock by the AllSpark and dumped in the sea, trapped and seething with rage. The Decepticons fixed him using cannibalised parts from themselves but Megatron gave no shits: he just wanted revenge! Now, feeling the AllSpark's power flowing inside him, he had the power to finally destroy Prime! {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 2|Megatron (Voyager)}} {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Leader Class toys 2|Megatron (Leader)}}

In the end, that did nothing and he swapped bodies for a new Blastwave Weapons Base arsenal. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Cyberverse|Blastwave Weapons Base}}

===Beast Wars Diorama Story===
[[File:BWDiorama Megatrons.jpg|thumb|left]]
On Earth in the past and in another universe, a group of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], led by another [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], battled a contingent of [[Maximal]]s in a forest. {{storylink|Optimus Primal Chapter}}

Some time into the battle, a warp opened, bringing with it [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], and [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]. After being defeated by the Maximals, Starscream joined the Predacons. {{storylink|Tigatron Chapter}} [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] later appeared and joined the Predacons, as well. As the battled raged, Megatron came in through the warp. {{storylink|Gimlet Chapter}}

The Decepticon Megatron brought along [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], and the two Megatrons combined their troops into a fearsome force against the Autobots and Maximals. In the ensuing skirmish, Megatron stood on a cliff edge and loomed over the battle. The two factions then took formation against each other with the intention of combining their energies to attack the opposing side. The Predacon Megatron led the combined Predacon/Decepticon force. With [[Motorarm (BWII)|Motorarm]] leading the charge, the Maximals and the Autobots attacked first. {{storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}
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===Cyber Missions===
{{voiceactor|[[Tony Gialluca II]] (English)|[[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
[[File:CyberMissions4 Megatron.JPG|right|thumb|300|You wants a Megatron more ugly?]]

Hiding in a disused factory, Megatron was able to cloak the energy signature of his spark, so that when Optimus and Sideswipe turned up, they didn't notice him hiding under a pile of girders. He was able to get the drop on them and sneeringly mocked them as they fought, until Sideswipe jabbed him in the foot. Optimus suggested he surrender, but Megatron instead transformed to tank mode and brought the roof down on them. By the time the two Autobots recovered, Megatron was gone. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 4}}

Not soon after the encounter, Megatron ordered his subordinate [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] to rendezvous somewhere in the Arctic, and revealed that he knew of his ambition to take over leadership of the Decepticons. However, due to the Autobots tracking Starscream en route to Megatron's location, Optimus Prime appeared not long after. Starscream and Megatron double-teamed Optimus for a brief time before the other members of Optimus's team arrived. Ordering Starscream to deal with the others, Megatron continued to attack. Megatron is soon beaten down and asks his foe if he will finish him, but Optimus grants him mercy and allows him to escape. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}}

Megatron received the energy signature of [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], and tracked him to a bullet train, which he soon stopped dead in its tracks (literally). [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], Starscream, and [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]] soon arrived on the scene. As Megatron attempted to retrieve his fallen communications officer, he discovered that it was in fact a hologram created by [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]], and was a distraction while the Autobots arrived. Megatron once again fought Optimus, who pointed out that Megatron's alliances were merely because of fear, unlike the Autobots' alliances. The human military arrived, and the Decepticons were backed into a corner. Optimus then declared that they leave Earth or face the consequences. The other 'Cons retreated, while Megatron made one final promise to destroy Earth the next time around, and blasted off into space. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===''I Can Read!'' books===
[[File:MegatronandStarsscreamdig-TrainingDay.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.75]]
Megatron's latest scheme to defeat the Autobots was to dig a series of underground tunnels to ambush his enemies wherever they may be. Or, more precisely, his plan was to have Starscream dig the tunnels while Megatron supervised. When the two Decepticons surfaced to attack Optimus, Sideswipe, Bumblebee and Ironhide, they were thwarted despite the element of surprise being on their side. {{storylink|Training Day (book)|Training Day}}
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===''Hunt for the Decepticons'' storybooks===
[[File:Megatronstucktoelectromagnet-PrimeTarget.jpeg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Megatron planted a [[New lab assistant|Decepticon spy]] at Sam's university to exploit Optimus's friendship with the boy. He had his agent send a false distress signal to Optimus through Sam's computer, prompting Optimus to arrive alone at the University's science lab. There, Megatron used a supermagnet to lock Optimus in his vehicle mode. Now holding his enemy at a disadvantage, Megatron began to brutalize Optimus Prime. If not for Sam arriving at that moment and turning the supermagnet against Megatron, the Decepticon leader would have surely slain Optimus. With Megatron stuck to the magnet, he was reduced to relying on Starscream's help to be freed while Optimus and Sam escaped his clutches once more. {{storylink|Prime Target (book)|Prime Target}}

Upon witnessing Megatron being defeated by Optimus one too many times, Soundwave concocted a plan to damage the Autobots' reputation in the humans' eyes, whom he blamed for the Decepticons' continued failures. {{storylink|Satellite Meltdown}}
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===''Spot the 'Bots''===
Megatron was hiding in broad daylight behind a tree when Optimus spotted him. Megatron tried to get away in his tank mode, but more Autobots joined the chase. Nonetheless, Megatron managed to make it to an old warehouse, where Starscream and Ravage were waiting for him. The two factions then battled it out for the fate of the Earth! {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Spot the 'Bots}}
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===''Unite for the Universe''===
Megatron entrusted [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] with a mission to steal the fruits of N.E.S.T.'s most recent labor: the Unite Weapons Program. Megatron promised Bludgeon command of his Earth-stationed troops if he succeeded. Starscream protested, claiming that Earth should rightfully be his to command. Megatron dismissed his second-in-command, reminding him that all of Earth was his, and that those under him were little more than stewards to his reign. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}}

Starscream managed to acquire newfound power behind Megatron's back by imitating the human-Autobot alliance's process of recycling fallen Cybertronian bodies into upgrades. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|Bludgeon's Revenge}} The upgrade affected Starscream's mental stability, however, and seeing his subordinate sowing unnecessary destruction, Megatron decided to put an immediate end to his power play. Through [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], he tasked [[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]] and [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] with taking Starscream down, but Starscream proved too powerful for them. Enraged, Megatron headed out to deal with Starscream himself. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}}

Slamming into the battlefield, Megatron warned Starscream that resisting him would only lead to greater suffering on his part. Uncowed, Starscream boasted that nothing could stop him, and the two Decepticons wrestled fiercely, ignoring the nearby Autobots. Optimus and his troops soon stepped in to interfere, prompting Megatron to focus on Optimus instead of the rebellious Decepticon. When Optimus refused to withdraw, as Megatron deemed the fight to be none of his concern, the Decepticon leader called in additional troops to support him. During the chaos, Ratchet managed to burn out Starscream's upgrades, rendering them unsalvageable. With any prize worth fighting for destroyed, Megatron sounded a retreat, vowing that soon he would have his reckoning against the Autobots. {{storylink|The Strongest Weapon}}
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===''The Creation Revoltech!''===
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===''Prepare to Battle'' prequel material===
Long ago, during his search for [[AllSpark]], Megatron knew that the [[Knights of Cybertron]] would stand between him and the AllSpark, so he approached them offering to surrender in return for amnesty, in reality planning to get rid of them. The Knights reluctantly accepted and the entirety of their group arrived for the meeting. Megatron and his forces used this occasion to trap and destroy them.

Centuries later, [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] reported an intercepted transmission from [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]], the last of the Knights. Realizing that Evac represented an era of Cybertron before him, an era he wished to erase, and that he was also after the last shard of the All Spark, Megatron knew the destruction of the Knights and possession of the shard were in his reach. {{storylink|Prepare for Battle (website)}}

===Mega-Mouth===
[[Megatron (WFC)|A certain Megatron]] from an alternate universe seemed to think he was ''this'' Megatron, as he claimed he attacked Sentinel. {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.1#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #1}} He also explained why he wore a cowl in ''Dark of the Moon'', {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.4#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #4}} and claimed that he survived ''Dark of the Moon''... well that Megatron was ''not so wrong'' about the last one... {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.5#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #5}}

===''Cheetos'' comics===
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{{storylink|Cheetos/Transformers: Age of Extinction|Cheetos/''Transformers: Age of Extinction''}}

===''TransTech''===
[[File:C-81andScalpel-CMW.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|left]]
In one timeline, moments before Optimus Prime was able to dispatch Megatron after the Decepticons' destruction of Chicago, a mysterious force caused Megatron's position to spontaneously shift. Now finding himself behind his foe, Megatron killed both Optimus and Sentinel Prime. Megatron then proceeded to rebuild his Cybertronian empire, repairing himself bit by bit along the way. Despite Megatron's victory on Earth, a new Autobot leader eventually rose up to challenge him: [[Rodimus (DOTM)|Rodimus Prime]]. The Autobot/Decepticon war began anew, culminating in the final showdown between Rodimus and Megatron. The two warriors battled atop a space bridge, with Rodimus gaining the upper hand. The duel ended when Megatron, dangling from the space bridge, decided to simply let go and fall into the abyss instead of letting Rodimus's final blow strike its target. Megatron then awoke in [[Axiom Nexus]]. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Megatron's bio card}}

Allegedly, when the Transcendent Technomorphs came upon Megatron, they mistook him for a derelict heap, and only to identified his three Mini-Con companions, [[Boombox]], [[Heavyweight]], and [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]]. Megatron somehow obtained a counterfeit [[identification bolt]], and renamed himself "C-81" to avoid complications with Axiom Nexus's "Dux non Intruitus" law. C-81 then proceeded to gather a crew to work under him, including [[Battletrap]], [[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]], and [[Nebulon (SG)|Nebulon]]. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} Together, they were Cybertron's most wanted criminals... save for C-81 himself, as the TransTechs were not specifically aware of him. Keeping his anonymity all the while, C-81 allowed other crime bosses take credit for his work while he committed several thefts. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/06/16}} {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} With the technology he acquired, C-81 planned to build an interuniversal gate, and provide paying customers with an "off-the-books" travel agency. On his final raid, his greed got the better of him, and his crew wound up on the run from the local police force. Despite his efforts to cut through [[Seeker-Shinai]], an [[Axiom Nexus Security Administration|OZSA]] team led by [[Hound (G1)|Sergeant Hound]] caught up with him, and C-81 was brought to the offworlder maximum security prison.

[[File:C-81ripsBeet-ChitfromZaptrap-CMW.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5]]
While being held, C-81's crew met two more criminals that ranked amongst the most wanted on the planet, [[Oilmaster]] and [[Packrat]]. With these new recruits, the whole gang managed to escape the prison, only to find Axiom Nexus shut down on the outside. They then headed to Axiom Nexus's underground tunnel system, and made their way to one of their hidden weapons stashes. There, they bumped into [[Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)|Lift-Ticket]], [[Burn Out]], and [[Spy-Eye (Diaclone)|Spy-Eye]], who immediately took off. Suspecting this trio might report them to the authorities, C-81's crew gave chase, only to wind up in the middle of a [[Waruder]] nest. They battled these extradimensional invaders for a time, but found themselves overwhelmed by sheer numbers. The tables turned when [[Optimus Prime (G1)|General Optimus Prime]] and Sergeant Hound joined in, along with the returning Burn Out and Lift-Ticket. C-81 was instrumental to the victory against the Waruders. He ripped out [[Beet-Chit|their commander]] from [[Zaptrap (Diaclone)|his exo-suit]], and forced him to negotiate. Offering a Cybertron free of opposition in exchange for their peaceful departure, C-81 completed his interuniversal gate and escorted the Waruders to the abandoned planet. General Optimus Prime informed C-81 that he could not allow him to keep his gate, but agreed to keep C-81's identity a secret out of gratitude. In the end, C-81 was simply glad to have had the adventure. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}
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===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa]], Megatron rather than Optimus Prime killed the Fallen. Galvanized by his victory, Megatron returned to space to gather his army. He considered conquering Earth but realized that the true prize was Cybertron. With his troops ready for combat, Megatron led them on a successful campaign all over Earth against the Autobots and NEST. He also had Soundwave plant clues about the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s presence on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] for Sam Witwicky to discover. Optimus Prime fell for the bait and took the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' to the Moon to revive [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Backed into a corner by the Decepticons' offensive, Optimus hastily revived Sentinel on the Moon's surface, and Megatron captured Optimus with the traitorous Sentinel's aid. With the aid of human collaborators, Megatron used [[space bridge]] technology to bring Cybertron into Earth orbit. Under the leadership of Dylan Gould, humans were put to work strip-mining Earth for resources to repair Cybertron.

Everything changed with the arrival of [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], who demanded that Prime be handed over to him. Megatron and Sentinel both refused, the former out of pride and the latter out of loyalty. However, when Sentinel was tempted by Lockdown's offer of a protomatter [[seed]], Optimus used the opportunity to reignite Sentinel's sense of justice. Sentinel pretended to hand over Optimus, proceeding to ambush Lockdown, defeat him, and capture his [[Knight Ship|vessel]]. Allying themselves with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]]s, Sentinel and Optimus Prime waged a long guerilla campaign against Megatron's Decepticons, eventually restoring humankind's freedom and revitalizing Cybertron with the seed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 22/7/2015}}

In [[Tyran 511.0 Kappa]], Megatron also returned as Galvatron, but his old subordinate [[Wild Rider]] remained loyal to his new Autobot comrades even in the face of Megatron's rebirth. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/9/2015}}

==Commercial appearances==
Megatron smashed some guys' cars just as they were about to retrieve them from the valet service. He did exactly the same thing to some woman's car too. It was awesome. Well, not for the car's owner. Otherwise, it was awesome. {{storylink|Commercial/Transformers (2007)#General Motors|Transformers Chevy tie-in commercial}}

==Games==
{{main|Megatron (Movie)/games}}

==Toys==

{{main|Megatron (Movie)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Movie Megatron olduglyface.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|I'm blind!]]
*The prototype photographs on the back of Fast Action Battler, Leader, and Voyager class Megatron's packaging show him with a completely different head based upon an earlier version of CGI design (seen on the right) that was dropped after much negative fan reaction. Legends class Megatron retains this head shape.
*According to The Movie Guide, Megatron is one of the few Transformers capable of space travel without reverting to a protoform. This explains how he was capable of chasing the AllSpark ''immediately'' after its launch.
[[File:EarlyMegsMovieConceptartwithG1headandbody.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|This would've shut [[GEEWUN|them]] up.]]
*The earliest concept designs of Megatron gave him a look very much inspired by his ''Generation One'' counterpart. Unlike the Cybertronic jet seen in the first movie, this Megatron was intended to transform into an army tank.
*According to [[The Quest for the AllSpark]] paperback's opening paragraph, "...Most revered were Optimus and Megatron. They were twin brothers of the Prime dynasty." (This implies that Megatron may have also had the surname "Prime" at one time.) Similarly, in the ''Autobots'' version of the same DS game, it is noted that Megatron "took the spark" of his and Optimus' father. However, in the [[Transformers Comic issue 2.12|twelfth issue of Titan's ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comic]], [[Barricade (Movie)|"Barricade"]] informed readers that Megatron and Optimus weren't related, the term "brother" was just because they'd known each other for so long. However, the ''[[Transformers: Foundation|Foundation]]'' comic series sheds more light on this, with Optimus and Megatron being LIKE brothers and Sentinel being like a father to them and his supposed death on Megatron's order brings the whole scenario full circle.
*Early script drafts and a [[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron|children's picture book]] featured Megatron consuming the [[spark]]s of his fallen foes, but this didn't make it into the final film due to time constraints. The novelization of the movie, on the other hand, sees him chow down on Jazz in the final battle; similarly, although not outright stated in dialogue, his animalistic pouncing on the fallen bodies of various characters (including Optimus Prime, Starscream, Jazz and the [[Create-A-Bot (Decepticon)|Decepticon Create-A-Bot]]) in the Movie Nintendo DS games, following by what appears to be rooting around in their innards, seems to suggest he's doing the same there.
*Despite his undeniable hatred of humans, Megatron is the only Decepticon in the movie who doesn't speak [[Cybertronian languages|Cybertronian]] for the majority of his dialogue. In fact, he speaks ''fluent'' English upon reviving, despite the fact that [[wikipedia:Modern English|Modern English]] came into existence around the Sixteenth century, when he was presumably still frozen in the ice. This could suggest that he still was somehow conscious when he was studied by Sector Seven (which he also overtly states upon awakening in the IDW comic adaptation). This would explain why his first action after thawing was declaring his name—imagine being frozen for generations being referred to as "N.B.E. 1", or even worse: "Mega-Man" ''and'' "Ice-man".
*[[Detroit]] Lions American football player Calvin Johnson has earned the nickname Megatron, due to his large stature and unstoppability. Since he got the nickname around the same time as the movie was in theaters, we assume he was named for this Megatron. Johnson has worn a hat with the Decepticon logo on it.<ref>[http://larrybrownsports.com/football/calvin-johnson-now-rocks-a-megatron-transformers-hat-picture/92078 Calvin Johnson now rocks a Megatron Transformers hat]</ref> Nike came out with a limited edition line "Megatron" styled sports gear for the 2012 Thanksgiving Day game.<ref>[http://www.nikeblog.com/2012/11/22/nike-calvin-johnson-megatron-collection/ Nike Calvin Johnson ‘Megatron’ Collection]</ref>
*The Megatron computer generated model consisted of 2411 individual pieces, 433,949 polygons, 8924 rig nodes, and 1437 texture maps. The pieces combined gave a volume of 10,325 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>
[[File:MBMovieMegatronAttacks.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|You'll find battling me A COSTLY MISTAKE, Optimus Prime!]]
*The [[Milton Bradley]] [[Transformers Battling Card Game]] depicts a couple of unique attacks for Megatron's original form; one card gives him a pair of forearm-mounted blades as an "Arm Sword", and another shows him firing a swarm of missiles from his chest in a "Missile Attack".
*It was decided that Megatron would not be renamed Galvatron in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' for the sake of the general audience.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/180451-welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions-229.html#post3421064 Roberto Orci answers fan questions on the TFW2005 boards.]
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*While ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe]]'' and the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation|comic adaptation]] create the idea that Megatron is a [[Triple Changer]] that alternates between his robot, jet, and tank modes, there is absolutely nothing to support this in the movie. Throughout the entire film, he only transforms into a winged tank portrayed by the Voyager figure and is more than capable of flying in said mode. Of course, whether or not his flying tank mode is considered a third mode is up to interpretation.
*According to his bio on the Hasbro sticker sheets, ''Revenge'' Megatron weighs in at 5.7 metric tons, is 35 feet tall, uses an 'Ion-fused chain whip' for his primary weapon, has a 'Strength power level' of 10, and changes into an 'Interstellar jet.' The mention of a chain whip and a jet mode seem to indicate the card's stats were based on his original form, rather than his ''Revenge of the Fallen'' tank mode. The card also surmises that Megatron's might will 'make the Earth quake, and the stars fall from the sky.' The two-disc special edition of the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' DVD also gives him a height of 35 feet.
*In the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe]]'', it states Megatron possesses an internal self-regenerating dark matter power core which is possibly of alien origin.
*His weatherbeaten Mack tanker truck mode and Cybertronian sawed-off shotgun as seen in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' are fairly straightforward nods to the 1981 film ''[[Wikipedia:Mad Max 2|Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior]]''.
*The whole notion of him even being [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 4|a tanker truck]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' in the first place might be a nod to executive producer [[Steven Spielberg]]'s first movie, [[Wikipedia:Duel (1971 film)|Duel]], where a similar truck is the main "bad guy".
*Early concepts for his ''Dark of the Moon'' design called him Cyclonus in an attempt to curb leaks and spread misinformation.
*Megatron's story was altered significantly twice during development of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Dark of the Moon'': the climax of the second film would have revealed Megatron served The Fallen under the pretense of becoming a Prime, which Optimus exposes a lie, explaining Primes are born, not made. An angered Megatron refused to aid The Fallen in his final battle, and returned to the ''Nemesis'' via The Fallen's space bridge to raise an army of hatchlings. In the film he is removed from the battle by having Optimus disfigure him with his own cannon, forcing him to hide as a truck in Africa. Megatron would have survived ''Dark of the Moon'', with Optimus accepting the truce after helping kill Sentinel, with Megatron returning to Cybertron and leaving the possibility open to a fourth film. On screen, Megatron's offer comes across as less than sincere, allowing Optimus to finally tear his head off.
*Megatron is the only character to have appeared in all three movies to have received a distinctly different body design and alternate form for each film. Each subsequent change having an in-story reason as well (brought back from the dead and repaired in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', and being forced into hiding due to injuries he sustained at the end of the former-mentioned film in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''). This trend even follows into ''[[Transformers: The Ride – 3D]]'', wherein Megatron appears in his DOTM body, but with the ROTF "Murder arm".
*In all three movies, Megatron's fusion cannon makes a distinctive noise as it charges that none of the other weapons in the films make. Generation 1 Megatron's fusion cannon also had a unique sound effect.
*On the note of Megatron's head, his appearance in ''Age of Extinction'' more closely resembles his head from the 2007 movie than the one from ''Dark of the Moon''. Also, the "axe wound" has shrunk considerably; although, if Megatron was alive, then he may have been able to heal his wounds to some degree.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Megatron''' (メガトロン ''Megatoron'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Megaton''' (Taiwan, 密卡登 ''Mìkǎdēng''), '''Wēi Zhèn Tīan''' (China, 威震天, "Extremely Prestigious", literally "Heaven-shaking Might")

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/toytables/movie_megatron.htm Megatron at TFU.info]

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User:Halfshell25

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Halfshell25:

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That's me!

==Challenge of the GoBots Ownership Info==
Often it is asked who owns what parts of the Gobots franchise. The answer is appropriately tricky, but there seems to be logic to it. Here I will try to clear up some of the questions raised over who owns what:

'''Firstly, as is common knowledge, Bandai owns all of the molds for the original GoBots toys.''' Popy, a once famed japanese toy company, had originally released the toys under the name Machine Robo. Popy was eventually bought by Bandai. Meanwhile, Tonka got word that their rival company Hasbro was adopting a line of Japanese transforming robots to be sold in America. Hoping to beat out Hasbro, Tonka grabbed up the american license for the Machine Robo toys and hastily renamed them GoBots. Though GoBots arrived first, Hasbro's superior marketing and design made Transformers the clear winner of the shape-shifting robot war. Eventually in 1991, Hasbro bought out Tonka for about $516 million. However, because Bandai has a rivalry with Hasbro partner Takara Tomy, any idea of further GoBots re-releases were dashed.

Now on to the cartoon and the names. When Hasbro bought Tonka, they acquired all of the names of the GoBots characters, factions, and fiction. This is why you have the likes of [[Leader-1 (Armada)|Leader-1]] appearing in [[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]. Though Hasbro does not own the molds the characters were originally attached to, they own everything else about them. As for the cartoon, ownership lines become a bit more blurred. Challenge of the GoBots was originally produced by Hanna-Barbera for Tonka. In 1991, Hanna-Barbera was purchased by Turner Broadcasting System, who later merged with Time Warner in 1996. The studio became subsidiary of Warner Bros. Animation during this time, where it remains to this day. Starting in 2011, Warner Archive began to release the Challenge of the GoBots series, with all of the episodes having been released by 2015. During this release, it is made very clear that Hasbro pretty much owns everything involving the GoBots. Here is the back cover of the first DVD:
[[File:GoBotsDVDBackCover.jpeg|center|upright=2.5|thumb|]]

They make a point of mentioning the series was based on ''Hasbro's GoBots toy line'', which seems to imply that Hasbro retains some ownership of the actual the series. The copyright info at the bottom of the back cover clears things up much better:
[[File:GoBotsCopywrite.jpeg|center|upright=2.5|thumb|]]
'''Both Hasbro and Hanna-Barbera are said to own the trademark and copyright for GOBOTS and all related characters and elements.''' This means that though Hanna-Barbera owns the rights to the episodes, Hasbro also owns all of the content inside them. For example, Warner Archive could release all of the GoBots episodes legally. However, they would not be able to create brand new episodes (without Hasbro's permission), because Hasbro also owns the characters and elements of the series. Hasbro on the other hand could create new episodes, as long as they only used elements that have no ties to Bandai molds. In another example, Hasbro could make new episodes of GoBots with Leader-1 and Cy-Kill as long as their designs were completely different from the Bandai molds they were based on. They could easily use the design of Gobotron and the other backgrounds in anything they wanted, as Bandai had nothing to do with those elements of the GoBots franchise. You may be asking how Hasbro could use Gobotron's design, as Hanna-Barbera came up with that. They can do this because of their partial ownership of the GoBots ''elements''. Finally, you may be asking how much GoBots cartoon material Hasbro can get away with releasing. In essence, they can very easily release as much as they want, except for maybe clips from the actual episodes. As demonstrated in Renegade Rhetoric, Hasbro can reference the events from the cartoon, as part of their ownership of the show's elements. However, even they are unclear as to weather or not they can use snapshots from the actual series. Technically they do own the actual episode screen-shots, as part of their part-ownership. It is even said in the end-credits of the series that the show was made for Tonka, which would imply the latter has a great deal of rights to the episodes. Considering Warner Bros. lack of interest in GoBots, noted in the series' slow production and manufactured-on-demand basis, it seems incredibly unlikely that they would ever challenge Hasbro regardless of what they do. It would make no sense for them to create a lawsuit over a brand that they know they have little rights to and which brings them only a tiny profit. This is further re-enforced by a 2014 WonderCon Anaheim panel, where Warner Archive Collection Podcast Host Matthew Patterson mentioned that "the A-team" was probably not working on the restoration of the series.

Simply put, I believe that based on all of this info, Hasbro retains MUCH more rights to the series than Warner Bros. Besides, at the end of the day, the two companies get along pretty good anyway, considering Warner Bros. is a division Time Warner, who also owns the Transformers' main network in current times, Cartoon Network.

*Note: I fully admit that I am not a lawyer and am only making these points based on my understanding of the law.
*Sources: Counter-x.net

==My Position on the ''"What Should be on the Wiki?"'' Debate==
Basically, anything that is specifically part of Transformers should be on TFWiki. There have been many debates as to weather or not GoBots should be on the Wiki. Originally, I would have said no. However, now that GoBots was established by multiple official sources as a version of Transformers from another dimension, I think they should be included here in full. Gobotron is said to be an alternate version of Primus, while "the Evil One" is a version of The Fallen. Because of this, GoBots should now be treated just as you would any other alternate TF series and included here on the Wiki. Also, since Robotix was also established as an alternate Transformers universe, they should be included as well. Don't get me wrong though; it should stop with those two. Any other brand like GI. Joe or Inhumanoids are totally different as they are not Transformers. GoBots and Robotix are a different case, as they are ACTUAL Transformers, not some random characters who had a few crossovers. This is why I believe that those two franchises should be covered fully on the Wiki.

Transformers (film)

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:''Transformers is an [[Sector Seven (game)|elaborate cover up]] from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Transformers2007teaserposter.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Beyond good. Beyond evil. Beyond your wildest imagination!]]

'''''Transformers''''' is a live-action movie released by [[DreamWorks]] in 2007, with Executive Producer [[Steven Spielberg]] and Director [[Michael Bay]]. The story follows the Transformers' arrival on modern-day Earth and their interactions with the human race, as they search for the life-giving [[AllSpark]] and continue their ages-old civil war. The movie is a new imagining of the [[Transformers brand]], drawing on past Transformers fiction but also distinct in its own right.

''Transformers'' features [[Sam Witwicky]], a plucky teenager who just wants a cool car, but gets more than he bargained for. The beater he and his father take home is actually [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], an alien robot from the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], who plants Sam down in the middle of a civil war between Bumblebee's benevolent [[Autobot]] comrades and the evil [[Decepticon]]s who threaten the galaxy's peace. Both sides are after the AllSpark, a mysterious artifact that landed on Earth ten thousand years ago. The approaching robot-against-robot battle is a coming-of-age moment for Sam, who learns the meaning of his family's motto, "No sacrifice, no victory."

The principal cast members were [[Shia LaBeouf]], [[Jon Voight]], and [[Megan Fox]], with [[Peter Cullen]] and [[Hugo Weaving]] as the voices of the Transformers' iconic leaders. About 75 percent of the film's character designs and visual effects were created by [[Industrial Light & Magic]], the effects-wizards behind the [[Star Wars (film)|''Star Wars'' films]]. The remaining 25 percent were done by Michael Bay's company, [[Digital Domain]].

Originally slated to release in the summer of 2006, the film arrived in US theaters on [[July 3]], 2007, and hit UK theaters on [[July 27]] and French theaters on [[July 25]]. It premiered in Australia on [[June 12]], 2007, and was released there and in a number of Asian countries on [[June 28]], 2007. An extended cut of the film featuring footage not in the original was released to IMAX theatres on [[September 21]], 2007.

{{bigquote|Sam Witwicky, you hold the key to Earth's survival.|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] on the basic plot}}

==Synopsis==
[[File:Allspark movie.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|With this, I shall make you my slave!]]
Many years ago, Cybertron is destroyed at the hands of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], during his quest to obtain the AllSpark. Megatron discovers the AllSpark on [[Earth]], but crash-lands in the Arctic Circle, becoming frozen in the ice. Captain [[Archibald Witwicky]] and his crew of explorers stumble upon Megatron's body in the late 19th century. Megatron's navigational system is unintentionally activated, and [[Glasses#Movie|Archibald's eyeglasses]] are imprinted with the coordinates to the AllSpark's location. [[Sector Seven]], a secret organization of the United States government, independently discovers the AllSpark and builds the [[Hoover Dam]] around it to mask its energy signal. The still-frozen Megatron is moved into this facility, and is reverse engineered to further advance [[human]] technology.

[[File:Movie Blackout SOCCENT.JPG|upright=1.4|thumb|Let the slaughter begin!]]
In the present day, the other Decepticons — [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]], and [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]] — have already landed on Earth and assumed the disguise of Earth vehicles. Blackout and Scorponok attack the U.S. [[SOCCENT Forward Operations Base]] in [[Qatar]] in an effort to use the military database to discover the location of Megatron and the AllSpark, but they do not succeed. A small group of survivors under Captain [[William Lennox]] wander through the desert and are followed by Scorponok. The Autonomous Robotic Organism (shortened to "Autobot") known as Bumblebee is also on Earth, disguised as a 1976 Chevrolet Camaro, and looking for Sam Witwicky, the descendant of Captain Archibald Witwicky. He finds Sam at a used car lot where the boy is looking to purchase a car. Bumblebee covertly sabotages all of the other cars in the lot, leaving him as Sam's only option. Sam buys Bumblebee and the two quickly begin to bond as Bumblebee helps Sam try and woo his crush, [[Mikaela Banes]]. Sam is unaware of the fact that Bumblebee is an alien, until one night when the Autobot drives off without him. Sam chases Bumblebee on a bike to a factory area, calling the police in the process, and witnesses Bumblebee transform into robot mode and send a signal to the Autobots in space. The police soon arrive and Sam is arrested.

[[File:Movie Scorponok leapsout.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Run, Blaster! Save yourself!]]
At the [[Pentagon]], Defense Secretary [[John Keller (Movie)|John Keller]] oversees the investigation into the attack in Qatar. After Blackout's failure, Frenzy infiltrates Air Force One and attempts to download all information relating to "Project Iceman". However, [[Maggie Madsen]], one of the technicians studying the Decepticon infiltration signal, detects Frenzy hacking into the files and convinces the Pentagon to take down the Defense Network, halting Frenzy's download. When [[Air Force One]] makes an emergency landing, Frenzy slips into Barricade, and discusses his discovery of Archibald Witwicky, who has seen [[Cybertronian language|their language]]. Using an internet search, they discover that Sam's glasses will lead the Decepticons to the AllSpark. Frenzy and Barricade begin tracking Sam's location. Back in Qatar, the Army Rangers are attacked by Scorponok, and take refuge in a nearby village. Calling the Pentagon and getting air support, they discover that the Decepticons are vulnerable to high heat weaponry such as sabot rounds. Using this information, the soldiers inform the Pentagon that they now have a weapon.

[[File:Movie Sam Mikaela meettheAutobots.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|[[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] say find friends today.]]
Sam having been bailed out of jail by his father, gets the impression that Bumblebee is stalking him. A freaked out Sam flees from Bumblebee (who is in car mode) on his mother's bike. Bumblebee then proceeds to pursue him. Mikaela sees Sam on the run and follows him on her motor scooter. After Sam evades Bumblebee, he is confronted by Barricade who demands Archibald's glasses. Mikaela arrives as Sam is running away from Barricade. Bumblebee, still in car mode, then finds them and has them get in. Barricade chases Bumblebee to a power plant where Bumblebee transforms and battles the Decepticon robot-to-robot. Meanwhile, Frenzy chases Sam but gets his head decapitated by Mikaela, however his head still functions and takes the form of Mikaela's phone to hide in her purse. Bumblebee, who has defeated Barricade, properly introduces himself to Sam and Mikaela. He then takes them to rendezvous with the rest of the Autobots. The Autobots—[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], and [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]—land on Earth and take on the forms of several Earth vehicles. They all meet in a dark, secluded alley, transform in front of the two amazed humans, introduce themselves and tell of the reasons they had to come to Earth to Sam and Mikaela. Meanwhile, Maggie, unable to convince John Keller and his officers of the Decepticon virus's complexity, makes a copy of the intrusion signal and shows it to her friend [[Glen Whitmann]], who discovers a message with the signal about Sector Seven, Captain Witwicky, and [[Project Iceman]]. However, the FBI arrest Glen and Maggie, who desperately tries to convince them not to go to war with the wrong country.

[[File:Movie Autobots Sector Seven.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb|I'll use the universal greeting.]]
Sam, Mikaela, and the Autobots return to Sam's home to retrieve the glasses. However, agents from [[Sector Seven]] arrive to take Sam and Mikaela into custody. As Sam and Mikaela are taken away in one of their vehicles, [[Seymour Simmons]], the agency's director, reveals that Mikaela has a criminal record and threatens Sam with life imprisonment, at which point the Autobots disable the convoy and rescue the teens. Mikaela then explains to Sam that the only reason she has a record is her refusal to turn her father in for the crimes he committed, prompting her to ask him what he has ever sacrificed in his "perfect little life." Reinforcements arrive at the scene and the Autobots retreat. However Sam and Mikaela are recaptured and Bumblebee is also captured despite Sam's pleas to let him go. Prime orders the other Autobots to let Bumblebee be taken, unwilling to use deadly force against the humans. At the Pentagon, a virus Frenzy uploaded during the Air Force One hack causes a global communications blackout, while Keller is finally informed of the Transformers by [[Tom Banachek]]. After Bumblebee's capture, Optimus uses the glasses to locate the AllSpark at Hoover Dam, and declares that if they cannot defeat the Decepticons, he will merge the Cube with his spark, even though it will kill him.

[[File:Movie Optimus Megatron.JPG|upright=1.4|thumb|One shall stand. One shall fall.]]
Sam, Mikaela, Keller, Maggie, Glen, and Lennox's unit are brought to Hoover Dam, where they are shown by Simmons and Banachek the frozen Megatron and the AllSpark, while Frenzy slips away. Sam explains the Decepticons' plan to use the AllSpark to transform human machines to conquer the universe. Locating the AllSpark, Frenzy regenerates the rest of his body and sends out an alert to Starscream, who mobilizes the rest of the Decepticons. Due to Starscream's attack and Frenzy's sabotage, Megatron begins to thaw, and Sam, Lennox, and Keller convince Banachek and Simmons to release Bumblebee so that he can get the AllSpark to Optimus Prime. Bumblebee converts the AllSpark into a smaller state for transportation to [[Mission City]].

Glen, Maggie, Keller, and Simmons manage to contact the Air Force and direct F22s to Mission City. Frenzy tries to stop them but is killed. As Bumblebee, Sam, Mikeala, and Lennox's unit drive to Mission City, they come in contact with the other Autobots, who join the convoy. Barricade, Devastator, and Bonecrusher, in vehicle modes, pursue them and Bonecrusher transforms into robot mode. Optimus transforms to stay behind and stop their pursuers. He fights Bonecrusher and eventually kills him. Meanwhile, the rest of the Autobots and the soldiers reach Mission City and come under attack by Starscream, Devastator, Blackout and Megatron. Bumblebee is crippled by Starscream while Jazz is killed by Megatron. Mikaela hijacks a tow truck to carry Bumblebee to safety while Lennox tasks Sam with taking the AllSpark to a building where it will be taken by military helicopters. Ironhide and Ratchet cover Sam as he makes his run to the building, protecting him from Blackout before being wounded by Starscream, leaving Sam to get to the building on his own.

[[File:Megatron allspark merge.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Now, light our darkest hour!]]
Optimus Prime finally arrives in the area and confronts Megatron. The two battle one-on-one before Megatron knocks Prime out and chases Sam. As Sam get to the roof of the building and is about to hand the AllSpark off to one of the helicopters, it is shot down by Starscream. Megatron destroys the portion of the roof the Sam is standing on when he refuses to hand over the AllSpark. However, Optimus catches Sam and he and Megatron resume their duel with Megatron once again gaining the upper hand. Meanwhile, Mikaela drives the tow truck in reverse to allow Bumblebee to fire on Devastator, who has Lennox and his men pinned down. Bumblebee kills Devastator and a full air strike is called in on Blackout and Megatron. As Blackout attempts to assist Megatron, he is killed by Lennox and the Air Force before he can engage. Starscream hides among a raptor squadron, destroying three fighters before being chased away. The Air Force and Lennox's rangers attack Megatron, inflicting serious damage upon him, but he is still functional, and heading toward the Cube. Finally, with both Prime and Megatron weakened, Prime beckons Sam to shove the AllSpark into his chest, destroying them both, but Sam instead takes the riskier action of shoving the AllSpark into Megatron's chest, destroying it, and killing Megatron instead.

{{note|For an extensive synopsis of the battle, see separate article [[Mission City]].}}

[[File:Movie Optimus ending.JPG|upright=1.4|thumb|[['Til all are one]]!]]
Optimus thanks Sam for his courage and for saving his life, while Bumblebee, who has temporarily regained his voice, asks permission to remain with Sam, which is granted. In an attempt to cover up the existence of the Transformers, Sector Seven is disbanded, while the remains of the Decepticons are cast into the [[Laurentian Abyss]]. Though Megatron is dead, the AllSpark's destruction leaves the Autobots unable to restore Cybertron. With no other home to go to, the Autobots decide to stay on Earth, and Optimus sends out a signal across space in an effort to locate any surviving Autobots, while Sam and Mikaela begin a relationship. Starscream retreats from Earth.
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==Main cast==
{{featuredcharacters
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*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] ([[Mark Ryan]])
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] ([[Darius McCrary]])
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] ([[Robert Foxworth]])
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] ([[Jess Harnell]])
|c2=
*[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] ([[Hugo Weaving]])
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] ([[Jess Harnell]])
*[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] ([[Charlie Adler]])
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]'''*''' / Devastator
*[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]] ([[Jimmie Wood]])
*[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
*[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
*[[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] ([[Reno Wilson]])

|c3=
*[[Sam Witwicky]] ([[Shia LaBeouf]])
*[[Mikaela Banes]] ([[Megan Fox]])
*[[William Lennox]] ([[Josh Duhamel]])
*[[Robert Epps]] ([[Tyrese Gibson]])
*[[John Keller (Movie)|John Keller]] ([[Jon Voight]])
*[[Maggie Madsen]] ([[Rachael Taylor]])
*[[Glen Whitmann]] ([[Anthony Anderson]])
*[[Seymour Simmons]] ([[John Turturro]])
*[[Tom Banachek]] ([[Michael O'Neill]])
*[[Judy Witwicky]] ([[Julie White]])
*[[Ron Witwicky]] ([[Kevin Dunn]])
*[[Bobby Bolivia]] ([[Bernie Mac]])
*[[Trent DeMarco]] ([[Travis Van Winkle]])
*[[Archibald Witwicky]] ([[William Morgan Sheppard]])
*[[Patrick Donnelly]] ([[Zack Ward]])
*[[Jorge Figueroa]] ([[Amaury Nolasco]])
*[[Miles Lancaster]] ([[John Robinson]])
*[[Sharp|Colonel Sharp]] ([[Glenn Morshower]])

|c4=
*[[Mojo]] ([[Chester the Chihuahua]])
[[AllSpark Mutation]]s
*[[Nokia-bot]]
*[[Dispensor]]
*[[Steering wheel robot|Steering wheel]]
*[[Xbox 360 robot|Xbox 360]]
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}}
'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>''' - Brawl is named "Devastator" in the film itself, but "Brawl" in the toyline and most of the supporting media. Plot summaries and such will reflect whichever name is relevant to that being described.

==Quotes==
"Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That was how our race was born. For a time, we lived in harmony, but like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war - a war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space. We scattered across the galaxy, hoping to find it and rebuild our home, searching every star, every world. And just when all hope seemed lost, message of a new discovery drew us to an unknown planet called... Earth. But we were already too late."
:—'''Optimus Prime's''' opening narration

"Look, can you do me a favor—can you look out the window for a second? See my father? He's the guy in the green car? Let me tell you about a dream, a boy's dream, and a man's promise to that boy. He looked him in the eye and said "Son, I'm gonna buy you a car, but I want you to bring me two-thousand dollars and three A's." OK, I got the two thousand and two A's. OK, here's the dream. Your B minus? Pfff! Dream gone. Kaputt. Sir, just ask yourself... what would [[Jesus]] do?"
:—'''Sam Witwicky''' negotiates a better mark for his Family Genealogy project

'''Bobby Bolivia:''' What with the semi-classic nature of the vehicle, slick wheels and custom paint job— 
'''Sam:''' The paint's faded! 
'''Bobby:''' Y-yeah, but it's custom. 
'''Sam:''' It's custom faded? 
'''Bobby:''' Well, it's your first car, I wouldn't expect you to understand. ''[turns to Ron]'' Five grand. 
'''Ron:''' No, not paying over four. Sorry. 
'''Bobby:''' ''[turns back to Sam]'' Kid, c'mon, get out, get out of the car. 
'''Sam:''' No, no, no, you said cars pick their drivers! 
'''Bobby:''' Well, sometimes they pick a driver with a cheap-ass father—out of the car. 
:—Negotiations over [[Bumblebee (Movie)|the car]] at [[Bolivia's Finest Quality Used Cars and Petting Zoo]]

''[Sam's car leaves in a huge puff of black smoke]'' 
"Wow... you are so cheap." 
"It's his first car... supposed to be like that."
:—'''Judy Witwicky''' comments on the car's condition to '''Ron'''

'''Capt. Lennox:''' I need a credit card! Epps, where's your wallet? 
'''Sgt. Epps:''' Pocket! ''[fires gun]'' 
'''Lennox:''' Which pocket?" 
'''Epps:''' My ''back'' pocket! ''[fires gun]'' 
'''Lennox:''' You got ten back pockets! 
'''Epps:''' Left cheek! Left cheek! ''Left cheek!'' 
:—Calling the Pentagon from Qatar gets complicated.

"Ready, heat's coming!" 
"What, BRING IT!" 
:—'''Lennox''' and '''Epps''' giving the green light for Strike Package Bravo to attack

'''Optimus Prime''': Are you Samuel James Witwicky, descendant of Archibald Witwicky? 
'''Mikaela Banes''': They know your name! 
'''Sam''': Uh... Yeah? 
'''Optimus Prime''': My name is Optimus Prime. 
:—Admit it, you stood up and cheered and/or wept from joy after this exchange.

"The parents are... irritating. Can I take them out?"
:—'''Ironhide''' meets the family

'''Jazz''': What about Bumblebee? We can't just leave him to die! And become some human experiment! 
'''Optimus Prime''': He'll die in vain if we don't accomplish our mission. Bumblebee is a brave soldier. This is what he would want. 
'''Ironhide:''' Why are we fighting to save the humans? They're a primitive and violent race. 
'''Optimus Prime:''' Were we so different? They are a young species. They have much to learn... but I've seen goodness in them. [[Make Prime Speak|Freedom is the right of all sentient beings]]... You all know there is only one way to end this war: We must destroy the Cube. If all else fails, I will unite it with the spark in my chest. 
'''Ratchet:''' That's suicide! The Cube is raw power—it could destroy you both. 
'''Optimus Prime:''' A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet... We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes. It's been an honor serving with you all. Autobots, roll out! 
'''Jazz''': We rollin'! 
:—The Autobots discuss their next move.

"Do you want a piece of me?! Do you want a piece-" 
"NO! I want TWO!"''[rips Jazz in two]'' 
:—'''Jazz''', showing no fear and '''Megatron''', showing cruelty and cleverness

"Humans don't deserve to live." 
"They deserve to choose for themselves!" 
"Then you will die with them! Join them in extinction!"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' have some mid-battle banter, Transformers style

"Give me the AllSpark, and you may live to be my ''pet''." 
"I'm never giving you this AllSpark!" 
"Oh, ''so'' unwise..."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Sam Witwicky''' have a tense moment on a Mission City rooftop.

"With the AllSpark gone, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has yielded its reward: a new world to call... home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight... but watching over them in secret... waiting... protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars: We are here... we are waiting."
:—'''Optimus Prime's''' closing narration

==Errors==
* Sunset occurs roughly every fifteen minutes. Possibly indicative of time passage, but a little too much to not warrant mention in the actual movie. Specific instances:
**When the radar operator at SOCCENT base first spots Blackout, he reports him as an "inbound unidentified infiltrator, ten miles out". [[Sharp|Colonel Sharp]] dispatches two F-22s, which intercept Blackout still in broad daylight. When Blackout lands at the base, it's suddenly sunset. As the soldiers round him up, it rapidly turns dark within what appears to be seconds. Once Blackout transforms, it's already night.
**When Mikaela walks home from the lake, the sun is still shining. Sam tells Miles that she "lives ten miles from here". After he picked her up, Bumblebee feigns an engine problem. By the time Sam gets him running again, the sky is still in an early stage of pre-sunset. By the time Sam drops Mikaela at her home, it's night again.
**Barricade assaults Sam in the middle of the day. Bumblebee intervenes and drives off with Sam and Mikaela still in broad daylight. During the ensuing car chase, sunset abruptly occurs once Bumblebee has left the warehouse, and it promptly turns night between shots. (The chase scene was actually intended to be longer; see "[[#Changes before, during and after production|changes before, during and after production]]" below.)
* The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) used by the US Air Force to investigate Scorponok's attack on Captain Lennox is modeled after the [[wikipedia:MQ-9 Reaper|MQ-9 Reaper]], but is identified as the [[wikipedia:MQ-1 Predator|MQ-1 Predator]]. Also, neither of these UAVs use jet engines.
[[File:MovieTaxis.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|These shots were ''shown in sequence'', believe it or not.]]
* After Maggie copies the signal to take to Glen, she hails a black and white cab, but she's dropped off at Glen's house by an all-white cab. (The "cab hailing" footage originally came from a deleted scene near the beginning of the movie when Maggie was late for work.), and are two different models of the Crown Victoria taxicab.
* When Sam's car breaks down and Mikaela gets out to look at the engine, she leaves the passenger door open. When the car restarts and Sam leaves to close the hood, the passenger side door is now shut. But hey, maybe that was Bumblebee.
* Mikaela identifies Bumblebee's engine as having a "high-rise, double-pump carburetor" but the engine shown has no such carburetor.
* After Bumblebee backs into a corner of the power plant to evade Barricade, there is a close up shot of him spinning his wheels to make his getaway. However, the shot of the wheels spinning is at a different location: the empty warehouse that Bumblebee and Barricade had raced through moments earlier.
* Possibly an error, or possibly just a confusing shot setup, but when Bumblebee makes his escape, Barricade appears to change positions multiple times as camera angles change. Bumblebee guns his engines as Barricade is just starting to cross in front of him, but as Bumblebee speeds backwards, Barricade has backtracked well out of the way.
* After scanning his new Concept Camaro alt-form, Bumblebee's robot body displays either battle-worn parts or brand new parts at random times for the duration of the film.
[[File:MovieJazzBarricadeLicensePlates.jpg|thumb|Barricade has the plate before Jazz even comes to Earth, so it's not a trophy or anything...]]
* As long as Bumblebee transforms into a 1976 Camaro, his license plate consistently reads "489 PCE" both in vehicle and robot mode. After scanning his modern Camaro alternate mode, the license plate changes too... which isn't actually an error. What ''is'' an error, though, is that the new license plate keeps changing from "900 STRA" in vehicle mode to "4NZZ454" in robot mode.
*Jazz's license plate is equally inconsistent: On his robot mode chest it's "1-4027E", but during his transformation before his fight with [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], he sports the license plate "664 NLZO" in vehicle mode. What's worse, "1-4027E" is also ''Barricade's'' license plate in vehicle mode, as can be seen when he slows down and then accelerates again after having seemingly cornered Bumblebee.
* During the scene where Optimus Prime scans a truck for his new body, the passing truck has what appears to be an Autobot sigil on its grill, but the actual truck that Prime turns into at the end of the scene has a much wider, flatter symbol on the grill, quite possibly a Peterbilt logo.
* When Simmons replays Sam's "last words" recorded onto his cell phone, it doesn't match what he said in the scene where he actually recorded them.
* When the Autobots arrive to rescue Sam and Mikaela from Agent Simmons, Ironhide is the first Autobot to reach the damaged SUV and the other Sector Seven agents. Behind him, Ratchet is making his way towards the SUV, while Jazz and Bumblebee have their respective weapons drawn. However, in the very next shot, Ratchet's gun is suddenly in front of Ironhide, who is now making two short steps towards the SUV, while Jazz's gun has been replaced by his hand (which he uses to pull Sector Seven's guns away magnetically). In the shot after that, Jazz is just standing around sans Sector Seven guns, while Bumblebee wanders up and draws his gun...again.
[[File:Movie2007 Keller OBVIOUSVISUALAID.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Yer days're numbered now, Decepti-creeps.]]
* When Banachek shows Keller photographs of the Decepticon that destroyed the [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] [[Beagle 2 Rover]], and supposedly a photo of Blackout taken by Epps during the attack on SOCCENT Qatar, "Blackout's photo" is clearly taken during the day, complete with the sun behind the Decepticon as a major light source, whereas the attack on SOCCENT took place in the evening. This was either a continuity error or a ham-handed attempt to make the audience realise the attackers in both photos are one and the same by making the photos look similar.
** Not to mention that the actual Beagle 2 was a '''''European''''' Space Agency '''''lander''''', not a [[NASA]] Rover.
* During the montage where Bumblebee's frozen body is being transported inside Hoover Dam via a moving platform whilst the Autobots discuss his fate, in one of the shots the physical Bumblebee prop is missing its distinctive car doors.
* During the first half of the movie, Maggie is wearing a slim striped skirt, but she is suddenly dressed in 3/4 jeans in the scene when they arrive at Hoover Dam.
*This may not be an error, but Barricade seems to disappear after being driven off the road during the highway scene, as he is never shown again in the movie or the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|sequel]]. [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] later pulls the same trick in said sequel.
* When Ironhide transforms and performs a somersault to dodge Brawl's missiles, he is seen rising first, then falling. At that moment, he is already almost at the ground, low enough to touch the ground if he stretched his arms. However, on the next scene, he has gone much higher up, high enough to fire both the cannons on his arms then perform a midair somersault.
* When Lennox arrives as Sam and Mikaela are supposedly strapping Bumblebee with the tow truck's chains, Bumblebee is not actually there. When the shot changes angles to the other side of the truck, Bumblebee is sitting right beside the truck while Sam directs Mikaela to wrap Bumblebee in the chains. When Lennox tells Sam to evacuate the Cube, subsequent camera angles from this side of the truck are actually where Bumblebee was moments earlier, but he's not there again (it is unlikely the angle was meant to be from Bumblebee's perspective). When Sam starts to run off and Mikaela calls him back, Bumblebee is once again clearly not sitting beside the truck. In fact, the space he once occupied has the beige van he crawled out of, earlier in the battle. What makes this all the more bizarre is that the life-sized Bumblebee prop was actually used for some of the scenes that depict Bumblebee strapped to the tow truck.
[[File:MovieTowTruckNumbers.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Mike changed phone numbers while giant robots were fighting in the city.]]
* After Optimus Prime and Megatron land in the city streets after flying through the office tower, Megatron throws the Autobot leader a short distance away, causing him to land on a parked car. After Megatron forms his fusion cannon, Optimus Prime has suddenly moved further down the street and the car he crushed, along with the other abandoned cars, have vanished. Also, in this shot, Optimus' feet don't make craters or any visible mark on the concrete. Yet, when Optimus is running from the Sector Seven Agents, he's making huge craters while he is side-stepping cars. (This comes with weighing over four tons and running 40 miles an hour.) Additionally, Optimus stops at the intersection just in front of Megatron to pull out his Ion blaster in this shot, but when it cuts to a shot to the left-front of Optimus, he is only mid-way up the street, and there is a parked yellow cab at the curb which was empty seconds earlier. Funnily enough, this curb was where the crushed car was parked.
* During the fight towards the end of the film between Megatron and Optimus, it is shown that Optimus is about the same size as Megatron in robot mode. Yet, in vehicle mode, Megatron is a great deal larger than Optimus is. Similarly, Starscream seems to be smaller than Megatron in robot form, leading to the logical conclusion that he is smaller than Optimus as well. Yet in vehicle mode, he is nearly four to five times larger, seeing as an F-22 Raptor is a great deal larger than a Peterbilt 379 tractor cab. And they say they don't have [[scale]] problems.
* For the battle in Mission City, see [[Mission City#Notes]].
*The phone number on the doors of the tow truck is "800-555-0199" when Mikaela is driving it, but when she gets out, the number changes to "800-555-MIKE". The font is slightly different, too.
* In the battle at Mission City, Brawl very clearly fires 3 missiles out of his shoulder-mounted missile launcher, but before he dies, all 4 missiles are in his missile launcher. Then again, this could just be a sort of 'auto-reload' thing the Transformers have going on, as they probably wouldn't get very far in battle if they were only limited to 4 missiles each.
* When Keller is meeting with the other officials, he says they're going to dump the bodies of the Decepticons into the Laurentian Abyss, the deepest place on the planet. The deepest place on the planet is the Mariana Trench.

===Explicable discrepancies===
* Sam and Mikaela, as well as Maggie and Glen arrive at Hoover Dam on the same helicopter despite being from opposite ends of the country. Occasionally cited as an error, it is actually a narrative oversight, as it is likely that Sam and Mikaela were held in custody at a U.S. Air Base while waiting for Maggie and Glen to arrive with Secretary Keller's party by plane, then they all left for Hoover Dam together on the helicopters.

* There are some problems with Simmons's statement about various technologies being reverse-engineered from Megatron. Cars came about in one shape or form at about the turn of the century, and spaceflight technology was pioneered by German and Soviet scientists. (This is possibly what [[Sector Seven|they]] ''want'' you to think.) Then again, [[Seymour Simmons|Simmons]] also thinks that [[Nokia]] is a Japanese company...

* Most people mistakenly confuse the date of Megatron's discovery with the date the Hoover Dam was built. Based on the various dates given by Banachek, it's clear that Megatron was ''left in the Arctic'' for many years before being moved to Hoover Dam, making his discovery easily pre-date cars.

==Transformer references==
The movie contains a number of nods and winks to previous iterations of ''Transformers'', primarily from ''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]''. Some of these were included in direct response to urgings of the fans; others originated with the production crew.

* The basic story set-up is similar to many iterations of the ''Generation 1'' story — two warring factions, the noble Autobots and the power-hungry Decepticons, arrive on Earth, having left their devastated home planet, the war-torn mechanical world of Cybertron.
* Many of the featured Transformers are re-imagined versions of characters from ''Generation 1''. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] in particular are similar in physical form and characterization to their movie incarnations. The Movie versions of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] differ in appearance but fulfill story roles similar to their original versions.
* Though the characters are new, "[[Frenzy (disambiguation)|Frenzy]]", "[[Scorponok (disambiguation)|Scorponok]]", "[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]/[[Devastator (disambiguation)|Devastator]]", "[[Blackout (disambiguation)|Blackout]]", "[[Barricade (disambiguation)|Barricade]]", and "[[Bonecrusher (disambiguation)|Bonecrusher]]" are all names that have been used on Transformer characters before.
* Blackout's symbiotic relationship with Scorponok originated as an interpretation of [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and his cassette troops. Frenzy's transformation into a portable stereo is likewise a homage to Soundwave's cassette deck alternate form.
* Sam shares his last name with the [[Witwicky#Generation 1 continuity family|main human allies]] of the Autobots in the original [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''Generation 1'' cartoon]]. Like Spike before him, he's closest to Bumblebee.
* The Autobot faction symbol seen on Bumblebee and others is basically unchanged from its ''Generation 1'' appearance.
* The AllSpark takes its name from [[Allspark|a concept]] originally introduced in ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''.
* The original G1 [[transformation]] sound pops up several times during the course of the film, such as Blackout's first conversion sequence (though truth be told it sounds more like it's being broadcast from a loudspeaker.)
[[File:Movie BoliviasFinestQualityUsedCars 2.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Your bargaining posture is highly dubious.]]
* In his first appearance, Bumblebee parks next to a yellow Volkswagen Beetle — the alternate form of [[Bumblebee (G1)|G1 Bumblebee]].
* When instructing the Autobots to escape Sector Seven and when they later head for Hoover Dam, Optimus Prime delivers his catchphrase from the ''Generation 1'' cartoon, ordering them to [[Roll out|"Roll out!"]]
* Sam's surmise that the Transformers come from Japan is [[TakaraTomy|not entirely inaccurate]].
* Prime references "the spark in my chest". [[Spark]]s — the life-force that makes Transformers alive — have been an integral part of Transformers fiction since ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.
* Although the Transformers' primary energy supply, [[Energon]], does not make an established physical appearance in the film, its name appears on the license plate of an SUV thrown through the air during Megatron's rampage in [[Mission City]].
* Optimus Prime's line "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" is the quote from his [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|original 1984 toy's]] [[bio]]. At least one of the reasons for the inclusion of this line was because it won in an online contest conducted by [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] in late 2006, named "[[Make Prime Speak]]".
* Prime's line "...one shall stand; one shall fall" comes from the 1986 animated ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
* The scene in which Jazz yanks aside Devastator's tank barrel is a direct homage to a similar sequence from TF:TM involving [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]].
* Ironhide's complaint that [[Mojo]] "leaked lubricant" on his foot references a [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1|favorite]] [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3|exclamation]] [[Power Play!|of his]] ''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' [[Ironhide (G1)|counterpart]], "Leakin' lubricant!" The phrase originated with his [[The Transformers Universe|original character outline]], stating that "he [refers to] excessive talking as 'leaking lubricant.'"
* Sam telling Mikaela that there's "more than meets the eye... with you" quotes the slogan used in the toy line, also included in the G1 series [[theme song]].
*Megatron wields a flail in the Mission City battle, just as he did in his fight with Optimus Prime in the second-ever G1 episode, "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]".

==Other editions==
The 2007 Transformers film has more than one "cut."

* The worldwide theatrical release was essentially identical all around the world with a few minor exceptions.
* The film board of Malaysia required [[Judy Witwicky]]'s masturbation reference be removed{{fact}}. However, no such change has been made and her lines were not omitted from the film.
*Glen's line, "that killer robot is really distracting", was cut from DVD releases. However, it is featured in the official novelization of the movie and at least one trailer.
* The [[wikipedia:IMAX|IMAX]] edition of the movie features two minutes of additional footage in the form of slightly extended scenes and very brief new scenes. Added material includes the following:
**Before heading to the lake party, Sam is shown picking Miles up at his house. Miles derides Sam's choice of car colors.
**After Sam is questioned by the sheriff at the police station, he is given an anti-drug bumper sticker and shown the "[[wikipedia:This is Your Brain on Drugs|This is Your Brain on Drugs]]" [[Public service announcement|PSA]] starring [[wikipedia:Rachel Leigh Cook|Rachel Leigh Cook]].
**After abducting Sam and Mikaela, Agent Simmons uses a device to monitor Sam's pupil dilation while interrogating him in the truck. He also remarks that he has "been there" when it comes to women with criminal records.
**Upon arriving at Hoover Dam, Simmons remarks colorfully that it is "Area 50". A few minutes later, he lists the nicknames of all the U.S. Presidents to have toured the facility.
**In Mission City, Lennox acquires short-range radios from a gun-toting, but easily flattered, pawn shop owner.
*Strangely, the televised versions of the film feature different synthesized effects on all of the Transformers' voices. These changes result in the Autobots and Decepticons sounding like they are talking inside a tin can. Why this difference is present and where the changes originally came from are unknown.
*The [[Cartoon Network]] broadcast of the film replaces some of the curses with other words. Sam's Parent's "family discussion" is toned down a bit, with [[Judy Witwicky|Judy's]] line about masturbation removed.

==Prequel material==
* ''[[Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday]]''
: A novel about the truth behind humankind's first venture into space and how that event is related to the Transformers' presence on Earth, both past and present.

* ''[[Transformers: Movie Prequel]]''
: A four issue limited series comic book from [[IDW Publishing]], released before the movie's debut. It chronicles the events which bring the Transformers to [[Earth]].

* "[[Interlude]]" (also originally published as ''Transformers Movie Prequel'')
: A short comic book by IDW, produced in cooperation with [[Target]], available (online) from Target's website and (in printed form) at BotCon and in theaters, following Bumblebee's early search for clues on Earth.

* "[[Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall]]" (also originally published as ''Transformers Movie Prequel'')
: A mini-comic by IDW, produced in cooperation with Target, available (online) from Target's website and (in printed form) as a Target exclusive bonus pack-in with the Movie DVD, showing the Decepticons' arrival on Earth.

* The ''[[Movie Prequel Special]]''
: A mass retail release that contains reprints of both "Planetfall" and "Interlude" (now with individual story titles) in collected form.

* ''[[Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Beginnings]]''
: A not-really-animated animatic version of IDW's ''[[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]]'' comics, voiced by some of the actors from the movie, the game and a bunch of other people. Included on a [[Walmart]] exclusive bonus DVD available with the Movie DVD.

* ''[[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Transformers]]''
: A monthly comic published in the UK by [[Titan Books]], featuring new adventures set before the movie in its initial six issues (in addition to reprints of stories originally published by IDW). They were reprinted by IDW in the ''[[Transformers: Saga of the Allspark|Saga of the Allspark]]'' mini-series.

Some dialog in the film contradicts the prequel material, specifically pertaining to the years in which the frozen Megatron was moved from the Arctic to Hoover Dam, and exactly when the Decepticons arrived on Earth. Some of the prequel material contradicts the ''other'' prequel material... at least till [[John Barber]] fixed some of them on his [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|''Dark of the Moon'' tie in comics]].

==Adaptations==
* A novelization of the film by [[Alan Dean Foster]] was published under the title ''[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]]''.
* IDW Publishing released a comic adaptation of the film under the title ''[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation|Movie Adaptation]]''.

==Sequels==
{{main|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)}}
Three sequels to this film have been produced and released worldwide.

[[IDW Publishing]] also released the comic sequel to the film, titled ''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]''.

==Soundtrack==
{{main|Transformers: The Album}}

==Score==
{{main|Transformers: The Score}}

==Home video releases==
[[File:2007Movie 2-disc DVD.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
{{main|Transformers (film)/home video}}
* '''US:''' [http://tformers.com/US-To-Get-Transformers-DVD-HD-DVD-October-16th/8350/news.html October 16th, 2007] (DVD, HD-DVD), [http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1175/transformers2007.html September 2nd, 2008] (Blu-ray)
* '''Australia:''' November 1, 2007 (DVD)
* '''United Kingdom:''' December 3, 2007 (DVD, HD-DVD), September 8th, 2008 (Blu-ray)

There are nearly a dozen store [[exclusive]] [http://tformers.com/Transformers-DVD-Exclusives-Who-Gets-What/8534/news.html versions and sales premiums of the DVD.] They include:

* [[Target]] and HMV UK: transforming Optimus Prime display case.
* Best Buy: [[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]] [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] and battle-damaged Optimus Prime.
* [[Walmart]]: [[Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Beginnings]] "animated" prequel material.
* Borders: "Making Of" book.
* Circuit City: password unlocking 15 minutes of exclusive online behind-the-scenes featurettes, covering the voice recording sessions, prop construction, stunt work, and early CG tests and animatics.
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==Theatrical posters==
{{picsneeded|Any other official posters not depicted here}}
<center><gallery perrow="4">
File:Transformers2007teaserposter.jpg|Teaser poster
File:Movie2007 Autobot promo poster.jpg|Autobot promo poster
File:Movie2007 Decepticon promo poster.jpg|Decepticon promo poster
File:Prime-Sam-Mikaela-poster.jpg|Promotional poster
File:Movie2007 Megatron onesheet.jpg|Megatron one sheet
File:Movie2007 Prime onesheet.jpg|Optimus Prime one sheet
File:Movie2007_final_standee.jpg|Standee, also used as a poster
File:Movie2007 humans internationalposter.jpg|International "Humans" poster/US theatrical poster
File:Movie2007 Sphere internationalposter.jpg|International "Sphere" poster
File:Movie2007 Bumblebee internationalposter.jpg|International Bumblebee poster
File:Movie2007 Prime internationalposter.jpg|International Optimus Prime poster
File:Movie2007 Megatron internationalposter.jpg|International Megatron poster
File:Movie2007_Korean_poster.jpg|South Korean theatrical release poster
File:Movie2007 Japanese Aprilpromo poster.jpg|Japanese April 2007 promotional poster
File:Movie2007_Japanese_release_poster.jpg|Japanese theatrical release poster
File:Movie2007_IMAX_poster.jpg|IMAX promotional poster
File:Movie2007_IMAX_releaseposter.jpg|IMAX release poster
File:Movie2007 handsmashy ver7 poster.jpg|Used as a prominent skyscraper advert
</gallery></center>

==Reception==
The movie set multiple records when it opened, including biggest opening week gross for a non-sequel ($155.4 million), biggest Tuesday release gross ($27.4 million), biggest July 4 gross ($29 million), and the biggest film opening in mainland China ($3 million) [http://www.china.org.cn/english/entertainment/217368.htm].
[[File:Movie2007 Bumblebee lubricates Simmons.JPG|left|350px|thumb|Oh, how it pains me to do this.]]
The movie closed domestically on [[November 8]], [[2007]], during which time it took in $319,246,193. (Domestic gross accounted for $310,578,372 before the IMAX version's release.) It has earned a ''worldwide'' gross of $708,272,592. It currently sits at spot #20 in the "most domestic gross" list of movies, though this listing is ''not'' adjusted for inflation. When taking inflation into account, ''Transformers'' currently sits at #102. [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=transformers06.htm 2]

{{quote|I didn't sleep through it the way I Novocained my way through the awful ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', but by the time it ended, I thought I might have vertigo or whiplash, or both, and I certainly lost more than a few of my remaining I.Q. points|[http://www.observer.com/2007/bay-bombs-again Rex Reed]}}

{{quote|It's goofy fun with a lot of stuff that blows up real good, and it has the grace not only to realize how preposterous it is, but to make that into an asset.|Roger Ebert}}

{{quote|But it's tough to really care about questions like, "Why did that happen?" or even "What's going on?" when you’re constantly interrupted by "Oh my goodness! Giant robots! Weeee!"|Peter Suderman|[http://tinyurl.com/373rps The National Review]}}

Critical reception was hit-and-miss, [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_the_movie/ more positive than negative but not by a lot], though it's sometimes hard to tell how many negative reviewers were more interested in criticizing [[Michael Bay]] in general over the movie itself. Otherwise, the most common negatives involved it being a generally think-free "spectacle"-style movie; even those who rated the movie positively noted it was a pure "popcorn" movie meant to wow its audience with [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] and explosions rather than make them think (Richard Roper noted in his "thumbs up" review "it has no nutritional value"). Whether one considers that a good or bad thing for a movie and if the movie was enough fun to overcome that is, of course, highly debatable. The other main culprit, again noted by many of the positive reviews, was its long running time, particularly the overly-chaotic, often hard-to-follow final big-bang extended ending action sequence. ([http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070705/REVIEWS/70620006/1023 Roger Ebert] noted that this sequence was what made him give the movie three out of four stars rather than the full four.)

From the fan and general audience point of view, Transformers was generally favored. However, there have been division over the amount of human stories at the expense of the robots.

Transformers was nominated for three Oscars, in the fields of Achievement in Sound Editing, Achievement in Sound Mixing, and Achievement in Visual Effects. The sound awards went to ''The Bourne Ultimatum'', and the visual effects award went to ''The Golden Compass''.

Three sequels have been produced to date: ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' was released worldwide on [[June 24]] [[2009]], ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' was released on [[June 28]], [[2011]], and ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]'' was released on [[June 27]], [[2014]].

According to a 2011 survey, the 2007 ''Transformers'' movie is the third most-pirated movie of all time.<ref><tt>The usual suspects were there, with "Avatar" (21 million downloads) taking top (dis?)honors, and "The Dark Knight" tying for second place with "Transformers" at 19 million downloads apiece.</tt>[http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/showbiz/movies/top-pirated-movies-ew/index.html Top 10 most pirated movies], October 14, 2011</ref>

==Technical details==
'''Length:''' 144 min (original theatrical)<ref>The movie had some content cuts to meet the standards of some <s>oppressive regimes</s> quaint "developing world" rating boards.</ref> 
'''Aspect Ratio:''' 2.35:1 
'''Audio:''' Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS 
'''Content Rating:'''
{{collist|4|
* PG-13 (USA/MPAA)
* ? (Japan)
* 12A (United Kingdom)
* PG (Canada; British Columbia)<ref>''Transformers'' received a "14A" rating in British Columbia, but an appeal by the studio successfully reduced it to PG.</ref>
* G (Canada; Quebec)
* PG (Canada; Alberta/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario)
* PG (Canada; Canadian Home Video Rating System)
* PG (Taiwan)
* IIA (China; Hong Kong)
* PG (Singapore)
* G (Philippines/MTRCB)
* U (France)
* U (Malaysia)
* M (Australia)
* M (New Zealand)
* TE (Chile)
* 10 (Brazil)
* 10M (South Africa)
* 11 (Denmark)
* K-11 (Finland)
* 11 (Norway)
* 11 (Sweden)
* 12 (Germany)
* 12A (Ireland)
* 12 (Netherlands)
* M/12 (Portugal)
* 12 (South Korea)
* 12 (Switzerland)
* 13 (Argentina)
* 14 (Peru)
* 12 (Poland)
* B (Mexico)
* 12+ (Russia)}}

==Production staff==
[[File:Movie Castandcrew2.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Megatron? Is that you?!]]
* Executive Producer: [[Steven Spielberg]]
* Executive Producer: [[Brian Goldner]]
* Director: [[Michael Bay]]
* Producers: [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]], [[Ian Bryce]], [[Tom DeSanto]], [[Don Murphy]]
* Story by: [[Alex Kurtzman]] & [[Roberto Orci]] and [[John Rogers]],
* Screenwriters: [[Alex Kurtzman]] & [[Roberto Orci]]
* Music by: [[Steve Jablonsky]]

====Visual Effects====
* Visual Effects by: [[Industrial Light & Magic]], [[Digital Domain]], [[Asylum VFX]]
* Production Designer: [[Jeff Mann]]
* Lead Robot Illustrator: [[Ben Procter]]
* Illustrators: [[James Clyne]], [[Tim Flattery]]
* ILM Visual Effects Supervisior: [[Scott Farrar]]
* Art Director: [[Alex Jaeger]]
* Animation Supervisors: [[Scott Benza]], [[Dan Taylor (ILM)|Dan Taylor]]
* Animators: [[Charles Alleneck]], [[C. Michael Easton]], [[Keiji Yamaguchi]]

====Locations Department====
(winners of the California On Location Award [http://www.californiaonlocationawards.com/] for "Production Company / Location Team of the Year for Feature Films")

* Supervising Location Manager: '''Ilt Jones'''
* Location Managers: '''Michael J. Burmeister''', '''Fermín Dávalos''', and '''Emre Sonmez'''
* Key Assistant Location Managers: '''Michael Wesley Aycock''', '''Leann Emmert''', '''Perri Fichtner''', '''Ronald M. Haynes''', '''Jonathan Hook''', '''Kathy McCurdy''', '''Manny Padilla''', '''Lisa Patton''', '''Rob Swenson''', '''Marta Tomkiw''', and '''Scott Trimble'''
* Additional Key Assistant Location Managers: '''Brooks Bonstin''', '''Alexandre Chen''', '''Michael Chickey''', '''Martin J. Cummins'''
* Assistant Location Managers: '''Ces Hardy''' and '''Amanda Harrington'''
* Location Scouts: '''Stuart Raven Barter''', '''Richard Klotz''', '''James Lin''', and '''Keith Nakata'''
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==Development details==
===Cast and crew signing on===
In 2000, director Joseph Kahn pitched his treatment for a live-action Transformers film to [[Sony]], but they eventually lost interest in a film. In 2003, producer [[Don Murphy]] had intended to produce a movie based on another [[Hasbro]] property, [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. However, following the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, a movie entitled "G.I. Joe" was no longer considered viable, so Carol Monroe, who was in charge of Hasbro's movie department at that time, suggested doing a ''Transformers'' movie instead.<ref name="murphylatino">[http://www.latinoreview.com/news/on-set-interview-producer-don-murphy-on-transformers-1502 Latino Review interview with producer Don Murphy.]</ref> [[Tom DeSanto]] joined the project as a second producer and wrote a treatment that he and Murphy tried to shop around for a while. (The treatment would eventually remain entirely unused, but DeSanto would try to get a writing credit regardless, even though none of the screenwriters had ever actually ''seen'' his treatment.<ref name="bayspat">[http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-hollywood-deal/2007/07/05/michael-bays-spat-with-his-transformer-producers Rant by Michael Bay, deleted from his own blog, still mirrored on other sites]</ref>) The movie was officially announced for the first time in June 2003.<ref name="comingsoon">[http://web.archive.org/web/20030611151443/http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=238 Coming Soon announcing the movie.]</ref>

In 2004, after [[DreamWorks]] won a bidding war with New Line Cinema over the rights to the film, [[Steven Spielberg]] signed up as executive producer, while [[John Rogers]] was confirmed as screenwriter in November of the same year.<ref>[http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/11/03/rogers-writing-transformers IGN confirming Rogers as screenwriter.]</ref> In February 2005, Rogers was replaced by [[Alex Kurtzman]] and [[Roberto Orci]],<ref name="ignkurtzorc">[http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/02/18/exclusive-new-transformers-writers IGN confirming Kurtzman and Orci as new screenwriters.]</ref> who drastically reworked Rogers' original script.<ref name="rogerscred">[http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/proper-credits-for-transformers.html John Rogers confirming that Kurtzman and Orci drastically rewrote his script]</ref> Spielberg tried to convince [[Michael Bay]] to direct the movie in late July 2005, but Bay initially declined, having no interest in a "toy movie". He later changed his mind after attending "Transformers school" at Hasbro, but decided to make the movie "realistic" and accessible for adult viewers.<ref name="audio">Michael Bay's audio commentary on the ''Transformers'' DVD.</ref>

A few days after a list of names of the human cast had been leaked on the internet, [[Shia LaBeouf]] was confirmed as the first cast member.<ref name="ignshia">[http://www.ign.com/articles/2006/03/28/from-i-robot-to-transformers IGN confirming Shia LaBeouf.]</ref> Producer Don Murphy,<ref name="murphytfcon">[http://www.transformerscon.com/videos.php Don Murphy at the Canadian TransformersCon.]</ref> Hasbro<ref name="tfwtour">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/139273-botcon-2007-botcon-2007-hasbro-tour-updated-friday-12-45pm.html Hasbro tour report.]</ref> and the screenwriters<ref name="mtv">[http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1554426/20070312/story.jhtml MTV.com interview with Kurtzman and Orci.]</ref> all favored [[Peter Cullen]] and [[Frank Welker]] as voice actors for [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. Bay had both audition, but only hired Cullen, while preferring [[Hugo Weaving]] as Megatron.<ref name="cgirobot">[http://web.archive.org/web/20070810172643/http://www.wizarduniverse.com/movies/transformersmovie/004974570.cfm Wizard Universe article about the production of the movie.]</ref> However, Welker still got to voice Megatron (alongside Cullen as Prime) in the video game adaption of the movie, ''[[Transformers The Game]]'', as well as in ''[[Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Beginnings]]'', an animated (sort of) version of [[IDW Publishing|IDW's]] [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|prequel comic mini-series]] that was available on a Wal*Mart exclusive bonus disc included with the movie DVD.

===Sponsors and partners===
====Hasbro====
In addition to acting as a licensor, Hasbro also actively participated in the development of the movie, starting with an introduction into the world of the Transformers, called the "Transformers School", for everyone involved, including [[Michael Bay]].<ref name="paramountbotcon">[http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=8001 "Hasbro and Paramount Partnership Panel" at BotCon 2007.]</ref> Hasbro also had a say in the depiction of the Transformers in the movie, the selection of the voice actors,<ref name="tfwtour" /> naming the characters, working on the robot designs<ref name="lorenzoiesb">[http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2724&Itemid=99 IESB interview with Ian Bryce and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.]</ref> and the inclusion of "easter eggs", but no veto rights.<ref name="paramountbotcon" /> According to screenwriter [[Roberto Orci]], Hasbro was more interested in an adequate adaption of the ''Transformers'' concept rather than ''only'' marketing the toyline.<ref name="orcihasbro">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showpost.php?p=2200611&postcount=239 Roberto Orci discussing Hasbro's involvement.]</ref> Nevertheless, Hasbro urged [[Michael Bay]] very early on to decide upon the Transformers characters to be used in the movie and their vehicle forms because of the long production run of the toys, even though the script wasn't completed yet by that point.<ref name="bayew">[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20035285_20035331_20044598_3,00.html Entertainment Weekly interview with Michael Bay.]</ref> Hasbro and [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] then created the [[Movie (toyline)|toys]] based on the designs developed by [[Industrial Light & Magic]]. Aside from this, Takara wasn't involved in the creation of the movie at all.<ref name="murphytformers">[http://www.tformers.com/article.php?sid=3945 TFormers interview with Don Murphy.]</ref>

Unlike other ''Transformers'' toylines (except for ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]''), Hasbro and Takara don't share the full rights to the movie toys: Paramount and ILM hold the rights to the robot designs, while the vehicle modes were licensed by companies such as General Motors ([[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]), Saleen ([[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]), Force Protection Industries ([[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]), the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation ([[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]) and the Lockheed Martin Corporation ([[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]). Only [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] didn't require a license, since his vehicle mode in the movie was heavily genericized, and all manufacturer logos were removed.<ref name="edmundsveh">[http://web.archive.org/web/20070809065140/http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=121424 Edmunds.com article on the vehicles featured in the movie.]</ref> TakaraTomy even identifies the Leader Class toy as a Kenworth W900 instead of a Peterbilt 379.<ref name="takaraprime">[http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/products/movie/ma-01.html TakaraTomy product page for Leader Class Optimus Prime.]</ref>

Even though Hasbro didn't directly profit from the box office revenue, owning the ''Transformers'' brand allowed them to profit more from the toys than from licensed brands such as ''[[Spider-Man]]'' or ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''. In addition, Hasbro was able to give out over 240 licenses to third party companies.<ref name="hasbrofall">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6912693.stm BBC reporting on Hasbro quarterly earnings for July 2007.]</ref> In the USA alone, Hasbro had sold more than three million toys from the movie line as early as July 2007,<ref name="cnnmoney">[http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/23/news/companies/hasbro/index.htm?section=money_topstories CNN Money story on Hasbro sales.]</ref> while Wal-Mart had earned more than five million $USD with the movie Transformers at the same time.<ref name="walmartmillion">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=143983 Wal-Mart employee Steevy Maximus reporting on sales figures for movie toys.]</ref> A lot of the movie toys were frequently sold out at many stores ("drought") due to a mix of popularity, stores underestimating said popularity (and thus not ordering enough toys), shipping problems in China and [[Toy scalping|scalpers]].

====US Military====
The [[United States military]] (via [[Philip Strub]] and the Defense Department's Film and Television Liaison Office) supported the movie by providing vehicles and soldiers. The vehicles included an MH-53 Pave Low helicopter ([[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout)]], several F-22 Raptors (one of them serving as [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s alternate mode), two A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter jets, an E-3 Sentry AWACS plane, an AC-130 Spectre gunship and two V-22 Ospreys. Many other airplanes are seen in the background like a few UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, several F-117 Nighthawks, and several cargo planes like the C-17 Globemaster and the C-130 Hercules. Therefore, ''Transformers'' is the first movie to feature real, non-CG F-22s.<ref name="afmil">[http://www.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123061917 Air Force Space Command article on the movie.]</ref> Real soldiers trained with the actors who played military personnel<ref name="tyreselatino">[http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=2260 Latino Review interview with Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhamel.]</ref> and were also featured as extras in the movie. Michael Bay even allowed them to improvise lines to make their military dialogue sound as "realistic" as possible.<ref name="nabbtfw">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=115126 First Lieutenant Micheal McNabb reporting his experience of working on the movie.]</ref> In return for their cooperation, Bay gave the military a say in their own depiction in the movie.<ref name="wired">[http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-07/trans_movie?currentPage=all Wired.com article on the movie.]</ref> The military, in turn, views the movie as a new form of recruitment.<ref name="aflink">[http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123021491 Air Force Link article about the movie.]</ref>

====Product Placement====
Aside from advertising the ''Transformers'' toyline, the movie also features product placement for other companies, such as Apple, Yahoo, Burger King, Nokia, Panasonic, eBay and Hewlett-Packard. The machines given life by the Allspark include an Xbox 360 (including the original startup sound) and a [[Dispensor|Mountain Dew soda vending machine]]. In addition, the movie also features other Hasbro brands, such as ''My Little Pony'' and ''Furby'' (the latter being a property of Hasbro's subsidiary Tiger Electronics). Furthermore, all Autobots, with the exception of Optimus Prime, have vehicles provided by subsidiaries of General Motors as their [[alternate mode]]s, which saved Michael Bay $3 million of his budget.<ref name="bayew" />

Many of these cooperations were mutual: Burger King offered the obligatory Kids Meal toys based on the movie characters for the movie's theatrical launch, and General Motors and Mountain Dew ran TV ads under the titles "Transform Your Ride" and "Transform Your Summer", respectively. According to producers Ian Bryce and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, however, some of these brands, such as [[eBay]], were not originally included as part of a sponsoring deal, but had been part of the script from the beginning for story purposes on the writers' behalf.<ref name="lorenzoiesb" /> For the DVD release of the movie, meanwhile, ''additional'' "Cisco" logos were added into the movie that had not been there yet in the theatrical version.<ref name="dvdprod">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38792 Allspark thread featuring comparison stills of the theatrical and DVD versions of the movie.]</ref>

===Special effects===
* Three quarters of the CG effects were done by [[Industrial Light & Magic]]. The other quarter was done by [[Digital Domain]], a company [[Michael Bay]] bought shortly before signing up to the ''Transformers'' movie.
* As seen in the bonus material for the Movie DVD, at least some of the ILM designers are actually Transformers fans. One of the animators, [[Charles Alleneck]], has his entire office decorated in more ''Transformers'' toys than a lot of "regular" fans might own.
* Physical props and set pieces were built for several of the Transformers' robot modes. Full body props for [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] (the 2009 Camaro body) and [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] were used for scenes that involved direct interaction with the human cast. The Bumblebee prop (with detached legs) was also used for the scene where he was strapped to a [[Longarm (Movie)|tow truck]]. A set featuring the frozen lower half of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron's]] body was also built. The rest is assorted bits and pieces, such as [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok's]] head and tail, a part of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]'s leg (including a wheel) and an unpainted, entirely blue version of his head plus a small part of the upper chest, and various semi-random chunks meant to represent the remains of the destroyed Decepticons dumped into the ocean (some of the parts meant to represent pieces of [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] even feature markings found on a real-life MH-53 Pave Low helicopter).

===Changes before, during and after production===
A lot of details about the movie changed during the pre-production phase (and even still during production and post-production):

* The script was originally supposed to center around the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], but because the studio wanted to avoid association with the ''Matrix'' movie trilogy, it had to be renamed. For the longest time, the working name was "[[Energon]] Cube", which neither the fans nor producer [[Don Murphy]] were really happy with.<ref name="murphytfcon" /> Ultimately, it was renamed into the [[AllSpark]] for the final movie; however, the name "Energon Cube" is still used in [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s [[Transformers (novel)|novelization]] of the movie, and was also used by [[Shia LaBeouf]] in a CBS interview immediately before the movie's official theatrical launch.<ref name="shiacbs">[http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3004937n?source=search_video CBS interview with Shia LaBeouf.]</ref>
* One of the Autobot characters in the early Kurtzman/Orci drafts was [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], who would have turned into a motorcycle. Even though Hasbro developed a toy based on the designs for the character, Arcee was dropped from the script and replaced with [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]: Kurtzman and Orci didn't want to spend time explaining the purpose of "female" Autobots,<ref name="orciign">[http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/07/02/exclusive-interview-robert-orci?page=3 IGN interview with Roberto Orci.]</ref> and Michael Bay considered her too small as compared to the rest of the Autobots.<ref name="orciwizard">[http://web.archive.org/web/20070714214451/http://www.wizarduniverse.com/movies/transformersmovie/005082421.cfm?page=1 Wizard interview with Kurtzman and Orci]</ref> Despite what fans commonly assume, however, the scene during the final battle in [[Mission City]] where [[William Lennox|Lennox]] uses an abandoned motorcycle for his assault on [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] wasn't added to the script until ''after'' Arcee had already been dropped from the script; however, had she ''not'' been dropped, she ''would'' have probably been that motorcycle.<ref name="arceelennox">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/2288318-post539.html Orci once again clearing up the story between Arcee and the motorcycle Lennox uses during the final battle]</ref>
* Other Autobot characters considered by Orci and Kurtzman were [[Hot Rod]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]].<ref name="orcichara">[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=388609&postcount=280 Roberto Orci confirming various characters originally intended for the movie.]</ref> The last was eventually dropped because Orci and Kurtzman preferred the idea of "a Decepticon in disguise as a police vehicle".<ref name="orciprowl">[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=365508&postcount=4411 Orci explaining why Prowl is not in the movie]</ref>
* Kurtzman and Orci tried ''twice'' to include [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] in the movie. The first attempt was supposed to turn into a helicopter,<ref name="orciswave">[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=351304&postcount=4161 Roberto Orci confirming that Blackout was originally intended to be Soundwave.]</ref> but Hasbro rejected that notion and insisted that Soundwave's [[alternate mode]] should have something to do with music.<ref name="murphyswave">[http://www.donmurphy.net/board/showpost.php?p=97507&postcount=23 Post by Don Murphy at his message board.]</ref> The "helicopter" character was then renamed multiple times, among those names being "Grimlock",<ref name="early">Details from an early script draft [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showpost.php?p=2213120&postcount=297 summed up here], [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showpost.php?p=2214148&postcount=303 confirmed as authentic by Roberto Orci here].</ref> "Vortex",<ref name="orcisample">[http://www.donmurphy.net/board/showpost.php?p=1120447&postcount=2360 Unformatted script sample from first draft posted by Roberto Orci on Don Murphy's message board]</ref> "Devastator"<ref name="procterdevas">[http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/ZOOM_Trans/ZOOM_32.html "Devastator" concept art at Ben Procter's online portfolio.]</ref> and "Incinerator".<ref name="procterinc">[http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/ZOOM_Trans/ZOOM_34.html "Incinerator" pre-production render at Ben Procter's online portfolio.]</ref> The character eventually ended up as [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]].
* The second attempt would have infiltrated the CIA headquarters in the form of a "portable stereo" and then transformed (and size-shifted) into a Humvee for his escape and tracked down [[Sam Witwicky|Sam]].<ref name="early" /> The "vehicle" part was later turned into a separate character, who was then given a different alternate mode (as a police cruiser) and eventually ended up as [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]. Meanwhile, the "portable stereo" character also went through several changes, because Kurtzman and Orci eventually decided that the character didn't really do Soundwave justice, so they decided to change his name and save Soundwave for the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|sequel]].<ref name="webcast">[http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808716430/video/2701721/20070418/2048/2701721-300-wmv-s.35907855-,2701721-300-flash-s.35907881-,2701721-100-wmv-s.35907849-,2701721-100-flash-s.35907874-,2701721-1000-wmv-s.35907866-,2701721-1000-flash-s.35907894-,2701721-700-flash-s.35907887-,2701721-700-wmv-s.35907861- Yahoo webcast with Kurtzman and Orci, revealing the final names of the movie characters.]</ref> The character went through some other working names such as "Boombot"<ref name="procterboom">[http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/ZOOM_Trans/ZOOM_45.html "Boombot" concept art at Ben Procter's online portfolio.]</ref> and "Soundbyte"<ref name="proctersbyte">[http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/ZOOM_Trans/ZOOM_54.html "Soundbyte" head study at Ben Procter's online portfolio.]</ref> and eventually ended up as [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]].
* Other Decepticon characters considered by Orci and Kurtzman, aside from Soundwave, were [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]].<ref name="orcichara" /> The latter was originally supposed to be a minion of helicopter Soundwave, who would have chased [[William Lennox|Lennox]] and his crew through the jungle after the attack on their base. However, when the scene was changed from the jungle to the desert (and Soundwave was no longer Soundwave), Ravage was replaced by [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]].<ref name="orciravage">[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=234188&postcount=2008 Roberto Orci confirming that Scorponok replaced Ravage].</ref>
* Because of the long production run of the toys, Hasbro urged [[Michael Bay]] very early on to decide upon the Transformers characters to be used in the movie and their vehicle forms, even though the script wasn't completed yet by that point.<ref name="bayew" /> As a result, many of the Decepticon characters in particular were chosen somewhat hastily, and aren't really based on established Transformers characters aside from their names. The tank used for [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]] (aka "Devastator") was a recycled prop originally built for the movie ''xXx: State of the Union'', while the mine protected vehicle used for [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]] caught the filmmakers' attention because of a giant photoshopped fork depicted on the manufacturer's website.<ref name="enewsi">[http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=190&itemid=11213 Entertainment News International article on the making of the movie.]</ref>
* Other Decepticon characters featured in an early draft, aside from "Grimlock" (helicopter) and "Soundwave" (portable stereo/Humvee), were Brawl as a Jeep, Frenzy as a Piranha III mortar artillery vehicle, Onslaught as a mobile missile launcher, Octane as a tanker truck, and three jets named Blitzwing, Starscream and Devastator (a cargo plane, a 747 jet and F-16 fighter; the script doesn't say which is which). Instead of having been hiding on Earth for a while, they would have arrived there during the movie after having been summoned by Soundwave.<ref name="early" /> It's possible that the Piranha III later evolved into Stryker/[[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]].
* The "evil police car Decepticon" that replaced Prowl took over the "vehicle" portion of the second character originally conceived as Soundwave (which eventually became [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]). His vehicle form was originally supposed to be a Ford Crown Victoria, while his working name was "Brawl".<ref name="policebrawl">[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/events/Botcon-2007/Hasbro-Tour/PICT5108.JPG.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1 Early design for Barricade with working name "Brawl" shown during the BotCon 2007 Hasbro Tour].</ref> Eventually the character ended up as [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], with the vehicle mode being changed into a Saleen S281 "Extreme" Mustang, because Ford didn't want one of their cars used as a "villain". Therefore, Barricade sports no "Ford" logos in the movie.<ref name="edmundsveh" />
* Another Decepticon character intended to be in the movie had the working name "Stryker", named after his vehicle mode, a M1126 Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle.<ref name="stryker">[http://www.seibertron.com/events/fullsize.php?event_id=70&size=2&image=262 Unused design for "Stryker", revealed at the BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour.]</ref> It's possible that he had evolved from a character named "Frenzy" featured in an early script draft, who would have turned into a Piranha III. The character ultimately never made it into the movie, but Hasbro later turned the design into a toy regardless, named [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]].<ref name="tfwtour" />
* Michael Bay also considered having a Transformers character turn into an aircraft carrier, but eventually scrapped that idea for cost reasons.<ref name="ignround">[http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/06/13/transformers-roundtable-with-michael-bay?page=2 IGN roundtable with Michael Bay from the Australian press conference.]</ref> Orci and Kurtzman included the character in one of their drafts of the script,<ref name="orciaircraft">[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=387736&postcount=210 Roberto Orci confirming that the aircraft carrier was in one of the drafts.]</ref> and artist Tim Flattery created concept art.<ref name="flattery">Tim Flattery's concept art for the unused aircraft carrier Transformer: [http://timflattery.com/transformers/4.html Image 1], [http://timflattery.com/transformers/5.html image 2].</ref>
* Working names for the tank Decepticon were "Demolisher"<ref name="hasbrodemolisher">[http://www.hasbro.com/objects/content/wallpaper.cfm?img=wp_transformers651_1280.jpg&brand_id=496&lang_id=1 Wallpaper at Hasbro's website calling Brawl/Devastator "Demolisher".]</ref> and "Devastator", the latter of which had also been a working name for [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] at one point. Even though [[Michael Bay]] confirmed in May 2006 that this was not the final name,<ref name="baysecret">[http://michaelbay.com/2006/05/12/a-little-secret-from-michael-bay/ Michael Bay claiming that the Transformers' names circulating were "aliases".]</ref> screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman confirmed the final name to be "[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]" in April 2006,<ref name="webcast" /> and Hasbro used that name for all their toys based on the movie character, he identifies himself as "Devastator" in a subtitle in the movie itself. According to a fan who attended the Australian press conference, Bay had decided to use that name regardless,<ref name="griffin">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showpost.php?p=1360922&postcount=122 Australian fan griffin-of-oz reporting from the Australian press conference].</ref> while Hasbro considered the name in the movie a "continuity error",<ref name="hasbrofuture">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=139268 Hasbro Transformers Future Product Unveiling panel at BotCon 2007.]</ref> and Orci even claimed that he and Kurtzman had pointed out said "error" in the editing room twice.<ref name="orcidevastator">[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=368555&postcount=4479 Orci confirming the name "Devastator" to be an "error".]</ref>
* Michael Bay decided to have [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] not turn into a Volkswagen Beetle because he wanted to avoid similarities with Disney's ''[[Wikipedia:Herbie|Herbie, the Love Bug]]''.<ref name="bayew" /> Production Designer Jeff Mann originally suggested using a Dodge Super Bee as Bumblebee's alternate mode,<ref name="edmunds1976">[Edmun Edmunds.com article on the classic Bumblebee Camaro.]</ref> but eventually Bay signed a deal with General Motors that saved him $3 million of his budget, which is why Bumblebee turns into a Chevrolet Camaro in the movie.<ref name="bayew" />
* [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] was originally intended to transform into a fire truck rather than a Search & Rescue Hummer. After being changed into a Hummer, he initially still retained a red and white deco, which later served as the inspiration for Hasbro's "Rescue Ratchet" redecos of the movie toys.<ref name="ratchettour">[http://www.seibertron.com/events/fullsize.php?event_id=70&size=2&image=285 Early designs for Ratchet shown at the BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour.]</ref>
* After designs of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] had leaked on the internet, his head design was slightly revised following massive fan complaints.<ref name="murphysunday">[http://www.donmurphy.net/board/showpost.php?p=764141&postcount=1 Don Murphy confirming that Megatron's head design was changed due to fan complaints.]</ref>
* The studio had originally preferred the Transformers not to talk ''at all'' throughout the movie, a notion Hasbro heavily contested.<ref name="tfwtour" /> Bumblebee still ended up being mute throughout most of the movie, which, according to Orci and Kurtzman, was inspired by Spielberg's ''E.T.'' and is supposed to signify that his friendship with Sam transcends words.<ref name="mtv" />
* Most drafts of the script started the movie with [[Archibald Witwicky]]'s discovery of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. In the actual movie, this scene was moved to a later point, shown as a flashback (actually at two points, split into two parts). [[IDW Publishing|IDW's]] [[Movie Adaptation issue 1|comic adaptation]] of the movie still has this as the opening scene.
* Also in one of the early drafts, the original reason for Mikaela's falling out with [[Trent DeMarco|Trent]] was not because he wouldn't let his "little bunny" drive his car, but because she refused to let him drive after having drunk beer. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anvilicious Anvilicious] much?
* In an early draft, [[William Lennox|Lennox]] and his crew would have defeated [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] with a simple grenade, which would have "dissolved him at a molecular level". The air strike would have never happened, and Lennox wouldn't have established contact with the Pentagon until around the time when [[Sam Witwicky|Sam]] and [[Mikaela Banes|Mikaela]] were apprehended by [[Sector Seven]].<ref name="early" />
* In the same draft, Sam had left his grandfather's glasses at school. The Autobots would have distracted a security guard while Sam and Mikaela would have broken into their school. It would have been there that Sam would have learned about Mikaela's criminal past, and the scene would have ended with their arrest by Sector Seven.<ref name="early" />
* In some earlier drafts of the script, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was supposed to kill [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] too after he had finished off [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]. That scene never made it into the final movie, and Barricade simply disappears with no explanation after Bonecrusher transforms; however, the scene still made it into Alan Dean Foster's [[Transformers (novel)|novelization]] of the movie and IDW's [[Movie Adaptation issue 4|comic adaptation]].
* Also in earlier drafts of the script, [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] was supposed to kill [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] by consuming his [[Spark]]. Again, this is only explicitly confirmed in the novelization and IDW's comic adaptation of the movie, but not in the movie itself.
* During the rather truncated chase scene between Barricade and Bumblebee (see also "[[#Errors|errors]]" above), Barricade was to deploy some serrated drill-like missiles from his hood and fire them at the fleeing Autobot. Though these weapons were constructed and fitted to one of the Barricade prop vehicles, this scene was ultimately cut, explaining the abrupt shift to night time at the conclusion of the chase. Until artist [[Sean Haworth]] uploaded a photo of the weapon prop onto his website, the only official proof of the existence of these weapons was page 12 of IDW Publishing's [[Movie Adaptation issue 2]] and the RadioShack [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#XMODS Evolution Transformers|''XMODS Evolution'' Barricade radio control car's weapons and light uppgrade kit]].

==Notes==
* The Autobot computer generated models consisted of 35,592 total pieces, 7,435,478 polygons, 95,247 rig nodes, and 20,258 texture maps. If laid end to end, the pieces would stretch 3.11 miles.
* For all the robots combined, there are 60,217 pieces of geometry, 123,509,502 polygons, 144,341 rigging nodes, and 34,215 texture maps.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12–17.</ref>
* The events of the movie span 4–5 days.
* Within the movie, neither the Autobots nor the Decepticons are referred to as "Transformers".
* As confirmed in the audio commentary on the movie DVD, director [[Michael Bay]] has a brief cameo as an innocent bystander getting flicked against a taxi cab by [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]].
* The "<tt>[322] days without a safety breach</tt>" sign behind Agent Simmons before they bring the [[Nokia-bot|cell phone]] to life relates to a piece of backstory that was cut from the final film. A researcher named [[James Farr (Movie)|James Farr]] was killed when a [[AX9-8946-09SU-1|robot they brought to life]] ran amok, causing the damage Glen comments on. The [[Sector Seven (game)|viral marketing campaign]] gives a date for Farr's death; [[March 16]], [[2006]]. This would chronologically place the primary events of the film as occurring over a 3-day period, [[January 30]]–[[February 1]], [[2007]].
*The two guard dogs that Sam encounters are played by a Belgian Malinois named Ammo and a Rottweiler named Nadine.
* In an interesting showing of unified marketing, the Japanese dub of the movie uses the English-market character and factions names (e.g., Autobot, Decepticon, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee) rather than the terms previously established in Japanese Transformers continuity (e.g., Cybertron, Destron, Convoy, Bumble). This has subsequently influenced Takara's subsequent dub of ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'', where (for the most part) they retain the English-market names and factions.
* In a bit of a shocker, [[Simon Furman]] has said he personally isn't a fan of the films, though he believes they're great for what he inaccurately (and worryingly) described as "the intended audience" of young kids.<ref>[http://mindlessones.com/2009/07/20/transformers-terminators-and-the-rest11-questions-with-simon-furman/ Interview at Mindless Ones blog]</ref>
* In an unexpected celebrity-related moment, famed multi award-winning British actress Helen Mirren, a Dame Commander of the British Empire, was one of the guests at the June 27, 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival premiere of ''Transformers''. One wonders what she thought of it.<ref>[http://movies.about.com/od/transformers/ig/Transformers-Premiere-Photos/transformersprem34.htm Helen Mirren at the June 27, 2007 Los Angeles premiere of ''Transformers'';Rebecca Murray, Movies.About.com Guide]</ref>
* ''Transformers'' (ahem) "inspired" a [[Knockoff|direct-to-video movie]] called [[Wikipedia:Transmorphers|''Transmorphers'']]. It got a [[Wikipedia:Transmorphers: Fall of Man|prequel]] in 2009, starring [[Wikipedia:Bruce Boxleitner|Bruce Boxleitner]], of all people. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
* Somewhat less embarrassing, ''Transformers'' also inspired the [[Wikipedia:Knight Rider (2008 film)|2008 ''Knight Rider'' television movie]] and the [[Wikipedia:Knight Rider (2008 TV series)|short-lived revival/sequel series]] that followed it.<ref name="varietykr">[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117972829?refCatId=14 Variety article about the then-upcoming 2008 ''Knight Rider'' revival]</ref> Furthermore, the special effects<ref name="madeatl">[http://madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/2008/iron_man_production_details.htm ''Iron Man'' Full Production Notes]</ref> and the marketing campaign<ref name="imtie-ins">[http://www.brandweek.com/bw/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003692165 Brandweek article about the ''Iron Man'' marketing campaign.]</ref> both served as inspirations for the 2008 [[Wikipedia:Iron Man (film)|''Iron Man'' movie]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''''Transformers''''' (トランスフォーマー ''Toransufōmā'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Pièn-hsíng Chīn-kāng''''' (Taiwan, 變形金剛, "Transformers"), '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng''''' (China, 变形金刚, "Transformers")
*''Russian:'' '''''Transformery''''' (Трансформеры, "Transformers")

==External links==
* [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=68329&p=irol-newsArticlePR&ID=421174 June 11, 2003 Press Release announcing the movie.]
* [http://www.transformersmovie.com/ Transformersmovie.com]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/ ''Transformers'' at IMDB.com]
* [http://www.transformersalbum.com/ ''Transformers The Album'']
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_%28film%29 ''Transformers'' 2007 film on Wikipedia]
* Designer portfolios: [http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/PROJPAGE_Trans_01.html Ben Procter], [http://www.jamesclyne.com/projects.php?gallery_id=297 James Clyne], [http://timflattery.com/main.html Tim Flattery], [http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4150 Alex Jaeger] (at CG Society), [http://2d2cg.com/# Jeremy Cook]
* [http://www.capalert.com/capreports/transformers.htm ''Transformers'' CAPalert.com review]

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:''Megatron is the [[Decepticon]] leader from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:PrimeMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|"What happened to my [[fusion cannon]]?"]]
The awesomely powerful '''Megatron''' is, in many ways, a fallen hero. He rose up from the oppressed lower working castes of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] to become a champion in the region's illegal [[gladiatorial combat|deathmatches]], cast aside his designation of '''D-16''' and took the legendary name '''[[The Fallen|Megatronus]]'''<ref>Megatron was an abbreviation, so it'd be easier for the masses to chant his name; ''Transformers: Exodus'', Chapter 3</ref> as his own. He called for an end to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s decrepit [[caste system]] and told the downtrodden that freedom of self-determination was the right of all sentient beings!

But absolute power corrupts absolutely, and Megatron's Decepticon revolution, like many such movements, ended up becoming a whole new tyranny. Powerful, charismatic, violent, and full of rage for any who would stand in the way of his ambition and drive, Megatron brought Cybertron ''past'' the brink of destruction. Now he and his former brother-in-arms [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] fight on other worlds. Megatron will never forgive Optimus for "betraying" him, stealing from the Council the rank of Prime which was rightfully his. He has reserved for his old friend the greatest honor possible: glorious death at his hands.

Megatron has been gone for three years, but now he's returned. He's brought the monstrous [[Dark Energon]] to Earth, and quite possibly left his sanity in space. Though he's made a few mistakes, he does not intend to make them again!

{{quote|Good and evil fade away. History shall judge me... ''victorious''.|Megatron rejects all moral judgement on his actions|[[Transformers: Cybertron Adventures|Cybertron Adventures, The Ending Begins]]}}
{{quote|I... am the Dominator, I... am the Destroyer, I am '''Megatron!'''|Megatron|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

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

D-16 was born during the [[Age of Wrath]]. The [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron had neutered the ritual of ascending from the [[Well of All Sparks]], to the point where newly-born Cybertronians would emerge without names or developed personalities. After a brief but tantalizing glimpse at Cybertron's sun, D-16 was sent to work in the mines underneath Kaon. He took his name from the sector in which he worked, and eventually befriended some of the other nameless workers who had been dealt similar hands by the Quintessons. One Cybertronian in particular served as a sounding board for D-16's earliest sociological musings. From this nameless bot D-16 realized the importance of a proper name. By the time that the Quintessons had been routed from Cybertron, D-16 was already craving more out of life.

During his time off, D-16 became intrigued by the violent duels held between miners. As Cybertron's [[Golden Age]] drew to a close, he entered his first gladiator matches. D-16 drew upon the old stories of the [[Thirteen]] that the miners told one another, and decided on "Megatronus" as a suitable moniker; hoping that Cybertron's "fallen" society could eventually be restord. Megatronus thrived in the gladiator pits, seeing it as a way to escape the oppression of the [[caste system]]. The crowds who regularly watched his gladiator matches soon shortened his name to Megatron. Megatron used his newfound fame to attack the bloated Cybertronian government which kept the miners oppressed, and before long he had carved out a loyal cadre of followers inspired by his rhetoric. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

===Aligned novels===
[[File:WFCcomicD16.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Alright! What's the square root of pi?! What's the capital of Sierre Leone?! What's... awww, this 'ask questions later' thing doesn't work at ''all''."]]
D-16 named himself after the sector of the mine where he performed demolition operations. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} At the end of the Age of Wrath, he was one of the many Cybertronians who [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]] called to arms, and aided in the war effort that successfully overthrew the cruel [[Quintesson]] regime. As time went by, D-16 eventually forgot about this event, as did many other Cybertronians.

At some point after Cybertron's Golden Age, a group of [[Sharkticon (Prime)|Sharkticon]]s foresaw him as the being who would one day lead them to freedom. They managed to carve an image of him on a cave wall before they were executed. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

D-16 eventually turned to gladiatorial combat to escape from the drudgery of his duties. As a gladiator, in killing others he began to appreciate the value of life, and in between matches he became something of an intellectual, debating the castes with other miners. After bosses requested he lose a few fights, D-16 killed them and took over Kaon and [[Slaughter City]]. After murdering one boss in front of his employees, D-16 declared himself Megatronus, whom he considered the greatest of the [[Thirteen]]. After hearing his preaching on the [[Communication Grid]] against the [[Guilds of Cybertron]], the concerned [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]] sent [[Bumper (WFC)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (WFC)|Fastback]] to investigate. Megatronus killed them, believing two lives were worthless compared to the millions doomed by the castes Sentinel created.

After a victorious battle with the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]s, in which the crowd redubbed him Megatron, the gladiator was contacted by the [[Iacon (polity)|Iaconian]] [[Hall of Records|records monitor]] [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]], and they began exchanging their ideas in intense but friendly philosophical discussions. Megatron encouraged Orion to learn self-defense and invited him to visit Kaon, which he did to a warm welcome from Megatron (and from none of his gladiators). By this point Megatron was planning to call his movement the Decepticons, and he had begun sending his followers on a search for artifacts of the Primes, as their discovery would be signs their cause was just. His followers began bombing Cybertron, and Megatron distanced himself from their extremism to gain credibility. Orion and his mentor [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] believed him, but the latter was well aware Megatron might have gained a taste for violence after the attention it earned him. Soon enough, Megatron accepted the gift of a kidnapped Sentinel Prime from [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]].

[[File:WFCcomicHalogendies.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Megatron misinterprets the phrase "ad hominem attack".]]

Alpha Trion organized a hearing for Orion and Megatron with the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]]. They protested involvement in Sentinel's disappearance. When confronted with the phrase "Decepticon", Megatron denied any knowledge of it but accepted his followers' term wholeheartedly, stating deception was necessary sometimes for the corrupt to see the truth. When [[Halogen (WFC)|Halogen]] revealed Megatron's followers had been trying to locate the [[Matrix of Leadership]], he declared that Orion should become the Prime that he desperately wanted to lead Cybertron into the new [[Golden Age]], and find it. Incensed, Megatron killed Halogen, and when Optimus prevented the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]] from attacking Megatron, the ungrateful gladiator declared Optimus had fallen into the trap of power the High Council had given him. He declared Optimus was no longer his brother (though he would continue to refer to him as such privately), and that the Matrix would be his.

In the subsequent war with Optimus' [[Autobot]]s, the Decepticons took control of eighty-five percent of the planet. Wherever Starscream's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] aided, they were victorious. Megatron was initially merciful to neutrals, but he let [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] take control of [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]] and torture Autobot sympathizers there. When the [[Praxus|Praxians]], a progressive city-state who were disappointed with the direction Megatron took, allied with the Autobots, Megatron decided he would no longer try to convert followers and launched the first genocide of the war, slaughtering all in [[Nova Cronum]] who would not submit to the Decepticons as they attacked.

As the war dragged into a siege of Iacon, Soundwave's spying bore fruit as he discovered [[Dark Energon]], the essence of [[Unicron]], was aboard [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]. Megatron forgave Starscream for hiding its existence from him, acknowledging its potentially dangerous nature. To ensure loyalty, Megatron's gladiators stormed the Station slaughtering and maiming Starscream's scientists. He forced Starscream to pick two test subjects to be Darkened, and following an astonishingly successful result, Megatron absorbed some, invigorating him. Soon Darkened Decepticons appeared on the battlefield, but it proved to be an inefficient resource and they would have to flee if a battle was prolonged. Megatron needed more, and even Starscream's activation of the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] didn't provide enough. Megatron felt he would kill all the Decepticons before he was deprived of Dark Energon and turn rabid.

Fortunately, Soundwave revealed the existence of the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]] within [[Teletraan-1]], which required the [[Code Key]]s of Power and Justice to activate it. Starscream recovered the Key of Power, while Megatron and his best soldiers searched for the Key of Justice below the [[High Council Tower]]. Sentinel Prime emerged, to Megatron's surprise. Sentinel confronted him about Bumper and Fastback, and the two dueled. Megatron disarmed and sliced open Sentinel, revealing the Key of Justice within. Starscream made a grab for it, exposing that he had released Sentinel to kill Megatron and take leadership for himself. After fighting Starscream to a standstill, Megatron pardoned him as he found him a better soldier than would-be example, and used the Keys to open Teletraan-1: which activated [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] to fly the Chamber to safety.

The Seekers shot Omega Supreme out of the air, causing him to crash. Optimus's Autobots arrived to fight the Decepticons, but the more they killed them the more Dark Energon left their bodies and empowered Megatron. He was able to knee Omega Supreme and turn him on his back, tearing the Chamber out of his chest. Using the Chamber, Megatron poisoned the [[core]] of Cybertron and Darkened the entire planet. But then the core stopped producing Dark Energon, and Megatron learnt Optimus had gone to the core and received the Matrix. As the Autobots attempted to flee Cybertron via the last [[space bridge]], Megatron used Trypticon to fire on their ships, and used his and Orion's old frequency to criticize Optimus for fleeing. He added he never believed in individual freedom for every Cybertronian, only the illusion of freedom that he as leader would provide and that the Guilds did not. Optimus responded that Megatron had turned his soldiers into addicts and they would turn on him, and used the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]'' to board, sabotage and crash Trypticon.

As the Autobots left on the completed ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', the Decepticons fully invaded Iacon. Megatron ordered Trypticon to transform into the ''Nemesis'', boarding it with Starscream, Soundwave, [[Lugnut (WFC)|Lugnut]] and other elite soldiers, leaving Shockwave in charge. He used his old frequency once again to warn Optimus that he would hound him through the stars and finally kill him for the Matrix. He explained they were still brothers, as they were bonded for life despite their enmity. Optimus was just glad his hunt would get him off Cybertron. The two ships entered the last [[space bridge]] together, and when the ''Ark'' emerged, the ''Nemesis'' was gone. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the comic "[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]."}}

The ''Nemesis'' eventually emerged from the Space Bridge, close to the lost colony world of [[Velocitron]]. The Autobots had already visited the planet and departed, but Megatron's sleeper agent [[Makeshift]] had ignited political tensions and sparked a civil war between [[Override (Prime)|Override]]'s loyalists and [[Ransack (Prime)|Ransack's]]'s cadre of political malcontents. He was directed by [[Hightail]] to Ransack. Megatron found Ransack's obsession with speed extremely irritating, but allowed him to pledge his allegiance to the Decepticon cause. Ransack's Decepticons continued their war on Velocitron while the rest of Megatron's forces boarded the Ark, tracking the Ark's energy signature.

Megatron's forces tracked the ''Ark'' to on the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], and began attacking both the Autobots and the native [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]]s. Amid the chaos, Megatron reunited with one of his long-lost comrades, the marooned Decepticon [[Axer]]. Axer presented his commander with the [[Requiem Blaster]], which he had scavenged from the core of Junkion. Megatron ordered the gun to be attached to the hull of the Nemesis. The mayhem had also awakened the ancient Transformer [[Cannonspring]], who reunited with several other Cybertronians and combined into the mighty [[Nexus Prime]], who held off both the Decepticon advance and the newly-arriving [[Star Seeker]]s. As the planet tore itself apart, Megatron duelled with Optimus Prime, who wielded the [[Cyber Caliber]]. Although Optimus Prime gained the upper hand, he suddenly received a vision regarding the AllSpark's location. Prime fell back to the ''Ark'' and retreated. Since the Requiem Blaster ran the risk of catastrophically overheating, Megatron ordered his troops to jettison the artifact before it could do so. Megatron ordered his troops to follow the ''Ark'' off of Junkion and back into deep space. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

At some point during the voyage, Megatron changed his [[alternate mode]] to that of a Cybertronian spacecraft.

While searching for the trail of the ''Ark'' on the outskirts of the [[Wikipedia:Orion Arm|Orion Arm]], Megatron ran across the Star Seekers again, who had set a trap for the Decepticons. To take down the ''Nemesis'' ,the pirates salvaged the abandoned Requiem Blaster and grafted it to their ship. Megatron and the Star Seeker [[Thundertron]] dueled while their ships exchanged fire. Megatron eventually managed to gain the upper hand after exploiting the Requiem Blaster's cripplingly high energy intake, and forced Thundertron's forces into a retreat. Megatron reunited with his treacherous subordinate Axer, who claimed to have gleaned knowledge about the ''Ark'''s whereabouts during his time spent with the pirates. Megatron considered this, and then sent him to be tortured, just to make sure he was telling the truth.

The ''Nemesis'' eventually caught up with the real ''Ark'' over the planet [[Aquatron]] and opened fire. The Autobots retaliated by deploying [[Superion (Prime)|Superion]], who carved a trail of destruction through the ''Nemesis'''s engine bay until the combiner met Megatron. The Decepticon leader attacked Superion, and the two fought. Megatron was able to gain the upper hand and fired his fusion cannon at Superion, blowing the combiner apart and sending his components flying out the ship's hangar.

Before the Autobots could try and ram the ''Nemesis'' ,the Aquatronian native known only as "[[Inquirata (Prime)|the Curator]]" intervened by cutting power to both ships. The Curator scolded the Cybertronians for bringing their war to a neutral planet, but invited Megatron and his Decepticons to the planet's surface to negotiate a possible peace treaty between the two factions. Once the Autobots and Decepticons both agreed to a temporary ceasefire, the Curator revealed that he was a [[Quintesson]], and that Aquatron was a member of the Quintesson Co-Prosperity Sphere. Megatron decided to play along with his captors until he could find a way to escape. That night, Megatron was visited by the Curator, who promised Megatron his own [[Decepticon Matrix]]... if he backstabbed Optimus Prime and destroyed the Autobot leader's own Matrix.

The next morning, Megatron convened with Optimus outside the negotiation hall, only to reveal that he had brought along six [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s with him to kill Optimus. The two began fighting, until [[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]] detonated a bomb outside, which caused the Pavilion to start flooding. Optimus switched off his Matrix and helped Megatron to escape, but on the surface they encountered [[Tyrannicon]] and his [[Sharkticon (Prime)|Sharkticon]] flotilla, who arrested all the Cybertronians present. The defeated Autobots and Decepticons were rounded up into a prison ship headed for the city of [[Hydratron]]; Megatron spent most of the voyage loudly and angrily criticizing Optimus Prime's leadership. When the prisoners were transferred to a train, Megatron ran afoul of several Sharkticons, who managed to subdue him long enough for him to be loaded onto the train and shipped to Hydratron's [[Hall of Justice]].

Inside the Quintesson's kangaroo court, Optimus Prime was put on trial for public mayhem, treason, and galactic blasphemy. Optimus Prime's brainwashed troops corroborated the Quintesson prosector's line of inquiry. However, Megatron himself came to Optimus's defense, asserting that the Quintessons did not create the Transformers as they so claimed. The trial had also jogged Megatron's memories; he remembered fighting in the war that routed the aliens from Cybertron and vowed that he'd gladly do it again. The Quintesson judges found them innocent, and so sentenced the two leaders to banishment. Whoever killed the other leader in combat would be allowed to leave Aquatron unmolested. The two leaders battled, unaware that the Quintessons were harvesting the energy they exerted to power a space bridge to Cybertron. When the Quintessons had enough, they dumped both of them into a Pirahnacon pit. Optimus and Megatron managed to escape the Pirahnacons with the help of Optimus's Matrix, and escaped into the subterranean tunnels beneath Hydratron.

The duo eventually encountered the [[Gamekeeper]], who was guarding the carvings that the Sharkticon rebels had created. The Gamekeeper taunted them, and revealed that the Quintessons were staging another invasion of Cybertron as they spoke. Megatron tore out the monster's eyes and eventually killed him. The Decepticon leader was intrigued by the carvings, although Optimus was skeptical of their veracity. The two eventually discovered [[Xeros]], who was manipulating his Sharkticon servants with a decoy Matrix. Believing it to be the Decepciton Matrix he was promised, Megatron grabbed it and shoved it into his chest.

The decoy Matrix turned out to be the [[Sharkticon Matrix of Leadership]], and as it re-forged his body Megatron realized that Aquatron was one of the 200 lost colony planets after all- and a planet that had never been able to overthrow the Quintessons. Now sporting Sharkticon features, Megatron called the Sharkticons to his command and ordered them to devour Xeros. Megatron overpowered Optimus and threw him down a nearby elevator shaft. He then contacted Starscream aboard the stranded ''Nemesis'', and ordered his Decepticons to make room for Sharkticon reinforcements aboard the ship.

Before long, Megatron set off to the bottom of Hydratron, to kill the Curator once and for all. He ran into trouble along the way; the city itself began transforming into a giant jellyfish-like creature, which attempted to devour him. Megatron was ale to break free of its tentacles and swim to the bottom of the lakebed, where Optimus Prime and a [[Leviacon]] were already confronting the Curator. Hundreds of Sharkticons swarmed the Curator's fortified command bubble but were unable to break through. The fracas was compounded by the arrival of [[Tyrannicon]], who had come back to Aquatron through the Space Bridge to figure out why his soldiers had rebelled. Megatron, now calling himself "The First of the Many" offered Tyrannicon a place in his new empire, although Tyrannicon refused. Instead, the two battled one another for control of the Matrix, with the Tyrannicon triumphant. Tyrannicon stole the Matrix from Megatron, who collapsed and reverted to his old self. When Optimus managed to destroy the entire underground complex, he also rescued Megatron, and with the Leviacon's help the two leaders returned to the surface, where they reunited with their respective crews.

On their way off the planet, Optimus mused that one day Megatron might understand that the two of them were much stronger as a united force. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Megatron lead his Decepticons in an attack on the Autobot stronghold at [[Tyger Pax]] to obtain the [[AllSpark]] from the [[Well of All Sparks]]. After fighting off [[Rodimus (WFC)|Rodimus]] and [[Springer (WFC)|Springer]], Megatron found himself under fire from [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], until [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] managed to shoot the young Autobot down.

Searching for [[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]], and executing Autobots that had failed to retreat, Megatron, while boasting his victory, saw the AllSpark be launched into space. Though he had failed to gain the AllSpark, Megatron found himself to be close to a badly damaged Bumblebee, who made a point of gloating to Megatron about the Autobots' victory. Grabbing the young mecha by the neck, Megatron, tired of Bumblebee's talking, crushed the Autobot's [[voice box]].

Deciding that [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] didn't need another martyr, Megatron left Bumblebee alive to remind others that he could take and spare lives as he wished. Satisfied with his work, Megatron retreated with what was left of his Decepticons. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===IDW Aligned comics===
From Shockwave's lab in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], Shockwave and a captured Grimlock watched a feed of Megatron spearheading an attack on [[Metroplex (FOC)|Autobot City]]. {{storylink|Last Stand}} {{storylink|Fragmentation (FOC)|Fragmentation}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Sean Long]] (BotCon 2011), [[Peter Cullen]] (BotCon 2012), [[Keiji Fujiwara]] (Japanese)|[[Alexander Kovriznyh]] (Russian), [[Juan Carlos Lozano]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Ja-hyeong Gu]] (Korean), [[Tony Fuochi|Antonio Fuochi]] (Italian), [[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Antônio Moreno]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Paweł Szczesny]] (Polish), [[Arto Nieminen]] (Finnish)}}

[[File:OneShallRise3-corresponding.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I'm a fox!" "I'm a hound doooog!"]]

In the waning years of the [[Golden Age]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Megatronus (who named himself after [[The Fallen|one of the original thirteen Primes]]) was a gladiator who fought in the [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] arena. Observing a disparity in freedom among the classes of his race, and that the ruling class was corrupt and all-powerful, Megatron turned rhetorician, trying to effect change. In drawing attention to this inequity, he inspired a [[Hall of Records]] clerk named [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]], and the two joined forces to end corruption and bring equality to the masses. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}} Orion and Megatronus became close allies, almost like brothers. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

[[File:DarknessRising2-Megsflashback.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Things were very red in those days.]]

Megatronus shortened his name to Megatron before he and Orion Pax appeared before the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]]. Megatron threatened the council, promising to overthrow them and instate himself as the next [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]—a declaration of hostility that shocked Orion, and moved him to an impassioned speech in favour of autonomy that successfully swayed the council where Megatron had failed. Jealous, Megatron left the council and Orion behind and assembled his followers—including perennial loyalist [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] and scheming second-in-command [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]—into an army he would name "Decepticons", beginning the war for Cybertron and vowing to find the [[Matrix of Leadership]] which was denied to him by the council. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

The war saw Megatron successfully take the city of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], which contained the very arena he fought in as a gladiator, as the Decepticon capital. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} During a battle at [[Tyger Pax]], Megatron crushed the Autobot [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'s voice box when the scout refused to break under interrogation. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} Furthermore, Megatron's wartime achievements were not limited to those achieved through might: he also created the deadly [[cybonic plague]] which wiped out millions {{storylink|Sick Mind}} and found a way to weaponize [[Tox-En]] which he used to wipe out an entire unit in front of a horrified Bulkhead. {{storylink|Toxicity}} It was through similarly poisonous means that Megatron came closest to seizing victory in the war's final stages, [[Dark Energon|infecting]] the [[Core]] of Cybertron itself. In purifying the core, Orion was granted the Matrix Megatron had long-sought, becoming Optimus Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}} After his assassin [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] failed to kill Optimus at the [[Battle of Technahar]], {{storylink|Masters & Students}} Megatron became obsessed with the Autobot leader and decided that destroying him was his right alone. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}} Megatron had his lead scientist [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] send an army of [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]] to Earth to lay waste to any Autobot forces on the planet and secure any and all energon deposits. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}

[[File:DarknessRising2-MegatronDarkEnergon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|We can relate. We're just like this with our [[BotCon]] toys.]]

Eventually, the war left Cybertron in ruin and forced the whole Transformer race to exile into space. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} Megatron would not leave the planet unguarded and placed a few [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] guards in stasis on the planet, should the enemy return. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}} In time, Megatron and his army arrived on Earth, establishing mines to collect the Energon that the planet had been seeded with during the war. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}} He also had some of his best warriors, such as Skyquake to guard deposits not ready to mine. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} After some early conflicts on the planet, Megatron withdrew to space to search for more troops, leaving Starscream in charge. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Searching the void for three years, Megatron found something better than mere warriors: he discovered a new source of Dark Energon, the "blood of [[Unicron]]", with which he could reanimate fallen Transformers as an army of the undead. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} Returning to Earth, {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} and resuming command of the Decepticons, Megatron tested the Dark Energon on the deceased Autobot [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], reviving him as a [[zombie]] "[[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcon]]" that slaughtered several [[Decepticon Miner]]s, but which posed no threat to Megatron himself. Unfortunately for Megatron, this partial reactivation of Cliffjumper's lifesigns drew Optimus Prime's Autobots to the Decepticons' mining operations. Deciding it was not yet time for a confrontation with Prime, Megatron withdrew aboard the [[Trypticon (WFC)|''Nemesis'']] and continued to brood over the Dark Energon.

[[File:darknessrising3 Megatronglowy.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Megatron, you fool! Rave glowsticks aren't candy!]]
Megatron's inability to control the zombie Cliffjumper convinced him that he needed to integrate the Dark Energon into his own body in order to control the undead legions he planned to create. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} Thrusting a shard of the material into his [[spark]], he was filled with its power, feeling as though he was connected to Unicron's very thoughts. Requiring a test run for his new power, Megatron headed to the site of an ancient Cybertronian battle on Earth, one full of the remains of fallen warriors, where he was confronted by Optimus and [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]. Using Dark Energon to raise the dead Transformers as Terrorcons, Megatron successfully found he had complete control of the undead horde, and send them against the two Autobots. [[File:DarknessRising4-Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|I chew scenery while the zombies chew ''you''.]] {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} While Optimus and Ratchet fought their way through the Terrorcons, Megatron flew off before they could reach him, satisfied with his test results and ready put his plan into action—to open a [[space bridge]] to Cybertron and use Dark Energon to revive all the dead. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}} Despite the Autobots' best efforts to damage the ''Nemesis'' and prevent the bridge from opening, Megatron succeeded in his plans, and then had his showdown with Optimus Prime atop the bridge itself as he waited for the Terrorcon legions to pass through to Earth. While the two old foes battled, the other Autobots sabotaged the bridge, causing it to explode and destroy both the Terrorcon army and seemingly Megatron himself. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}[[File:Masters&Students-Megatronstasis.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Well, it's better than just [[Megatron (Animated)|being a head]] I suppose.]]

The Autobots were not so lucky, however: the Dark Energon in his spark allowed Megatron to survive the explosion, but just barely. When Starscream found his leader floating in space, he tore the Dark Energon from his body in the hope that he would expire, but was caught in the act by [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]'s [[Deployer (WFC)|Deployer]], [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]], and forced to take Megatron back to the ''Nemesis'', where he was placed in [[Stasis lock|stasis]] in the sick bay. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

Starscream was content to leave Megatron in this state to recover or expire as fate saw fit, but the crew of the ''Nemesis'' disagreed, and voted to bring in the Decepticon medic [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] to help heal their wounded leader. But the discovery of an [[Energon Harvester]] forced them to push off Megatron's recovery.{{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} Even with Knock Out's expertise, it seemed unlikely that Megatron would recover, but his assistant [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] gave his body a good buffing nonetheless, and Starscream approved, as it meant their ex-leader would look his best for the memorial service. {{storylink|Speed Metal}}

[[File:SickMind megs and bee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Hey, [[Megatron (Animated)|you]] really ''are'' [[Transform and Roll Out|uglier from this angle]]!]]

When Optimus Prime was infected by cybonic plague, Arcee and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] boarded the ''Nemesis'' to search for an antidote. While they failed to find one in the database, the two Autobots did discover Megatron in stasis, and Bumblebee mind-linked with the Decepticon leader via a [[cortical psychic patch]] to try and pluck the cure from his sleeping brain. Bumblebee found himself within Megatron's mind, which took the form of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], where the Decepticon's subconscious was spending its time killing endless visions of Optimus Primes. Unfortunately, Bumblebee's intrusion only caused Megatron to become aware of his situation when he found he was unable to kill Bumblebee. Learning what had befallen Optimus, Megatron initially refused to give up the cure until Bumblebee convinced him that he would gain greater satisfaction from finishing his enemy off with his own two hands. Megatron offered the cure in exchange for Bumblebee's help in escaping his mental prison, but Bumblebee double-crossed him, withdrawing from his mind as soon as the cure was in Autobot hands. At the last moment, Megatron was able to effect his own escape, leaping into Bumblebee's mind along with him. {{storylink|Sick Mind}} [[File:OutofhisHead megatron revived.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|IT'S... AAALLLLLIIIIIIIIVE!]] Recalling the sliver of Dark Energon Starscream had removed from his body, Megatron took full control of Bumblebee's body a short time later and used the GroundBridge to return to the ancient battlefield where he had raised his original Terrorcons, recovering the Dark Energon shard he had used to do so. He returned to the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot base]], where he dealt with Ratchet and [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] before again GroundBridging to the ''Nemesis'' and using the Dark Energon to restore his body and return his mind to it. Storming out of the ''Nemesis'' to find Starscream, Megatron snatched his subordinate out of the air in the middle of a battle with Optimus Prime and took him back for his punishment. {{storylink|Out of His Head}}

[[File:Shadowzone-MegsStarscream.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Lulz.]]
Despite his treason, Megatron decided not to terminate Starscream, viewing him as no real threat and taking perverse amusement in his repeated failures. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}} Instead, Megatron proceeded to beat Starscream only to ''near'' death, then had him placed in the infirmary, occasionally visiting to gloat. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

When Breakdown was captured by the humans of [[MECH]], Megatron refuted Starscream's suggestion that they rescue him, announcing that if Breakdown had allowed himself to be captured by those weaker than him, then he deserved whatever he got. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} Breakdown did manage to escape, however, and in his wounded pride, volunteered to recover a [[polarity gauntlet]] for Megatron in order to prove his worth. Megatron was disappointed when his minion returned without the gauntlet, but was placated with the revelation that he had instead brought back [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

[[File:RockBottom-Starscreamprays.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|[[wikipedia:Loki (comics)|In the end, you will always kneel]].]]
Discovering that Starscream was still attempting to mine energon for his personal use without his knowledge, Megatron determined that the amusement had come to an end. Taking him to the mine in question, Megatron revealed that he had been aware of Starscream's previous transgressions the whole time thanks to Soundwave, and was about to execute his grovelling lieutenant when [[Jack Darby]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] walked in. In the firefight that followed, stray shots from Megatron's fusion cannon brought the mine down on top of them all, with Megatron being completely pinned by rubble. Jack happened upon the Decepticon leader with a mining drill, and Megatron, knowing that the human would not help him, instead urged Jack to finish him off. Jack refused, saying that wasn't what Optimus would do, and left, but the opening he had created allowed Megatron to begin his escape. After finally extricating himself, Megatron came upon Starscream trying to keep a large rock from crushing him. Starscream insisted that he had come to rescue Megatron, and begged the Decepticon leader to spare him, and Megatron acquiesced with a smirk. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}

Though Megatron allowed Starscream to live and continue as his second-in-command, he was furious to learn from Airachnid that Starscream had kept the location of the ''[[Harbinger]]'' from him. He ordered Starscream to lead Airachnid to the crash site and retrieve an [[Immobilizer|experimental weapon]] that was inside. Much to Megatron's fury, Airachnid returned not only without the weapon, but with the news that Starscream had been captured by the Autobots as well. {{storylink|Partners}}

[[File:StrongerFaster-KnockOutMegatronRatchet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"Steroids?" "Yup." "Ah."]]
When a formula for [[Synthetic Energon]] was transferred from a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]] into the mind of the Autobot [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], Optimus Prime petitioned Megatron for the return of the cylinder so they could extract the formula, after which they would willingly hand it over. Megatron briefly considered the proposal, but instead sent Knock Out and Breakdown to capture Bulkhead and dared Prime to fight for the cylinder. When his Vehicon troops were defeated, Megatron simply crushed the device and took flight. {{storylink|T.M.I.}} The synthetic energon formula helped the Autobots counter Megatron's next tactic: causing the Autobots to burn through their energon supplies at an accelerated rate by leading them on wild goose chases. Juiced up on the "SynthEn", Ratchet attacked Megatron and Knock Out while they were surveying an energon mine, and sent the Decepticon leader flying with one punch. Unfortunately for Ratchet, Megatron swiftly recovered and subdued the Autobot medic with ease. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

[[File:PrimeEp23-Megatronjetmode.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Hold still, jet mode, so we can screencap you, dammit!]]
Convinced by Dark Energon-induced visions that an impending prophecy detailed his own destiny, Megatron stepped up the Decepticons' work in constructing a new space bridge so they could obtain more Dark Energon. When they located the last component they needed, Megatron went in personally, grievously wounding Raf with a blast of Dark Energon on the way and creating an unintended distraction that allowed him to make off with the power source he needed. Soon after, Megatron lured Optimus Prime to a volcano he had seen in his visions, and during their battle, it erupted with Dark Energon, imbuing Megatron with the power he needed to fell Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} [[File:OneShallFall-visionfulfilled.jpg|thumb|255px|Look, Prime! Look at the fireworks! Aren't they splendid?!]] The intervention of the other Autobots saved Prime's life, but this was of little concern to Megatron, who now had all the Dark Energon he needed and set his miners to work gathering it up. When Soundwave detected a spark-beat coming from within the Earth, Megatron felt it pounding through his brain and realized what his visions had meant: the lifeforce of Unicron himself dwelt within Earth. Leaving Airachnid in command, Megatron flew into the volcano to address Unicron, but did not receive the power he had hoped the chaos-bringer would bestow on him, instead receiving Unicron's displeasure at the fact that Optimus Prime still lived. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Spurned, Megatron instead went to the aid of Optimus and his Autobots, who were under attack from Unicron's stone avatars. He offered Optimus his services—he intended to lead them to Unicron's real form so that Optimus could use the [[Matrix of Leadership]] on the Chaos God. While the Autobots returned to base, Megatron kept the giant stone Unicrons busy, and Prime eventually accepted Megatron's offer. On arrival in the Autobot base, Megatron encountered a couple of humans he recognized, Raf and Jack, as well as a [[Miko Nakadai|new loud one]]. Megatron was first to step through the GroundBridge into the [[Earth's core]], and as the Autobots followed, he warned them that Unicron already knew they were there. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

[[File:OneShallRise3-together.jpg|thumb|255px|left|"Just this once, we work together! Mortal enemies working together for the common good!" "Be quiet!"]]
Despite the persistent influence of Unicron, Megatron led the Autobots through Unicron's insides, even helping them fight off [[Unicron's antibodies|antibodies]]. The Dark Energon he was imbued with allowed him to enter Unicron's spark chamber with Optimus, though at that point Unicron's influence became so great that the Chaos God was able to commandeer his body. After Optimus unleashed the power of the Matrix, apparently extinguishing Unicron's spark, Megatron went to kill Optimus, only to discover his foe had lost his memory and now believed himself to be Orion Pax. Megatron convinced Optimus that the other Autobots were enemies, and the pair returned to the ''Nemesis'', where Megatron introduced "Orion Pax" to his men. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

[[File:Orion-Pax-Part-1-OP-Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Megatron, what happened? Where did you go wrong?" "Uh, watch ''Revenge of the Sith''. I know I'm not in it, but it pretty much sums it all up."]]
Megatron wasted no time in spinning a tale of Autobot warlord Ratchet and the destruction of Cybertron, and put Orion Pax to work decoding data from the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] archives for a [[Project Iacon|project]] of the same name. Though aware that at some point Orion would find out the truth, Megatron made all precautions to make sure that didn't happen before Orion finished his work. Knock Out was ordered to set up Orion's work station a mere few inches away from the Energon storage vault.

During Orion's decoding, the archivist noted several references to Starscream as being Megatron's second in command. As part of his deception, Megatron claimed Starscream to be dead, and ordered Soundwave to carefully remove Arcee from the ship with a GroundBridge. Arachnid offered to destroy the bike bot herself, but Megatron feared that Orion would become weary of their activity's should he bare witness to an Autobot's destruction. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Megatron attempted to cover for a surprise visit by Starscream when he managed to sneak aboard the ship. Orion asked why Megatron lied, but the con leader stated that Starscream as "dead" to their cause for joining the Autobots. However, Starscream's visit caused Orion to uncover the truth and find out that he was, in fact, Optimus Prime, the so-called leader of the Autobot "invaders". Soundwave notified Megatron of Orion finding information on Optimus Prime, and Megatron realized that harsher methods would be necessary to complete [[Project Iacon]]. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}}

[[File:OrionPax3 Megatron threatens Orion.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Do you see what's in your teeth ''NOW''?!]]
Megatron payed Orion a visit to expose Orion's findings. Orion demanded to know the full truth, but Megatron refused, causing Orion to delete his findings. Fortunately, Soundwave had recorded his findings, and the data was saved. Soundwave also informed Megatron of the activity at the space bridge and went there to find that the Autobots had taken control of it, and that one of their [[Insecticon (WFC)|traps]] on Cybertron was activated. Megatron ordered the guards to watch Orion while he went out and threatened to kill the archivist if he had not completed the project. Megatron realized that the Autobots must have been searching for a way to restore Orion to Optimus. Megatron arrived at the space bridge and defeated the trio of Autobots present, and waited for Arcee to return from the open space bridge with the Matrix in her possession. When Orion had overpowered his guards and came to attack Megatron, Orion declared his loyalty to the Autobots, pulled out his blades, and attacked Megatron. The amnesiac Autobot was no match for him. While the Decepticon leader was subsequently kept busy by Arcee, Jack returned the Matrix to Orion, who regained his memory and left with the Autobots, leaving Megatron screaming furiously at his failure. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:OperationBumblebee1 spark extractor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Now ''I'' have [[The Touch]].]]
Following the first of the artifact coordinates left by Orion, Megatron and his men unearthed the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]]. While Megatron was bringing it back through the GroundBridge, it was taken from him by Bumblebee. He then ordered Knock Out and Breakdown to retrieve another artifact before Bulkhead and Bumblebee did. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} Megatron was pleased when Knock Out returned with a force field generator, quickly demonstrating the object's power with a cannon-blast. Megatron himself joined the mission to get the third artifact, and managed to secure the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] by holding a prone Bulkhead hostage. Unfortunately, he discovered that the Forge wouldn't work without the power of a Prime behind it. {{Storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

When [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] arrived on Earth, Megatron filled him in on what had happened to his brother Skyquake, but warned him not to seek revenge on his own. When Dreadwing did anyway, Megatron figured that would be the last they saw of him, although he was glad that Dreadwing both survived and learned his lesson. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}}

[[File:Crossfire Megatron and Insecticon close together.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"You do know that you'll be splattered across the ceiling after this screencap, right?"]]
Reminded of Airachnid's past treachery, Megatron tasked Dreadwing with ridding them of her. Dreadwing not only failed, but returned minus Breakdown, much to Megatron's disgust. Megatron responded to Airachnid's later communication by attempting to get rid of her himself. Although she set an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] on him, the mighty Megatron eventually prevailed against it. The fight took all of his strength, and he was subsequently surrounded by Autobots. With Dreadwing's help, he escaped and made Dreadwing his new [[second-in-command]]. {{storylink|Crossfire}}

Megatron responded to reports of Starscream on the ship and found not one but four [[Starscream clone (Prime)|Starscreams]] on the bridge. After attempting to appeal to their treacherous nature, he took advantage of a diversion to offline three of them before the fourth escaped. The diversion turned out to be a mass Insecticon attack, but after a fight, the Insecticons suddenly stopped and announced they were loyal to him. Then the ''Nemesis'' crashed. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}} Megatron got the ship moving again using Dark Energon, but when it exhibited its own intelligence and refused to follow his orders, he tried to shut it down, only to be put into stasis lock. He only awoke when the kids reversed the energon flow. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

As Knock Out prepared to go and try to find the first of the four relics which the ship had found the location of, Megatron instructed him to take an Insecticon as muscle. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} Megatron then sent Dreadwing to [[Antarctica]] to find the relic there {{storylink|Triangulation}} and then sent [[Hardshell (Prime)|Hardshell]] and three other Insecticons to a volcanic area at the equator, {{storylink|Toxicity}} before sending Soundwave to find the last relic.

He was impressed with the [[Resonance Blaster]] Soundwave found, but less so with Dreadwing and Knock Out, the latter of whom returned looking like he'd been run over by a train. After they found a grenade implanted in Laserbeak, Megatron set Soundwave back to work decoding the Iacon database. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}} His rage over Hardshell's failure was mollified when the Insecticon claimed to have offlined Bulkhead, but when they later got a call from [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] revealing Bulkhead was still alive, Megatron demanded Hardshell bring him Wheeljack's spark as a substitute. Instead Hardshell's corpse was brought back before him, and Megatron was shocked to learn a [[Miko Nakadai|human girl]] was responsible. {{storylink|Hurt}}

[[File:TheHumanFactor Cylas and Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Soundwave, please arrange our guest a carwash.]]
After sending Knock Out to investigate Breakdown's signal coming back online, Megatron expressed distaste at the Breakdown/[[Silas]] hybrid who was brought to the ship. Nevertheless, he allowed "Cylas" the opportunity to prove himself worthy of a place in the Decepticon ranks by supplying them with a [[Project Damocles]] satellite. Though the initial results were promising, he sent Cylas to terminate Raf when the boy's hacking threatened to railroad their plans. When Cylas failed to do so and the satellite was stopped, Megatron called him back, and handed the former MECH commander over to Knock Out for dissection. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

[[File:Legacy-ohcrap.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Looks like [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari]] told Megatron where babies come from.]]
When Soundwave decoded another set of Iacon relic coordinates, Megatron initiated a decoy relic beacon to give them the advantage over the Autobots, and went to fetch the latest relic with a team. Though hoping it would be a Decepticon weapon, Megatron was stunned when it turned out to be the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. When he was unable to extract the sword, he had the Decepticons chip away a chunk of the mountain to be hauled away by the ''Nemesis'' in an effort to ensure it did not fall in Optimus's hands. Unfortunately, the arrival of [[Smokescreen (Prime)|a new Autobot]] delayed them long enough that the other Autobots discovered the deception. Optimus quickly managed to get hold of the sword despite Megatron's best efforts, and as the Autobot leader unleashed the sword's power, Megatron was forced to retreat in his ship, noting it was now the Decepticons' darkest hour. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

[[File:AlphaOmegaDarkStarSaber.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[Palpatine|It's treason then...]].]]
Coming up with a new plan to combat the Star Saber, Megatron took Dreadwing through the space bridge to Cybertron, and broke into the tomb of a Prime. After having Knock Out graft the Prime's arm onto Megatron, he was finally able to use the Forge of Solus Prime to forge a [[Dark Star Saber]] with some of his Dark Energon. Once Soundwave decrypted a new set of coordinates, he got the opportunity to test it on Arcee and Smokescreen when the pair found the first [[Omega Key]], whom he swept aside with ease. With new-found confidence, Megatron challenged Prime to a duel, and though his new sword cleaved right through the Star Saber, Megatron was unable to stop the Autobots from getting away with the Omega Key. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} Gloating of his destruction of the Star Saber, he allowed Knock Out the opportunity to retrieve the next relic. Upon his return with another Omega Key, Megatron was intrigued by the relic, believing it to be part of a larger piece, and put the doctor to work analyzing it. He was less impressed with Dreadwing who returned empty handed from his mission, and asserted that they needed to locate the Autobot base to recover their relics. Then Soundwave decrypted the final part of the Iacon databse, revealing Smokescreen to be relevant to their search. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

[[File:PatchMegatronStarscream.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Because we haven't seen this before.]]
After they extracted the Omega Key from Smokescreen, Megatron had Knock Out perform a cortical psychic patch procedure on the Autobot to learn their purpose. After discovering that all four could be used to revitalize Cybertron, he left Knock Out to find out where the Autobot base was, Megatron went to place the Omega Key in storage. However Smokescreen escaped and snatched it out of his grasp and made off with the other key as well. Though Megatron and his men gave pursuit as the Autobot jumped off their ship, Smokescreen got away. The Decepticon leader told Dreadwing they would need to locate the Autobot base quickly to retrieve the other keys, only to find Starscream on the bridge, with all four of the Omega Keys as a peace offering. {{storylink|Inside Job}} Intending to find what Starscream really planned, Megatron had himself plugged into the rogue Decepticon with a psychic patch. Despite most of Starscream's memories turning out to be incriminating, he was eventually convinced to allow Starscream to rejoin the Decepticon ranks. {{storylink|Patch (episode)|Patch}}

Megatron attempted to stress to Dreadwing that the Decepticons needed to be united. Unfortunately Dreadwing was more interested in slagging Starscream, and Megatron had to blow a hole through him. Once the location of the [[Omega Lock]] was established, Megatron took the Keys to Cybertron to find it. He and his men were attacked by the Autobots, who got away with the Keys while Megatron was otherwise occupied with the spark extractor. With some help from Starscream, Megatron got hold of the Autobots' human friends to use as a bargaining chip to secure the return of the Keys. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}}

[[File:DarkestHour-thisistheplace.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Once he had the Keys back, Megatron had the lock activated and revealed that he intended to use it on both Cybertron and Earth so he'd have two worlds to rule, starting with Earth. Shockingly, this news resulted in Optimus slicing Megatron's sword arm off before destroying the Omega Lock. Though the Autobots escaped, Megatron would have the last laugh, as he knew the location of their base and used the Omega Lock to create a fortress there before Optimus destroyed it. If he could not conquer Cybertron, he could at least conquer Earth. From the ''Nemesis'', he and his men attacked and destroyed the Autobot base as their first act of aggression. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

As the Decepticons were unable to find any corpses in the rubble, Megatron ordered worldwide surveillance. He got the opportunity to test his [[Darkmount (Earth)|new citadel]]'s fusion cannons on some foolishly attacking [[human]]s, and contacted [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]], claiming to want to co-exist peacefully with humanity. With the continuing failure of Starscream to get any information out of the captive Wheeljack, Megatron sent Knock Out to Cybertron to search for the relics lost during the Omega Lock battle. He was pleased when Knock Out returned with the long lost [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} Megatron appointed Shockwave his first lieutenant in charge of science. With failures mounting, including an aborted attempt by Starscream to track down the Autobots by freeing Wheeljack with a tracking device attached, Megatron's anger grew, leading Shockwave to bring to Earth a [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] he had cloned. {{storylink|Scattered}} The [[Predaking (Prime)|beast]] was dispatched, but to Megatron's disappointment it returned empty-handed. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

[[File:Rebellion-prepunch.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|"Right here - go on, right in the chest!"]]
Megatron was furious when Starscream scattered their troops in pursuit of phantom Autobot signals, shortly before Darkmount itself was attacked. The Decepticon leader cut short [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]]'s attempt to assault the fusion cannon control room, and ordered the Autobots executed. Before this could be done, Optimus Prime turned up, comprehensively beating up Megatron and throwing him into the fusion cannon power core. Despite his protests, the other Decepticons dragged Megatron back to the ''Nemesis'' before the Autobots brought the citadel crashing to the ground. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

Instead the Decepticons turned their attentions to cloning, with Megatron ordering the creation of more Predacons. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} When the existing Predacon returned, Megatron ordered Starscream to take command of it. He later dispatched the beast and his first lieutenant to [[Scotland]] when a team searching for fossils there failed to report in. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} Megatron was displeased when it turned out Starscream had lost the Apex Armor, and was even less impressed when Starscream caused damage to the communications dish. Knock Out, at least, did not disappoint the Decepticon leader when he returned with another Predacon fossil. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}} After some near-missteps in gathering the fossils required, Megatron hinted Shockwave should restrict himself to working in the laboratory in future. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}

Megatron discovered that Knock Out and Starscream had been experimenting with Synthetic Energon and had accidentally created a zombie-like plague. After the situation resulted in Airachnid being freed and the loss of the Insecticons, Megatron gave Knock Out orders to turn all of his experiments over to Shockwave, and reserved a ''special'' punishment for Starscream. {{storylink|Thirst}}

[[File:Evolution-Potentialcoup.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|[[Darth Vader|"I want them alive... No disintegrations!"]].]]
During a visit to Shockwave's off-site laboratory, Megatron was shocked to learn that the Predacon could transform and was intelligent enough to speak. Though [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] affirmed he was loyal to Megatron, the Decepticon leader suspected that once Predaking discovered that the Predacons were superior to ordinary Decepticons, he would turn against them. The Decepticons quickly realised they'd need to terminate Shockwave's cloning process, and Starscream came up with a plan to pin it on the Autobots which succeeded splendidly. In the aftermath of the explosion, the Decepticons discovered that the Synthetic Energon stored in the lab had created Cybermatter. {{storylink|Evolution}}

With this discovery in mind, Megatron put Shockwave in charge of perfecting the Synthetic Energon formula, however they quickly realized that the Omega Lock would needed to be repaired to allow for its targeted delivery, and that Ratchet would be needed to complete the formula. Megatron told Shockwave he had decided that Earth and Cybertron were two halves of the same coin, and he intended to rule both. As the Autobots continued to interfere in their plans, Megatron had Predaking take part in protecting the Vehicons, though he insisted it be done with the Predacon in [[beast mode]]. {{storylink|Minus One}}

[[File:Synthesis Megatron and Predaking.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Sam Witwicky]] [[Megatron (Movie)|can't]] [[Transformers (film)|save]] [[Predaking (Prime)|you]] [[Aligned continuity family|here]]!]]
After the Decepticons captured Ratchet and failed to extract the information they needed via cortical psychic patch, Megatron turned on the charm. Once he showed Ratchet the Omega Lock they'd reconstructed, the Autobot reluctantly agreed to help them. {{storylink|Persuasion}} Despite several missteps which he encouraged his men to correct, Megatron was pleased when the Synth-En formula was perfected, and promptly rewarded Ratchet by giving the Autobot to Predaking as a chew toy. Unfortunately Ratchet turned Predaking against him, and Megatron found himself facing the Predacon in combat. With some help from Starscream, Megatron defeated Predaking and expelled him from the ship, however the Decepticons then found their warship under attack from the Autobots. {{storylink|Synthesis}}

[[File:Tfp megatron impaled.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Megatron killed by... Bumblebee!? It could happen... ONLY ON [[Hub Network|THE HUUUUB]]!]]
Megatron intercepted Optimus Prime, damaging the Autobot's [[jet pack]], and proceeded to duel with his foe atop the Omega Lock, all the while giving orders to Shockwave to prepare the Lock for firing. When Bumblebee attempted to pass Optimus the Star Saber, Megatron blasted the scout, killing him. He prepared to finish off Optimus as well, but Bumblebee was restored by the Omega Lock and ran Megatron through with the Star Saber. Megatron's lifeless body fell from the Omega Lock and plummeted Earthward. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

[[File:Predaconsrising-chaosandcreation.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|Seriously, how are you ''not'' Galvatron?]]
Megatron's body lay at the bottom of the ocean until it was revived and restructured by Unicron. Megatron found himself a prisoner in his own body, tortured by his new master and unable to do anything other than observe. Unicron returned to Cybertron, intending to destroy the planet and end Primus. Megatron tricked him into fighting Predaking, reasoning that if their shared body was damaged enough, Unicron would leave it, however Unicron managed to beat Predaking and raised an army of Predacon Terrorcons with which to attack Cybertron's core. Megatron was only finally freed when Optimus tricked Unicron, drawing the dark god's anti-spark into a suitable container. Though Starscream believed Megatron would once again lead the Decepticons, Megatron had tasted oppression and no longer wished to inflict it, declaring the Decepticon movement dead and flying off. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}
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===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:Titan4.2 Megatron Soundwave piggyback.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|The kiddy-friendly comics have Megatron giving piggy-back rides.]]
Under Megatron's leadership, the Decepticons conquered many city states including [[Kalis]], [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]] and [[Vos (polity)|Vos]]. When the time came to strike against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Megatron led a five-con team in under the cover of darkness to bomb the [[Iacon Energon Refinery]]. They had barely planted the first bomb when they were spotted and fired on. After the other three Decepticons were shot down, Megatron gave Soundwave a bomb and set about causing a distraction while his second-in-command went to plant it. When Soundwave was also shot down, Megatron flew into action, helping up the rest of his team and carrying Soundwave as they retreated under the cover of an exploding bomb. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

With a new plan, Megatron took [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] to attack the [[Yamal|NS ''Yamal'']], a Russian icebreaker near [[Antarctica]]. He intended to use a [[static lance]] to cause the ship's reactors to meltdown exposing energon deposits beneath the ice. Unfortunately Optimus got wind of the plan and came storming in. As Megatron detailed his plan during their one-on-one fight, Optimus took possession of the lance. Megatron attempted to take it back, only for Optimus to hit him with it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

[[File:Titan4.11 Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Megatron works part-time at the Autobot Hotel providing alarm calls.]]
Megatron and Soundwave somehow slipped some code into ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' to hypnotize Raf into opening the GroundBridge so they could send Vehicons through. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}} Irritated at Starscream's failure to end the Autobot problem, Megatron demanded his subordinate try and lure the Autobots into a trap instead for fruitlessly searching for them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

Now infuriated at his army being constantly bested by the Autobots, Megatron took the ''Nemesis'' to the [[Erta Ale volcano]] where he had his troops fight in a series of deathmatches to apply the principle of survival of the fittest. He forced Starscream to fight [[Fearstorm]], and when Starscream won, seemed happy enough to let his lieutenant return to the ship. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.7|Megatron's Law}} After Bulkhead destroyed an energon store, Megatron had him captured and taken aboard the warship, where the Autobot was placed in the newly developed [[Ultra Prison]]. Megatron sneeringly informed Bulkhead that the prison would slowly wipe his mind, but it was Megatron who got the raw end of the deal when the ''Nemesis'' was badly damaged during the inevitable Autobot rescue. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}}

Intending to show the pitiful humans that their independence was only temporary, Megatron attempted to stage a media circus in which he destroyed the [[Statue of Liberty]]. Unfortunately only Bumblebee and Optimus turned up, and though Megatron tried his best to wreck the statue, Optimus caused more damage to it in the process of defeating him than he did himself. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.13|Protecting the Lady}}

Leaving Starscream in charge of the Nemesis, Megatron returned to find it practically destroyed. He was met by Starscream, who told him the apparent course of events; ''some random Vehicon'' created an unauthorised Predacon clone, which ran amok, before Starscream ''bravely killed it''. Starscream also had ''totally not faked'' video footage to prove it! Despite the Vehicon's protests, Megatron executed him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.20|Starscream's Beast}}
====Mega-Mouth====
Megatron occasionally takes time out from conquering the universe to...answer fan mail? He also sometimes seems [[Megatron (Movie)|confused]] about which multiverse he hails from, as he claimed he attacked [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel]] {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.1#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #1}} and also explained why he wore a cowl in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]].'' {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.4#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #4}} He also said he survived ''Dark of the Moon'', after some fan asked how Megatron could be answering fan mail. {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.5#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #5}}
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===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
After [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] intercepted a message pointing to a derelict starship containing weapons in the [[asteroid belt]], Megatron and [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] headed out to find it. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 2}} They got there and found [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] about to make off with the weapons. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 4}} After [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] joined the battle, {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 5}} the ship began to explode, and Megatron plunged through the floor along with tons of debris. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 6}}

Injured, Megatron lay beneath the wreckage in the ship, using his damaged comms to monitor events on Earth. Finally his groping hands found an [[Tartarex Warp Sword|ancient weapon]], which used the surrounding debris to repair and rebuild him. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 22}} He returned to Earth and blasted the top off a mountain, {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 23}} intending to make a preemptive strike against the Predacons. The Predacons promptly flew up to engage him in combat. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 24}}

===Full of Fire!===
Disgruntled at the lack of progress in Predacon cloning, Megatron complained to Shockwave, who revealed that the cloning had already borne fruit. Megatron was pleased, though not so much when Predaking and the five new Predacons returned having been defeated by the Autobots. He believed that the Autobots now knew the extent of the Predacon army, however Shockwave was quick to reveal that there were a whole lot more Predacon clones ready to go. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Once an idealistic young miner, Megatron was forced into the gladiatorial ring, which eventually lead him to become the brutal and ruthless leader of the Decepticons. He once crushed the Autobot [[Bumper (WFC)|Bumper]]'s legs with his tank mode. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
Though Megatron was no where to be seen, a statue of him was erected on the reborn Cybertron. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}}

As he had "helped save the universe from Starscream, Megatron, and Dark Energon," Bumblebee refused to be defeated by [[Bisk]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye (RID)|More than Meets the Eye}} [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] once thought a map looked like Megatron's face. {{storylink|W.W.O.D.?}} During their battle, Drift mistook [[Megatronus]] for Megatron. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}}

Megatron was "light years away" by the time [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] managed to escape the [[Shadowzone (dimension)|Shadowzone]]. {{storylink|Portals}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' books===
An Energon thief came to Megatron's attention and joined the Decepticon army as [[Drift (RID)|Deadlock]]. {{storylink|Drift's Samurai Showdown}}

==Commercial appearances==
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}}

*During the war on Cybertron, Megatron had to briefly leave the battlefield, and left [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] in charge. Shockwave took the opportunity to order Soundwave to transform into his boombox mode and play "[[The Touch]]" while he blasted Autobots. {{storylink|Commercial#War for Cybertron|Gamestop Exclusive TV spot}}

*Megatron, [[wikipedia:Dan Vs.|Dan]] and [[My Little Pony|Pinkie Pie]] sang a collaborative group song while the scene quickly shifted between a variety of strange alternate universes. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Summer|The Hub summer promo 2011}}
{{quote|[[wikipedia:Meatballs (film)|Are you ready for the summer? Are you ready for the hot <s>nuts</s> nights?]]|Megatron}}

*At some point he ended up in detention at a school because he had "anger issues". {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Detention|The Hub promo}}

*He later joined back up with Pinkie Pie as well as other ponies Rainbow Dash and Applejack, and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] in scatting "[[wikipedia:Deck the Halls|Deck the Halls]]" {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers}} and singing "[[wikipedia:Jingle Bells|Jingle Bells]]". {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers2|The Hub Carolers (Second spot)}}

*He also demanded that viewers vote for him in the Hub's 2010 "Naughty or Nice" contest. They must have been listening, because he was eventually voted the "Naughtiest" villain on the Hub that year.

[[File:MegatronCareBear.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''Megatron is on the right'' One wonders where exactly the other Care Bear came from.]]
*Megatron declared the Hub his in a commercial for a marathon of ''Prime'' season 1 and 2, {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Darkest Hour|Darkest Hour promo}} doing certain Hub-focused jokes and gags before the commercial breaks during the marathon. One such segment showed [[The Transformers (cartoon)|his home movies]], during which reminisced on how [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|young he looked back then]] and mocked [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave's]] dated choice of alt mode. In other commercials for the marathon, it is revealed that out of all the radio transmissions in the universe, the ''[[My Little Pony]]: Friendship is Magic'' [[theme song|theme]] is his favorite song, {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Song|Megatron's Favorite Song}} and that he has been working on new transformations, demonstrating his ability to [[Pretender|transform]] into Funshine Bear, a [[wikipedia:Care Bears|Care Bear]], much to his humiliation. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Care Bear|Megatron Transforms into a Care Bear}} Also during the marathon; he commented on how his favorite reason that transformers were superior to humans was that transformers didn't need bathroom breaks. He also commented that the one thing he doesn't get about Autobots is their continuation of transforming into land-based vehicles (not complaining, just observing). He also expressed bewilderment over the way [[United States of America|Americans]] elect [[President of the United States|their leader]] through [[Democracy|democratic means]], rather than just killing off the competition like he would do. He also apologized to [[ALF]] for pre-empting his show, allowing the program to air at a later date under his regime. The only humans that Megatron admitted to liking were those that cower before him and Dan, due to his anger.

*Despite Megatron's might, Raf judged him inferior to [[wikipedia:Time Warner Cable|Time Warner Cable]]'s ability to transmit ''Transformers: Prime'' on laptop, tablet and smartphone computers, as demonstrated by a [[Raf's media device|device]] which switched between all three forms. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Time Warner|Time Warner Cable: Competiton}}

*While lounging around the Nemesis, Megatron answered questions about his personal life, took requests from fans and offered advice to the disillusioned and directionless. He shot down one girl who asked him to the prom, told a guy that the best way to get noticed by chicks is to transform into a jet, suggested that pound cake is the most superior of all baked desserts, and revealed that his ideal form of relaxation involves drawing [[My Little Pony|Rainbow Dash]] fanart. We all learned a little more about Megatron than we wanted to, that day.{{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Ask Megatron|Ask Megatron}}

*Megatron narrated ''[[wikipedia:A Visit from St. Nicholas|A Visit from St. Nicholas]]'' for his troops, which was interrupted by three Vehicons discussing the stirring practices of mice. Megatron threatened to put them on the naughty list. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Naughty List|30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Naughty List"}} Megatron shouted down several Vehicons singing about figgy pudding. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Pudding|30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Pudding"}} An Insecticon had direct orders from Megatron to send whoever decorated the ''Nemesis'' in holiday lights to the North Pole. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Holiday Schmoliday|30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Holiday Schmoliday"}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Oliviero Corbetta]] (Italian), [[Juan Carlos Lozano]] (Spanish)}}
[[File:WFC Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|He wants the whooole wooorld, in his hand!]]
During the early war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Megatron found reference to an energy source called [[Dark Energon]], which had impressive potential as a weapon, and became determined to claim it for himself. One of the few places it was made was in a station in orbit around Cybertron, guarded by a politically neutral force led by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. With this knowledge, he took a ship and launched an assault on the station.

The ship was badly damaged in the attack, and so he ordered [[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] and [[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]], piloting it, to ram the station. He and many of his soldiers survived the impact and escaped the core's detonation. They were then confronted by Starscream, who informed them that they would not allow them to take what he had guarded for ten thousand years. After surviving a trap of sentry guns, Megatron, Barricade, and Brawl were reinforced by more of Megatron's troops, and set out on their way to find the station's Dark Energon stores and claim them for the war effort. They encountered significant resistance, but managed to shoot their way through, with directional aid from [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]. Barricade noted that the station itself seemed quite primitive; Megatron noted it was very old, and that he intended to modernize it. At one point, the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] confronted Megatron nonviolently, asking him to give up his quest, as Dark Energon would result in only horror, death, and destruction, to which Megatron sneered, "You say that as if it were a bad thing."

[[File:WFC-MegatronmeetsStarscream.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|At last we meet, my punching bag.]]

Along their way to the Dark Energon, they found that a large portion of the station had been blasted clean off, the debris field traversable but sparse enough to allow easy viewing of Cybertron itself. Soundwave soon found records indicating that a small amount of Dark Energon lost containment and was the sole cause of the destruction, underscoring Megatron's desire for it. When Barricade asked how he expected to control it when no other had, Megatron said that such power was only for the strong, that he was the strongest, and not to question him again.

When they finally reached the storage chamber, and Megatron averted Starscream's destruction of it, he calmly entered into a container full of raw Dark Energon, while Starscream watched and gloated at his imminent destruction...only for him to walk out, not only unscathed, but crackling with power, which he further bestowed upon Barricade and Brawl. A single blast of Dark Energon was enough to destroy an entire company of station security forces, the last line of defense between Megatron and Starscream and his companions.

Jetfire again tried to warn Megatron about the dangers of Dark Energon, but Starscream interrupted, asking to join the Decepticon leader. Megatron asked what Starscream could offer that he could not simply take. Starscream revealed the station's supply of Dark Energon was almost spent, and he knew how to manufacture more—and as luck would have it, there was a dormant [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] which could be used to power it. Jetfire retreated to inform [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]; Megatron let him go, seeming pleased by the notion of letting the Autobots tremble in advance of their actions, and sent Starscream, [[Thundercracker (WFC)|Thundercracker]], and [[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]] to activate the bridge.

Megatron repeatedly mocked what he perceived as Starscream's slowness in his simple mission, but the Seeker did what he said he could. With a steady supply of Dark Energon, Megatron launched an attack on Iacon City, intending to take a device called the [[Omega Key]] and use it to enter the Core of Cybertron. This time, he took [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] and Soundwave with him. The trio took the less-guarded way in—which, since the Autobots were not complete fools (as even Megatron would admit), still had significant military presence. During the attack, Starscream noted that Dark Energon was proving every bit as potent as Megatron had promised. Breakdown let Megatron know of his misgivings about the Sky Commander; Megatron admitted he was treacherous and untrustworthy, but he had useful talents, and his cunning and ambition was intriguing.

The Omega Key had been taken from its normal resting place, however, by Autobot leader Zeta Prime, and so Megatron took his squad on an assault on Zeta's headquarters. They met Brawl, leading an attack on the doors to Zeta Prime's armory, along the way. Even Megatron's touch of Dark Energon could not breach the vault doors, however, and so he called in [[Dark Energon Bomber]]s. When they were shot down, Brawl suggested they take out the Autobots' air defense guns, after which bombers were called in again; Megatron's troops then held off a massive assault from what seemed like the entire Autobot army while waiting for the bombing run to finally arrive.

[[File:WFC Megatron Vs ZetaPrime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Zeta Prime, you might be more egotistical than me. I mean really, a huge holographic version of you and smaller holograms doing what you can't do without your pointy stick thing?]]

After the vault doors were breached, they reached Zeta Prime himself, who had constructed several layers of security while he waited. An invincible energy field protected him, while he could drop portions of the ceiling with pistons to crush anything beneath them, and construct endless holographic clones of himself outfitted for melee combat, which Megatron personally found nauseating. However, his defenses were not without flaw: periodically, the power core would need to disperse waste heat, and Megatron's team survived long enough to destroy it during this stage. Zeta fell, buried under the wreckage of his own defenses, and Megatron took the device he'd carried...which started to make electronic chirping noises. Zeta, with dark humor, noted that the device was not the Omega Key. It merely ''activated'' the Key, which would come to them...

Searching for the Key in the skies aboard another ship, Megatron, with Soundwave and Breakdown at the controls, were abruptly confronted by a massive ship, [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]], who knocked them out of the sky, causing them to crash back in Iacon. There, they played a cat-and-mouse campaign in a desperate attempt to survive the enormous Autobot's vast firepower, though Soundwave noted that the weaponry they bore had little chance of penetrating Omega Supreme's armor. Megatron, for his part, at least contrived to appear unafraid, claiming that if it came to a real fight, the brute wouldn't stand a chance against Megatron's intellect. However, Omega's attacks drove them underground and left them unable to immediately transmit counter to Starscream, who declared Megatron dead and announced he was taking control. Even when they re-established contact, Starscream's aerial forces only briefly distracted Omega, who dispensed large numbers of troops, sucked up Decepticons with a tractor beam, fired weapons of mass destruction, and mined the roads Megatron and his squad were using.

[[File:Omega Supreme smash.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I challenge you to a thumb wrestling competition!" "''That's'' a thumb!?"]]
Soundwave, however, had come up with a suggestion—there were weapons emplacements higher up that had the ability to damage Omega Supreme. Taking them from the Autobots was a battle in and of itself, but nothing compared to the fight against Omega Supreme, who could unload entire squadrons of Aerialbots. Nonetheless, Megatron's boldness and tactical acumen finally shot Omega Supreme out of the sky.

[[File:WFC-hearmynameandtremble.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|I stand on your crotch!]]

Gloating, Megatron found that the behemoth was still not defeated, and indeed was drawing power from Cybertron itself to repair his systems, making him stronger, if anything. However, by corrupting the energon batteries with which he was using to feed himself with Dark Energon charges, they were able to weaken him to the point where they could finally blast away his last defenses and brought him to heel. With Omega Supreme defeated, Megatron went underground, directly to the Core, and corrupted it with a massive infusion of Dark Energon, finally bringing Cybertron itself more completely under his control.

At this point, Megatron was clearly convinced, and for good reason, that he'd won, making propaganda broadcasts extolling his greatness and how he had taken away the Autobots' burdens of "liberty" and "choice". When Starscream was defeated and the Decagon retaken, however, he realized the Autobots were not yet going to roll over for him, and sent a distress signal from Zeta Prime, whom he had kept alive in the Kaon prison camp, in order to provoke a rescue attempt from the Autobots. His old acquaintance Optimus took the bait, and Megatron confronted him, telling him that the war could be over tomorrow if Optimus took the Autobots and left. Optimus refused, so Megatron consigned him and his team to the prisons. When they managed to stage a mass breakout, an enraged Megatron ordered his troops to prevent their escape at any cost, to the point of tearing apart portions of Kaon.

This was not enough, however, and they escaped, journeying to the Core, where they kickstarted the cleansing of Megatron's corruption. Doing so, however, would take the Core millions of years of shutdown, rendering Cybertron uninhabitable. Whether Megatron knew this or not, when he saw the Autobots leaving after Optimus's refusal of his earlier offer, he apparently took offense. His earlier plans of renovating Starscream's station had come to fruition; now, it mounted a powerful superweapon, capable of destroying entire structures in one shot. He had it fire upon the Autobot transports as they left. When a team of Aerialbots attempted to disable or destroy it, he called Jetfire, now one of them, and taunted him about his past. He further mocked them when they destroyed the plasma coolant system without apparently having accounted for backups. Finally, during the attack he came into possession of information on Optimus Prime's location, and ordered Trypticon—the name of the weapon, for it was actually a Cybertronian—to fire upon it.

Trypticon, however, was forced into his natural form and defeated after he crash-landed on Cybertron. Megatron's reaction to this went unrecorded. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
[[File:WFCDS Defeat Omega Supreme.jpg|thumb|left|256px|Simple enough... OH GOD BULLETS.]]

Megatron was the Decepticon Leader during the final days of the Great War. After capturing an Autobot facility, and killing a cadet, Megatron revealed his plan to his troops. Megatron intended to conquer Trypticon Space Station, which had the means and power to manufacture Dark Energon: a variant of Energon which greatly increased the stamina and strength of its host. Megatron fought his way through the station to its commander, the Autobot Starscream. Upon Starscream's defeat, Starscream offered his services and the Dark Energon if he was spared. Megatron agreed, and Starscream joined the Decepticons.

After a test run of the Dark Energon in Kaon Prison, Soundwave deduced the element would only kill the host, but Starscream was able to find a way to fix it. Megatron then decided the time was right, and led his army to the inner levels of Cybertron. He was able to activate the uplink to channel energy from the Core of Cybertron itself to Trypticon Station, but he needed the Omega Key to access it once it was shut down with a firewall.

Megatron learned through a recording from Laserbeak that Autobot Leader Zeta Prime had the Omega Key in his possession and had holed up deep within Iacon. Megatron led a full-scale assault on the city, totally devastating Iacon, until he found Zeta Prime at last. After a hard battle, Zeta fell, and Megatron obtained the Omega Key. However, immediately upon taking it, alarms went off, and Iacon itself was shaking. Zeta Prime, despite being mortally wounded, laughed at Megatron's face, saying the Omega Key was only the key to the ''true'' key: the city-sized Autobot Omega Supreme.

Omega immediately attacked the victorious Decepticons, and quickly decimated their presence in Iacon, save for Megatron's team and a few others. By this point, Megatron was absolutely furious at Starscream: Megatron declared it was he who led them to Omega Supreme and the devastating onslaught he carried out. Starscream bitterly retorted even if Megatron killed him, Omega Supreme would still be out for his blood, helping nothing whatsoever. Megatron angrily let it go for the time being, and led his army to battle. His troops' confidence beginning to falter, Megatron declared they would either be kicking themselves for not acting for the rest of their lives, or heroes in a historic event. His men followed him to battle Omega, and the titan fell. Megatron was free to corrupt the Core of Cybertron with Dark Energon, and obtain near-supremacy of Cybertron.

That kind of went downhill when the new Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, extinguished the Dark Energon and destroyed Trypticon Space Station, didn't it? {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron - Autobots/Decepticons}}

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===''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures''===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Oliviero Corbetta]] (Italian)}}

Early in the war, when the Autobots learned of the existence of the orbiting superweapon [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]], Megatron sent waves of Decepticon forces to keep them from discovering more about it. Megatron, happy to see the destruction Trypticon was creating, ordered Starscream and Skywarp at gunpoint to return to Trypticon and clean up after it, while he took his troops into battle to scour the area for Autobots to kill. Few Autobots other than the medic, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]], were spared Megatron's initial assault.

When Megatron found out that Starscream had left his post at Trypticon, Megatron grew angry. But the Autobots had infiltrated the [[Datacore]], so Megatron focused his efforts there instead. Bumblebee was captured, and information useful for the taking of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] was pulled from his mind. Megatron assigned Skywarp the task of the initial Iacon assault. The traitorous Starscream returned to Megatron's focus, and the Air Commander was ordered to infiltrate the Core of Cybertron to reactivate the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]]. But Starscream took too long, discovering Megatron had already reached the Core by the time he arrived. In a foul mood, Megatron would test Starscream's loyalty by putting him on the Iacon assault's front lines.

The assault went as planned, and Iacon crumbled. As Barricade and Starscream reached an empty Council Chamber, Megatron alerted them to the evacuation of the surviving Autobots. Three Autobot ships positioned themselves to escape, and so Megatron ordered Thundercracker and Skywarp to take them down.

Though Iacon fell, the Trypticon orbiting superweapon was destroyed by the Autobots... but not before Megatron ripped the datacore from its brain so as to salvage its information on Dark Energon. Megatron was pleased. Despite his loss, he still had the upper hand. {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)}}
[[File:FoC Megatron Profile.jpg‎|thumb|left|upright=1.3|Seriously, Soundwave, where is my fusion cannon?! It was in your remodeling designs, for crying out loud...]]
When Cybertron had begun to die following the Core's shutdown, Megatron blamed [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], as he was the one who had ruined his plans for the planet. Megatron launched an attack on [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] in order to destroy the Ark and get revenge. While commanding the battle from beneath one of his [[Warp Cannon]]s, he sent [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]] and [[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]] to capture Optimus and bring him before him. As Megatron executed two Autobots before his Optimus' eyes, Optimus pleaded that they only wanted to leave Cybertron, but Megatron wasn't going to allow him. As the Warp Cannon prepared to destroy both the Ark, and the Decepticon leader to do the same to the Autobot leader, the newly awakened [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]] tore the roof off of the building they were in. Refusing to retreat, Megatron fired at the colossus, only to be pulverized by the giant Autobot's fist.

Due to Megatron's death, Starscream took control of the Decepticons and proceeded to run the organization into the ground by wasting resources and his failiure to inspire the troops. Unhappy with the change in management, [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] salvaged what was left of Megatron, rebuilt him into a new form in his Kaon laboratory, and reactivated him with a Dark Energon infusion. After awakening, Megatron was enraged to see that Starscream was in control, and then proceeded to crash Starscream's [[The Transformers: The Movie|coronation]] ceremony. Slaughtering the Seeker's loyalists, Megatron turned on Starscream and drove him off. [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] arrived to inform him of the [[space bridge]] technology he had discovered and [[Earth|an energy-rich planet]] for them to plunder, and they required a suitable power source for a transport to take them.

Due to Starscream's self-indulgence, the Decepticons' energon supply was dwindling, forcing Megatron to find more power. He decided to retrieve the power core from the fallen [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] and while doing so, he happily "reintroduced" himself to the Autobots. After arriving at Trypticon's crash site, he realized the beast was still alive and had Soundwave revitalize him. Megatron didn't know or care whether or not Trypticon was still sentient or not, but told the beast that since he had failed him, he would be rebuilt to Megatron's liking. Megatron then told Soundwave to initiate the "Nemesis Protocol" and permanently lock Trypticon in his [[alternate mode|alternate form]]: a transport ship which they would use to traverse the Space Bridge.

The ''Nemesis'' was quickly completed and the Space Bridge opened, and Megatron decided to leave Shockwave in charge of Cybertron in his absence. However, one of Shockwave's [[Grimlock (WFC)|experiments]] destroyed the tower, which reduced the time they have to reach the Space Bridge before it closed. Sending in Soundwave to lead his forces on the Ark, Megatron confronted Optimus and the two fought. Megatron prepared a devastating blow to his enemy with a cannon, only for [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] to take the shot for Optimus. Their battle reignited, the two leaders traded blows with swords, causing heavy damage to one another. But before a final blow could be delivered by either one of them, the Ark crumbled under the Space Bridge's force, and while Megatron shouted in anger, both ships were drawn through. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

{{note|Megatron also appears in the game's 'Escalation' mode. He fights alongside [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], on the 'Oblivion' map. He is the team's [[Tank (FOC)|Tank]].}}

=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}}

[[File:Transformers prime the game megatron.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|I think I'll force a servant of Unicron about ten times my size to serve me. That won't go horribly wrong at all.]]
Megatron was present when the Decepticons were hauling in an asteroid rich with Dark Energon heading toward Earth. When the Autobots came to stop them, he decided to take matters into his own hands by going toe-to-toe with Optimus again. After they exchanged some wedding vows and got to dancing, the asteroid exploded and interrupted their fight. Megatron managed to survive by flying away, witnessing his enemies fall to Earth. Swiftly, Megatron commanded Starscream to organize a scouting team to retrieve the fallen Autobots.

Megatron was present when Optimus awoke to fight Thunderwing. Megatron commenced an attack on the Autobot with the Nemesis, but once the Autobot escaped, he quickly turned his attention to the giant in the asteroid. After an analysis by Knock Out, Megatron reasoned with the herald of Unicron by promising all of his missing components being returned to him if and only if he swore his undying allegiance to him. As such, Megatron and Starscream arrived at one location to retrieve a component while Dreadwing parted to another. While on their mission, Megatron and Starscream managed to run into their old pals Optimus & Bulkhead. Starscream took his fight to the bulk, leaving Megatron to battle his old foe once again. Megatron was somewhat defeated, but managed to retrieve the component.

Megatron witnessed Starscream attach the component to Thunderwing, and the two were surprised when Thunderwing continued to serve Unicron, even after their deal. Thunderwing attempted to destroy Megatron before making his escape, but he used Starscream as protection. Throwing his commander on the ground like scrap, he pursued Thunderwing only to meet with Autobots again. Megatron managed to make sport of Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead, but his third and final battle with Optimus resulted in his ultimate defeat.
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===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
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===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
Megatron and his Eradicons infiltrated the Autobots' headquarters. They then used Scraplets to discombobulate the base's systems. Bulkhead then came along, removed the Scraplets from the headquarters' systems, and defeated Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}

===''Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense''===
Megatron threw wave after wave of Vehicons at the Autobots in the hopes of amassing massive amounts of Dark Energon, before launching an assault on the Autobot headquarters. He was defeated by Optimus Prime and Arcee. {{Storylink|Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense|Terrorcon Defense}}

===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
Megatron and his Decepticons built an [[Energon Drain]] weapon, which would render them unstopable if left unopposed. Optimus Prime and his Autobots intervened, and destroyed the weapon. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}

===''Transformers Prime: Decepticon Strike''===
After the bulk of his troops, and many Vehicons had faced off against Optimus Prime, Megatron took on the Autobot leader himself. Megatron had access to a personal forcefield and powerful energy blasts throughout the battle, and would alternate between his robot and vehicle mode to fight both on the ground and above it. The stack the odds even more in his favor, Megatron was assisted by some of his troops, including Airachnid, Breakdown and Shockwave. Despite all of this, Optimus managed to defeat Megatron, and he was sent fleeing, proclaiming that Optimus had only succeeded in winning a small battle that was part of a greater war. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Decepticon Strike|Decepticon Strike}}

===''Transformers Universe''===
[[File:Tu-character-art megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Went from shark-face to scowl-face]]
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}}

At some point during the Autobot-Decepticon war, Optimus Prime went missing. Megatron and his Decepticons searched the universe for the Autobot leader, but met heavy resistance from the Autobots, who fought to keep their leader's location a secret.

He appears in-game only as a hologram displayed in the ''Leviathan'', [[Switchblade (Prime)|Switchblade]]'s ship. {{storylink|Transformers Universe}}
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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Megatron-(WFC).jpg|thumb|upright=2.2]]
Megatron (WFC) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character available as a reward in the "Cybertron Episode 1" event. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
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==Notes==
[[File:Tfprimemegatronjet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Too fast for screen caps.]]
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Green With Evil.]]
*Megatron's model is usable in ''War for Cybertron'' multiplayer as the Destroyer-type chassis for [[Soldier (WFC)|Soldier]]-class characters. His parts are also available in ''Fall of Cybertron'', now classified as Gunner-type components for [[Titan (FOC)|Titan]]-class characters.
*As revealed in [[One Shall Rise, Part 3]], Megatron used to have blue optics.
*Megatron's designation as an energon miner was "D-16".<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=7fd5ecd9-19b9-f369-1041-a7635be83172 War for Cybertron timeline].</ref> Megatron's original [[List of Japanese ID numbers|Japanese ID number]] was "16". Takara would eventually change the numbering system using a "D" to denote [[Decepticon|Destrons]]. So Megatron's Japanese ID number could retroactively be considered "D-16".
*In ''Transformers: War for Cybertron'', Megatron has multiple glitches when controlled by the computer, among them shrinking (quite hilariously), losing his Fusion Cannon, and having his Tank mode cannon stick straight up (also humorous). He may be the most glitchy character in the game.
*When controlled by the player in ''Transformers: War for Cybertron'', Megatron typically begins with a Riot Cannon equipped, which works to emulate the classic G1 Fusion Cannon. In cutscenes however, the Riot Cannon is mounted ONTO Megatron's right forearm, as opposed to his arm changing into the cannon like in gameplay.
**In ''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron'', Megatron appears in his War for Cybertron design with the Riot Cannon mounted onto his left arm as opposed to his right. He never appears with the arm-mounted cannon in his new body however.
*The show design of this version of Megatron takes visual cues from both Generation 1 (the ever-famous [[Megatron (G1)|buckethead]] and lower legs resembling a pistol's handgrip) and [[Megatron (Movie)|the movie version]] of the Decepticon leader (the sharp angles and bits on his shoulders, along with two-toed feet and a demonic-looking face with sharp shark-like teeth), even including the jet mode the latter version appeared in.
*The ''Prime'' staff used the rationale that Megatron would not scan an Earth mode out of disgust at humans.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/botcon-2010-transformers-prime-panel-coverage-170054/ BotCon 2010 Transformers Prime Panel Coverage]</ref> According to Cybertronian Megatron's packaging bio, Megatron often changes his [[alternate mode]], probably in an attempt to explain why he's a tank in the game and a jet in the cartoon.
*Megatron's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Megatron parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop.
*A running gag in the advertisements shows that Megatron is a [[Wikipedia:Brony|Brony]]. He very much enjoys [[My Little Pony]]: Friendship is Magic.
**According to the ''[[Commercial/Prime#2012|Transformers: Prime 26 Hour Takeover Marathon]]'' promos, his favorite song is the [[theme song|theme]] to ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]''.
**According to an [[Commercial/Prime#2013|Ask Megatron]] segment, his ideal form of relaxation involves traveling to the dark side of Pluto and drawing Rainbow Dash fanart.
**And then there are [[Commercial/Prime#2011|The Hub Summer]] and [[Commercial/Prime#2011|The Hub Carolers]] promos, in which he joins Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rainbow Dash (his favorite!) for various musical numbers.
*A note in the "Autobits" edition of [[Darkmount, NV]] states that he enjoys online cat videos.

===Foreign names===

*''Mandarin:'' {{hanyu|'''Megaton'''|密卡登|Mìkǎdēng|Taiwan}}, {{hanyu|'''Wēi Zhèn Tīan'''|威震天||lit. "Extremely Prestigious" or "Heaven-shaking Might", China}}

==References==
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More than Meets the Eye, Part 2

2017-01-19T23:40:06Z

Halfshell25: /* Continuity notes */

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|image=More Than Meets Part 2.jpg
|caption=[[Oil]] is a burnin' thing, and it makes a fiery ring.
|title="More than Meets the Eye, Part 2"
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|airdate=[[September 18]], 1984
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'''The Decepticons continue raiding Earth's energy sources, including Sherman Dam and the Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:MTMtE Part2 Greetings.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|"Are you Samuel James Witwicky, descendant of Archibald Witwicky?" "No." "Oops, sorry, my bad." [Throws him back in the water]]]
The fire at the off-shore [[oil rig]] continues to grow. Poor [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] is caught in some girders, but is freed by [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]. Not so easy to extricate are the humans [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. As [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] grapples with the debris trapping the workers, [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] put out the fire. Rescued by Prime, Spike and Sparkplug introduce themselves to the [[Autobot]]s, offering their terrestrial knowledge to help them.

[[File:Mtmte2 spike finds soundwave.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|A legacy of Stupid Human Tricks begins here.]]
Their newfound human friends return with the Autobots to their headquarters. As Spike explores the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], he finds a small cassette player and brings it in with him, setting it aside. Little does he realize he has brought [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] into Autobot Headquarters. Soundwave and his minion [[Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ravage]] begin using [[Teletraan I]] to locate [[Earth]]'s most plentiful energy resources. Meanwhile Spike enjoys a tour of the headquarters and some sunset joyriding with [[Hound (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hound]]. Returning to the base, Spike spots Soundwave's intrusion and sounds the alarm. Soundwave escapes, but the Autobots catch Ravage, thanks to [[Gears (G1)|Gears]]' infrared light.

Soundwave briefs [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on his findings. Megatron decides to attack [[Sherman Dam]], causing a tidal wave to increase the dam's output. The next day, the [[Decepticon]]s arrive at the dam. [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] dives into the river and activates his piledrivers to whip the river into dangerous rapids. The energy output is detected by Teletraan I, and the Autobots rush there to stop the Decepticons.

[[File:MTMte Part2 Autobotsrally.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Raise your hand, raise your haaaand—if you're sure!]]
With the river at its peak, the Decepticons begin producing [[energon cube]]s. The Autobots arrive, and a battle ensues. Hound dives into the river to stop Rumble's quaking, and the two scuffle in the depths, with the Autobot coming off worse. [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] help divert the course of the river to save a nearby neighborhood from being flooded. Megatron and Optimus Prime duel with energy [[Energon-axe|melee]] [[Energon mace|weapons]] atop Sherman Dam while exchanging insults. Megatron knocks Prime into the rapids (the latter was distracted by Spike's shouts for help) and he and his Decepticons escape with their spoils.

[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] helps pull Prime from the river. The Autobots regroup and vow to stop the Decepticons as they continue their activities across the land... but apparently don't do a very good job of it at ''all''. The space cruiser they are developing is almost complete, and they are one more energy raid away from having enough fuel to return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately, the impudent [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] feels the need to test some of the energon cubes. His wasteful experimenting forces the Decepticons to now make two trips. Their first destination, the [[ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. These plans are overheard by Trailbreaker, Spike and Sparkplug, who are eavesdropping on the Decepticons.

[[File:Mtmte2 witwickys and trailbreaker.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Trailbreaker deploys his combat bird bath.]]
As Trailbreaker returns to Autobot headquarters to relay the news, the trio are attacked by a pair of generic [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. Sparkplug radios for help, which comes in the form of [[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sideswipe]]. Sunstreaker uses a [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] cannon to give one of the Seekers a small scratch on its wing, prompting the two jets to retreat.

The Decepticons are soon in Burma, pulling [[Ruby crystal|energetic rubies]] from the Earth's crust. The Autobots wait for them outside the mine. Wheeljack has developed a powerful and compact explosive. Bumblebee and Sparkplug volunteer to plant the charge in the mine. They do so, but are caught by [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] and [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]] as they make their escape.

Concerned that Sparkplug and Bumblebee haven't returned, Optimus Prime drives up the mine's entrance and dispatches [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] into the mine. The explosive detonates, and the blast knocks Prime off his wheels, sending him tumbling down the mountainside.

'''[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3|To be continued...]]'''
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (1)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (2)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (6)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] (7)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (8)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]] (10)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] (11)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cliffjumper]] (12)
*[[Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Mirage]] (13)
*[[Hound (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hound]] (14)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (16)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (17)
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (18)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]] (19)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (20)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (27)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (28)
*[[Roller (G1)|Roller]] (29)
|c2=
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (9)
*[[Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ravage]] (15)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] (21)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (22)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (23)
*[[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]] (24)
*[[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (25)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (26)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (4)
*[[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (5)
}}

==Quotes==
"For someone who doesn't like to fight, heh, you're not bad, Mirage!"
:—'''Cliffjumper''' complimenting Mirage after he helped fight off Skywarp and Thundercracker

"You destroy everything you touch, Megatron!" 
"Because everything I touch is food for my hunger, my hunger for power!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Megatron''' banter while fighting on top of Sherman Dam

"You're old, Megatron. Yesterday's model—ready for the scrap heap!" 
"We'll see who's ready for the scrap heap!" 
"Junk! That's what you are, ''junk''!" 
"''Silence''!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' insults '''Megatron''' during their battle

"Don't push me, Megatron, my desire for power is as great as yours!" 
"Power flows to the one who knows ''how''. Desire alone is not enough." 
"Time makes all things possible. I can wait."
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Megatron''', foreshadowing several repetitive scenes in the future

"Let's give Megatron a little present." 
"Heh. Maybe we oughtta wrap him up and put a little bow on him."
:—'''Skywarp''' and '''Thundercracker''' on capturing Bumblebee. Not seen: Bumblebee's humiliated weeping.

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:PrimeLandsInTheBarrenWasteland.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
[[Tommy Kennedy (G1)|Tommy Kennedy]] once again runs out into the middle of the barren wastelands and summons help from [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Prime arrives via rocket-boots and lifts him up to his face, inquiring if he's still working on his "special project" for school. Tommy says that it's a time-consuming effort, so Prime continues his story of how the Transformers first came to Earth without delay...

After concluding the story, Tommy remarks that the "tumble" Prime took sure was something. Prime starts to tell him about the tumble he took when he pursued Megatron into outer space, but Tommy laughs, telling Optimus, "Next time, take a spaceship". Prime passive aggressively replies, "What would I do without you, Tommy?" Prime's eyes then narrow as he demands to know what Tommy's "special project" is. Tommy once again withholds the information, but vows to bare all next time, when he "transforms" Prime's day "into an adventure". Prime then blasts off into space, giving Tommy a ride back to [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Non-final premises===
[[File:G1 cartoon Autobots fly.JPG|thumb]]
As part of the series pilot, this episode features some conventions and details which would be changed for the series proper:
*The Autobots can all fly in [[robot mode]].
*[[Corey Burton]] employs a different voice for Brawn, one that is higher and more hoarse-sounding than the "correct" version that will appear in later episodes. The same voice pops up again in "[[A Plague of Insecticons]]" (after Skyfire catches a falling Brawn).
*Mirage gets a different sound effect for his disappearing abilities (which would actually be used again in "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3]]").
*Wheeljack acquires a bit of southern accent in the third act of this episode. Oddly, he already had his finalized voice in the previous episode, and indeed, shows no real signs of the accent in his sparing lines during this episode's first two acts. Consequently, fans have speculated that voice actor [[Chris Latta]] was trying to differentiate the voice from his Sparkplug voice, as they ''are'' pretty identical, and he only begins to affect the accent when Wheeljack and Sparkplug share a scene.
*The "next time" preview refers to the three episodes collectively as "The Transformers". They would later be rechristened "More than Meets the Eye" (obviously!)

===Animation and technical errors===
*In the recap of "Part 1" at the beginning of the episode, a scene is shown in which Optimus Prime is trying to lift a grate trapping Spike and Sparkplug. However, in "Part 1", the grate was orange, while in the recap that same grate is shown as gray.
*Huffer's trapped arm does not appear to actually connect to his torso.
*As Huffer and Brawn converse, Brawn's lips move for Huffer's line, "Let's take off."
*Prime's running lights are drawn as rectangular instead of round as he explains the Decepticons to Spike and Sparkplug.
*After picking up Soundwave, Spike runs into the Ark carrying his rucksack slung over his shoulder. In the next shot, the rucksack has vanished.
[[File:Reflector in red.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Hey! That's my color scheme!]]
[[File:Weirdstreak.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Ratchet and Bluestreak just came back from the helmet salon.]]
*Coloring errors:
**Soundwave's eject button is one of the most common coloring errors of the whole series. Based on his toy, it's supposed to be white in the cartoon, but almost as often as not, the colorists simply colored it the same blue as the rest of him:
***Soundwave's eject button and cheek guards are both blue instead of white as he returns to robot mode.
***Blue button as he swipes at Spike.
***And after he plays back the Sherman Dam info.
***And as Megatron pontificates about the [[ruby crystal]]s. (Cheek guards too.)
**Brawn's helmet is a bit too light as he watches Soundwave retreat.
**When Gears transforms, his blue parts change to red, leaving him as an all-red truck.
**Soundwave is missing all his yellow stripes as he plays back Teletraan I's info on Sherman Dam.
**When Optimus orders his troops to head to the power plant, he has a gray eyeband instead of two blue optics.
**As the Autobots blast into the power plant, they shoot down both Starscream and a Reflector colored like Starscream.
**Soundwave's visor switches from white to red and back as he and Megatron ride the elevator.
**Starscream's collar is yellow as he asks "What's the difference?"
**Half of Starscream's collar is yellow again during "I can wait".
**In the establishing shot of the Autobots outside the Burma ruby mines, Ratchet's head is black and gray. When the shot is repeated, Bluestreak's head is yellow, making his head resemble Bumblebee's.
**As Thundercracker faces Sparkplug, his wing insignia are rendered as purple rectangles. As he joins Skywarp to double-team Bumblebee, they're missing completely.
**Sideswipe's helmet is red instead of black as Bumblebee transforms in front of him.
**Starscream's face is white instead of gray as Bumblebee and Spike spy on the 'cons.
**Jazz's helmet and hand are mostly white instead of black as he worries about Bumblebee.
**When Optimus and Megatron confront each other atop Sherman Dam, Optimus is slightly miscolored; his helmet, hands, lower legs and skidplate are all dark gray...which makes him look a heck of a lot like Sideswipe, funnily.
[[File:mtmte2 shermandam.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Maybe it's Sideswipe cosplaying as Optimus Prime?]]

*As the Autobots try to capture Ravage, their miscellaneous shouts were scripted simply as being collectively delivered by the group and were not attributed to any individual 'bots. As such, they were performed by a random collection of actors, not using any of their standard Transformers character voices, but the animation would then depict mismatched Autobots speaking the lines in voices that are not their own. We hear "There he is!" (voiced by Chris Latta, but delivered by Sideswipe), "Get him!" (Ken Sansom, Jazz), "Fire!" (Frank Welker, Sideswipe again), "It's too dark!" (Latta again, from offscreen) and "Can't see him!" (Welker again, also from offscreen). Another example of this problematic practice would crop up next episode; it would mostly be avoided in the series proper, but another instance can be heard in "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]".
*Gears and Hound are extremely tiny in their [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]s in the next shot, as a titanic Optimus Prime walks up behind them.
*When arriving at the dam, Optimus Prime speaks the line "We've got to work fast", but Prowl is shown talking.
*One of the neighbors that Ironhide and Bumblebee rescue appears to be a woman in a pink dress...who is waving and moving as a ''man''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s voice says, "Thanks, neighbors!"
*When the Autobots are first confronting the Decepticons at the power plant, Sideswipe and Optimus appear to have Decepticon logos on them. (See the flying picture above.)
*As Starscream prepares his strange slingshot thing, one of his wing stripes becomes transparent. His wings are also mounted much higher on his back than normal.
*As Soundwave and the Reflectors fill energon cubes in a grassy meadow, there is a registration error that causes Soundwave's lower half to vanish several frames before the foreground content is meant to block it.
*The second purple jet to leave the Black Diamond mine does so alone, but when he drifts back into the shot, he's got a Rumble and a Reflector with him.
*Both he and Megatron are missing their insignia as they elevator reaches the bottom.
*While the Reflectors are stacking energon cubes, the energon cubes are translucent enough to see the background (and to see that the Reflectors' legs weren't animated).
[[File:G1toon starscream laser turret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|They were only counting on having to fight three Autobots back home.]]
*Starscream's leg is disconnected from his body as he fires his cannon.

*The microphone that Sparkplug uses to radio the Autobots changes appearance between shots; it looks like a microphone in closeup, but more like a {{w|Simon (game)|Simon}} toy when Sparkplug is holding it.
*One gun, many lasers:
**The two generics who attack Trailbreaker shower him with a dozen or more lasers, despite having only two guns apiece.
*After Sunstreaker shoots one of the generics and Spike's comment, Sideswipe's shown to have a weapon in the same place as Sunstreaker's, with smoke pouring from the end.
*The ends of the ruby collection tubes are closed like test tubes, leaving the falling crystals nowhere to go.
*Prime's right antenna disappears as he points at the mine entrance.
*Only the front of Wheeljack's "ears" flash as he shows off his new explosive.

===Continuity errors===
*Brawn uses a blow torch to free Huffer's oil-soaked arm, and somehow, it doesn't catch fire.
*For some reason, Sunstreaker and Cliffjumper are just sitting around in the repair bay in automotive form.
[[File:AirWarriors MTMtE.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|We don't know where we came from, either.]]
[[File:GenericDecepticons MTMTE.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Rumble, Rumble, Rumble, Rumble, eject. Operation: crowd filler."]]
*This episode totally shatters the previous episode's consistent cast of Decepticons, which was clearly shown to be Megatron, Soundwave, 3 jets, 3 Reflectors, and 3 tapes. To pad out the Decepticon ranks, a horde of generic Decepticons just starts appearing out of nowhere:
**A light purple-gray jet is standing behind Thundercracker after the Decepticons land at the dam.
**As Reflector compresses the energon cubes, there are ''four'' Reflector robots, as well as three Rumbles. The real Rumble is, at this point, still underwater, fighting with Hound. Rumble shows up in two more subsequent shots as well, including one where he's the only guy in the shot!
**And then it all goes to hell after the Sherman Dam sequence. Two purplish jets are with Thundercracker in the snow. Then a subsequent pan shot shows ''four'' light blue jets, ''three'' light purple jets, and ''two Thundercrackers''.
**At the Black Diamond mine: three purple jets, and a slate blue Rumble.
**The assembled strike force: one Skywarp, two Thundercrackers, another lavender jet, four Rumbles in yellow, orange, bright blue and slate blue, and ''seven'' Reflectors.
**Two lavender and one slate blue jet answer Megatron's order to "Scramble!"
**A shot of the Decepticons in flight shows a total of ''twenty-seven'' robots.
**Two generics even get their own scripted appearance, attacking Trailbreaker, complete with speaking parts!
**After all that, there's not much point in noting 2 blues and 2 lavenders loading ruby crystals, is there?
**6 generic jets plus Starscream as Bumblebee and Spike observe the 'cons mining the crystals.
*Megatron's definition of "tidal wave" is a bit wonky, considering that Rumble doesn't really make one huge wave. Of course, we wouldn't expect ''aliens'' to have a perfect grasp of the English language.
[[File:G1 cartoon Autobot letters.JPG|upright=1.1|thumb|"Okay, Spike, here's your next Cybertronian lesson!" "Uh...for a...good...time...call..." "Whoops! Wrong screen!"]]
*When Spike tells Jazz that there's trouble at Sherman Dam, the screen shows what is presumably Cybertronian text. Spike shouldn't be able to read this.
*Likewise, the dam worker says "she's gonna blow" (twice!) in reference to the crumbling dam. The dam might crack, fail, or give way, but neither the dam nor the generators are likely to ''explode''.
*Superhuman Spike:
**A shot of Sherman Dam shows us that the water behind it (where Rumble is making his earthquake) is clearly hundreds of feet deep. Somehow, Spike just leaps right into it to rescue Hound. The water is also ''ragingly'' turbulent in the previous shot, yet perfectly still once Spike is actually in it.
**He then has no trouble at all moving a big boulder that's pinning Hound in place.
**It must be hereditary. Sparkplug survives being punched directly in the ribcage and into a stone wall by Thundercracker. He should be wall-pizza after that. Spike also is no worse for wear after Rumble whacks him across the face. A blow like the one Rumble gives Spike should have shattered Spike's skull.
[[File:Rubycrystalminesofburma.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Thus explaining why Burma was the dominant world superpower in 1984.]]
*Why does Megatron yell to his troops to "Follow me!" when he's getting bashed around by Prime?
*One of the shots of filling energon cubes appears to take place in a forest, with no machinery of any type in sight. Are they stealing energy from trees?
*A few shots from Starscream's little cannon drain a whole gigantic stack of energon cubes. Are the cubes really ''that'' paltry?
*The likelihood of rubies being a viable power source, let alone "the richest source of energy on the face of the Earth", is questionable. Apparently Megatron is not yet familiar with the bizarre physics of cartoon Earth, where all kinds of super-powered crystals are just sitting around waiting for someone to sap energy out of them.
*Sparkplug claims to have previously worked in the ruby mine, which, while not thoroughly implausible, seems unlikely for an American [[oil]] rig worker/mechanic.
*Wheeljack tells Sparkplug that the bomb timer is 60 seconds. All the views of the countdown timer show it decreasing at approximately two units per second, meaning that the bomb would go off in about 30 seconds.

===Rhino DVD release===
*Hound is part of the group that leaps into the air. However, in the next shot, Hound is on the ground by the river with Spike.

===Continuity notes===
[[File:Mtmte2 ironhide diverting river.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Mtmte2 shermandam.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*Gadgets and powers:
**Brawn uses a retractable welding tip to cut Huffer free. This same hooked welding tip seems to be fairly standard Autobot equipment, showing up in many future episodes, attached to many different 'bots.
**Trailbreaker's "force shield" is fired from a three-pronged wrist-gun.
**Wheeljack can shoot a fire extinguishing chemical of some sort from his retracted wrist.
**Jazz uses a retractable grappling hook that slides out of his wrist (with a little pulse-glow of energy, no less.) This gadget will show up a couple more times in this and the next episode.
**Soundwave gives us the most overt instance of size-changing we've yet seen.
**A couple of stock powers make their debut, as Hound demonstrates his holograms and Mirage turns invisible.
**Gears displays his infrared. Well, actually, it's just a red light. Don't tell anyone.
**Jazz and Prowl can both fire energy-net things out of their wrists. Prowl will repeat this ability in "[[Attack of the Autobots (episode)|Attack of the Autobots]]".
**"The <s>noal</s> null ray" actually does what it's supposed to this time, shutting down some generators when Starscream shoots them with it.
**When Hound submerges to pursue Rumble, he drops a face shield into place, implying he may be susceptible to water.
**Ironhide has a mounted cannon in the back of his van. It's heavily based on the similar cannon that his toy's repair bay has.
**Starscream owns a [[Slingshot (weapon)|slingshot]] and uses some unidentified crystal as ammunition.
**In one of the series' most inexplicably well-remembered scenes, Megatron and Optimus both deploy glowing, semi-solid energy weapons from their wrists: a morning star and an axe, respectively.
**Trailbreaker can deploy a roof-mounted radar dish to listen in remotely on the 'cons.
[[File:Roller deploy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*Early in the episode, the scene is shown changing from the Ark to a similar-looking shack nearby. This shack appears to have the same construction as the Ark itself, but is not a part of the ship. It is almost never seen again, except in the episodes "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 2]]" and "[[The Autobot Run]]".
*As he returns to tape mode to enter Teletraan I, Ravage's missiles disappear in a glowing flash.
*According to Starscream, 1,750,000 KiloWatts is not enough electrical power to make energon cubes!
*The script that Teletraan I displays differs significantly from the Ancient Autobot language the Decepticons find in "[[Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust]]". It's also rather different from the Ancient Cybertronian that [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] finds on the control panel of the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] in "[[The Rebirth, Part 1]]". One might reasonably fanwank it by saying that Jazz is reading the modern version of these languages.
*Optimus calling Megatron old lines up quite well with the later episode [[War Dawn (episode)| War Dawn]]. In it, Orion Pax is portrayed as a much more youthful bot than Megatron.
*Optimus deploys Roller for the first time. He's gray, based on an earlier iteration of the toy, rather than the blue of the US release.
*While Soundwave and Ravage are using Teletraan I, a shot of the oil rig from Part 1 was briefly shown.

===Real-world references===
*[[Burma]] is a country in southeast Asia, currently known to the United Nations as Myanmar. It is, indeed, particularly rich in rubies, and is the source of 90% of the world's supply of the gems.

===Trivia===
*Deleted scenes from the original script to this episode include Spike and Jazz tapping Teletraan I into "the Emergency Alert System" (thirteen years before the real world system of that name would exist), leading to it detecting the trouble at Sherman Dam; Trailbreaker covering Ironhide as the older 'bot uses his adhesives to seal the cracks in the dam; the two nameless Decepticon jets appearing in robot mode, standing guard at the Decepticon base, where they spot Trailbreaker and the Witwickys driving by and decide to pursue them; and Bumblebee and Sparkplug facing two Decepticon guards at the mine entrance, who Bumblebee paralyzes with a stun ray from his headlights. Other differences include Bumblebee teaming up with ''Wheeljack'', rather than Ironhide, to carve the trenches that break up the raging river; in accordance, Wheeljack's alternate mode is described as a "van", which, coupled with several other awkward or incorrect alternate mode descriptions in the "More than Meets the Eye" scripts, suggests that complete finalized details on the Transformers' alternate modes hadn't been provided to the writer yet.
*The dam sequence was adapted for the UK comic story "[[Decepticon Dam-Busters!]]" in issues #29-30, and also released as a set of [[View-Master]] reels. The weapons used by Prime and Megatron would be immortalized in toy form several times, and even get a bit of an [[homage]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action movies]], where Prime thrice wields orange-glowing bladed [[Dual Energon Swords|energy]] [[Energon Hooks|weapons]] in all three films, including an [[Energon-axe|axe]], while Megatron uses a [[Mace|flail]] in the first film.
*Much of the character animation in this episode is pleasingly fluid, with some rather dynamic transformations. Decepticons in particular do lots of flips as they transform.
*Bumblebee's mission is hilarious. He transforms to car mode, drives about twenty feet, returns to robot mode, stands outside the mine and says "Come on, let's go inside." Well, what ''else'' were you planning there, 'Bee?
*Storyboard artist [[Wendell Washer]] has [http://www.wendellwasher.com/samples/storyboards/transda2/sbdtrd2-005.htm sample storyboards] from the opening scene of this episode up on his web site.

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die Rückkehr'''" (''Generation 2'', "The Return")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 7]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''La miniera di rubini'''" ("The Ruby Mine")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Molto più di quel che appare - II'''" ("More than Meets the Eye - II")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ruby Crystal no Himitsu'''" (ルビークリスタルの秘密, "Secret of the Ruby Crystals")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[July 13]], [[1985]]
::*'''Cut:''' After Spike picks up Soundwave outside and runs off, a few seconds are shaved off of him disappearing off screen. The long shot of him running through the entrace of the Ark is cut, as are the first few seconds of him running down the hall of the Ark with Soundwave clutched in his right hand.

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mais do Que Os Olhos Veem Parte 2'''" (Brazil, "More than Meets the Eye part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ne vsjo tak prosto (Chast' 2)'''" (Не всё так просто (Часть 2), "Not All Is So Simple (Part 2)")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Serbian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Više nego što se vidi drugi deo'''" (''Generation 2'', Више него што се види други део, "More than Meets the Eye Part 2"), "'''Sile zla drugi deo'''" (''Generation 2'', Силе зла други део, "Forces of Evil Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1985 — ''The Transformers'' — Volume 1: "More than Meets the Eye" ([[Family Home Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1986 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|A.M.T. Video Gems]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|V.I.P. Video Gems]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron ([[Video Gems|Little Gems Junior Video Club]]) 
[[File:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: Generation 2'' — More than Meets the Eye ([[Malofilm|Seville Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Exclusively from Blockbuster ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1994 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''The Transformers'' — Autobot Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers: Generation 2'' ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Original Series: Volume Two (Sony Wonder) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition (Sony Wonder) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — First Season Collector's Edition ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Volume One (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 1: Series 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — The Best of ''The Transformers'' (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Episodes (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Classic Transformers'' — Series One: Part One (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 01: Stagione Uno Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season One (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete First Season: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — More than Meets the Eye (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete First Season: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.com/cartoon-dossier/season-1/synopses/4024.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]
*[http://zobovor.tripod.com/more_than_meets_the_eye_part_2_bloopers.html Zobovor's Bloopers list]

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]
[[Category:Generation 2 episodes]]
[[Category:MSTF]]
[[Category:Pack-in material]]
[[Category:Universe (2008)]]

Transformers: The Last Knight (film)

2017-01-19T23:03:27Z

Halfshell25:

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'''''Transformers: The Last Knight''''' is the upcoming fifth film in the [[live-action film series]], currently expected to be released [[June 23]], [[2017]].<ref name="toyfairreveal">[http://news.tfw2005.com/2016/02/12/transformers-5-transformers-6-bumblebee-spin-off-movie-revealed-309503 Transformers 5, Transformers 6 And Bumblebee Spin-Off Movie Revealed] ToyFair news at TFW2005</ref> The film serves as a sequel to ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]'', and is directed by [[Michael Bay]],<ref name="rollingstone">[http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/13-hours-can-michael-bay-pull-off-a-gritty-movie-about-benghazi-20160104 '13 Hours': Can Michael Bay Pull Off a Gritty Movie About Benghazi?] on Rolling Stone</ref> and is written by [[Art Marcum]], [[Matt Holloway]], and [[Ken Nolan]]. As with the previous films, it is a [[Paramount Pictures]] production.<ref>[http://investor.hasbro.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=916611 Meghan McCarthy Joins Hasbro as Head of Storytelling]</ref>

==Confirmed information==
[[File:Transformers 5 provisional logo.png|thumb|right|143px|Transfivemers doesn't have the same ring to it.]]
*December 18, 2014 — [[Mark Wahlberg]] confirms to MTV that he is signed on for the next two Transformers films.<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/news/2030612/mark-wahlberg-transformers-5/ Mark Wahlberg Just Found A 'Transformers' Sequel] on MTV.com</ref>
*March 27, 2015 — [[Paramount Pictures]] negotiates with [[Akiva Goldsman]], hiring him to create a "writer's room" with the intention of building a cinematic universe.<ref name="goldsman">[http://deadline.com/2015/03/transformers-akiva-goldsman-paramount-sequels-spinoffs-1201400027/ Paramount Enlisting Akiva Goldsman To Ramp Up 'Transformers' Output] on deadline.com</ref> Goldsman goes on to hire a number of writers over the next few months: [[Steven DeKnight]] (''Daredevil''),<ref>[http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/transformers-cinematic-universe/35696/transformers-cinematic-details-more-writers-over-10-films Transformers cinematic details]</ref> [[Robert Kirkman]] (''The Walking Dead''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom">[http://deadline.com/2015/05/transformers-writers-robert-kirkman-zak-penn-art-marcum-matt-holloway-jeff-pinkner-1201430601/ 'Transformers' Spinoff & Sequel Scribes Set] on Deadline.com</ref> [[Art Marcum]] and [[Matt Holloway]] (''Iron Man''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Christina Hodson]] (''Shut In'', ''The Fugitive''),<ref name="hodsonbeer">[http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/446175-christina-hodson-and-lindsey-beer-join-transformers-writing-team Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer Join the Transformers Writing Team]</ref> [[Lindsey Beer]] (''Dig''),<ref name="hodsonbeer" /> [[Zak Penn]] (''Pacific Rim 2''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Jeff Pinkner]] (''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', ''Lost''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Andrew Barrer]] and [[Gabriel Ferrari]] (''Ant-Man''),<ref name="barrerferrari">[http://deadline.com/2015/05/transformers-ant-man-andrew-barrer-gabriel-ferrari-cybertron-1201433402/ 'Ant-Man' Scribes Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari Join 'Transformers' Writers Room] on Deadline</ref> [[Ken Nolan]] (''Black Hawk Down''), and [[Geneva Robertson-Dworet]].<ref name="nolandworet">[http://www.slashfilm.com/transformers-writers-room/ Akiva Goldsman Teases 'Transformers' Franchise Plans]</ref> Involved in the pitching process are [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Michael Bay]], [[Brian Goldner]], [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]], [[Mark Vahradian]], and [[Don Murphy]].<ref name="deadlinereveal">[http://deadline.com/2015/09/transformers-writers-room-akiva-goldsman-transformers-5-1201531918/ 'Transformers' Writers Room Wraps] on Deadline</ref>
*May 27, 2015 — As part of the news surrounding Barrer and Ferrari joining the room, it's revealed that another pitch is an animated prequel movie set on Cybertron, with the working title of ''Transformers One''.<ref name="barrerferrari" />
*June 8, 2015 — The writers meet on the Paramount lot for the writer's room.<ref name="nolandworet" /> The writers work for the next three months to plot out the next ten years of ''Transformers'' films.<ref name="stephendaviskeynote">[https://youtu.be/F_P2fw_DlS4?t=812 Stephen Davis's keynote speech] at MIPJunior.</ref>
*July 28, 2015 — DeKnight reports that as a result of the gathering of writers, Goldsman and Pinkner will be co-writing Transformers 5.<ref name="deknightreveals">[http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/07/28/daredevils-steven-deknight-on-the-transformers-writers-room-and-planning-ahead Daredevil's Steven DeKnight on the Transformers Writers Room and Planning Ahead] on IGN</ref>
*September 17, 2015 — Deadline reveals more about the writer's room process and reports that Barrer and Ferrari will write the animated feature, with Pinkner and Beer writing later films.<ref name="deadlinereveal" /> Bay remains uncommitted to directing.<ref>[https://twitter.com/michaelbay/status/644622092110032896 Tweet by Michael Bay]</ref>
*October 3, 2015 — [[Hasbro Studios]]'s [[Stephen J. Davis]] relates more details of the writing process in a keynote speech at the MIP Junior Conference.<ref name="stephendaviskeynote" />
*November 20, 2015 — With Goldsman now enlisted to create a writer's room for ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' and ''[[Microman|Micronauts]]'', Paramount begins negotiating with Marcum, Holloway and Nolan to write the film.<ref>[http://deadline.com/2015/11/transformers-g-i-joe-micronauts-akiva-goldsman-paramount-hasbro-1201632388/ Akiva Goldsman 'Transformers' Writers Room Leads Paramount & Hasbro To Set One For 'G.I. Joe', 'Micronauts'] on Deadline</ref>
*December 14, 2015 — Wahlberg re-confirms in an interview with CinePop that he'll be back in Transformers 5.<ref>[http://cinepop.com.br/exclusivo-mark-wahlberg-confirma-ao-cinepop-que-estara-em-transformers-5-109295 Mark Wahlberg interview with CinePop]</ref>
*January 4, 2016 — Bay confirms he will be returning to direct.<ref name="rollingstone" />
*January 12, 2016 — It's totally definitely the last ''Transformers'' film for him this time though.<ref>[https://youtu.be/Yn9bkPNV4JA?t=472 Michael Bay interview with Collider]</ref>
*February 12, 2016 — Transformers 5 is now being released on June 23, 2017. In addition, [[Transformers 6]], acting as a [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] spin-off, and [[Transformers 7]] are set to be released respectively on [[June 8]], 2018 and [[June 28]], 2019.<ref name="toyfairreveal" /><ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2016/02/12/transformers-6-tentative-title-revealed-bumblebee-movie-309597 Transformers 6 Tentative Title Revealed – The Bumblebee Movie] at TFW2005</ref>
*February 18, 2016 — Casting calls go out for June filming in [[London]] and [[Detroit]], also confirming [[Peter Cullen]]'s return as [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]].<ref>[http://www.acting-auditions.org/2016/02/transformers-5-casting-calls-for-new-lead-roles.html Transformers 5 casting call for new lead roles] on acting-auditions.org</ref>
*February 26, 2016 — After negotiations, it's announced that Michigan will provide $21 million in incentives towards the film.<ref>[http://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MIEDC/bulletins/138dd29 'Transformers 5' lands in Detroit] from the Michigan Film & Digital Media Office</ref>
[[File:TLK Optiface Prime.jpg|thumb|right|300px|5 movies in and [[Michael Bay]] is still finding ways to make my face even more ridiculously detailed. Pretty soon I'm going to look like [[Deceptigod]].]]
*April 6, 2016 — Cinematographer [[Jonathan Sela]] is reported as being booked to work on the film.<ref>[http://variety.com/2016/artisans/news/agencies-book-artisans-on-fast-8-transformers-5-to-the-bone-macgyver-and-altered-carbon-1201747892/ Agencies Book Artisans on 'Fast 8,' 'Transformers 5,' 'To the Bone,' 'MacGyver' and 'Altered Carbon'] on Variety</ref>
*April 13, 2016 — Filming dates are revealed via a casting call on acting-auditions.org.<ref>[http://www.acting-auditions.org/2016/04/transformers-5-casting-calls-auditions-information.html 'Transformers 5' Casting Calls and Auditions Information] on acting-auditions.org</ref>
*May 12, 2016 — [[Isabela Moner]] tweets that she's been cast in the movie.<ref>[https://twitter.com/isabelamoner/status/730835465163530241 Tweet by Isabela Moner]</ref>
*May 14, 2016 — Bay suggests [[Tyrese Gibson]] is under consideration to return.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BFXbTA2IWpr/]</ref>
*May 16, 2016 — The film's title is officially revealed to be ''Transformers: The Last Knight'' in [https://www.instagram.com/p/BFfCGhRoMmW/?taken-by=transformersmoviea teaser trailer] posted on a newly-launched Transformers Movie Instagram.
*May 17, 2016 — [[Josh Duhamel]] announced to be returning for ''Transformers: The Last Knight''.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BFg6ffIoMvx/]</ref>
*May 25, 2016 — Michael Bay posts a [https://www.instagram.com/p/BF1sPamoWtc/?taken-by=michaelbay photo] as production begins in Cuba.
*May 27, 2016 — A [https://twitter.com/transformers/status/736286302870605824 teaser] is posted containing morse code which translates to "I'm coming for you May 31st."
*May 31, 2016 — Michael Bay posts [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGFEZ9vIWv1/a video] of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and announces production is about to start.
*June 3, 2016 — [[Anthony Hopkins]] joins the cast.<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/anthony-hopkins-joins-transformers-5-899343]</ref>
*June 4, 2016 — [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGPsjYZoMpq/?taken-by=transformersmovie&hl=en First look] at [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s vehicle mode, which is a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BGPsjYZoMpq/?taken-by=transformersmovie&hl=en Bumblebee vehicle mode reveal]</ref>
*June 4, 2016 — The [[Freya|World's Loneliest Dog]] is cast.<ref>[http://michaelbay.com/2016/06/04/freya/ MichaelBay.com - Freya]</ref>
*June 10, 2016 — [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] is confirmed to return as a 2016 Ford Mustang.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BGes1IfoMqf/?taken-by=transformersmovie&hl=en]</ref>
*June 18, 2016 — [[Mitch Pileggi]] reveals he has a role.<ref>[https://twitter.com/mitchpileggi1/status/743667068138979329 Tweet from Mitch Pileggi]</ref>
*June 20, 2016 — [[Laura Haddock]] joins the cast.<ref>[https://twitter.com/laurajhaddock/status/744915023299026944 Tweet from Laura Haddock]</ref>
*June 22, 2016 — New robot character [[Sqweeks]] is revealed.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BG-IEBroWgA/ Michael Bay on Instagram]</ref>
*June 28, 2016 — Tyrese Gibson is confirmed to return.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLBipSDqcO/ Tyrese on Instagram]</ref>
*June 30, 2016 — [[Santiago Cabrera]] joins the cast.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHSfP9EAIi_/ Official movie Instagram reveal of Santiago Cabrera]</ref>
*July 1, 2016 — [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] is confirmed to return with a new Mercedes alt-mode.<ref>[http://michaelbay.com/2016/07/01/drift/ Drift - MichaelBay.com]</ref>
*July 27, 2016 — [[Onslaught (ROTF)|Onslaught]] is confirmed to appear in the film.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1112021768833269/?type=3&theater Onslaught photo] on the official Transformers movie Facebook page.</ref>
[[File:TLK Bumblebee profile.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Back to the basics.]]
*August 4–13, 2016 — A series of character profiles are released on the official movie Facebook. New character [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]]<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1116775651691214/?type=3&theater Hot Rod Facebook reveal]</ref> is first to be revealed, and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]]<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1119387291430050/?type=3&theater Crosshairs Facebook reveal]</ref> and [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1120161021352677/?type=3&theater Hound Facebook reveal]</ref> are confirmed to return. Also shown are profiles for Drift,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1117988908236555/?type=3&theater Drift Facebook reveal]</ref> Sqweeks,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1118574891511290/?type=3&theater Sqweeks Facebook reveal]</ref> Barricade,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1120871694614943/?type=3&theater Barricade Facebook reveal]</ref> Megatron,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1121491451219634/?type=3&theater Megatron Facebook reveal]</ref> and Bumblebee.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/photos/a.196236317078490.37515.180774635291325/1122785391090240/?type=3&theaterBumblebee Facebook reveal]</ref>
*August 9, 2016 — Members of a number of ''Transformers'' fan sites, including TFWiki, are treated to [[Transformers 5 set visit|a set visit]].
*September 4, 2016 — [[Stanley Tucci]] is back as [[Joshua Joyce]].<ref>[http://variety.com/2016/film/global/stanley-tucci-to-reprise-transformers-role-in-the-last-knight-1201852108/ Stanley Tucci to Reprise 'Transformers' Role in 'The Last Knight'] on Variety</ref>
*September 24, 2016 — Location shooting at Blenheim Palace in England proved controversial as [[Winston Churchill]]'s birthplace became draped in Nazi banners. Bay told BBC News that veterans shouldn't be too upset as Churchill is a "big hero" in the film.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-37453284 Transformers' Blenheim Palace 'Nazi' scenes defended] from the BBC</ref>
*October 14, 2016 — Bay announces via Facebook that [[John Turturro]] will be back as [[Seymour Simmons]] & [[John Goodman]] back to voice [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformersmovie/videos/1174984035870375/ Michael Bay video on Facebook]</ref>
*December 5, 2016 — The first trailer is released.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyVKK87hYYM First trailer on YouTube]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Real world films]]
[[Category:The Last Knight|Last Knight (film)]]

Mighty Big Trouble

2016-10-08T22:03:01Z

Halfshell25: /* Continuity notes */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 43
|image=RiD 2015 Mighty Big Trouble Well Scrap.jpg
|caption=WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD...
|prev=Pretzel Logic
|next=Mini-Con Madness (RID)
|title="Mighty Big Trouble"
|airdate=[[October 1]], [[2016]] (Canada)
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|writer=[[Johnny Hartmann]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=[[Frank Marino]]
}}

'''Sideswipe puts his foot in his mouth and Clawtrap digs up something Starscream is more than happy to relieve him of.'''

==Synopsis==
The team return from a mission in [[Egypt]] with a new relic. [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] identifies it as a [[high energy pulse generator]], which could produce short, intense energy bursts that could shut down or destroy a bot's neural net. Unfortunately, [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] trip up on the sand and accidentally activate it. When the Mini-Cons trip themselves up, [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] slashes the generator apart with his [[Decepticon Hunter]] before it could fry their brains. Sideswipe then makes a few jokes at the Mini-Cons' expense, something no one finds funny, particularly the Mini-Cons.

At an uncrewed, automated ocean liner, the [[Scavenger (RID 2015)|Scavengers]] arrive in their ship. They're tracking something that's giving off more power than they've ever found before. [[Clawtrap]], [[Thermidor]], and [[Scatterspike]] grab three Mini-Cons to for a power boost before they start searching the ocean, leaving [[Paralon]] with the rest. The trio soon come across a sinister-looking sword.

[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] asks Fixit if there's any sign of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]], but there's still nothing. Sideswipe tried to join in with humor, but he's met with cold reception from the others and silence from Fixit. Sideswipe makes a half-hearted apology to Fixit but he only leaves. Bumblebee and [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] tell him he needs a proper, sincere apology.

The Scavengers emerge from the ocean with their prize. However, as soon as their back is turned, the Mini-Cons steal the ship and fly off. Moments later, a portal opens and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] emerges from it and demands to know where ''his'' Mini-Cons are. Clawtrap is shocked that the Mini-Cons have been running from Starscream and tries to cut a deal as the rest of Starscream's crew comes out of the portal. Then Starscream sees the sword and identifies it as the [[Dark Star Saber]]. Starscream takes the sword and boasts with it and the Mini-Cons, he'll able to not only take revenge on [[Megatron (WFC)|his old master]], but conquer galaxies. He demonstrates its power by sending Paralon, Scatterspike, and Thermidor into the ocean with an energy wave, though the Saver starts resisting afterwards. Starscream threatens Clawtrap to tell him where the Mini-Cons are and send him into the sea when he tells them the Mini-Cons have fled. [[Shadelock]] points out that Starscream doesn't need the Mini-Cons with the Dark Star Saber, but Starscream disagrees. He tells [[Roughedge]] to bring his ship down from orbit and start scanning for the Mini-Cons' energy signatures.

Sideswipe tries to think of a way to ''properly'' apologize to the Mini-Cons, [[Russell Clay|Russell]] suggests he use flowers and a poem. Bumblebee and Strongarm discuss how the new Mini-Cons seemed reluctant to aid their Decepticon partners as well as how powerful they are. Fixit notes that there is a strong symbiosis between Weaponizer and Bot; the host gets powered up, though it's unknown to what extent. And yet Bumblebee felt that the Weaponizer was holding back for some reason. Unknown to them, [[Aerobolt]] infiltrates the scrapyard and disables the defenses, allowing the other Weaponizers to get in to get the Cybertronian tech they detected to modify their ship.

Jetstorm and Slipstream spar and complain about Sideswipe's behavior when they hear a noise. Spotting [[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] and thinking they can handle one Mini-Con, the duo attack him only to soon find themselves surrounded by the Weaponizers. Sideswipe tries to deliver an apologetic poem to Fixit, but it's less than impressive. The team soon hears the fight and rush to investigate. The Autobots arrive just after Jetstorm and Slipstream are disarmed and knocked down. Despite trying to keep the Weaponizers out of their hands, the Mini-Cons seize control of the Autobots one by one. Fixit comes across the controlled Autobots and claims he'll be on vacation on [[Alpha Centauri]] before trying to run. Sawtooth stops Tricerashot from pursuing Fixit and reminds him they're only here for the H.E.P. generator. When Fixit tells them it was destroyed, the Weaponizers abandon their hosts and leave. The Autobots give chase while [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] leave his students behind in case they return.

However, as soon as the Autobots leave, a [[GroundBridge]] portal opens and Starscream's crew emerge. Shadelock mistakes the Autobots' Mini-Cons for the weaponizers and captures them. Bringing them back to Starscream, the Decepticon commander is annoyed that they've brought him the wrong Mini-Cons. Fixit tries to clear up the confusion, but soon lets slip that Bumblebee is his superior officer. Starscream is delighted by this news.

The Autobots return to the scrapyard to check on the Mini-Cons, only for [[Denny Clay|Denny]] and Russell to tell them that Decepticons have captured them. Starscream soon sends a holographic message to Bumblebee, saying he's willing to return their Mini-Cons if Bumblebee surrenders. Bumblebee drops his Decepticon hunter and Starscream opens a GroundBridge for him to step through. Bumblebee promises his team this isn't over before going through. Sideswipe and Drift are worried about Bumblebee and the Mini-Cons, but Strongarm points out that Starscream is out of their league. Fortunately, a Cybertronian ship arrives; Optimus Prime has returned.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] (4)
*[[Drift (RID)|Drift]] (5)
*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] (6)
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] (7)
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] (8)
*[[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (9)
*[[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (10)
*[[Roughedge]] (23)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (26)

|c2=
*[[Clawtrap]] (11)
*[[Paralon]] (12)
*[[Scatterspike]] (13)
*[[Thermidor]] (14)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (22)
*"[[Starscream's Insecticon]]" (24)
*[[Shadelock]] (25)

|c3=
*[[Denny Clay]] (1)
*[[Russell Clay]] (2)

|c4=
*[[Windstrike]] (15)
*[[Bashbreaker]] (16)
*[[Lancelon]] (17)
*[[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] (18)
*[[Buzzstrike]] (19)
*[[Tricerashot]] (20)
*[[Aerobolt]] (21)

}}

==Quotes==
"Oh please, there will be plenty of time for bowing and scraping. Now, where are my Mini-Cons?"
:—'''Starscream's''' back.

"There's no such thing as too much power. Not as long as there's more to be had."
:—'''Starscream''' lets the power he has go straight to his head.

"Autobots are good, 
Decepticons are bad. 
I'm so very sorry 
That I made you...angry." 
''(The others stare at him)'' 
"I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with 'bad'. What?"
:—'''Sideswipe's''' no poet.

"How...how can you control me when..." 
"When I couldn't control you? Maybe it's because we're both dinos, I don't know."
:—'''Grimlock''' and '''Tricerashot''' try to explain last episode's inconsistency.

"Hello, Bumblebee. Nice to see me, isn't it?"
:—'''Starscream''' metaphorically strokes his [[Chin|goatee]].

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The [[Dark Star Saber]] was last seen in "[[Deadlock]]", falling off the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' to plummet to Earth.
* Tricerashot attempted to take over Grimlock in [[Pretzel Logic|the previous episode]].
* Fixit notes that Starscream's chassis does not match his records, the only instance of visual differences between series being called out among the "Aligned" shows.
* Starscream's mention of getting revenge on Megatron seems a bit out of character considering his loyalty to him near the end of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]. He was devastated when Megatron was killed in "[[Deadlock]]" and certainly didn't seem upset when his master "all but surrendered" him the throne in "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]". He would later clarify in [[Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness]] that he wanted revenge for all of Megatron's cruel actions towards him. So much for time heals all wounds; it made them worse in this case!

===Transformers references===
The high energy pulse generator resembles the relic containers seen in Season 2 of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]

===Real-world references===

===Trivia===

===Animation and technical errors===

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

==Home video releases==
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[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) episodes]]

Mini-Con Madness (RID)

2016-10-08T22:02:07Z

Halfshell25: /* Continuity notes */

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 44
|prev=Mighty Big Trouble
|next=Worthy
|title="Mini-Con Madness"
|airdate=[[October 8]], [[2016]] (Canada)
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|writer=
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=
}}

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=

|c2=

|c3=

|c4=

}}
==Quotes==

==Notes==

===Animation and technical errors===

===Continuity errors===

===Continuity notes===
* We finally learn what happened to Starscream at the end of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]! According to him he killed the Predacons with powerful weapons found in [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. Strangely, [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] was missing from the flashback.
* Bumblebee refers to Starscream's current form as his "old body-style." Both this, the 80s workout video from [[History Lessons]], and the visit to the Autobot base at [[Mount St. Hilary]] in [[Strongarm's Big Score]] allude to the idea that the "Aligned" cartoons all had a backstory very similar to the G1 cartoon and comic.

===Prisoner manifest===

===Transformers references===

===Real-world references===

===Trivia===

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

==Home video releases==
{{epstub}}

[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) episodes]]

Mighty Big Trouble

2016-10-08T21:50:16Z

Halfshell25: /* Continuity notes */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 43
|image=RiD 2015 Mighty Big Trouble Well Scrap.jpg
|caption=WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD...
|prev=Pretzel Logic
|next=Mini-Con Madness (RID)
|title="Mighty Big Trouble"
|airdate=[[October 1]], [[2016]] (Canada)
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|writer=[[Johnny Hartmann]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=[[Frank Marino]]
}}

'''Sideswipe puts his foot in his mouth and Clawtrap digs up something Starscream is more than happy to relieve him of.'''

==Synopsis==
The team return from a mission in [[Egypt]] with a new relic. [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] identifies it as a [[high energy pulse generator]], which could produce short, intense energy bursts that could shut down or destroy a bot's neural net. Unfortunately, [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] trip up on the sand and accidentally activate it. When the Mini-Cons trip themselves up, [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] slashes the generator apart with his [[Decepticon Hunter]] before it could fry their brains. Sideswipe then makes a few jokes at the Mini-Cons' expense, something no one finds funny, particularly the Mini-Cons.

At an uncrewed, automated ocean liner, the [[Scavenger (RID 2015)|Scavengers]] arrive in their ship. They're tracking something that's giving off more power than they've ever found before. [[Clawtrap]], [[Thermidor]], and [[Scatterspike]] grab three Mini-Cons to for a power boost before they start searching the ocean, leaving [[Paralon]] with the rest. The trio soon come across a sinister-looking sword.

[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] asks Fixit if there's any sign of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]], but there's still nothing. Sideswipe tried to join in with humor, but he's met with cold reception from the others and silence from Fixit. Sideswipe makes a half-hearted apology to Fixit but he only leaves. Bumblebee and [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] tell him he needs a proper, sincere apology.

The Scavengers emerge from the ocean with their prize. However, as soon as their back is turned, the Mini-Cons steal the ship and fly off. Moments later, a portal opens and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] emerges from it and demands to know where ''his'' Mini-Cons are. Clawtrap is shocked that the Mini-Cons have been running from Starscream and tries to cut a deal as the rest of Starscream's crew comes out of the portal. Then Starscream sees the sword and identifies it as the [[Dark Star Saber]]. Starscream takes the sword and boasts with it and the Mini-Cons, he'll able to not only take revenge on [[Megatron (WFC)|his old master]], but conquer galaxies. He demonstrates its power by sending Paralon, Scatterspike, and Thermidor into the ocean with an energy wave, though the Saver starts resisting afterwards. Starscream threatens Clawtrap to tell him where the Mini-Cons are and send him into the sea when he tells them the Mini-Cons have fled. [[Shadelock]] points out that Starscream doesn't need the Mini-Cons with the Dark Star Saber, but Starscream disagrees. He tells [[Roughedge]] to bring his ship down from orbit and start scanning for the Mini-Cons' energy signatures.

Sideswipe tries to think of a way to ''properly'' apologize to the Mini-Cons, [[Russell Clay|Russell]] suggests he use flowers and a poem. Bumblebee and Strongarm discuss how the new Mini-Cons seemed reluctant to aid their Decepticon partners as well as how powerful they are. Fixit notes that there is a strong symbiosis between Weaponizer and Bot; the host gets powered up, though it's unknown to what extent. And yet Bumblebee felt that the Weaponizer was holding back for some reason. Unknown to them, [[Aerobolt]] infiltrates the scrapyard and disables the defenses, allowing the other Weaponizers to get in to get the Cybertronian tech they detected to modify their ship.

Jetstorm and Slipstream spar and complain about Sideswipe's behavior when they hear a noise. Spotting [[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] and thinking they can handle one Mini-Con, the duo attack him only to soon find themselves surrounded by the Weaponizers. Sideswipe tries to deliver an apologetic poem to Fixit, but it's less than impressive. The team soon hears the fight and rush to investigate. The Autobots arrive just after Jetstorm and Slipstream are disarmed and knocked down. Despite trying to keep the Weaponizers out of their hands, the Mini-Cons seize control of the Autobots one by one. Fixit comes across the controlled Autobots and claims he'll be on vacation on [[Alpha Centauri]] before trying to run. Sawtooth stops Tricerashot from pursuing Fixit and reminds him they're only here for the H.E.P. generator. When Fixit tells them it was destroyed, the Weaponizers abandon their hosts and leave. The Autobots give chase while [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] leave his students behind in case they return.

However, as soon as the Autobots leave, a [[GroundBridge]] portal opens and Starscream's crew emerge. Shadelock mistakes the Autobots' Mini-Cons for the weaponizers and captures them. Bringing them back to Starscream, the Decepticon commander is annoyed that they've brought him the wrong Mini-Cons. Fixit tries to clear up the confusion, but soon lets slip that Bumblebee is his superior officer. Starscream is delighted by this news.

The Autobots return to the scrapyard to check on the Mini-Cons, only for [[Denny Clay|Denny]] and Russell to tell them that Decepticons have captured them. Starscream soon sends a holographic message to Bumblebee, saying he's willing to return their Mini-Cons if Bumblebee surrenders. Bumblebee drops his Decepticon hunter and Starscream opens a GroundBridge for him to step through. Bumblebee promises his team this isn't over before going through. Sideswipe and Drift are worried about Bumblebee and the Mini-Cons, but Strongarm points out that Starscream is out of their league. Fortunately, a Cybertronian ship arrives; Optimus Prime has returned.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] (4)
*[[Drift (RID)|Drift]] (5)
*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] (6)
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] (7)
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] (8)
*[[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (9)
*[[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (10)
*[[Roughedge]] (23)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (26)

|c2=
*[[Clawtrap]] (11)
*[[Paralon]] (12)
*[[Scatterspike]] (13)
*[[Thermidor]] (14)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (22)
*"[[Starscream's Insecticon]]" (24)
*[[Shadelock]] (25)

|c3=
*[[Denny Clay]] (1)
*[[Russell Clay]] (2)

|c4=
*[[Windstrike]] (15)
*[[Bashbreaker]] (16)
*[[Lancelon]] (17)
*[[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] (18)
*[[Buzzstrike]] (19)
*[[Tricerashot]] (20)
*[[Aerobolt]] (21)

}}

==Quotes==
"Oh please, there will be plenty of time for bowing and scraping. Now, where are my Mini-Cons?"
:—'''Starscream's''' back.

"There's no such thing as too much power. Not as long as there's more to be had."
:—'''Starscream''' lets the power he has go straight to his head.

"Autobots are good, 
Decepticons are bad. 
I'm so very sorry 
That I made you...angry." 
''(The others stare at him)'' 
"I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with 'bad'. What?"
:—'''Sideswipe's''' no poet.

"How...how can you control me when..." 
"When I couldn't control you? Maybe it's because we're both dinos, I don't know."
:—'''Grimlock''' and '''Tricerashot''' try to explain last episode's inconsistency.

"Hello, Bumblebee. Nice to see me, isn't it?"
:—'''Starscream''' metaphorically strokes his [[Chin|goatee]].

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The [[Dark Star Saber]] was last seen in "[[Deadlock]]", falling off the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' to plummet to Earth.
* Tricerashot attempted to take over Grimlock in [[Pretzel Logic|the previous episode]].
* Fixit notes that Starscream's chassis does not match his records, the only instance of visual differences between series being called out among the "Aligned" shows.
* Starscream's mention of getting revenge on Megatron seems a bit out of character considering his loyalty to him near the end of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]. He was devastated when Megatron was killed in "[[Deadlock]]" and certainly didn't seem upset when his master "all but surrendered" him the throne in "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]". He would later clarify in [[Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness]] that he wanted revenge for all of Megatron's cruel actions towards him. So much for time heals all wounds; it made them worse in this case.

===Transformers references===
The high energy pulse generator resembles the relic containers seen in Season 2 of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]

===Real-world references===

===Trivia===

===Animation and technical errors===

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:''
:*''Original airdate:''

==Home video releases==
{{epstub}}

[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) episodes]]

Mighty Big Trouble

2016-10-08T21:49:39Z

Halfshell25: /* Continuity notes */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 43
|image=RiD 2015 Mighty Big Trouble Well Scrap.jpg
|caption=WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD...
|prev=Pretzel Logic
|next=Mini-Con Madness (RID)
|title="Mighty Big Trouble"
|airdate=[[October 1]], [[2016]] (Canada)
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|writer=[[Johnny Hartmann]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=[[Frank Marino]]
}}

'''Sideswipe puts his foot in his mouth and Clawtrap digs up something Starscream is more than happy to relieve him of.'''

==Synopsis==
The team return from a mission in [[Egypt]] with a new relic. [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] identifies it as a [[high energy pulse generator]], which could produce short, intense energy bursts that could shut down or destroy a bot's neural net. Unfortunately, [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] trip up on the sand and accidentally activate it. When the Mini-Cons trip themselves up, [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] slashes the generator apart with his [[Decepticon Hunter]] before it could fry their brains. Sideswipe then makes a few jokes at the Mini-Cons' expense, something no one finds funny, particularly the Mini-Cons.

At an uncrewed, automated ocean liner, the [[Scavenger (RID 2015)|Scavengers]] arrive in their ship. They're tracking something that's giving off more power than they've ever found before. [[Clawtrap]], [[Thermidor]], and [[Scatterspike]] grab three Mini-Cons to for a power boost before they start searching the ocean, leaving [[Paralon]] with the rest. The trio soon come across a sinister-looking sword.

[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] asks Fixit if there's any sign of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]], but there's still nothing. Sideswipe tried to join in with humor, but he's met with cold reception from the others and silence from Fixit. Sideswipe makes a half-hearted apology to Fixit but he only leaves. Bumblebee and [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] tell him he needs a proper, sincere apology.

The Scavengers emerge from the ocean with their prize. However, as soon as their back is turned, the Mini-Cons steal the ship and fly off. Moments later, a portal opens and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] emerges from it and demands to know where ''his'' Mini-Cons are. Clawtrap is shocked that the Mini-Cons have been running from Starscream and tries to cut a deal as the rest of Starscream's crew comes out of the portal. Then Starscream sees the sword and identifies it as the [[Dark Star Saber]]. Starscream takes the sword and boasts with it and the Mini-Cons, he'll able to not only take revenge on [[Megatron (WFC)|his old master]], but conquer galaxies. He demonstrates its power by sending Paralon, Scatterspike, and Thermidor into the ocean with an energy wave, though the Saver starts resisting afterwards. Starscream threatens Clawtrap to tell him where the Mini-Cons are and send him into the sea when he tells them the Mini-Cons have fled. [[Shadelock]] points out that Starscream doesn't need the Mini-Cons with the Dark Star Saber, but Starscream disagrees. He tells [[Roughedge]] to bring his ship down from orbit and start scanning for the Mini-Cons' energy signatures.

Sideswipe tries to think of a way to ''properly'' apologize to the Mini-Cons, [[Russell Clay|Russell]] suggests he use flowers and a poem. Bumblebee and Strongarm discuss how the new Mini-Cons seemed reluctant to aid their Decepticon partners as well as how powerful they are. Fixit notes that there is a strong symbiosis between Weaponizer and Bot; the host gets powered up, though it's unknown to what extent. And yet Bumblebee felt that the Weaponizer was holding back for some reason. Unknown to them, [[Aerobolt]] infiltrates the scrapyard and disables the defenses, allowing the other Weaponizers to get in to get the Cybertronian tech they detected to modify their ship.

Jetstorm and Slipstream spar and complain about Sideswipe's behavior when they hear a noise. Spotting [[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] and thinking they can handle one Mini-Con, the duo attack him only to soon find themselves surrounded by the Weaponizers. Sideswipe tries to deliver an apologetic poem to Fixit, but it's less than impressive. The team soon hears the fight and rush to investigate. The Autobots arrive just after Jetstorm and Slipstream are disarmed and knocked down. Despite trying to keep the Weaponizers out of their hands, the Mini-Cons seize control of the Autobots one by one. Fixit comes across the controlled Autobots and claims he'll be on vacation on [[Alpha Centauri]] before trying to run. Sawtooth stops Tricerashot from pursuing Fixit and reminds him they're only here for the H.E.P. generator. When Fixit tells them it was destroyed, the Weaponizers abandon their hosts and leave. The Autobots give chase while [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] leave his students behind in case they return.

However, as soon as the Autobots leave, a [[GroundBridge]] portal opens and Starscream's crew emerge. Shadelock mistakes the Autobots' Mini-Cons for the weaponizers and captures them. Bringing them back to Starscream, the Decepticon commander is annoyed that they've brought him the wrong Mini-Cons. Fixit tries to clear up the confusion, but soon lets slip that Bumblebee is his superior officer. Starscream is delighted by this news.

The Autobots return to the scrapyard to check on the Mini-Cons, only for [[Denny Clay|Denny]] and Russell to tell them that Decepticons have captured them. Starscream soon sends a holographic message to Bumblebee, saying he's willing to return their Mini-Cons if Bumblebee surrenders. Bumblebee drops his Decepticon hunter and Starscream opens a GroundBridge for him to step through. Bumblebee promises his team this isn't over before going through. Sideswipe and Drift are worried about Bumblebee and the Mini-Cons, but Strongarm points out that Starscream is out of their league. Fortunately, a Cybertronian ship arrives; Optimus Prime has returned.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] (4)
*[[Drift (RID)|Drift]] (5)
*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] (6)
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] (7)
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] (8)
*[[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (9)
*[[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (10)
*[[Roughedge]] (23)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (26)

|c2=
*[[Clawtrap]] (11)
*[[Paralon]] (12)
*[[Scatterspike]] (13)
*[[Thermidor]] (14)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (22)
*"[[Starscream's Insecticon]]" (24)
*[[Shadelock]] (25)

|c3=
*[[Denny Clay]] (1)
*[[Russell Clay]] (2)

|c4=
*[[Windstrike]] (15)
*[[Bashbreaker]] (16)
*[[Lancelon]] (17)
*[[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] (18)
*[[Buzzstrike]] (19)
*[[Tricerashot]] (20)
*[[Aerobolt]] (21)

}}

==Quotes==
"Oh please, there will be plenty of time for bowing and scraping. Now, where are my Mini-Cons?"
:—'''Starscream's''' back.

"There's no such thing as too much power. Not as long as there's more to be had."
:—'''Starscream''' lets the power he has go straight to his head.

"Autobots are good, 
Decepticons are bad. 
I'm so very sorry 
That I made you...angry." 
''(The others stare at him)'' 
"I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with 'bad'. What?"
:—'''Sideswipe's''' no poet.

"How...how can you control me when..." 
"When I couldn't control you? Maybe it's because we're both dinos, I don't know."
:—'''Grimlock''' and '''Tricerashot''' try to explain last episode's inconsistency.

"Hello, Bumblebee. Nice to see me, isn't it?"
:—'''Starscream''' metaphorically strokes his [[Chin|goatee]].

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The [[Dark Star Saber]] was last seen in "[[Deadlock]]", falling off the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' to plummet to Earth.
* Tricerashot attempted to take over Grimlock in [[Pretzel Logic|the previous episode]].
* Fixit notes that Starscream's chassis does not match his records, the only instance of visual differences between series being called out among the "Aligned" shows.
* Starscream's mention of getting revenge on Megatron seems a bit out of character considering his loyalty to him near the end of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]. He was devastated when Megatron was killed in "[[Deadlock]]" and certainly didn't seem upset when his master "all but surrendered" him the throne in "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]". He would later clarify in [[Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness]] that he wanted revenge for all of Megatron's cruel actions towards him. So much for time heals all wounds; it made them worse in this case...

===Transformers references===
The high energy pulse generator resembles the relic containers seen in Season 2 of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]

===Real-world references===

===Trivia===

===Animation and technical errors===

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Mighty Big Trouble

2016-10-08T21:49:21Z

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 43
|image=RiD 2015 Mighty Big Trouble Well Scrap.jpg
|caption=WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD...
|prev=Pretzel Logic
|next=Mini-Con Madness (RID)
|title="Mighty Big Trouble"
|airdate=[[October 1]], [[2016]] (Canada)
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|writer=[[Johnny Hartmann]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=[[Frank Marino]]
}}

'''Sideswipe puts his foot in his mouth and Clawtrap digs up something Starscream is more than happy to relieve him of.'''

==Synopsis==
The team return from a mission in [[Egypt]] with a new relic. [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] identifies it as a [[high energy pulse generator]], which could produce short, intense energy bursts that could shut down or destroy a bot's neural net. Unfortunately, [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] trip up on the sand and accidentally activate it. When the Mini-Cons trip themselves up, [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] slashes the generator apart with his [[Decepticon Hunter]] before it could fry their brains. Sideswipe then makes a few jokes at the Mini-Cons' expense, something no one finds funny, particularly the Mini-Cons.

At an uncrewed, automated ocean liner, the [[Scavenger (RID 2015)|Scavengers]] arrive in their ship. They're tracking something that's giving off more power than they've ever found before. [[Clawtrap]], [[Thermidor]], and [[Scatterspike]] grab three Mini-Cons to for a power boost before they start searching the ocean, leaving [[Paralon]] with the rest. The trio soon come across a sinister-looking sword.

[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] asks Fixit if there's any sign of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]], but there's still nothing. Sideswipe tried to join in with humor, but he's met with cold reception from the others and silence from Fixit. Sideswipe makes a half-hearted apology to Fixit but he only leaves. Bumblebee and [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] tell him he needs a proper, sincere apology.

The Scavengers emerge from the ocean with their prize. However, as soon as their back is turned, the Mini-Cons steal the ship and fly off. Moments later, a portal opens and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] emerges from it and demands to know where ''his'' Mini-Cons are. Clawtrap is shocked that the Mini-Cons have been running from Starscream and tries to cut a deal as the rest of Starscream's crew comes out of the portal. Then Starscream sees the sword and identifies it as the [[Dark Star Saber]]. Starscream takes the sword and boasts with it and the Mini-Cons, he'll able to not only take revenge on [[Megatron (WFC)|his old master]], but conquer galaxies. He demonstrates its power by sending Paralon, Scatterspike, and Thermidor into the ocean with an energy wave, though the Saver starts resisting afterwards. Starscream threatens Clawtrap to tell him where the Mini-Cons are and send him into the sea when he tells them the Mini-Cons have fled. [[Shadelock]] points out that Starscream doesn't need the Mini-Cons with the Dark Star Saber, but Starscream disagrees. He tells [[Roughedge]] to bring his ship down from orbit and start scanning for the Mini-Cons' energy signatures.

Sideswipe tries to think of a way to ''properly'' apologize to the Mini-Cons, [[Russell Clay|Russell]] suggests he use flowers and a poem. Bumblebee and Strongarm discuss how the new Mini-Cons seemed reluctant to aid their Decepticon partners as well as how powerful they are. Fixit notes that there is a strong symbiosis between Weaponizer and Bot; the host gets powered up, though it's unknown to what extent. And yet Bumblebee felt that the Weaponizer was holding back for some reason. Unknown to them, [[Aerobolt]] infiltrates the scrapyard and disables the defenses, allowing the other Weaponizers to get in to get the Cybertronian tech they detected to modify their ship.

Jetstorm and Slipstream spar and complain about Sideswipe's behavior when they hear a noise. Spotting [[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] and thinking they can handle one Mini-Con, the duo attack him only to soon find themselves surrounded by the Weaponizers. Sideswipe tries to deliver an apologetic poem to Fixit, but it's less than impressive. The team soon hears the fight and rush to investigate. The Autobots arrive just after Jetstorm and Slipstream are disarmed and knocked down. Despite trying to keep the Weaponizers out of their hands, the Mini-Cons seize control of the Autobots one by one. Fixit comes across the controlled Autobots and claims he'll be on vacation on [[Alpha Centauri]] before trying to run. Sawtooth stops Tricerashot from pursuing Fixit and reminds him they're only here for the H.E.P. generator. When Fixit tells them it was destroyed, the Weaponizers abandon their hosts and leave. The Autobots give chase while [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] leave his students behind in case they return.

However, as soon as the Autobots leave, a [[GroundBridge]] portal opens and Starscream's crew emerge. Shadelock mistakes the Autobots' Mini-Cons for the weaponizers and captures them. Bringing them back to Starscream, the Decepticon commander is annoyed that they've brought him the wrong Mini-Cons. Fixit tries to clear up the confusion, but soon lets slip that Bumblebee is his superior officer. Starscream is delighted by this news.

The Autobots return to the scrapyard to check on the Mini-Cons, only for [[Denny Clay|Denny]] and Russell to tell them that Decepticons have captured them. Starscream soon sends a holographic message to Bumblebee, saying he's willing to return their Mini-Cons if Bumblebee surrenders. Bumblebee drops his Decepticon hunter and Starscream opens a GroundBridge for him to step through. Bumblebee promises his team this isn't over before going through. Sideswipe and Drift are worried about Bumblebee and the Mini-Cons, but Strongarm points out that Starscream is out of their league. Fortunately, a Cybertronian ship arrives; Optimus Prime has returned.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] (4)
*[[Drift (RID)|Drift]] (5)
*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] (6)
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] (7)
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] (8)
*[[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (9)
*[[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (10)
*[[Roughedge]] (23)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (26)

|c2=
*[[Clawtrap]] (11)
*[[Paralon]] (12)
*[[Scatterspike]] (13)
*[[Thermidor]] (14)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (22)
*"[[Starscream's Insecticon]]" (24)
*[[Shadelock]] (25)

|c3=
*[[Denny Clay]] (1)
*[[Russell Clay]] (2)

|c4=
*[[Windstrike]] (15)
*[[Bashbreaker]] (16)
*[[Lancelon]] (17)
*[[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] (18)
*[[Buzzstrike]] (19)
*[[Tricerashot]] (20)
*[[Aerobolt]] (21)

}}

==Quotes==
"Oh please, there will be plenty of time for bowing and scraping. Now, where are my Mini-Cons?"
:—'''Starscream's''' back.

"There's no such thing as too much power. Not as long as there's more to be had."
:—'''Starscream''' lets the power he has go straight to his head.

"Autobots are good, 
Decepticons are bad. 
I'm so very sorry 
That I made you...angry." 
''(The others stare at him)'' 
"I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with 'bad'. What?"
:—'''Sideswipe's''' no poet.

"How...how can you control me when..." 
"When I couldn't control you? Maybe it's because we're both dinos, I don't know."
:—'''Grimlock''' and '''Tricerashot''' try to explain last episode's inconsistency.

"Hello, Bumblebee. Nice to see me, isn't it?"
:—'''Starscream''' metaphorically strokes his [[Chin|goatee]].

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The [[Dark Star Saber]] was last seen in "[[Deadlock]]", falling off the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' to plummet to Earth.
* Tricerashot attempted to take over Grimlock in [[Pretzel Logic|the previous episode]].
* Fixit notes that Starscream's chassis does not match his records, the only instance of visual differences between series being called out among the "Aligned" shows.
* Starscream's mention of getting revenge on Megatron seems a bit out of character considering his loyalty to him near the end of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]. He was devastated when Megatron was killed in "[[Deadlock]]" and certainly didn't seem upset when his master "all but surrendered" him the throne in "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]". He would later clarify in [[Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness (RID)]] that he wanted revenge for all of Megatron's cruel actions towards him. So much for time heals all wounds; it made them worse in this case...

===Transformers references===
The high energy pulse generator resembles the relic containers seen in Season 2 of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]

===Real-world references===

===Trivia===

===Animation and technical errors===

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
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'''Italian'''
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'''Japanese'''
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Mighty Big Trouble

2016-10-07T15:39:46Z

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Mighty Big Trouble

2016-10-07T15:21:41Z

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2016-09-21T15:42:13Z

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

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

{{bigquote|Cybertron, our home. For generations, it has been a peaceful world. Until pride and a lust for power divided us. Now we fight - enemies who were once our brothers.|Optimus Prime|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

==In the beginning==
[[File:OneShallRise1-TheThirteen.jpg|thumb|upright=2.8|Primus, Unicron has escaped! Recruit a team of Cybertronians with attitude!]]

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

==The Age of the Thirteen==

To try and turn the tide, Primus creates the [[Thirteen]], each given a unique role, nature, and artifact of power to aid the struggle. In order of their creation, they are [[Prima]], [[Vector Prime]], [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]], [[Solus Prime]], [[Micronus Prime]], [[Alchemist Prime]], [[Nexus Prime]], [[Onyx Prime]], [[Amalgamous Prime]], [[Liege Maximo]], [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|the Thirteenth Prime]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

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

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

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

==The Age of Evolution==
The three Primes that entered the Well activate the Allspark, which in turns emits a great burst of energy. From this beam of energy comes a wide variety of mechanical life, including precursors to modern Cybertronians. Among them is a robot named Orion Pax; in reality, he is the Thirteenth Prime reborn in a humbler shape, unaware of his origins or true heritage.
On the last stellar cycle, the Allspark's largest and most powerful creations of all, the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]]s emerge. [[Predaking (COP)|Predaking]], their leader, is the first of their kind, followed by [[Lazerback (COP)|Lazerback]] and [[Twinstrike (COP)|Twinstrike]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}} Many more follow, and some of them come into conflict with humanoid Cybertronians.

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

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

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

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

==The [[Age of Wrath]]==
A young [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] discovers a Quintesson probe inside the worker [[Coldweld]]. Not long afterwards, the first Quintesson ships descend from the sky in a grand arrival, setting themselves up as benevolent emissaries sent to "uplift" Cybertron into the galactic community. They win the public support of Cybertronians by "teaching" them how to transform - in reality, they are simply activating the dormant [[transformation cog]]s in the bodies of all Transformers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and her combat partner [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]] serve in [[Delta Team]] for most of the war. After a raid on a Decepticon munitions depot, both of them are captured and interrogated by the Decepticon [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]. Although Arcee is rescued by Bumblebee and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], they are too late to save Tailgate. {{storylink|Predatory}}

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

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

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

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

==Great Exodus ("A few thousand years ago"<ref name="greatexodustime" />)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Modern Era==
===1649===
[[File:ReignOfMorocco Horace Burns statue.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85]]
A North American island off the coast of Maine is founded by a group of settlers, led by [[Horace Burns]], from the mainland. The island becomes the town of [[Griffin Rock]], and a lighthouse with a [[Settlers' Bell|bell]] is erected in the town's port.{{storylink|The Reign of Morocco}}{{storylink|The Lost Bell}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Decepticons begin mining the energon deposits left on earth with the intention of using it to restore Cybertron. Starscream is tasked by Megatron with recreating space bridge technology, so that the energon can be quickly transferred between planets. After scouring the galaxy on this mission, the Air Commander returns to their home planet with a number of troops to construct a space bridge. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|''Prime'' comic}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

MECH enters the picture again, first capturing and mutilating Breakdown {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} and later teaming up with Airachnid to lure Arcee into a trap. {{storylink|Crisscross}} Both of these end in failure for MECH.

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

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

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

Eventually, with the help of [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], Orion Pax rebels against Megatron before completing Project Iacon. Using [[Vector Sigma]], [[Jack Darby]] is able to restore Prime's memory. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}
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Soon, [[Team Prime]] is back to business. When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] is investigating an ancient Autobot signal, [[MECH]] stuns him into temporary stasis, and removes his [[Transformation cog|T-cog]]. They use it to try to craft their own transformer, and seem to be making progress with [[Starscream (WFC)|help]]. Bumblebee starts to question his usefulness, as he has lost his speed, which is his primary attribute. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}}

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

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

Airachnid's [[One Shall Rise, Part 3|earlier]] remarks about leaving Megatron finally catch up to her, and she goes rogue. Megatron sends Dreadwing to exterminate her, something that Megatron would normally do himself. Dreadwing meets up with Airachnid and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] to investigate a suspected energon deposit. Airachnid succeeds in making Breakdown very angry, and the two go at it. Airachnid cuts up Breakdown, and leaves his remains for [[MECH]].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Autobots are forced to turn over the Omega Keys in exchange for the kids, and Megatron reveals his master plan includes [[cyberforming]] Earth as well. Optimus uses the Star Saber to destroy the Omega Lock, and the Autobots return to Earth, only for the Decepticons to attack their base. The Autobots abandon base, scattering across country, except for Optimus who is still in the base when the Decepticons destroy it. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sensing Primus's reawakening, Unicron returns and possesses Megatron's corpse as a new vessel to destroy his eternal nemesis. Optimus and Wheeljack set off to retrieve the [[AllSpark]], whilst Starscream and Shockwave brought online two new Predacons, [[Darksteel (Prime)|Darksteel]] and [[Skylynx]] in an effort to defeat the Autobots with a new army of beasts. The two are successful in heavily damaging Ultra Magnus, prompting Ratchet to return to Cybertron to treat him and leadership falling upon Bumblebee's shoulders. Unicron makes his presence known, and following a battle with Predaking, learns of an ancient burial ground of Predacons. Predaking takes command over Darksteel and Skylynx, while Knock Out defects to the Autobots after tiring of Starscream's abuse. At the burial ground, the Chaos Bringer raises a new army of the undead to destroy Primus, prompting a desperate last stand from the united Autobots, Decepticons, and Predacons. Their efforts buy enough time for Optimus to return and take on Unicron, but after being defeated, takes the drastic measure of taking the AllSpark into the Matrix of Leadership. Unicron is tricked into having his ethereal form sealed into the AllSpark's container, finally ridding Megatron of his torturous possession. Now knowing what oppression truly is, Megatron officially disbands the Decepticons and departs, leaving Starscream as the last active Decepticon. His reign is short-lived, as the Predacons trap him to enact revenge for all the trouble he's caused them. The Autobots gather at the Well of All Sparks, where Optimus announces that merging the AllSpark with the Matrix means he must sacrifice his life to restore Cybertron's ability to create new life, assuring his saddened comrades that this is not an end, but only a new beginning - another transformation. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)}} With Cybertron rejuvenated, the remainder of Team Prime meet up with the Dinobots and work together to subdue a rogue Predacon. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

Years later, a rebuilt Cybertron is once again the homeworld of the Transformers. At some point, the prison ship ''[[Alchemor]]'' is launched, housing some of the most dangerous Decepticon criminals, as well as Grimlock. The ship eventually crashes on Earth, deactivating its [[stasis cell]]s and unleashing hundreds of rogue Decepticons on the unsuspecting planet. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Footnotes==
<references/>

[[Category:Aligned history]]
[[Category:Chronologies]]

History Lessons

2016-09-21T15:28:05Z

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 40
|prev=Decepticon Island (Part 2)
|next=Strongarm's Big Score
|title="History Lessons"
|airdate=[[September 10]], [[2016]] (Canada)
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|writer=[[Adam Beechen]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=[[Todd Waterman]]
}}

'''A visit to the original Autobot base reveals a dangerous new enemy with an agenda of his own.'''

==Synopsis==
As the Autobots prepare to embark through the [[GroundBridge]], [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] laments that he always misses the adventures the others go on. [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] tells him he hasn't missed much, somewhat annoyed at [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'s enthuiasm about taking his team on a "history lesson". The Bridge opens, and the team steps through...into [[Hangar E|a human military base]], much to [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]'s panic about their being exposed, and she frantically calls Fixit for a groundbridge out before they're discovered...

...only to be countermanded by Bumblebee, who tells them there's nothing to worry about, and invites them to analyze the surrounding base and tell him what they discover. Strongarm notes that everything is covered in dust, while [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] and [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] observe that whoever had occupied the base before abandoning it had terrible taste in furnishings. Grousing that the base is only abandoned ''now'', Bumblebee leads them outside, where the team scans a nearby abandoned Jeep for desert camouflage colors - except for Grimlock - and they head to where they can get a good look at the surrounding area, where - to Strongarm's wonderment and Sideswipe's annoyance, they see another piece of history: the ruined mesa that once housed [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]].

The team transforms to drive to the outpost, where Bumblebee warns them to be cautious, as they had left security systems operating when they abandoned the base. Waxing nostalgic about days of hiding from invading Decepticons and arm-wrestling with [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], he muses that they should retrieve some of the "important artifacts" that were stored on the lower levels, levels they had kept secret even from the humans "for their own protection". However his reminiscing about having once kept a holodiary is cut short by Sideswipe's observation that a nearby "historic artifact" looks rather newer than it should be - and it is, in fact, a bomb.

After fighting off the indiscriminate security systems with the help of [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]], Bumblebee calls to have Fixit start work on deciphering the bomb, while the team splits up to try and find who placed it. Bumblebee and Sideswipe head directly down into the base...

...where they stumble across a scorpion-like Decepticon who introduces himself as [[Paralon]], and declares that the base, and everything in it, is his by right of salvage. His partner, the [[Mini-Con]] [[Buzzstrike]], transforms into an Energon axe, and the Autobots marvel at the energy reading he's giving off, along with the fact he's powering up Paralon, before Sideswipe runs out of patience and charges. Bumblebee calls for backup as Sideswipe is sent flying, but the call is garbled when the others receive it, and they assume it was a normal check-in.

Elsewhere, Strongarm and Grimlock are exploring when Grimlock steps on something that goes ''click''. Alarmed, the two call Bumblebee for advice, only to find no response. Strongarm starts trying to decide exactly how to deal with what they're certain is a mine - much to Grimlock's discomfiture - as Drift, Jetstorm and Slipstream have their search route take them close enough to detect the sounds and flashing lights of combat, and charge in. Paralon is put on the defensive by Drift - but he throws Buzzstrike at Bumblebee, who catches him, and the Mini-Con immediately interfaces with him, taking control of his body and forcing him to attack Drift as Paralon makes quick work of the samurai's Mini-Cons.

Between them, Paralon and Buzzstrike take down the team; Paralon, worrying that the base could be swarming with Autobots at any moment, observes they don't have time to finish them off as he signals the bomb to accelerate its countdown. Buzzstrike balks, noting he didn't sign up to hurt people; Paralon tells him that anyone who gets in the way of [[Scavenger (RID 2015)|Scavengers]] has brought their fate on their own servos, and he transforms into scorpion mode, a pensive Buzzstrike climbing aboard as they hurry off to the central command center where they will be safe from the blast. Sideswipe comes to just in time to see them leave, and he decides to follow and take them down once and for all.

Strongarm, meanwhile, realizes she and Grimlock are in over their heads, and she transforms to find Bumblebee to solve the problem, in the process driving by the bomb and noting with shock that it's activating. She finds the others as they come to, and they rush back to the bomb. The interference from earlier is worse now, and they can't contact Fixit for advice; Bumblebee declares there is only one option left, and he activates his [[Decepticon Hunter]] and strides towards the bomb, raising the weapon...

Sideswipe catches up with Paralon and Buzzstrike as the scavengers discover a plasma rifle in the wreckage, bluffing that the others are right behind him, only to have his bluff cut short by an earthquake from the bomb's explosion. Recovering, he stuns Paralon, grabs the rifle and transforms, driving back into the base as Buzzstrike looks on thoughtfully.

Back with Bumblebee, Strongarm compliments him on his using the Decepticon Hunter to create a force shield to contain the bomb's explosion, then tells him that Grimlock needs his help ''now'', leaving Bee to sigh about how the day just keeps getting worse. Elsewhere, Paralon grouches about the base having so many levels, only to be ambushed by Sideswipe, who had ducked into the secret storage levels to hide. The two duel, Sideswipe knocking out the Decepticon once again - only to have Buzzstrike take over Paralon's unconsious body. He offers to let Sideswipe keep the weapon they'd found if they are allowed to go; the hot-headed Autobot counters that he intends to take the weapon ''and'' the scavengers in, sparking a fight that Buzzstrike-Paralon quickly wins...only to leave Sideswipe, and the weapon, sprawled on the floor as he turns to walk away.

Bumblebee finds Grimlock, the Dinobot having resigned himself to his fate, and pushes him off the 'mine'...explaining to the shocked Grimlock that they didn't ''place'' any mines when they left, and the click had just been his crushing an old armor buffer that [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] had discarded. Strongarm finds Sideswipe coming to, informing him that everything is fine; he wonders why the scavengers didn't finish him off ''or'' take their prize...

...even as Buzzstrike releases Paralon from his control, letting the Decepticon come around in bewilderment. Buzzstrike spins a tale to the somewhat pissed scorpion about being surrounded by Autobots and thus having to run for it, without there being time to recover the plasma rifle. Paralon grudgingly accepts this, but he warns Buzzstrike not to say anything to "the others" about their failure, as he intends to be the greatest scavenger of all and it won't do to be laughed at. He pushes aside a false rock face to reveal the ramp of a Cybertronian scout-ship, which the two board, Buzzstrike still looking not quite convinced of their virtues.

Regrouping outside the base's ruins, Bumblebee compliments Sideswipe on his initiative; Sideswipe admits that knowing about history might have been helpful after all. Bee calls up Fixit - the interference having cleared - and gets the word that they are all-clear of Decepticon signals. Sideswipe then observes that he had grabbed an artifact on his way out, that he produces; Bumblebee panics at seeing the small disc, insisting it be handed over, but Sideswipe activates it - revealing it to be Bumblebee's old holodiary, showing the Autobot scout in legwarmers as he tried to make the Cybertronian equivalent of an exercise video. The team cracking up as Bee stammers for an explanation and then grabs for the device, the two Autobots scuffling and then transforming into car form to chase each other as the others resume laughing.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] (1)
*[[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] (2)
*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] (3)
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] (4)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Drift (RID)|Drift]] (6)
*[[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (7)
*[[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (8)

|c2=
*[[Paralon]] (9)

|c4=
*[[Buzzstrike]] (10)
}}

==Quotes==

"Yeah, history. When everything was ''slow''. Like Strongarm!" 
-''Strongarm punches him''- 
"How's ''that'' for 'slow', punk?!"
:—'''Sideswipe''' and '''Strongarm''' engage in some team bonding.

"Grimlock, if anyone asks, you're...a big green metal robot from outer space that can turn into a dinosaur." 
"Gotcha! ...hope I can remember that."
:—'''Bumblebee''' makes sure '''Grimlock''' remembers his cover story.

"This map better be right. I don't want to be wasting my time." 
"Considering what you did to that Decepticon to force him to give you that map, I doubt he played any tricks on you."
:—'''Paralon''' and '''Buzzstrike''' discuss how the customer is always right.

"Okay...''freaky''."
:—'''Sideswipe''' doesn't care for the invasion of the body-snatching Mini-Con.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*The Autobots' former base is, of course, their old headquarters from the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' cartoon, which was destroyed in the season two finale "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]". The military base the team arrives in is implied to be [[Hangar E]], their replacement headquarters from season three.
*Bumblebee name-drops Bulkhead during his reminiscing.
*Bumblebee remembers a time when "Decepticons captured one of our team and used him to gain access to the base," which presumably refers to the events of the ''Prime'' episode "[[Con Job]]," in which [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] was held prisoner and the Decepticon shapeshifter [[Makeshift]] took his form...although the tale he tells is somewhat exaggerated.
*Bumblebee's comment that his workout video was "in style" at the time of its recording implies that the Autobots were on earth in the 1980's. This is further supported by the visit to [[Mount St. Hilary]] in the [[Strongarm's Big Score|next episode]], as well as several comments made by the Autobots in [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers Prime]].

===Transformers references===

===Real-world references===

===Continuity errors===
*Hangar E is shown to be right outside of the destroyed Outpost Omega One, but in ''Prime'', the two bases were never shown to be this close, as the entire point of relocating to the hangar was to get ''FAR AWAY'' from the original base.
*Bumblebee recalls the Decepticons invading the Autobots base, during which he fought two on its lower levels. This, of course, could never have happened during the timeframe we saw in the ''Prime'' cartoon, as the Decepticons are shown to have no knowledge of the location of the Autobot base, and promptly destroyed it with an aerial bombardment once they did. Either Bumblebee is telling a fib, or some Decepticons ''did'' get in at some point we never saw... and never came out again.

===Prisoner manifest===
*''Alchemor'' returned to Cybertron with all captured Decepticons aboard, implied to constitute the majority, if not totality, of escapees. Some stragglers are likely to remain on Earth, but the Autobots speak as if Decepticons in general are not a concern for the planet any more.

===Other trivia===
*Bumblebee is shown in his ''Robots in Disguise'' model in his workout video when he should logically have his ''Prime'' appearance, but we can't call this an actual error, as ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'' has long established that continuity of visual appearance between series is not relevant to "Aligned" cartoon shows.

===Foreign localization===
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Strongarm's Big Score

2016-09-20T23:03:23Z

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 41
|prev=History Lessons
|next=Pretzel Logic
|title="Strongarm's Big Score"
|airdate=[[September 17]], [[2016]] (Canada)
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|writer=[[David McDermott]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=[[Vinton Heuck]]
}}

'''An attempt to impress Fixit turns dangerous when Strongarm encounters another Scavenger.'''

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] (1)
*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] (3)
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] (6)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (7)
*[[Drift (RID)|Drift]] (8)
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] (9)
*[[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (10)
*[[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (11)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (21)

|c2=
*[[Thunderhoof (RID)|Thunderhoof]] (simulation, 2)
*[[Scatterspike]] (15)
*[[Clawtrap]] (17)
*[[Paralon]] (18)

|c3=
*[[Russell Clay]] (4)
*[[Denny Clay]] (5)
*[[Realtor]] (12)
*[[Realtor's Clients]] (13-14)

|c4=
*[[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]] (16)
*[[Buzzstrike]] (19)
*[[Aerobolt]] (20)

}}

==Quotes==

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*The existence of a base earlier than [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]] alludes to the undefined period of time that the Autobots spent on Earth ''prior'' to the events of the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' animated series. This part of their story has been left completely untold in all "Aligned" media (even the comprehensive history in ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus]]''), but the 'bots were established at the beginning of ''Prime'' to have been on Earth for at ''least'' three years. Bumblebee notes that his workout video in the [[History Lessons|previous episode]] was "in style" at the time of its recording, implying that the Autobots were on earth in the 80s or 90s.

===Transformers references===

*[[Mount St. Hilary]] being the location of the first Autobot base on Earth is, of course, a cross-continuity allusion to the volcano being the location of the Autobots' base of operations in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|original Generation 1 Marvel comic]] and [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] (though it was only named in the former).

===Real-world references===

===Trivia===
* Strongarm's temporary magnetism, including her becoming stuck to Scatterspike, is exceptionally similar to what happened with [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] when they were affected by the [[polarity gauntlet]] in "[[Metal Attraction]]".

===Animation and technical errors===

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Darkest hour

2016-09-16T01:35:35Z

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{{disambig3|Darkest Hour}}

[[File:Darkest Hour.JPG|upright=1.95|thumb|This is usually the time to get your [[Matrix (disambiguation)|Matrix]] ready.]]
The '''darkest hour''' is a foretold day where the [[Transformer]]s will face the threat of utter extinction. In that time, it is said that a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] will rise from the ranks of the [[Autobot]]s and open the [[Matrix of Leadership]], using its power to "light our darkest hour" and eliminate the threat once and for all.

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
As he lay dying in the aftermath of the [[Battle of Autobot City|battle]] of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], knowing his time had come, chose [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] to be the new Autobot commander. Magnus at first resisted, feeling himself unworthy, but Prime sought to comfort Magnus by telling him of the prophecy of the Chosen One. As it turned out, the chosen one was in the room, and it was [[Hot Rod/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]].

Much later, after taking the Matrix from [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] and becoming Rodimus Prime, he opened the Matrix of Leadership, asking it to "light our darkest hour." This caused [[Unicron]] to self-destruct and thus halted his attack on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], saving the Transformers. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

{{note|The [[The Transformers (Theme)|movie's closing theme]] also refers to this phrase: It describes division and separation leading to defeat, culminating in "our darkest hour, when the light will save us all."}}

A year later, Optimus Prime, who had been revived, used the Matrix to cure the galaxy of the [[Hate Plague]], which had filled all beings with rage and caused them to attack others uncontrollably. As he did so, Prime also asked the Matrix to "light our darkest hour." {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}}

===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
At the close of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], when the [[Maximal]]s emerged victorious, [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] reflected on [[Dinobot II]]'s heroism with a quote from the [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]]: "In the [[spark]] of an enemy, there will be salvation. And in the darkest hour, there will be a light." {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
When [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] confirmed that destroying the [[space bridge]] was necessary, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] affirmed that they would "light [their] darkest hour." {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}} When [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and Optimus Prime traveled into [[Unicron]] to defeat him, Optimus announced that "the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] will light our darkest hour" before opening his chest and unleashing its energies. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}} After Optimus acquired the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], Megatron remarked that the Decepticons faced their darkest hour. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

Though no one stated it out loud, that time the Decepticons destroyed the Autobot base was probably also their darkest hour. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

==See also==
*[['Til all are one]]

[[Category:Transformer culture]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
[[Category:Beast Wars]]
[[Category:Prime]]

Darkest hour

2016-09-16T01:32:13Z

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{{disambig3|Darkest Hour}}

[[File:Darkest Hour.JPG|upright=1.67|thumb|This is usually the time to get your [[Matrix (disambiguation)|Matrix]] ready.]]
The '''darkest hour''' is a foretold day where the [[Transformer]]s will face the threat of utter extinction. In that time, it is said that a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] will rise from the ranks of the [[Autobot]]s and open the [[Matrix of Leadership]], using its power to "light our darkest hour" and eliminate the threat once and for all.

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
As he lay dying in the aftermath of the [[Battle of Autobot City|battle]] of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], knowing his time had come, chose [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] to be the new Autobot commander. Magnus at first resisted, feeling himself unworthy, but Prime sought to comfort Magnus by telling him of the prophecy of the Chosen One. As it turned out, the chosen one was in the room, and it was [[Hot Rod/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]].

Much later, after taking the Matrix from [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] and becoming Rodimus Prime, he opened the Matrix of Leadership, asking it to "light our darkest hour." This caused [[Unicron]] to self-destruct and thus halted his attack on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], saving the Transformers. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

{{note|The [[The Transformers (Theme)|movie's closing theme]] also refers to this phrase: It describes division and separation leading to defeat, culminating in "our darkest hour, when the light will save us all."}}

A year later, Optimus Prime, who had been revived, used the Matrix to cure the galaxy of the [[Hate Plague]], which had filled all beings with rage and caused them to attack others uncontrollably. As he did so, Prime also asked the Matrix to "light our darkest hour." {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}}

===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
At the close of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], when the [[Maximal]]s emerged victorious, [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] reflected on [[Dinobot II]]'s heroism with a quote from the [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]]: "In the [[spark]] of an enemy, there will be salvation. And in the darkest hour, there will be a light." {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
When [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] confirmed that destroying the [[space bridge]] was necessary, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] affirmed that they would "light [their] darkest hour." {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}} When [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and Optimus Prime traveled into [[Unicron]] to defeat him, Optimus announced that "the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] will light our darkest hour" before opening his chest and unleashing its energies. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}} After Optimus acquired the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], Megatron remarked that the Decepticons faced their darkest hour. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

Though no one stated it out loud, that time the Decepticons destroyed the Autobot base was probably also their darkest hour. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

==See also==
*[['Til all are one]]

[[Category:Transformer culture]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
[[Category:Beast Wars]]
[[Category:Prime]]

File:Darkest Hour.JPG

2016-09-16T01:28:39Z

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This is usually the time to get your Matrix ready.

Transformers: Energon (cartoon)

2016-09-15T01:54:44Z

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[[File:TransEnergonTitle.JPG|upright=1.4|thumb|I'm looking pretty good [[Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)|NOW]] aren't I?]]

'''''Transformers: Energon''''', known as '''''Transformers: Super Link''''' (トランスフォーマースーパーリンク) in Japan, is a cartoon series produced by [[Actas Inc.]] and [[Studio A-CAT]]. It aired in the US from January 2004 to June 2005 for <s>52</s> 51 episodes, in support of the toyline of the same name. It is a direct sequel to ''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]'' and forms the second part of the "[[Unicron Trilogy]]".

The show takes place ten years after the finale of ''Armada'', opening in an age of peace on Cybertron and Earth which is destined not to last long. ''Energon'' pits the Autobots against an array of villains: the reborn [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]], the barely functional [[Unicron]], and the mysterious [[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] and his [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] minions.

''Energon'', like ''Armada'', was written and animated in Japan and dubbed for US consumption. The series introduced to Transformers cartoons the technique of combining cel-shaded [[Computer-generated imagery|computer animation]] with 2D hand-drawn animation, creating a fusion between the CGI of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''/''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Machines]]'' and traditionally animated series such as ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Car Robots/Robots in Disguise]]''.

For ''Super Link'', "[[Taiyō no Transform!!]]" plays as its opening [[Japanese themes|theme]] and "[[Calling You]]" for its ending theme.

:''Preceded by: [[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]''
:''Followed by: [[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]''

==Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
'''Main Cast'''

*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] ([[Garry Chalk]])
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] ([[Brent Miller]])
*[[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno/Roadblock]] ([[Michael Daingerfield]])
*[[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] ([[Matt Hill]])
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] ([[Scott McNeil]])
*[[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] ([[Colin Murdoch]])
*[[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] (Scott McNeil)

'''Team Rodimus'''

*[[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]] ([[Paul Dobson]])
*[[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]] ([[Alistair Abell]])
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] ([[Ward Perry]])

'''Team Bulkhead'''

*[[Bulkhead (Energon)|Bulkhead]] ([[French Tickner]])
*[[Cliffjumper (Energon)|Cliffjumper]] ([[Doron Bell, Jr.]])
*[[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] ([[Ty Olsson]])

'''Omnicons'''

*[[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]] ([[Sharon Alexander]])
*[[Signal Flare (Energon)|Signal Flare]] ([[Michael Dobson]])
*[[Skyblast (Energon)|Skyblast]] ([[Terry Klassen]])
*[[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]] (Scott McNeil)

'''Combiner teams'''

*[[Air Team]]
**[[Superion Maximus]] ([[Paul Dobson]])
**[[Storm Jet (Energon)|Storm Jet]]
**[[Sky Shadow (Energon)|Sky Shadow]]
**[[Terradive (Energon)|Terradive]]
**[[Treadshot (Energon)|Treadshot]]
**[[Windrazor (Energon)|Windrazor]]

'''Others'''
*[[Padlock (Energon)|Padlock]] ([[Ron Halder]])
*[[Autobot nurse]]s (?)
*[[Rhyming Omnicon fanboys]] ([[Tony Sampson]])

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'''Main Cast'''

*[[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron/Galvatron]] ([[David Kaye]])
*[[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus/Snow Cat]] ([[Don Brown]])
*[[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] ([[Alvin Sanders]])
*[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] ([[Michael Dobson]])
*[[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave/Mirage]] ([[Doug Parker]])
*[[Shockblast]] ([[Brian Drummond]])
*[[Six Shot]] ([[Terry Klassen]])

'''Combiner teams'''

*[[Construction Team]]
**[[Constructicon Maximus]] (Don Brown)
**[[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]]
**[[Bonecrusher (Energon)|Bonecrusher]]
**[[Duststorm (Energon)|Duststorm]]
**[[Sledge (Energon)|Sledge]]
**[[Wideload (Energon)|Wideload]]

*[[Destruction Team]]
**[[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] ([[Trevor Devall]])
**[[Barricade (Energon)|Barricade]]
**[[Blackout (combiner)|Blackout]]
**[[Blight (Energon)|Blight]]
**[[Kickback (Energon)|Kickback]]
**[[Stormcloud (Energon)|Stormcloud]]

'''Terrorcons'''

*[[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] ([[Colin Murdoch]])
*[[Battle Ravage]]/[[Command Ravage]]
*[[Divebomb (Energon)|Divebomb]]/[[Blackout (Terrorcon)|Blackout]]
*[[Cruellock]]
*[[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticon]]

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'''Regulars'''
*[[Kicker Jones]] ([[Brad Swaile]])
*[[Misha Miramond]] ([[Ellen Kennedy]])
*[[Brian Jones (Energon)|Brian Jones]] ([[Ron Halder]])
*[[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] ([[Tabitha St. Germain]])
*[[Carlos Lopez]] ([[Matt Hill]])
*[[Miranda Jones]] ([[Nicole Oliver]])
*[[Rad White]] ([[Kirby Morrow]])
*[[Sally Jones]] (Nicole Oliver)

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*[[Alpha Quintesson]] ([[Trevor Devall]])
*[[Primus]] ([[Ron Halder]])
*[[Unicron]] ([[Mark Acheson]])

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==Episodes==
{{main|List of Energon episodes}}

{{collist|4|
#[[Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City]]
#[[Energon Stars]]
#[[Scorpinok (episode)|Scorpinok]]
#[[Megatron's Sword]]
#[[The New Cybertron City]]
#[[Megatron Resurrected]]
#[[Megatron Raid]]
#[[Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary]]
#[[Battle of the Asteroid Belt]]
#[[Energon Tower]]
#[[The Legend of Rodimus]]
#[[Crisis in Jungle City]]
#[[Kicker Beware!]]
#[[Energon Grid]]
#[[Rodimus Friend or Foe?]]
#[[Go for Unicron!]]
#[[The Return of Demolishor]]
#[[A Tale of Two Heros]]
#[[Battle Stations]]
#[[Alpha Q: Identity]]
#[[Shockblast: Rampage]]
#[[Survival Instincts]]
#[[Each One Fights...]]
#[[Unicron Unleashed]]
#[[Open Fire!]]
#[[Ripped Up Space]]
#[[Team Optimus Prime]]{{dag|red}}
#[[Protection]]
#[[Imprisoned Inferno|Improsoned Inferno]]
#[[Jungle Planet (episode)|Jungle Planet]]
#[[Bulkhead (episode)|Bulkhead]]
#[[Farewell Inferno]] [[Return! Our Scorponok]]
#[[Crash Course]]
#[[Omega Supreme (episode)|Omega Supreme]]
#[[A Heroic Battle]]
#[[The Power of Unicron|The Power]]
#[[Optimus Supreme]]
#[[Unicron Perishes]]
#[[Ambition]]
#[[Wishes]]
#[[Galvatron!]]
#[[Break Through]]
#[[Distribution]]
#[[The Omega Train]]
#[[Decepticon Army|Deception Army]]
#[[Ironhide Team]]
#[[Formidable]]
#[[Galvatron Terror]]
#[[Destructive Power]]
#[[Spark (episode)|Spark]]
#[[The Sun]]
}}
{{dag|red}} ''[[Clip show]]'' 
"Return! Our Scorponok" was to be "Scorponok's Scars", but it never aired and was probably never dubbed. It is not considered to exist in the English version of the series.

==Criticisms==
{{bigquote|Something cool ''finally'' happened!|[[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] announces that the series is over.<ref>No, really! In every preview for ''Super Link'', Alpha Q promised the audience that "Something cool might happen" in the next episode. When the series ended, he finally declared that the promised coolness had, at last, come to pass. He might be crazy, but he's not ''entirely'' wrong in the head.</ref>}}

The [[Unicron Trilogy]] was a franchise that got off to a poor start, fictionally speaking. ''Armada'' (the predecessor to ''Energon'') suffered from a bad beginning that, in the eyes of many, condemned the entire show. Although it improved as it went along (with the "Unicron Battles" story arc regarded as fairly good in comparison), the sub-par start left it laboring under a bad reputation that it never escaped. Many fans had hopes that ''Energon'' would be a return to glory.

It was quite the proverbial [[brick (term)|brick]] to the testicles, then, that ''Energon'', the televisual representation of Transformers for its 20th anniversary year, turned out to be just the opposite — a series with a strong beginning, which slowly but surely degenerated into what is widely considered the worst Transformers cartoon broadcast in the U.S. In retrospect, the fans' positive initial reaction may have been simply because it wasn't ''Armada.''

===Conceptual and storytelling flaws===
====Plotting====
The primary flaw of ''Energon'' is that it simply does not have enough plot to fill 52 episodes. The first half of the series moves at a respectable pace, and around episode #20, the villains achieve their objective — the restoration of Unicron. However, because there are another 30 episodes to fill, an attack by the Autobots and their allies [[Battle Stations|deactivates Unicron]]. The storyline is then essentially ''repeated'' for twenty more episodes, until Unicron is reactivated ''again'' and [[Unicron Perishes|destroyed ''again'']]. But even then, there are ''still'' thirteen more episodes to go, and with the ''driving aspect of the plot'' destroyed, viewers are served up a virtually pointless storyline full of [[To sell toys|repaints and combiners]], which added nothing to what had already taken place.

Individual episodes are likewise padded out with time-killing scenes such as [[stock footage]] sequences, generally a minimum of three per episode. An ''incredible'' amount of time is consumed in communication and report scenes, in which the characters stand around in front of video screens and [[Team Optimus Prime|tell one another things that the viewers already know]].

====Character de-evolution====
The series takes a ''very'' dismissive attitude towards characters and their development. With the exception of [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] (who survives the series and resolves his long-running feud with [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]]), the writers seemed unable to carry personal sub-plots and conflicts through to any conclusion. Instead, they would either quietly drop these opportunities for character development, or (much more gallingly) the characters would die and/or get mindwiped, so the stories would not ''have'' to be resolved. Examples:

*Demolishor's uncertainty in the Decepticon cause? "Resolved" by having him sacrifice himself to save Megatron, then having Megatron resurrect him with no memories.
*Inferno's struggle against Megatron's Decepticon programming? Brought to an end by having him kill himself, then be resurrected, only to do ''absolutely nothing'' for the rest of the series.
*Kicker's hatred of Transformers? Vanishes with no explanation after roughly two episodes, save for the occasional kick to Ironhide.
*Rodimus and Optimus Prime's ideological feud over whether Unicron should be destroyed? Rodimus puts himself under Optimus's command for the mission to defeat Galvatron, and the argument never comes up again.
*Wing Saber's dedication to capturing Shockblast? Well, he captures him . . . but when Shockblast escapes again, Wing Saber doesn't say a word.

Many similar examples exist.

====Promoting toys====
Of course, any Transformers series exists [[to sell toys]], but in promoting the abilities and gimmicks of its toyline, ''Energon'' frequently ignored common sense to the most amazing degree in order to shoehorn these concepts into a setting and story where they didn't make sense.

[[File:Carsinspace.jpg|thumb|Their wheels spin and everything.]]
In choosing to set most of its action in the void of space, ''Energon'' foolishly robbed the Transformers of any real reason to ''transform.'' They can all happily fly in robot mode (in space, on planets, anywhere), inviting the question of why transformation is necessary. But, to promote the fact that the toys transform, characters would routinely change to vehicle mode anyway, even in outer space. Cue innumerable scenes of cars, trucks, and snowmobiles ''driving through space.'' Characters would even transform to vehicle mode on the ground, and then ''drive away into the air''. Everyone could control their flight with no problem in either form, completely invalidating the need for any variety in [[alternate mode]]. Conversely, on occasions when it might actually make sense to transform to a speedy vehicle form for fast or long-distance travel, characters often choose to run to where they're going instead.

Whereas the English version of the series takes its name from the central plot element (the collection of Energon), the Japanese version, ''Super Link,'' takes its name from the main thematic concept/[[gimmick]]: Autobots [[powerlinx]]ing. The Japanese version of the show contained a lot of waffling about the symbolic nature of this ("Even when one heart is weak, together, we are strong!"). Unfortunately, the fact remains that, almost without exception, these combinations are used in straight firefights, where combining two soldiers into one means ''fewer guns to fire at the enemy.'' Further, the resulting combined soldier rarely shows any sign of enhanced firepower.

Further failing to advertise the combining gimmick are the "Maximus" combiner teams. For about 90% of their screen time, the three giants are seen in ''only'' their combined super robot modes, rarely splitting into individual vehicles. The central torso units are seen as individual robots for perhaps 5 seconds in the entire series, and the show doesn't even acknowledge that the limbs could ''be'' individuals.

===Production flaws===
====Art and animation====

[[File:Scorponok blacklines.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Rescale what now?]]
''Energon'', animated by [[Actas Inc.]] and [[Studio A-CAT]], introduced a new concept to Transformers cartoons: the blending of CGI with traditional hand-drawn animation. The animators rendered the Transformer characters in cel-shaded CGI, while animating humans and other aspects of the show through traditional means. On the plus side, this allowed for a consistently high level of hand-drawn animation quality (especially enjoyable after the often scattershot quality of ''Armada''). In particular, the show uses the CGI to show many characters in motion at once, often with a high frame rate that gives them a very fluid appearance (for example, the many charges of the [[Battle Ravage]] Terrorcon drones, replete with numerous stamping legs and bobbing heads and tails.)

On the other hand, the CGI animation is positively primitive. Characters possess no sense of weight and can not move in any manner but the most basic. Even ''walking'' is a challenge for characters with bulky models, like Ironhide, who is often reduced to swinging his arms and legs back and forth while sliding along a predetermined path. The black-line outlines of character models were often not rescaled for different shots, resulting in the characters sometimes appearing as indecipherable masses of heavy black lines.

[[File:GuessIronhidesEmotion.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|The above images feature: A horrified Ironhide witnessing Demolishor's death; a surprised Ironhide asking a question; a determined Ironhide charging into battle; and a fighting-mad Ironhide striking a decisive blow. Can you figure out which is which?]]
[[File:Energon InfernoImprisoned torture.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|Are you @&#%$ kidding me?!]]

Additionally, "emotion" is nonexistent; the blank-faced CGI models could not easily display any [[Dull surprise|facial expressions beyond "mouth open" and "mouth closed."]] Numerous characters don't ''have'' facial animation, even ones with mouths. Most prominent among these is Alpha Q, who has ''no facial animation at all'' despite the fact that he's basically nothing but four faces. In some cases, when it was necessary for a character to emote visibly (Megatron's pronounced yawning, Inferno's [[Imprisoned Inferno|tortured screaming]]), or to do something visually dynamic ([[Jungle Planet (episode)|acrobatic transformation]]), the CGI would actually be ''replaced'' with hand-drawn animation, because it just ''looked more impressive''. Does that seem ''right'' to you?

In addition, the show's CGI compares very poorly with ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines,'' both of which came out ''years'' previously, both of which were ''fully'' CGI (without the crutch of hand-drawn animation to fall back on), and both of which had characters who boasted complex, nuanced facial expressions and fluid, constant body language — even [[Diagnostic Drone|the ones with utterly inhuman faces and bodies]]. The only way to spare the animators' reputation is to assume that Energon's budget was miniscule in comparison—and, to be scrupulously fair, ''Beast Wars'' was one of the most expensive animated television programs ever made at the time.

Even within the limits of the animation, many bad editing, design, and lighting choices make the series difficult to follow visually. Unicron's body — primarily black, to match his ''Energon'' redeco toy — is frequently lost against the blackness of space. When Alpha Q energizes Unicron's head, it becomes the [[Energon Orb]], with no visual indication as to what it used to be. Scenes set underground or within Unicron's body are commonly underlit, to the point that the characters can't even be distinguished. Strange elements such as the [[Rift|rift in space]] are inconsistently animated and described by the characters, making it difficult to figure out what they are.

====Editing====
[[File:E3 titlecard.jpg|thumb|left|Anyone who's got a spare "o" and is in need of an "i"?]]
At times, ''Energon'' tends to flow like a single feature-length film... a film that has been mercilessly chopped up into 22 minute segments. Thus, confusing, unclear elements like the [[Rift|rift in space]] and [[Unicron]]'s dark, partially re-energized body are routinely shown in closeup without any introductory establishing shots, making it extraordinarily unclear what's happening or where for the viewer who's just watching one particular episode by itself. To be a ''little'' bit fairer, this "chopped-up film" sensation is not exactly uncommon in Japanese animated series with a defined length, but ''Energon'' is a good example of the method at its very worst.

[[File:Improsonedinferno.jpg|thumb|Yeah, why?]]
The show's scene editing also tends to be very abrupt and choppy. Battle animation in particular routinely cuts between numerous, very short scenes, showing several simultaneous but unrelated events as if the viewer must be kept up to date on ''all'' of them in real time. This makes it difficult to grasp the significance of ''any'' of the events shown. When boiled down, this editing style often serves to mask the fact that not much is actually happening.

To make things worse for the credibility of the editors, "[[Scorpinok (episode)|Scorpinok]]", "[[A Tale of Two Heros]]", "[[Imprisoned Inferno|Improsoned Inferno]]", and "[[Decepticon Army|Deception Army]]" all have blatant spelling errors '''''in the titles!''''' Making it more annoying is that only the latter two of those four were corrected for the DVD release.
{{-}}

====Music====
This is maybe the only good part of Energon... because the soundtracks for both versions are outstanding. The music created uses a combination of orchestral and synthesized sounds, and has pieces that can be used in any situation. Sadly one of the issues in Energon is the use of music that does not fit the tone of the scene; in "[[Imprisoned Inferno]]", the episode ends with triumphant music despite being a very somber event.

====Scripting and dubbing====
[[File:E1 titlecard.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''Why do we always come here I guess we'll never know It's like a kind of torture to have to watch the show!'']]
The original Japanese version of the show is, in short, sluggish and confusing... but at least the conversations make sense. Even that got lost when the show was ported for North American consumption.

The dub of ''Energon'' seems even ''more'' rushed than ''Armada,'' which was already known for being so hurried that dubbers were working with unfinished animation, got names wrong, and had moments of dialogue that didn't jibe with the action. ''Energon'' [[Battle of the Asteroid Belt|generally]] got completed animation, and ''usually'' got names right—but [[Misha Miramond|Misha]] gets three different names during the course of the show, and [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] and [[Cliffjumper (Energon)|Cliffjumper]] are constantly confused.

The rushed dub script is full of mistranslations. Though some elements obviously needed to be altered to suit a Western audience, it seems that many portions of the dub were never checked to see if they made logical sense. As a result, the script is stilted, perfunctory, and repetitive, constantly throwing in cliche, time-killing phrases like "We've gotta [repeat the plot which everyone already knows]", "Let's do it!", and "It's time to [perform some action that's already blatantly obvious]". There is arbitrary new dialogue (that seems to exist purely due to writers' carelessness) which ''does not match what is occurring onscreen''. The final result is a show with some bizarre non-sequiturs and more than a few moments of ''genuine nonsense.''

To cite just one example: at the start of "[[Team Optimus Prime]]", Dr. Jones says, in a frustrated tone, "I ''can't'' get back the energon I sent to Kicker. That's ''impossible!''" The entire notion of "getting it back" is absurd on the surface, akin to trying to get back water that went down a drain; saying that not getting it back is ''impossible'' is even more ridiculous; and further, the original dialog is a passive lament, more along the lines of "It's not like that energon I sent is ever coming back." Similar examples exist in nearly every single episode of the show.

Outside of these accidents, there are also some strange ''deliberate'' changes, chief among them the tendency for [[Primus]] to be intermittently ignored. In one episode, Primus would be dubbed accurately, talking with other characters normally, while in the next, he would be deliberately edited out, with his lines erased or given to other characters, and references to him replaced with "the core". Other odd instances include Terrorcon drones having spoken lines randomly inserted in some scenes, never attributed to any one Terrorcon; and a steadfast refusal to acknowledge the deaths of any characters.

Given all of this, the quality of voice acting frequently suffers throughout the show. This can be a common result of the antiseptic ADR (Additional Dialogue Recording) environment, where actors perform solo, with no one to play off. But ''Energon'' is particularly bad in this regard. Lead talents such as [[Garry Chalk]] and [[David Kaye]] still turn in strong performances, but actors for many of the secondary characters clearly struggle to make something of the material they're given, often sounding flat and uninspired, or just confused. There are many times when ''all'' the actors clearly have no idea what their lines mean in the greater scheme of things, nor any idea of what they're really talking about; the Dr. Jones quote cited above is also an example of this problem.

There's also a pronounced amount of "filling dead air," with characters talking from offscreen simply to make noise where there was none originally. Take a drink every time someone goes "Uhh?" to break the silence, and you'll be hammered by the first commercial break.

{{bigquote|I really wish they would put this terrible series out on DVD. Not because I really want to watch it again, but because it would fill that unsightly gap between Armada and Cybertron with unsightly content.|The nicest words ever spoken about the Energon cartoon, [http://tinyurl.com/5tuucc "Gustavo!", August 2008]}}

==Home video releases==
===''Super Link''===
[[File:Tf superlink vol 01.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
{{main|Interchannel}}

The ''Super Link'' version of ''Energon'' was released on DVD by Interchannel in [[Japan]] while the series was still on air.

*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 001 (2004)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 002 (2004)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 003 (2004)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 004 (2004)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 005 (2004)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 006 (2004)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 007 (2004)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 008 (2004)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 009 (2005)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 010 (2005)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 011 (2005)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 012 ([[April 20]] 2005)
*''Transformer: Super Link'' — Volume 013 (2005)

{{main|Geneon Universal Entertainment}}
Geneon Universal Entertainment will release the entire episodes in one set.
*''Transformer: Super Link'' DVD Set (2016)
{{-}}

===''Energon''===
[[File:Energon Ultimate Collection DVD.jpg|thumb|100px]]
{{main|Paramount Pictures}}
When Paramount Home Entertainment released a handful of ''Energon'' collections on VHS and DVD in 2004 and 2005, several episodes were re-dubbed to fix numerous mistakes that occurred in the episodes that were broadcast, as well as throwing in some new dialogue.
*''Transformers: Energon—Volume 1: The Battle for Energon'' ([[June 27]], 2004)
*''Transformers: Energon—Volume 2: The Return of Megatron'' (2004)
*''Transformers: Energon—Volume 3: Shockblast Unleashed'' (2005)
*''Transformers: Energon—Volume 4: Omega Supreme'' (2005)
*''Transformers: Energon—The Ultimate Collection'' (2008)
{{-}}
{{main|Shout! Factory}}
Shout! Factory released the complete series on a seven-disc DVD set in 2014.
*''Transformers Energon'': The Complete Series (2014)
{{-}}

==Footnotes==
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==External links==
*[http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC_%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF ''Transformers: Super Link'' at the Japanese Wikipedia]

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==Bios by Universal Stream==
For characters like Jhiaxus who have totally different personalities, I think we should have individual bios placed above their fiction. Though we do note that certain characters have wildly different portrayals, we never really explain their personality, simply listing what happens in their fictional appearances. This could also count for locations as well. For example, Cybertron is a very different planet in several continuities, yet we don't usually have individual descriptions of each version. Currently we (for the most part) only list the history of the planet, not its defining physical characteristics. I'm not talking about a long bio, just a few sentences to clarify the differences with its other versions. Does anyone else agree? --[[User:Halfshell25|Halfshell25]] 12:31, 04 September 2016 (EDT)

== IDW Revolution ==

So the preview for ''Rom'' #1 shows the EDC in it and we can probably expect more of this sort of thing. This could be a problem for recording stuff, since the EDC is a Transformers concept but if it becomes a ''Rom'' one too, we technically need to put a lot of Rom storylinks here.

So should we do a rule that it has to be ''specifically'' a Transformer appearing to get covered, and otherwise we'll put it in Notes ("the EDC also shoot Rom!!")? --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 17:17, 7 June 2016 (GMT)

:I think the closest thing we have to an existing standard is [[Unfoldings!|G.I. Joe #138]], a comic that is not an identified crossover with Transformers and contains the most minor of guest-appearances inside. The full issue is summarized on this site, and details of that issue appear in the fiction section of every character, even ones like [[Wild Bill]] who had no contact with Transformers whatsoever for the story.

:Beyond that "standard", though, you're right that we will need to establish a rule for when Hasbro/IDW Universe stories are covered. Only when Transformers appear in the issue? Transformers characters? Transformers concepts? If Blackrock appears in MASK #3, do we cover that issue based on that alone? What if there's also a one-panel flashback of Blackrock with Galvatron? Do we cover it then? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 12:50, 7 June 2016 (EDT)

::My two cents. If it's not a piece of Transformers fiction, it generally only gets mentioned in the notes, even if a nominally-TF character appears. Major characters (you can decide who fits) can tip the scales, and situations like GI Joe #138 get included because that issue is essential to understanding issue #139 (where the crossover is first explicitly mentioned, but where the action is already well in play as the issue opens, and #138 is necessary to understand how we got there. Note also that a major TF character appears in #138, if only briefly). These general guidelines should be able to suffice for the most part. --[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] ([[User talk:G.B. Blackrock|talk]]) 13:32, 7 June 2016 (EDT)

:::Disagree on #138. It's completely unnecessary for understanding #139 ("Megatron is attacking the castle!" is pretty clearly conveyed by the splash page), and it actually ''confuses'' the situation, since the shadowy conversation in #138 is ignored or outright contradicted later in the story.

:::But regardless, that brings us back around to "What's a major character?" Only Transformers? Pre-IDW humans like Fairborne, Spike, and Blackrock as well? Jimmy Pink and Jones? What if Battle Force 2000 encounters the Enigma of Combination? What if MASK travels to Cybertron, but no identifiable Transformers appear? I realize a lot of these questions can't be answered until it happens, but some idea where everyone sits on the matter should be established ahead of time, if we can. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 13:46, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::If it's not an explicit and branded crossover we should have minimal coverage. If an actual Transformer shows up in another book, we cover his appearance but that's it. 138 is probably covered in too much detail already. Transformers concepts and settings and human companions appearing in other books are notes. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 14:15, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::I think if a Transformer or other Clearly A Transformers-Franchise Character like Blackrock, Marissa, Spike, etc. shows up in another title's issue, than that issue should get fully covered as a crossover regardless of "branding." A TF-originated ''concept'', however, like the EDC, putting in an appearance probably doesn't need to be more than a note somewhere. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 14:49, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::No. We don't cover every Marvel Comics issue Death's Head's shown up in following his departure from the TF universe. And before you "WELL ACTUALLY" me, he's only not a Fully Legal Transformers Character on the most petty of technicalities. He was made to be a Transformers character and given a legal out to be used elsewhere without paying Hasbro. 
::::::AT MOST, non-Transformers books should be lumped together in a fiction section on the franchise in question's page. Personally I have grave doubts as to just how much character bleed there actually will be, as well as how long any of these titles are even going to ''last''. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 15:03, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::WELL ACTUALLY another difference there is that, like you said, Death's Head ''departed'' the TF universe. He was taken away from the TF franchise and given to Marvel-at-large. This has not happened with say, Marissa Fairborn, who is still a Transformers character. Her "home title" is still The Transformers. A hypothetical Marissa Fairborn guest appearance in an issue of M.A.S.K. is, IMO, just as much of a TF crossover as an appearance of, say, Cosmos or Soundwave would be. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 15:22, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::::Which should still be relegated to a singular fiction section on the not-Transformers franchise page. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 15:41, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::But the fact that that legal out was ''created'' would, I think, make him a Marvel-by-way-of-Transformers character. He may have been ''created'' for Transformers, but he was also created to be ''used'' outside Transformers. Plus, uh, what Kil said.
:::::::My proposal: only issues with Transformers in get their own pages; any other appearances of TF characters and concepts go on a single page for the whole franchise/comic. Doesn't leave anything out, but also doesn't overstep the wiki's bounds. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 15:44, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::::Death's Head's legal reality is exactly why he's in those non-Transformers stories in the first place; I don't think he's a good example. I think sticking to things that cannot exist out of a ''Transformers'' context (i.e. the Enigma of Combination, Optimus Prime, etc.) is a okay baseline. The EDC can always serve as a generic "defense against aggressive aliens" organization independent of Transformers, but things like the Matrix can't. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 15:56, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::Transformers get full writeups and bestow full writeup coverage on the issues in which they appear. TF-originating non-TF characters and concepts (Spike, EDC, the Enigma, cosmic rust) get very brief mentions within the main bodies of their articles, in proper chronological order in the IDW Fiction sections, with storylinks properly annotated; these storylinks would be redirected to the main non-TF-franchise comic page. IE "storylink|ROM #6" just goes to the ROM comic. ROM (character) does not have any of his own adventures chronicled ever except when he's doing it right next to a Transformer, regardless of title. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 19:11, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::"Transformers get full writeups and bestow full writeup coverage on the issues in which they appear." No. A one-panel cameo does not mean we write up the entire issue as its own article. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 19:34, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::We've got full pages for the non-Transformers Infestation comics and Unit:E, just putting that out there. It's not like covering issues in which Transformers appear is going to lead to people insisting we cover the entirety of okay actually I may be giving the average wiki user too much credit --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 19:46, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::::I'd much rather just lose the full page coverage for Unit E and non-TF Infestation than start giving it to all these new comics. -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 19:49, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::::BINGO. It's not before anymore. We live in a very different world than when a lot of this wiki's "standards" were crafted. What worked when TFs was a healthy-yet-niche franchise, perhaps not so much now that it's being used as a tentpole for a lot of other things. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:27, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::::Disagreed, I guess. I feel like if it's a book by a Hasbro licensee using their Transformers license to use Transformers in the story, it doesn't particularly matter what the name on the book is. Sure, if it's, like, a 1-panel flashback or something we wouldn't even mention otherwise, we can leave it out, but if they have a bigger role, it shouldn't need "The Transformers" on the cover to get a writeup. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 14:23, 8 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::I'm down with "Transformers get full writeups and bestow full writeup coverage on the issues in which they appear", with the caveat of "except when it's a minor cameo" (i.e. not Megatron showing up in Joe #138 as he's the cliffhanger but like how Nick Fury's making a cameo in TF #3 to go "look this guy's paying attention). Anything else goes in Notes unless & until it explicitly impacts on a Transformers comic, i.e. crossover stories. --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]} 04:05, 8 June 2016 GMT

==Gobots Sister Wiki Progress==
Has anyone ever made any progress on the Gobots sister wiki? I have no experience in creating wikis, but would love to see this get made. -[[User:Halfshell25|Halfshell25]] ([[User talk:Halfshell25|talk]]) 19:21, 22 June 2016 (EDT)

== "Foreign Names" ==
The original Mandarin names of the Chinese MMO characters are not their "foreign names" and it is factually inaccurate to label them as such. The AVP replacement names are actually the "foreign" ones. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 08:45, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:Wouldn't the same objection apply to [[Ricochet (Headmasters)]] and the entirety of the Unicron Trilogy's characters? Perhaps a change to the title of the section would be appropriate, but I just read the heading as "names in a language other than English". --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 09:16, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::UT characters are in a much different position, since they were developed with both the English-speaking audience and the Japanese audience in mind, they weren't created for Japan and then imported elsewhere. I would also note that "Foreign names" isn't used to mean "names in a language other than English" on the Beastformers' articles, which list their English names under that header. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 09:56, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::What kind of a change would you suggest? Is it a matter of semantics, like we could change the headers to "International names"? Personally, I never thought the "Foreign names" header intimated something suggesting that the names were "secondary", just that we use English language names where appropriate and list the international/foreign ones at the bottom where appropriate. I don't think country of origin ever really factored into it. And we use the Foreign names section even when characters have the same names across languages, but render them in that language's alphabet for ease of reference (admittedly, we've been rather sloppy about that, particularly the similar Foreign localization sections of episodes where sometimes we list a language's info and sometimes we don't). While we could definitely stand to be more complete/precise across the board, I think altering the section titles based on country of origin would only confuse things for casual browsers. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] ([[User talk:DrSpengler|talk]]) 10:28, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::Honestly the main thing I wanna suggest is un-reverting the changes to the MMO characters back to "Original Mandarin Name" in place of "Foreign name" as that just more accurate, IMO. I also think that if the intent of the wiki is that "Foreign names" be read as "non-English names" then maybe "English" shouldn't actually appear under that header, as it does for Beastformers and Omni Producion dubs. And if "Foreign names" is actually supposed to mean "Names given to character in foreign markets" then should the name given in their ''original'' market actually be under there? Should a character's original name ever be labelled "foreign"? My gut instinct is to say "no" to that. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 11:16, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::They are foreign to our main readership, which is primarily Americans. That's what it means, regardless of whether the character is a foreign creation. We've had examples like [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Ricochet/Stepper]], [[Snowblind|Snowblind/Beacon]], and [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime/Fire Convoy]] for years. Why is this any different? [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 12:04, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::::I don't know! Maybe it isn't! Maybe all characters should always have their original name listed as such instead of just being under the "Foreign names" header! Maybe they shouldn't! Maybe! --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 12:16, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::::Foreign is always understood as being in relation to the speaker. As this wiki is English speaking, all non-English names are foreign, even if they are the original names for those characters. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 12:11, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::::Again, if "all non-English name are foreign" then maaaaaaaaybe the word "English" shouldn't be appearing beneath the "Foreign names" header on any articles? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 12:19, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::::::That's a more valid point, though it is mainly used for the Omni Productions dub which is pretty foreign to anything close to English...or good.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 12:23, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::::::As we currently have it set up for English/Omni names, it looks like this:

*''English:'' '''Billy''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub), '''Blaster''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub Twincast)

While it seems pretty clear by having the Omni Productions note in parenthesis by the names, maybe it would look better like this?

*''English ([[Omni Productions]] dub):'' '''Billy''' (as Blaster), '''Blaster''' (as Twincast)

Is that better or worse or not even worth the effort? Personally, I don't have a dog in this race; I kinda think things are okay as-is. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] ([[User talk:DrSpengler|talk]]) 12:35, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:I was walking about the presence of "English" beneath a "Foreign names" header at all if the intended meaning of "Foreign names" is "non-English." So this isn't really addressing that? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 12:45, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::There isn't really any other good place for these names to go. Unless you want to elevate them to the level of legitimate English variants (like Hot Rod vs Rodimus Prime or Bluestreak vs Silverstreak). I would find it a lot more disturbing to see "Also known as Billy" in Blaster's intro. Oh, and I agree with Speng's new version of the listing. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 12:57, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::Okay, but then, what else could we call it? How else could we catalog that info? Should we put the Omni names at the top of the article alongside the "Sometimes he is known as..." notation at the bottom of the intro? I dunno if anybody would like that. I get what you're saying about having "English" under Foreign names when we default to English as a standard, but I'm not sure of a better way to catalog their Omni names aside from how we have it (English with Omni in parenthesis) (EDIT: Ah, Khajida beat me to the punch by 2 minutes). --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] ([[User talk:DrSpengler|talk]]) 12:59, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::I mean, I suppose just listing "Omni Productions Dub" without the word English next to it would read better? Or listing it's country of origin instead of language, rendering the meaning on "Foreign" as "non-American" rather than "non-English?" --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 13:05, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::The Omni dubs are a very strange situation, though, and probably not something we need to build a whole policy around. Surely if we have a working system in place that reads a little strange in this one case we don't need to revamp everything. We can make some kind of reasonable exception just for Omni and call it a day.--[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 13:39, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::::Right. I think we're digressing from Kil's original complaint. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 15:38, 14 July 2016 (EDT)

== Striking Unit:E from the record ==

As someone who has been adding a bunch of pages for the newly introduced Hasbro properties that are part of IDW's Revolution, I think we're hitting a bit of a snag: Unit:E.
Unit:E was supposed to spin-out of Prime, which would put it in the Aligned continuity, while all the Revolution stuff is based in G1 continuity. As such, including info on both IDW Action Man and Unit:E Action Man on the same page doesn't make sense (especially when that page was built solely with IDW in mind.) However, this is a Transformers Wiki, and I don't think we need Action Man (IDW) and Action Man (Unit:E)
This kind of thing WILL spiral out of control, and will only get worse with things like G.I. Joe characters (who are all G1 based) and Micronauts (because Acroyear is so different between the two incarnations.)
As such, I propose that we set a precedent to excise ANY Unit:E-based material, with the exception of how it directly relates to the Transformers. Meaning the page on the actual group mentioned in Prime and the comic itself would stay, but unless Transformers were involved, the events aren't referenced. [[User:DannyBoy|DannyBoy]] ([[User talk:DannyBoy|talk]]) 19:57 15 July 2016 (EST)
:Or we could just leave them on the same pages like we already are now. Don't overcomplicate things. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 20:27, 15 July 2016 (EDT)
::The way we handle non-Transformers original characters is to keep all appearances together on the same page. So, if Destro shows up in Animated, and again in G1, we don't make two articles. No need for an Action Man (Aligned) and an Action Man (G1) under this scheme. Having them on the same page is a simple and elegant solution. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 20:39, 15 July 2016 (EDT)
:::My issue with Unit:E is that none of the characters actually interact, and the multiversal nature of the story means that the Action Man featured there may not even have Transformers in his own universe, meaning his adventures would fall into the Megaverse, and thus outside this wiki's domain. The Unit:E information is therefore superfluous. Unit:E is also not a Transformers-branded piece of media. Notice we don't record the G.I. Joe events of Infestation. --[[User:DannyBoy|DannyBoy]] ([[User talk:DannyBoy|talk]]) 20:53 15 July 2015 (EST)
::::Because those issues do not have Transformers in them. Unit:E does, and I'm seriously having a hard time seeing the harm in detailing an one-shot issue that didn't amount to anything and that nobody else will cover. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 22:57, 15 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::The Unit:E stuff is G1 already though. Arcee, Jazz, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are all seen as distinctly G1 incarnations of those characters. There isn't even a need to consider the fact that one spin-off is G1 and another is Aligned since that's not the case. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] ([[User talk:Ascendron|talk]]) 00:40, 16 July 2016 (EDT)

== Aligned characters ==

[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/101932-tfwikinet-thread-30/page-247 As brought up here on the Allspark], is there any momentum to split the RiD2015 incarnations of characters such as [[Grimlock (WFC)]], [[Sideswipe (WFC)]], and [[Kickback (FOC)]]? A highly broken concept as it is, the Aligned continuity family does roughly fit together as one timeline. As the three aforementioned RiD characters quite obviously do not share the looks and personalities of the WfC/FoC characters, I, for one, do not see how to reconcile them as the WfC/FoC characters at a new stage of their lives. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 01:57, 4 August 2016 (EDT)
:Yeah, I've come around to the idea that they just don't have that much in common between names and altmodes (or, er, robot modes). I vote to split. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 04:52, 4 August 2016 (EDT)
::For the reasons I've laid out on the AllSpark and on Sideswipe (WFC)'s talk page, I also think they should be split. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 07:24, 4 August 2016 (EDT)
:::I also vote split. And just because I think this is a really useful way to conceptualize things, I want to repeat my formulation from the AllSpark thread:
::::''Let me present this little thought experiment. Let's say that the RID 15 guy was named "Trapjaw", an early name for Grimlock. Maybe for copyright reasons, maybe for creative reasons, we don't know specifically. Would we still be inclined to keep the pages merged? This is an issue that has been a part of the Transformers brand since 1984 (see: Jetfire and Skyfire, who do indeed share a page). Shockblasts comfortably share pages with Shockwaves, Silverstreaks with Bluestreaks, Jazzs with Meisters. Likewise, characters since G1 have shared names and yet not been the same characters: Sky High is the earliest example. In this case, take away the name, and is there any reason to keep them merged? If your answer to this question is no, then you should probably be in favor of a split. ''
:::I think this is an abstract enough test to be useful in a variety of cases where there is name reuse but little else. I've tested it against various counterexamples and (BW vs G1 Megatron, Octane and Tankor, various Unicron Trilogy Mini-Con nameslaps, toon vs comic Blaster) and it always seems to produce the 'correct' answer. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 09:52, 4 August 2016 (EDT)
::::This test is a fantastic measure and one I wholly advocate, but I'll note that this metric places ROTF and AOE Lockdown's merger on relatively shaky footing. Whether that's a good or bad thing is uncertain, but I'd say it's worth it to make sure these RID articles are split. [[User:Sky Shadow|Sky Shadow]] ([[User talk:Sky Shadow|talk]]) 08:29, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/101932-tfwikinet-thread-30/?p=3302429 Spectre makes a good point here] about the distinctiveness of Grimlock and Sideswipe. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 21:26, 4 August 2016 (EDT)

So...absent any complaints or counter-arguments in the next 24 hours, I say we go ahead and begin splitting these three characters. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 10:38, 5 August 2016 (EDT)
:As much as my vote matters, I agree with splitting them. [[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 13:04, 5 August 2016 (EDT)

So far what I'm getting from the Allspark thread is that it's highly subjective whether anyone thinks FOC Grimlock and RID Grimlock should share a page because they're both based on G1 Grimlock, or whether the differences between the two characters are enough that they should get separate pages. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 19:37, 5 August 2016 (EDT)
: Really? I got the sense that there was one guy that really thought they should be together, several people that really thought they should be separate, and a few people who seemed on the fence. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 23:19, 5 August 2016 (EDT)
:: '''Keep''' them merged. Any argument for splitting them is either arbitrary and could be applied to numerous other characters ([[Brawl (Movie)]], [[Vortex (Movie)]], [[Sideswipe (Movie)]], [[Swerve (Movie)]], [[Hound (Movie)]] and [[Lockdown (ROTF)]], to name a few), or based on [[authorial intent]].--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] ([[User talk:Nevermore|talk]]) 09:02, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
::: None of those guys have the same problem of irreconcilable fiction and lots of it, and none of them right now have new material coming up on a regular basis. (The only big issue there is Brawl because Titan went "oh uh it's twins" and in practice that's been easy to skim over) --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 14:52, 6 August 2016 (GMT)
::::Yeah, if we'd got any significant fiction for Movie 1 Hound or ROTF Lockdown, I'd argue that they should be split. Hell, I'm still not convinced that the Lockdowns should share a page, but I'm flexible on that. Most of the ones you've brought up, I would think should share a page only because they ''both'' are based on the same vague concept ''and'' don't have large amounts of fiction in contradictory incarnations. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 11:49, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
:::::I would be up for splitting Brawl, Vortex, Sideswipe, etc though I think it would be unnecessary give how little material their non-screen versions received. But we already have [[Jetfire (Movie)]] and [[Jetfire (ROTF)]] split despite the former having no fiction whatsoever. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 12:49, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
::::::I think, fundamentally, what it comes down to me is: ''will splitting help casual fans to understand better/stop them being confused?'' In the case of RID Grimlock, Sideswipe, and probably Kickback, I think that yes, it would. With Movie Hound and Sideswipe and Vortex, there's very little understanding that would be improved by doing so, and would likely just confuse fans searching for "movie Hound", etc. In the case of the Lockdowns, they're arguably the same character by virtue of Q-Transformers, though that's obviously kinda shaky. (And splitting Brawl would be the most unnecessary pedantry in the whole world, damn.) --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 15:14, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

:: I'd vote to keep them merged, with the stipulation that we add a note of some kind explaining the discrepancy. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 09:02, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

::Split. They're wildly different characters with no visual similarity and aren't based on the same toy (WFC Grimlock not even originally from a toy!) and it means anyone browsing to look up RID Grimlock, the one they most likely will be, atm has to get through a lot of different Grimlock. --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 14:46, 6 August 2016 (GMT)

A lot of what I'm hearing from the "Keep them merged" crowd is that they don't think some of the reasons for splitting are good reasons. Let me flip it around for a minute -- can anyone think of a ''benefit'' to keeping these characters merged? Besides a slippery-slope argument that it may, someday in the future, be used to justify other splits? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 10:03, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

Split. They're very different characters. And there's no conflict between Hasbro statements and author intent here; the most relevant Hasbro statement is the one that would indicate that FoC and RiD do take place in the same timeline, in which case there can be no "different interpretation of the same characters" between them; characters who cannot be the actual same individual at different times in the same timeline therefore must be different ones with the same name. [[User:NovaSaber|NovaSaber]] ([[User talk:NovaSaber|talk]]) 15:02, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

Can I vote that there should be no blanket policy here, to just evaluate on a case-by-case basis? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 16:33, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
: Absolutely, and seconded. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 16:45, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

So I count '''Split: 10''' (Xaaron, SHIELD Agent 47, Charles RB, Jim S, Riptide, Sky Shadow, Stealthyboy, NovaSaber, abates, Sabrblade), '''Keep: 2''' (Nevermore, Grum), with no guiding hand from Admin/Owners. Can we go ahead with splitting these three characters, with the understanding that no larger administrative policy is being established, and future cases should still be evaluated on an individual basis? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 10:42, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
:I mentioned it on the Allspark, but I don't have any particularly strong preference so long it's applied consistently for all the applicable Aligned characters, and not just Grimlock. I do kind of question the sense in still treating Aligned like it's still a single timeline under Squint Test rules, since it seems reasonably certain, between RID Grimlock's existence and the departure of Hasbro folks like Archer, that that concept has been thrown out the window. But I also feel like splitting these characters has benefits in terms of accessibility for the casual user, and I guess that's why I'm not going to vote against – I think I probably would if it felt entirely like meaningless "furniture rearrangement" (as Sipher puts it). I think it's worth putting out one final call for people to 'vote' on the Allspark thread before going ahead with the split. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 11:19, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
::Also, as a postscript: if the splits do go ahead, links will need updating pretty hasty-like, or else there'll be a hell of a lot of potential for confusion. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 11:26, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
:::Relinked episodes 1-12 and the main RID series page so far. Moving on to the non-show relinks now. --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 02:00, 8 August 2016 (GMT)
::::Every image and linked-to non-TV-story on Grim's page has been relinked, plus the RID toyline page. Just the rest of the eps and other character's pages to go--[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 02:30, 8 August 2016 (GMT)
:::::Eps and main Autobots relinked--[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 02:50, 8 August 2016 (GMT)
::::::I think I've got all of the remaining articles, so there's just a pile of images with links to the wrong Grimlock in their descriptions. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 07:11, 8 August 2016 (EDT)
:Throwing my vote in while I still can. I said it on The Allspark an will say it here that I'm in favor of splitting the Grimlock, Sideswipe, and Kickback articles. Although... [[Blurr (Prime)]] might be a fourth contender for splitting as well, but I'm not as eager to see that one split as the other three, so I won't fight for that one as much if enough people object to splitting the Blurr page. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 14:27, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
::Hrm. Yeah, I'd say split the Blurrs, too. They've really only got "car what goes fast" in common, and really, what ''else'' is a bot called Blurr going to turn into? With that one in particular, they're so different that there's no way to reconcile them for an opening paragraph other than the faux-narrative of "first he was this, then he was this". --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 14:38, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
:I'm actually in favour of split. Not sure I'm particularly worried about Kickback, but Grimlock and Sideswipe definitely. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 18:34, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
Starting on Sideswipe now. Though, come to think of it, is it necessary to title ''Robots in Disguise'' Sideswipe at "Sideswipe (RID 2015)" since the 2001 guy has a space in his name? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 11:15, 8 August 2016 (EDT)
::No, strictly speaking it wouldn't need the 2015, though it's probably a case where an argument could be made for making an exception? [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 12:36, 8 August 2016 (EDT)

== Generations toyline page ==

A thought: do the ''Combiner Wars'' and ''Titans Return'' sublines merit their own pages? The [[Transformers: Generations|''Generations'' page]] has exceeded the length of even the [[The Transformers (toyline)|U.S. G1 toyline page]], and barring some unforeseen financial disaster at Hasbro, we know that the Prime Wars Trilogy will get another entry after ''Titans Return''. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 16:28, 14 August 2016 (EDT)
:I agree. Given how the "''Combiner Wars''" and "''Titans Return''" names overshadow the "''Generations''" name on the packaging, I think we should give them their own page. The fact that each also has a [[Combiner Wars (franchise)|franchise]] [[Titans Return (franchise)|page]] I think warrants this expansion. --[[User:DannyBoy|DannyBoy]] ([[User talk:DannyBoy|talk]]) 18:20, 14 August 2016 (EDT)
:I'm on board with that.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] ([[User talk:Nevermore|talk]]) 06:27, 15 August 2016 (EDT)
::Given that Combiner Wars, Titans Return and the next line are under the "Prime Wars" umbrella, maybe we should make a Prime Wars subpage for Generations, similar to the way certain character pages have a separate Toys page, and put the toys in those three lines on that page.[[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 17:10, 18 August 2016 (EDT)
Anyone in opposition to this motion? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 00:09, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
:Splitting is probably the least unwieldy option, or will be eventually, so I don't see why not. [[User:Item42|Item42]] ([[User talk:Item42|talk]]) 00:32, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
I'd been considering this myself for a while. My suggestion, I guess, would be splitting it three ways, by logo/branding - original, FOC/T30, and Prime Wars. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 04:45, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
:I think the original Deluxe line, FoC, and T30 can all stay on the same Generations page since their packaging has "Transformers: Generations" as the main thing. I'd even argue splitting up Combiner Wars and Titans Return into their own pages given that (as far as I know) Prime Wars wasn't mentioned on their toy packaging. --[[User:DannyBoy|DannyBoy]] ([[User talk:DannyBoy|talk]]) 11:55, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
::Of course the argument "size of the logo on the packaging" opens a whole can of worms again regarding ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'', which we currently consider a [[subline imprint]] of [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2010)]]… Long story short, the title "Reveal the Shield" on the packaging has the same size and font and all as the concurrently available original ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe line's title (seriouly, just judging from the packaging alone, [http://imgur.com/a/Mhhjr how is the right one a toy line and the left one only a subline imprint]?)… on the other hand, all the ''Reveal the Shield'' assortments were continued from the 2010 ''Transformers'' line's general retail assortments ([http://imgur.com/B2YWKYd same assortment numbers]), which were simpy branded ''Transformers'' with additional stickers for the ''[[Hunt for the Decepticons]]'' promotion and Jesus Christ on a bicycle 2010's branding was confusing as hell.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] ([[User talk:Nevermore|talk]]) 15:34, 22 August 2016 (EDT)
:::''Combiner Wars'' and ''Titans Return'', though, are subline imprints with noteworthy fiction due to their status as multimedia branding. If and when I get to separating out the toylines into their own articles, I believe I will focus on those two. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 23:40, 25 August 2016 (EDT)

== Masterforce humans and transtectors ==

Um, why are we separating the human Minerva, Ginrai, etc. from the robot Minerva, Ginrai, etc? Especially considering that we just fairly recently combined the organic Nebulan Peacemaker (et al.) and the robotic Peaceman (et al.). --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 12:39, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
:Well, it's not really a comparable situation to Peacemaker and co. - this is robot and human versions of the same character co-existing together in the same world, not a character being variably robot or human in different universes. With new fiction (and probably more to come) of the humans and robots off doing separate stuff, splitting them out is probably the solution that leads to the least-confusing biography write-ups... [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 12:46, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
::We already did this almost two years ago for [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Goshooter]] when they appeared simultaneously in order to keep track of them better. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 12:49, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
:::What Jalaguy said. Otherwise we get alternating paragraphs of human and robot Minerva fiction which only confuse readers. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:16, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
::::Should their toys be split onto subpages as well then? It seems redundant to have exactly the same section on both pages.[[User:Omegatron|Omegatron]] ([[User talk:Omegatron|talk]]) 17:10, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
:::::They're not that long and they don't have the exact same set of toys. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 17:14, 30 August 2016 (EDT)

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==Bios by Universal Stream==
For characters like Jhiaxus who have totally different personalities, I think we should have individual bios placed above their fiction. Though we do note that certain characters have wildly different portrayals, we never really explain their personality, simply listing what happens in their fictional appearances. This could also count for locations as well. For example, Cybertron is a very different planet in several continuities, yet we don't have individual descriptions of each version. Currently we only list the history of the planet, not its defining physical characteristics. I'm not talking about a long bio, just a few sentences to clarify the differences with its other versions. Does anyone else agree? --[[User:Halfshell25|Halfshell25]] 12:31, 04 September 2016 (EDT)

== IDW Revolution ==

So the preview for ''Rom'' #1 shows the EDC in it and we can probably expect more of this sort of thing. This could be a problem for recording stuff, since the EDC is a Transformers concept but if it becomes a ''Rom'' one too, we technically need to put a lot of Rom storylinks here.

So should we do a rule that it has to be ''specifically'' a Transformer appearing to get covered, and otherwise we'll put it in Notes ("the EDC also shoot Rom!!")? --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 17:17, 7 June 2016 (GMT)

:I think the closest thing we have to an existing standard is [[Unfoldings!|G.I. Joe #138]], a comic that is not an identified crossover with Transformers and contains the most minor of guest-appearances inside. The full issue is summarized on this site, and details of that issue appear in the fiction section of every character, even ones like [[Wild Bill]] who had no contact with Transformers whatsoever for the story.

:Beyond that "standard", though, you're right that we will need to establish a rule for when Hasbro/IDW Universe stories are covered. Only when Transformers appear in the issue? Transformers characters? Transformers concepts? If Blackrock appears in MASK #3, do we cover that issue based on that alone? What if there's also a one-panel flashback of Blackrock with Galvatron? Do we cover it then? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 12:50, 7 June 2016 (EDT)

::My two cents. If it's not a piece of Transformers fiction, it generally only gets mentioned in the notes, even if a nominally-TF character appears. Major characters (you can decide who fits) can tip the scales, and situations like GI Joe #138 get included because that issue is essential to understanding issue #139 (where the crossover is first explicitly mentioned, but where the action is already well in play as the issue opens, and #138 is necessary to understand how we got there. Note also that a major TF character appears in #138, if only briefly). These general guidelines should be able to suffice for the most part. --[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] ([[User talk:G.B. Blackrock|talk]]) 13:32, 7 June 2016 (EDT)

:::Disagree on #138. It's completely unnecessary for understanding #139 ("Megatron is attacking the castle!" is pretty clearly conveyed by the splash page), and it actually ''confuses'' the situation, since the shadowy conversation in #138 is ignored or outright contradicted later in the story.

:::But regardless, that brings us back around to "What's a major character?" Only Transformers? Pre-IDW humans like Fairborne, Spike, and Blackrock as well? Jimmy Pink and Jones? What if Battle Force 2000 encounters the Enigma of Combination? What if MASK travels to Cybertron, but no identifiable Transformers appear? I realize a lot of these questions can't be answered until it happens, but some idea where everyone sits on the matter should be established ahead of time, if we can. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 13:46, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::If it's not an explicit and branded crossover we should have minimal coverage. If an actual Transformer shows up in another book, we cover his appearance but that's it. 138 is probably covered in too much detail already. Transformers concepts and settings and human companions appearing in other books are notes. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 14:15, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::I think if a Transformer or other Clearly A Transformers-Franchise Character like Blackrock, Marissa, Spike, etc. shows up in another title's issue, than that issue should get fully covered as a crossover regardless of "branding." A TF-originated ''concept'', however, like the EDC, putting in an appearance probably doesn't need to be more than a note somewhere. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 14:49, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::No. We don't cover every Marvel Comics issue Death's Head's shown up in following his departure from the TF universe. And before you "WELL ACTUALLY" me, he's only not a Fully Legal Transformers Character on the most petty of technicalities. He was made to be a Transformers character and given a legal out to be used elsewhere without paying Hasbro. 
::::::AT MOST, non-Transformers books should be lumped together in a fiction section on the franchise in question's page. Personally I have grave doubts as to just how much character bleed there actually will be, as well as how long any of these titles are even going to ''last''. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 15:03, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::WELL ACTUALLY another difference there is that, like you said, Death's Head ''departed'' the TF universe. He was taken away from the TF franchise and given to Marvel-at-large. This has not happened with say, Marissa Fairborn, who is still a Transformers character. Her "home title" is still The Transformers. A hypothetical Marissa Fairborn guest appearance in an issue of M.A.S.K. is, IMO, just as much of a TF crossover as an appearance of, say, Cosmos or Soundwave would be. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 15:22, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::::Which should still be relegated to a singular fiction section on the not-Transformers franchise page. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 15:41, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::But the fact that that legal out was ''created'' would, I think, make him a Marvel-by-way-of-Transformers character. He may have been ''created'' for Transformers, but he was also created to be ''used'' outside Transformers. Plus, uh, what Kil said.
:::::::My proposal: only issues with Transformers in get their own pages; any other appearances of TF characters and concepts go on a single page for the whole franchise/comic. Doesn't leave anything out, but also doesn't overstep the wiki's bounds. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 15:44, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::::Death's Head's legal reality is exactly why he's in those non-Transformers stories in the first place; I don't think he's a good example. I think sticking to things that cannot exist out of a ''Transformers'' context (i.e. the Enigma of Combination, Optimus Prime, etc.) is a okay baseline. The EDC can always serve as a generic "defense against aggressive aliens" organization independent of Transformers, but things like the Matrix can't. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 15:56, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::Transformers get full writeups and bestow full writeup coverage on the issues in which they appear. TF-originating non-TF characters and concepts (Spike, EDC, the Enigma, cosmic rust) get very brief mentions within the main bodies of their articles, in proper chronological order in the IDW Fiction sections, with storylinks properly annotated; these storylinks would be redirected to the main non-TF-franchise comic page. IE "storylink|ROM #6" just goes to the ROM comic. ROM (character) does not have any of his own adventures chronicled ever except when he's doing it right next to a Transformer, regardless of title. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 19:11, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::"Transformers get full writeups and bestow full writeup coverage on the issues in which they appear." No. A one-panel cameo does not mean we write up the entire issue as its own article. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 19:34, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::We've got full pages for the non-Transformers Infestation comics and Unit:E, just putting that out there. It's not like covering issues in which Transformers appear is going to lead to people insisting we cover the entirety of okay actually I may be giving the average wiki user too much credit --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 19:46, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::::I'd much rather just lose the full page coverage for Unit E and non-TF Infestation than start giving it to all these new comics. -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 19:49, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::::BINGO. It's not before anymore. We live in a very different world than when a lot of this wiki's "standards" were crafted. What worked when TFs was a healthy-yet-niche franchise, perhaps not so much now that it's being used as a tentpole for a lot of other things. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:27, 7 June 2016 (EDT)
:::::::::Disagreed, I guess. I feel like if it's a book by a Hasbro licensee using their Transformers license to use Transformers in the story, it doesn't particularly matter what the name on the book is. Sure, if it's, like, a 1-panel flashback or something we wouldn't even mention otherwise, we can leave it out, but if they have a bigger role, it shouldn't need "The Transformers" on the cover to get a writeup. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 14:23, 8 June 2016 (EDT)
::::::I'm down with "Transformers get full writeups and bestow full writeup coverage on the issues in which they appear", with the caveat of "except when it's a minor cameo" (i.e. not Megatron showing up in Joe #138 as he's the cliffhanger but like how Nick Fury's making a cameo in TF #3 to go "look this guy's paying attention). Anything else goes in Notes unless & until it explicitly impacts on a Transformers comic, i.e. crossover stories. --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]} 04:05, 8 June 2016 GMT

==Gobots Sister Wiki Progress==
Has anyone ever made any progress on the Gobots sister wiki? I have no experience in creating wikis, but would love to see this get made. -[[User:Halfshell25|Halfshell25]] ([[User talk:Halfshell25|talk]]) 19:21, 22 June 2016 (EDT)

== "Foreign Names" ==
The original Mandarin names of the Chinese MMO characters are not their "foreign names" and it is factually inaccurate to label them as such. The AVP replacement names are actually the "foreign" ones. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 08:45, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:Wouldn't the same objection apply to [[Ricochet (Headmasters)]] and the entirety of the Unicron Trilogy's characters? Perhaps a change to the title of the section would be appropriate, but I just read the heading as "names in a language other than English". --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 09:16, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::UT characters are in a much different position, since they were developed with both the English-speaking audience and the Japanese audience in mind, they weren't created for Japan and then imported elsewhere. I would also note that "Foreign names" isn't used to mean "names in a language other than English" on the Beastformers' articles, which list their English names under that header. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 09:56, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::What kind of a change would you suggest? Is it a matter of semantics, like we could change the headers to "International names"? Personally, I never thought the "Foreign names" header intimated something suggesting that the names were "secondary", just that we use English language names where appropriate and list the international/foreign ones at the bottom where appropriate. I don't think country of origin ever really factored into it. And we use the Foreign names section even when characters have the same names across languages, but render them in that language's alphabet for ease of reference (admittedly, we've been rather sloppy about that, particularly the similar Foreign localization sections of episodes where sometimes we list a language's info and sometimes we don't). While we could definitely stand to be more complete/precise across the board, I think altering the section titles based on country of origin would only confuse things for casual browsers. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] ([[User talk:DrSpengler|talk]]) 10:28, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::Honestly the main thing I wanna suggest is un-reverting the changes to the MMO characters back to "Original Mandarin Name" in place of "Foreign name" as that just more accurate, IMO. I also think that if the intent of the wiki is that "Foreign names" be read as "non-English names" then maybe "English" shouldn't actually appear under that header, as it does for Beastformers and Omni Producion dubs. And if "Foreign names" is actually supposed to mean "Names given to character in foreign markets" then should the name given in their ''original'' market actually be under there? Should a character's original name ever be labelled "foreign"? My gut instinct is to say "no" to that. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 11:16, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::They are foreign to our main readership, which is primarily Americans. That's what it means, regardless of whether the character is a foreign creation. We've had examples like [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Ricochet/Stepper]], [[Snowblind|Snowblind/Beacon]], and [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime/Fire Convoy]] for years. Why is this any different? [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 12:04, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::::I don't know! Maybe it isn't! Maybe all characters should always have their original name listed as such instead of just being under the "Foreign names" header! Maybe they shouldn't! Maybe! --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 12:16, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::::Foreign is always understood as being in relation to the speaker. As this wiki is English speaking, all non-English names are foreign, even if they are the original names for those characters. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 12:11, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::::Again, if "all non-English name are foreign" then maaaaaaaaybe the word "English" shouldn't be appearing beneath the "Foreign names" header on any articles? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 12:19, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::::::That's a more valid point, though it is mainly used for the Omni Productions dub which is pretty foreign to anything close to English...or good.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 12:23, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::::::As we currently have it set up for English/Omni names, it looks like this:

*''English:'' '''Billy''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub), '''Blaster''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub Twincast)

While it seems pretty clear by having the Omni Productions note in parenthesis by the names, maybe it would look better like this?

*''English ([[Omni Productions]] dub):'' '''Billy''' (as Blaster), '''Blaster''' (as Twincast)

Is that better or worse or not even worth the effort? Personally, I don't have a dog in this race; I kinda think things are okay as-is. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] ([[User talk:DrSpengler|talk]]) 12:35, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:I was walking about the presence of "English" beneath a "Foreign names" header at all if the intended meaning of "Foreign names" is "non-English." So this isn't really addressing that? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 12:45, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::There isn't really any other good place for these names to go. Unless you want to elevate them to the level of legitimate English variants (like Hot Rod vs Rodimus Prime or Bluestreak vs Silverstreak). I would find it a lot more disturbing to see "Also known as Billy" in Blaster's intro. Oh, and I agree with Speng's new version of the listing. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 12:57, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::Okay, but then, what else could we call it? How else could we catalog that info? Should we put the Omni names at the top of the article alongside the "Sometimes he is known as..." notation at the bottom of the intro? I dunno if anybody would like that. I get what you're saying about having "English" under Foreign names when we default to English as a standard, but I'm not sure of a better way to catalog their Omni names aside from how we have it (English with Omni in parenthesis) (EDIT: Ah, Khajida beat me to the punch by 2 minutes). --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] ([[User talk:DrSpengler|talk]]) 12:59, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::I mean, I suppose just listing "Omni Productions Dub" without the word English next to it would read better? Or listing it's country of origin instead of language, rendering the meaning on "Foreign" as "non-American" rather than "non-English?" --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 13:05, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::The Omni dubs are a very strange situation, though, and probably not something we need to build a whole policy around. Surely if we have a working system in place that reads a little strange in this one case we don't need to revamp everything. We can make some kind of reasonable exception just for Omni and call it a day.--[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 13:39, 14 July 2016 (EDT)
::::::Right. I think we're digressing from Kil's original complaint. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 15:38, 14 July 2016 (EDT)

== Striking Unit:E from the record ==

As someone who has been adding a bunch of pages for the newly introduced Hasbro properties that are part of IDW's Revolution, I think we're hitting a bit of a snag: Unit:E.
Unit:E was supposed to spin-out of Prime, which would put it in the Aligned continuity, while all the Revolution stuff is based in G1 continuity. As such, including info on both IDW Action Man and Unit:E Action Man on the same page doesn't make sense (especially when that page was built solely with IDW in mind.) However, this is a Transformers Wiki, and I don't think we need Action Man (IDW) and Action Man (Unit:E)
This kind of thing WILL spiral out of control, and will only get worse with things like G.I. Joe characters (who are all G1 based) and Micronauts (because Acroyear is so different between the two incarnations.)
As such, I propose that we set a precedent to excise ANY Unit:E-based material, with the exception of how it directly relates to the Transformers. Meaning the page on the actual group mentioned in Prime and the comic itself would stay, but unless Transformers were involved, the events aren't referenced. [[User:DannyBoy|DannyBoy]] ([[User talk:DannyBoy|talk]]) 19:57 15 July 2016 (EST)
:Or we could just leave them on the same pages like we already are now. Don't overcomplicate things. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 20:27, 15 July 2016 (EDT)
::The way we handle non-Transformers original characters is to keep all appearances together on the same page. So, if Destro shows up in Animated, and again in G1, we don't make two articles. No need for an Action Man (Aligned) and an Action Man (G1) under this scheme. Having them on the same page is a simple and elegant solution. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 20:39, 15 July 2016 (EDT)
:::My issue with Unit:E is that none of the characters actually interact, and the multiversal nature of the story means that the Action Man featured there may not even have Transformers in his own universe, meaning his adventures would fall into the Megaverse, and thus outside this wiki's domain. The Unit:E information is therefore superfluous. Unit:E is also not a Transformers-branded piece of media. Notice we don't record the G.I. Joe events of Infestation. --[[User:DannyBoy|DannyBoy]] ([[User talk:DannyBoy|talk]]) 20:53 15 July 2015 (EST)
::::Because those issues do not have Transformers in them. Unit:E does, and I'm seriously having a hard time seeing the harm in detailing an one-shot issue that didn't amount to anything and that nobody else will cover. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 22:57, 15 July 2016 (EDT)
:::::The Unit:E stuff is G1 already though. Arcee, Jazz, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are all seen as distinctly G1 incarnations of those characters. There isn't even a need to consider the fact that one spin-off is G1 and another is Aligned since that's not the case. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] ([[User talk:Ascendron|talk]]) 00:40, 16 July 2016 (EDT)

== Aligned characters ==

[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/101932-tfwikinet-thread-30/page-247 As brought up here on the Allspark], is there any momentum to split the RiD2015 incarnations of characters such as [[Grimlock (WFC)]], [[Sideswipe (WFC)]], and [[Kickback (FOC)]]? A highly broken concept as it is, the Aligned continuity family does roughly fit together as one timeline. As the three aforementioned RiD characters quite obviously do not share the looks and personalities of the WfC/FoC characters, I, for one, do not see how to reconcile them as the WfC/FoC characters at a new stage of their lives. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 01:57, 4 August 2016 (EDT)
:Yeah, I've come around to the idea that they just don't have that much in common between names and altmodes (or, er, robot modes). I vote to split. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 04:52, 4 August 2016 (EDT)
::For the reasons I've laid out on the AllSpark and on Sideswipe (WFC)'s talk page, I also think they should be split. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 07:24, 4 August 2016 (EDT)
:::I also vote split. And just because I think this is a really useful way to conceptualize things, I want to repeat my formulation from the AllSpark thread:
::::''Let me present this little thought experiment. Let's say that the RID 15 guy was named "Trapjaw", an early name for Grimlock. Maybe for copyright reasons, maybe for creative reasons, we don't know specifically. Would we still be inclined to keep the pages merged? This is an issue that has been a part of the Transformers brand since 1984 (see: Jetfire and Skyfire, who do indeed share a page). Shockblasts comfortably share pages with Shockwaves, Silverstreaks with Bluestreaks, Jazzs with Meisters. Likewise, characters since G1 have shared names and yet not been the same characters: Sky High is the earliest example. In this case, take away the name, and is there any reason to keep them merged? If your answer to this question is no, then you should probably be in favor of a split. ''
:::I think this is an abstract enough test to be useful in a variety of cases where there is name reuse but little else. I've tested it against various counterexamples and (BW vs G1 Megatron, Octane and Tankor, various Unicron Trilogy Mini-Con nameslaps, toon vs comic Blaster) and it always seems to produce the 'correct' answer. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 09:52, 4 August 2016 (EDT)
::::This test is a fantastic measure and one I wholly advocate, but I'll note that this metric places ROTF and AOE Lockdown's merger on relatively shaky footing. Whether that's a good or bad thing is uncertain, but I'd say it's worth it to make sure these RID articles are split. [[User:Sky Shadow|Sky Shadow]] ([[User talk:Sky Shadow|talk]]) 08:29, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/101932-tfwikinet-thread-30/?p=3302429 Spectre makes a good point here] about the distinctiveness of Grimlock and Sideswipe. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 21:26, 4 August 2016 (EDT)

So...absent any complaints or counter-arguments in the next 24 hours, I say we go ahead and begin splitting these three characters. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 10:38, 5 August 2016 (EDT)
:As much as my vote matters, I agree with splitting them. [[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 13:04, 5 August 2016 (EDT)

So far what I'm getting from the Allspark thread is that it's highly subjective whether anyone thinks FOC Grimlock and RID Grimlock should share a page because they're both based on G1 Grimlock, or whether the differences between the two characters are enough that they should get separate pages. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 19:37, 5 August 2016 (EDT)
: Really? I got the sense that there was one guy that really thought they should be together, several people that really thought they should be separate, and a few people who seemed on the fence. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 23:19, 5 August 2016 (EDT)
:: '''Keep''' them merged. Any argument for splitting them is either arbitrary and could be applied to numerous other characters ([[Brawl (Movie)]], [[Vortex (Movie)]], [[Sideswipe (Movie)]], [[Swerve (Movie)]], [[Hound (Movie)]] and [[Lockdown (ROTF)]], to name a few), or based on [[authorial intent]].--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] ([[User talk:Nevermore|talk]]) 09:02, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
::: None of those guys have the same problem of irreconcilable fiction and lots of it, and none of them right now have new material coming up on a regular basis. (The only big issue there is Brawl because Titan went "oh uh it's twins" and in practice that's been easy to skim over) --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 14:52, 6 August 2016 (GMT)
::::Yeah, if we'd got any significant fiction for Movie 1 Hound or ROTF Lockdown, I'd argue that they should be split. Hell, I'm still not convinced that the Lockdowns should share a page, but I'm flexible on that. Most of the ones you've brought up, I would think should share a page only because they ''both'' are based on the same vague concept ''and'' don't have large amounts of fiction in contradictory incarnations. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 11:49, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
:::::I would be up for splitting Brawl, Vortex, Sideswipe, etc though I think it would be unnecessary give how little material their non-screen versions received. But we already have [[Jetfire (Movie)]] and [[Jetfire (ROTF)]] split despite the former having no fiction whatsoever. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 12:49, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
::::::I think, fundamentally, what it comes down to me is: ''will splitting help casual fans to understand better/stop them being confused?'' In the case of RID Grimlock, Sideswipe, and probably Kickback, I think that yes, it would. With Movie Hound and Sideswipe and Vortex, there's very little understanding that would be improved by doing so, and would likely just confuse fans searching for "movie Hound", etc. In the case of the Lockdowns, they're arguably the same character by virtue of Q-Transformers, though that's obviously kinda shaky. (And splitting Brawl would be the most unnecessary pedantry in the whole world, damn.) --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 15:14, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

:: I'd vote to keep them merged, with the stipulation that we add a note of some kind explaining the discrepancy. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 09:02, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

::Split. They're wildly different characters with no visual similarity and aren't based on the same toy (WFC Grimlock not even originally from a toy!) and it means anyone browsing to look up RID Grimlock, the one they most likely will be, atm has to get through a lot of different Grimlock. --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 14:46, 6 August 2016 (GMT)

A lot of what I'm hearing from the "Keep them merged" crowd is that they don't think some of the reasons for splitting are good reasons. Let me flip it around for a minute -- can anyone think of a ''benefit'' to keeping these characters merged? Besides a slippery-slope argument that it may, someday in the future, be used to justify other splits? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 10:03, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

Split. They're very different characters. And there's no conflict between Hasbro statements and author intent here; the most relevant Hasbro statement is the one that would indicate that FoC and RiD do take place in the same timeline, in which case there can be no "different interpretation of the same characters" between them; characters who cannot be the actual same individual at different times in the same timeline therefore must be different ones with the same name. [[User:NovaSaber|NovaSaber]] ([[User talk:NovaSaber|talk]]) 15:02, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

Can I vote that there should be no blanket policy here, to just evaluate on a case-by-case basis? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] ([[User talk:KilMichaelMcC|talk]]) 16:33, 6 August 2016 (EDT)
: Absolutely, and seconded. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 16:45, 6 August 2016 (EDT)

So I count '''Split: 10''' (Xaaron, SHIELD Agent 47, Charles RB, Jim S, Riptide, Sky Shadow, Stealthyboy, NovaSaber, abates, Sabrblade), '''Keep: 2''' (Nevermore, Grum), with no guiding hand from Admin/Owners. Can we go ahead with splitting these three characters, with the understanding that no larger administrative policy is being established, and future cases should still be evaluated on an individual basis? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 10:42, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
:I mentioned it on the Allspark, but I don't have any particularly strong preference so long it's applied consistently for all the applicable Aligned characters, and not just Grimlock. I do kind of question the sense in still treating Aligned like it's still a single timeline under Squint Test rules, since it seems reasonably certain, between RID Grimlock's existence and the departure of Hasbro folks like Archer, that that concept has been thrown out the window. But I also feel like splitting these characters has benefits in terms of accessibility for the casual user, and I guess that's why I'm not going to vote against – I think I probably would if it felt entirely like meaningless "furniture rearrangement" (as Sipher puts it). I think it's worth putting out one final call for people to 'vote' on the Allspark thread before going ahead with the split. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 11:19, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
::Also, as a postscript: if the splits do go ahead, links will need updating pretty hasty-like, or else there'll be a hell of a lot of potential for confusion. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 11:26, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
:::Relinked episodes 1-12 and the main RID series page so far. Moving on to the non-show relinks now. --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 02:00, 8 August 2016 (GMT)
::::Every image and linked-to non-TV-story on Grim's page has been relinked, plus the RID toyline page. Just the rest of the eps and other character's pages to go--[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 02:30, 8 August 2016 (GMT)
:::::Eps and main Autobots relinked--[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 02:50, 8 August 2016 (GMT)
::::::I think I've got all of the remaining articles, so there's just a pile of images with links to the wrong Grimlock in their descriptions. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 07:11, 8 August 2016 (EDT)
:Throwing my vote in while I still can. I said it on The Allspark an will say it here that I'm in favor of splitting the Grimlock, Sideswipe, and Kickback articles. Although... [[Blurr (Prime)]] might be a fourth contender for splitting as well, but I'm not as eager to see that one split as the other three, so I won't fight for that one as much if enough people object to splitting the Blurr page. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 14:27, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
::Hrm. Yeah, I'd say split the Blurrs, too. They've really only got "car what goes fast" in common, and really, what ''else'' is a bot called Blurr going to turn into? With that one in particular, they're so different that there's no way to reconcile them for an opening paragraph other than the faux-narrative of "first he was this, then he was this". --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 14:38, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
:I'm actually in favour of split. Not sure I'm particularly worried about Kickback, but Grimlock and Sideswipe definitely. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 18:34, 7 August 2016 (EDT)
Starting on Sideswipe now. Though, come to think of it, is it necessary to title ''Robots in Disguise'' Sideswipe at "Sideswipe (RID 2015)" since the 2001 guy has a space in his name? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 11:15, 8 August 2016 (EDT)
::No, strictly speaking it wouldn't need the 2015, though it's probably a case where an argument could be made for making an exception? [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 12:36, 8 August 2016 (EDT)

== Generations toyline page ==

A thought: do the ''Combiner Wars'' and ''Titans Return'' sublines merit their own pages? The [[Transformers: Generations|''Generations'' page]] has exceeded the length of even the [[The Transformers (toyline)|U.S. G1 toyline page]], and barring some unforeseen financial disaster at Hasbro, we know that the Prime Wars Trilogy will get another entry after ''Titans Return''. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 16:28, 14 August 2016 (EDT)
:I agree. Given how the "''Combiner Wars''" and "''Titans Return''" names overshadow the "''Generations''" name on the packaging, I think we should give them their own page. The fact that each also has a [[Combiner Wars (franchise)|franchise]] [[Titans Return (franchise)|page]] I think warrants this expansion. --[[User:DannyBoy|DannyBoy]] ([[User talk:DannyBoy|talk]]) 18:20, 14 August 2016 (EDT)
:I'm on board with that.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] ([[User talk:Nevermore|talk]]) 06:27, 15 August 2016 (EDT)
::Given that Combiner Wars, Titans Return and the next line are under the "Prime Wars" umbrella, maybe we should make a Prime Wars subpage for Generations, similar to the way certain character pages have a separate Toys page, and put the toys in those three lines on that page.[[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 17:10, 18 August 2016 (EDT)
Anyone in opposition to this motion? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 00:09, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
:Splitting is probably the least unwieldy option, or will be eventually, so I don't see why not. [[User:Item42|Item42]] ([[User talk:Item42|talk]]) 00:32, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
I'd been considering this myself for a while. My suggestion, I guess, would be splitting it three ways, by logo/branding - original, FOC/T30, and Prime Wars. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 04:45, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
:I think the original Deluxe line, FoC, and T30 can all stay on the same Generations page since their packaging has "Transformers: Generations" as the main thing. I'd even argue splitting up Combiner Wars and Titans Return into their own pages given that (as far as I know) Prime Wars wasn't mentioned on their toy packaging. --[[User:DannyBoy|DannyBoy]] ([[User talk:DannyBoy|talk]]) 11:55, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
::Of course the argument "size of the logo on the packaging" opens a whole can of worms again regarding ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'', which we currently consider a [[subline imprint]] of [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2010)]]… Long story short, the title "Reveal the Shield" on the packaging has the same size and font and all as the concurrently available original ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe line's title (seriouly, just judging from the packaging alone, [http://imgur.com/a/Mhhjr how is the right one a toy line and the left one only a subline imprint]?)… on the other hand, all the ''Reveal the Shield'' assortments were continued from the 2010 ''Transformers'' line's general retail assortments ([http://imgur.com/B2YWKYd same assortment numbers]), which were simpy branded ''Transformers'' with additional stickers for the ''[[Hunt for the Decepticons]]'' promotion and Jesus Christ on a bicycle 2010's branding was confusing as hell.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] ([[User talk:Nevermore|talk]]) 15:34, 22 August 2016 (EDT)
:::''Combiner Wars'' and ''Titans Return'', though, are subline imprints with noteworthy fiction due to their status as multimedia branding. If and when I get to separating out the toylines into their own articles, I believe I will focus on those two. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 23:40, 25 August 2016 (EDT)

== Masterforce humans and transtectors ==

Um, why are we separating the human Minerva, Ginrai, etc. from the robot Minerva, Ginrai, etc? Especially considering that we just fairly recently combined the organic Nebulan Peacemaker (et al.) and the robotic Peaceman (et al.). --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 12:39, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
:Well, it's not really a comparable situation to Peacemaker and co. - this is robot and human versions of the same character co-existing together in the same world, not a character being variably robot or human in different universes. With new fiction (and probably more to come) of the humans and robots off doing separate stuff, splitting them out is probably the solution that leads to the least-confusing biography write-ups... [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 12:46, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
::We already did this almost two years ago for [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Goshooter]] when they appeared simultaneously in order to keep track of them better. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 12:49, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
:::What Jalaguy said. Otherwise we get alternating paragraphs of human and robot Minerva fiction which only confuse readers. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:16, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
::::Should their toys be split onto subpages as well then? It seems redundant to have exactly the same section on both pages.[[User:Omegatron|Omegatron]] ([[User talk:Omegatron|talk]]) 17:10, 30 August 2016 (EDT)
:::::They're not that long and they don't have the exact same set of toys. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 17:14, 30 August 2016 (EDT)

Skalorr

2016-09-04T14:21:09Z

Halfshell25:

[[File:SkalorrSpacewarp'sLog.jpg|400px|thumb|right|You maniacs! You blew it up! You blew it all up!]]

Once a peaceful organic world, the planet '''Skalorr''' was once home to two competing civilizations: one insular and industrious, the other violent and warlike. All that changed when the planet's sun went nova, bathing the entire planet with deadly radiation. The bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape that remains is haunted by grotesque mutants and [[Rock Lord| Rock Lords]], who stalk the shattered ruins of bygone cities. What little plant life remains grows in deep valleys and hidden caves.

Yet civilization, in some form, remains - for both species had gone into hibernation before the devastating solar flares hit their world. With their essences transferred into robotic bodies, the heroic [[Protecton]]s and evil [[Terrakor]]s wage a war for the future of their planet. They're the [[Robotix]]!

Strange as it may seem, Skalorr is actually a distant dimensional counterpart of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and [[Gobotron]]!

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
The Cybertron of [[Primax 698.20 Theta]] was known as Skalorr before the [[Quintesson]]s [[Eco-structuring|eco-structured]] the planet.

Another Skalorr was found in [[Xobitor 1085.06 Alpha]]. It was not fully mechaformed and was home to the warring [[Protecton]]s and the [[Terrakor]]s. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===Spacewarp's Log===
The ''[[Daniel Boone (ship)|Daniel Boone]]'' crashed on Skalorr shortly before the Robotix emerged from their hibernation. When the Protectons and Terrakors resumed their conflict, the crew of the ship split: some of them chose to join the Protectons, while others allied with the Terrakors.
[[File:AperobotixSL.jpg|thumb|right|A typical resident of Skalorr.]]
After travelling through a black hole, [[Spacewarp]] emerged in another universe. When she returned to where Cybertron ''should'' have been, she found herself orbiting Skalorr instead. She was intercepted by Nemesis's group of Terrakors and their [[human]] allies, who brought her back to the planet's surface. As a [[Decepticon]], she found a certain kinship with the villainous cyborgs. Unfortunatley for her, she was double-crossed by Nemesis and wound up on the dissection table. She was saved by the Protectons, who brought her back to the ruined city of [[Zanador]]. Before she was able to leave, however, the [[Compu-Core]]- the pre-catastrophe artifact capable of creating more Robotix- malfunctioned.

Unable to live with two species dying on her watch, Spacewarp reluctantly pledged to help the Protectons repair the Compu-Core. The Protecton-Decepticon alliance came into conflict with the Terrakors and a group of mutants along the way, but ultimately succeeded in their quest. With the Compu-Core back in Protecton hands and ready to create more heroic Robotix, Spacewarp bid the Protectons farewell, and wished them well in their fight to liberate the city of [[Terracoria]] and vanquish the Terrakors. {{storylink|Spacewarp's Log}}

[[Category:Animated planets]]
[[Category:Beast Wars planets]]
[[Category:Robotix]]

Patch (episode)

2016-08-31T23:35:18Z

Halfshell25:

{{disambig2|the ''Prime'' episode|the dog from Generation 1|Patch (G1)}}

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 50
|prev=Inside Job
|next=Regeneration (Prime)
|image=Patch Starscream dances.jpg
|caption= Everybody cut loose! Footloose!
|title="Patch"
|airdate=[[October 19]], [[2012]]
|written by=[[Duane Capizzi]]
|directed by=[[Shaunt Nigoghossian]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
}}

'''Starscream proposes a truce with Megatron, but the Decepticon leader remains suspicious.'''

==Synopsis==
Atop the Decepticon warship, [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] asks [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] what he seeks in return for the [[Omega Key]]s, his answer being that he merely wishes to once more be a [[Decepticon]] under Megatron's command. Megatron points out that [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] is now his second-in-command, and Starscream insists he will keep to his place. Skeptical, Megatron has [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] extracted from the wall so that he can connect Megatron and Starscream with a [[cortical psychic patch]].

[[Image:PatchKnockOut.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Don't get so cocky, Knock Out.]]

By rummaging through Starscream's memories, Megatron intends to find what really drives him. Once inside, he reminds Starscream that there are no secrets, even as they watch Starscream's base consciousness obnoxiously celebrating becoming leader of the Decepticons, much to the present Starscream's embarrassment and Megatron's amusement.

He begins by reviewing the events surrounding the [[space bridge]] explosion. Megatron watches various instances of Starscream's attempts at assassination: the time he made a bunch of clones to infiltrate the ''Nemesis''; and when he tried to make a deal with Airachnid. Starscream lamely claims he was half-crazed with energon deficiency at the time, and insists he always had Megatron's best interests at heart, like removing the [[Dark Energon]] from his body so his mind did not become corrupted by it. Naturally, Megatron doesn't buy it. Upon replaying Starscream's musings when Megatron was trapped underground, he suggests that Starscream refrain from thinking out loud in the future. He also drops the hint that if Starscream fails to be convincing, the patch session will end in Starscream's termination.

Starscream claims the occasional trouncing is enough to bring him back into line, and tries to play up his own generosity, bringing up the gift of [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]'s corpse for Dark Energon experimentation, and his use of his wits in dealing with the Autobots. Megatron points out his wits are usually insufficient to compensate for his arrogance: when he faced [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] while charged up on Dark Energon; or when he tried to use the [[Energon Harvester]] on [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]. The revelation that [[MECH]] took Starscream's [[transformation cog|T-Cog]] greatly amuses Megatron, though Starscream is hoping that that might be restored to him in exchange for the Omega Keys — after all, he usually transforms with such style. He points out that at the time he deserted the Deception cause, he was not being made to feel particularly welcome there, despite apparently learning his place. Megatron does not believe Starscream's change of heart at the time would have lasted, and replays a discussion between Starscream and Knock Out while Megatron was lying in a coma in the sick bay. In the real world, Knock Out starts to realize that Starscream's memories are going to be equally incriminating to himself. Panicking, he comes up with a plan to disconnect the patch, trapping Megatron in Starscream's mind.

[[Image:PatchKnockOutDreadwing.jpg|thumb|right|250px|That awkward moment when you find out that your thought-to-be-dead twin brother is a zombie.]]

As Knock Out goes to unplug Megatron, Dreadwing stops him and he is forced to make up an excuse. Megatron's psychic interrogation of Starscream continues, and while Starscream claims that not even Dreadwing may have been a "perfect" replacement as his second-in-command, Megatron agrees, but points out at least Dreadwing and his departed brother [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] were loyal and honorable. Starscream's memories of Skyquake's death and revival through Dark Energon are replayed, and he recalls how Skyquake was left in an undead state in some dimensional nether-realm. This revelation comes as a shock to Dreadwing, who is still watching in the lab. Megatron announces that Starscream will be allowed to rejoin the Decepticon forces proper, as they ''must'' be working as one unit if Cybertron is to be properly restored, a fact also addressed to the watching Knock Out. Shaken, Knock Out turns away from the monitor to discover that Dreadwing is no longer in the room. The second-in-command is instead on the outer hull of the ''Nemesis'', and aims a scream of rage at the sky.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* ''[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'' (6)
* ''[[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]'' (12)
* ''[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'' (13)
* ''[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]'' (14)
* ''[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]'' (15)
* ''[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]''
* ''[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (back of head only)
|c2=
* [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (1)
* [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (2)
* [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] (3)
* [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (4)
* ''[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]]'' (5)
* ''[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]'' (7)
* ''[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]'' (8)
* ''[[Starscream clone (Prime)|Starscream clone]]s'' (9)
* ''[[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]'' (10)
* ''[[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]'' (11)
* ''[[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]'' (17)
|c3=
* ''[[Silas]]'' (16)
* ''[[MECH Commando]]s''
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>''Only appeared in flashback.''

==Quotes==
"Few things of value come without a price."
:—'''Megatron'''

"This is going to be ''juicy''."
:—'''Knock Out''' will regret that prediction.

''The camera focuses on Starscream after they see his victory dance memory'' 
"A-heh-heh-heh... you're inside my head, aren't you?" 
:—'''Starscream''' realizes what Megatron's up to.

"Were they, Starscream?! Were they ever?!"

"A word of advice? Stop thinking aloud."
:—'''Megatron''' reckons Starscream talks too much.

"Ah, I do transform with an exceptional sense of style... I said that out loud, didn't I?"
:—'''Starscream''' doesn't take Megatron's words to heart.

"Uh oh... Does this thing have a fast forward button? Or better yet, erase?!"
:—'''Knock Out''' knows he's in the scrap yard now.

"Awkward..."
:—'''Knock Out''' aptly summarizes the general atmosphere of the episode.

"Infighting has nearly destroyed the Decepticons during your absence. We are to operate as a united front if we are to revive and conquer Cybertron. That means each and every one of us... ''Knock Out''!"
:—'''Megatron''', swatting two flies in one hit.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* When Knock Out is looking around the lab to see Dreadwing is gone, the tables are empty, when Megatron and Starscream should be visible on them.

===Continuity errors===
* Starscream was not present when Skyquake was trapped in an alternate dimension in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]", nor was that fact ever made clear to him or any other Decepticon. While it is obvious that Skyquake lost his arm (since it attacked Starscream), Starscream shouldn't have such precise knowledge of his fate.
* How ''did'' Starscream get aboard the ''Nemesis'', anyway?

===Continuity notes===
* This is the first truly Decepticon-focused episode, with no Autobots appearing outside of flashbacks.
* Dreadwing learns of Starscream's attempt to revive Skyquake as a zombie minion in "Shadowzone", as well as his imprisonment in an alternate dimension at the end of that episode.
* Megatron tells Dreadwing to free Knock Out from the wall of the ''Nemesis'', which occurred in the [[Inside Job|previous episode]].

===Real-world references===
* When the Vehicons "All hail Starscream", he begins a hilarious victory-dance routine, with his final moves being an impression of John Travolta in ''Saturday Night Fever''. According to interviews with the crew, this was not in the script, being added in as a joke by the [[Polygon Pictures|Polygon]] animation team. After all laughing about it, the US crew decided to keep it in the actual episode.

===Trivia===
* This is the second [[clip show|clip episode]], the first being "[[Grill]]".
* Megatron's mental projection has his original arm, not the [[dead Prime]]'s arm, just like in the [[Inside Job|previous episode]].
* For being clever enough to engineer a plan to successfully steal all four Omega Keys, Starscream didn't really think through his plan to regain Megatron's favor. He went in with no insurance policy to make sure Megatron didn't just simply scrap him and take the keys instead.
* So, uh... how did they get Knock Out out of the wall? And how did he expect to get put back into it?
** If the wall was torn down by Dreadwing, Knock Out would be suggesting that Megatron will order the wall to be built again with Knock Out's dead corpse sticking in it.
* Starscream's got sweet dance moves!

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''In Starscreams Kopf'''" ("Inside Starscream's Head")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 25|25 February]] [[2013]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Shikkoku Henkei! Uragiri no Kage'''" (漆黒変形!裏切りの影, "Blackest Transformation! The Shadow of Treachery")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 16|16 March]] [[2013]]
:*A scene that was cut from the original Japanese dub of "[[Rock Bottom]]" is actually kept in and dubbed in this episode.

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fragmentos'''" ("Fragments")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 18|18 August]] [[2013]]

[[Category:Prime episodes]]
[[Category:Clip shows]]

Patch (episode)

2016-08-30T00:38:04Z

Halfshell25: /* Real-world references */

{{disambig2|the ''Prime'' episode|the dog from Generation 1|Patch (G1)}}

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 50
|prev=Inside Job
|next=Regeneration (Prime)
|image=Patch Starscream dances.jpg
|caption= Everybody cut loose! Footloose!
|title="Patch"
|airdate=[[October 19]], [[2012]]
|written by=[[Duane Capizzi]]
|directed by=[[Shaunt Nigoghossian]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
}}

'''Starscream proposes a truce with Megatron, but the Decepticon leader remains suspicious.'''

==Synopsis==
Atop the Decepticon warship, [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] asks [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] what he seeks in return for the [[Omega Key]]s, his answer being that he merely wishes to once more be a [[Decepticon]] under Megatron's command. Megatron points out that [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] is now his second-in-command, and Starscream insists he will keep to his place. Skeptical, Megatron has [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] extracted from the wall so that he can connect Megatron and Starscream with a [[cortical psychic patch]].

[[Image:PatchKnockOut.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Don't get so cocky, Knock Out.]]

By rummaging through Starscream's memories, Megatron intends to find what really drives him. Once inside, he reminds Starscream that there are no secrets, even as they watch Starscream's base consciousness obnoxiously celebrating becoming leader of the Decepticons, much to the present Starscream's embarrassment and Megatron's amusement.

He begins by reviewing the events surrounding the [[space bridge]] explosion. Megatron watches various instances of Starscream's attempts at assassination: the time he made a bunch of clones to infiltrate the ''Nemesis''; and when he tried to make a deal with Airachnid. Starscream lamely claims he was half-crazed with energon deficiency at the time, and insists he always had Megatron's best interests at heart, like removing the [[Dark Energon]] from his body so his mind did not become corrupted by it. Naturally, Megatron doesn't buy it. Upon replaying Starscream's musings when Megatron was trapped underground, he suggests that Starscream refrain from thinking out loud in the future. He also drops the hint that if Starscream fails to be convincing, the patch session will end in Starscream's termination.

Starscream claims the occasional trouncing is enough to bring him back into line, and tries to play up his own generosity, bringing up the gift of [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]'s corpse for Dark Energon experimentation, and his use of his wits in dealing with the Autobots. Megatron points out his wits are usually insufficient to compensate for his arrogance: when he faced [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] while charged up on Dark Energon; or when he tried to use the [[Energon Harvester]] on [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]. The revelation that [[MECH]] took Starscream's [[transformation cog|T-Cog]] greatly amuses Megatron, though Starscream is hoping that that might be restored to him in exchange for the Omega Keys — after all, he usually transforms with such style. He points out that at the time he deserted the Deception cause, he was not being made to feel particularly welcome there, despite apparently learning his place. Megatron does not believe Starscream's change of heart at the time would have lasted, and replays a discussion between Starscream and Knock Out while Megatron was lying in a coma in the sick bay. In the real world, Knock Out starts to realize that Starscream's memories are going to be equally incriminating to himself. Panicking, he comes up with a plan to disconnect the patch, trapping Megatron in Starscream's mind.

[[Image:PatchKnockOutDreadwing.jpg|thumb|right|250px|That awkward moment when you find out that your thought-to-be-dead twin brother is a zombie.]]

As Knock Out goes to unplug Megatron, Dreadwing stops him and he is forced to make up an excuse. Megatron's psychic interrogation of Starscream continues, and while Starscream claims that not even Dreadwing may have been a "perfect" replacement as his second-in-command, Megatron agrees, but points out at least Dreadwing and his departed brother [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] were loyal and honorable. Starscream's memories of Skyquake's death and revival through Dark Energon are replayed, and he recalls how Skyquake was left in an undead state in some dimensional nether-realm. This revelation comes as a shock to Dreadwing, who is still watching in the lab. Megatron announces that Starscream will be allowed to rejoin the Decepticon forces proper, as they ''must'' be working as one unit if Cybertron is to be properly restored, a fact also addressed to the watching Knock Out. Shaken, Knock Out turns away from the monitor to discover that Dreadwing is no longer in the room. The second-in-command is instead on the outer hull of the ''Nemesis'', and aims a scream of rage at the sky.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* ''[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'' (6)
* ''[[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]'' (12)
* ''[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'' (13)
* ''[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]'' (14)
* ''[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]'' (15)
* ''[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]''
* ''[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (back of head only)
|c2=
* [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (1)
* [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (2)
* [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] (3)
* [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (4)
* ''[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]]'' (5)
* ''[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]'' (7)
* ''[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]'' (8)
* ''[[Starscream clone (Prime)|Starscream clone]]s'' (9)
* ''[[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]'' (10)
* ''[[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]'' (11)
* ''[[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]'' (17)
|c3=
* ''[[Silas]]'' (16)
* ''[[MECH Commando]]s''
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>''Only appeared in flashback.''

==Quotes==
"Few things of value come without a price."
:—'''Megatron'''

"This is going to be ''juicy''."
:—'''Knock Out''' will regret that prediction.

''The camera focuses on Starscream after they see his victory dance memory'' 
"A-heh-heh-heh... you're inside my head, aren't you?" 
:—'''Starscream''' realizes what Megatron's up to.

"Were they, Starscream?! Were they ever?!"

"A word of advice? Stop thinking aloud."
:—'''Megatron''' reckons Starscream talks too much.

"Ah, I do transform with an exceptional sense of style... I said that out loud, didn't I?"
:—'''Starscream''' doesn't take Megatron's words to heart.

"Uh oh... Does this thing have a fast forward button? Or better yet, erase?!"
:—'''Knock Out''' knows he's in the scrap yard now.

"Awkward..."
:—'''Knock Out''' aptly summarizes the general atmosphere of the episode.

"Infighting has nearly destroyed the Decepticons during your absence. We are to operate as a united front if we are to revive and conquer Cybertron. That means each and every one of us... ''Knock Out''!"
:—'''Megatron''', swatting two flies in one hit.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* When Knock Out is looking around the lab to see Dreadwing is gone, the tables are empty, when Megatron and Starscream should be visible on them.

===Continuity errors===
* Starscream was not present when Skyquake was trapped in an alternate dimension in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]", nor was that fact ever made clear to him or any other Decepticon. While it is obvious that Skyquake lost his arm (since it attacked Starscream), Starscream shouldn't have such precise knowledge of his fate.
* How ''did'' Starscream get aboard the ''Nemesis'', anyway?

===Continuity notes===
* This is the first truly Decepticon-focused episode, with no Autobots appearing outside of flashbacks.
* Dreadwing learns of Starscream's attempt to revive Skyquake as a zombie minion in "Shadowzone", as well as his imprisonment in an alternate dimension at the end of that episode.
* Megatron tells Dreadwing to free Knock Out from the wall of the ''Nemesis'', which occurred in the [[Inside Job|previous episode]].

===Real-world references===
* When the Vehicons "All hail Starscream", he begins a hilarious victory-dance routine, with his final moves being an impression of John Travolta in ''Saturday Night Fever''. According to the crew from this episode's DVD commentary, this dance was not in the script, being added in as a joke by the animation team. After all laughing about it, the US crew decided to keep it in the actual episode.

===Trivia===
* This is the second [[clip show|clip episode]], the first being "[[Grill]]".
* Megatron's mental projection has his original arm, not the [[dead Prime]]'s arm, just like in the [[Inside Job|previous episode]].
* For being clever enough to engineer a plan to successfully steal all four Omega Keys, Starscream didn't really think through his plan to regain Megatron's favor. He went in with no insurance policy to make sure Megatron didn't just simply scrap him and take the keys instead.
* So, uh... how did they get Knock Out out of the wall? And how did he expect to get put back into it?
** If the wall was torn down by Dreadwing, Knock Out would be suggesting that Megatron will order the wall to be built again with Knock Out's dead corpse sticking in it.
* Starscream's got sweet dance moves!

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''In Starscreams Kopf'''" ("Inside Starscream's Head")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 25|25 February]] [[2013]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Shikkoku Henkei! Uragiri no Kage'''" (漆黒変形!裏切りの影, "Blackest Transformation! The Shadow of Treachery")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 16|16 March]] [[2013]]
:*A scene that was cut from the original Japanese dub of "[[Rock Bottom]]" is actually kept in and dubbed in this episode.

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fragmentos'''" ("Fragments")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 18|18 August]] [[2013]]

[[Category:Prime episodes]]
[[Category:Clip shows]]

Flowspade

2016-08-24T16:02:11Z

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{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Flowspade is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

{{mainpic}}

Originally an agent of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], Flowspade abandoned her spying role to serve [[Megaempress]], the very bot whose ranks she was assigned to infiltrate. She now serves as a guard to the charismatic fembot.

Flowspade combines with her 4 teammates to form the mighty [[Megatronia]].

==Fiction==
===''Unite Warriors''===
Mistrusting Megatron's new creation Megaempress, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had [[Flowspade]] infiltrate her 4 Guards, but the spy ended up being swayed by Megaempress's charisma and became truly loyal to her. Seeing no other option, Shockwave put Megaempress in stasis. {{storylink|#Unite Warriors 2|Megatronia bios}}

Megaempress and her retinue would later emerge in [[2021]] to observe a battle between [[Grand Galvatron]] and [[Sky Reign|Lynxmaster]]. {{Storylink|Lynxmaster Chapter}}

==Toys==
===Unite Warriors===

*'''Megatronia''' ([[Calendar|12]]–[[2016]])
**''ID number:''
**''Acessories:''
:Released as part of the ''Unite Warriors'' Megatronia gift set, Flowspace is a redeco of ''Generations'' Combiner Wars [[Dust Up]], who is a retool of ''Generations'' [[Dead End (G1)#CombinerWars|Dead End]]. She transforms into a sports car that resembles a Ferrari 458 Italia. She can also form an arm or leg to super-robot Megatronia, though in this mode she can also use combine with any ''Combiner Wars'' or ''Unite Warriors'' Voyagers.

==Notes==
*Flowspade's color scheme appears to be based on [[Crasher (GoBots)|Crasher]] from [[GoBots]]. This may be coincidental however.

{{comingsoontoy}}
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[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Unite Warriors Decepticons]]

Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)

2016-08-24T01:08:41Z

Halfshell25:

{{Nav-CombinerWars}}
[[File:CW-WebSeriesPoster.jpg|thumb|right|300px|As part of [[Hasbro|Hasbro's]] attempt to create an "adult" Transformers series, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus']] crotch was accordingly protracted.]]
'''Transformers: Combiner Wars''' is an animated web series set to premiere on August 2, 2016. The series, co-produced by [[Machinima]] and [[Hasbro Studios]] with animation done by [[Tatsunoko Production]], is targeted at older audiences, and ties into the concurrent ''Combiner Wars'' imprint. <ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/comic-con-transformers-animated-series-807464]</ref> The series is run by [[Eric S. Calderon]], [[George Krstic]], and [[F.J. DeSanto]].<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2015/09/21/transformers-combiner-wars-animated-digital-series-creators-revealed-301653]</ref>

As of January 31st, 2016, the scripts for the first seven episodes have been finalized, according to Machinima.<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/machinima-transformers-combiner-wars-final-script-complete/34656/]</ref> On June 23, screenshots from the series were released<ref>[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/22/transformers-combiner-wars-show-photos?iid=sr-link6]</ref>, and a prelude trailer was released on June 28.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformers/videos/1072571896146337/]</ref> The series debuted August 2 on the [[go90]] platform in the US, and on Machinima's YouTube channel elsewhere.

==Overview==
Forty years after the conclusion of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] on [[Earth]], the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s are no more and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] are relics of the past. Cybertron is at last at peace, ruled by the triumvirate of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime]], and the [[Mistress of Flame]]. However, the [[Enigma of Combination]], an ancient [[Artifacts of the Primes|artifact]] of [[Primus]], has triggered new conflict through the creation of huge, dangerous [[Combiner]]s, and now Cybertron's fragile peace is in danger of collapse.

==Cast==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Jon Bailey]])
*[[Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime]] ([[Ben Pronsky]])

'''Combiners'''
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]] ([[Ricky Hayberg]])
|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] ([[Jason Marnocha]])
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] ([[Frank Todaro]])
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]

'''Combiners'''
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] ([[Charlie Guzman]])
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] ([[Patrick Seitz]])

|c4=
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] ([[Abby Trott]])
*[[Victorion]] ([[Anna Akana]])
*[[Mistress of Flame]] ([[Lana McKissack]])
*[[Maxima]] ([[Amy Johnston]])
}}

==Episodes==
===Preludes===
{{collist|2|
# [[Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Optimus Prime|Optimus Prime]]
# [[Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Victorion|Victorion]]
# [[Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Starscream|Starscream]]
# [[Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Windblade|Windblade]]
}}
===Main episodes===
{{collist|2|
# [[The Fall]]
# [[The Council]]
# [[The Duel]]
# [[Unforgotten]]
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Media]]

Cheetor (BW)/toys

2016-08-18T02:47:40Z

Halfshell25: /* Masterpiece */

{{suite}}
[[File:CheetorBWtoys.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|A sea of yellow and spots.]]
Being the yellow [[kid-appeal character]] of the [[Beast Era]], '''[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]''' gets a lot of toys!

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
{{anchor|Dx1}}

[[File:BWtoy-Cheetorgreeneyes.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|From robot... to brick.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Deluxe, 1996/1997)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-3'''
**''Accessories:'' Tail-gun, water-shooting gun

: Cheetor transforms into an organic, big cat-like creature somewhat resembling a [[Popular beast alternate modes|cheetah]]. As such, he is yellow and covered in spots. In [[robot mode]], he is armed with a rifle made out of his hindquarters and tail, along with a second "gut gun" formed out of his stomach. The gut-gun has a [[Water-squirting gimmick]]. As with most early ''Beast Wars'' toys, he features a "[[mutant head]]" that replaces his face.

: There are several variations of this toy. The initial "rocky bubble" version of the toy features blue cheetah eyes and was incredibly hard to find [[Cheetor (BW)|due to delayed shipping]]. The "smooth bubble" release later in the year gave him red cheetah eyes. He was released again in 1997 (what with being a popular show character) in ''Beast Wars'''s second year, this time with bright green cheetah eyes, and the gold robot eyes of the previous two versions were changed to green.

:[[TakaraTomy|Takara]] released two different Cheetor toys; one that was the same as the original, red-eyed version, and a [[Variant|running change]] [[:File:BW toy - Running change Cheetor.jpg|version]] that not only has various color tweaks to make him slightly more show-colored (including dark green cheetah eyes, a gold head crest instead of blue, and red robot eyes), but also has a slight [[Retool|mold tweak]] to keep the beast head pointed forward in robot mode, which has been retained on all versions thereafter, excepting [[Hasbro]]'s initial release of [[Tigatron]].

: This mold was later [[redeco]]ed for a "[[#DxFK|Fox Kids]]" version, as well as [[#Beast Wars 10th Anniversary|both the Hasbro and Takara 10th anniversary versions]] of the character.

: This mold was also used to make [[Shadow Panther]]/[[Ravage (G1)/toys|Tripredacus Agent]] and [[Tigatron]]. It was slated to be used for ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Nightprowler]], but that toy set was canceled.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Maximal/Cheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Cheetor at TFU.info]''

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[[File:VS3-CheetorWaspinator.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Is it possible to win a battle of the losers?]]
*'''Showdown of the Quickest: Cheetus VS Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1997)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-3'''
**''Accessories:'' Tail-gun, water-shooting gun

: In Japan, Cheetor was available both separately and in a VS pack with [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]. Both toys are identical to their original releases.

:Currently, it is unknown if the latter "show-like" version of the two toys were ever released in the VS set.

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*'''Cheetus''' golden version (Deluxe, 1997)
**''Accessories:'' Tail-gun, water-shooting gun

: A one-of-a-kind, all-gold version of Cheetor was awarded in Japan for a ''[[TV Magazine]]'' contest. Presumably, his softer joint-plastic and water bladder were unchromed gold, while everything else was blindingly gold-chromed.

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[[File:BWtoy-CheetorTM.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|NOT a Power Rangers zord.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Transmetal Deluxe, 1999)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-42'''
**''Accessories:'' Tail-whip

: As with most first-wave [[Transmetal]]s toys, Cheetor's [[beast mode]] is entirely robotic, but his robot mode has organic elements in its design. In beast mode, two rocket boosters can be flipped out (and extended, which the cartoon failed to show) of the sides of the cat torso to create a "flight mode", plus his tail rotates 180 to provide a "stabilizer" fin. In robot mode, his removable tail becomes a spiked whip, but he has no ranged weaponry, though you can put his two-fingered hands together to simulate the "gun" he used on the show. The toy suffers from a design flaw where the breast plate's hinges that holds both arms up in beast mode suffers from a lot of stress, and, over time, can't hold up the cheetah head properly anymore.

: The Takara ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals (franchise)|Beast Wars Metals]]'' release of the Transmetal Cheetor toy features five changes from the Hasbro version. The more immediately noticeable is that the "CHEETOR" [[tampograph]] on his beast mode was changed to "CYBERTRON" and the Maximal [[insignia|faction symbol]]. The other changes make Takara's version closer to Cheetor's show appearance than the Hasbro version. The Takara Cheetor has green robot mode eyes (Hasbro's version has light blue), the robot mode chest has a full coat of yellow paint (Hasbro's version fades to the gray plastic at the outer edges), the cheetah teeth are painted (Hasbro's are unpainted), and the gray plastic is less brown than Hasbro's.

: This mold was retooled into [[Ravage (G1)/toys|Metals Jaguar]] and [[BotCon 2001]]'s [[Tigatron]], and slightly retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' [[Cheetor (Armada)|Cheetor]]. It was also used as the model for the non-toy character [[Cataclysm (BW)|Cataclysm]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Maximal/Cheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Transmetal Cheetor at TFU.info]''

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*'''Hurricane Showdown: Metals Cheetus VS Metals Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1999)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-42'''
**''Accessories:'' Tail-whip

: Once again Cheetor was packaged in a VS pack with [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], this time in their "Metals" forms. Again, both toys are identical to the individual releases.

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[[File:BeastWars Transmetal2 Cheetor.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|A body only Primal could love.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Transmetal 2 Deluxe, 1999)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-49'''
**''Accessories:'' Launcher, missile, tail-flail

: Transmetal 2 Cheetor is the first major departure from the usual Cheetor styling, but maintains the standard "stand up cat"-style transformation, for which the robot mode is essentially the beast mode standing on its hind legs. Transmetal 2 Cheetor transforms into a saber-toothed tiger-type big cat with a large rocket engine grafted into his back. In robot mode, this rocket engine becomes a spring-loaded missile launcher.

: As with all Transmetal 2 toys, he features a [[spark]] crystal, a small, clear-colored ball with a vacuum-metalized faction logo inside. Cheetor's spark is placed on his left hind leg.

: This mold was later redecoed into [[Ravage (G1)/toys|Tripredacus Agent]]. (Notice the pattern yet?)

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Maximal/TM2Cheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Transmetal 2 Cheetor at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BW-toy CheetorFK.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Ohh... I shouldn't have eaten that seventh gazelle...]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Fox Kids Deluxe, 1999)
**''Accessories:'' Tail-gun, water-shooting gun

: In 1999, a redeco of the [[#Dx1|original Cheetor toy]] was released, with "[[Fox Kids]]" branding on the packaging to advertise the show's move from syndication to a network. Aside from changing the black spots on his fur to a strange maroon color, at first glance, FK Cheetor seems identical to his original counterpart. However, a closer look shows that both the blue and the gold robot parts were all replaced with a metallic blue trim.

: Product listings gave this toy the name "Jungle Roar Cheetor,"<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/C30fV9dqOK0/gPO8D3N_PAUJ</ref> but that name never made it to packaging.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Maximal/FKCheetor/fkcheetor.htm More information on Fox Kids Cheetor at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BW-toy CheetorTMFK.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|First guy to say I look like [[Cataclysm (BW)|Cataclysm]] gets a whip in the nuts.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Fox Kids Transmetal Deluxe, 1999)
**''Accessories:'' Tail-whip

: Shortly afterwards, [[#TM1|Transmetal Cheetor]] received a "Fox Kids" redeco, released along with a redeco of [[Tarantulas (BW)|Transmetal Tarantulas]]. This red-and-dark-green version of Cheetor proved to be hard to come by, as this assortment did not ship for very long at all. Shipping lists listed the toy as "Mech-Tech Cheetor",<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/C30fV9dqOK0/gPO8D3N_PAUJ</ref> but that name never made it to the packaging.

: In Japan, this toy was released as a [[JafCon]] convention [[exclusive]], along with the "Fox Kids" versions of [[Airazor (BW)|Transmetal Airazor]] and [[Rattrap (BW)|Transmetal Rattrap]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Maximal/FKTMCheetor/fktmcheetor.htm More information on Fox Kids Transmetal Cheetor at TFU.info]''

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===Beast Machines===
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[[File:BMtoy-CheetorMega.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|You will never stand this thing up. Never.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Mega, 2000/2005)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''BR-02'''
**''Accessories:'' Tail-whip

: Part of the first assortment of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' Megas, Cheetor transforms into a super-lean [[technorganic]] cheetah. In keeping with the early ''Beast Machines'' design trend of "articulated features", turning the beast mode head causes its jaw to open and close. His left foreleg has a gear-spring horizontal "swiping" action activated by pushing a section of the above shoulder-armor towards his body.

: In robot mode, his head has the same feature; turning it left or right opens and closes his Muppet-like jaw. The "swiping"-action arm—now on his right side—is still available in this mode and can be used to swing his tail-whip around. Because of Cheetor's unusual body proportions and very small feet, he has issues standing up properly in this mode, especially with his legs positioned in the proper cat-like digitigrade style.

: In 2005, the Mega Cheetor toy was re-released as part of the Japanese Toys "R" Us [[exclusive]] ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars Returns]]'' line. It does not appear that any significant changes were made to it. Reportedly, this item had a run of only 4000 pieces.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/Cheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Beast Machines Cheetor (Mega) at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BMtoy-CheetorMcD.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Worst cheetah mode ever? Dude, he walks on his knees.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (McDonald's Happy Meal, 2000)
**''McNumber:'' ?

: This tiny, softer-plastic representation of Cheetor is great for the yung'uns. As one of ''ten'' toys in the [[List of Transformers restaurant promotions|McDonald's]] ''Beast Machines'' Happy Meal promotion, it features an incredibly simplistic transformation with no removable parts. Why does he have that sideways articulation at the knees? Why are the fins on the back of his legs oversized, making his cheetah mode look even more ridiculous than it has to? These are the questions that burn in our nightmares.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/McCheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Beast Machines Cheetor (McDonald's) at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BM Supreme Cheetor.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|So near, yet so far!]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Supreme, 2000)
**''Accessories:'' Tail-sword, 2 missiles

: One of the largest ''Transformers'' toys, nearly as tall as [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] in robot mode, Supreme Cheetor was heavily hyped as an "ultimate" toy. Aside from having the most [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] sculpting of any ''Beast Machines'' Cheetor toy, he features electronic lights and sounds in both modes, articulated jaws on both his beast and robot mode heads, and raising "hackles" on his beast mode back. Each arm contains a [[gimmick]] as well. His left arm has a geared up-and-down "slashing" movement, with extending fingers (yes, fingers) that can spring out of his hand. His right arm contains a spring-loaded twin missile launcher that fires two missiles out of his palm when the arm is pulled back at the elbow. Disappointingly for such a large and well hyped figure, these gimmicks sharply limit his arm articulation. Even with his wide and rubber-padded feet, like [[#BMMega|Mega Cheetor]] he has balance issues in robot mode thanks to his top-heavy construction and oddly jointed legs. His teeth-clenched grin in robot mode is also somewhat off-putting.

: This toy was an ultimately inauspicious start for the Supreme price point. It [[Shelfwarmer|shelfwarmed]] pretty badly and ended up in blowout sales at online retailers discounted more than 75% off its original price tag.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/SupCheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Beast Machines Cheetor (Supreme) at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BM-toy CheetorNightSlash.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|This is totally backwards. The black repaint is supposed to come AFTER the yellow one.]]
*'''Night Slash Cheetor''' (Deluxe, 2001)

: Part of the first wave of the [[Subline imprint|rebranded]] "Battle for the Spark" ''Beast Machines'' Deluxes, "Night Slash" Cheetor is a much more angular and mechanical-looking version of the character, with a more show-like face sculpt. Each bicep holds a spring-loaded sword attached by a brace that flips into his waiting hands when released. He has a Spark Crystal mounted on his upper back between his shoulders, and just behind that, a pair of thrusters on his back as well. His interior chest has a red and silver column that spins within a reflective silver dish when his Spark Crystal is pressed, meant to show the power of his Spark. However, this does not work terribly well given the opacity of the transparent plastic that normally covers it.

: This mold was used to make [[CatSCAN]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Maximal/NightSlashCheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Night Slash Cheetor at TFU.info]''

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[[File:PfCCheetas.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|"Optimus, I don't wanna be mint in sealed box!"]]
*'''Cheetus Black Version''' (Mega, 2005)

: "Cheetus Black Version" (チータスブラックver), otherwise known as "Perfect Choice Cheetus", was the [[#BMMega|original Mega Cheetor toy]] [[redeco]]ed in black and silver as a special ''Beast Wars Returns'' promotional contest prize. By ordering the cartoon series through the digital cable provider, you were automatically entered in a drawing for the toy, along with several other smaller merchandise prizes. All of the gimmicks from the first version are retained in this one.<ref>http://www.soundwavesoblivion.com/japanesebeastwarsreturns.html</ref>

:It is currently unknown how many "Cheetus Black Version" prizes were awarded.

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*'''Cheetor''' (Jollibee Kids Meal, 2009)
**''Accessories:'' Container in Disguise

: Cheetor was available as one of three figures in a Jollibee promotion. The toy is a greatly simplified version of his ''Beast Machines'' Mega toy.

===Transtech===
[[File:TTCheetorToy.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|It's an evolution revolution!]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Deluxe?)

:A new (seemingly Deluxe scale) version of Cheetor was designed for ''[[Transtech]]'', the proposed follow-up to ''Beast Machines'', which would have turned into a Cybertronic F-1 race car with a cheetah motif. It made it at least as far as a resin hardcopy, seemingly with near-final engineering. Aside from featuring a launching, spring-loaded front bumper, it is uncertain what gimmicks it may have had. The toy was ultimately scrapped alongside the rest of the ''Transtech'' line.

:An earlier version of the ''Transtech'' Cheetor design was the basis for the [[Transcendent Technomorph]] version of [[Cheetor (TransTech)|Cheetor]].
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===Universe (2003)===
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[[File:TFU03-toy Cheetor.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|My love for primal is like the sun and the moon, knowing they can never touch...]]
*'''Night Slash Cheetor''' (Deluxe, 2005)

: A redeco of the [[#BMNSC|''Beast Machines'' Night Slash Cheetor toy]], the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Autobot]] version gives Cheets a predominantly orangey-yellow coloration again, but this time with a lot of dark red and some super-dark blue accents. All of his gimmicks from the previous version are retained.

: This toy was one of the last toys in the original ''Universe'' toyline sold at normal wide-release retail.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/NSCheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Universe Cheetor at TFU.info]''
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===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===
[[File:BW-toy Cheetor10th.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Guess what, I'm gonna have blue arms from now on.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Beast Wars 10th Anniversary, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Tail-gun, water-shooting gun

: In 2006, Hasbro redecoed the [[#Dx1|original Cheetor toy]] for their ''Beast Wars 10th Anniversary'' reissue line. He was cast in a different shade of yellow, and unlike most of the other toys in the line, he was actually ''further'' off model than his original toy, the biggest difference being that the newer toy lacks the gold paint on its forearms and feet found on the show model. His right beast mode shoulder was [[tampograph]]ed with a Maximal sigil. He came packed with build-a-figure [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]]'s torso and a DVD disc containing the episode "[[Equal Measures]]".

:At this point the mold for the gut gun had degraded somewhat, and a new mold had to be made.

::*''[http://www.File:tfu.info/2006/Maximal/Cheetor/cheetor.htm More information on 10th Anniversary Cheetor at TFU.info]''
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===Timelines===
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[[File:TL-toy Cheetor-BC06.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Leopard print is in!]]
*'''Dawn of Future's Past''' (Multi-pack, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Engine-blaster, left & right side-pipes, Maximal "Golden Disk Key"

: "Axalon Cheetor" is a redeco of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]], transforming into a low-ridin' Cybertronian race car with a large Maximal sigil on his hood and a cheetah-pattern deco for his upholstery. Stylin'! Inserting a "[[Cyber Key|Golden Disk Key]]" into the slot on his back pops up a pair of gun barrels, which can be held in robot mode as his pre-beast Quasar gun. His head is also [[retool]]ed from the original body to represent his ''Beast Wars'' head more closely, making his face even more show-accurate than the original toy's.

: He was available only as part of the [[BotCon 2006]] "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]" box-set, with "Axalon" versions of [[Optimus Primal#Timelines|Optimus Primal]], [[Rhinox (BW)#Timelines|Rhinox]], [[Rattrap (BW)/toys#Timelines|Rattrap]], and "[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]" [[Dinobot (BW)#Timelines|Dinobot]].

: This toy—with the retooled head—was used to make "[[Tigatron#Timelines|Unit 2]]". The original version was also used to make ''Cybertron'' [[Swerve (Cybertron)|Swerve]] and [[Movie (toyline)|movie-verse]] [[Clocker (Movie)|Clocker]]. It was also the basis for many many non-toy [[Maximal Command Security Force]] members.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Maximal/BCCheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Axalon Cheetor at TFU.info]''

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[[File:TL-toy AlphaTrizer.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|A knight ''and'' a pirate. A knirate, if you will. Or a pight.]]
*'''Knight Alpha Trizer''' (BotCon 2014 add-on)
**''Accessories:'' Two swords, transforming blade/claw, beast-foot/claw

: Part of a Knights souvenir set that included [[Apelinq (BM)#Timelines|Apelinq]] and [[Flareup (G1)#BotCon2014|Flareup]], Alpha Trizer is a [[redeco]] of [[Thundertron#Toys|Thundertron]], transforming into a mechanical lion that homages the never-made [[Alpha Trion (G1)#Unreleased|Alpha Trion]] redeco out of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Snarl (BM)|Snarl]]. His right robot mode foot can detach to reveal a bladed "peg-leg", with the original foot converting into a claw-weapon. Like his mold-mate [[Go Prime]], Alpha Trizer also comes with a redeco of the twin swords that originally came with [[Kenzan]], which he can hold or plug into his beast mode's hip/wings. The toy also includes Thundertron's original weapon, a claw with swing-out sword-blade, though the electronic light-up feature has been removed.

: This toy was also redecoed into [[Lio Convoy#Prime|Leo Prime]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/BCAlphaTrizer/alphatrizer.htm More information on Alpha Trizer at TFU.info]''
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===Beast Wars Telemocha Series===
[[File:BWTelemocha Cheetor.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Now THAT'S gorgeous!]]
* '''Cheetus''' (Deluxe, 2007)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TM-03'''
**''Accessories:'' Tail-gun, water-shooting gun

: In 2007, Takara did the 10th Anniversary thing for the ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]'' line, except much more show-accurate than Hasbro, with a high number of [[Paint operation|paint applications]] in order to be show-accurate.

: This release came with a DVD of "Convoy Disappeared", the Japanese dub of "[[Chain of Command (BW)|Chain of Command]]" which was an episode that didn't feature Cheetor in any sort of meaningful way, despite episodes that do being easy to come by.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Maximal/Cheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Telemocha Cheetor at TFU.info (scroll down)]''
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===Titanium Series===
[[File:TitaniumSeries-CheetorBM.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Do you remember a time when Cheetor was technorganic? Pepperidge Farm® remembers.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Cybertron Heroes, 2007)
**''Accessories:'' 2 scimitars

: Part of the sixth wave of ''[[Titanium Series]]'' Cybertron Heroes, Cheetor is based heavily on the design of Cheetor seen in the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon, albeit with some differences, notably much thicker limbs, making him far more stable in robot mode. His twin scimitars can peg onto his hips for storage and are made of softer, rubbery plastic. His [[die-cast]] metal is limited to his shoulders, torso, and thighs.

: Care must be taken when transforming Cheetor into beast mode. His robot head ''must'' be pushed back into his beast mode's neck until it ''clicks''. Failure to do so will cause his robot mode head to get stuck inside the chest after the cheetah mode's neck is pushed into it, and may require disassembling the torso to get it out again.

: This figure is the first transforming toy commemorating the ''Beast Machines'' story, designs, and faction symbols. According to ''Titanium Series'' concept designer [[Don Figueroa]], making ''Titanium'' Cheetor use the BM body was his idea. It seems he was told simply to make "Cheetor", but his [[Hasbro]] supervisors never specified ''which'' Cheetor to make. [[Aaron Archer]] corroborated this, saying Hasbro had not meant to produce a Beast Machines figure: they had simply put Cheetor's name on a list, and the toy ended up being, as Archer put it, "the wrong one."

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Maximal/TitCheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Titanium Series Cheetor at TFU.info]''
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===Universe (2008)===
[[File:TFU08-toy Cheetor.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He went through five bodies... and then back to ''this''.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Deluxe, 2008)
**''Accessories:'' [[Club|Battle Club]], [[Shuriken|Triple-Bladed Battle Discs]]

: First available in the fourth wave of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' Deluxes, this version of Cheetor is based on the original ''Beast Wars'' Cheetor, transforming into an organic cheetah that's much closer in proportions to the real animal than any previous attempt, with a robot face sculpt based much more on the CGI show model. Alas, the compromise is that he has a far ''less'' [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] robot mode due to a markedly different [[transformation scheme]] that involves his entire beast-chest ending up as a huge hunchback in robot mode. When a lever is pulled on his beast mode back, the cheetah head's jaw opens and the cheetah's eyes change colors from green to red, a bizarre [[homage]] to the differing eye-colors the [[#Beast_Wars|original Cheetor toy]] went through in its many releases. His tail becomes a whip-weapon, plus he comes with a pair of triple-bladed throwing stars that store in compartments on his legs.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Maximal/Cheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Universe Cheetor at TFU.info]''
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===Henkei! Henkei!===
[[File:Cheetorhenkeitoy.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Chromed, but not Transmetal.]]
*'''Cybertron Cheetus''' (Deluxe, 2008-[[December 27|12-27]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-12'''
**''Accessories:'' Battle Club, Triple-Bladed Battle Discs

: ''Henkei! Henkei!'' Cheetor replaces some of his yellow plastic—including his arms, and stomach among other parts—with gold plastic. He has more elaborate and varied paint applications, including painting the insides of his beast mode kibble for a greater contrast. As with all ''Henkei'' toys, he has vacuum-metalized plastic parts, specifically his entire head and the bodies of his throwing blades.
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===Device Label===
[[File:DeviceLabeltoy-Cheetusdesktop.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Cheetus wears [[wikipedia:It's always sunny in philadelphia|Kitten Mittens]].]]
*'''Device Cheetus''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)

:A [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers Device Label|Device Label]]'' [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Tigatron]], Cheetus transforms from a working USB 2 gigabyte thumb drive into a yellow mechanoid cheetah.

:Stored on the USB drive is an installable program called "Transformers Desktop Defender." When the Cheetor device is plugged in, a Cheetor avatar appears on the screen, transforming from thumb drive to cheetah mode as the program is activated. The program's setup allows you to rename your cheetah to anything you desire, alter the avatar's movement speed and his personality, decide whether he eats your desktop icons, and view his function, mission, and [[tech Spec|tech spec]] numbers. Whether he appears as Cheetor, Ravage, or Tigatron can be selected as well.

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===Masterpiece===
[[File:BW-Masterpiece-MP34-Cheetor.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|It seems impossible for something to be ''this'' [[Show-accuracy|show accurate.]]]]
*'''Cheetus''' (2017)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-34'''
**''Accessories:'' Three cheetah heads, three robot faces, two guns
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==Merchandise==
*'''Beast Wars Transformers 200 piece puzzle''' (puzzle, 1996)
: A [[Beast Wars Transformers Jigsaw Puzzle|200-piece puzzle]] from [[Milton Bradley]] featured art of Cheetor fighting Megatron and [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]]. It was very chrome-foil-y! [http://tfmuseum.com/tf-00080.html]

*'''Beast Wars Transformers sweatshirt''' (1996)
: A sweatshirt depicting a jovial Cheetor, in [[robot mode]], crouching behind some rocks and firing his gut-gun. His [[beast mode]]'s head is drawn behind him, the Beast Wars logo layered over the explosion that is leaving his gun's barrel, and the name "CHEETOR" is spelled out at the bottom of the image.

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* '''Beast Wars magnet set''' (1997)

: The original cast of ten from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon was rendered in adorable [[super deformed|super-deformed]] style for a set of magnets. Awwwww.

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[[File:Cheetormutatingcard.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|right|Wait, so the cheetah mode is ''slower''?]]
* '''Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game''' (1997)
:Cheetor was one of the 24 beast warriors to receive a battle card representation for the Beast Wars [[Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game|card game]].

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[[File:3DBattleCard-Cheetor.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Probably more involved than the actual toy's transformation.]]
*'''Cheetor''' (3D Battle-Card, 2007)

: A 31-point character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, Cheetor "transforms" into a Transmetal 2 cheetah. He uses the same parts layout as [[Ravage (G1)/toys|Ravage]] and [[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]].

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===Kabaya candy toys===
*'''Cheetus''' (candy toy, 1997)

: A tiny plastic Cheetor figurine molded onto an irregularly-shaped stand was released by Kabaya. Labeled toy 4 of 6, the other characters in his wave were Dinobot, Rattrap, Megatron, Optimus Primal, and Rhinox. As always, terrible candy is included.

*'''Cheetus''' (candy toy kit, 1997)

: Part of a set of four [[Kabaya]] [[candy toy]]s, this version of Cheetor, based on [[#Dx1|the original toy]], is an unpainted and unassembled plastic kit that transforms (and partially re-assembles) from cheetah to robot mode, though much smaller (and cheaper) than the original toy. It is cast entirely in pale yellow and grayish-tan plastics, as are the other three toys in the set: [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]]. [http://soundwave810.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html]

*'''Cheetus''' (candy toy, 1997)
: A tiny superdeformed Cheetor was also available from Kabaya. [http://tfmuseum.com/tf-00713.html]
[[File:BWmerch-CheetorTMKabaya.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*'''Cheetus''' (snap-together model with candy, 1999)
:Kabaya released a set of models based on ''Metals'' characters, of which Cheetor was one. He came with candy! He also came in translucent plastic, if you wanted it.

*'''Cheetus''' (figurine with candy, 1999)
:A tiny statuette of ''Metals'' Cheetor on a rectangular stand was available with candy, alongside other ''Metals'' characters. [http://www.dvandom.com/tv99.html]

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===Robot Heroes===
[[File:Robotheroescheetorblackarachnia.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|...[[Ian James Corlett|Nimbus]]?]]
* '''Cheetor''' / '''Blackarachnia''' (2-pack, 2008)

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]''-branded ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'', Cheetor is a simple, yet well-detailed two-inch tall figurine with exaggerated, cartoony proportions. He is depicted in a running pose and is articulated at the shoulders and neck. He has a Maximal [[insignia|faction symbol]] on his butt.

: He was only available in a two-pack with [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]].

: This mold was also used to make [[Tigatron]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Maximal/Cheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Robot Heroes Cheetor at TFU.info]''
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* '''Cheetor''' / '''Tankor'''

[[File:RobotHeroes Cheetor VS Tankor.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Proudly wearing his faction symbol on his knee.]]
: Cheetor is part of the fourth wave of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]] [[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' and is designated as from the "Beast Machines Series," along with his packmate [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]. His sculpt and color scheme is derived solely from his television show appearance. Cheetor has articulation at the neck and shoulders, though his left arm's large sword inhibits movement.

:Rather than using the ''Beast Machines'' Maximal and Vehicon symbols, the embossed faction logos on the top of the Cheetor/Tankor packaging are the pre-existing ''Beast Wars'' Maximal and Predacon symbols found on ''Beast Wars''-themed ''Universe'' Robot Heroes packs.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Maximal/RHBMCheetor/cheetor.htm More information on Robot Heroes Beast Machines Cheetor at TFU.info]''
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===Tiny Titans===
[[File:TinyTitans-Series6-Cheetor.jpg|right|thumb]]
*'''Cheetor''' (Tiny Titans, 2016)
**''Series'': '''6'''
**''Number: '''4/12'''
: Part of the sixth [[Blindpacking|blind-bagged]] assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'', this small, soft-plastic figurine comes with a trading card with a scan-badge for the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], which unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item.

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==Notes==
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[[File:Cheetor-preliminarytoy.jpg|right|thumb|The original guns, featuring realistically painted cheetah guts. Hooray!]]
[[File:BWRConcept01.jpg|right|thumb|Cheetor's control art. Yes, that IS Cheetor, not Shadow Panther. Yes, it's not a cheetah.]]
* The first Cheetor toy was originally intended to be part of the first wave of ''Beast Wars'' Deluxes released, but experienced a delayed initial release, coming several weeks afterward. This was likely due to a change made to his "tail gun", which on the toy is much different from the version glimpsed in catalogues, commercials, and toy packaging cross-sells. The prototype gun is held via a handle on the top side of the tail rather than underneath the haunches and has a small blue gun barrel that flips out. Why this change was made and whether it was the actual cause of the delay are currently unknown.

* Cheetor's design art seems to indicate he wasn't originally designed to be a cheetah...or was at least designed to be generically big-cat-like enough to be other types of feline.

==References==
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[[Category:Beast Machines Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]
[[Category:BotCon exclusives]]
[[Category:Contest prizes]]
[[Category:Convention exclusives]]
[[Category:Fast food exclusives]]
[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
[[Category:Robot Heroes]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Titanium Series]]
[[Category:Toys "R" Us exclusives]]
[[Category:Transmetals]]
[[Category:Transmetals 2]]
[[Category:Universe Autobots]]
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