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2026-03-17T19:36:01Z

Igordebraga: /* Rise of the Beasts film */

[[File:ROTB-NewYorkCity.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2|If you can have a giant space robot battle here, then you can have a giant space robot battle anywhere.]]

'''New York City''', [[New York (state)|New York]], is a major city in the [[United States of America]]. A densely populated metropolis, it hosts a number of culturally significant monuments and tall skykscrapers, including the [[Statue of Liberty]], the [[Empire State Building]], the [[Chrysler Building]], and the [[World Trade Center]]. The city is framed by two major waterways, the [[East River]] and [[Hudson River]], which contain smaller landmasses such as [[Ellis Island|Ellis]] and [[Governor's Island]].

Loved by [[Tracks (G1)|some]], repulsively filthy to [[Hound (G1)|others]], it has often served as a hub of [[Transformer]] activity.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
New York City was home to [[Marvel Comics]]. Their recently fired employee, writer [[Donny Finkleberg]], also lived there, in a run-down, six-story walk-up apartment on the upper west side of Manhattan.

New York was the final destination on the Acton family's vacation. As such, the [[Statue of Liberty]] became a target for the graffiti-spreading [[Battlecharger]]s. [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|R.A.A.T.]] prepared for the Decepticons' arrival by closing down the statue, Liberty Island, and the surrounding harbor, and loading down the statue with its troops. [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] and [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]], meanwhile, snuck aboard the Staten Island Ferry, eventually commandeering the vessel and forcing it close to the statue. They then took to the air, Runamuck distracting the R.A.A.T. troops while Runabout spray-painted the statue with an inspirational message to their appreciative audience ("HUMANZ ARE WIMPZ"). [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]] finally defeated the pair using a [[Circuit Breaker's Autobot suit|jury-rigged collection of Autobot parts]], sending them crashing into the waters of New York's harbor.

Donny Finkleberg contributed $50,000 to help pay for cleaning the graffiti off of the statue (and, presumably, repairing battle damage). {{storylink|Decepticon Graffiti!}}

[[File:Nyc-brooklynbridge.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|When you get caught between the Underbase and New York City, the best that you can do is fall and die.]]
When [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] absorbed a portion of the [[Underbase]], New York was one of the three cities he chose to destroy. Naturally, he announced this out loud, so when he arrived, an army of [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s led by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] were waiting for him. Most of the battle took place on and above the [[Brooklyn Bridge]], as well as in the "foul depths" of the [[East River]] below.

The following Transformers were taken out by Starscream:

*The [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] ([[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]], [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]], [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]], [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]])
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], [[Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Mirage]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Goldbug]], [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]]
*The [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]] ([[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]], [[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]], [[Nautilator]], [[Seawing (G1)|Seawing]], [[Skalor]], [[Tentakil (G1)|Tentakil]])
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]
*Blaster

''[[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] survived Starscream's initial attack, but was deactivated following Starscream's attack on the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]].'' {{storylink|Flashback!}}

Ratbat escaped, leaving Blaster to his doom. Starscream left for his second targeted city, [[Tokyo]]. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

Some months later, Decepticon commander [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] moved his headquarters to a [[New Jersey base|base]] in the nearby swamps of northern [[New Jersey (Earth)|New Jersey]] as part of a plan to harvest energy. The Decepticons erected the [[Stormmaker Station]], creating a massive thunderstorm over the New York City area. An [[electrostator]] was to be placed atop the Empire State Building by [[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]], collecting the storm's energy in one massive lightning bolt which would then be harvested by Scorponok's crew. However, the interference of the Autobot [[Micromaster]]s under [[Roadhandler (G1)|Roadhandler]]'s command resulted in the lightning blasting the bolts out of Iguanus instead. {{storylink|King Con!}}

Roadhandler's crew made themselves at home in the city, going so far as to apprehend human thieves and make an appearance on a talk show based in New York. Roadhandler became a celebrity as a wrestler and gave self-defense lessons to local kids until a Decepticon run-in convinced him that anyone associated with him was in danger. {{storylink|The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!}}

The Decepticons kept their base in New Jersey. This would have nearly disastrous consequences for New York when the so-called [[Decepticon Civil War]] erupted and a battle between Scorponok and [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] spilled over into the area of Battery Park. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}}

[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] managed to contain the battle briefly, as did the [[Neo-Knights]]. After the hostilities ended, the assembled Transformers were suddenly teleported away, leaving only a very puzzled NYPD officer wondering how to write up the incident. {{storylink|Out of Time!}}

=====Rhythms of Darkness!=====
[[File:Nyc-alternate-future1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hell, I still love you though, New York.]]
In an offshoot version of the year [[2009]], [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] and his forces had conquered the Americas. New York had been the site of the last stand by the dwindling Autobots and [[United States Army]], and as a result was reduced to a deserted wasteland where the remains of Autobot leader [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] were strung up between the remaining stumps of the destroyed World Trade Center towers.

In 2009, the remaining rebels tried to lure Galvatron to New York's ruins as a diversion. He and the fed up [[Pretender Monster]]s trooped around, risking booby traps, before going home. {{storylink|Rhythms of Darkness!}}

{{note|WTC towers were each about 200' on a side. So according to the art on the right, [[Scale|Rodimus's body would fill a football field]].}}
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====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
Humans visiting the Statue of Liberty were among those terrified world-wide as the sun started to go berserk as a result of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}}

[[File:BumblebeelovesNY.jpg|left|thumb|The magic rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line.]]
Megatron began efforts to convert New York City into his new base of "[[New Cybertron]]" by tunneling under the city and sinking the Empire State Building into the ground. The refashioned building was soon raised back into place, but with an all-new appearance. When the Autobots arrived to stop him, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] managed to capture [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], and Megatron took his severed—but still functioning—head. The Autobots were forced to retreat temporarily or risk Prime's life. For a while, things went well for the Decepticons. (Even [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] thought that Megatron was doing a good job, which is a sign of the apocalypse.) However, the Autobots went through the sewers (noting that they were more akin to "some messy swamp" than a substructure for North America's largest city) and managed to collect and reassemble Prime's body, save his right arm and [[ion blaster]]. Megatron had mounted it on his new citadel, the rebuilt Empire State Building, to serve as a defense mechanism. (Why Prime didn't just have [[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]] build him a new arm is unspecified.) Eventually, Prime was able to recover his arm, and the Decepticons were driven away. [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] gained an "I ♥ NY" bumper sticker from the ordeal. {{storylink|City of Steel (episode)|City of Steel}}

The Autobots later used a New York garage owned by [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] as a temporary base in the city. While on patrol, [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] discovered that the humans tended to dump a lot of garbage in the East River, and [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] observed that a "little fender-bender" on the lower West Side could tie up traffic for blocks around. Meanwhile, the Decepticons had allied themselves with the [[Geddis brothers]], a pair of New York-based human gangsters, to collect stolen cars and convert them into drones at a secret base in the [[New Jersey (Earth)|New Jersey]] pine barrens. The drones were then sent back into New York to attack the city, but the Autobots thwarted this plan with the help of [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]'s new friend, [[Raoul]]. The landmark Chrysler Building was damaged in the battle, requiring [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] to climb its side and put out fires in the building and invoking Tracks' ire. {{storylink|Make Tracks}}

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|thumb|We got people dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic.]]
The Decepticons used a hip New York nightclub called [[Dancitron]] to brainwash humans into constructing a building for them, but the dynamic duo of Raoul and Tracks once again saved the day. Dancitron attracted an ''extremely'' trendy crowd of New Yorkers—so trendy they were out of style about five minutes later. The club's owners were also quite stringent about preventing the locals from breakdancing on the sidewalks in front of their establishment. {{storylink|Auto-Bop}}

Under [[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Perceptor]]'s guidance, the Autobots spray-coated the [[Statue of Liberty]] with [[corrostop]] to help preserve it. While this activity was underway, the Stunticons commandeered a harbor ferry boat and used it to capture Perceptor. Later, the Autobots returned to the statue when they needed to recover a sample of the chemical. They defended it from a Decepticon attack, preventing Menasor from destroying the statue with a giant lightning bug. The statue proved its ability to withstand a direct hit from Megatron's fusion cannon, which means it's a lot stronger than [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]'s head. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}}

[[File:OnlyHuman New York opening cityscape.jpg|left|thumb|To that tall skyline I come.]]
By [[2006]], New York had grown quite a bit, with lots of futuristic and utterly gigantic skyscrapers dominating its skyline. The city served as one of [[Victor Drath]]'s crime syndicate territories, and was subject to a series of terrorist bombings that served as cover for Drath's attempted theft of a [[newtronium]] shipment. The Autobots worked with [[Turan|the local chief of police]] to track down Drath. {{storylink|Only Human}}
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=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
In [[2011]], New York was one of the cities targeted by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] for an energy-blackmailing, which involved him posing as six different villains using each of his six modes. The Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] staked out New York from a vantage point atop the Statue of Liberty (whose looks they compared to [[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]]'s while they were at it), but when they were drawn away to investigate an attack on London, Sixshot attacked the city in his gun mode. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

=====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====
In his human guise, the Autobot [[Pretender]] [[Lander]] lived in New York, where he helped local police fend off an attack by [[Destroid]]s early on in the Decepticons' campaign against Earth. {{storylink|Terror! The Decepticons' Manhunt}} Much later, the city was the victim of a savage, sudden attack by [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]], and suffered massive damage before any of the Autobots could mobilize to stop him. {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}}

=====''Zone'' cartoon=====
[[File:Zone New York.jpg|thumb]]
When the Decepticons were searching Earth for the Zodiac, Devastator unhelpfully flew straight through the World Trade Center, destroying it. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}
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====Marvel Books Generation 1 storybooks====
The people in the [[Condo City]] building in New York City are among the 5 million people trapped in [[Global Building Corporation]] buildings after Megatron presses the [[Destructor Button]] causing them to sink into the Earth. They are rescued after [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] teleports to the controls and raises them again. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:AHM1 NewYorkCityBuildings1.JPEG|upright=0.85|left|thumb|New York? That's where my accent used to live!]]
It was a bright and sunny day in New York, when these [[Constructicon (G1)|six green guys]] turned up to announce a desire for peace... then started shooting everyone. This was followed by an all-out Decepticon attack, levelling much of the city and drawing the attention of the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force did... badly. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}} Soon the city was full of looting, carnage and panicked evacuations while the [[United States military|United States Armed Forces]] deployed in force to defeat the Decepticons. Before the military could do anything, the Decepticons took out the city's bridges and then began targeting the tunnels, all while broadcasting their effortless devastation to the world. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2|All Hail Megatron #2}}

[[File:AHMIssue2 SeekersVsBrooklynBridge.JPEG|thumb|Crispy Fried Traffic]]
Within a few days, the city had been turned into a secure base for the Decepticons; the civilians were kept as hostages to prevent the military from carpet-bombing. [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] stated he chose the city as it was an icon for humanity; [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] thinks it sucks. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} The military attempted to sneak a strike force into the city to assassinate Megatron, but only [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|one soldier]] made it across Hudson River alive. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}} Meanwhile, world leaders in [[Europe]] opted for another solution: wiping New York City off the map with [[Nuclear weapon|nukes]], despite the hostages. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}}

While Spike Witwicky located the experimental weapon required to kill Megatron, the human resistance managed to stir up [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]]'s emotions, which ended the radio blackout the Decepticon had caused the city. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} During their stay in New York, the Decepticons had constructed their first [[space bridge]] there, but never got to use it as European jets attacked them in an attempt to gather all the Decepticons in one place for the impending nuclear strike. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

The poor city was further damaged in the battle between [[Devastator (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Devastator]] and the human jets, and it didn't get any better when the Autobots joined the fray and [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] slammed Devastator through a skyscraper. At least [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] was nice enough to ask Omega to take the giants' duel elsewhere. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} So he took it to the [[Statue of Liberty]], which was promptly wrecked. Eventually, the Decepticons retreated from New York and the nuke was averted, but the city was still left in ruins. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

New York was subsequently evacuated and its population was placed in refugee camps, except for the occasional straggler who didn't want to leave. The U.S. military also patrolled the city to find and exterminate any Transformers left behind. {{storylink|Hidden (G1)|Hidden}} A [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] presence led by [[Joe Colton]] helped with the relief efforts, though Colton was haunted by his inability to predict the catastrophic invasion. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}

After just a few years, humanity had restored large parts of New York City to a habitable condition, though many buildings remained damaged. {{storylink|Ride-Along}}

A series of increasingly improbable events culminated in [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] generating a life-size [[holomatter]] version of Earth. The minibot's love of Earthly sitcoms led New York being the only "inhabited" city on "[[Swearth]]" prompting the ''[[Lost Light]]'' crew to send their avatars to the city to find their friend. While there, [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] described New York as being about half the size of the ''Lost Light''. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

When [[Baron Karza]] and his army invaded [[Earth]], their [[Mobile Operations Base]] was in New York as Karza and [[Shazraella]] planned to have the [[Micronaut]]s captured. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 2|Wrath of Karza #2}}

====''Hearts of Steel''====
New York City was the location of a "great eklectrical power generator,"{{sic}} {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}} which became the target of Decepticon attention. They built [[Astrotrain (G1)#Hearts of Steel|the Astrotrain]] to get to it, {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}} but were stopped by [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[John Henry]]. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 4|Hearts of Steel #4}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
In [[Primax 185.0 Beta]], New York City was the powerbase of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and from where he successfully conquered Earth.
{{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/04}}

====''Of Masters and Mayhem''====
[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] noted that in [[Of Masters and Mayhem|his new reality]], all cities on Earth were the same as in [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|his old one]], including New York. {{storylink|Assembly (OMAM)|Assembly}}

====''Transformers/Ghostbusters''====
New York City was home to the [[Ghostbusters]], who helped contain the [[ghost]]s which frequently plagued the city. Prior to the quartet's meeting with the [[Transformer]]s, they had faced off against the malevolent [[Gozer]], exploding "his marshmallow butt over [[Central Park]] West", and used gallons of [[mood slime]] to animate the [[Statue of Liberty]]. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4}} {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5}}

During one job in [[Brooklyn]], the Ghostbusters battled a tentacled ghost in [[Prospect Park]], defeating it at the cost of their car, the [[Ecto-1]]. While they were distracted, [[Ectotron|Ectronymous Diamatron]] took on the form of the Ecto-1 and nearly had a run-in with two NYPD officers before scaring them off. Following a brief encounter with the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Ectronymous introduced himself to the team. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 1}} Unaware of the supernatural, Ectronymous deactivated the [[ghost trap]] holding Starscream, thinking him but a [[hologram]], before he understood the truth. After Starscream told his story, a [[Kremzeek]] sprite landed in the park, the Seeker instructing the group on how to dissipate it before they retreated to the [[Ghostbusters firehouse]]. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 2}}

[[Peter Venkman]], suspecting that the Seeker had ulterior motives, locked him in another ghost trap while Ectronymous - now rebranded "Ectotron" - called in [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. As they waited for the Prime, the group returned to Brooklyn to contain [[Killerwatt|a ghost that fed on electricity]]. When the returned to the firehouse, they found Prime waiting for them and Starscream's ghost freed from the trap. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 3}}

To accommodate their alien guests, the Ghostbusters relocated to their warehouse in [[Red Hook]] before heading to the [[Grosbeak Generating Station]] in [[Queens]] when they picked up Starscream's PKE signature. When the six arrived, they found Starscream and Kremzeek the Scavenger waiting for them, the latter proceeding to absorb Starscream before engaging Optimus in physical combat for the [[AllSpark]]'s location. Using the electrical ghost, the Ghostbusters managed to dissipate Kremzeek only to find that this act had freed the imprisoned ghosts of [[Decepticon High Command]]. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4}} While Starscream managed to flee the planet, Shockwave, Soundwave, and Megatron were all contained. In the aftermath, the Autobots left Earth, Optimus taking the ghostly Decepticons with the hopes of one day rehabilitating and resurrecting them, while Ectotron opted to travel the galaxy to find more Cybertronian ghosts, becoming the first interstellar Ghostbuster. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5}}

===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
The first [[International Scientific Symposium]] was being held in New York when [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] turned up in order to kidnap leading scientist [[Kenneth Onishi|Doctor Onishi]]. [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Autobot Brothers]] rushed to the doctor's aid, turning downtown New York into a war zone. The Autobots fought the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s at length but were unable to prevent Megatron from escaping with his prisoner. {{storylink|Battle Protocol!}}

===Live-action film series===
====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
[[File:ROTF New York City.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The Big Blue Apple.]]
After being attacked by the Autobots for murdering [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] flew to New York, where Megatron lectured Starscream for not being capable of tracking down one human. When Starscream countered that there were seven billion humans on Earth, Megatron decided to reveal the Transformers presence on Earth as a show of force to compel the humans to turn [[Sam Witwicky]] over to them. Starscream and [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]] made open shows of defiance around New York City, while Megatron hijacked the Empire State Building's antenna to broadcast [[The Fallen]]'s message across the world.

A day later, Sam, [[Mikaela Banes]], and [[Leo Spitz]] traveled with [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Skids (ROTF)|the]] [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Twins]] to New York to meet Leo's rival [[Robo-Warrior]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' Annual====
[[NEST Satellite Orion]] detected Decepticons deploying [[Pillar]]s in New York. [[NEST]] wasn't quite sure why, as the city was rated of low resource importance. Diss! {{storylink|Transformers Dark of the Moon Annual 2012|Transformers Dark of the Moon Annual 2012}}

====''Rise of the Beasts'' film====
In 1994, [[Elena Wallace]], who worked as an intern in an Ellis Island museum, broke a falcon statue, and it activated half of the [[Transwarp Key]] within it. This drew the attention of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], who was hiding in the city, and sent a message to all the Autobots to rendezvous at a warehouse. One of them, [[Mirage (ROTB)|Mirage]], turned out to have been carrying Brooklyn native [[Noah Díaz]] when he attempted carjack Mirage's Porsche alternate mode. Optimus was at first displeased with having a human alongside them, but decided to send Noah into the museum as his infiltration would not bring attention. The [[Terrorcons]] arrived outside the museum and battled the Autobots, culminating in the death of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and the theft of the Transwarp Key. Optimus then contacted [[Stratosphere]] to fly everyone to [[Peru]] in search for the other half of the Key. Once the mission was complete, Elena and Noah returned to New York, where she was interviewed on TV regarding the discovery of the [[Maximals]] tomb in Peru, and he was approached by [[Agent Burke]], who wanted to hire him for [[G.I. Joe|his security company]].{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[File:Lower_Manhattan_Flying_Mind.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
One of the artifacts from the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] archives ended up under Manhattan. {{storylink|Flying Mind}} Both the Autobots and Decepticons sent teams to recover the relic. While [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]], an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] and some [[Decepticon Miner]]s found it first, [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] managed to recover it with the help of [[Jack Darby|Jack]], [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] and a subway worker named [[Vogel]]. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision (episode)|Tunnel Vision}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
The [[Military Patrol]] was unleashed on New York as part of a general move by the Decepticons towards abandoning subtlety. [[Bombshock (G1)|Bombshock]] and his men caused chaos on a city-wide scale until a team of Autobots led by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] drove them out. {{storylink|Full Assault}}

===''Transformers: Devastation''===
[[File:Devastation-NYC.jpg|thumb|Literally the only shot in the entire story where the city isn't in the process of being completely destroyed.]]
Millions of years past, the ''[[Proudstar]]'' crashed under what would become New York City. In the modern day, the Decepticons discovered the craft and managed to reactivate its systems, forcing the entire population to be evacuated. The city was nearly [[cyberforming|cyberformed]] as a result until the Autobots managed to shut the ship down. {{storylink|Transformers: Devastation}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
During the war on Earth, the Decepticons invaded New York City and replaced the [[Empire State Building]] with a citadel they dubbed "[[New Cybertron]]". Although the Autobots defeated the villains and helped restore the city's skyline to normal, the Decepticon presence lived on in a number of abandoned subway stations and caves deep beneath the city streets. {{storylink|Decepticon Directive}}

==Notes==
*The voice recordings for [[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberverse]] and [[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy]] were done in New York City.

==External links==
*{{w|New York City}} at Wikipedia
{{GBwiki|New York City}}

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons

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{{videogame
|title=''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons''
|prev=Transformers Autobots/Decepticons
|next=Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons
|image=RotfDS Cover.jpeg
|caption=It only gets worse from here.
|developer=[[Vicarious Visions]]
|publisher=[[Activision]]
|date=[[June 23]], [[2009]]
|platform=[[Nintendo DS]]
|ratings=ESRB: E10+
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{{picsneeded|Covers, relevant screenshots}}
The '''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Autobots''' and '''Decepticons''' video games were developed by [[Vicarious Visions]] for [[Activision]], in conjunction with the ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' movie.

==Gameplay==

Like the [[Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|DS games]] produced to tie in with the [[Transformers (film)|first live-action ''Transformers'' movie]], the [[Nintendo DS]] incarnation of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' is divided into two separately-sold games, one for each of the two factions. The two games, however, are a lot less distinct from one another than the original movie games were: where those games featured unique levels and differing objectives, the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' games both feature the same basic goals, taking place over the same levels. Generally speaking, the games have little to actually ''do'' with the story of the film, simply depicting both factions hopping around the world, carrying out random acts of heroism or terrorism, occasionally visiting a significant location from the movie storyline ([[Shanghai]], the [[Laurentian Abyss]]) before things culminate in a big fight in [[Cairo]]. Players primarily control a new Autobot or Decepticon protoform for most of the game, with other named characters being used only during challenge missions. Each version also features one playable character with a flying alternate mode, used for dogfighting segments at specific points in the game.

The player's hub is a two-dimensional world map, from which they select the mission they wish to play. There are four main levels in the game (each located on a different continent), each containing three missions, three challenge missions, and one level closer. The player completes all of the missions in the level, then plays the challenge missions that are in the same location as the regular ones, except with a timed objective, usually to destroy the most enemies or collect the most energon. After completing all three missions and challenge missions in a level, the player is brought to the level closer, which takes place in a specific city (usually)in that continent. These usually end with a boss battle against one of the major characters in the game. Completing both the "mission" and "challenge" from each level earns the player a bronze medal; each completed level can then be re-entered at the player's discretion, and both the "mission" and the "challenge" can be replayed, this time with an additional handicap (such as completing the level with the player's stats halved, or accomplishing an objective within a certain time limit). Completing one earns the player a silver medal, and completing both and thereby finishing the entire level gains you a gold medal.

Sadly, the games discards the two most enjoyable aspects of the original movie games: large, free-roaming environments, and the ability to scan ambient vehicles and change alternate mode at will. At the beginning of the game, the player's protoform character is given the option to choose which of three vehicle forms it will adopt ("light," weak but fast; "medium", balanced speed and strength; and "heavy", strong but slow), and retains this form for the entire game. Replacing this gameplay mechanic is the "Medical Bay," a new system which allows players to heavily customize their character. When enemies die, they drop [[energon cube]]s, which the player can spend to upgrade their stats (strength, speed, durability, marksmanship, etc.). Additionally, each "mission" level includes several hidden bonus items, which, when found by the player, unlock new weapons and other items which provide various effects when equipped. For instance, a less powerful weapon may offer as a bonus "perfect aim", whereas a stronger gun may only be functional at short range. In addition to customary lasers and rockets, players will also get the chance to lob grenades and even wield a freeze-ray that immobilizes enemies. The other items players can acquire are "capacitors" and "nodes", which apply bonuses to player's stats; for example, boosting strength at the cost of speed. Two weapons and four capacitors and/or nodes can be equipped at once; several weapons and gadgets are only unlocked by playing the game online.

==Synopsis==
*'''Autobots Version'''
When the protoform of a new Autobot recruit lands on Earth, Optimus sends him to training by the caves and he kills his Decepticon counterpart in the process. He is sent to Europe by the Autobots to carry out a series of tasks. Meanwhile, in the Atlantic, Bumblebee and Breakaway team up to save an oil rig from destruction. The recruit is soon sent to [[Rome]], where he helps a fellow Autobot (who resembles Inferno) to assist NEST forces and destroys Grindor. He is then sent to Asia, where he assists Ironhide. He is able to track down Sideways and kill him in Shanghai. However, both Grindor and Sideways makes some mention of a mysterious Transformer called The Fallen, which prompts Autobot investigation.

The recruit is sent to North America, where he ends up disabling a large number of bombs and generators. He is sent to [[New York City]] to investigate a strange signal. This turns out to be the ancient seeker, Jetfire, who knows all about the Fallen. He also talks about the history of the Transformers and the Matrix of Leadership, which the Fallen can use to power up the Star Harvester hidden in the Pyramids of Giza to consume Earth's sun in order to provide his race with Energon. The recruit relays this alarming news to the Autobots, only to hear that Megatron has been awakened by the other Decepticons.

The recruit heads to Egypt along with the other Autobots to stop their foes. As Devastator begins to uncover the harvester, Optimus and the Fallen have a showdown. Megatron slips away to activate the Harvester, but is followed by the recruit, who tracks Megatron through a sand-pit (with Scorponok hidden inside) and into a large structure. There, the recruit proves his skill and bravery by defeating Megatron.

*'''Decepticons Version'''
When a Decepticon recruit's protoform lands on Earth, Starscream sends him to training by the caves and he kills his Autobot counterpart in the process. He then goes on a series of missions in Europe under Starscream's orders. Meanwhile, Starscream and Grindor team up to destroy an oil rig in the Atlantic. The recruit is soon sent to Rome, where he destroys a large number of Autobots, including Bumblebee. However, upon return to the base, it is clear that the Fallen is displeased with Starscream's behavior and demands that the Allspark shard be found.

The recruit is sent to Asia, where he assists Grindor and Sideways in causing mass destruction. They are able to track down the location of the remaining Allspark shards and, despite Starscream's disapproval, revive Megatron. He is then sent to North America. While in New York City, he comes across Ironhide, who is attempting to escape with the old seeker Jetfire. The recruit destroys him and extracts the information he needs from Jetfire, despite the old Transformer's resistance.

The Decepticons travel to Egypt to recover the Matrix of Leadership so they can activate the Star Harvester, and the Fallen arrives on Earth. As Devastator begins to uncover the Harvester (hidden in one of the Pyramids of Giza), the recruit recovers the Matrix and takes it to the Fallen, who is pleased with his efforts. He then goes on to destroy Optimus Prime. This feat catches the Fallen's eye, and he proclaims the recruit his new right-hand, thus removing Megatron from the position. Megatron and Starscream both express their contempt for the recruit before the story ends.

==Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
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*[[The Recruit (Autobot)|Autobot Protoform]]<ref name="name">name derived from credits</ref> ([[James Arnold Taylor]])
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/games|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/games|Bumblebee]] ([[Mark Ryan]])
*[[Breakaway (ROTF)|Breakaway]]
*[[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]]

|c2=
*[[The Recruit (Decepticon)|Decepticon Protoform]]<ref name="name"/> ([[James Arnold Taylor]])
*[[Megatron (Movie)/games|Megatron]] ([[Frank Welker]])
*[[Starscream (Movie)/games|Starscream]] ([[Charlie Adler]])
*[[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] ([[John DiMaggio]])
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]

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*[[The Fallen]] ([[James Arnold Taylor]])
*[[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] ([[Fred Tatasciore]])
*[[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] ([[Peter Jessop]])
*[[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]] (Fred Tatasciore)
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] ([[Jess Harnell]])
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] ([[Robert Foxworth]])
*[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] ([[Clive Revill]])
*[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
}}

==Reception==

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==Notes==
*Some of the weapons in the game re-use sound effects from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]].
*Bumblebee speaks normally in this game.
*Most of the SFX from the old game are re-used for this one (i.e. Create-a-bot's, Starscream's, and Ironhide’s grunts when they jump, attack, or get hit).
*Barricade is playable in the game, despite not appearing in the film itself.
*Ironhide, despite having a movie accurate head portrait, reuses his [[Transformers Autobots/Decepticons]] model, with a body that isn't accurate to his movie appearance.
*The [[Omnibot Warrior]], [[Protectobot Warrior]], and the [[Combaticon Warrior]] appear as playable body-types for both games, but the player can only pick one. The other body-types' heads during dialogue sequences are based on the Omnibot Scouts, Seekers, and the concept art for the [[Combaticon Scout]].

{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.transformersgame.com Official website for Transformers: The Game]
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[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen games]]

New York City

2026-03-17T19:02:12Z

Igordebraga: /* Rise of the Beasts film */

[[File:ROTB-NewYorkCity.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2|If you can have a giant space robot battle here, then you can have a giant space robot battle anywhere.]]

'''New York City''', [[New York (state)|New York]], is a major city in the [[United States of America]]. A densely populated metropolis, it hosts a number of culturally significant monuments and tall skykscrapers, including the [[Statue of Liberty]], the [[Empire State Building]], the [[Chrysler Building]], and the [[World Trade Center]]. The city is framed by two major waterways, the [[East River]] and [[Hudson River]], which contain smaller landmasses such as [[Ellis Island|Ellis]] and [[Governor's Island]].

Loved by [[Tracks (G1)|some]], repulsively filthy to [[Hound (G1)|others]], it has often served as a hub of [[Transformer]] activity.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
New York City was home to [[Marvel Comics]]. Their recently fired employee, writer [[Donny Finkleberg]], also lived there, in a run-down, six-story walk-up apartment on the upper west side of Manhattan.

New York was the final destination on the Acton family's vacation. As such, the [[Statue of Liberty]] became a target for the graffiti-spreading [[Battlecharger]]s. [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|R.A.A.T.]] prepared for the Decepticons' arrival by closing down the statue, Liberty Island, and the surrounding harbor, and loading down the statue with its troops. [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] and [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]], meanwhile, snuck aboard the Staten Island Ferry, eventually commandeering the vessel and forcing it close to the statue. They then took to the air, Runamuck distracting the R.A.A.T. troops while Runabout spray-painted the statue with an inspirational message to their appreciative audience ("HUMANZ ARE WIMPZ"). [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]] finally defeated the pair using a [[Circuit Breaker's Autobot suit|jury-rigged collection of Autobot parts]], sending them crashing into the waters of New York's harbor.

Donny Finkleberg contributed $50,000 to help pay for cleaning the graffiti off of the statue (and, presumably, repairing battle damage). {{storylink|Decepticon Graffiti!}}

[[File:Nyc-brooklynbridge.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|When you get caught between the Underbase and New York City, the best that you can do is fall and die.]]
When [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] absorbed a portion of the [[Underbase]], New York was one of the three cities he chose to destroy. Naturally, he announced this out loud, so when he arrived, an army of [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s led by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] were waiting for him. Most of the battle took place on and above the [[Brooklyn Bridge]], as well as in the "foul depths" of the [[East River]] below.

The following Transformers were taken out by Starscream:

*The [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] ([[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]], [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]], [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]], [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]])
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], [[Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Mirage]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Goldbug]], [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]]
*The [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]] ([[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]], [[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]], [[Nautilator]], [[Seawing (G1)|Seawing]], [[Skalor]], [[Tentakil (G1)|Tentakil]])
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]
*Blaster

''[[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] survived Starscream's initial attack, but was deactivated following Starscream's attack on the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]].'' {{storylink|Flashback!}}

Ratbat escaped, leaving Blaster to his doom. Starscream left for his second targeted city, [[Tokyo]]. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

Some months later, Decepticon commander [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] moved his headquarters to a [[New Jersey base|base]] in the nearby swamps of northern [[New Jersey (Earth)|New Jersey]] as part of a plan to harvest energy. The Decepticons erected the [[Stormmaker Station]], creating a massive thunderstorm over the New York City area. An [[electrostator]] was to be placed atop the Empire State Building by [[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]], collecting the storm's energy in one massive lightning bolt which would then be harvested by Scorponok's crew. However, the interference of the Autobot [[Micromaster]]s under [[Roadhandler (G1)|Roadhandler]]'s command resulted in the lightning blasting the bolts out of Iguanus instead. {{storylink|King Con!}}

Roadhandler's crew made themselves at home in the city, going so far as to apprehend human thieves and make an appearance on a talk show based in New York. Roadhandler became a celebrity as a wrestler and gave self-defense lessons to local kids until a Decepticon run-in convinced him that anyone associated with him was in danger. {{storylink|The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!}}

The Decepticons kept their base in New Jersey. This would have nearly disastrous consequences for New York when the so-called [[Decepticon Civil War]] erupted and a battle between Scorponok and [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] spilled over into the area of Battery Park. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}}

[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] managed to contain the battle briefly, as did the [[Neo-Knights]]. After the hostilities ended, the assembled Transformers were suddenly teleported away, leaving only a very puzzled NYPD officer wondering how to write up the incident. {{storylink|Out of Time!}}

=====Rhythms of Darkness!=====
[[File:Nyc-alternate-future1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hell, I still love you though, New York.]]
In an offshoot version of the year [[2009]], [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] and his forces had conquered the Americas. New York had been the site of the last stand by the dwindling Autobots and [[United States Army]], and as a result was reduced to a deserted wasteland where the remains of Autobot leader [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] were strung up between the remaining stumps of the destroyed World Trade Center towers.

In 2009, the remaining rebels tried to lure Galvatron to New York's ruins as a diversion. He and the fed up [[Pretender Monster]]s trooped around, risking booby traps, before going home. {{storylink|Rhythms of Darkness!}}

{{note|WTC towers were each about 200' on a side. So according to the art on the right, [[Scale|Rodimus's body would fill a football field]].}}
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====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
Humans visiting the Statue of Liberty were among those terrified world-wide as the sun started to go berserk as a result of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}}

[[File:BumblebeelovesNY.jpg|left|thumb|The magic rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line.]]
Megatron began efforts to convert New York City into his new base of "[[New Cybertron]]" by tunneling under the city and sinking the Empire State Building into the ground. The refashioned building was soon raised back into place, but with an all-new appearance. When the Autobots arrived to stop him, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] managed to capture [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], and Megatron took his severed—but still functioning—head. The Autobots were forced to retreat temporarily or risk Prime's life. For a while, things went well for the Decepticons. (Even [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] thought that Megatron was doing a good job, which is a sign of the apocalypse.) However, the Autobots went through the sewers (noting that they were more akin to "some messy swamp" than a substructure for North America's largest city) and managed to collect and reassemble Prime's body, save his right arm and [[ion blaster]]. Megatron had mounted it on his new citadel, the rebuilt Empire State Building, to serve as a defense mechanism. (Why Prime didn't just have [[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]] build him a new arm is unspecified.) Eventually, Prime was able to recover his arm, and the Decepticons were driven away. [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] gained an "I ♥ NY" bumper sticker from the ordeal. {{storylink|City of Steel (episode)|City of Steel}}

The Autobots later used a New York garage owned by [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] as a temporary base in the city. While on patrol, [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] discovered that the humans tended to dump a lot of garbage in the East River, and [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] observed that a "little fender-bender" on the lower West Side could tie up traffic for blocks around. Meanwhile, the Decepticons had allied themselves with the [[Geddis brothers]], a pair of New York-based human gangsters, to collect stolen cars and convert them into drones at a secret base in the [[New Jersey (Earth)|New Jersey]] pine barrens. The drones were then sent back into New York to attack the city, but the Autobots thwarted this plan with the help of [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]'s new friend, [[Raoul]]. The landmark Chrysler Building was damaged in the battle, requiring [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] to climb its side and put out fires in the building and invoking Tracks' ire. {{storylink|Make Tracks}}

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|thumb|We got people dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic.]]
The Decepticons used a hip New York nightclub called [[Dancitron]] to brainwash humans into constructing a building for them, but the dynamic duo of Raoul and Tracks once again saved the day. Dancitron attracted an ''extremely'' trendy crowd of New Yorkers—so trendy they were out of style about five minutes later. The club's owners were also quite stringent about preventing the locals from breakdancing on the sidewalks in front of their establishment. {{storylink|Auto-Bop}}

Under [[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Perceptor]]'s guidance, the Autobots spray-coated the [[Statue of Liberty]] with [[corrostop]] to help preserve it. While this activity was underway, the Stunticons commandeered a harbor ferry boat and used it to capture Perceptor. Later, the Autobots returned to the statue when they needed to recover a sample of the chemical. They defended it from a Decepticon attack, preventing Menasor from destroying the statue with a giant lightning bug. The statue proved its ability to withstand a direct hit from Megatron's fusion cannon, which means it's a lot stronger than [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]'s head. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}}

[[File:OnlyHuman New York opening cityscape.jpg|left|thumb|To that tall skyline I come.]]
By [[2006]], New York had grown quite a bit, with lots of futuristic and utterly gigantic skyscrapers dominating its skyline. The city served as one of [[Victor Drath]]'s crime syndicate territories, and was subject to a series of terrorist bombings that served as cover for Drath's attempted theft of a [[newtronium]] shipment. The Autobots worked with [[Turan|the local chief of police]] to track down Drath. {{storylink|Only Human}}
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=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
In [[2011]], New York was one of the cities targeted by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] for an energy-blackmailing, which involved him posing as six different villains using each of his six modes. The Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] staked out New York from a vantage point atop the Statue of Liberty (whose looks they compared to [[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]]'s while they were at it), but when they were drawn away to investigate an attack on London, Sixshot attacked the city in his gun mode. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

=====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====
In his human guise, the Autobot [[Pretender]] [[Lander]] lived in New York, where he helped local police fend off an attack by [[Destroid]]s early on in the Decepticons' campaign against Earth. {{storylink|Terror! The Decepticons' Manhunt}} Much later, the city was the victim of a savage, sudden attack by [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]], and suffered massive damage before any of the Autobots could mobilize to stop him. {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}}

=====''Zone'' cartoon=====
[[File:Zone New York.jpg|thumb]]
When the Decepticons were searching Earth for the Zodiac, Devastator unhelpfully flew straight through the World Trade Center, destroying it. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}
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====Marvel Books Generation 1 storybooks====
The people in the [[Condo City]] building in New York City are among the 5 million people trapped in [[Global Building Corporation]] buildings after Megatron presses the [[Destructor Button]] causing them to sink into the Earth. They are rescued after [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] teleports to the controls and raises them again. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:AHM1 NewYorkCityBuildings1.JPEG|upright=0.85|left|thumb|New York? That's where my accent used to live!]]
It was a bright and sunny day in New York, when these [[Constructicon (G1)|six green guys]] turned up to announce a desire for peace... then started shooting everyone. This was followed by an all-out Decepticon attack, levelling much of the city and drawing the attention of the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force did... badly. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}} Soon the city was full of looting, carnage and panicked evacuations while the [[United States military|United States Armed Forces]] deployed in force to defeat the Decepticons. Before the military could do anything, the Decepticons took out the city's bridges and then began targeting the tunnels, all while broadcasting their effortless devastation to the world. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2|All Hail Megatron #2}}

[[File:AHMIssue2 SeekersVsBrooklynBridge.JPEG|thumb|Crispy Fried Traffic]]
Within a few days, the city had been turned into a secure base for the Decepticons; the civilians were kept as hostages to prevent the military from carpet-bombing. [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] stated he chose the city as it was an icon for humanity; [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] thinks it sucks. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} The military attempted to sneak a strike force into the city to assassinate Megatron, but only [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|one soldier]] made it across Hudson River alive. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}} Meanwhile, world leaders in [[Europe]] opted for another solution: wiping New York City off the map with [[Nuclear weapon|nukes]], despite the hostages. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}}

While Spike Witwicky located the experimental weapon required to kill Megatron, the human resistance managed to stir up [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]]'s emotions, which ended the radio blackout the Decepticon had caused the city. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} During their stay in New York, the Decepticons had constructed their first [[space bridge]] there, but never got to use it as European jets attacked them in an attempt to gather all the Decepticons in one place for the impending nuclear strike. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

The poor city was further damaged in the battle between [[Devastator (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Devastator]] and the human jets, and it didn't get any better when the Autobots joined the fray and [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] slammed Devastator through a skyscraper. At least [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] was nice enough to ask Omega to take the giants' duel elsewhere. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} So he took it to the [[Statue of Liberty]], which was promptly wrecked. Eventually, the Decepticons retreated from New York and the nuke was averted, but the city was still left in ruins. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

New York was subsequently evacuated and its population was placed in refugee camps, except for the occasional straggler who didn't want to leave. The U.S. military also patrolled the city to find and exterminate any Transformers left behind. {{storylink|Hidden (G1)|Hidden}} A [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] presence led by [[Joe Colton]] helped with the relief efforts, though Colton was haunted by his inability to predict the catastrophic invasion. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}

After just a few years, humanity had restored large parts of New York City to a habitable condition, though many buildings remained damaged. {{storylink|Ride-Along}}

A series of increasingly improbable events culminated in [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] generating a life-size [[holomatter]] version of Earth. The minibot's love of Earthly sitcoms led New York being the only "inhabited" city on "[[Swearth]]" prompting the ''[[Lost Light]]'' crew to send their avatars to the city to find their friend. While there, [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] described New York as being about half the size of the ''Lost Light''. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

When [[Baron Karza]] and his army invaded [[Earth]], their [[Mobile Operations Base]] was in New York as Karza and [[Shazraella]] planned to have the [[Micronaut]]s captured. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 2|Wrath of Karza #2}}

====''Hearts of Steel''====
New York City was the location of a "great eklectrical power generator,"{{sic}} {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}} which became the target of Decepticon attention. They built [[Astrotrain (G1)#Hearts of Steel|the Astrotrain]] to get to it, {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}} but were stopped by [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[John Henry]]. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 4|Hearts of Steel #4}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
In [[Primax 185.0 Beta]], New York City was the powerbase of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and from where he successfully conquered Earth.
{{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/04}}

====''Of Masters and Mayhem''====
[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] noted that in [[Of Masters and Mayhem|his new reality]], all cities on Earth were the same as in [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|his old one]], including New York. {{storylink|Assembly (OMAM)|Assembly}}

====''Transformers/Ghostbusters''====
New York City was home to the [[Ghostbusters]], who helped contain the [[ghost]]s which frequently plagued the city. Prior to the quartet's meeting with the [[Transformer]]s, they had faced off against the malevolent [[Gozer]], exploding "his marshmallow butt over [[Central Park]] West", and used gallons of [[mood slime]] to animate the [[Statue of Liberty]]. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4}} {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5}}

During one job in [[Brooklyn]], the Ghostbusters battled a tentacled ghost in [[Prospect Park]], defeating it at the cost of their car, the [[Ecto-1]]. While they were distracted, [[Ectotron|Ectronymous Diamatron]] took on the form of the Ecto-1 and nearly had a run-in with two NYPD officers before scaring them off. Following a brief encounter with the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Ectronymous introduced himself to the team. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 1}} Unaware of the supernatural, Ectronymous deactivated the [[ghost trap]] holding Starscream, thinking him but a [[hologram]], before he understood the truth. After Starscream told his story, a [[Kremzeek]] sprite landed in the park, the Seeker instructing the group on how to dissipate it before they retreated to the [[Ghostbusters firehouse]]. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 2}}

[[Peter Venkman]], suspecting that the Seeker had ulterior motives, locked him in another ghost trap while Ectronymous - now rebranded "Ectotron" - called in [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. As they waited for the Prime, the group returned to Brooklyn to contain [[Killerwatt|a ghost that fed on electricity]]. When the returned to the firehouse, they found Prime waiting for them and Starscream's ghost freed from the trap. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 3}}

To accommodate their alien guests, the Ghostbusters relocated to their warehouse in [[Red Hook]] before heading to the [[Grosbeak Generating Station]] in [[Queens]] when they picked up Starscream's PKE signature. When the six arrived, they found Starscream and Kremzeek the Scavenger waiting for them, the latter proceeding to absorb Starscream before engaging Optimus in physical combat for the [[AllSpark]]'s location. Using the electrical ghost, the Ghostbusters managed to dissipate Kremzeek only to find that this act had freed the imprisoned ghosts of [[Decepticon High Command]]. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4}} While Starscream managed to flee the planet, Shockwave, Soundwave, and Megatron were all contained. In the aftermath, the Autobots left Earth, Optimus taking the ghostly Decepticons with the hopes of one day rehabilitating and resurrecting them, while Ectotron opted to travel the galaxy to find more Cybertronian ghosts, becoming the first interstellar Ghostbuster. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5}}

===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
The first [[International Scientific Symposium]] was being held in New York when [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] turned up in order to kidnap leading scientist [[Kenneth Onishi|Doctor Onishi]]. [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Autobot Brothers]] rushed to the doctor's aid, turning downtown New York into a war zone. The Autobots fought the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s at length but were unable to prevent Megatron from escaping with his prisoner. {{storylink|Battle Protocol!}}

===Live-action film series===
====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
[[File:ROTF New York City.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The Big Blue Apple.]]
After being attacked by the Autobots for murdering [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] flew to New York, where Megatron lectured Starscream for not being capable of tracking down one human. When Starscream countered that there were seven billion humans on Earth, Megatron decided to reveal the Transformers presence on Earth as a show of force to compel the humans to turn [[Sam Witwicky]] over to them. Starscream and [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]] made open shows of defiance around New York City, while Megatron hijacked the Empire State Building's antenna to broadcast [[The Fallen]]'s message across the world.

A day later, Sam, [[Mikaela Banes]], and [[Leo Spitz]] traveled with [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Skids (ROTF)|the]] [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Twins]] to New York to meet Leo's rival [[Robo-Warrior]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' Annual====
[[NEST Satellite Orion]] detected Decepticons deploying [[Pillar]]s in New York. [[NEST]] wasn't quite sure why, as the city was rated of low resource importance. Diss! {{storylink|Transformers Dark of the Moon Annual 2012|Transformers Dark of the Moon Annual 2012}}

====''Rise of the Beasts'' film====
In 1994, [[Elena Wallace]], who worked as an intern in an Ellis Island museum, broke a falcon statue, and it activated half of the [[Transwarp Key]] within it. This drew the attention of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], who was hiding in the city, and sent a message to all the Autobots to rendezvous at a warehouse. One of them, [[Mirage (ROTB)|Mirage]], turned out to have been carrying Brooklyn native [[Noah Díaz]] when he attempted carjack Mirage's Porsche alternate mode. Optimus was at first displeased with having a human alongside them, but decided to send Noah into the museum as his infiltration would not bring attention. The [[Terrorcons]] arrived outside the museum and battled the Autobots, culminating in the death of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and the theft of the Transwarp Key. Optimus then contacted [[Stratosphere]] to fly everyone to [[Peru]] in search for the other half of the Key. Once the mission was complete, Elena and Noah returned to New York, where she was interviewed on TV regarding the discovery of the [[Maximals]] tomb in Peru, and he was approached by [[Agent Burke]], who wanted to hire him for [[G.I. Joe|his security company]].

{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[File:Lower_Manhattan_Flying_Mind.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
One of the artifacts from the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] archives ended up under Manhattan. {{storylink|Flying Mind}} Both the Autobots and Decepticons sent teams to recover the relic. While [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]], an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] and some [[Decepticon Miner]]s found it first, [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] managed to recover it with the help of [[Jack Darby|Jack]], [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] and a subway worker named [[Vogel]]. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision (episode)|Tunnel Vision}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
The [[Military Patrol]] was unleashed on New York as part of a general move by the Decepticons towards abandoning subtlety. [[Bombshock (G1)|Bombshock]] and his men caused chaos on a city-wide scale until a team of Autobots led by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] drove them out. {{storylink|Full Assault}}

===''Transformers: Devastation''===
[[File:Devastation-NYC.jpg|thumb|Literally the only shot in the entire story where the city isn't in the process of being completely destroyed.]]
Millions of years past, the ''[[Proudstar]]'' crashed under what would become New York City. In the modern day, the Decepticons discovered the craft and managed to reactivate its systems, forcing the entire population to be evacuated. The city was nearly [[cyberforming|cyberformed]] as a result until the Autobots managed to shut the ship down. {{storylink|Transformers: Devastation}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
During the war on Earth, the Decepticons invaded New York City and replaced the [[Empire State Building]] with a citadel they dubbed "[[New Cybertron]]". Although the Autobots defeated the villains and helped restore the city's skyline to normal, the Decepticon presence lived on in a number of abandoned subway stations and caves deep beneath the city streets. {{storylink|Decepticon Directive}}

==Notes==
*The voice recordings for [[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberverse]] and [[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy]] were done in New York City.

==External links==
*{{w|New York City}} at Wikipedia
{{GBwiki|New York City}}

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[[File:Unicron-UltimateGuide.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|He's been ignoring Galactus's C&D letters.]]

'''Unicron''' is the eternal arch-enemy of his twin brother [[Primus]]. Also known as the [[Lord of Chaos]], the Chaos Bringer, and the Planet Eater, he is dedicated to consuming the [[multiverse]]. His massive form is powered by the consumption of planets, moons, stars, and even the very fabric of existence. Unicron will not be sated until his ultimate goal is attained: to bring an end to the annoying creation boasting independence around him, and find peace by becoming the living center of a [[Void|swirling, infinite torrent of nothingness]] at the end of all things.

To undertake this seemingly overwhelming task, Unicron is able to travel across realities at will, a meandering plague upon existence itself.<ref>Titanium Series 3" Unicron profile</ref><ref>Universe Armada Series Unicron bio</ref> Integrated into his systems are incomprehensible quantum computers which calculate probabilities forward and backwards in time, in perpetuity, giving his processors an ever changing, evolving map of the multiverse.<ref>Profile, [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 10|''Hasbro Transformers Collector's Club'' #10]]</ref> With these abilities at his disposal, Unicron has thus far devoured approximately 22.56% of known universes. Seen at a detached distance from the multiverse, this collective "'''Unicron Phenomenon'''" acts with the characteristics of a virus or plague seeping through reality, succeeding where it can, retreating when it cannot.<ref>According to the [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s' records in "[[Withered Hope]]."</ref> Various permutations of Unicron can spawn into existence outside the trappings of the larger entity, hailing from a more mundane origin but possessing the same consumptive traits.<ref>Decoded [[Ask Vector Prime]] text within "[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]".</ref> For much of multiversal history, the [[Multiversal singularity|singularity]] Unicron threatened all of existence, but now, [[Shroud|that is no longer the case]], and versions of Unicron are now restricted to their own dimensions.

The only thing that he fears is Primus's essence, contained inside the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. To a being of chaos and uncreation, this font of life is a poison.

Frequently, Unicron will make deals with [[Herald of Unicron|lesser]] [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|beings]], promising them vast new powers in exchange for their servitude. These minions are [[Thunderwing (G1)|sometimes]] stripped entirely of free will, but [[Sideways (Armada)|many]] [[Scourge (ROTB)|others]] follow willingly. Service to Unicron, however, is a double-edged sword, for it causes insanity and loss of self. And in the end, Unicron's plans ultimately call for their consumption as well.

{{bigquote|Unicron is frightening. Unicron will destroy... will destroy ''space''.|[[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]]|"[[Uprising (Armada)|Uprising]]"}}

==Conceptual history==
[[File:Primusoriginal.jpg|thumb|"No, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] is ''[[RIBFIR|red]]!''"]]

Unicron debuted as the central antagonist of 1986's ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', which established him as a monstrously powerful being seemingly only vulnerable to the supernatural energies contained within the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]]. ''The Movie'' presented Unicron as more of an abstract obstacle than a full-fledged character: it didn't explain what Unicron was, nor where he came from, or any specific reasoning for why Unicron specifically targeted [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Subsequent episodes of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''The Transformers'' cartoon]], set in the same [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity|continuity]] as ''The Movie'', were the first works of ''Transformers'' media to fill in these details and craft the first of Unicron's many origin stories: as related in the third-season episode "[[Call of the Primitives]]", the cartoon's Unicron was created by an alien scientist known as [[Primacron]], but Unicron rebelled against his creator and set out into space alone.

However, the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel ''Transformers'' comic]] had incorporated its own version of Unicron into [[Marvel Comics continuity|its own universe]], entirely separate from the cartoon's goings-on. Starting in [[1988]], author [[Simon Furman]] established an entirely different backstory for the character, tweaking details as necessary as the storyline evolved. As first recounted in "[[The Legacy of Unicron!]]", the comic's Unicron was the one of the [[Dark God]]s—in the early days of the universe, he had menaced [[Primus]], lord of the [[Light God]]s, and their battle ended with Primus reshaping his body into the metallic planetoid that would one day become Cybertron. Primus entrusted [[Prima|the first Transformer]] with a fragment of his own essence, which became the Matrix. With each retelling of the story, the roles of the Dark and Light gods diminished; finally, in [[The Void! (US)|issue #74]], it was revealed that Unicron predated the universe itself, having devoured [[Old realms|the previous universe]] in ancient times, and that the sentient core of the universe had created Primus to defeat him—as a result, his attacks on Cybertron became merely the latest attempt to snuff out his age-old enemy.

Unicron didn't appear in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' or ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' cartoons, although the alien [[Vok]] adopted his countenance in the episode "[[Other Voices, Part 1]]", and dialogue suggests that events similar to those of ''The Movie'' occurred at some point in Cybertron's history. However, Unicron ''did'' appear in the ''Beast Machines''-adjacent ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' franchise, which featured him kidnapping Cybertronians from across the ''Transformers'' [[multiverse]].

That same year, Unicron starred as the final boss of the ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Transformers: Armada]]'' franchise. While the [[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|''Armada'' cartoon]] episode "[[Origin]]" put a cerebral spin on Unicron's villainy by revealing that he'd deliberately created the [[Mini-Con]]s as a way to agitate the ongoing Cybertronian civil war, the [[Transformers: Armada (Dreamwave)|Dreamwave comic]] took inspiration from ''Universe'' in its depiction of Unicron as an interdimensional threat, systematically devouring his way across realities before moving on to his next target. Around this time, a set of ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' trading cards released by Fleer nailed down the first "modern" interpretation of the Primus/Unicron mythos: in ''this'' telling, the two were brothers who'd been created by an extradimensional entity named the "[[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]]" at the dawn of time to explore the universe. This was subsequently expanded on and combined with aspects of the various Marvel Comics stories in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'', written by [[Simon Furman]], who had written all three prior tellings in the first place. Here, the entity Fleer had called the "Allspark" was redubbed "[[The One]]", and the modern iteration of the myth detailed above was firmly established, and went on to form the backbone of most subsequent fiction. Unicron played a significant role in ''Armada's'' direct sequel, ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]''; that franchise ended with Unicron's remains collapsing into a massive black hole, and this "[[Unicron Singularity]]" became the primary threat in ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''. As a result of his prominence in all three franchises, these are often referred to as the "[[Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Unicron Trilogy]]". In the pages of ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|The Ultimate Guide]]'', Furman also established that the original [[Thirteen]] Transformers had been created specifically to battle Unicron at the dawn of time, and this detail would become a staple of the Primus/Unicron origin myth.

In 2005, Hasbro copywriter [[Forest Lee]] built off Unicron's "[[Worlds Collide]]" backstory; in the pages of the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|official Collectors' Club]] magazine, he laid down the idea that Unicron was a "[[multiversal singularity]]"—across all the various ''Transformers'' stories, there was only ''one'' Unicron capable of crossing dimensions at will. Although subsequent [[Fun Publications]] media embraced the notion, the idea never really caught on outside this specific niche: the [[Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|''Black Horizon'']] crossover epic presented Unicron as a rogue alien who'd been banished from his world, and the "[[Aligned continuity family|Aligned]]" continuity established that Unicron and [[Earth]] were one and the same; notably, none of this lore ever attempted to reconcile Unicron's origins in the original Sunbow cartoon with the Marvel-inspired lore that had superseded it. In 2015, the "[[Ask Vector Prime]]" column massaged the notion by revealing that there were both "singularity" and "non-singularity" iterations of Unicron, and specifically highlighted the Unicron of ''The Movie'' as one of these non-singularity iterations.

As inconsistencies piled up, however, Fun Publications chose to do away with the idea entirely—in 2015, the "[[Another Light]]" story arc introduced the [[Shroud]], an in-fiction event that retroactively nullified all multiversal singularities into an infinite series of alternate selves. From this point onwards, creators have the freedom to depict Unicron however they wish—be it a [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|planet-eating god of destruction]], an [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|ultraterrestrial threat]], or a [[Transformers: Unicron|rogue weapon created by an alien scientist]]—all these depictions and more can now freely coexist.

==Fun Publications==
Since time immemorial, the [[Thirteen]], children of [[Primus]], fought Unicron. [[Prima]], leader of the Thirteen, wielded the mighty [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]] in the Thirteen's conflicts with Unicron. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#May 18, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 18/05/2015}} [[Solus Prime]] forged the [[Terminus Blade]] for herself and her brethren to cross dimensions in their campaign against the primordial entity. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}}

As guardian of time and space, [[Vector Prime]]'s most frequent opponent was Unicron, though the Chaos-Bringer often seemed barely aware of Vector's existence. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#May 31, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 31/05/2015}} For various periods of time, Vector would follow Unicron and attempt to repair the damage to spacetime which Unicron's presence wrought. {{storylink|Vector Prime: In the Beginning}}

==Generation 1 continuity family==
[[File:OnTheEdgeOfExtinction-Unicrondoublespread.jpg|thumb|Unicron goes to town on Cybertron like Eleanor Shellstrop on some shrimp.]]

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In the [[Primax]] universal cluster, Unicron had many incarnations, all often attacking [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] at some point and being destroyed by the [[Transformer]]s that lived there. He also would repeatedly serve as a Faustian devil; making deals with lesser lifeforms in return for servitude. Among his most famous of those was [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who would often be reformatted into the powerful [[Decepticon]] known as [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]].
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==2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' continuity family==
The [[Viron]] universal cluster was not particularly notable for instantiations of Unicron.

===Ask Vector Prime===
The Unicron of [[Viron 704.08 Gamma]] began life as a tyrant and a conqueror on [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]]. Originally possessing a destroyer tank configuration, Unicron united his planet, and eventually he utilized a mystical [[Cyber Key]] to merge his consciousness with it. Unicron proceeded to begin to consume this reality before [[Omega Prime]] and [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Fortress Maximus]] stopped him.

Dimensional observer [[Vector Prime]] wasn't sure if it was merely [[trans-dimensional harmonic resonance]] which had caused Unicron's actions or if something greater was behind it all. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#July 28, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 28/07/2015}}

==Unicron Trilogy continuity family==
In the [[Aurex]] universal cluster, Unicron often played a notable role in Cybertronian history. Often, his incarnations would attack Cybertron during the conflict for the [[Mini-Con]]s, be the subject of a revival campaign involving energon and the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]], and then be trapped in the [[Unicron Singularity]].

===Toy pack-in comics===
[[File:Armadaminicomic4-Unicron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.85|Check out my tiny buildings!]]
The Transformers were unaware of Unicron's gradual approach during the climax of their civil war. [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] was defeated and imprisoned, and just when he had escaped, the Planet-Eater suddenly appeared over their planet. Only time would tell if the Transformers could possibly defeat him! {{storylink|Armada Volume 4}}

Apparently, they could, and years later Galvatron was reborn as Megatron deep inside the [[Unicron's core|core]] of the defeated Unicron. {{storylink|Energon Volume 1}} The threat of Unicron still loomed over the [[Transformer]]s as they battled over Earth's Energon reserves. {{Storylink|Energon Volume 2}} {{Storylink|Energon Volume 4}}
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===Dreamwave ''Armada'' continuity===
====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====
[[File:TheEnd-Unicron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The southern hemisphere is known as the "footsmell" region.]]

The nearly-dead body of [[Primax 703.09 Gamma|a ravaged universe]]'s [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Dreamwave Armada comic|Optimus Prime]] was sent ahead by Unicron to his [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma|next target universe]], as a "calling card". Additionally, Unicron sent a group of heralds—incarnations of [[Bludgeon (G1)#Dreamwave Armada continuity|Bludgeon]], [[Dirge (G1)#Dreamwave Armada continuity|Dirge]], [[Galvatron (G1)#Dreamwave Armada contoinuity|Galvatron]], [[Scourge (G1)#Dreamwave Armada continuity|Scourge]], and [[Thunderwing (G1)#Dreamwave Armada continuity|Thunderwing]]—to this second universe to find the [[Mini-Con Matrix]] and kill that universe's Optimus Prime and Megatron. The heralds did not realize that their target Optimus Prime had been accidentally transported to the initial, dying Cybertron. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}}

Optimus Prime found one lone survivor, [[Spinister (G1)#Dreamwave Armada comic|Spinister]], and begged him to tell him what was going on. Spinister told him that the "heart of darkness, the root of all evil" had ravaged their world. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4}} {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4}} When Unicron loomed over them, Spinister surrendered himself to his fate. Spinister soon returned as an avatar for Unicron, who found this Optimus Prime's presence to be an "anomaly". Soon [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] managed to trace Optimus Prime to this dying universe and travel there to rescue him. Using the power of the Mini-Con Matrix, Prime and Jetfire were able to combine into Jet Optimus and fire a powerful shot into the heart of Unicron. Though they were too late to save this Cybertron, they could return home and prepare for Unicron's coming there. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}}

Optimus Prime called for an alliance with the Decepticons and the Mini-Cons, hoping to unite their forces against the coming Dark god. After warping to Cybertron's surface, Unicron himself arrived, and announced that they would all soon be consumed. During the following battle, Unicron was curious about the Transformers [[Airazor (Armada)|Airazor]], [[Cheetor (Armada)|Cheetor]], [[Rhinox (Armada)|Rhinox]], and [[Terrorsaur (Armada)|Terrorsaur]], and abducted them for future purposes. Unicron was ultimately defeated by the Mini-Con Matrix, boosted from the additional power of two universes' Mini-Cons. This universe's [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], having made a bid for Unicron's power, was standing on the surface of the planet-eater when he was destroyed, and his body was also lost, his spark trapped within Unicron's remains. {{storylink|The End (Armada)|The End}}

====''Energon'' comic====
[[File:ThisEvilReborn-Unicron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|You never see him transform to robot mode.]]

Ten years later, his broken body was still left floating in space after his defeat. Despite his damaged form, his [[Unicron's core|core]] presented huge potentials for power, and so [[Alpha Quintesson]] gathered together a group of Decepticon dissidents under the leadership of [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] and transformed them into "[[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]]". He promised these Terrorcons this power in exchange for their services. {{storylink|This Evil Reborn}} Meanwhile, Megatron's consciousness was trapped within this core, and over time was able to use Unicron's systems to create for himself a new body, though he was unable to transfer his spark into it. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Three}}

Alpha Quintesson was secretly working for Unicron himself, and he sent the corrupted forms of Airazor, Cheetor, Rhinox, and Terrorsaur, his "[[Unicron's Four Horsemen|Four Horsemen]]", to Cybertron to distract the Autobots from Unicron's revival. {{storylink|This Evil Reborn}}

Optimus Prime, who received a telepathic message from the disembodied Megatron, turned to the [[Autobot High Council]] for permission to dedicate an army towards Unicron's return and his intent to consume alleged huge amounts of [[energon]] on Earth, but the Council dismissed these concerns as paranoia. While they did not grant Prime his army, they did permit him to travel to Earth alone. Before Prime could get out of the building, Unicron's Horsemen struck. Prime and the Council realized this was an act of war perpetrated by Unicron, and so Prime's original pleas were finally heard. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath}}

[[File:WhatLiesBeneath3-Unicroninterior.jpg|thumb|Unicron has a big [[negative universe]] [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] collection.]]

After they were defeated by Optimus Prime on Earth, Scorponok and his Terrorcons were forcibly brought back to Unicron for disciplinary action by Alpha Quintesson. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Four}} Afterwards, Optimus Prime stepped through a portal back to Cybertron to assemble a team of reinforcements... but instead found himself brought to within Unicron, summoned by Megatron's consciousness. {{storylink|Omni-Potent}} Optimus Prime argued with Megatron, denying that he would ever help his thought-dead foe inhabit his new body. Megatron countered with images of a massive-scale Terrorcon attack on Earth. Alpha Quintesson had used Unicron's power to reconfigure [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] into Mirage, and [[Moscow]], [[Toronto]], and [[Los Angeles]] were under heavy siege from his Terrorcon army. Still, Optimus Prime resisted helping Megatron, even with the promise of teaming up to destroy the remnants of Unicron, as he feared releasing Megatron in his new body would be unleashing an equal evil. {{storylink|Multiplicity}}

Finally, after images of carnage on Earth overwhelmed him, Optimus Prime caved to Megatron's demands, and Prime began traveling through Unicron under Megatron's direction. After falling in some goo, Prime located the sensor array that was keeping Megatron's consciousness from entering his new body. It worked, and Megatron was freed... though Optimus Prime was subsequently located by Unicron's internal defenses. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 2}} But through sheer force of will, Optimus broke through Unicron's immune system, and managed to allow Megatron access to his new body. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 3}} Optimus was last seen having defeated the remnants of Unicron's antibodies, with a bandolier and his hand-held cannon. He boasted to Unicron that he was coming for him. {{storylink|No Exit}}

{{Unreleased energon comic}}
Previously, Unicron had destroyed [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]], and [[Alpha Quintesson]] was the sole survivor. With the [[Initiator]], Alpha attempted to escape Unicron, only for his ship to be pulled to the planet eater. {{storylink|Doomsday Redux!}} The energon used for Unicron's reactivation came not from Earth, but from [[Nervissa]], a fact Optimus Prime discovered after connecting to Unicron's consciousness. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 1}} Alpha Quintesson sought to destroy Unicron and had a [[seismic-shock warhead]] teleported to Unicron. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 2}} Within Unicron, Optimus gambled that he would need to make contact with Cybertron if he had any chance of escaping the malevolent planet. He ascended to Unicron's surface, only to come upon the warhead, right after it had been teleported in. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 3}} In the later chaos of an alternate-universe [[Quintesson]] invasion of Cybertron, Unicron awoke and began to strike out against the Transformers. HIs first target was Megatron, who had teleported back to within his body to confront Alpha Trion. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 4}} Realizing that their planet was open to Unicron's attack, the Quintessons attacked Unicron, to no avail. The Quintessons were destroyed, and the Transformers managed to delay Unicron enough for the warhead to explode, destroying the planet. The shockwaves from Unicron's destruction created a [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] from the portal to the alternate-universe Quintessa. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 5}}

===Cartoon continuity===
Unicron was evidently very active in this universe at various points in time, although the precise chronological order of his activities is unclear.

At some undetermined point in the past of this universe, Unicron was approached by the survivors of [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]], a world that had been destroyed in a war with the inhabitants of the Giant Planet, [[Gigantion]]. In return for the chance to gain revenge on Gigantion, the survivors swore loyalty to Unicron, and "Planet X" became something of a code-phrase that identified those in the service of the planet-eater.

{{note|Liner notes included with the DVD release of ''Galaxy Force'' in [[Japan]] claim that Planet X is actually the body of Unicron from a parallel universe. This would not appear to be compatible with the Western storyline, nor, indeed, with the date later given to the planet's destruction on the [[TakaraTomy]] "[http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/bible/index.html World of the Transformers]" website.}}

Cybertronian legend referred to an attack by Unicron on the planet that was ultimately thwarted by the mighty Autobot warrior, [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]]. {{storylink|Omega Supreme (episode)|Omega Supreme}}

====''Armada'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Acheson]] (English), [[Katsumi Chō]] (Japanese)|[[Jhonny Torres]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Raine Heiskanen]] (Finnish), [[Ekkehardt Belle]] (German), [[Fredrik Beckmann]] (Swedish), [[Hercules Fernando]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
{{quote|As long as hatred exists, I shall remain impervious to attack.|Unicron|[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Origin]]}}

[[File:Alliance-Unicronmoon.jpg|thumb|That's no moon!]]
Unicron's first attack on Cybertron was over a million years in the making, begun when he opted to disguise his dormant body as Cybertron's moon. From this secret vantage point, he implanted his own cells within the planet, where they germinated and grew into the small race of robots known as the [[Mini-Con]]s. Unicron hoped to use the Mini-Cons to increase the ferocity of the Autobot/Decepticon war, and feed off of the energies released in the conflict. The Cybertronians would then be subjugated through the Mini-Cons' influence. Though his plan succeeded in one timeline, the interference of three time-displaced children changed this. [[Rad White]], [[Carlos Lopez]], and [[Alexis Thi Dang]] planted the seed of sentience and free will within the Mini-Cons, who ultimately rebelled against their creator and fled Cybertron, crash-landing on the planet Earth. This forestalled Unicron's emergence by eons. {{storylink|Origin}} {{storylink|Drift (episode)|Drift}}

[[File:Union-Unicron.jpg|left|thumb|Don't mind me, just chillin'.]]

When the Mini-Cons were reawakened a million years later in 2010, they were detected by the Autobots and Decepticons, who followed their signal to Earth. {{storylink|First Encounter}} Unicron also picked up the signal, and dispatched his minion [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] to carry on his work. {{storylink|Gale}} Rad, Alexis, and Carlos encountered a digital manifestation of Unicron when Sideways transported them to a digital world, in a bid to steal the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team]] from them. Unicron's avatar gave chase to the children as they fled back into the physical realm, but was unable to catch them in time. {{storylink|Chase (episode)|Chase}} Sideways then continued to escalate the conflict by manipulating control of the three Mini-Con weapons, the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]], the [[Skyboom (Armada)|Skyboom]] shield and the [[Requiem Blaster (Armada)|Requiem Blaster]], but eventually arranged for all three to be returned to Cybertron, where he stole them and used them to reawaken Unicron. {{storylink|Portent}} While still awakening, Unicron sent an energy bolt down at Starscream, who had fired a powerful blast at the Dark God to convince Galvatron of his threat. Starscream was disintegrated before his shot could even reach Unicron. {{storylink|Cramp}}

[[File:ArmadaUnicron02.jpg|thumb|The Power Cosmic gives you wrinkles.]]
Shedding his moon disguise and transforming to robot mode, Unicron turned on Cybertron, only to be met with resistance in the form of the united armada of Autobots and Decepticons {{storylink|Alliance}}, and his own Mini-Cons, who had linked together and formed a [[Unicron of Light|giant duplicate]] of his body. {{storylink|Union}} Now at full power, however, it was child's play for Unicron to exert control over his creations, and bring the Mini-Cons under his thumb once more. Again, it was thanks to the Autobots' human allies—the same children who had been sent back in time and given the Mini-Cons free will in the first place—that the Mini-Cons struggled free of Unicron's control, including the three Mini-Con weapons, who broke free and left Unicron's body deactivated. {{storylink|Origin}} Believing the threat over, [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] then challenged Optimus Prime to their final battle, only for the hatred and ferocity of their fight to awaken Unicron once more. To end the circle of hate that gave Unicron life, Galvatron allowed himself to be consumed by the monster, and in a brilliant flash of light, Unicron apparently ceased to exist. {{storylink|Mortal Combat}}
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====''Linkage''====
[[File:Arm-art Linkage13-Title.jpg|thumb|200px|Everything they've built will fall! And from the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one!]]

While traversing the [[Linkage (dimension)|Linkage]] dimension, [[Redline]] noticed an ominous presence watching him. {{storylink|Linkage Part 7}} Redline recognized it as "The Terrible One" and relayed that info to [[Servo (Armada)|Servo]], who then relayed it to [[Rollbar (Armada)|Rollbar]]. Having also seen The Terrible One while in the Linkage, [[Falcia]] chose to stay with Redline and work with him on the [[Master Key]]. Meanwhile, [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]], a minion of Unicron, gave the [[Speed Chaser Team]], also minions of Unicron, the [[Doomstone]], an artifact intended to permanently enslave the Mini-Cons to Unicron's will. {{storylink|Linkage Part 8}}

The Doomstone was then installed in [[Ravenus]], who used its evil energies to destroy the souls of the Mini-Cons and revert them into mindless death-machines. {{storylink|Linkage Part 10}} Ravenus and the Doomstone intended to destroy the Earth. {{storylink|Linkage Part 11}} Redline and [[Kingbolt (Armada)|Kingbolt]] were able to contain Ravenus and extract the Doomstone. Redline then sealed it away in his extra-dimensional storage space for safekeeping. {{storylink|Linkage Part 12}}

While all this was going on, Unicron was busy assaulting Cybertron. Ravenus, now freed from Unicron's control via the Doomstone, fought alongside the other Mini-Cons against the god. The combined forces of the Autobots, Decepticons and Mini-Cons then joined for a final battle against Unicron. {{storylink|Linkage Part 13}}
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====''Energon'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[David Kaye]] (English), [[Mark Acheson]] (English), [[Nobutoshi Canna]] (Japanese)|[[Fredrik Beckmann]] (Swedish), [[Juha Paananen]] (Finnish), [[José Carabias]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Tomasz Marzecki]] (Polish)}}

[[File:MegatronRaid Unicronhead.jpg|left|thumb|If I need to steal [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s eyes again, I quit.]]

In truth, however, Unicron had survived, and for the next ten years, continued to consume planets in other regions of space. One such planet was the world known as [[Planet Q]], whose inhabitants fought back by detonating the planet's core in Unicron's face. Badly damaged by the explosion, Unicron fell into a state of dormancy, but the life essence of the planet's ruler—the being who would come to be known as [[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]]—continued to exist within him, and began a not-entirely-sane plan to use Unicron's powers to recreate everything the Chaos-Bringer had ever destroyed. {{storylink|Alpha Q: Identity}} Recreating the armies of Planet Q as "Terrorcons", Alpha Q had them attack Autobot facilities on Earth and throughout the [[Solar System]] to gather the [[energon]] that would be necessary for his plan to work. {{storylink|Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City}}

[[File:Energon Unicron.jpg|thumb|Unicron sported [[Neon|awesome]] [[Black repaint|colors]] during ''Energon''.]]

Unbeknownst to Alpha Q, Megatron's corpse and spark remained within Unicron, and he slowly siphoned off some of the gathered Energon, allowing him to be reborn in his own new body. To escape Megatron's fury, Alpha Q jettisoned Unicron's head and escaped in it, {{storylink|Megatron Resurrected}} while Megatron took over Unicron's body, and continued to gather Energon in order to rebuild Unicron to use as his ultimate weapon. {{storylink|Megatron Raid}} Both parts of Unicron's inert form were used by Megatron and Alpha Q as their bases from then on. Though Unicron briefly lashed out towards those housed within him when he became starved with energon, he otherwise remained incapable of attacking them. {{storylink|Survival Instincts}}

As the climax of Megatron's plans neared, a joint attack by Alpha Q, the Autobots and their human allies saw all of Earth's Energon channeled into Unicron's head, which Alpha Q then rammed into Unicron's body. {{storylink|Unicron Unleashed}} The positively-charged Energon of Earth reacted with the negatively-charged Energon running through Unicron, tearing open a fissure in reality leading to a new area of space where planets Unicron consumed were recreated, and sustained through the Energon radiated from Unicron's head, which had now become a glowing red sun. {{storylink|Open Fire!}} {{storylink|Ripped Up Space}} {{storylink|Farewell Inferno}}

[[File:Unicron eats blizzard.jpg|left|thumb|Unicron should stop eating so many Blizzards.]]
Unicron's body, damaged once more, lay in the dark reaches near the fissure, and the Decepticons began to raid Alpha Q's new planets for the Energon necessary to revive Unicron again. This time, they succeeded, {{storylink|Omega Supreme (episode)|Omega Supreme}} and Megatron directed Unicron's body to retrieve his head, extinguishing the Energon Sun and killing Alpha Q in the process. {{storylink|A Heroic Battle}} But the power of Unicron proved too much for Megatron to control, as Unicron began to take over Megatron's body. {{storylink|The Power of Unicron}} The Autobots made a valiant but futile attempt to stop him, and Unicron swatted them like gnats. Just as things seemed hopeless, a surge of power from Primus allowed Optimus Supreme to grow to Unicron's size and powered up the other Autobots. {{storylink|Optimus Supreme}} After a long and hard battle, Optimus destroyed Unicron's body. {{storylink|Unicron Perishes}}

[[File:Energon-Unicrons-Arms.jpg|thumb|"Geodude geeeeoooo geodude."]]

None of the Transformers were aware, however, that Unicron lived on in two forms: his miniscule Spark, floating in space, and his consciousness, which lay buried in Megatron's mind. With quiet, subconscious nudging, Unicron led Megatron to a massive reservoir of "[[Super Energon]]" beneath Cybertron's surface, {{storylink|Ambition}} which transformed him into Galvatron upon his first exposure. {{storylink|Wishes}} Galvatron used his newfound power to take command of Cybertron, exiling the Autobots off-world by unleashing a toxic energon gas into the atmosphere. Unicron next pushed Galvatron to use the planet's systems to propel Cybertron towards Alpha Q's planets. {{storylink|Galvatron!}} {{storylink|The Omega Train}}

At some point in time, a virtual copy of Unicron appeared in an Autobot "virtual training program" as a special opponent for Hot Shot and Rodimus to battle after defeating all other contenders. Despite this copy being scaled-down to be about the same size as his opponents, he proved to be a formidable foe. The Autobots nonetheless defeated him, winning the <s>video game</s> training exercise. {{storylink|Distribution}}

Optimus beheld a vision of Unicron as looked upon an energon gas-envelopped Cybertron, clueing him in on the fact that Unicron's evil still persisted in some form. {{storylink|Formidable}}

After a series of failed battles, Galvatron proceeded to expose himself to the Super Energon once again, and this time grew to a gigantic height. {{storylink|Galvatron Terror}} Unicron seized control of his body again for a new vessel and set out to rejoin with his Spark, {{storylink|Destructive Power}} but a Primus-empowered Optimus Supreme engaged him in battle once more, and drew all of Unicron's consciousness out of Galvatron and sealed it within his own Spark. {{storylink|Spark (episode)|Spark}}

[[File:EnergonUnicronOrbTheSun.jpg|left|thumb|"How could this puny thing be Unicron?" 
—[[Kicker Jones]]]]
Enraged, Galvatron prepared to destroy Unicron's Spark, but it merged with him, enlarging him again, leading to another battle with Optimus Supreme, this time bolstered by the combined energy of all his troops' Sparks. Meanwhile, Primus merged with the Super Energon, creating a foundling sun which arrived at the site of the battle. Taking control of his body for a brief moment, Galvatron made the decision to plunge himself into the infant sun to rid himself of Unicron's possession. The super energon mass, having now received Unicron's spark, ignited into a powerful red sun which gave new life to Alpha Q's worlds. {{storylink|The Sun}}
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====''Cybertron'' cartoon====
[[File:Cyb ep20 unicron chunks.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.85|Ssssh, don't tell ''Galaxy Force'' that I'm here!]]

The bitter [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] was a loner, but his attitude changed when, in deep space, he was trapped underneath some debris near the remains of Unicron and saved by [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Honor}}

[[File:Unicronsingularity.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|The cause of—and solution to—all of our continuity problems.]]

Primus's plan to trap Unicron in the heart of a new sun failed when the star collapsed into a massive [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] (sometimes known as the "Unicron Singularity") that threatened the entire multiverse. The collapse of the sun also allowed [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] to escape, [[Armor of Unicron|but not before integrating what remained of Unicron's body into himself]], increasing his power to nightmarish new heights. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}

In addition to strengthening the Decepticon leader, the Armor of Unicron apparently gave Megatron access to a few of the Chaos Bringer's reality-warping powers, including the ability to unleash a devastating Energon aura, {{storylink|Starscream (episode)|Starscream}} {{storylink|Showdown (Cybertron)|Showdown}} create new Transformer bodies, upgrade and repair fallen Transformers {{storylink|Darkness (episode)|Darkness}}, and tap into the power of the [[Cyber Planet Key]]s. {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}} {{storylink|Fury (Cybertron)|Fury}} The Decepticon leader's newest plan also held hints of the dark god's old agenda, as he intended to use the Keys to accelerate the black hole's growth and destroy the entire universe (albeit with the intent to remake it in his image afterwards).

Unfortunately for Unicron and Megatron (who again upgraded into Galvatron), the black hole would be sealed away by Primus himself after the Autobots restored his full power. {{storylink|End}} The Armor of Unicron would be overwhelmed and destroyed along with its wearer in a final battle with Optimus Prime, wiping away the last traces of Unicron from the universe. {{storylink|Unfinished}}

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====''Cybertron'' comic====
From interdimensional space, [[Vector Prime]] observed the Autobots and Decepticons attacking and defeating Unicron. When Unicron collapsed into the [[Unicron Singularity]], [[Vector Sigma]] alerted Vector Prime to the spatiotemporal crisis threatening Cybertron. Vector Prime thus returned to normal space for the first time in millions of years to aid his homeworld. {{storylink|Vector Prime: In the Beginning}}

During the crisis, Unicron's heralds [[Ramjet (Universe)|Ramjet]] and Nemesis Prime arrived on [[Aurex 405.0 Epsilon|that universe]]'s nearly deserted Cybertron. They were intent on unleashing the [[Dead Matrix]] upon Primus's vulnerable essence—as the Matrix was the antithesis of Unicron, so too would the Dead Matrix ensure the destruction of Primus, thereby totally destabilizing the multiverse and reducing it to a sea of entropic chaos. For the first time, it would be possible for Unicron to strike at Primus in all realities simultaneously, ending their cosmic feud once and for all. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 2}}

[[File:Unicroncybertron.jpg|upright=0.85|left|thumb|The Planet-Eater's back, and you're gonna be in trouble.]]
Ramjet and Nemesis Prime were ultimately stopped by Vector Prime and allies [[Sentinel Maximus]] and [[Omega Prime]], plucked from the midst of the [[Universe War]] by the multiverse-warping energies of the black hole. {{storylink|Revelations Part 1}} The Dead Matrix, however, was taken by Unicron's servant [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]] and cast into the heart of the black hole, freeing Unicron's spark, which entered the planet [[Yst]] and immediately began to sow chaos and disorder. Re-energized by the hatred and violence than ran rampant on Yst, Unicron formed a new, diminutive body for himself, born into the universe when Yst exploded. {{storylink|Revelations Part 3}}

[[File:Sentinelmaximusunicron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sorry, did that previous image indicate that Unicron was still huge?]]
During the time that followed, from behind the scenes Unicron orchestrated a civil war between the Mini-Cons stationed on Cybertron's moons. {{storylink|Revelations Part 4}} When Sentinel Maximus led a team of Autobots to stamp out the escalating conflict, Unicron's involvement was revealed, and he joined the battle himself alongside Soundwave. With no further use for the Mini-Cons, he murdered several of them and tried to capture [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]] and [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], whom he had plans for; {{storylink|Revelations Part 5}} {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 1}} by eliminating the [[Thirteen]], Unicron knew he could put Primus in a vulnerable position and thus best him. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 10|Unicron's profile in Club magazine #10}} However, before Unicron could achieve victory, Primus was reawakened, and the dark god fled as Cybertron transformed into its robot mode. {{storylink|Revelations Part 6}}
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===MegaWing Galvatron continuity===
In [[Aurex 304.0 Epsilon|an alternate universe]], after being left for dead by the Decepticon warlord [[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]], [[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]]'s corpse was cloned by Unicron to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe)|Nemesis Prime]]. Nemesis Prime spent his entire early existence being tortured by Unicron so that he could be molded into the perfectly loyal herald. Through the tortured clone, Unicron was able to create the [[Dead Matrix]], a weapon capable of slaying his hated opposite, Primus. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 6|Nemesis Prime's profile}} {{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 2}}

===2003 ''Universe'' toy bios===
Unicron granted [[Treadshot (Universe 2003)|Treadshot]] new power, which Treadshot planned to use to kill [[Ultra Magnus (Energon)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]] once and for all. {{storylink|Treadshot (Universe 2003)#Toys|Ultra Magnus vs. Treadshot toy bio}}

===Spacewarp's Log===
In [[Spacewarp]]'s [[Aurex 006.0 Kappa|home reality]], [[Starscream (Armada)|Ulchtar]] sacrificed himself against Unicron. {{storylink|Source:Transformers: Spacewarp's Log#November 28, 2015|Spacewarp's Log (2), 2015/11/28/11/2015}}

At some point, Spacewarp sneaked in and out of Unicron's docking bay, a feat she considered miraculous to have pulled off. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Guest column#October 27, 2015|Spacewarp's Log (1), 27/10/2015}}

Unicron was later pulled into the Unicron Singularity. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#September 17, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 17/09/2015}}

==''Q-Robo Transformer''==
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Q-Robo Transformer}}}}
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==''TransTech''==
At some point, the [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s of [[Nexus 208.0 Epsilon]] confronted and succeeded in defeating the Unicron Phenomenon for the time being. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}

When [[G1 GoBots|a team of traveling cyborgs]] appeared before the [[High Senate]], TransTech Minister of Higher Dimensional Sciences [[Rhinox (TransTech)|Rhinox]] was asked to provide background to the [[Cataclysm (GoBots)|Cataclysm]]. Rhinox explained within the [[Primax 984.0 Gamma]] universal stream, the appearance and subsequent destruction of Unicron and the destruction of Primus's [[Xaaron|avatar]], {{Storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}} as well as the tainting of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] caused by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]], created a great many [[splinter timeline]]s. These events, as well as an earlier, undefined event related to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], resulted in the creation of yet another splinter timeline, [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon]]. This universe overwrote [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha|the universe]] home to said dimensional travelers. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}

==Live-action film series==
===''The Last Knight'' film===
{{quote|Earth...Unicron, Cybertron's ancient enemy!|Optimus Prime|[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]}}

[[File:Transformers_5_Unicron.jpg|thumb|350px|The Transformer with the least amount of screen time.]]

In the distant past, the planet [[Earth]] formed around the inert body of Unicron. On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Unicron was known as the planet's ancient enemy. A [[Book of Cyber-Kells|book]] that would eventually come to be held in the Trinity Library spoke of Unicron being [[Earth's core|the core of Earth]].

Somehow the Cybertronian sorceress [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] had discovered Unicron's resting point and hit on a plan to restore Cybertron by draining the life from Unicron to revive the planet, sending both [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and a brainwashed [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] to Earth to reclaim [[Staff of Merlin|the device]] she needed to complete her plan.
[[File:TheLastKnight - Trinity Library Book shows Unicron.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKJwvQfraY8 ''I see a bad moon rising'' ''I see trouble on the way'']]]
In preparation, Quintessa moved Cybertron into Earth's solar system, its presence causing Unicron's six horns to sprout on the Earth as he reacted to the presence of his old enemy. Growing at a rate of three meters a day, the horns were a sign of a great scientific curiosity and mass panic across the globe. [[Edmund Burton|Sir Edmund Burton]] and [[Cogman]] recognized the horns for what they were and took them as a sign of the apocalypse.

At Stonehenge, Quintessa and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] began the ritual and sent Unicron's life force to Cybertron before the Autobots and the TRF halted their efforts. Enough of Unicron's life force had been sent to Cybertron however that it had healed most of its damage to the point that the Autobots felt they were able to return to their homeworld.

In the aftermath, several human scientists were examining one of Unicron's horns only to be approached by Quintessa in a human guise. She warned them against touching the horn, lest they incur Unicron's wrath, but offered them a way to kill the Chaos Bringer. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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===''Rise of the Beasts'' film===
[[File:ROTBcap-Unicronringedplanet.jpg|thumb|300px|Unicron might as well eat this planet -- it's so close to its sun it's gotta be uninhabitable!]]
{{voiceactor|[[Colman Domingo]] (English), [[Kazuhiro Yamaji]] (Japanese)|[[Frédéric Souterelle]] (European French), [[Roberto Fidecaro]] (Italian), [[Torsten Michaelis]] (German), [[Guilherme Lopes]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Dafnis Fernández]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Xavier Martín Alonso]] (Spain Spanish), [[Robert Jarociński]] (Polish)}}

{{quote|Rise... My hunger is killing me... What have [[Scourge (ROTB)|you]] found?|Unicron|[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]}}

Legends that predated Cybertronian civilization described Unicron as a dark god who consumed planets, but few knew of the legends, and fewer still believed them. The [[Maximal]]s learned that Unicron was real only when the Chaos Bringer arrived on their doorstep to consume their planet. Unicron deployed his Terrorcon and Predacon forces led by his chief [[Herald of Unicron|Herald]] [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]], whom he had long ago enslaved. Unicron tasked them with finding the [[Transwarp Key]], a Maximal device that would enable him to continue his rampage across time and space at will, before he consumed the Maximal planet. Unicron was livid with Scourge for losing the key as the Maximals led by [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] fled, and commanded Scourge to find the key. Though Unicron was still able to feast on the Maximal planet, he was left in the current galaxy, forced to rely on his own power to move about space, but this soon left him starving and desperate to find another planet to feast on.

[[File:ROTB-ScourgeCommunicatesUnicron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66| This is your final warning: break the treaty again and you will be destroyed.]]

Scourge later found half of the Transwarp Key on Earth in 1994, but when he presented his prize to his master, Unicron scolded and tortured his minion as it was only half of the key. Scourge eventually retrieved the other half in Peru and began opening a portal in time and space for Unicron to come through. Unicron relished his apparent victory and made ready to devour Earth, but Primal and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime's]] Autobots defeated Scourge and his other forces. When Prime made to destroy the portal, Unicron hastily offered Prime whatever he wanted in exchange for not proceeding, but the Autobot leader had none of it and destroyed the portal. Though Unicron had been stranded once again in his current location and time, the Autobots and Maximals acknowledged he had likely survived the collapse of the portal, but stood resolute that they would defeat him should he ever return to Earth.
{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}

===Titan movie comics===
{{quote|I'm certain I can speak for all those pledged to the Decepticon cause when I say Unicron spells one thing, and that's trouble with a capital 'running and screaming'.|Barricade|[[Transformers Comic issue 2.6|#6 (Vol.2)]]}}

[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] encountered Unicron {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|#12's Star Screams}} in an event where Unicron attempted to devour Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|#19's Star Screams}} It left him terrified. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|#17's Star Screams}}

Both [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] were also aware of Unicron's existence. His sheer might scared them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.6|#6's Law and Disorder}} They knew that [[fandom|you]] wanted to see Unicron in the third film and it sickened them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|#13's Law and Disorder}}

[[File:Unicron Titan19.JPG|left|thumb|"The psoriasis is barely slowing him down!"]]
In an alternate timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City, [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] and his Decepticon chums attempted to rebirth Cybertron by sending out a summons that would attract any entity related to the lost [[AllSpark]], and then drawing that entity into Cybertron once it arrived.

As that entity announced itself to be '''"Unicron the Anti-Life!"''', they felt like a right bunch of plonkers. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}}

Unicron moved swiftly, transforming Cybertron into a scarier looking physical form and causing the planet's surface to becoming hostile to the Transformers on it. Stockade's attempts at communication were met with contempt and a strange attack. The new Unicron then warped into the Sol system, shot down an Autobot shuttle, and went "OM NOM NOM" at the sight of Earth. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|Return to Cybertron: Part 3}}

The downed Autobots regrouped with Stockade's Decepticons and worked to take away the [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] that was powering Unicron's physical form. They succeeded in this by causing it to blow up and catch fire, which caused Unicron to draw on more Nucleon to recover, which fueled the fire and so on until the source ran out. Unicron disappeared, though whether he was dead or just gone is ambiguous. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

Either way, the changes Unicron had made to Cybertron remained. The teleportation equipment he'd created was used by the Autobots to finally end the war. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}

==''Animated'' continuity family==
[[Multiversal singularity|Multiversal singularities]] did not exist in the [[Malgus|Malgus Cluster]]. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#May 29, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 29/05/2015}} [[Malgus 1207.26 Alpha]] had one such non-singular Unicron, built by [[Primacron]] in his laboratory on [[Protos]]. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#June 10, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 10/06/2015}}

==Aligned continuity family==
===''The Covenant of Primus''===
[[File:Transformers_Covenant_of_Primus_Unicron.jpg|thumb|He's a small world after all...]]
Unicron and [[Primus]] began life as personalities within a single omnipotent being that conversed with itself. While Primus saw beauty in life and found it sacred, Unicron found it pointless, cruel, and needing to end. The divide between the two personalities grew and the being eventually split into Primus and Unicron. Unshackled, Unicron went on a cosmic rampage, destroying all he found, with the end goal of consuming reality itself. Eventually Primus took a stand against Unicron but the two brothers found themselves evenly matched in a perfect stalemate. Primus responded by creating the [[Thirteen]] to fight in his stead.

At his full power however, Unicron's mere aura overpowered the Thirteen causing them to nearly lose all hope before they rallied. The youngest of them, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], managed to breach Unicron's interior and exposed his Primus-like Spark to Unicron's Anti-Spark, the resulting reaction knocking both beings into stasis lock. [[Vector Prime]] then created a time loop around Unicron to keep him in stasis and prevent him from ever awakening. Though the day had been won, the Thirteen's exposure to Unicron had infected them all with a touch of his darkness. Though they all tried to ignore it, [[Alpha Trion]] later reflected that by doing so, they gave the darkness fertile ground to grow in. During the battle, [[Dark Energon]] bled from his body and was eventually sealed away.

The darkness particularly grew in [[Prima]], whom Unicron had physically bitten, who had created a chart tracking which of the Primes were more similar to Primus and Unicron.

Upon finding the Dark Energon, [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] merged it with his [[spark]] and eventually the very [[core]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

After arriving on [[Earth]], Optimus expressed surprise at how much life had sprung up on Unicron's body. [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] updated her personal log for the first time since coming to Earth just before the attack on Unicron. Before he merged with the [[Core]], Optimus Prime recalled Unicron's great surprise at being trapped forever in the [[AllSpark]] container. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

===Aligned novels===
Unicron was defeated in his attempt to destroy Cybertron very early in its history, but emanations of his presence remained and were gathered and stored on [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] Station. This substance was a violently addictive poison that could pass on to another bot once its user died, and was dubbed the Sparks of Unicron or [[Dark Energon]]. Ultimately [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] achieved what Unicron did not by contaminating the [[core]] with Dark Energon, forcing the planet to shut down and reboot. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[John Noble]] (English), [[Frank Welker]] (English, as [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] in "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]"), [[Hidetoshi Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[Alexander Kovrizhnykh]] (Russian), [[Vladimir Antonik]] (Russian, "Predacons Rising"), [[José Lavat]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Miguel Ángel Pérez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Marco Balbi]] (Italian), [[Jürgen Kluckert]] (German), [[Markus Bäckman]] (Finnish), [[Patrick Descamps]] (French), [[Marco Antônio Abreu]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Armando Tiraboschi]] (Brazilian Portuguese, "Predacons Rising"), [[Zbigniew Konopka]] (Polish), [[Jin-uk Hong]] (Korean), [[Hwang Il-chung]] (Korean, "Predacons Rising")}}

[[File:OneShallRise1-Unicronsilhouette.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|{{w|Godfellas|Oh, how convenient! A theory about God that doesn't require looking through a telescope. Get back to work!}}]]
According to legend, at the beginning of time, Unicron and Primus battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Until, that is, Primus created the [[Thirteen]]. These Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space.

Over time, matter gravitated towards Unicron's fallen form, eventually forming a [[Earth|planet]] which found an orbit around a distant star. Prophesies foretold that should a certain planetary alignment occur, gravitational forces would wake Unicron from his slumber. In Optimus Prime's later view, Unicron had likely begun to transcend physical form. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

In his three years in space, Megatron discovered the solidified form of Dark Energon, rumoured to be "the blood of Unicron". A worried [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] referred to Unicron as a legendary "destroyer", and called his blood the "Anti-Spark" as well. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} Megatron injected a piece of Dark Energon into himself and announced that he could hear Unicron's thoughts, much to Starscream's concern. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

Some time later, as a planetary alignment foretold in a prophecy from the [[Covenant of Primus]] was drawing near, Megatron began to see visions of the future brought on by the sliver of Dark Energon that dwelt within his body. In one such vision, Megatron glimpsed the shadowed face of Unicron himself, and claimed that it was as if he could hear Unicron's own thoughts. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] were less than convinced, but kept that fact to themselves. Much to everyone's shock, a volcano near the site of Optimus and Megatron's battle exploded and released a load of Dark Energon from the [[Earth's core]]. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

[[File:OneShallRise1-Unicronlistens.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Disappointed that I'm not the size of the moon or bigger? We'll soon fix that."]]
As storms, earthquakes, and volcanoes erupted simultaneously across Earth, the [[Autobot]]s began to suspect that Earth itself had Unicron as its core, explaining why Dark Energon was expelling from within. Meanwhile, Megatron ordered the [[Decepticon Miner]]s to mine the Dark Energon that spilled and at the same time he sought Unicron's attention at the maw of a volcano. Megatron presented himself as Unicron's herald and servant, an enemy of the Primes, but Unicron dismissed the Decepticon leader. If Megatron had failed to destroy the last of the Primes thus far on his own, Unicron believed Megatron's help was worthless. Similarly, Optimus Prime sought out Unicron elsewhere, traveling to the area which the Autobots believed to be the strongest epicenter of his consciousness. Unicron formed from a cliffside as a stone likeness of his old body near Optimus, while the Autobot leader made a passioned plea to the Chaos Bringer to spare the planets' inhabitants. Unicron denied Optimus's pleas, as he considered the humans "parasites", and he birthed multiple copies of himself from the landscape that surrounded Optimus Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

[[File:OneShallRise2-bigdude.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Still not big enough for you?]]
Optimus, soon joined by his fellow Autobots, blasted his way through increasingly larger Unicron avatars, until finally Unicron produced one even the Autobots couldn't beat. It raised a foot to crush Optimus, only for Megatron to lend a hand by blasting its head off. While the Autobots retreated to base to consider Megatron's plan, the Decepticon leader engaged more of the stone Unicrons, smashing them as fast as Unicron could produce them. Eventually, Megatron disappeared through the Autobot [[GroundBridge]].

[[File:OneShallRise2-inside.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"So hey, Prime, I guess we're kind of like Ozzy and Drix, huh?" "Shut up."]]
A short time later, Megatron and the Autobots used the GroundBridge to reach the core of Earth itself, where Unicron's eye peered around. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} As they moved through the interior of the deity, the Autobots and Megatron were attacked by a swarm of flying drones, [[Unicron's antibodies]]. The group fought them until they reached Unicron's anti-spark with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] and Megatron ventured inside. As Optimus attempted to fight off waves of power from Unicron, Megatron was forcibly possessed by the ancient god and set against the Autobot leader. Before Unicron could strike through Megatron, Optimus unleashed the full power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] on Unicron, overwhelming him, and returning him to his slumber. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Much later Agent Fowler was giving a briefing to General [[Bryce]] about the Autobots' mission and brought up their encounter with Unicron. Bryce misunderstood and believed Fowler was talking about a ''[[unicorn]]'', threatenening Fowler with a psychological evaluation. He relented after the misunderstanding was cleared up. {{storylink|Grill (episode)|Grill}}

[[File:Predaconsrising-chaosandcreation.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|And here I am in my <s>Galvatron</s> <s>Megacron</s> <s>Unitron</s>... You know what? Let's just call it my ''suit''.]]
Awakened by the restoration of Cybertron, Unicron cast around for a new vessel for his anti-spark, and found Megatron's body at the bottom of the ocean. Reconstructing and reviving Megatron, Unicron took possession of his body and flew to Cybertron with the aim of destroying Primus once and for all. He arrived at Megatron's old fortress of [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], where he fought four Autobots. Dissatisfied by his new body's performance in battle, he tracked down [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], whom Megatron claimed was a loyal warrior. After a brief fight, Unicron prevailed and learned of the existence of a burial ground of [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] remains. He used his Dark Energon to revive the Predacons as an army of Terrorcons, and led them across the [[Hydrax Plateau]] to the [[Well of All Sparks]]. While the Terrorcons poured into the Well, Unicron felt the return of the [[AllSpark]], which Optimus Prime had just brought back to the planet. Unicron easily bested Prime in battle, and obtained the vessel, only to find it empty. The vessel instead drew Unicron's anti-spark into itself, sealing the dark god inside and freeing Megatron from his will. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===''Arms Micron'' toy bios===
The [[One Shall Rise, Part 1|awakening]] of Unicron from within the Earth sent ripples that echoed into the multiverse, drawing the attention of [[Lio Convoy]] in [[Primax 498.1 Alpha|another universe]]. Travelling across realities, he arrived to find that the Autobots and Decepticons had already defeated Unicron, but elected to remain in this world for a time to safeguard against his potential return. {{storylink|Lio Convoy#Prime|''Arms Micron'' Leo Prime bio}} Using his ancient sword and the power of his [[Energon Matrix]], Lio Convoy carved up the remains of one of Unicron's rock-and-stone avatars to create the powerful [[Gaia Armor]], severing its link to Unicron himself but allowing it to retain the power of Dark Energon. {{storylink|Gaia Armor|Gaia Armor bio}}

Spawned from the dormant consciousness of Unicron, Nightmare Unicron was a shadow that moved by itself, yearning to have its own body by observing the Autobots. If it got to possess [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]], stored away by the military, the consequences of Unicron combining with it would be inconceivable. {{storylink|Unicron/toys#Nightmare|Nightmare Unicron bio}}

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
[[Rescue Force Sigma-17]] was sufficiently aware of Unicron for [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] to remark that [[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]]'s throwing skills would be insufficient to hit the [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|backside]] of Unicron with a [[Cybertronian sport#Lobbing|lobbing]] ball. {{storylink|Christmas in July}} Heatwave would later remark that he would rather ask Unicron for help when the team had to employ [[High Tide]]'s assistance in containing a super-sized [[CeCe Greene]]. {{storylink|All Spark Day (episode)|All Spark Day}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
Several years after Unicron was sealed away, [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] was freed from his imprisonment and brought to Earth, intending to use his [[spark fuser]] to combine the remnants of the Chaos Bringer's Anti-spark in Earth's core with the AllSpark, which would destroy both Earth and Cybertron. Though Megatronus succeeded in drawing out the Anti-spark, he was ultimately thwarted by the efforts of [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'s team, aided by the revived Optimus Prime, and the Anti-spark returned to Earth's core. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}}

==''Knights of Unicron''==
Legendary super rockers the [[Knights of Unicron (band)|Knights of Unicron]] named themselves in honor of this demonic entity. The Sinister Tympanic Membrane (the left eardrum), located on "Planet Unicron", was also the eleventh venue for the band on their 2014 "Till All Are One" tour. {{storylink|Knights of Unicron (band)|Knights of Unicron}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
Vector Prime considered it distasteful that the [[Knights of Unicron (band)|Knights of Unicron]] would name themselves after something that was very much not a joking matter. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#May 13, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 13/05/2015}}

==Ask Vector Prime==
[[Vector Prime]] noted that the non-Singularity Unicron of [[Primax 984.17 Alpha]] or [[Viron 704.08 Gamma]] would not be able to defeat [[Darth Vader]]'s [[Death Star]] mech of [[Lukas 577.25 Beta]] in battle. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime#Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|Ask Vector Prime, The Complete AllSpark Almanac}}

In many universal streams, the local iteration of [[Primacron]] built his universe's version of Unicron, one that was typically not part of the singularity. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#May 22, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 22/05/2015}} Two such instances included [[Primax 984.17 Alpha]] and [[Malgus 1207.26 Alpha]]. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#June 10, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 10/06/2015}}

Vector Prime was unsure if the number of universes destroyed by Unicron was a quantifiable number as once Unicron consumed a universe, little remained to prove that it ever existed. However, some destroyed universes, such as [[Primax 703.09 Gamma]], lived on the memory of interdimensional travelers who had visited the universe prior to its destruction. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#June 26, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 26/06/2015}}
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==''Shattered Glass''==
[[File:SG Unicron.jpg|upright=1|left|thumb|Feeling blue.]]
Thanks to [[Nexus Prime]] initiating the [[Shroud]] upon the [[multiverse]], Unicron the [[multiversal singularity]] was splintered into individual, non-singular incarnations throughout individual universes. Thus, Unicron's small fragment of good became dominant in his incarnation in [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon]]: a god of extropy, dedicated to the balance of diversity in the universe. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}} After [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]] and a number of other [[Autobot#Shattered Glass|Autobots]] were thrown out of [[Sky Lynx (SG)|Sky Lynx]], they found themselves floating before said benevolent side of Unicron, {{storylink|Familiar Reflections}} who [[Reformatting|reformatted]] them into his troops of justice; Nova Prime, [[Prowl (SG)|Checkpoint]] and his [[Autotrooper (SG Knights of Unicron)|Autotrooper]] minions, and [[Brawn (SG)|X-Brawn]]. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}} These newly forged heroes traveled to [[Cybertron (planet)#Shattered Glass continuity family|Cybertron]] and apprehended [[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus Prime]]'s evil followers. But Unicron issued a warning to Nova Prime at his moment of triumph: a greater battle awaited them, one that would pit them against [[Primus#Shattered Glass|Primus]]! As he awakened, this new foe blocked Unicron's telepathic transmissions to Nova Prime, disallowing Unicron from dispensing further advice to his creation. Thankfully, even without Unicron's help, the Autobots were ultimately victorious against the Order-Bringer. {{storylink|The Future Buried...}}

[[Acolyte of Unicron#Shattered Glass|Acolytes of Unicron]] arose in the new order, advising the ruling council of [[New Cybertron (SG)|New Cybertron]] that included Nova Prime, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Mammoth]], and [[Megatron (SG)|Galvatron]]. It was Unicron's wish that his Acolytes deny [[Heatwave (Timelines)|Heatwave]] and his team permission to go on missions, provoking them into defying orders to seek their own destiny regardless. {{storylink|Coalescence}}

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==''GoBots''==
While on an inter-dimensional mission to [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon]]'s Earth in [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon]], the [[GoBot]] [[Small Foot]] had a vision in which Unicron devoured her allies, plunging them into an eternal abyss. {{storylink|High Noon (SG)|High Noon}}

==Games==
{{Note|See also: [[Unicron/Generation 1#Games]]}}

===''Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{voiceactor|[[Matthew Yang King]] (English)|[[Arturo López]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian)}}
[[File:Armadavideogame-Unicron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Unicron takes a shot in the mouth.]]

After the Autobots defeated the Decepticons on [[Earth]] and had secured the majority of the Mini-Cons there, Unicron made his appearance above Cybertron, intent on destroying the planet. Optimus Prime's team of Autobots and the Mini-Cons returned home via a warp gate to see the Chaos Bringer unleash a wave of destruction upon the great cities of their planet. The Mini-Cons joined to form the [[Matrix Cannon (Armada)|Matrix Cannon]], the [[Vanguard Booster]] and the [[Nemesis Shield]] for the Autobots to use against Unicron. The Autobots flew into Unicron's maw and blasted their way into his energy core, damaging it enough to send Unicron spiralling out of control and destroying him. {{storylink|Transformers (Armada PS2)|Transformers}}

===''Transformers Energon: Battle for Megatron''===
In his attempts to stop Scorponok and the other Terrorcons from retrieving Megatron, held deep within Unicron himself, the Chaos Bringer dispatched many units acting as his automated defenses. Among these were Pods, weak individually but strong in numbers; Tentacle Pods, more advanced versions of the previous units possessing ranged attacks; slow moving but strong Tendril units; heavily armored Spiderbot units; and immobile but powerful Shocktowers. A final unit, The Cortex, held Megatron captive. Once The Cortex was destroyed, Megatron was released and Unicron was defeated. {{storylink|Transformers Energon: Battle for Megatron}}

===''Transformers: Prime - The Game''===
Eons ago Unicron created [[Thunderwing (Prime)|Thunderwing]] to serve him and destroy the Matrix of Leadership. After [[One Shall Rise, Part 3|Unicron's demise]], a meteor of Dark Energon with Thunderwing sealed within crashed on Earth. [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] came across the meteor and found Thunderwing, who revealed that he was a minion of Unicron and his mission was to destroy the Matrix. Thunderwing even went as far as to seek help from the Decepticons for the repairs needed. However, he failed thanks to the combined efforts of Prime and [[Jack Darby]] and fell into a volcano. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}

===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
One of Unicron's horns was visible sticking out of the ground within one of Earth's cities. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}

===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
{{Charstubgames|{{Storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}}}

==Toys==
{{main|Unicron/toys}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
Vector Prime noted that most [[Quadwal]] universes were not in danger of being consumed by Unicron as most [[Unicron/toys|Quadwal Unicrons]] were small and made of [[plastic]]. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#June 21, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 21/06/2015}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Unicron/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*The [[Unicron Trilogy]], the series of ''Transformers'' franchises that includes ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'', ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'', and ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'', was so named by Hasbro designer [[Aaron Archer]] because of Unicron's importance in each story.
*[[Roberto Orci]] was interested in having Unicron in an early version of ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-just-movie-31/ask-roberto-orci-roundup-january-14---mythology-money-shots-jolt-military-and-bringing-chaos-166603/ Ask Roberto Orci Roundup January 14 - Mythology, Money Shots, Jolt, Military, and Bringing Chaos]</ref> Though he was absent in the finished film, Unicron would eventually make his "movie series" debut in ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''. It wasn't until a mere six years after ''The Last Knight'' that Unicron would finally physically make his debut proper in ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''.
*Unicron has the ability to create [[tainted world]]s, but none have yet been discovered.
*Unicron developed something of a taste for [[Transformers: BotBots (franchise)|BotBots]] during the development of his [[Unicron/toys#HasLab|HasLab toy]].<ref>[https://old.hasbropulse.com/blogs/unboxed/haslab-war-for-cybertron-unicron-production-update-3 HasLab War for Cybertron Unicron: Production Update #3] at the [[Hasbro Pulse]] blog.</ref>
* ''Shattered Glass'' Unicron's colors are taken from the [[Unicron/toys#Generation 1|prototype toy]] for Unicron in the [[The Transformers (toyline)|original toyline]], with the yellow of the rings, horns, maw, and equator replaced with white.
*[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] envisioned the Animated version of Unicron being voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]], who famously does a mean [[Orson Welles]] impression.
*Had Unicron returned for future seasons of ''The Transformers'' [[Wally Burr]] wanted [[Jack Angel]] to take over the role from [[Roger C. Carmel]] upon his passing in late [[1986]] as he did with Cyclonus.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Unicron''' (ユニクロン ''Yunikuron''), '''Gaia Unicron''' (''Prime'', ガイアユニクロン ''Gaia Yunikuron'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Unikron''' (Hungarian pronunciation, ''Marvel Comics'', ''Energon'', ''The Last Knight'', ''The Movie 1st dub''), '''Unicron''' (English pronunciation, ''Prime''), '''Unikornisz''' (mispronounced "Unicorn", ''The Movie 2nd dub'')
*''Korean:'' '''Unicron''' (유니크론 ''Yunikeuron'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Unicron''' (Taiwan, 尤尼克隆 ''Yóuníkèlóng''), '''Yǔzhòu Dàdì''' (China, 宇宙大帝, "Emperor of the Universe")
*''Polish:'' '''Unikorn''', '''Unicron''', '''Rogacz''' ("The Horned One"), '''Jednorożec''' ("Unicorn")

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JosÃ© Sant'anna

2025-11-14T05:56:01Z

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[[File:Dub Santanna.jpg|thumb|100px|He's a traitorous swine... no, that's not true... he is a pretty nice guy, actually.]]
{{disambig3|José}}

'''José Sant'anna''' ([[November 26]], [[1941]] - [[March 7]], [[2025]]) was a Brazilian voice actor. He is one of the most recognized voice actors in Brazil, having been in the business since the 1970s until his death 5 decades later.

In animation, he voiced [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] on ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', the narrator on ''Superfriends'', Two-Face in ''[[Batman]]: The Animated Series'', the [[Joker]] in ''Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker'', the narrator in ''Silverhawks'', Fat Tony on ''The Simpsons'', Dwayne in ''Over the Hedge'' and many others.

In terms of live-action dubbing, he played Chuck Norris and Danny Trejo in several films, as well as Snow in ''The Warriors'', [[Lance Henriksen|Frank Black]] on ''Millennium'', and Willie Tanner on ''[[ALF]]''.

==Voice roles==
===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''===
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Starscream]]
*[[Astrotrain (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Astrotrain]] ("[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]" TV dub)

===''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]''===
*[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity#Armada cartoon|Starscream]]

===[[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]===
*[[Starscream (Movie)#Transformers film|Starscream]]

===''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''===
*[[Starscream (Movie)#Revenge of the Fallen film|Starscream]]

===''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''===
*[[Starscream (Movie)#Dark of the Moon film|Starscream]]

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Santanna, Jose}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

SÃ©rgio Moreno

2025-11-14T05:53:41Z

Igordebraga:

'''Sérgio Moreno''' (b. [[April 8]], [[1968]]) is a Brazilian voice actor. He has dubbed such individuals as Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise, and Bruce Willis, as well as [[Mickey Mouse]].

==Voice roles==
===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''===
*[[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Blurr]] ("[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]" Fox Kids dub)

===''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''===
* [[Inferno (BW)#Beast Wars cartoon|Inferno]]

===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
*[[Dinobot (BW)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Dinobot]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=49597 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moreno, Sergio}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Isaac Schneider

2025-11-14T05:28:45Z

Igordebraga:

'''Isaac Schneider''' ([[August 7]]th, [[1940]] - [[April 18]], [[2023]]) was a Brazilian voice actor who worked in the field from [[1973]] to [[2013]]. He is best known for voicing Professor X in the ''[[X-Men]]'' cartoon and the first three movies, Fetcher in ''Chicken Run'', Cogsworth in ''Beauty and the Beast'', the Once-ler in ''Lorax'', [[Rob Paulsen|Dr. Scratchansniff]] in ''Animaniacs'', and both Dobby and Filius Flitwick in the ''Harry Potter'' franchise.

==Voice roles==
===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''===
*[[Scrapper (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Scrapper]] ("[[The Core]]")
*[[Seaspray (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Seaspray]] ("[[The Golden Lagoon (episode)|The Golden Lagoon]]")
*[[Runamuck (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Runamuck]] ("[[Ghost in the Machine (G1)|Ghost in the Machine]]")

===''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''===
*[[Sharp]]

===''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''===
*[[Morshower]]

===''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''===
*Morshower

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[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Roberto Macedo

2025-11-14T05:10:10Z

Igordebraga:

[[File:Roberto Macedo.jpg|270px|thumb]]
'''Roberto Macedo''' ([[November 12]], [[1949]] - [[June 26]], [[2023]]) was a Brazilian actor.

He started dubbing in 1976 and retired in 2012. His most famous voice roles include Ardeth Bay in ''The Mummy'', Roy Hess in ''Dinosaurs'', Bruce Wayne / [[Batman]] in ''Batman Beyond'', Severus Snape in ''Harry Potter'', and Alfred Molina in several films.
==Voice roles==
===''The Transformers''===
* [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]]
* [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (''Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3'')
* [[Outback (G1)|Outback]] (''The Quintesson Journal'')
* [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (''Madman's Paradise'')
* [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (''Masquerade'')

===''The Transformers: The Movie'' (VHS dub)===
* [[Kranix (G1)|Kranix]]

==External links==
*[https://vvikipedia.fandom.com/pt/wiki/Roberto_Macedo Vikipedia.fandom.com page] ''(Portuguese)''
*[http://casadadublagem10.blogspot.com/2019/03/roberto-macedo.html Casadadublagem page] ''(Portuguese)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4965954/ IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macedo, Roberto}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

FlÃ¡vio Back

2025-11-14T05:00:12Z

Igordebraga:

Flávio Back ([[September 20]], [[1972]]-[[August 25]], [[2025]]) was a Brazilian voice actor, probably best known for dubbing Muscle Man in ''Regular Show''.

==Voice roles==
===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''===
*[[Scattershot (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Scattershot]] ("[[Grimlock's New Brain]]")

===''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''===
*[[Hooch]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Back, Flavio}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Dire Wraith

2025-11-14T04:41:57Z

Igordebraga: /* 2005 IDW continuity */

[[Image:RARRRR DIRE WRAITHS ATTACK.jpg|thumb|right|300px|You'd shapeshift too if you looked like that.]]

Hailing from a [[Dark Nebula|dark nebula]], the evil '''Dire Wraiths''' seek to conquer all they see. The only force able to oppose them is [[Rom]] and the [[Solstar Order]]. The Solstar Order prevailed, causing the Wraiths to scatter throughout the galaxy. The Dire Wraiths secretly invaded the [[Earth]] long ago.

The Dire Wraiths wield powerful dark [[magic]] and are able to infect the bodies of other creatures with their toxic biomatter, parasitically transforming their victims into more of their kind. They are also able to gain new abilities by using the blood of other life forms. Few species are capable of resisting their powerful sorcery... though [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] are more resilient to this magical corruption by virtue of their mechanical physiology, the results of a botched infection aren't pretty.

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
{{MainIDW|Dire Wraith}}
[[File:Unicron2-DireWraithCreation.jpg|thumb|left|350px|"This is the worst makeover eveeeeeeeeer!"]]
The [[Guardian robot|Omega Sentinel]] [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] believed that the Dire Wraiths had been created many years ago during the fallout from the devastating [[Antillan]]-Cybertronian war, an unforeseen byproduct from an Antillan [[Talisman (G1)|doomsday weapon]] designed to end the war by killing everything on the planet. The chaotic energies unleashed by the device cascaded across space and time, absorbing and corrupting the natural magic of the planet [[Prysmos]] to create the first Dire Wraiths, who walked the now-desolate landscape of [[Antilla]]. The energies of the activation event also affected the inhabitants of other exposed planets, mutating them into monstrous hybrid creatures resembling Dire Wraiths.

[[File:StrangerEons-DireWraiths.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Lifeless... alone... playing Warcraft on Friday nights...]]

Subsequent events are unclear; Omega Supreme claims that the Wraiths subsequently fled the world of their birth and settled elsewhere in the galaxy, {{storylink|Our Finest}} eventually coming to colonize a planet within the uninhabited [[Dark Nebula]] as the capital of their brutal new civilization, their hostile, expansionistic nature bringing them into conflict with other races. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}} One such war saw the Dire Wraiths invade the planet [[Temptoria]], with several Wraiths voluntarily choosing to adopt the planet's odd religious custom of "[[Brand (deity)|Brand]] loyalty." {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}}

During the zenith of the Cybertronian [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], many Autobots, including [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]], considered the Dire Wraiths to be myths. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 2|Shining Armor #2}} [[Decepticon]] leader [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]], on the other hand, was aware that these "panmorphic lifeforms" were real, but was so disgusted by them that he and his troops deliberately avoided the Dark Nebula in which they resided. {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}}

Eventually, the Dire Wraiths went to war with the [[Solstar Order]], the local galactic superpower, and the conflict necessitated the creation of the [[Space Knight]]s to contain the threat. Some two hundred years ago, the war turned in favor of the Solstar Order when the Space Knights successfully destroyed the current Wraith homeworld. The survivors scattered throughout Solstar space, and in spite of this defeat they remained an omnipresent thorn in the side of the Order, menacing several backwater regions such as [[Mato Grosso (planet)|Mato Grosso]], [[Mining Colony 25-6-41]], {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}} and the [[Huni System]] {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 2|Shining Armor #2}} As the Solstar Order continued to hunt down remaining pockets of Wraiths, the survivors pushed outwards, with their exodus threatening to encroach on [[Galactic Council]] territory; during this time, the Wraith [[Vekktral]] encountered the orphaned [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Stardrive]] on Matto Grosso, alerting the Dire Wraiths to the existence of mechanical life in the form of the Cybertronians. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}}

[[File:ShiningArmor2-InfectedSkyBlast.jpg|thumb|left|250px|We don't know what the hell is in there. But it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.]]

Around this time, [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] and his troops encountered Vekktral's Wraiths in the Huni System. Learning of Stardrive's [[energon synthesizer]], he agreed to a temporary alliance with the organics to lure the Solstar Order and their Cybertronian Space Knight into a trap. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}} When the [[Autobot]]s intervened, the Dire Wraiths managed to ensnare and assimilate [[Sky Blast (G1)|Sky Blast]]. The magic of the Wraiths had an unforeseen effect on Sky Blast's cyber-biology: rather than transforming the Autobot into a Dire Wraith, the combination simply merged the two entities together into an insane, out-of-control monster. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 2|Shining Armor #2}} The hybrid rampaged across the frigid planet of [[Xetaxxis]] for a while before its increasingly unstable biology tore it apart, burning it away to cinders. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 3|Shining Armor #3}}

[[File:ShiningArmor4-UltraMonster.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s lawyers are standing by.]]

Using what he had learned from Sky Blast's physiology, Vekktral was able to repeat the process on Ultra Magnus, this time creating a far more stable, though still monstrous, fusion of Wraith and Transformer while several of his underlings assimilated the native [[Xetaxxan|Xetaxxians]]. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}} However, the Vekktral-Magnus fusion still shared the divided mind of the Sky Blast hybrid, with both components struggling for control of their combined body. Magnus was able to overpower Vekktral for an instant, opening the chest compartment of the [[Magnus Armor]] and allowing a single placed shot to destroy his [[Convoy (G1)|inner robot]], ejecting Vekktral from his body. Vekktral and the remaining Wraiths were then destroyed, along with half of Xetaxxis's surface, when Stardrive's overloaded energon synthesizer exploded.

Afterwards, a gathering of Dire Wraiths reviewed Vekktral's scientific endeavors and ultimate, disastrous failure. They resolved never to dabble in "blasphemous abominations" such as technology again, and to rely solely on magic in their future plans. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}} Unbeknownst to either the Space Knights ''or'' Dire Wraiths, Stardrive herself had been infected with Wraith biomatter during the battle on Xetaxxis, and in the years after leaving the Space Knights she gradually mutated into a stable hybrid of Cybertronian and Dire Wraith, even developing the ability to channel Wraith magic. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}}

Around this time, a different group of Dire Wraiths landed on [[Earth]] and discovered its supplies of [[Ore-13]], {{storylink|Earthfall, Part 3}} which they could use to enhance their powers and shield their energy signatures from the [[Energy Analyzer|Analyzer]]s that the Space Knights traditionally used to root them out. {{storylink|The New Colossus}} Over the years, the Wraiths on Earth continued their clandestine preparations for their inevitable confrontation with the Space Knights, assimilating and replacing government authorities with Wraith copies.

[[File:GhostInThemachine-WraithColton.jpg|thumb|left|300px|''If you want to run cool, you got to run On heavy, heavy fuel'']]

In 2016, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] chose to [[All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|annex Earth]] into the [[Council of Worlds]], and a group of Wraiths took advantage of the confusion to lure [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] founder and head of the [[Earth Defense Command]] [[Joe Colton]] into a trap. Though Colton was able to fight them off—avoiding lethal absorption by amputating his own hand—the Wraiths were able to use what genetic material they possessed to create [[Joe Colton (Dire Wraith)|an impostor]], {{storylink|First Strike issue 0|First Strike #0}} {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}} who used his position as head of the EDC to replace more members of G.I. Joe with Dire Wraiths. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}} It was at this time that Rom landed on Earth to root out the Wraith infestation, and, while discussing the unstable geopolitical landscape of Earth, [[Miles Mayhem|Miles "Mayhem" Manheim]] suggested that [[Ian Noble|Action Man]] could be of help with a "situation" in northern [[California]], where Rom had begun hunting his old foes. {{storylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}

Indeed, Mayhem had cut his own deals with the alien invaders and the extradimensional warlord [[Baron Karza]], who promised the human dominion over Earth in exchange for the planet's supplies of Ore-13. {{storylink|O Ship of State}} However, the Wraiths were now forced to contend with Optimus Prime and his Cybertronian peacekeeping forces, and used their agents in G.I. Joe to open fire on them in [[Portland]]. However, their activities drew the attention of Rom, who showed up and blasted four of them with his [[Neutralizer]], including the false Colton. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}} Once Rom had made peace with Optimus Prime, he further elaborated on the Wraiths' interest in [[Ore-13]] and how it made them harder to detect. {{storylink|O Ship of State}} While autopsying the remains of their slain comrades, [[Doc (Carla Greer)|Doc]] realized that the DNA of the corpses did not match with baseline human samples, alerting the team to the alien infiltrators. {{storylink|The Divine Source of Liberty}}

[[File:TransformersRevolution-ThundercrackervsDireWraith.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''He do the song about the sweet lovin alien 
He do the song about the knife 
He do the walk, do the walk of death 
Yeah, he do the walk of death'']]

With their cover blown, the Dire Wraiths became more aggressive and managed to take over the EDC's Bikini Atoll base. [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] was sent to defeat them and recapture the facility. {{storylink|D.T.A.}} While this happened, [[Marissa Faireborn]] was meeting with the [[President of the United States|President]] and given the case of Ore-13 that the Wraith Colton was carrying around before Rom killed him. This was the cue for the Wraiths in the [[White House]] to try to reclaim the case. Armed with a firearm that fired armor-piercing bullets, Marissa made short (if bloody) work of the Wraiths in the vicinity before she called in [[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Thundercracker]] as backup. The Wraiths managed to take control of the [[Seeker clone]]s before Thundercracker and [[D.0.C.]] destroyed them. [[Buster (IDW)|Buster]] proved able to sniff out the Wraiths from the humans while [[Bob (IDW)|Bob]] simply mutilated one before eating it. The leader of the Wraith cell barricaded herself in the situation room. This proved ineffective against Thundercracker who casually destroyed the wall and all her minions. At wit's end, she merged magic and Ore-13 growing to Cybertronian size. Adopting the form of a Wraith Hawk, she engaged Thundercracker in the air and managed to rip off his cannon arm. Thundercracker shouted a warning that the arm was full of ammunition and that she ought to be careful with her fire hands. Her wings were incinerated and she was impaled upon the [[Washington Monument]]. Marissa meanwhile mowed down the rest of the Wraiths with a standard rifle. {{storylink|Thundercracker & Buster Save the World}}

[[File:TheNewColossus-DireWraithReinforcements.jpg|thumb|left|300px|''With the Sultans, We're the Sultans of Swing'']]

Mayhem later contacted the Wraith leader, "[[Caleb Awan]]", to inform him of the large supply of Ore-13 beneath [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. The Wraiths moved out to meet their [[M.A.S.K.]] allies in [[Monument Valley]] where many Wraiths performed a kamikaze attack on [[Victorion]], overwhelming the Combiner. When they entered the city, their path was bared by Rom who had allied himself with the Cybertronians and others to fight off the Wraiths. The Wraiths managed to use the Ore-13 beneath the city to enhance their power before they, rather unsurprisingly, betrayed Miles Mayhem. Refusing to be beaten by aliens, Mayhem summoned [[Baron Karza]] from [[Microspace]] much to the amusement of "Caleb" who questioned what the diminutive creature could do. The diminutive creature responded by absorbing all the Wraiths into him, turning himself into an ungodly fusion of Cybertronian, Microspace, and Wraith power. {{storylink|The New Colossus}} In short order, said ungodly fusion was dumped into a collapsing spacebridge into Microspace. {{storylink|Valley Forge}}

[[File:MTMTERevolution-cons4eva.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Yes, we're sorry about that second verse. How about we say, 'The little ''weirdo'' with the earring and the makeup'?"]]

The real Joe Colton, meanwhile, had reunited with his old ally of convenience [[Merklynn|Garrison Kreiger]], and after removing the toxic Wraith biomatter from his system {{storylink|First Strike issue 0|First Strike #0}} the pair worked together to assemble an alliance of supervillains capable of fighting back against the forces of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], with Colton disguising himself as the evil "Baron Ironblood." Having acquired the Talisman on Earth in the 1980s, Krieger was able to synthesize Dire Wraith genetic material, and eventually used samples of the stuff to enhance [[Tempest (G.I. Joe)|Storm Shadow]]'s legion of [[Red Shadows]] into transhuman fusions of humans and Dire Wraiths, able to mimic several Wraith powers. {{storylink|The Origins of Evil, Part One: Redcliffe Club|Redcliffe Club}}

After discovering the Talisman on Earth, [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]] accidentally activated the device, causing an energy pulse that once again mutated the exposed individuals – this time the inhabitants of [[Verenya]] in [[Schleteva]] – into monstrous Wraith-like forms. The forces of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] found Rom on the scene; together, they tracked the energy wave to the Talisman, which had caught the attention of the [[Oktober Guard]] and [[Ian Noble|Action Man]]. Another activation of the device mutated the G.I. Joes [[Heavy Duty]], [[Flash (G.I. Joe)|Flash]], and [[Quarrel]] into similar creatures. The afflicted were placed in the care of the [[Action Man Programme]] in the hopes of finding a cure, {{storylink|Crisis Intervention}} which Blackrock was eventually able to synthesize some time later. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}

During the [[Iron Ring]]'s invasion of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Dire Wraith enhancements inside the Red Shadows had the effect of tripping the Solstar Order's scanners, resulting in them placing Cybertron under quarantine. {{storylink|First Strike issue 2|First Strike #2}}

When [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] awoke and began his attack on the galaxy [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] came to learn of the dark origins of Unicron and the Wraiths through a vision imparted by a dying Omega Supreme. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}} As Unicron rampaged across the galaxy, consuming Cybertron in the process, those Wraiths who had come to call Earth home were forced to put aside their differences with their Space Knight nemeses to defend their new homeworld, {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}} and a group of the Wraiths took on a cell of invading [[Maximal]]s in [[Siberia]]. {{storylink|Ceremony}}
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===''Aw Yeah Revolution!''===
A group of Dire Wraiths was plotting on an asteroid when Rom showed up and attempted diplomacy. His attempt failed but before the Wraiths could attack, Rom was [[Teleportation|teleported]] away by [[Baron Karza]] to [[microspace]]. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} When Rom emerged on [[Earth]], the Wraiths, tracking their foe's signal, set course for the planet. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}}

Arriving, the Wraiths briefly took Rom prisoner before the [[Space Knight]] was banished to deep space by [[Destro]] and the [[Orbsah Gem]], leaving the Wraiths free to run amok on Earth. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}

==Toys==
===''Revolution''===
[[File:SDCC 2017 Dire Wraith Stock.jpg|thumb|Tickle tickle tickle!]]

*'''Revolution Set''' (SDCC Gift Set, 2017)
**''Accessories'': G.I. Joe display stand, satchel

:Released as part of a San Diego Comic-Con 2017 exclusive set, the Dire Wraith is an action figure made up of redecoed parts from various [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] action figures, with a new head based on the IDW Dire Wraith design; it uses the tentacles from the G.I. Joe Zombie-Vipers to mimic the Wraiths' nasty tendrils, though it doesn't come with the normal arms that the Zombie-Viper could swap those tentacles for. It was packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Revolution|Jetfire]], [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], ''[[Visionaries]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> Leoric, [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', [[Rom]], and 9 ''[[Micronauts (franchise)|Micronauts]]'' mini-figurines.

==Notes==
*While it was believed that [[Marvel Comics]] owned the Dire Wraiths (using them as recently as 2011), that is not the case, as they were mentioned in [https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5tbogiKUc Rom's original toy commercial]. However, while Marvel doesn't own the name or concept of the Dire Wraiths, they do own [[fandom:marvel:File:Dire_Wraiths_from_Rom_Vol_1_49_001.jpg|their design for the Wraiths]], forcing [[IDW Publishing]] to give the Wraiths a new look.
*The "dark nebula" from which they hail was conceived separately from the coincidentally-named ''Transformers'' [[Dark Nebula]]. Naturally enough, they were merged for the IDW continuity.

==External links==
*{{i|Dire Wraith}} at the IDW Hasbro Wiki

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[[Category:Dire Wraiths| ]]
[[Category:G.I. Joe species]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) species]]
[[Category:Rom]]

South Snarl

2025-11-14T04:14:26Z

Igordebraga:

{{disambig3|Snarl}}
[[File:South Snarl map.jpg|right|upright=2|thumb|''It's in my ears and in my eyes There, beneath the blue Cybertronian skies'']]
'''South Snarl''' (南スナール ''Minami Sunāru'') is one of the five major continents on planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]]. Only the eastern side of the continent has been developed; the western side, taking up over half the landmass, is an uncivilized, savage land, with the massive Lake Midi (ミディ湖 ''Midi-ko'') serving as much of the border between the two sides.

It is also the resting place of one of the [[Three Wise Ones]]' elemental gems, the [[Gems of Motion and Stillness|Water Gem of Motion]].

==Geography==
<big>'''Lennonia'''</big> (レノニア ''Renonia'')
*''King'': [[Alligatron]]
*''Emperor'': [[Killer Fish]]

: The northernmost Kingdom on South Snarl, it is one of the three Kingdoms to directly share a land border with the Rockland, and has the largest stretch of shared border at that. It is no surprise that this is the land that gave birth to two of the toughest of Beast's would-be conquerors, Alligatron and Killer Fish. Natural features include the Bow River (バウ川 ''Bau-gawa'') and the Wow River (ワウ川 ''Wau-gawa'').

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<big>'''Ringostan'''</big> (リンゴスタン ''Ringosutan'')
*''King'': [[Beafox]]
*''Emperor'': [[Devilbat]]

: The entire western border of this Kingdom is taken up by the waters of Lake Midi. Locations include Starr City (スターシティー ''Sutā Shitī'').

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<big>'''Harriso'''</big> (ハリソ ''Hariso'')
*''King'': [[Platinum Tiger]]
*''Emperor'': [[Flying Attacker]]

: Harriso has the longest stretch of aquatic border with the Rockland, with a small stretch of land connecting the two at the southern end. It contains Platinum City (プラチナシティー ''Purachina Shitī''), which is turning into the fashion capital of Beast.

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<big>'''Lapaul'''</big> (ラポール ''Rapōru'')
*''King'': [[Koala Gray]]
*''Emperor'': [[Duck Diver]]

: Lapaul is the only Kingdom in South Snarl to not share a border in any capacity with the Rockland, and has an extensive amount of beach.

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<big>'''Johnston'''</big> (ジョンストン ''Jonsuton'')
*''King'': [[Zebra Ball]]
*''Emperor'': [[Peguinis]]

: The southernmost Kingdom on the continent. It includes the city of Zebra (ゼブラ ''Zebura'').

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<big>'''Rockland'''</big> (ロックランド ''Rokkurando'')

: Taking up most of the continent, the western area known as "Rockland" is an undeveloped and lawless place where only the tough survive. The brutal [[Pangol]] was born there, though he would leave and end up far north, becoming Emperor of West [[Yutoranta]].

: It is in this harsh area that both the Water Gem of Motion and the powerful [[Stag Hunter]] vehicle were hidden away.

==Fiction==
===''Beastformers'' comic===
Rivers in Rockland began overflowing and flooding when the imbalances between the six elemental gems left by the [[Three Wise Ones]] caused weather patterns on Beast to became abnormal, so it was suspected that the Water Gem of Motion was hidden somewhere in the area. {{storylink|Beastformers|''Beastformers'' toy pack-in materials}}

South Snarl somehow remained the only major landmass on Beast without at least one region taken over by the Laser Beasts (yet). But many of its warriors would travel to other parts of the planet to fight the invaders. {{storylink|Beastformers VS Laser Beasts}}

==Notes==
* South Snarl's countries are named after members of [[Fab Four|The Beatles]], with John Lennon getting two countries based on his name. The others, of course, being Ringo Starr (who gets a city as well), Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. "Rockland" is presumably, then, a reference to rock music.
* Lennonia's Wow River is mistakenly called "Wauru" (ワウル) on Killer Fish and [[Crystal Killer Fish]]'s pack-in bio cards, with ''Wau-gawa'' (ワウ川) only appearing in Killer's bio in the ''[[Hero Special 4: Beastformers]]'' mook. "Wauru" is almost certainly a typo since there is no indication as to what kind of geographic location it would be, and of course, a river makes sense in the context of "where the fish characters were born". Though of course it could be a reference to one of John Lennon's songs, "[[wikipedia:I Am the Walrus|I Am the Walrus]]".

[[Category:Continents]]
[[Category:Planet Beast]]

Marco AntÃ´nio Costa

2025-01-26T16:40:57Z

Igordebraga:

'''Marco Antônio Soares da Costa''' (b. [[February 23]], [[1963]]) is a Brazilian voice actor. His most notable dubbing works are being the main voice of Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, as well as Rex in ''Toy Story'', Woody Woodpecker in the [[1999]] version, Plucky Duck on ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' and [[C-3PO]] in various ''[[Star Wars]]'' media.

==Voice roles==
===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''===
*[[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Perceptor]] ("[[Dinobot Island, Part 2]]")
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Thundercracker]] ("[[The Golden Lagoon (episode)|The Golden Lagoon]]" & "[[Triple Takeover]]")
*[[Ramjet (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Ramjet]] ("[[The Gambler]]")
*[[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Blurr]] ("[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]" VHS dub)
*[[Beachcomber (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Beachcomber ]] ("[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5]]")
*[[Air Raid (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Air Raid]] ("[[Thief in the Night]]")
*[[Scattershot (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Scattershot]] ("[[Money Is Everything (episode)|Money Is Everything]]")

===''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise (2001)]]''===
*[[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]]

===''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''===
*[[Cade Yeager]]

===''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''===
*Cade Yeager

{{DEFAULTSORT:Costa, Antonio, Marco}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

J. Balvin

2025-01-26T16:35:21Z

Igordebraga:

[[File:JBalvinBillboard.jpg|250px|thumb|Say yeah, yeah, yeah!]]
'''José Álvaro Osorio Balvín''' (born [[May 7]] [[1985]]), known professionally as '''J Balvin''', is a [[Colombia]]n singer and is referred to as "Reggaeton’s Global Ambassador". He is apparently a diehard ''Transformers'' fan.

While he has had no direct musical collaboration with the ''Transformers'' franchise to date, he was involved in the creation of the [[J. Balvintron]] set from the ''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' toyline made in homage to himself as well as two of his albums; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia_(album) Energia], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibras Vibras].<ref>https://tformers.com/42053</ref>

==Toys==
===''Collaborative''===
[[File:Collab-toy JBalvintron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.50|C'mon man, the name '''Reggaetron''' was ''right there''.]]
*'''J. Balvintron / Energia Buzzsaw & Vibras Stripes''' ([[2021]])
**''Accessories'': 2 [[Fire Blast effect]]s, 2-part rifle, battery cover

:The rather bizarre eighth release in the ''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' line, J. Balvintron is a redeco of the original [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]] [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Toys|Soundwave]] toy, of all things.

:A seven-inch-tall figure, J. Balvintron transforms into a realistically-sized yellow microcassette recorder, complete with an opening cassette door that can accommodate one of any of the numerous [[Mini-Cassette]] figures. He is decked out in garish colors, numerous smiley faces, and lightning bolts, all in homage to the singer. For the first time in the long history of this mold, the traditional hand- and shoulder-mounted battery weapons are not included; instead, the set features a redeco of the large double rifle originally included with ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege]]'' [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Jetfire]]. J. Balvintron also comes with two ''delicious'' rainbow-colored [[Fire Blast effect]]s, likewise of the design originally for ''Siege'' Jetfire.

: J. Balvintron comes packaged with [[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys#Collaborative|Energia Buzzsaw]] and [[Stripes#Collaborative|Vibras Stripes]] (based on the Spanish words for "energy" and "vibes", which are also the names of J. Balvin albums).<ref>"Energía" is properly spelled in Spanish with an acute accent. Presumably this did not happen due to typographical limitations.</ref> This set is exclusive to the [[NTWRK]] app, with pre-orders beginning on [[July 13]], 2021, and the toys finally shipping (after a mild delay) in mid-November.
{{G1SoundwaveMold}}
{{WFCSiegeJetfireFireBlastMold}}

==External links==
*{{w|J Balvin}} at Wikipedia

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Musicians]]

Paramount Pictures

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{{disambig2|the film studio|the digital streaming service|Paramount+}}
[[Image:Paramount Pictures 2022.svg|thumb|200px|Wematanye!]]
'''Paramount Pictures''' is the [[United States of America|American]] film company that co-produces and distributes the [[live-action film series]] with [[DreamWorks]], as well as ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'' on their own. Founded on [[May 8]], [[1912]], it is one of the oldest major Hollywood film studios.

Paramount's parent company, '''Paramount Global''', also owns ad-based streaming service [[Pluto TV]], which in 2022 launched the dedicated channel [[Transformers TV]]. Series that air on the channel include all eight shows currently featured on [[Tubi]], along with''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]''.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/transformers-tv-streaming-channel-launches-on-pluto-tv/ ComicBook.com: Transformers TV Streaming Channel Launches on Pluto TV]</ref>
{{TOCclear}}

==Home entertainment==
Paramount's [[home video|home entertainment]] division handles the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the live action films, as well as the ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'', ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' and ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' series.

===''Energon'' and ''Cybertron''===
Paramount released a handful of ''Energon'' and ''Cybertron'' collections in the United States in 2004 and 2005, with each released simultaneously on VHS and DVD (the VHS releases featuring two episodes each, the DVDs adding a further two "bonus" episodes each). For these releases, 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. This is particularly noticeable on the first release, ''The Battle for Energon''.

The first two ''Energon'' volumes were later released in PAL format in Australia and the UK, with each volume again being released simultaneously on VHS and DVD, but with the difference that the VHS releases also included the DVDs' bonus episodes. The first ''Cybertron'' collection was also released in Australia and the UK on DVD, but not VHS. The ''Energon'' volumes 3 and 4, and the later ''Ultimate Collection'' box sets, were not released outside of the United States.

*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle For Energon''' (US: [[October 12]], 2004 / AUS: [[April 7]], 2005 / UK: [[June 27]], 2005)
:Contains the episodes "[[Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City]]" and "[[Energon Stars]]".
:DVD and PAL VHS releases also include the bonus episodes "[[Scorpinok (episode)|Scorpinok]]" and "[[Megatron's Sword]]".
*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 2: The Return Of Megatron''' (US: October 12, 2004 / AUS: [[July 7]], 2005 / UK: [[August 29]], 2005)
:Contains the episodes "[[Megatron Resurrected]]" and "[[Megatron Raid]]".
:DVD and PAL VHS releases also include the bonus episodes "[[Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary]]" and "[[Battle of the Asteroid Belt]]".
*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 3: Shockblast Unleashed''' ([[February 22]], 2005)
:Contains the episodes "[[Shockblast: Rampage]]" and "[[Open Fire!]]".
:DVD release also includes the episodes "[[Ripped Up Space]]" and "[[Protection]]".
*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 4: Omega Supreme''' (February 22, 2005)
:Contains the episodes "[[Crash Course]]" and "[[Omega Supreme (episode)|Omega Supreme]]".
:DVD release also includes the episodes "[[A Heroic Battle]]" and "[[The Power of Unicron]]".
<center><gallery>
Image:Energon Battle for Energon DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle for Energon'''
Image:Energon Return of Megatron DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — Volume 2: The Return of Megatron'''
Image:Energon Shockblast Unleashed DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — Volume 3: Shockblast Unleashed'''
Image:Energon Omega Supreme DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — Volume 4: Omega Supreme'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning''' (US: [[September 13]], 2005 / AUS: [[July 6]], 2006 / UK: [[April 10]], 2006)
:Contains the episodes "[[Haven]]" and "[[Hidden (Cybertron)|Hidden]]".
:DVD release also includes the bonus episodes "[[Landmine (episode)|Landmine]]", and "[[Space (episode)|Space]]".
*'''''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection''' ([[July 22]], 2008)
:7-disc box set containing all 52 episodes of the series.
:Initial pressings contained an error on the first disc, resulting in 7 minutes of footage being missing from the episode "Hidden". In response to this issue, on [[September 5]], 2008, Paramount offered to replace defective discs for affected customers.
*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — The Ultimate Collection''' ([[December 16]], 2008)
:7-disc box set containing the 51 episodes that were dubbed into English, despite having been advertised as including "all 52 episodes".<ref>[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Transformers-Energon-The-Ultimate-Collection/10563 TV Shows on DVD announcing the ''Energon'' DVD boxset.]</ref>
:The set features the re-dubbed DVD versions of the first few episodes rather than the broadcast ones, and also finally corrects the titles of "[[Imprisoned Inferno|Improsoned Inferno]]" and "[[Decepticon Army|Deception Army]]".
<center><gallery>
Image:Cybertron New Beginning DVD.jpg|'''''Cybertron'' — A New Beginning'''
Image:Cybertron Ultimate Collection DVD.jpg|'''''Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection'''
Image:Energon Ultimate Collection DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — The Ultimate Collection'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

===''Transformers'' (film)===
{{main|Transformers (film)/home video}}
[[Image:2007Movie 2-disc DVD.jpg|thumb|200px|]]
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers''''' (2007)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Disc Special Edition''' (2007)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — The Complete Collection: Mega Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
;<big>HD DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Disc Special Edition''' (2007)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Disc Special Edition''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — The Complete Collection: Mega Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers'' Limited Edition Collector's Trilogy''' (2012)
{{-}}

===''Transformers Animated''===
{{main|Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video}}
;<big>United States</big>
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Transform and Roll Out''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Season One''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Season Two''' (2009)

[[Image:Animated TARO DVD.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
;<big>Australia / UK</big>
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Transform and Roll Out''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume One: Blast from the Past''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Two: Lost and Found''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Three: Megatron Rising''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Four: Mission Accomplished''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Five: Fistful of Energon''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Six: Black Friday''' (2009)

;<big>Germany</big>
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Transformieren und Abfart''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Eins: Drachenkämpfer''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Zwei: Die alten Waffen''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Drei: Megatrons Auferstehung''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Vier: Mission erfüllt''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Fünf: Der doppelte Starscream''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Sechs: Schwarzer Freitag''' (2009)

;<big>Japan</big>
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 1''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 2''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 3''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 4''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 5''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 6''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 7''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 8''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 9''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 10''' (2011)
{{-}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
[[Image:ROTF-DVD-2disc.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
{{main|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — 2-Disc Special Edition''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — The Complete Collection: Mega Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — Two-Disc Special Edition''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — Two-Disc Big Screen Edition''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — Digital Copy Special Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — The Complete Collection: Mega Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers'' Limited Edition Collector's Trilogy''' (2012)
{{-}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{main|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' — Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' — 3D Limited Edition''' (2012)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers'' Limited Edition Collector's Trilogy''' (2012)

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{main|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: Age of Extinction''''' (2014)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Age of Extinction'' — Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy''' (2014)
*'''''Transformers: Age of Extinction'' — Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy''' (2014)

===''The Last Knight''===
{{main|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: The Last Knight'' — DVD + Digital''' (2017)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: The Last Knight'' — Blu-ray + DVD + Digital''' (2017)
*'''''Transformers: The Last Knight'' — Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital''' (2017)
;<big>Ultra HD Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: The Last Knight'' — Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray + Digital''' (2017)

===''Bumblebee''===
{{main|Bumblebee (film)/home video}}
;<big>VHS</big>
*'''''Bumblebee''''' (2019)
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Bumblebee''''' (2019)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Bumblebee'' — Blu-ray + DVD + Digital''' (2019)
*'''''Bumblebee'' - Steelbook''' (2019)
;<big>Ultra HD Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Bumblebee'' — Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray + Digital''' (2019)
*'''''Bumblebee'' - Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray Steelbook''' (2019)

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{main|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''' (2023)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' — Blu-ray + Digital''' (2023)
;<big>Ultra HD Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' — Ultra HD Blu-ray + Digital''' (2023)
*'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' — Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray + Digital Steelbook''' (2023)
*'''''Transformers'' — 4K Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2023)

===''EarthSpark''===
In a surprising move, seven years after [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015_cartoon)/home video#Shout.21 Factory|the last]] ''Transformers'' animated series season set release on home video in the United States, Paramount begn releasing the first season of ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]'''s on DVD in [[2023]], with the first set's release timed to tie-in with the theatrical release of [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts]].

*'''''Transformers: EarthSpark'' — Season 1: Episodes 1-10''' (US: [[May 16]], 2023 / CAN: May 16, 2023)
:Contains the episodes "[[Secret Legacy, Part 1]]" through to "[[Age of Evolution, Part 2]]".
*'''''Transformers: EarthSpark'' — Season 1: Episodes 11-26''' (US/CAN: [[February 13]], [[2024]])
:Contains the episodes "[[Hashtag: Oops]]" through to "[[The Last Hope, Part 2]]".
<center><gallery>
Image:EarthSpark Season 1 Part 1 DVD.jpg|'''''EarthSpark'' — Season 1: Episodes 1-10 '''
Image:EarthSpark Season 1 Part 2 DVD.jpg|'''''EarthSpark'' — Season 1: Episodes 11-26 '''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

==Notes==
*Before the theatrical release of the film {{w|IF (film)|IF}}, the Paramount Pictures YouTube account released a short video showing various animated characters from Paramount related properties auditioning to be imaginary friends. One attending was [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|Rise of the Beasts]] version of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeCCpEel5sc</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Home entertainment]]

Paramount Pictures

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{{disambig2|the film studio|the digital streaming service|Paramount+}}
[[Image:Paramount Pictures 2022.svg|thumb|200px|Wematanye!]]
'''Paramount Pictures''' is the [[United States of America|American]] film company that co-produces and distributes the [[live-action film series]] with [[DreamWorks]], as well as ''[[Transofrmers One]]'' on their own. Founded on [[May 8]], [[1912]], it is one of the oldest major Hollywood film studios.

Paramount's parent company, '''Paramount Global''', also owns ad-based streaming service [[Pluto TV]], which in 2022 launched the dedicated channel [[Transformers TV]]. Series that air on the channel include all eight shows currently featured on [[Tubi]], along with''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]''.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/transformers-tv-streaming-channel-launches-on-pluto-tv/ ComicBook.com: Transformers TV Streaming Channel Launches on Pluto TV]</ref>
{{TOCclear}}

==Home entertainment==
Paramount's [[home video|home entertainment]] division handles the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the live action films, as well as the ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'', ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' and ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' series.

===''Energon'' and ''Cybertron''===
Paramount released a handful of ''Energon'' and ''Cybertron'' collections in the United States in 2004 and 2005, with each released simultaneously on VHS and DVD (the VHS releases featuring two episodes each, the DVDs adding a further two "bonus" episodes each). For these releases, 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. This is particularly noticeable on the first release, ''The Battle for Energon''.

The first two ''Energon'' volumes were later released in PAL format in Australia and the UK, with each volume again being released simultaneously on VHS and DVD, but with the difference that the VHS releases also included the DVDs' bonus episodes. The first ''Cybertron'' collection was also released in Australia and the UK on DVD, but not VHS. The ''Energon'' volumes 3 and 4, and the later ''Ultimate Collection'' box sets, were not released outside of the United States.

*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle For Energon''' (US: [[October 12]], 2004 / AUS: [[April 7]], 2005 / UK: [[June 27]], 2005)
:Contains the episodes "[[Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City]]" and "[[Energon Stars]]".
:DVD and PAL VHS releases also include the bonus episodes "[[Scorpinok (episode)|Scorpinok]]" and "[[Megatron's Sword]]".
*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 2: The Return Of Megatron''' (US: October 12, 2004 / AUS: [[July 7]], 2005 / UK: [[August 29]], 2005)
:Contains the episodes "[[Megatron Resurrected]]" and "[[Megatron Raid]]".
:DVD and PAL VHS releases also include the bonus episodes "[[Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary]]" and "[[Battle of the Asteroid Belt]]".
*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 3: Shockblast Unleashed''' ([[February 22]], 2005)
:Contains the episodes "[[Shockblast: Rampage]]" and "[[Open Fire!]]".
:DVD release also includes the episodes "[[Ripped Up Space]]" and "[[Protection]]".
*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — Volume 4: Omega Supreme''' (February 22, 2005)
:Contains the episodes "[[Crash Course]]" and "[[Omega Supreme (episode)|Omega Supreme]]".
:DVD release also includes the episodes "[[A Heroic Battle]]" and "[[The Power of Unicron]]".
<center><gallery>
Image:Energon Battle for Energon DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — Volume 1: The Battle for Energon'''
Image:Energon Return of Megatron DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — Volume 2: The Return of Megatron'''
Image:Energon Shockblast Unleashed DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — Volume 3: Shockblast Unleashed'''
Image:Energon Omega Supreme DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — Volume 4: Omega Supreme'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning''' (US: [[September 13]], 2005 / AUS: [[July 6]], 2006 / UK: [[April 10]], 2006)
:Contains the episodes "[[Haven]]" and "[[Hidden (Cybertron)|Hidden]]".
:DVD release also includes the bonus episodes "[[Landmine (episode)|Landmine]]", and "[[Space (episode)|Space]]".
*'''''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection''' ([[July 22]], 2008)
:7-disc box set containing all 52 episodes of the series.
:Initial pressings contained an error on the first disc, resulting in 7 minutes of footage being missing from the episode "Hidden". In response to this issue, on [[September 5]], 2008, Paramount offered to replace defective discs for affected customers.
*'''''Transformers: Energon'' — The Ultimate Collection''' ([[December 16]], 2008)
:7-disc box set containing the 51 episodes that were dubbed into English, despite having been advertised as including "all 52 episodes".<ref>[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Transformers-Energon-The-Ultimate-Collection/10563 TV Shows on DVD announcing the ''Energon'' DVD boxset.]</ref>
:The set features the re-dubbed DVD versions of the first few episodes rather than the broadcast ones, and also finally corrects the titles of "[[Imprisoned Inferno|Improsoned Inferno]]" and "[[Decepticon Army|Deception Army]]".
<center><gallery>
Image:Cybertron New Beginning DVD.jpg|'''''Cybertron'' — A New Beginning'''
Image:Cybertron Ultimate Collection DVD.jpg|'''''Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection'''
Image:Energon Ultimate Collection DVD.jpg|'''''Energon'' — The Ultimate Collection'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

===''Transformers'' (film)===
{{main|Transformers (film)/home video}}
[[Image:2007Movie 2-disc DVD.jpg|thumb|200px|]]
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers''''' (2007)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Disc Special Edition''' (2007)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — The Complete Collection: Mega Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
;<big>HD DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Disc Special Edition''' (2007)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Disc Special Edition''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — The Complete Collection: Mega Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers'' Limited Edition Collector's Trilogy''' (2012)
{{-}}

===''Transformers Animated''===
{{main|Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video}}
;<big>United States</big>
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Transform and Roll Out''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Season One''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Season Two''' (2009)

[[Image:Animated TARO DVD.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
;<big>Australia / UK</big>
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Transform and Roll Out''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume One: Blast from the Past''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Two: Lost and Found''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Three: Megatron Rising''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Four: Mission Accomplished''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Five: Fistful of Energon''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Six: Black Friday''' (2009)

;<big>Germany</big>
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Transformieren und Abfart''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Eins: Drachenkämpfer''' (2008)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Zwei: Die alten Waffen''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Drei: Megatrons Auferstehung''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Vier: Mission erfüllt''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Fünf: Der doppelte Starscream''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Sechs: Schwarzer Freitag''' (2009)

;<big>Japan</big>
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 1''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 2''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 3''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 4''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 5''' (2010)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 6''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 7''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 8''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 9''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers Animated'' — Vol. 10''' (2011)
{{-}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
[[Image:ROTF-DVD-2disc.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
{{main|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — 2-Disc Special Edition''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — The Complete Collection: Mega Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — Two-Disc Special Edition''' (2009)
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — Two-Disc Big Screen Edition''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — Digital Copy Special Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' — The Complete Collection: Mega Edition''' (UK, 2009)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers'' Limited Edition Collector's Trilogy''' (2012)
{{-}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{main|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' — Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' — 3D Limited Edition''' (2012)
*'''''Transformers'' Trilogy''' (2011)
*'''''Transformers'' Limited Edition Collector's Trilogy''' (2012)

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{main|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: Age of Extinction''''' (2014)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Age of Extinction'' — Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy''' (2014)
*'''''Transformers: Age of Extinction'' — Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy''' (2014)

===''The Last Knight''===
{{main|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: The Last Knight'' — DVD + Digital''' (2017)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: The Last Knight'' — Blu-ray + DVD + Digital''' (2017)
*'''''Transformers: The Last Knight'' — Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital''' (2017)
;<big>Ultra HD Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: The Last Knight'' — Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray + Digital''' (2017)

===''Bumblebee''===
{{main|Bumblebee (film)/home video}}
;<big>VHS</big>
*'''''Bumblebee''''' (2019)
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Bumblebee''''' (2019)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Bumblebee'' — Blu-ray + DVD + Digital''' (2019)
*'''''Bumblebee'' - Steelbook''' (2019)
;<big>Ultra HD Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Bumblebee'' — Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray + Digital''' (2019)
*'''''Bumblebee'' - Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray Steelbook''' (2019)

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{main|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)/home video}}
;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''' (2023)
;<big>Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' — Blu-ray + Digital''' (2023)
;<big>Ultra HD Blu-ray</big>
*'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' — Ultra HD Blu-ray + Digital''' (2023)
*'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' — Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray + Digital Steelbook''' (2023)
*'''''Transformers'' — 4K Two-Movie Mega Collection''' (US, 2023)

===''EarthSpark''===
In a surprising move, seven years after [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015_cartoon)/home video#Shout.21 Factory|the last]] ''Transformers'' animated series season set release on home video in the United States, Paramount begn releasing the first season of ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]'''s on DVD in [[2023]], with the first set's release timed to tie-in with the theatrical release of [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts]].

*'''''Transformers: EarthSpark'' — Season 1: Episodes 1-10''' (US: [[May 16]], 2023 / CAN: May 16, 2023)
:Contains the episodes "[[Secret Legacy, Part 1]]" through to "[[Age of Evolution, Part 2]]".
*'''''Transformers: EarthSpark'' — Season 1: Episodes 11-26''' (US/CAN: [[February 13]], [[2024]])
:Contains the episodes "[[Hashtag: Oops]]" through to "[[The Last Hope, Part 2]]".
<center><gallery>
Image:EarthSpark Season 1 Part 1 DVD.jpg|'''''EarthSpark'' — Season 1: Episodes 1-10 '''
Image:EarthSpark Season 1 Part 2 DVD.jpg|'''''EarthSpark'' — Season 1: Episodes 11-26 '''
</gallery></center>
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==Notes==
*Before the theatrical release of the film {{w|IF (film)|IF}}, the Paramount Pictures YouTube account released a short video showing various animated characters from Paramount related properties auditioning to be imaginary friends. One attending was [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|Rise of the Beasts]] version of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeCCpEel5sc</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Home entertainment]]

Robson Kumode

2024-11-24T02:43:39Z

Igordebraga:

'''Robson Kumode''' (b.[[August 10]], [[1985]]) is a Brazilian voice actor. He is known for his roles as Sasuke in the ''Naruto'' franchise, Glenn in ''The Walking Dead'' and Hiro Hamada in ''Big Hero 6''.

=Voice Roles=
===Transformers: Prime===
*[[Vince]]

===Robots in Disguise 2015===
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumode, Robson}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Orlando Viggiani

2024-11-24T02:41:07Z

Igordebraga:

'''Orlando Viggiani''' ([[March 17]], [[1949]] - ) is a Brazilian voice actor. In addition to serving as the official dub voice for [[Marty McFly|Michael J. Fox]], he has voiced numerous characters in ''The Jetsons'', [[Ryu]] in several ''Street Fighter'' works, the title character in ''Cyborg 009'', and [[Mickey Mouse]].

==Roles==
===''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''===
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.casadadublagem.besaba.com/orlandoviggiani.html Casa Da Dublagem entry] ''(Portuguese)''
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=52571 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Viggiani, Orlando}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Amanda Manso

2024-11-24T02:36:04Z

Igordebraga:

[[File:AmandaManso.jpg|right|thumb|Amanda reunited with [[Bumblebee (Movie)|her co-star]].]]
Amanda Manso (b. [[April 5]], [[1994]]) is a Brazilian actress, voice actress and junior stage teacher.

[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] [https://www.instagram.com/dukctproducoes/reel/DCcQrKxxxZC/ walked her down the aisle], making her wedding already better than yours.
==Voice roles==
===''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''===
*[[Charlie Watson]]

===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
*[[Chromia (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Chromia]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manso, Amanda}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

File:AmandaManso.jpg

2024-11-24T02:32:23Z

Igordebraga:

[[Amanda Manso]], Brazilian voice of [[Charlie Watson]], reunited with [[Bumblebee (Movie)|her co-star]] at her wedding. Taken from [https://www.instagram.com/dukctproducoes/reel/DCcQrKxxxZC/ Instagram.]
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[[Category:Actor images]]

File:AmandaManso.jpg

2024-11-24T02:27:02Z

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Kiss

2024-09-22T05:07:39Z

Igordebraga: /* Beast Era */

{{featured}}
[[File:Arcee_and_Aileron.jpeg|right|thumb|upright=2.2|"Japan surrenders, end of war!"]]
A '''kiss''' is a peculiar sort of bonding ritual involving (sometimes mutual) oral contact, especially among [[human]]s. The reasons for this strange phenomenon are usually beyond some [[Transformer]]s' understanding, resulting in many an uncomfortable line of questioning. Are these fleshlings transmitting data? Is it an energy-transferral process? Why are they doing it in [[Bumblebee (G1)|my back seat]]? Why, when the humans do kissing on me, does it [[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|grant me special powers?]]

Some other Transformers understand kissing juuuuust fine.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
====Marvel Comics continuity====
[[File:Hardtoexplain.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.55|More of a "tongue-transferral process."]]
Shortly after the Transformers first woke up on [[Earth]], an [[Autobot]] reconnaissance expedition was thoroughly confused by the sight of automobiles parked in a drive-in theater playing a movie that featured two humans kissing. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

[[File:Kissprimitiveform.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Looks like he's about to round third base as well.]]
It has been stated on a few occasions that the kiss is an act of atonement for past perceived misdeeds. However, this information comes from a very small dataset, specifically the individual human named [[Jesse (G1)|Jesse]]. While in the company of [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]], she has repeatedly described the act of kissing as "apologizing". Since the use of this term has not been observed in use by any other human (other than Buster himself, seemingly part of an attempt to encourage continued kissing from Jesse), the conclusions one can draw are strictly limited. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}} {{storylink|Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom}}

Kissing is not limited to the humans of Earth. The ritual is also practiced on [[Nebulos]] by the Nebulans [[Gort]] and [[Marita]]. The Autobot [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] was able to witness this event, which caused a short but violent war between their race and the Transformers. Clearly volatile emotions surround this act. Highbrow, at the time, was not able to ascertain whether kissing was akin to a [[binomial data transfer]], and even after [[binary bonding]] with Gort, answers have not been forthcoming. {{storylink|Ring of Hate!}}
{{-}}

====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
[[File:Megrimlocknokisser.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|ME GRIMLOCK SAY NO MEANS NO. ''(Grimlock and Re-Cycle are to the left.)'']]
During the [[Golden Age]], the [[Autobot]]s were known to have engaged in kissing, as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Orion Pax]] was kissed by his girlfriend [[Elita One (G1)|Ariel]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn}}

[[Attack of the Alien Robots|Dash Jordan]] was such a brave fool, he deserved a kiss—several times. {{storylink|Hoist Goes Hollywood (episode)|Hoist Goes Hollywood}}

The dominant species of the planet [[Brobdingnag]] also engaged in kissing. The boy [[Aron]] received a goodnight kiss from [[Aron's parents|his father]] after a day with some conflict between them. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}

[[Astoria Carlton-Ritz|Astoria]] kisses [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]]'s face before parting. {{storylink|The Girl Who Loved Powerglide}}

The [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] have adopted the human ritual of kissing, apparently after watching much of their television transmissions. [[Re-Cycle]] even kissed the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot leader]] [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]. This act greatly confused the Dinobot leader, and caused him to reassert his status as "king". {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] described the (to him) pleasing sound of the [[harmony]] as "a musical kiss". {{storylink|Carnage in C-Minor}}

[[Marissa Faireborn]] and [[Dirk Manus]] shared several kisses during their time together, confusing the witnessing [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]], who called it a bizarre Earth ritual. Dirk used one kiss to distract Marissa as he stole her blaster. {{storylink|Money Is Everything (episode)|Money Is Everything}}

[[Hellbat (G1)|Hellbat]] used hugs and kisses to distract [[Guyhawk]] from just hearing him plot to get rid of him. {{storylink|Rescue! Guyhawk}}
{{-}}

====Beast Era====
[[File:AgendaPart3 Rattrap kisses Rhinox.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|You can feel my lips undress your eyes...]]
The [[Maximal]] [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] and the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] were depicted as implicitly kissing on several occasions, but the act was typically kept off-screen. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} The closest we got to seeing the pair smooch was when their lips ''juuuuuust'' about touched right before a camera-pan out cut away from the action. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} After Blackarachnia's Transmetal 2 upgrade, the pair's first kiss zapped Silverbolt with "Transmetal power," leaving his head crackling with energy. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}}

When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] caught [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], saving him from a nasty fall, Rattrap comedically kissed Rhinox on the cheek, prompting Rhinox to drop him to the ground. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}.

After finally deciding to quit the Predacons, [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] sarcastically implored [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] to plant a "big wet juicy one" right on his posterior. They declined the invitation and shot him instead. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] and [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] kissed in the midst of an argument, but as with Blackarachnia and Silverbolt's past lip-locks, the act went unseen. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Silverbolt and Blackarachnia almost celebrated the reformatting of Cybertron with a kiss, until Waspinator flew between them, interrupting them. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}}

{{--}}

====''Kiss Players''====
Oh God. You don't want to know. You shouldn't know. But your curiosity will get to you. [[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|We apologize for any damage caused to your psyche or immortal soul.]]

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:ThePriceOfYou-smoochy.jpg|Right|thumb|upright=1.66|Let's merge.]]

As part of [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]'s dream of a happy domestic life with [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]], the two bots got very close to kissing before the dream was interrupted by a [[mnemosurgery|mnemosurgically]]-connected [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]]. {{storylink|The Price of You}}

[[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] gave [[Aileron]] a big ol' smooch right on the lips as thanks for saving her life. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 6: Unforgivable|Unforgivable}} Apparently both sides found it enjoyable, as Arcee gave Aileron another kiss on the forehead shortly after she was teleported to [[Earth]] and decked Starscream across the face. {{storylink|Road's End}} After defeating [[Unicron]], they made out on the Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]] next to the descent stage portion of an Apollo Lunar Module. {{storylink|Ceremony}}

[[File:ASparkAmongEmbers-smoochy.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.9|Die mad about it.]]

[[Anode]] and [[Lug (IDW)|Lug]], awaiting a possibly deadly battle, kissed before expressing their love for each other. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 6): A Spark Among Embers|A Spark Among Embers}}
{{-}}

====2019 IDW continuity====

Many kilocycles ago, [[Codexa]] placed a kiss on the top of the crest of her [[Mentor|mentee]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]], while telling him how proud she was of having mentored him, someone she said had a 'good and noble spark,' to assure him that he would do good if he went through with his choice to go into politics as was his right, even though Codexa thought her mentee would have to make sacrifices to do so. {{storylink|End of Time}}

[[File:GaugingtheTruthPartTwoATruthforaTruth ArceeGreenlightGaugeEmbrace.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|Greenlight and Gauge really appreciate when Arcee steps up to [[The_Transgressors|transgress]] any obstacle for [[A Real Mother|loved ones]] and [[Autobot|autonomy]], and [[Fandom|we do too.]]]].

[[Greenlight]] smooched [[Arcee_(G1)|Arcee's]] forehead head crest while the two lovers shared an embrace with their mentee [[Gauge]], after managing to push through a crowd and [[Security Operations]] the ''[[Exodus (G1 ship)|Exodus]]'' to leave Cybertron, in hopes of finding a peaceful life... {{storylink|Gauging the Truth, Part Two: A Truth for a Truth}}

[[File:Tread&Circuits2 KnockOutBreakdownKiss.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|They said "start race", not "suck face"!]]

[[Knock Out (G1)|Knock Out]] and [[Breakdown (IDW)|Breakdown]] shared a kiss just before the [[Speedia 500]] started. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Ep5-Blackarachnia-kisses-Airazor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
After being saved from falling to her death by [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] thanked her "heroine" by kissing her on the cheek—much to the former's surprise. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}}

===Live-action film series===
[[Sam Witwicky]] and [[Mikaela Banes]] could be found macking on [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee's]] hood (note: he was in car mode) to the strains of [[Linkin Park]], as the other Autobots watched. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===

[[File:TFA Black Friday ME GRIMLOCK IN LOVE.jpg|thumb|Spoiler alert, he doesn't get the kiss.]]

[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] sometimes look to come close to doing this but it tends to just be a trick on Blackarachnia's part. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}} {{storylink|Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday}}

[[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] has shown interest in wanting to steal a kiss from Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
The Autobots were shocked and bewildered by the sight of two humans kissing on [[television]]. {{storylink|Can You Dig It?}}

===''Shattered Glass''===
After exchanging playful banter, [[Strongarm (SG)|Strongarm]] and [[Windblade (SG)|Windblade]] started making out in front of the other [[Underbase]] bots. [[Demolishor (SG)|Demolishor]] questioned this practice while [[Highwire]] expressed fear that he and his friends had been turned into cyborgs specifically for smooching purposes. {{storylink|Coalescence}}

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Iacon (polity)

2024-09-21T23:09:55Z

Igordebraga:

{{disambig3|Iacon}}
'''Iacon''', sometimes called '''Iacon City''', is an [[Autobot]]-controlled [[Polities of Cybertron|city-state]] at the north pole of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Iacon often is the planet's capital.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel Comics continuity====
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:Iaconfrom1986annual.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb]]
*'''Locations'''
**Iacon Central
***The [[Great Dome]]
***The [[Celestial Spires]]
****The Celestial Temple
**[[Academy of Science and Technology]]
**[[Autobase]] (post-war)
**[[Jan-Ja]]
**[[Imperial Amphitheatre]]
**[[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]
**The [[Matrix Flame]] Chamber

{{storylink|And There Shall Come...a Leader!}} {{storylink|Surrender!}}/{{storylink|Covenant (story)|Covenant}} {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} {{storylink|Cybertron: The Middle Years!}} {{storylink|Target: 2006}}

Iacon functioned as the heart of Autobot territory on Cybertron, and appears to have been the base of the [[Council of Autobot Elders]] prior to the departure of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and his comrades from the planet. It was termed "greatest of the city-states" for the Autobots on Cybertron.

''When the planet suffered from global fuel shortages, Iacon was one of the big cities who monopolised what resources there were. Unlike its rivals, [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]] and [[Vos (polity)|Vos]], Iacon's council gave out rationed fuel to its smaller neighbours. When the Vos-Tarn war broke out, Iacon accepted refugees but decided to let the two cities wipe themselves out: a mistake, as Megatron would use them as a scapegoat to fire up the survivors.'' {{storylink|State Games}}

[[File:Target 2006 Imperial Amphitheatre hologram.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb]]
''Without Prime's leadership, the Autobot war effort fell further and further into disarray—but Iacon's defences remained steady. The Decepticons, led by [[Trannis]] succeeding [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], besieged the city and continued to attempt its capture for many thousands of years. Eventually, being in control of the remainder of Cybertron, Trannis decided it simply was not worth capturing Iacon intact and ordered his troops to level the city, which they did to such an extent that by the time Optimus Prime returned briefly to Cybertron, the city was completely in ruins.''

''Still, the Autobots maintained a presence in Iacon, if only from small resistance bases in its ruins. [[Autobase]] itself was located within these ruins at one point, and the [[Wreckers]] operated from this base conducting strikes and raids on Decepticon holdings on a continuing basis.''

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====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
{{note|As one of the two starter continuities, [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''The Transformers'' cartoon]] was not influenced by the Marvel comics' depiction of Iacon as Cybertron's capital city. Instead, Iacon was the name of the Autobots' headquarters on Cybertron, appearing as a large, domed fortress colored gold. When Iacon needed to be actually shown in the Marvel comics, the artists took "[[:File:Cartoon Cybertron Marvel Iacon case 1.jpg|inspiration]]" from the cartoon and reinterpreted the domed fortress as the [[Great Dome]], a defensive structure surrounding Iacon Central that was the only part of Iacon to survive the millennia of war, thus becoming synonymous with the city. Whether such a history should be applied to the cartoon version is debatable, but the domed fortress was "just" called <s>Cybertron</s> Autobot Base in ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'' and [[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|''The Headmasters'' cartoon]]. Moreso, ''War for Cybertron'' fiction has established that the [[Hall of Records]], a building that appeared first in the ''The Transformers'' cartoon, is located in Iacon. What goes for one [[continuity family]] does not necessarily go for another, but Cybertron's locations have thus far been reasonably alike across them. Either way, see the aforementioned buildings' pages for more information on what-could-be-Iacon in the original cartoon.}}

====The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual====
When the Decepticons initiated the war, they caught the Autobots unaware and steamrolled through their army like it didn't even exist until the they reached the capital city-state of Iacon. {{storylink|From Cybertron to Earth the War Continues...}} [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] personally led the attack that was supposed to result in one of the Decepticons' greatest victories, {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Megatron's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}} but instead encountered the first actual opposition since the start of the war. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|From Cybertron to Earth the War Continues...}} This was thanks to the leadership skills of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], a junior officer in the Autobot defense forces stationed at Iacon. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Optimus Prime's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}} Megatron tried to have Optimus killed in a surprise attack, but Optimus's second-in-command, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], saved him, sealing the Decepticons' first defeat. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Jazz's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
[[File:Sparkwar2 Maximals over iacon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
After the [[Great Upgrade]], Iacon was paved over and replaced with [[Cybertropolis]]. During the [[Spark War]], [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] led [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] to believe that clues to the locations of the lost [[spark]]s could be located in Iacon's ruins, so Primal and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] went searching there. They came across a [[Hologram|holographic]] [[Optimus Prime memorial|statue]] of the legendary [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], which suddenly moved and picked up Optimus Primal. Primal went into a sort of trance in which Prime told him not to worry about the disappearance of the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], because it still existed within him. Primal accepted this idea and tried to access the Oracle data within him, only to see Optimus Prime's visage suddenly change into Megatron's. Megatron accessed Optimus Primal's mind to obtain the Oracle data, while Primal took a risk by not resisting but using the connection to figure out where the missing sparks were. Meanwhile, Nightscream was attacked by [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] and [[Cycle Drone|his drones]]. Outnumbered, the young [[Maximal]] was nearly killed. He was saved by the sudden appearance of [[Noble (BM)|Noble]], who by unknown means and for unknown reasons had also found his way to Iacon. Upon seeing the creature, the drones fled in panic and Noble chased after them. Next, Primal finally awoke from his trance and ordered Nightscream to follow him and rendezvous with the others. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search}}

{{note|When the Maximals visit Iacon's ruins, everyone who speaks the city's name incorrectly pronounces it a "I'''o'''con. This isn't the first time [[Teletraan I|this kind of error]] has been made}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
[[File:The Ultimate Guide High Council Pavilions.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb]]
*'''Locations'''
**The [[Alpha Preserve]]
**The [[Border Regions]] (sub-orbital district)
***The [[Forum of Enlightenment]]
***The [[Promontory]]
**The [[Central Spaceport]]
**The [[High Council Pavilions]]
***The [[Chamber of the Ancients]]
***The [[Decagon]]
***The [[Energon Pools]]
***The [[Grand Oratory]]
***The [[Stellar Galleries]]
****The [[Oracle Tank]]
***The [[Tower of Pion]]
***The [[Vaults]]
***[[Central Hall]]
**Iacon East
**Access Shaft 0-5 (sub-surface)
**[[Quadrant Epsilon]]
***The [[Detention Banks]]
***Shockwave's secret laboratory
**[[Shockwave's Tower]]
**[[Planetary engine|Planetary engine vents]] (sub-surface)
**[[Virtue's Forum]]

Iacon was the capital of Cybertron and the headquarters of the Autobots. After [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optronix]] became [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], he ordered an evacuation of Cybertron. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}} However, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] ordered a [[planetary engine]] vent to activate, destroying the [[Forum of Enlightenment]]. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] was lured beneath the wreckage, in an attempt to leave him isolated and vulnerable. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] then led an assault on Iacon, with [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] leading the defense. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} During the assault, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] believed he killed Megatron, and activated the mecha-forming process, intending to destroy Iacon, the Autobots, and Shockwave, the only real threat to his leadership. {{storylink|The War Within issue 4|The War Within #4}} After seeing the devastation that was Iacon, the Autobots agreed to Prime's evacuation order, but Optimus reversed the order and ordered the Autobots to dig in. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}}

[[File:Iaconundershockwave.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
In the future, Iacon had completely shut down as part of a worldwide [[stasis lock]] across the face of Cybertron. The first to awaken, Shockwave saw the dead world as having infinite potential. As part of his efforts to restore the planet, Shockwave united Autobot and Decepticon factions and rebuilt the city as a testament to the supremacy of his rule. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

On Earth, Shockwave arrested Optimus Prime and the Autobots under his command and brought them back to Cybertron, Iacon specifically, planning to deactivate them. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Prime and the others escaped with help from the Autobot resistance and then staged an all-out assault on the city. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

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====2005 IDW continuity====
*'''Locations'''
**The [[Ark-1 Memorial Grounds|''Ark-1'' Memorial Grounds]]
**The [[Celestial Spires]]
**The [[Citadel]]
**[[Iaconian Aerial Academy]]
**[[Institute for Higher Programming]]
**[[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]
**[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]
**The [[Spire]]
**[[Trion Square]]
**The [[Undergrid]]
**[[Translucentica Heights]]

Iacon was one of Cybertron's city-states; unusually, the city incorporated three of the planet's twelve primary [[hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]]s, from which new Transformers were born: [[Rivets Field]], [[Vespertine Blue]], and [[Port Residua]]. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} According to Cybertronian mythology, [[Rung (G1)|the first Transformer]] realized he could transform while standing in Rivets Field. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} When the [[Crystal City]] went missing in the wake of the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]] some ten million years ago, {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}}
Iacon's portentous position in the planet's history might explain why the city was eventually recognized as Cybertron's new capital. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 2}}

During his reign over Cybertron, [[Nova Prime]] launched the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark-1]]'' from Rivets Field. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} Nova Prime and his inner retinue vanished from history after crossing the [[Benzuli Expanse]], and in the aftermath Iacon became home to the [[Senate]], who, under the jurisdiction of [[Nominus Prime]], organized the planet's day-to-day affairs from within the [[Grand Imperium]]. A [[Ark-1 Memorial Grounds|memorial]] for the ship and its crew was eventually commissioned somewhere in the city. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 2}} In time, however, many Cybertronians would come to feel that most Senators chose to live cushy lives in Iacon instead of actually helping their constituents. {{storylink|The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin}} [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] was one such senator, who initially moved ot the city to become a street hustler and subsequently climbed the social ladder. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing}}

[[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]] was [[Reproduction#2005 IDW continuity|forged]] in Iacon, {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 2}} as was [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]]; the latter being among the last generation born before Iacon's hot spots cooled, never to reignite. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} {{storylink|Ghost Stories}} Other Transformers who hailed from Iacon included [[Chromedome (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Chromedome]], {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} [[Grimlock (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Grimlock]], {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}} and the [[Disappeared]] Transformers Barrelstop, Blocksmasher, Nightclaw, Responder, Scrambler, Skyhaven, Viewport, Wingshot, and Zap. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|Anomie}}

When the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] began with the assault on [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]'s Autobots were trying to contact Iacon for reinforcements. After Sentinel Prime's [[Structure|body]] was dropped in front of them, [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] instead requested an evacuation to Iacon. {{storylink|The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin}}

[[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], Sentinel's successor, led the fight against the Decepticons from the Citadel in Iacon. {{storylink|Parasites}} After Zeta Prime's death, the Decepticons took over Iacon and ruled Cybertron until the Autobots came to fight against them with a new leader, Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Broadcast}} Once the Decepticons had been driven out of the city, [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] became its capital by transforming into city mode above the ruins of the Citadel, which had been annihilated during the battle. {{storylink|Endgame}} Over the course of war, Iacon became the primary stronghold and staging ground for the Autobots. Half a million years ago, however, the Decepticons laid siege to the city; realizing that he would need to keep Metroplex and his miraculous [[space bridge|spacebridge]] technology out of Decepticon hands, [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] and Metroplex departed Cybertron, leaving what remained of Iacon to the Autobots. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}}

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The war eventually became too much for the planet to bear, and in the wake of [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s world-ending rampage Cybertron as left incapable of supporting life, necessitating the final evacuation and abandonment of Iacon as the war moved off-world. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}} In the wake of the [[D-Void]]'s attack on the planet, Cybertron "reset" itself into a primordial state, wiping Iacon and every other Cybertronian city off the map. The Autobots made their new headquarters in the remains of [[Kimia Facility]], which had crashed on the planet following the Chaos War. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} When hordes of [[NAIL|neutral Transformers]] began returning home, they landed their ships and set up camp where it had once been - the "new" Iacon soon grew into a shanty town, a ramshackle mixture of landed spacecraft and temporary housing. As the Autobots, Decepticons, and NAILs struggled to cooperate, [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hot Rod]] announced his intention to assemble a crew and search for the mythical [[Knights of Cybertron]]. Their ship, the ''[[Lost Light]]'', launched off Iacon... only to seemingly explode moments after takeoff. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} In the meantime, various noncombatants chose to try and begin a functioning base of commerce in the new Iacon, including the grand re-opening of [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}}

Tensions continued to rise between the three factions until [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] returned from the wilderness, kicking off a series of destructive Decepticon riots that culminated in a reborn [[Devastator (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Devastator]] running amok and destroying vast swaths of the city. {{storylink|Plan for Everything}} Decepticon-turned-rhetorician [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] took advantage of Megatron's defeat, cast off his insignia, and declared that Iacon was a city for NAILs and NAILs alone: those who refused to revoke their badges would be cast out into the wilds of Cybertron. {{storylink|Second Exodus}}

Starscream and his new citizens struggled to get the ravaged city back up and running, but it wasn't long before a "death wave" created by a recently arrived [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]] quickly undid whatever progress they had managed to make and then some, engulfing the city in flames. {{storylink|Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Winners & Losers}} In the remains of the city, the Autobots and Decepticons made their mutual stand against [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] and his [[Ammonite]] allies, aiming to thwart his mad attempt to destroy the universe. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11}}

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When that crisis had passed, the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] transformed into his city mode and integrated himself into what remained of Iacon. His city mode provided energy, housing, and a stable seat of power for Starscream's NAIL government. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} After six months of rebuilding, Iacon was once again inhabitable — while the NAILs and Autobots lived within Metroplex, the Decepticons were coalesced around the fringe of the city, forming a resentful ghetto. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}} The recently arrived [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] turned her [[cityspeaker]] skills towards nursing Metroplex back to health. Her efforts were temporarily interrupted by a surreptitious bombing campaign orchestrated by her friend [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], who was hoping to force her friend back to her safe home planet to avoid the still-volatile political situation on Cybertron. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}}

Iacon later became the capital of the new [[Republic of Cybertron]]; its governing body, the interplanetary legislature known as the [[Council of Worlds]], convened in Iacon's [[Spire]]. {{storylink|Ping}} {{storylink|The Will of the Few}} A fresh wave of immigration from Cybertron's colony planets populated the city with a wide variety of immigrants, {{storylink|Choose Me}} while some Iaconian Decepticons chose to move to Caminus to make a fresh start. {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}} In this new political landscape, Windblade's clandestine investigations into [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]'s whereabouts ended with yet another combiner rampage, with the berserk [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] prompting a brief evacuation of the city before the combiner could be dealt with. {{storylink|The Line Between Us}}

When [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] returned to life after a long convalescence, he attacked Iacon's Decepticon ghetto. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}} While he eventually fled Cybertron, he soon found [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]] and decided to purge the planet of its "impurities" by reanimating a horde of undead Titans and siccing them on Iacon. {{storylink|Last Light (issue)|Last Light}} Transformers from all across Iacon and the colonies came together to defend the city; even Metroplex transformed into his robot mode to help defeat his undead brethren. Metroplex was eventually felled however prompting Starscream to ask [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] to send [[Vigilem|Carcer]] down as aid only for Elita to refuse. {{storylink|Ping}} The reason being that "Carcer" was in fact Vigilem, Titan of [[Liege Maximo]]. Nonetheless, Vigilem defeated the Titans and freed Liege Maximo before he himself was killed by Elita One. {{storylink|Rubicon}} Pieces of the Titan's corpse were taken to rebuild Iacon before his body was converted back into starship mode. {{storylink|Heavy}}

[[File:FirstStrike01-Iacon.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Live from Iacon, it's Saturday Night Live!]]
Following Earth's annexation into the Council of Worlds, Cybertron prepared for the official ceremony by erecting a [[force field]] around the city, pumping oxygen into the atmosphere to allow for human habitability. {{storylink|First Strike issue 1|First Strike #1}} Hours before the ceremony was due to begin, human diplomats and important personnel were shuttled through [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]'s space bridge on Earth to reach Metroplex. {{storylink|Primeless, Part 1}} Opening remarks were cut short by [[Joe Colton]]'s [[Iron Ring]], who attacked the city in the name of [[human]] sovereignty, and as the ceremony descended into chaos {{storylink|First Strike issue 1|First Strike #1}} [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]], [[M.A.S.K.]] and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] used a hybrid Space Bridge/[[M.A.S.S. Device]] teleporter, to reach Iacon and stop Colton's plans. {{storylink|First Strike issue 3|First Strike #3}} When the true mastermind of the scheme was revealed to be the alien wizard [[Merklynn]], the mage teleported all combatants back to Iacon. {{storylink|First Strike issue 6|First Strike #6}}

Iacon then hosted Cybertron's first democratic election, in which Starscream was impeached for his many and numerous crimes committed while in office. Windblade was then appointed the new leader of Cybertron and the head of the Council of Worlds. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

Not long afterwards, Iacon was menaced yet gain when [[Onyx Prime]] and his [[Maximal]]s arrived over the city, claiming to have captured Liege Maximo and delivered him to the city so that he could be judged. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 1: Surfeit of Primes|Surfeit of Primes}} This was a ruse, and the moment Onyx was invited into the Spire, he and his so-called prisoner unleashed chaos across the city, killing Alpha Trion and laying bare a series of accusations against Soundwave that culminated in a series of riots that swept across the city and left the Council of Worlds unable to govern for the duration of the crisis. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 3: The Ground|The Ground}} Though Onyx was soon unmasked as a time-travelling [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], and arrested, the Transformers were unable to prevent his [[Unicron/Generation 1|ultimate plan]] for the Cybertronian race from reaching fruition. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 6: Unforgivable|Unforgivable}} Starscream and several other Decepticons chose to leave Iacon, setting up a new base in Metrotitan's dead body. {{storylink|Our Finest}}

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In the meantime, representatives from Iacon were sent to make contact with the inhabitants of Merklynn's city of [[New Prysmos]]; {{storylink|Schismatic}} following a coup within that city, [[Leoric]] and several members of the [[Spectral Knight]]s were ousted from the city and took refuge in Iacon, where they joined forces with [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] and [[Breakdown (IDW)|Breakdown]] to help prevent the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] from wiping out the Cybertronian species. {{storylink|Cybertron No More}} Soon after, Unicron himself awoke and began a campaign of destruction across the galaxy, devouring Cybertron's colonies one by one until he finally menaced Cybertron itself, looming over Iacon. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}} The [[Visionaries]] sacrificed their city to activate the Talisman, projecting a magical beam that would teleport whoever it touched to [[Earth]]. [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] sacrificed himself to rescue as many Cybertronians as he could, racing through the city streets and throwing them into the path of the Talisman's energy.

At the last moment, Metroplex deployed his own space bridge, carrying himself and his occupants to join the other survivors at [[Victoria Falls]] as Iacon collapsed into flame, destroyed along with the rest of the planet by Unicron. {{storylink|Road's End}}
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=====The Functionist Universe=====
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In an [[Functionist Universe|alternate timeline]] where the Great War had never begun, Iacon was spared its destruction and remained a bustling metropolis—albeit one firmly under the control of the totalitarian [[Functionist Council]]. When a group of castaways from the ''Lost Light'' used a teleporter to try and return to ''their'' universe's Cybertron, they were accidentally shunted across the timelines and wound up in this universe's Iacon. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|Some Other Cybertron}} Upon being arrested by [[Twelve-of-Twelve]], the ''Lost Light'' crew was marched through Iacon in a walk of shame where they passed by a giant statue of [[Primus]] before they were freed by the [[Anti-Vocationist League]]. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|Anomie}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
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Millions of years ago, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s forces assaulted Iacon, with [[Devastator (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Devastator]] breaching the city walls. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 5}} Following a prosperous career in the Decepticon army, [[Jetstorm (G2)|Jetstorm]] was stationed as a spy on the outskirts of New Iacon. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 31|''Wings Universe'' Jetstorm profile}}

Soon after the [[Golden Age]] swept across Cybertron, it was assaulted by [[Megaplex]] and [[Thundercracker drone|his]] [[Starscream drone|drone]] [[Skywarp drone|army]]. After successfully capturing the city, Megaplex used it as his headquarters, where he talked with [[Starscream (MW)|Starscream]] until [[Skywarp (MW)|Skywarp]] arrived, informing the two that [[Thundercracker (MW)|Thundercracker]] has been captured. Outside of the city, the [[Autobot]] resistance fighters [[Electro]] and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] waited outside the city for their fellow rebels [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]], [[Octane]], [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]], and [[Strika (BM)|Strika]], who also had the captured Thundercracker with them. When Megaplex and his army arrived and demanded that they hand over Thundercracker, a battle ensued until Sandstorm revealed himself to be [[Sandstorm (MW)|a spy]] for [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], who soon arrived with his own army. {{Storylink|Termination}}

====''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''====
In a bygone era of peace, Iacon, "The Golden City", served as Cybertron's capital and boasted luxurious salons. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}} {{storylink|Pax Megatronus}}

When Megatron conquered Cybertron and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] fled, Iacon was abandoned by its inhabitants. When [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] invaded Cybertron, they bombed Iacon with [[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]] onto Iacon covering it in rapidly growing organic matter. The Autobots who witnessed the act deduced the aliens were unaware of Iacon's tactical worthlessness. After the initial invasion was thwarted, the Joes retreated to the terraformed Iacon where they laid anti-Cybertronian traps. One of them managed to ensnare [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}} Just as he had managed to convince G.I. Joe not to dissect him, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] arrived to rescue their friend, the resulting firefight rendering everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}}

Before the fighting could resume, [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] arrived and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] declared a truce between G.I. Joe and the Autobots. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}} The alliance revolted Megatron however and he led "Decepticobra" in an all out assault on the former capital where he captured several key Joes and Autobots. Optimus Prime deposited [[Snake-Eyes|Snake Eyes]] and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] in Iacon before he left for Earth. {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}}

====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
The largest city on Cybertron, Iacon was located at Cybertron's north pole and bordered several minor city-states, including [[Vos (polity)|Vos]] and [[Nova Cronum]]. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} During the Great War, it changed hands several times, at one point falling to the Decepticons. During this time, Soundwave organized and ran the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] from within the [[Mandala]] for several centuries. {{storylink|Trigger Warnings}}

After the end of the Great War, Iacon became home to the [[Builder Assembly]], the government of decrepit "[[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]]" who ruled the planet from the [[High Council Pavilions]]. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}} The Mandala eventually became the new headquarters for the [[Predacon Secret Police]] as the second generation of Transformers spread across the planet. The [[Maximal]] [[Apelinq (BM)|Apelinq]] attended the Iacon [[Academy of Science and Technology]]. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

When the [[Grand Uprising]] began, Iacon became a Builder stronghold and remained firmly under their control, even though the [[Resistance]]'s attempts to take Vos threatened to undercut their hold on the region. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} Even as the rest of the planet fell into chaos, Iacon's commerce and industry continued to function normally. Several years into the war, it saw a shootout within its borders as the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Wolfang (Predacon)|Wolfang]] was caught up in the search for the lost [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]] [[Overrun]]. {{storylink|Trigger Warnings}}

When the Builers deployed the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s - an army of mindless self-replicating Transformers - Resistance leader [[Lio Convoy]] realized that the only way to end the war before their forces were overrun was to mount a full-scale march on Iacon. Maximal and Predacon leaders from across the planet launched an all-out assault on Iacon's Builder-held satellite cities, fighting [[Micromaster]]s as they went. The threat of a Resistance incursion was enough to get the Builders to rescind [[General Order 66]] and re-route the Vehicon hordes to Iacon, allowing Vehicon leader [[Galva Convoy]] to backstab his creators. In the ensuing battle, Iacon was almost entirely destroyed by Vehicons. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Days after the peace talks, the Predacon [[Bisk (BWU)|Bisk]] began exploring the lower levels of Iacon that had been revealed after a tower smashed apart the [[Chamber of the Ancients]]. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

====''Of Masters and Mayhem''====
When she was still an Autobot, [[Shred]] used to work in Iacon. {{storylink|Life Finds a Way}}

====''War for Cybertron'' marketing material====
Iacon was the capital of Cybertron, the home of its government before the Decepticon revolution that saw it overthrown. Like most key locations on Cybertron, [[Kalis]]'s subsurface fusion reactor generated Iacon's power. During the war for the planet, the Decepticons would often find ways of entering Iacon via [[Nova Cronum]]. Autobot resistance general [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] was known to be active in Iacon during the war. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}

====2019 IDW continuity====
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The city of Iacon hosted the [[Forge Pyramid|Pyramid]], the building from which new Transformers were forged and welcomed to the world, {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Four}} {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 2}} and the [[Senate]]. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Four}} In ancient times, the monstrous, energy-devouring combiner known as "[[Abominus (G1)|the Abomination]]" was felled at Iacon, and the [[Enigma of Combination]] that had been used to create the beast wound up buried beneath the city in [[Rivets Field]]. {{storylink|Constructicons Rising, Part 1}}

During the subsequent [[War of the Threefold Spark]], at least one battle in the war was fought just beyond the city limits. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}} By the time of Exarchon's defeat, the city had been ravaged by war and nearly destroyed. The monumental task of rebuilding fell to the ambitious [[Termagax]], an visionary architect, engineer, and scientist, and her second-in-command [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]. {{storylink|Constructicons Rising, Part 1}} while teams of volunteer laborers assisted with the initial cleanup efforts, including a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Orion Pax: Free Fall}} Termagax refused to merely ''rebuild'' the city to the way it had been, and sought to push the limits of what was possible; to this end, she recruited a six ambitious young builders, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], and encouraged them to apply their unorthodox methods to the problem. Upon discovering the Enigma of Combination, Termagax helped the team master their new [[Devastator (G1)|combined form]], pooling their strength and power together to become the ultimate building team. {{storylink|Constructicons Rising, Part 1}} {{storylink|Constructicons Rising, Part 3}}

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In the new postwar era that followed, Iacon became host to many architectural wonders: these included the [[Tether]], a gigantic space elevator that connected the planet to the [[Winged Moon]], which harvested [[energon]] from the fabric of space-time. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}} By [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]'s era, Iacon had grown to include the sprawling ethnic enclave known as the [[Xeno-Quarter]], which took up almost a fifth of the city, vast [[energon storage field]]s, {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}} and the central hub for the planetary [[Titan Net]]. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Five}} Beyond the city lay the [[Memorial Crater]], {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}} the [[Cybertronian Mountains]], and an [[energon transmission station]] overseen by [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}}

In the years leading up to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], the city became the epicenter of activity related to the burgeoning [[Decepticon|Ascenticon]] faction and hosted [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|Ascenticon Headquarters]], {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}} while members of [[The Rise]] camped out in a secret bunker beneath the Memorial Crater. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}} As Megatron's tightly laid plans continued to spiral out of his control, however, members of the Ascenticons were forced to take more and more direct action, which culminated in the destruction of an immersant [[Titan (group)|Titan]], {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}} and, finally, [[Vigilem]]'s destruction of the Tether. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Five}} The destruction levelled vast swathes of the city, {{storylink|Arcee/Greenlight: Run}} and in the aftermath various groups like the [[Ascenticon Guard]] attempted to coordinate search and rescue missions amidst the ruins. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}}

At a subsequent Senate meeting, Megatron finally dropped all pretenses of diplomacy and launched a full-scale coup that saw Sentinel Prime and his followers imprisoned. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: We Have Deceived You|We Have Deceived You}} Orion Pax inherited the Matrix and stepped up as Optimus Prime, {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}} but he and his group of rebels were swiftly pushed back to the point where they only controlled a fraction of the city. {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}} While [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] organized an exodus from the city that included both organic immigrants and neutral Cybertronians, {{storylink|Escape Part Two}} Decepticon loyalists took control of vital facilities and crushed dissent with military force whenever the opportunity presented itself. {{storylink|War World: Hunt|Hunt}} A subsequent battle saw the destruction of the Pyramid; although Prime maintained that retreating from Iacon would legitimize Megatron's power grab, {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}} Pyra Magna opined that a discreet withdrawal would be the only way he and the Autobots would survive. While Pyra Magna and her [[Companion]]s spearheaded a diversion, Prime and his supporters made the difficult choice to abandon the city to the Decepticons. {{storylink|War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness|We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness}}

After [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] returned to Cybertron, he teleported to Iacon to speak to Megatron. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}} During the meeting, Soundwave brought the news that the [[Enigma of Combination]] had been located, the Decepticons mobilizing to the Sea of Rust. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}}

When [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] was captured, he was brought to Iacon, warning the Decepticons about the return of Exarchon. After Magnus was imprisoned in the Senate, an Autobot commando team travelled to Iacon to rescue him, {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} escaping via an underground passage beneath [[Swindle's]]. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}}

Having no desire to align himself with Exarchon again, Skywarp teleported to Iacon, warning Starscream of the Threefold Spark's return, who passed the information along to Megatron. {{storylink|War's End Part Two}} After Exarchon was destroyed, [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] intended to lead his Decepticons back to Iacon, {{storylink|War's End Part Four}} only for Megatron to redirect all forces to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. When the efforts of [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] allowed the Autobot ships to launch from Cybertron, Megatron ordered the [[combiner]]'s components to be imprisoned in Iacon. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}
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====2021 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity====
[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] regarded himself as one of the best codebreakers in Iacon. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 2}} [[Skold]] frequented Iacon's [[Sculpture Garden]] when she desired to be an artist only to be put down by some Maximals elites. As she left the Garden, she was approached and recruited by [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Thicker Skin}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
====Cartoon continuity====
=====''Armada'' cartoon=====
[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] mentioned having been a warrior since his "spark left the Iacon chamber." {{storylink|Rebellion (Armada)|Rebellion}}

=====''Cybertron'' comic=====
*'''Locations'''
**Iacon Spaceport
**[[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]
Iacon had become the capital of Cybertron, apparently replacing [[Cyber City]] or [[Central City (Cybertron)|Central City]].
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====Cyber Key code info====
[[Lugnutz]] longed for his pre-Decepticons days in the nanobrew shops of Iacon where poetry was recited. {{storylink|Cyber Key Codes|Lugnutz's Cyber Key Code text}}

====''Universe'' toy bios====
With the evacuation of Cybertron, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] assigned [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] to guard the entrances in Iacon to the shafts leading to the Energon core of Cybertron. {{storylink|Downshift (Energon)#Universe (2003)|''Universe'' Downshift toy bio}}

===Live-action film series===
====''The Last Knight'' film====
The ancient [[Guardian Knight|Guardian Knights]] are also known as Knights of Iacon. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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====Risk====
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Iacon is a region surrounded by [[Oracle Tank|The Oracle]] and [[Tower of Pion|Pion Tower]]. {{storylink|Risk: Transformers — Cybertron Battle Edition|Risk}}
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===''Shattered Glass'' continuity family===
====Fun Publications ''Shattered Glass'' continuity====
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*'''Locations'''
**[[Great Dome|Iacon]]
**[[Smelting pool]]
**A launching platform

The [[combiner]] [[Abominus (SG)|Abominus]] was named after the ancient Iaconian epic poem "Abominus Ex Meticular", a lurid tale of hubris and redemption. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 28|''Shattered Glass'' Abominus profile}}

Upon finding [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] alive and well, [[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus]] contacted [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]] at Iacon and was ordered to bring back the [[Cliffjumper (SG)|lost hero]] immediately. Rodimus did, admitting to a decidedly confused Cliffjumper that he was impressed Optimus Prime was interrupting his hobbies just to welcome him back. Only just inside the [[Great Dome|Iacon main complex]], the duo was greeted by Optimus Prime, who was thrilled to see his good friend alive. Cliffjumper was merely confused, a condition that only worsened as he was led further into the headquarters and found "his" comrades revelling in atrocities that would be more suited for Decepticons. He spoke up against it and was promptly shot down for his audacity. Optimus Prime considered killing him, but for the sake of their old friendship, he instead had Cliffjumper dumped in the [[Rad Zone]] where he could either re-earn his Autobot [[insignia]] or die trying.

[[File:SG Ark.jpg|upright=1.66|left|thumb]]
However, the Decepticons found Cliffjumper before he even woke up and brought him with them to [[Polyhex]], where Cliffjumper learned he had somehow traveled to a dimension in which the Autobots were evil and the Decepticons good. Hearing of the Autobots plan to build [[Ark (SG)|a ship]] to reach other planets with and subsequently conquer them, Cliffjumper agreed to help [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]]'s troops destroy the launching platform. The assault was initiated at sundown and started with two of the [[Predacon (SG)|Predacons]] taking out the platform's guards. Next, [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]], [[Whisper (SG)|Whisper]] and [[Divebomb (SG)|Divebomb]] flew in and bombed the [[energon]] storage tanks near the platform's support beams with [[glass gas]] bombs. The tanks did not explode though, and so it came to a battle between the two armies. When Megatron took a shot from Optimus for Cliffjumper, the latter's indecision who to trust was undone and he finished the job of getting the tanks to explode on his own. With the platform collapsing badly, the Decepticons retreated victorious. {{storylink|Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass}}

A battle in [[Khon]] didn't end in the Autobots' favor. First and foremost, they lost the [[Arch-Ayr]] fuel depot, which contents they needed repair the'' Ark'', to the Decepticons, but before they did, [[Wheeljack (SG)|Wheeljack]] returned from exile with a small army of [[Dinobot (SG)|Dinobots]]. Dinobots who he couldn't control and either killed one another or fled the battlefield, leaving the brutes' strength an asset up for grabs ''only if'' the Autobots could retrieve them before the Decepticons would. After discussing a few matters with his officers, Optimus Prime sent out his troops to capture as many Dinobots as possible. What they returned with were eight specimina, but also the information that [[Grimlock (SG)|Grimlock]], the strongest Dinobot, had perished during the hunt. Optimus Prime was very much not pleased, but before he could kill anyone, Grimlock showed up in the main complex alive, well and willing to join the Autobot cause if his sovereignty would be acknowledged. Optimus accepted the deal with some reluctance. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

Partially with Grimlock's aid, the Autobots repaired the launching platform and prepared the ''Ark'' for launch once more. To prevent a setback like last time, the platform had been reinforced with stone, on which the glass gas had no effect. More so the number of anti-air artillery emplacements and guards had been drastically increased. These details did not go unnoticed by the Decepticons, who gave up on a second attack, instead preparing a [[Nemesis (SG)|ship of their own]] to pursue the ''Ark'' with once it'd be launched. The lack of Decepticon hostilities put the Autobots in Iacon in a good mood, including Optimus Prime. This peace was ruined when [[Jazz (SG)|Jazz]] let it slip that his [[Relatives|brother]] [[Ricochet (SG)|Ricochet]] had captured Megatron and was keeping him hostage in the [[Temple of Knowledge]]. Declaring that only he may kill Megatron, Optimus Prime ran off to the Temple of Knowledge. This development pleased Rodimus, who both longed to be [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] himself and leave the dead husk of a planet Cybertron had become behind. Quickly finding himself allies among the troops, Rodimus and his followers kicked those loyal to Optimus Prime out of the ''Ark'' and left with it to [[Earth]]. Optimus return to Iacon was marked by fury over both the betrayal and his troops inability to stop it. Despite that Cybertron had entered the [[Plait Expanse]] and no other ship could leave the planet for a year, Optimus ordered preparations to be made for a second launch. {{storylink|Do Over}}

[[File:Around Cybertron Rook is doomed.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
In the days after, [[Mini Spy (SG)|a civilian]] spotted [[Punch (SG)|a Decepticon]] very nearby Iacon. Even more so, that Decepticon had a meeting with two [[Zetar (SG)|treacherous]] [[Skyfall (SG)|Autobots]]. The civilian filmed the meeting and relayed it to [[Punch (SG)|Punch]] for a news report... in return for energon. {{storylink|Around Cybertron issue 4|Around Cybertron #4}} Shortly later, the comic duo [[Dreadwind (SG)|Dreadwind]] and [[Darkwind]] was captured by the Autobots and thrown in the [[smelting pool]] of the Iacon main complex. {{storylink|Around Cybertron issue 5|Around Cybertron #5}} Again a little later, [[Rook (SG)|Rook]] reported for ABN on Megatron's death at the hands of a [[Cyclonus (SG)|Decepticon traitor]]. Cameras had been placed near Optimus Prime's chambers to await his reaction upon hearing of his nemesis's passing. Rook noted he felt sorry for whoever would bring Optimus the bad news, a sentiment that grew bigger when it turned out to be he himself who was the messenger, since Optimus was one of ABN's viewers. {{storylink|Around Cybertron issue 6|Around Cybertron #6}}

A solar cycle after [[Nexus Prime]]'s departure from Cybertron, strange readings were detected in Iacon, possibly indicating [[stellar spanner]] use. {{storylink|Megatron (SG)#Timelines|BotCon 2011 Galvatron's profile card}}
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====IDW ''Shattered Glass'' comic====
Before the war, Iacon was home to the Cybertronian [[Senate]]. {{storylink|Shattered Glass issue 2|Shattered Glass #2}} [[Jetfire (SG)|Jetfire]] and [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]] uncovered a dormant Titan near the city. {{storylink|Shattered Glass issue 3|Shattered Glass #3}}

After the end of the war, Optimus Prime conquered Iacon and renamed it "Pax" in honor of his former identity. {{storylink|Shattered Glass issue 1|Shattered Glass #1}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
*'''Locations'''
**Iacon Central
**The [[Autobot Memorial Plaza]]

The capital city of Cybertron, Iacon was the site of the final battle in the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]]. The unimaginatively named [[Battle for Iacon]] saw a decisive victory for the Autobots, though at the cost of all remaining [[Omega Sentinel (Animated)|Omega Sentinels]], and led to the ruination of the city. {{storylink|TransWarped}}

When [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] [[Bumblebee (Animated)|and]] [[Bulkhead (Animated)|his]] [[Prowl (Animated)|repair]] [[Ratchet (Animated)|crew]] vanished shortly after taking possession of the [[AllSpark]], [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] begrudgingly gave their eulogy at the Autobot Memorial Plaza in Iacon City. {{storylink|Dispatches}}

When [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Carmine Fanzone]] first arrived on Cybertron via the space bridge atop Sumdac Tower he arrived in Iacon. Ratchet quickly followed behind him before the two left for [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

When Optimus Prime's crew returned to Cybertron, with the [[AllSpark]] as a prize, and [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]'s inner circle as prisoners, they made their triumphant return in Iacon's central plaza. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====The Covenant of Primus====
Iacon was founded following the [[Great Cataclysm]]. [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] made his way to the burgeoning city and took up residence in the [[Hall of Records]], establishing the city's reputation as one of knowledge and culture. The young [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] undertook a pilgrimage to the city to study medicine at the universities, eventually finding a job in one of the city's clinics.

In the [[Quintesson]] ruled [[Age of Wrath]], Iacon became the capital of the invaders.

When Optimus Prime ventured down to Cybertron's [[core]], he called out to Iacon itself which transformed into [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

====Aligned novels====
*'''Locations'''
**[[Hall of Records]]
**[[High Council Tower]]
**[[Observatory of Iacon]]
**[[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]

[[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] hailed from Iacon, {{storylink|Transformers Vault}} and [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] worked at the [[Hall of Records]]. The latter two would drink at Maccadam's. The [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] would meet in a [[High Council Tower|tower]] built over [[Teletraan-1 (WFC)|Teletraan-1]], which contained the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]] and the dormant [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]. [[Vector Sigma]] was also located beneath the city, and [[Six Lasers Over Cybertron]] and the [[Manganese Mountains]] were nearby. Iacon remained unmolested until the end of the war, as the [[Autobot]]s also held [[Kalis]]. The cities were linked by a fusion-power conduit across the [[Kali-Con Plain]], which produced enough fusion energy for the city the city's formidable anti-aircraft turrets. Art, music and maintenance of the [[DataNet]] continued. The Decepticons infiltrated Teletraan-1 to steal the Chamber so they could poison Cybertron's [[core]] with [[Dark Energon]], causing Omega Supreme to crash into the city. When the Autobots left Cybertron on the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', Decepticons flooded into the city. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] and his [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] minions would eventually take up residence in the Autobot's former capital and used conscripted slave labour to build his newest tower. From here, he carried out his brutal regime. Shockwave came to view the entire city and its subjugated citizens as his personal laboratory, and saw Autobot guerrillas as welcome variables to cull the weak and enhance the strong. Although the Wreckers and other scattered pockets of Autobot resistance attacked Decepticon convoys moving in and out of Iacon, they could not retake the city. They were fed information by [[Maccadam]], who had turned his bar into the hub of the Autobot resistance's spy network.

Iacon was eventually invaded by Quintessons, who managed to get as far as the Hall of Records before the invasion was foiled. In the heat of battle, the Wrecker [[Rack n' Ruin]] destroyed Shockwave's tower with some stolen demolition charges, although Shockwave himself had already escaped Iacon's borders. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

====Titan ''Prime'' comic====
[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] attempted to cripple the Autobots' war effort by attacking the [[Iacon Energon Refinery]]. Optimus had anticipated the attack and set up defences to see off the Decepticon commando team. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

====''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon====
[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] headed to Iacon when it came under danger from a meteor strike. {{storylink|Dino-mite Duo}}

===''Knights of Unicron''===
[[Great Dome|Iacon Stadium]] was the twenty-sixth and final venue for the [[Knights of Unicron (band)|Knights of Unicron]] on their 2014 "Till All Are One" tour. {{storylink|Knights of Unicron (band)|Knights of Unicron}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{Main|Iaconus}}
At the end of the Age of [[Expansion]], [[Iaconus]], the last War [[Titan (group)|Titan]], found himself unable to adapt to peacetime and waged a war upon Cybertron. When he was defeated, Iaconus was buried beneath the land that would become Iacon City, only the uppermost part of his [[alternate mode]] being visible. Iaconus would become lost to mythology, though it would become known that Iacon had been named after him. {{storylink|The Citizen}}

Iacon City possessed a high-ranking [[Cube (sport)|Cube]] team called the [[Iacon Wreckers]]. [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] attended a match, cheering for Iacon against the team from [[Polyhex]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} The team would ultimately go on to win the match. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

After the [[Great War (Cyberverse)|Great War]], the invading [[Quintesson]]s based their occupation in Iacon. {{storylink|The Loop}} Following the invasion being repulsed, the Autobots began rebuilding Iacon, Iaconus' exposed alternate mode now serving as their capital. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

===''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]''===
Iacon is the underground city ruled by [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]]. While it's general knowledge by its inhabitants that there are 40 levels, in truth there are 10 more only accessible through the trash ducts, only known by exiled outcasts sent there such as [[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]]. Points of interest include mines from where [[Energon]] is extracted by workers such as [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] and [[Megatron (One)|D-17]], and an annual race through the city, [[Iacon-5000]].{{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}

==Games==
====''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)====
Cybertron's capital city, Iacon was held by the Autobots during the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. When [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] sought the [[Omega Key]], he deployed the Decepticon army to invade Iacon for the artifact. When he found that [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]] had spirited away the Key, Megatron led his inner retinue through Iacon's backroads and underground until he arrived at the [[Vaults]] where he defeated Zeta Prime and claimed the Key.

Following Megatron infecting Cybertron's [[core]] with [[Dark Energon]], the Decepticons had claimed Iacon. As Dark Energon crystals sprouted throughout the city, Cybertron itself reformatted the infrastructure into repair rays to try and fight off the corruption. Rallying under [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]], the Autobots managed to retake their capital. When Optimus - now Optimus Prime - learnt that the Dark Energon had made Cybertron uninhabitable, the Autobots began an evacuation of their home out from Iacon before [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] began bombing the city from orbit. After he was forced back to his [[robot mode]] by the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]], the Titan fell into the Iacon where Optimus Prime defeated him. Iacon subsequently became the construction site for the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}

====''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''====
As the remainder of the [[Autobot fleet]] launched from Iacon, Trypticon's body was disassembled for his energon stores, his power fuelling the city and the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s construction. Just as the ship was ready to launch, the Decepticons managed to invade the city again, thanks to [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] deserting his post. Thanks to Optimus' discovery of [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]], the Autobots were able to repulse the invasion and near fatally wound Megatron. When the [[Decepticon leader]] was repaired, he found that Starscream's hedonism had drained the Decepticon supplies. Now forced to evacuate Cybertron as well, Megatron led an assault on Iacon to claim Trypticon's power core for a space vessel. Discovering that Trypticon was still alive, Megatron instead forced Trypticon to transform into his starship mode, using him as an evacuation vessel. After the Decepticons had opened a [[space bridge]] to another world, the Autobots launched the ''Ark'' from Iacon, powered by Metroplex's energon, and made for the portal. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:Iacontoy.jpg|thumb|I can see my house from here.]]
*'''Primus''' ([[2006]])
:Iacon is one of two distinguishable cities molded into the surface of [[Primus]]'s planet mode. It features many major landmarks as depicted in the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave ''Generation One'' comics]] and [[DK Publishing|DK]]'s ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'', such as the [[Stellar Galleries]], the [[Decagon]], the [[Chamber of the Ancients]], and the [[Tower of Pion]].
:The other distinguishable landmark is the Decepticon fortress [[Kolkular]], which, similar to the depiction on the Cybertron map in ''Transformers: The Ultimate Guide'', is placed on the opposite end of the toy from Iacon. The ''[[Transformers: The War Within|War Within]]'' comics also describe Iacon being built on the surface above buried [[planetary engine]]s that could conceivably maneuver Cybertron through space; likewise, the toy places Iacon directly over Primus's shoulder cannon shafts. Both of these details, however, are likely a coincidence.

===Cybertron===
*'''Cybertron Primus''' (Supreme, 2006)
:Yep, it was still there when the toy was released months later in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' toyline.

===Transformers (2010)===
*'''Creator Primus''' (Supreme, [[2010]])
:Still there and going strong!
{{-}}

==Merchandise==
*'''RISK TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON Battle Edition''' ([[2007]])
:Iacon is one of the green zones on the board. Other "Iaconian" locations on the board include the [[Border Regions]], the [[High Council Pavilions]], the [[Chamber of the Ancients]], the [[Decagon]], the [[Stellar Galleries]], and the [[Tower of Pion]].

*'''Transformers Monopoly''' ([[2007]])
:Iacon replaces North Carolina Ave in this version of the game. [[Autobase]], [[Decagon]], [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], and [[Shockwave's Tower]] also have a spot on the board.

==Notes==
*Iacon, described as 'the mightiest Autobot stronghold of all' and identified as the launch site for the Autobots' ill-starred [[Ark (G1)|asteroid-clearing mission]], appears in [[Jim Shooter]]'s original story treatment for ''The Transformers'', and is therefore one of the oldest story elements of the entire brand.<ref>[http://transformingseminarian.blogspot.com/2010/06/jim-shooters-original-transformers.html Jim Shooter's original treatment for ''The Transformers'']</ref>
* The original script for "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" described Iacon as specifically looking like "a futuristic version of [[w:Texas Stadium|Texas Stadium]] in Dallas". Iacon having a glass dome was actually preferable, as Texas Stadium was known for having a giant hole in its own roof.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Iacon''' (アイアコン ''Aiakon''), '''Iacon Bridge''' (アイアコーンブリッジ ''Aiakōn Burijji'')
*''French:'' '''Iacan''' (European French, Generation 1 cartoon), '''Iocon''' (Beast Machines cartoon)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Tiě Bǎo''' (China 铁堡 "Iron Fort")

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Iacon| *]]
[[Category:Animated locations]]
[[Category:Armada cities]]
[[Category:Beast Machines locations]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising polities]]
[[Category:Cybertron locations]]
[[Category:Fall of Cybertron locations]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cities]]
[[Category:Generation 2 locations]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) cities]]
[[Category:IDW (2019) cities]]
[[Category:Movie cities]]
[[Category:Polities on Cybertron]]
[[Category:Prime locations]]
[[Category:Shattered Glass locations]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Trilogy locations]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron locations]]
[[Category:Wings Universe cities]]

Elita-1 (One)

2024-09-21T22:57:53Z

Igordebraga: /* One film */

{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Elita One}}
:''Elita-1 is an [[Autobot]] from [[Transformers One (franchise)|One]].''

[[File:Elita-1(One).jpg|right|250px|thumb|Magentta [[Scarlett Johansson|Johansson]]]]

==Fiction==
===''One'' film===
{{voiceactor|[[Scarlett Johansson]] (English), [[Riho Yoshioka]] (Japanese)|[[Audrey Fleurot]] (European French), [[Emilia Schüle]] (German), [[Dafne Gallardo]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Camila Queiroz]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}

{{charstubfiction}}
{{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}

==Toys==
===''One''===
[[File:TF-One-Robot-Battlers-Elita-1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Elita-1''' (Robot Battlers, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Energon sword, base
:Based on her appearance on [[Transformers One (film)|''Transformers One'']], Elita-1 transforms from a robot to a Cybertronian motorcycle. The figure can be placed on a base in order to perform action moves by sliding the finger slots.
{{comingsoontoy}}
{{--}}

===''Studio Series''===
[[File:StudioSeriesTFoneElitaOne.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I'm always picking up [[Optimus_Prime_(Movie)/toys#Studio_Series|after]] [[Megatron_(Movie)/toys#Studio_Series|you]] [[Bumblebee_(Movie)/toys#Studio_Series|boys]]..."]]

<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Elita-1''' (Deluxe Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': '''''One'''''
:*''Accessories'': Rifle, jetpack
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/52ddGYMyvpE?si=7l7OP6YeEB9W82xR&t=9841 Transformers Panel] at [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2024]] with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Marcelo Matere]], and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref>

:Part of a yet to be determined wave of ''Studio Series'' Deluxes, Elita-1 is based on her appearance in ''Transformers One'', transforming from a robot mode inspired by her [[Elita One (G1)|namesake]] to a Cybertronian three wheeled bike.

: Elita was revealed on the channels of YouTubers Rodimus Primal and EmGo316, as part of a series of Transformers Day related reveals. She is set to go on pre-order on [[September 17]], [[2024]]
{{comingsoontoy}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Elita-1''' (エリータ-1 ''Erīta Wan'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:One-Elita-stock.jpg|Original miner body
File:One-Elita-1-full-body.jpg|Cogged form
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:One Autobots]]
[[Category:Studio Series Autobots]]

Scarlett Johansson

2024-09-21T22:57:32Z

Igordebraga:

[[File:Scarlett johansson.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Not the franchise's first [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Black Widow.]]]]

'''Scarlett Johansson''' (born [[November 22]], [[1984]]) is an American actress, best known for her role as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow from the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel Cinematic Universe]] franchise. Working as an actress since she was a child, she first achieved notoriety as an adult in ''Lost in Translation'' and for her many collaborations with director Woody Allen. In 2019, she became one of the few actresses to be nominated for both Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress in the same year for her roles in ''Jojo Rabbit'' and ''Marriage Story'' respectively.

In the world of voice acting, she has voiced Princess Mindy in ''[[Tom Kenny|The Spongebob Squarepants Movie]]'', Samantha in ''Her'', Kaa in the 2016 remake of ''The Jungle Book'', Nutmeg in ''Isle of Dogs'', and Ash in the ''Sing'' films.

At one point, she was married to Ryan Reynolds. She has since married Colin Jost of ''Saturday Night Live'' fame.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]''===
* [[Elita-1 (One)|Elita]]

==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424060/ Scarlett Johansson on IMDB]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansson, Scarlett}}

[[Category:English voice actors]]

Megatron (One)

2024-09-21T22:52:23Z

Igordebraga: /* One film */

{{factions|decepticon|hofsilver}}
{{disambig3|Megatron}}
:''Megatron is a [[Decepticon]] from [[Transformers One (franchise)|One]].''
[[File:Megatron (One).jpg|right|300px|thumb|Upright=1.66|]]

The humble energon miner known only as '''D-16''' was a stickler to protocol, a [[The Fallen|Megatronus Prime]] fanboy who believed strict adherence to the system and its rules would one day allow him to ascend to greater heights. His attitude often served as a reality check and grounding presence to his best friend, the bold and adventurous [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]]. However, after experiencing events that left his entire worldview turned upside down, D-16 would embark on a path consumed by anger and revenge... a path that corrupted him into a despotic villain even worse than the one he rose up to fight against. A villain called '''Megatron'''.

==Fiction==
===''One'' film===
{{voiceactor|[[Brian Tyree Henry]] (English), [[Subaru Kimura]] (Japanese)|[[Baptiste Marc]] (European French), [[Lalo Capetillo]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Erick Selim]] (Latin-American Spanish, first trailer), [[Jan-David Rönfeldt]] (German, first and second Trailer), [[Romulo Estrela]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:TF-One-D-16.jpg|thumb|left|Rare footage of young Megatron before [[Michael Bay|puberty]] turned him into a monstrous warlord.]]

{{charstubfiction}}
{{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}

==Toys==
===''One''===
[[File:TF-One-Mega-Changers-Megatron-D-16.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron/D-16''' (Mega Changers, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Fusion Cannon
:Another repackage of the ''Authentics'' Titan Changer, this time released as part of the rebranded "Mega Changers" line of [[Transformers One (toyline)|''Transformers One'' toys]].

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[[File:TF-One-Robot-Battlers-Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Optimus Prime vs. Megatron''' (Robot Battlers, 2024)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Energon sword, Fusion Cannon, base
:Based on his appearance on [[Transformers One (film)|''Transformers One'']], Megatron transforms from a robot to a Cybertronian tank. The figure can be placed on a base in order to perform action moves by sliding the finger slots, with the goal of knocking an opponent's figure off of their base. He is packaged in a 2-pack set with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#RobotBattlers|Optimus Prime]], and includes an additional cannon accessory that plugs over his arm alongside the standard Energon sword.

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron/D-16 & Decepticon Whirlwing''' (Race & Blast 2-Pack, 2024)}}</ul>
:This Target-exclusive "Race & Blast" Megatron is a retool of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Overload (RID)#Toys|Overload]], with a new head, chest, shins, and cannon. He transforms into a Cybertronian tank. In this mode, the front clamp between his treads can be loaded with his partner [[Whirlwing]]—or any other [[Cyclone]]-style [[Mini-Con]]—and launched by pushing the trigger next to his Fusion Cannon.

{{-}}{{anchor|RaceChangers}}
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Optimus Prime/Orion Pax vs. Megatron/D-16''' (Race Changers, 2024)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': launcher
:"Race Changers" Megatron/D-16 is, shockingly, a retool of the tank version of [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Bot Shots Megatron]] from 2012. The design of the front of the tank has been changed and missile pods have been added to the back of the tank. He features a spring-loaded [[autotransformation|automatic transformation]] to robot mode triggered when his front is pressed. His chest spinner no longer has the battle gimmick, only a Decepticon insignia on one side with the other sides left blank. The included launcher is a new design.

:Megatron comes in a Target-exclusive 2-pack with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#RaceChangers|Optimus Prime/Orion Pax]]. They can be launched at each other for combative play or have the launchers connected side-by-side for racing action. Interestingly, the launchers have "2017" molded into their bottoms, whereas the original [[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots toyline]] ended in 2013. This suggests these remolds were made for an earlier toyline but ultimately weren't released until now.

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[[File:Tfone-racing-warrior-megatron.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Talking about this toy will make you feel like you're playing chess.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Megatron/D-16 / Optimus Prime/Orion Pax / Autobot Mirage''' (Racing Warrior 3-pack, Summer 2024)}}</ul>
:Released as part of the Target-exclusive ''[[Transformers One (toyline)|Transformers One]]'' Racing Warrior 3-pack, Megatron/D-16 is a retool of the first ''[[Transformers:_Cyberverse_(toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' [[Megatron (Cyberverse)#1-Step Changers|Megatron]] 1-Step Changer and transforms between robot and tank modes in one step.

:Megatron/D-16 comes packaged with [[Mirage (Movie)#One|Mirage]] and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#IaconRace|Optimus Prime/Orion Pax]].

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron/D-16''' (Cog Changers, 2024)}}</ul>
:Released as part of the second wave of ''Transformers One'' Cog Changers, Megatron/D-16 transforms from robot to Cybertronian tank with a press on the cog shaped panel located on his chest.
{{comingsoontoy}}
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===''Studio Series''===
[[File:StudioSeriesDeluxeOneMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[The Loyal Subjects|Him Megatron have legs that go for miiiles]].]]
*'''Megatron''' (Deluxe Class, [[2024]])
:*''Movie'': '''''Transformers One'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''114'''
:*''Accessories'': Fusion Cannon, Arm Cannon, 2 small cannons, turret base, Cybertron backdrop
{{toydesigner|[[Koki Yamada]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfy3IcQd3g4 The Hasbro ''Transformers'' Panel] at [[San Diego Comic-Con#2024|San Diego Comic-Con 2024]] with [[Mario Carreiro]], [[John Warden]], [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Nate Purswell]], recorded at the "Memo's Collection" YouTube channel.</ref>

:Released in the final wave of 2024 ''Studio Series'' toys, Megatron is based on his intermediate form in ''Transformers One'', transforming into a Cybertronian tank. He comes with his fusion cannon as well as a smaller arm cannon, both of which can mount on either arm and which combine to form the turret of the tank mode. He also comes with a backdrop depicting [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] as seen in the film.

:Megatron was first revealed at San Diego Comic Con along with the rest of ''Studio Series'' wave 4. This figure was included in a special "Media Influencer Box" sent out to select parties in late September 2024- two months before the figure's scheduled release.

==Notes==
* D-16's cogless form with his black, dome-shaped helmet resembles Megatron's [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel Comics appearance]], which in turn was based on concept art for an unproduced prototype version of the original Takara Micro Change figure.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Megatron''' (メガトロン ''Megatoron'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:One-D-16-stock.jpg|Original miner body
File:One-D-16-cog form.jpg|Cogged form
</gallery>

[[Category:Decepticon leaders]]
[[Category:One Decepticons]]
[[Category:Studio Series Decepticons]]

Manolo Rey

2024-09-21T22:39:27Z

Igordebraga:

Manolo Edson Rey Salles (b. [[July 11]], [[1967]]) is a Brazilian voice actor known for being the voice of [[Marty McFly|Michael J. Fox]], Tobey Maguire in Sam Raimi's ''[[Spider-Man]]'' trilogy, Will Smith in ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-air'', Officer Lister in ''Monster House'' and the main voice of [[Sonic the Hedgehog (character)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]. His daughter [[Bruna Laynes]] also went into the dubbing business.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''===
*[[Glen Whitmann]]

===''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''===
*[[Craig (BB)|Craig]]

===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]

==Other works==
===Script Translation===
*[[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]
*''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''
*''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''
*''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''
*''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''
*''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''

===Dubbing Director===
*''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''
*''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''
*''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rey, Manolo}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Nilton ValÃ©rio

2024-09-21T22:37:58Z

Igordebraga: linking to Batman, and adding a Beetlejuice quote

[[File:Nilton Valerio.jpg|250px|thumb|Can I be scary? What do you think of this?]]
'''Nilton Valério''' ([[February 24]], [[1936]] - [[August 17]], [[2005]]) was a Brazilian actor and voice director.

He started dubbing in the mid 1960s, and his voice roles included Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice in the eponymous film and as Bruce Wayne / [[Batman]] in the 1989 film, having previously been Batman in ''Super Friends'' and ''Challenge of the Super Friends''. He was also the first voice of Cyclops in the animated 1990 ''X-Men'' series, and dubbed for actors such as Warren Beatty and Paul Newman.

In 2000, Nilton moved away from dubbing due to vision problems. He passed away in 2005, aged 69.

==Voice roles==
===''The Transformers''===
* [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (''Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5'')
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]
* [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (''Five Faces of Darkness, Parts 1 & 4'')
* [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (''Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1'')
* [[Octane]]
* [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (''Auto Berserk'')
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
* [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]
* [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]] (''Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3'')

==External links==
*[https://vvikipedia.fandom.com/pt/wiki/Nilton_Val%C3%A9rio Vikipedia.fandom.com page] ''(Portuguese)''
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=136390 Animenewsnetwork.com page]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Valerio, Nilton}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Gabriela Bicalho

2024-09-21T22:29:50Z

Igordebraga:

'''Gabriela Bicalho''' (b. [[February 25]], [[1975]]) is a Brazilian actress and voice actress. Her roles include Yukina in the ''Yu-Yu Hakusho'' franchise, Ashley Banks in ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', and various roles by Michelle Rodriguez.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''===
*[[Arcee (Movie)#Revenge of the Fallen film|Arcee]]
*[[Chromia (ROTF)#Revenge of the Fallen film|Chromia]]
*[[Elita-One (Movie)#Revenge of the Fallen film|Elita-One]]

===''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''===
*Additional voices

===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
*[[Arcee (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Arcee]]

===''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]''===
*Nurse

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080937/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 IMDB entry]
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=48831 Anime News Network entry]
*[https://vvikipedia.fandom.com/pt/wiki/Gabriela_Bicalho Fandom entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bicalho, Gabriela}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Mauro Horta

2024-09-21T22:29:24Z

Igordebraga: /* Voice roles */

'''Mauro Horta''' (b. [[May 12]], [[1970]]) is a Brazilian actor and voice actor who is most known for voicing Andy DeMayo in ''Steven Universe'', Duke Kaboom in ''Toy Story 4'' and [[Thor]] in the ''[[Marvel (disambiguation)|Marvel]] Cinematic Universe''.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''===
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]

===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
*[[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]]

===''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]''===
*[[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax/Optimus Prime]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Horta, Mauro}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Starscream (One)

2024-09-21T22:27:27Z

Igordebraga: /* One film */

{{factions|decepticon|hofsilver}}
{{disambig3|Starscream}}
:''Starscream is a [[Decepticon]] from [[Transformers One (franchise)|One]].''

[[File:Starscream Transformers One Trailer 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Do you hear that? It's the winds of change."]]

As the leader of the [[High Guard]], '''Starscream''' wages a long and arduous guerilla war to destroy the evil forces of [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]]. Volatile and easily provoked, but cowardly when things start really going bad, Starscream's "might makes right" philosophy often brings him to blows with trespassers, pacifists, or people who just don't agree with him.

==Fiction==
===''One'' film===
{{voiceactor|[[Steve Buscemi]] (English), [[Setsuji Satō]] (Japanese), [[Mário Jorge Andrade]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}

{{spoiler|Transformers One (film)|October 20, 2024}}
Starscream was a member of the Cybertronian [[High Guard]]. Upon bearing witness to [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel Prime]]'s betrayal of the Primes, he and the rest of the High Guard resolved to hide away from the rest of Cybertronian society and delegate resources towards sabotaging Sentinel's rule.

When [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]] were brought before Starscream, he informed them that they had two options: Die slowly and painfully, or give up intel on Sentinel Prime and die ''less'' slowly and painfully. When Orion Pax attempted to make an appeal to him, citing their similar goals, he was quick to denounce the idea of a unified Cybertron as a real possibility, asserting that all that mattered was the strength of one 'bot over another.

Starscream took it rather personally when D-16 attempted to leave before his say-so and then decided to accuse Starscream and the rest of the former High Guard of running away and hiding whilst making a very minimal difference. In the ensuing fight, he eggs on D-16 to continue hitting him as he is held down. As D-16 crushes his throat, his voice begins to [[Starscream (G1)|pitch up, becoming more harsh and robotic.]] Starscream quickly changes gears to begging for mercy once D-16 shoves his newly-discovered arm-mounted gun into Starscream's face. He is only saved by Orion Pax's insistence that Starscream is not the enemy, and D-16 assures all present that this is the last time he will be giving mercy.

Once Sentinel's soldiers arrive, Starscream is captured and kept captive on Sentinel's tower in [[Iacon]] until Orion Pax's plan to retake the city starts, and [[Soundwave (One)|Soundwave]] releases the prisoners. Starscream fights the guards, and once D-16 kills Sentinel and renames himself, is the first to start shouting "All hail Megatron!" After the newly christened Optimus Prime defeats Megatron in battle, he orders him to leave the city along the High Guard. In their exile, the group is rechristened the [[Decepticons]], and the faction's [[insignia]] based on the face of [[The Fallen|Megatronus Prime]] is branded onto Starscream's wings.

{{charstubfiction}}
{{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}

==Toys==
===''One''===
{{anchor|RobotBattlers}}
*'''Starscream''' (Robot Battlers, [[2024]])
[[File:Robot_Battlers_Starscream.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
:*''Accessories'': Energon sword, base
:Starscream transforms from robot into Cybertronian jet. The figure can be placed on a base in order to perform action moves by sliding the finger slot.
{{comingsoontoy}}

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[[File:TF-One-Mega-Changers-Starscream.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Starscream''' (Mega Changers, [[2024]])
:*''Accessories: Two null-rays
:A repackage of ''[[Transformers Authentics|Authentics]]'' Titan Changer [[Starscream_(G1)/toys#TitanChanger|Starscream]] with no changes, now part of the "Mega Changers" line.

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Starscream''' (スタースクリーム ''Sutāsukurīmu'')

[[Category:One Decepticons]]

MÃ¡rio Jorge Andrade

2024-09-21T22:16:48Z

Igordebraga:

{{disambig3|Mario}}

'''Mário Jorge Ferreira de Andrade''' (b. [[February 20]], [[1954]]) is a Brazilian voice actor. He is known for being the main voice of Eddie Murphy and John Travolta, as well as Donkey in ''Shrek'', Mater in ''Cars'' and the title character of ''Bolt''.

==Voice roles==
===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''===
*[[Hook (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Hook]] ("[[City of Steel (episode)|City of Steel]]")
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Thundercracker]] ("City of Steel")
*[[Powerglide (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Powerglide]]
*[[Thrust (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Thrust]] ("[[Triple Takeover]]")
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Sunstreaker]] ("[[Trans-Europe Express]]")
*[[Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Mirage]] ("[[Masquerade]]")
*[[Springer (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Springer]] ("[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]" TV & VHS dubs)
*[[Wheelie (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|Wheelie]] (season 3)

===''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''===
*[[John F. Kennedy]]

===''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]''===
*[[Smelt|Mr. Smelt]]

===''[[Transformers One]]''===
*[[Starscream (One)|Starscream]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrade, Jorge, Mario}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Transformers (film)

2024-02-14T05:03:08Z

Igordebraga: /* Notes */

{{disambig2|the 2007 movie|other uses of ''The Transformers''|Transformers (disambiguation)}}

{{nav-movie}}

:''Transformers is an [[Sector Seven (game)|elaborate cover up]] from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
{{movie|
|seriess=[[Live-action film series]]
|next=Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)
|title=''Transformers''
|image=Transformers2007teaserposter.jpg
|caption=Beyond good. Beyond evil. Beyond your wildest imagination!
|production companies=[[DreamWorks]] [[Hasbro]] [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura|di Bonaventura Pictures]]
|distributor=[[Paramount Pictures]]
|executive producer=[[Steven Spielberg]]
|associate producer=[[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]] [[Tom DeSanto]] [[Don Murphy]] [[Ian Bryce]]
|screenplay by=[[Roberto Orci]] [[Alex Kurtzman]]
|story by=[[John Rogers]] [[Roberto Orci]] [[Alex Kurtzman]]
|directed by=[[Michael Bay]]
|cinematography by=[[Mitchell Amundsen]]
|edited by=[[Paul Rubell]] [[Glen Scantlebury]] [[Thomas A. Muldoon]]
|music by=[[Steve Jablonsky]]
|release date=[[July 3]], [[2007]]
|continuity=[[Live-action film series]]
|runtime=143 minutes
|budget=$150–200 million
|box office=$709.7 million
}}

'''''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 [[Archibald Witwicky's glasses|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]] 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, Mikaela, 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 gets 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 after 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, and Starscream retreats from Earth.
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==Main cast==
{{featuredcharacters
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*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] ([[Darius McCrary]])
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] ([[Mark Ryan]])
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] ([[Jess Harnell]])
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] ([[Robert Foxworth]])

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*[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] ([[Hugo Weaving]])
*[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] ([[Charlie Adler]])
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] ([[Jess Harnell]])
**[[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] ([[Reno Wilson]])
*[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
**[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
*[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]] ([[Jimmie Wood]])
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl/Devastator]]'''*'''

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*[[Sam Witwicky]] ([[Shia LaBeouf]])
*[[Mikaela Banes]] ([[Megan Fox]])
*[[John Keller]] ([[Jon Voight]])
*[[Maggie Madsen]] ([[Rachael Taylor]])
*[[Glen Whitmann]] ([[Anthony Anderson]])
*[[Judy Witwicky]] ([[Julie White]])
*[[Ron Witwicky]] ([[Kevin Dunn]])
*[[Bobby Bolivia]] ([[Bernie Mac]])
*[[Trent DeMarco]] ([[Travis Van Winkle]])
*[[Archibald Witwicky]] ([[William Morgan Sheppard]])
*[[Miles Lancaster]] ([[John Robinson]])
'''[[United States Army|US Military]]'''
*[[William Lennox]] ([[Josh Duhamel]])
*[[Robert Epps]] ([[Tyrese Gibson]])
*[[Patrick Donnelly]] ([[Zack Ward]])
*[[Jorge Figueroa]] ([[Amaury Nolasco]])
*[[Sharp|Colonel Sharp]] ([[Glenn Morshower]])
'''[[Sector Seven]]'''
*[[Seymour Simmons]] ([[John Turturro]])
*[[Tom Banachek]] ([[Michael O'Neill]])

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*[[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 half]'' 
:—'''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.

"At the end of this day, one shall stand, one shall fall!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' plagiarises a much better movie.

"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 {{w|MQ-9 Reaper}}, but is identified as the {{w|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.
* When Sam spots Barricade, there’s nobody visible in the police car. The police officer hologram only appears in one shot after Sam is hit by the door.
* 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.
* Portions of Optimus Prime's right arm are rendered blue instead of red and lack the flame deco in multiple brief shots throughout the movie. Scenes where this error can be glimpsed include Optimus' first transformation from truck to robot mode, the Autobots leaving Sam's house, during and after the confrontation with Sector Seven, the Autobots meeting at the observatory, and during Optimus' transformation in the final battle.
* After being apprehended by Sector Seven, Sam’s wardrobe keeps changing between his Strokes shirt and a brown sweatshirt that appeared out of nowhere.
* 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, 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, or a left-over from an earlier script that specifically describes the attack as happening in the early morning.
** 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.
* When the Autobots cross paths with Bumblebee, Sam and the Allspark, during the close-up on Optimus, Ratchet's rear reflection can be seen in the bumper of the truck. However, Optimus is the first in the line at this time. Ratchet will only be in front of him a few shots later, when the Autobots have turned around to follow Bumblebee.
[[File:Movie Barricade finalappearance.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2]]
* As the Decepticons are coming up behind the Autobots on the highway, the wide-angle shot of the enitre highway shows us that the traffic directions have been swapped on both sides of the road. The side that the Autobots and Decepticons are on, driving ''towards'' the camera, shows road and destination signs that would only be seen if they were driving ''away'' from the camera. Likewise, on the other side of the divider, the traffic (likely civilian vehicles in real-life) are driving in the opposite direction than what they are supposed to. Hilariously, while this is all going on, the overpass above them is full of parked cars with people watching the filming of the scene. Couldn't they have just cropped the people above out at the ''very'' least?
* 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 Brawl first shows up to the battle, Sam is standing next to Mikaela watching as the Decepticon tank approaches and then he takes off running. The next shot cuts back to Mikaela spotting the abandoned tow truck she's about to use to transport Bumblebee out of the city. The shot after that shows Sam is sitting in the rubble next to the AllSpark as Bumblebee crawls over to him. The last shot cut in with the previous shots makes it look as if Sam ran away just to sit down in the middle of the battlefield. Come on, Sam, where's your head at?
* 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.

==Transformers references==
The movie contains a number of nods and winks to previous iterations of ''Transformers'', primarily from ''[[The Transformers (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 an homage to Soundwave's cassette deck alternate form.
* Sam shares his last name with the [[Witwicky (surname)#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 [[Transformer afterlife|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 Brawl'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]] ''[[The Transformers (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.
* In the Philippines, the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board required the censoring of the word "masturbation" to change the film's rating from PG-13 to G.<ref>[http://www.philstar.com/headlines/5990/how-%E2%80%98transformers%E2%80%99-rocked-mtrcb How ‘Transformers’ rocked the MTRCB] from The Philippine Star</ref>
*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 {{w|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 "{{w|This is Your Brain on Drugs}}" [[Public service announcement|PSA]] starring {{w|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 parents' "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==
*''[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]]''
A novelization of the film by [[Alan Dean Foster]].
*''[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]''
IDW Publishing's comic adaptation of the film.

'''Children Adaptations'''
*''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''
A novelization of the film for kids.

==Sequels==
{{main|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Bumblebee (film)}}
Four sequels to this film have been produced and released worldwide, and one more is planned for release in [[2018]], following ''The Last Knight''.

*''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]''
A five-issue comic sequel to the film published by [[IDW Publishing]].

==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 $709,709,780.<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=transformers06.htm]</ref>

{{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. Its status with the greater ''Transformers'' fandom has swayed over time. Initially, opinions were just as mixed-but-generally-favorable as with the general public (with [[GEEWUN|its changes to established Transformers characters, designs and mythos]] being an additional point against the movie for those who disliked it). When ''Revenge of the Fallen'' came out and became infamous for being such a financial and cultural success despite its critical drubbing, many fans' distaste towards ''ROTF'' extended to the first movie as well, and it wasn't uncommon for it to be lumped together with its sequels as one of the worst film series and ''Transformers'' incarnations of all time. Over time, as hype and backlash for the movie series died down, many fans started looking back at the first movie more positively; it isn't uncommon to find reviews and opinion pieces that berate the sequels, or even the movie series as a whole, but claim that the first movie was (or may have been) the only good one. While some critics disliked taking a children's franchise and turning it into a gritty, "inappropriate" action movie with a ton of swearing and sexual innuendos, other fans felt this was a step forward for the franchise, with darker moments appearing in ''Animated'', ''Prime'' and the [[2005 IDW continuity]]. This also marked the end of Hasbro dubbing Takara's "anime" as American cartoons.

The Chinese gross ended up being $37m, a ''huge'' amount from China at the time. ''This'' is the film that made Hollywood sit up and court China, changing the very face of the industry. <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>

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''.

Four 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]], ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]'' was released on [[June 27]], [[2014]], and ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]'' was released on [[June 21]], [[2017]]. A prequel-slash-reboot-slash-spin-off, [[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]] was released on [[December 21]], [[2018]].

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]]
* Animatronics by: [[K.N.B. Effects Group]]

====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===
[[Image:JohnRogers.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|right|[[John Rogers]], who wrote the first draft of the script.]]
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>[https://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">[https://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">[https://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.
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===Sponsors and partners===
====Hasbro====
[[File:Crosssell-movie.jpg|left|upright=2.2|thumb|Toyline The Movie The Toyline.]]
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 [[Transformers (2007 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====
[[File:Movie A-10 missilefire.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Powerglide (DOTM)|Powerglide]]'s stealth cameo.]]
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>
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====Product placement====
[[File:Movie littlegirl.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|left|I can haz pony?]]
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>
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===Special effects===
[[File:Movie Scorponok headprop.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|This thing is wicked!]]
* 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).
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===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):
[[File:Arceemovie.jpg|upright=0.7|thumb|right|At least I got a toy out of this.]]
* 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">[https://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 (G1)|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>
[[File:EarlyMovieBlackout.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Next time, baby.]]
* [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] was conceived as [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]—matching [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]] as a character based on a [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]—in the first draft of the script.<ref>[http://www.donmurphy.net/board/showthread.php?p=1120447#post1120447 Unformatted script sample from first draft naming the Decepticon helicopter "Vortex" posted by Roberto Orci on Don Murphy's message board]</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=In our first draft, before we even brought Bay on board, he was named Vortex. Don't remember him going through many other names.|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions.180451/page-15#post-2212529|name=Roberto Orci|site=TFW2005|year=2008|month=07|day=09}}</ref>
* Kurtzman and Orci tried ''twice'' to include [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] in the movie. At one point, the character that became Blackout was named Soundwave,<ref name="orciswave">"We considered having blackout BE soundwave, so there maybe some overlap conceptually."—[http://web.archive.org/web/20070928015818/http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=351304&postcount=4161 Roberto Orci on the ''Transformers'' movie forum, 2007/05/19]</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> Other preproduction names for Blackout included "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> "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 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>
[[File:XXxtank.jpg|upright=1.0|thumb|right|His [[holomatter]] avatar probably looks like Ice Cube.]]
* As mentioned above, 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">[https://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 ''{{w|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>
[[File:Movie Megatron olduglyface.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|The ice around his head takes a little longer to melt.]]
* 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. [[tvtropes: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 upgrade kit]].
* In one draft of the script, one of the lead human characters died.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=As far as death, we actually had one of the humans die in TF1 but we ended up cutting it.|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions.180451/page-22#post-2232928|name=Roberto Orci|site=TFW2005|year=2008|month=07|day=18}}</ref> We don't know who!
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==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". The only time the word "transformer" is mentioned is Ron stating "We got a blown [[wikipedia:Distribution transformer|transformer]]!" given a stray Autobot shot destroyed a nearby utility pole.
* 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 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 {{W|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 ''{{w|Transmorphers}}''. It got a {{w|Transmorphers: Fall of Man|prequel}} in 2009, starring {{w|Bruce Boxleitner}}, of all people. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
* Somewhat less embarrassing, ''Transformers'' also inspired the {{w|Knight Rider (2008 film)|2008 ''Knight Rider'' television movie}} and the {{w|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 {{w|Iron Man (film)|''Iron Man'' movie}}.
* The [[:File:2007Movie_DVD.jpg|single-disk DVD]] truncates the title ("TRANS" above "FORMERS") similarly to how it appeared in ''[[The Transformers]]'', in contrast to the movie posters and other home releases using it as a single word.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''''Transformers''''' (トランスフォーマー ''Toransufōmā'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng''''' (變形金剛, 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'']
* {{w|Transformers (film)|''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]

==References==
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Izabel Lira

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Igordebraga:

Izabel Cristina Lira de Oliveira (b. [[July 12]], [[1974]]) is a Brazilian actress, voice actress and dubbing director. Her notable roles include Daisy Duck, FRIDAY in the [[Marvel]] Cinematic Universe, Fennec Shand in ''[[Star Wars|The Mandalorian]]'', and roles by Naomie Harris. She's also the wife of [[Maurício Berger]].

==Voice roles==
===''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''===
*[[Sally Watson]]

===''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]''===
*[[Dot Malto]]

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Reinaldo Pimenta

2024-02-14T03:45:57Z

Igordebraga:

'''Reinaldo Pimenta''' ([[September 28]], [[1946]] - [[October 5]], [[2023]]) was a Brazilian voice actor. Among his notable roles were [[Palpatine]] in ''[[Star Wars]]'' and Finn McMissile in ''Cars 2''.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: Cyber Missions|Cyber Missions]]''===
*[[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]]

===''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''===
*[[Bill O'Reilly]]

===''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''===
*[[Edmund Burton]]

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==Notes==
*Pimenta was cast to voice Edmund Burton after [[Isaac Bardavid]], the main voice of [[Anthony Hopkins]] in Brazilian dubs, got ill during the production of the ''The Last Knight'' dub. Before that, Bardavid had already voiced the character in all trailers for the movie.

Orcanoch

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Igordebraga: /* MicroVerse */

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[[File:Orcanoch-boxfront-th.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Somewhere... beyond the sea...]]
:''Orcanoch is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

'''Orcanoch'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s orca mode is perfect for seeking out underwater energon sources, if he can keep [[Arachnid]] from stealing his internal secrets. Crafted from a combination of the shell of a crashed alien starship and a modified version of the standard Maximal [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] program, its sophisticated neural net developed a personality of its own, a merging of the aforementioned defense program and the alien ship's artificial intelligence. Orcanoch is capable of establishing itself on land via built-in thrusters or to scour the ocean depths at speeds up to 150 knots, and houses [[CR chamber]]s and built-in energon dampeners to prevent its passengers from suffering from potential overload.

==Fiction==
===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
Orcanoch was sabotaged by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s and sunk, never to be recovered. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|''Beast Wars Sourcebook'' #3}}

==Commercial appearances==
The Orcanoch could be briefly be seen breaching the ocean's surface before transforming to base mode in mid-air. {{storylink|Commercial/Beast Wars#Orcanoch|Orcanoch and Arachnid commercial}}

==Toys==
===''MicroVerse''===
[[File:BW orchanoch playset.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Call it "Willy" at your own risk.]]
*'''Maximal Orcanoch Micro Playset''' (Playset, [[1997]])
**''Series'': '''''Beast Wars: Transformers'''''
**''Accessories'': [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#MicroVerse|Optimus Primal]] micro-figure, [[Tarantulas (BW)/toys#MicroVerse|Tarantulas]] micro-figure, double-barrelled cannon, orca head/missile, mini vehicle, 4 missiles, monitor, claw, turret
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: The "Maximal Orcanoch Micro Playset" was released as part of the ''[[MicroVerse]]'' toyline; [[Hasbro]]'s miniatures line meant to compete with [[Galoob]]'s ''Micro Machines'' (before Hasbro's purchase of Galoob). It transforms from an orca into a multi-level tower base. Its pectoral fins pull out to reveal a separate one-robot mini-sub. The orca head is removed (and presumably set aside) to reveal a control tower with spring-loaded missile launcher.

: It comes with two micro-figures, Optimus Primal and Tarantulas.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Maximal/Orcanoch/orcanoch.htm More information on the "Maximal Orcanoch Micro Playset" at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BW Biocombat Ani Mutants Orcanoch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Maximal Orcanoch Micro Playset''' (Playset, 1997)
**''Accessories'': [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#MicroVerse2|Optimus Primal]] micro-figure, [[Tarantulas (BW)/toys#MicroVerse2|Tarantulas]] micro-figure, double-barrelled cannon, orca head/missile, mini vehicle, 4 missiles, monitor, claw, turret

:In Europe, the ''Beast Wars''-branded ''MicroVerse'' playsets were released solely as ''Beast Wars/Biocombat'' (English/Spanish/Italian packaging) or ''Beast Wars/Ani Mutants'' (French/Dutch/German packaging) products.

:This release is entirely identical to the US ''MicroVerse'' release of the toy, aside from the packaging and the branding.
{{--}}

==Notes==
* Oddly enough, the Optimus Primal figure included with this set is unmistakably colored to represent the Maximal leader's gorilla body, while the Megatron figure included the [[Arachnid]] playset, Orcanoch's Predacon counterpart, represents the Predacon leader in his alligator form. Guess Primal got around to upgrading his body before Megatron did in this [[micro-continuity]]...
* Orcanoch's box-art shows a presumed Maximal set behind [[Cybershark]] that cannot be identified as an existing toy or character. It kind of sort of looks like a cross between [[Armordillo]] and [[Snapper]], but isn't either of them.

[[Category:Bases]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Maximals]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]
[[Category:Undersea specialists]]
[[Category:Beast Wars locations]]

Manolo Rey

2024-02-14T03:39:05Z

Igordebraga:

Manolo Edson Rey Salles (b. [[July 11]], [[1967]]) is a Brazilian voice actor known for being the voice of [[Marty McFly|Michael J. Fox]], Tobey Maguire in Sam Raimi's ''[[Spider-Man]]'' trilogy, Will Smith in ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-air'', Officer Lister in ''Monster House'' and the main voice of [[Sonic the Hedgehog (character)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]. His daughter [[Bruna Laynes]] also went into the dubbing business.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''===
*[[Glen Whitmann]]

===''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''===
*[[Craig (BB)|Craig]]

===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]

==Other works==
===Script Translation===
*[[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]
*''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''
*''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''
*''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''
*''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''
*''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''

===Dubbing Director===
*''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''
*''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rey, Manolo}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Spock

2024-02-14T03:17:55Z

Igordebraga: /* Commercial appearances */

{{factions|Starfleet}}

{{disambig2|the guy who is definitely Spock|the actor who may<ref>''[http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Spock-Leonard-Nimoy/dp/0786861827/ I Am Spock]''</ref> or may not<ref>''[http://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Spock-Leonard-Nimoy/dp/1568496915/ I Am Not Spock]''</ref> also be Spock|Leonard Nimoy}}

:''Spock is a [[Federation]]-aligned half-[[Vulcan]] from [[Star Trek]]''.

[[File:Treks02e01 - Spock goes nuts.jpg|thumb|250px| "[[Sehlat Fuzz-Bear|I-CHAYA]]!! WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?" ]]
Commander '''Spock''' is the first officer on the starship ''[[USS Enterprise|Enterprise]]''. Half-[[human]] and half-[[Vulcan]], he is apparently of sound mental health most of the time. In some realities, he is merely a character on a television program. In [[Kre-O|others]], he is made of bricks.

==Fiction==
===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
{{noteukexclusive|Spock}}
[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] picked up the name "Spock" from television broadcasts and used it in his speech. {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
For [[Leonard Nimoy|some reason]], [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]] had a vision of Spock while floating through the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 2|Heart of Darkness #2}}

In another reality, Spock was in civilian dress holding off a mob of [[zombie]]s, under the control of the [[Undermind]], with a wooden stick. {{storylink|Infestation issue 2|Infestation #2}}

===''Dark of the Moon'' film===
[[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] identified a ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode he was watching as "[[memoryalpha:Amok Time (episode)|the one where Spock goes nuts]]". {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:DetentionEscape Spock.jpg|thumb|left|150px|"A solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on."]]
Along with [[James T. Kirk|Captain Kirk]] and a multitude of others, he was trapped in detention by [[Dr. Mayhem]]. After a series of failed escapes by their fellow captives, Spock pulled out his communicator and had Dr. Mayhem transported to an alien planet. He and Kirk shared a high five in the corridor outside. {{storylink|Detention Escape}}
{{-}}

===''Star Trek vs. Transformers''===
[[File:PrimesDirectivePart1-energize.jpg|thumb|300px|"The following tale of alien encounters is true, and by 'true' I mean 'false'. It's all lies, but they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is 'no'."]]
When the crew of the starship ''Enterprise'' detected a Federation distress call from the colony of [[Cygnus Seven]], Spock pointed out that something was preventing them from scanning the surface of the planet, necessitating the need for a ground-based away party to investigate. Spock joined Kirk and several other members of the ''Enteprise'' as they beamed down to investigate, only to run up against a group of [[Decepticon|unmanned 20th century vehicles]] attacking the colony and its [[dilithium]] mine. Led to believe something strange was afoot, he restrained [[Hikaru Sulu]] from firing upon an approaching [[Optimus Prime (G1)|truck]], which revealed itself as a giant robot after being fired upon by Kirk.

As the Decepticons revealed themselves in turn, Spock was temporarily immobilized by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s sonic weaponry, but managed to get to cover as Kirk ordered the Enterprise to launch a [[photon torpedo]] at the Decepticons. He resumed firing at their attackers with his [[phaser (weapon)|phaser]], forcing them to retreat. Spock scanned the downed Optimus Prime, detecting he was unresponsive but still online and suggested attempting to repair him. Kirk summoned [[Scotty]] and [[Leonard McCoy]] to take a look at Prime and ordered Spock to stay behind while he investigated the mine. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part One}}

[[File:PrimesDirectivePart2-Spock.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Do you even know who I am?" "I think I do. Weren't you one of the Little Rascals?"]]

As the two specialists assessed their unusual patient, it was Spock who came up with a theory of his own; noting that the signals of electrical activity bore a similarity to the neurons in a humanoid's skull. Spock thus initiated a Vulcan mind-meld in an attempt to understand the situation, but was unprepared for the intensity and amount of its four-million-year old memories, and forced to terminate the link; in doing so, however, Spock had inadvertently roused Prime back to life, and after introducing himself Prime warned the organics that he wasn't the only Autobot on the planet. Prime carried Spock and the others back to the dilithium mineshaft where [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and the other Autobots had been entombed, only for [[Airachnid (G1)|Airachnid]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] to ambush the group and collapse the entrance to the mine in the process. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}}

[[File:PrimesDirectivePart3-SpockSurrenders.jpg|thumb|250px|"Wherever there is mystery, and the unexplained, cosmic forces shall draw me near." "Hey, Spock, whaddya want with your hot dog?" "Surprise me."]]

As the Decepticons regrouped to lay waste to the mining colony, Spock and his two shipmates ineffectually fought back against the Decepticons as they attempted to evacuate the miners. It soon became clear that the four heroes could not overpower the Decepticon force, forcing Spock to take the only logical action and surrender on the condition that the Federation miners go free—much to the amusement of the [[Klingon]] [[Kuri]], whose forces had formed an alliance with the Decepticons. Before Starscream could execute Prime, however, Kirk and the other Autobots arrived to save the day—with Kirk piloting Fortress Maximus, the Autobot's [[alternate mode]] reshaped into a copy of the ''Enterprise''. As the Autobots and Decepticons went head to head, Spock and the other humans were beamed aboard by Kirk, who transformed the Autobot ship into the mighty "Fortress Tiberius" to deal with the Decepticon [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Three}}

As the two giant Transformers clashed, Spock tried to remind his friend to keep [[Starfleet]] directives in mind, worrying that the battle would end with the taking of life, though Kirk—his shared mind clouded by Fortress Maximus's own rage—initially ignored his advice until Kirk was able to reassert his own consciousness, sending Trypticon and his Decepticon allies fleeing, and allowing Spock and the other crew members of the ''Enterprise'' to arrest the Klingons. The peace was not to last, however, as Kirk had learned that Starscream had previously absconded with a load of dilithium and now planned to conquer the Klingon homeworld of [[Kronos]]. As the real ''Enterprise'' had been disabled by Trypticon, Kirk piloted Fortress Tiberius and the Autobots to rendezvous with the ship, beaming Spock and the other members of the crew aboard to begin repairs. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Four}}

[[File:PrimesDirectivePart5-AcidBath.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"What do you mean, 'your work is done?' You didn't do anything." "Didn't I?"]]

Now acting-captain of the real ''Enterprise'' while Kirk remained aboard Fortress Maximus, Spock and the other members of the ''Enterprise'' agreed to assist Optimus Prime in preventing the dilithium-powered [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from conquering [[Kronos]]. Faced with the seemingly-insurmountable power of the Decepticons, Prime's words inspired Kirk and Scotty to use the ship's onboard [[replicator]] and a series of [[Crewbot|armored suits]] that combined Starfleet and Autobot technology. It was in one such suit that Spock joined in the battle, facing off against [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acid Storm]] alongside [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and [[Scotty]] before another paralyzing blast from Soundwave immobilized the robots. The day was saved by Kuri and his fellow Klingons, however, who successfully turned the tables on the Decepticons with their [[Warbird (Star Trek)|warbird]] fleet.

In the aftermath, Spock and the other crew members of the ''Enterprise'' were on hand to help negotiate a tentative truce between the Federation and the [[Klingon Empire]], while Optimus and the other Autobots left aboard Fortress Tiberius to travel the galaxy. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Five}}
{{--}}

==Commercial appearances==
*Along with [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], Spock was one of many pop culture icons who were hanging out at Paramount Mountain and saw the arrival of the water bucket from ''{{w|Flashdance}}''. Before the others reenacted the movie's famous scene, Spock expressed some distaste for it.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Wxl0m0peI A Mountain of Entertainment | Storm l Paramount+]</ref>

==Notes==
[[File:Infestation sketch 09.jpg|thumb|You shouldn't have left him on Genesis.]]
*[[Leonard Nimoy]] portrayed Spock on ''Star Trek''.
*Wheelie's line is the first of three references to Spock in ''Dark of the Moon'', referencing Nimoy's presence among the cast as the voice of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. The second is Sentinel's own line, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Finally, Bumblebee plays a voice clip of Spock saying "I will always be your friend", from ''{{w|Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan}}''.
*Spock was involved in IDW's ''[[Infestation (IDW)|Infestation]]'', where he, Kirk, and McCoy were responsible for defeating their universe's version of [[Britt]].
*Spock's logical character was the inspiration for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]].<ref>[http://rustingcarcass.yuku.com/topic/954/t/Bob-Budiansky.html Rusting Carcass interview] with [[Bob Budiansky]]</ref>
*In the ''Infestation'' sketchbook, a zombified, rotting Spock is shown clawing his way out of a Mark VI torpedo casing filled with highly evolved worms. The notion that Spock could "rise from the dead" out of a Mark VI torpedo casing is of course ridiculous and merits no further discussion.
{{--}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[[memoryalpha:Spock|Spock]] at Memory Alpha
*[[memoryalpha:Spock (alternate reality)|Reboot Spock]] at Memory Alpha
*{{w|Spock}} at Wikipedia

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[[Category:Dark of the Moon humans]]
[[Category:Earth culture]]
[[Category:Starfleet]]
[[Category:Generation 1 aliens]]
[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) aliens]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) humans]]
[[Category:Kre-O characters]]

JP93

2024-02-14T02:52:17Z

Igordebraga:

{{faction|autobot}}
:''JP93 is an [[Autobot]] from [[Jurassic Park]] (via [[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]).''
[[File:Collab-toy JP93.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2|"I'm afraid those things will harm me, cause [[Tyrannocon Rex|they]] sure don't act like [[Megatron (BW)|Barney]], and they think that I'm their dinner, not their friend!"]]

'''JP93''' stands in the way of [[Tyrannocon Rex]]'s rampage in [[Jurassic Park]].<ref>''Transformers Collaborative'' Tyrannocon Rex and JP93 product description</ref>

You might expect JP93 to battle Tyrannocon Rex because they're members of opposing Cybertronian factions, but as far as the staff of Jurassic Park is concerned: she's an "asset out of containment", and it's JP93's job to "promptly" return her to her paddock.

{{TOCclear}}

==Toys==
===''Collaborative''===
[[File:Collab-toy-Jurassic Park-box.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0|[["Weird Al" Yankovic|"I admit it's kinda eerie, but this proves my chaos theory, and I don't think I'll be coming back again, oh noooo!"]]]]
*'''Tyrannocon Rex / Autobot JP93''' ([[2021]])
**''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[May 28]], [[2022]]
**''Accessories'': Gun
{{toydesigner|[[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}

: Part of the seventh release in the ''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' line, JP93 is a roughly Deluxe-sized mold that transforms into a licensed Ford Explorer with the livery of the tour vehicles from the 1993 film. The toy's sculpted hat, sunglasses, and shotgun accessory are inspired by, respectively, the film's paleontologist Alan Grant and game warden Robert Muldoon.

: The shotgun accessory has a 5 mm post to be held in either hand. It can also be mounted upside-down on the top of the vehicle mode, or stored below, or stored on the back of the robot mode below the backpack.

: JP93's functional knees are located slightly lower than the visible sculpted details imply. His head has a small port for [[Light-piping|light-piping]], but due to its size, it's not the most effective.

: JP93 was sold with [[Tyrannocon Rex#Toys|Tyrannocon Rex]] in a two-pack exclusively debuted by [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] in the United States market. In a nod to the film, [[Mr. DNA]] is pictured on a box flap.
{{--}}

==Notes==
* The name "JP93" is, of course, based on the release year of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s {{w|Jurassic Park (film)|first ''Jurassic Park'' film}}.
* JP93 is based on Explorer 04, the tour vehicle that carried Lex, Tim, and Gennaro, which the ''T. rex'' destroyed in the breakout scene. The packaging of the toy set depicts Tyrannocon Rex standing atop Explorer 02, which did not appear in the film.
* Despite Tyrannocon Rex being identified as a Decepticon, and JP93 as an Autobot, the paragraph of story text on the back of their shared package is unrelated to the [[Theme song|Autobots' battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons]]. The staff of Jurassic Park apparently know the names of both of these characters, but Tyrannocon Rex is described as an “asset” of the park, just like the dinosaurs, and when she is "out of containment", JP93’s assignment is only to return the asset to her containment paddock.
* Before it was announced, the toy two-pack was first discovered in store listings under the name "Transformers TRA Project Park".
* Yes, we are aware that his passenger-side door reads "ASSIC PARK" when opened, and yes, that is funny.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''JP93'''

==See also==
*[[JP12]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jp93}}
[[Category:Collaborative Autobots]]
[[Category:Jurassic Park]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Tyrannocon Rex

2024-02-14T02:46:19Z

Igordebraga:

{{faction|decepticon}}
{{disambig2|the dinosaur Decepticon from Collaborative|the similarly-named [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] commander from the Aligned continuity|Tyrannicon}}
:''Tyrannocon Rex is a [[Decepticon]] from [[Jurassic Park]] (via [[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]).''
[[File:Collab-toy TyrannoconRex.jpg|thumb|upright=2|Hopefully she eats those two annoying kids from ''Jurassic World'' and NOT the kids from ''Camp Cretaceous''.]]

'''Tyrannocon Rex''' is ready to wreak havoc on [[Jurassic Park]], and only the [[Autobot]] [[JP93]] stands in her way!<ref>[https://corporate.hasbro.com/en-us/articles/new_transformers_x_jurassic_park_collaboration_pre_order_on_amazon_now ''Transformers Collaborative'' Tyrannocon Rex and JP93 product description]</ref>

Although she is a Decepticon, the Jurassic Park security staff know Tyrannocon Rex by name. She is considered a captive asset of the park, with an assigned paddock. When she escapes containment, the Autobot [[JP93]] is assigned to track her down and return her to that paddock.

{{TOCclear}}

==Toys==
===''Collaborative''===
[[File:Collab-toy-Jurassic Park-box.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0|[["Weird Al" Yankovic|"I cannot approve of this attraction, 'cause getting disemboweled always makes me kind of mad."]]]]
*'''Tyrannocon Rex / Autobot JP93''' ([[2021]])
**''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[May 28]], [[2022]]
{{toydesigner|[[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}

: The seventh release in the ''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' line, Tyrannocon Rex is a new-head retool of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' Leader Class [[Megatron (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Megatron (Beast)]], transforming into a ''[[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' appropriately inspired by the ''Jurassic Park'' school of design. Her deco is based on [[fandom:jurassicpark:Tyrannosaurus rex (Isla Nublar)/Film|'Rexy']], the ''T. rex'' from both ''Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World'', as she appeared in the first ''Jurassic Park'' movie. Though Tyrannocon Rex does not come with any [[Fire Blast effect|fire blast effects]], those from other toys can be attached inside her dinosaur mode mouth. While she features a left hand underneath the tail weapon in robot mode, the tail weapon cannot be detached from her forearm.

:Most of the beast mode shell is cast in a rubbery PVC [[plastic]] material, likely to enhance the texture of the dinosaur mode as well as assist the part-clashing transformation. The beast mode itself is well articulated, especially with thigh pieces on a slider to ensure vertical hip movement, as well as spring-loaded pieces around her neck to prevent the sculpt from breaking up too much while posing.

:Although Tyrannocon's red and black color scheme in robot mode was stated to be inspired by the ''Jurassic Park'' logo, it also takes cues from some of the primary robot mode colors of the [[Dinobot_(G1)|''Generation One'' Dinobots]]. Whether this was also a deliberate design choice or coincidental is unknown.

:The toy comes with [[JP93#Toys|Autobot JP93]], with the two being exclusive to Amazon in the United States, going up for pre-order on [[June 29]], 2021. They would later, on [[December 1]], 2021, be available on Hasbro Pulse in the United States, and select retailers worldwide. In a nod to the film, [[Mr. DNA]] is pictured on a box flap. The back of the box has a picture of a muddy ''T. rex'' footprint from the movie, which has amusingly been modified to include an imprint from Tyrannocon's {{w|dewclaw}} due to it being shifted from her calf to her heel for stability.

:This mold was also used for ''Kingdom'' [[T-Wrecks#Generations|T-Wrecks]].

==Notes==
*Despite Tyrannocon Rex being identified as a Decepticon, and JP93 as an Autobot, the paragraph of story text on the back of their shared package is unrelated to the [[Theme song|Autobots' battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons]]. The staff of Jurassic Park apparently know the names of both of these characters, but Tyrannocon Rex is described as an “asset” of the park, just like the dinosaurs, and when she is "out of containment", JP93’s assignment is only to return the asset to her containment paddock.
*Before it was announced, the toy two-pack was first discovered in store listings under the name "Transformers TRA Project Park".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Tyrannocon Rex''' (ティラノコンレックス ''Tiranokon Rekkusu'')

==See also==
*[[Dilophocon]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Collaborative Decepticons]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Jurassic Park]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Netflix

2024-02-14T02:29:25Z

Igordebraga: /* Transformers films — Available 2024 */

[[Image:Netflix.jpg|right|300px|]]
'''Netflix''' is a United States based multinational home entertainment company. While beginning solely as a mail-order DVD rental service in the United States, it primarily operates as an online video streaming service featuring films and television series available in numerous countries across the globe. Netflix also hosts its own original content not found on any other network or service, including the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' and ''[[Transformers: BotBots (cartoon)|BotBots]]'' animated series.

In 2012, [[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]] signed a 10-year deal with Netflix allowing series from the Hasbro library to be included on Netflix's online streaming service.<ref>[http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/10/netflix-signs-multi-year-deal-with-hasbro-and-knowing-is-half/ Netflix signs multi-year deal with Hasbro -- and knowing is half the battle]</ref> In addition to legacy content, programs from [[Hub Network|The Hub]]/[[Discovery Family]] were included in the deal, with episodes premiering on the service after their broadcast seasons have ended. While multiple Transformers series were added to the service as a result of this, half of them were delisted in 2015, while the other half were reduced to only their first seasons in 2018. This deal expired in February 2022, leading to nearly every ''Transformers'' cartoon being delisted from the service over the following year in most regions, save for the United States. Pursuant to Netflix's deal with pay channel {{w|Epix (TV channel)|Epix}}, films from the [[Paramount Pictures]] library were made available on the service several months after their original cable broadcast, though subsequent films now skip Netflix entirely and go straight to [[Paramount+]].

In addition to video streaming, Netflix also has a presence in the mobile gaming space, with several mobile game releases that can only be played by those with an active Netflix subscription.

Currently, Netflix's streaming service is almost available worldwide, but their available catalog varies significantly from region to region (with the exception of Netflix originals, which are generally available in all regions), and content is constantly phased in and out depending on distribution agreements with the original rights holders. As a result, the lists below are frequently subject to change:

==Transformers TV series — Available 2024==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Country
! ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'' (Season 1)
! ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'' (Season 1)
! ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' (Season 1)
! ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' (Seasons 3–4)
! ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''
! ''[[Transformers: BotBots (cartoon)|BotBots]]''
! ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]'' (Episodes 1–18)
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Argentina
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Australia
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes**
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Belgium
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes**
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Brazil
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Canada
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Colombia
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Czech Republic
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|France
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Germany
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Greece
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes**
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hong Kong
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hungary
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Iceland
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|India
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Israel
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Italy
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Japan
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Lithuania
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Malaysia
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Mexico
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Netherlands
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes**
|-
| style="text-align:left"|New Zealand
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes**
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Philippines
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Poland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Portugal
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Romania
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Russia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes*
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Singapore
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Slovakia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Africa
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Korea
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Spain
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Sweden
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Switzerland
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Thailand
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Turkey
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Ukraine
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United Kingdom
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United States
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Only includes Season 2 
<nowiki>**</nowiki> Only includes Episodes 1-10 

==Transformers films — Available 2024==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Country
! ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''
! ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''
! ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Argentina
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Australia
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Belgium
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Brazil
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Canada
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Colombia
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Czech Republic
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|France
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Germany
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Greece
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hong Kong
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hungary
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Iceland
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|India
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Israel
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Italy
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Japan
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Lithuania
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Malaysia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Mexico
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Netherlands
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|New Zealand
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Philippines
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Poland
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Portugal
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Romania
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Russia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Singapore
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Slovakia
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Africa
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Korea
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Spain
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
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==Transformers mobile games==
* ''[[Transformers: Forged to Fight]]''

==Discontinued Transformers TV series and movies==
* ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' — Seasons 2–3 and ''[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]'' removed in 2018
* ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' — Seasons 2–4 removed in 2018, Season 1 removed in 2022 (except USA)
* ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' — Seasons 2–4 removed in 2018, Season 1 removed in 2022 (except USA)
* ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' — Season 1 removed in 2022, Season 2 removed in 2023 (except Russia)
* ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy]]'' — Removed in 2024

==Notes==
* Notably, other services that carry ''Prime'', ''Rescue Bots'' or ''Robots in Disguise'' (such as [[Tubi]] or [[Hasbro#Streaming video|Roku]]) are missing their first seasons, presumably due to Netflix locking up exclusivity as a result of the aforementioned deal with Hasbro.
* Shortly after the launch of ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'', Netflix added eight characters from the series as selectable profile icons, including [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]].
* In 2022, [[Scanline]], a visual effects studio who worked on the [[Live-action film series]], would be purchased by Netflix. While becoming the service's in-house effects studio, the deal between the two parties still has Scanline remain an independent company and free to work for other producers, similar to [[Industrial Light & Magic]]'s deal with [[Disney]].

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.netflix.com Netflix website]
* {{w|Netflix|Netflix on Wikipedia}}

[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Streaming platforms]]
[[Category:Video game companies]]

Peru

2023-11-16T07:21:40Z

Igordebraga: /* Rise of the Beasts film */

[[File:Headmasters Peru map.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]

'''Peru''' is a nation in [[South America]]. Historically, it has been home to the Incaic Empire. Its cities include [[Abancy]], [[Cusco]], [[Ica]], [[La Oroya]], [[Nazca]], and [[Pucallpa]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{storylink|Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain}}
{{locationstub}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
{{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}}

====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
The [[Decepticon]] [[Pretender]] [[Dauros]] was imprisoned underneath the [[Nazca Lines]] a good number of centuries ago. He was freed by [[Devil Z]] sometime between 2011 and 2025. {{storylink|Terror! The Decepticons' Manhunt}}

===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
{{noteukexclusive|Peru}}
''[[Susan Hoffman]] led an exhibition seeking out the [[Juluth]] tribe's shrine to [[Myaz]] for the [[Heritage Society]], which instead ran into giant robots. ''Again.'' It turned out [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream's corpse]], controlled by the [[Underbase]], had been stomping around the area, and the Juluth mistook him for Myaz incarnate.'' {{storylink|Race with the Devil}}

===Kid Stuff Talking Story Books continuity===
Desiring the [[oil]] underneath the jungles of South America, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] boarded the [[turbine mole machine]] and headed through the [[Pacific Ocean]] to the coast of Peru. The first tunnel they drilled was badly planned, and it collapsed, taking with it the part of the [[Andes Mountains]] that held [[Machu Picchu]]. This miscalculation tipped off the [[Autobot]]s of the whereabouts of the two [[Decepticon]]s and they attacked. Supposedly, Megatron and Soundwave escaped them and completed their network of tunnels, allowing water from the Pacific Ocean to force the oil to the surface for the Decepticons to collect. As the oil swallowed a large portion of the Peruvian jungle and made the wildlife and people flee, the Decepticons destroyed the lowest geographical point of the jungle with their [[Decepticon defoliator craft]] to create a suitable basin for the oil. Their work went mostly unrewarded, though, as the Decepticons could only collect a little oil before the Autobots attacked and forced them to retreat. It is unknown if anything could be done about the heavily polluted jungle. {{storylink|Storms of Destruction}}

===Live-action film series===
====''The Veiled Threat''====
Decepticon activity was detected in Peru, so [[NEST]] dispatched a team including [[Robert Epps]], [[Petr Andronov]], [[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]], and [[Knock Out (ROTF)|Knockout]] there to investigate. After arriving in [[Cusco|Cuzco]] and rendezvousing with local NEST technical adjunct [[Pierre Morales]], the team ventured into the Andes Mountains. There they encountered the Decepticons [[Ruination (ROTF)|Ruination]] and [[Blademaster]], and got the better of their foe. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

====Titan movie comics====
{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.17|The Kingdom of Starscream}}

====''Rise of the Beasts'' film====
{{locationstub}}
One half of the [[Transwarp Key]] is hidden in Peru, guarded by a tribe of humans who live near the energon-rich valley inhabited by the [[Maximal]]s. The Autobots travel there guided by [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]], who is stationed in [[Cusco]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}

==External links==
*{{w|Peru}} at Wikipedia

[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon locations]]
[[Category:Generation 1 countries]]
[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 locations]]
[[Category:Real-world countries]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen locations]]
[[Category:Rise of the Beasts locations]]
[[Category:South American countries]]
[[Category:Super-God Masterforce locations]]
[[Category:The Headmasters locations]]

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)

2023-11-16T07:17:50Z

Igordebraga: /* Reception */

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'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''' is the seventh film in the [[live-action film series]], serving both as a sequel to ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' and a tribute to ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''. The film is directed by [[Steven Caple Jr.]] and written by [[Joby Harold]], [[Darnell Metayer]], [[Josh Peters]], [[Erich Hoeber]], and [[Jon Hoeber]]. Originally expected to be released on [[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> the film was delayed multiple times until finally being released on [[June 9]], [[2023]].<ref name="2023release"/>

When [[Noah Díaz]], a struggling young man trying to provide for his family, is roped into a conflict between the marooned [[Autobot]]s and the recently arrived [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcons]], he must learn to work with weary Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] so they, with the help of the wise [[Maximal]]s and the unadventurous researcher [[Elena Wallace]], can stop the arrival of the planet-eater [[Unicron]].

{{quote|Maximals..!}}
{{quote|Autobots..!}}
{{quote|Roll out!|[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]}}

==Synopsis==
[[File:ROTBcap-Unicronringedplanet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|This is one unusual planet... whatever it is.]]

Somewhere in time and space, the dark god [[Unicron]] and his minions invade a [[Jungle Planet (colony)|jungle world]] populated by [[Maximal]]s. Unicron, seeking a way to cross galaxies, sends his [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]] herald [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] to retrieve the [[Transwarp Key]], an advanced device that can open portals in space-time. Although the Maximals attempt to fight back, their leader [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]] entrusts [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] and a small group of Maximals—[[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]], [[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]], and [[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]]—with the Transwarp Key and orders them to keep the artifact from Unicron. As Primal and his followers use the key to escape their doomed planet and flee to prehistoric [[Earth]], Scourge kills Apelinq after a brief fight and takes his [[insignia]] as a trophy.

Thousands of years later, in June [[1994]], ex-military electronics expert [[Noah Díaz]] attempts to find a job to support his sick brother [[Kris Díaz|Kris]]. However, after another failed interview, his friend [[Reek]] convinces him to steal an expensive car from a nearby hotel. However, the "car" turns out to be the Autobot [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] in disguise, who takes the terrified Noah on a joyride through the streets of [[New York City]]. At the same time, a museum on Ellis Island comes into possession of an unusual stone falcon with a Maximal insignia. After closing hours, museum intern [[Elena Wallace]] investigates the statue and accidentally breaks it open to reveal half of the Transwarp Key. The artifact releases an energy pulse that attracts the attention of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots, who have been stranded on Earth since their evacuation of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] [[Bumblebee (film)|seven years prior]]. Prime summons the nearest Autobots—[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], and Mirage, who arrives at the meeting spot with Noah in tow. Although Optimus distrusts humans, he believes that they can use the Transwarp Key to return home and liberate their homeworld; eventually, Mirage hatches a scheme to sneak into the museum and have Noah steal the key for them.

[[File:Scourge about to blast bee.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|A treacherous, underhanded sneak attack! I like you, pussycat, yes.]]

Unbeknownst to the Autobots, the accidental activation of the Transwarp Key summons the Terrorcons to Earth. Noah meets Elena inside the museum, but cannot convince her to turn over the relic before the Terrorcons attack; despite Prime's best efforts, Scourge successfully overpowers the Autobot leader, steals the Transwarp Key, and mortally injures Bumblebee before Airazor arrives to help drive the villains away. Airazor explains that the Maximals have been on Earth for millennia, and deliberately split the Transwarp Key in half to prevent Unicron or his followers from using it. The loss of Bumblebee only further galvanizes Optimus's resolve that they must reassemble the key and return home; Noah, fearful of Unicron's arrival, tells Elena that they must destroy the key to protect their own homeworld.

[[File:ROTB-Maximalstandoff.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|Moderate your conflict circuits, Maximals.]]

Elena deduces that the other half of the key is located in a hidden temple in [[Peru]], and Prime recruits the airborne Autobot [[Stratosphere]] to take them there. Near the city of [[Cusco]], the Autobot [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] guides them to the temple, located beneath a [[Convent of Santo Domingo|local monastery]]. A festival prevents the Autobots from moving through the city inconspicuously; as a result, Noah and Elena must make the journey on foot. The pair discover a hidden mechanism that leads to a hidden temple with a stone sarcophogus but find that the other half of the key is no longer inside it. The Terrorcons attack again, and although the Autobots are able to evade the villains, the conflict ends with Scourge infecting Airazor with a portion of Unicron's dark energy. On the other side of the temple, Noah and Elena encounter Optimus Primal and the other two Maximals, who, after a brief standoff that was defused by Airazor, agree to join forces with the Autobots. Optimus Primal explains that they entrusted the Transwarp Key to a tribe of humans who live near the [[energon]]-rich valley that Primal and his followers inhabit—while Optimus Prime distrusts humanity, Primal has lived among them for millennia, and has come to view them as friends and even allies.

The next morning, however, Scourge's corruption finally overtakes Airazor; in the ensuing battle, Primal is forced to crush her spark and put her offline to save Elena. Amidst the chaos, Noah makes an attempt to destroy their half of the Transwarp Key until Optimus convinces him to stand down. However, amidst the chaos, Scourge and the Terrorcons steal the other half of the key and relocate to a nearby volcano, which they reshape into a massive portal that will summon Unicron to Earth.
Having found some common ground between their two races, Optimus Prime and Noah agree to work together; while the Autobot-Maximal alliance battle Unicron's minions, Noah and Elena attempt to sneak into the Terrorcon base and deactivate the [[Unspace|transwarp]] device with a manual shutdown code based on Elena's studies of the Maximal language. Mirage attempts to distract Scourge so that the humans can complete their mission, but the Terrorcon leader gravely injures him; with the last of his strength, Mirage reshapes his body into an [[exosuit]] for Noah. As Unicron begins pushing his way through the portal to Earth and sending down reinforcements in the form of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Scorponok (ROTB)|Scorponok]]s, the energy pulses released by the key ignite the nearby energon deposits and restore Bumblebee to life. As Bumblebee joins the fight, Optimus Prime gains the upper hand and finally kills Scourge, but not before the Terrorcon damages the console and leaves the heroes unable to close the portal. With no other options, Prime destroys the key and triggers a devastating implosion, but Noah and Primal successfully rescue the Autobot leader from falling into the collapsing vortex.

In the aftermath, the surviving Maximals remain in Peru, while the Autobots return to America. Elena is recognized for her archeological discovery, while Noah applies for another security job—but discovers that the job opportunity is actually a front for a clandestine government organization codenamed "[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]," who promise to cover his brother's treatment going forward.

Some time later, Noah has used spare Porsche parts to cobble together a new body for Mirage, and reveals his existence to a bewildered Reek.

==Cast==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Autobot]]s / [[Maximal]]s|c1=
;Autobots
* [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
* [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] ([[Pete Davidson]])
* [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
* [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] ([[Liza Koshy]])
* [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] ([[Cristo Fernández]])
* [[Stratosphere]] ([[John DiMaggio]])

;Maximals
* [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] ([[Ron Perlman]])
* [[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]] ([[Michelle Yeoh]])
* [[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]] ([[Tongayi Chirisa]])
* [[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]] ([[David Sobolov]])
* [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]] (David Sobolov)

|h2=[[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s / [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s|c2=
;Terrorcons
* [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] ([[Peter Dinklage]])
* [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]] ([[Michaela Jaé Rodriguez]])
* [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]] (David Sobolov)
* [[Sweep (ROTB)|Sweep]]s
** [[Freezer]]
** [[Novakane]]

;Predacons
* [[Scorponok (ROTB)|Scorponok]]s

|h3=[[Human]]s|c3=
* [[Noah Díaz]] ([[Anthony Ramos]])
* [[Elena Wallace]] ([[Dominique Fishback]])
* [[Breanna Díaz]] ([[Luna Lauren Velez]])
* [[Kris Díaz]] ([[Dean Scott Vasquez]])
* [[Reek]] ([[Tobe Nwigwe]])
* [[Jillian Robinson]] ([[Sarah Stiles]])
* [[Bishop (ROTB)|Bishop]] ([[Aidan Devine]])
* [[D. Greene]] ([[Leni Parker]])
* [[Amaru]] ([[Lucas Huarancca]])
;[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]
* [[Agent Burke]] ([[Michael Kelly (actor)|Michael Kelly]])

|h4=Others|c4=
* [[Unicron]] ([[Colman Domingo]])
|nonumbering=true
}}

==Quotes==
"There’s a legend that precedes the dawn of our civilization: a vile god so large, so powerful, that it consumed entire planets as fuel. Few believed such a thing could be true, until the day we saw Unicron with our own eyes…"
:—'''Optimus Primal's''' opening narration.

"I'll hold him off, buy you some time." 
"Then I'm staying with you." 
"This is my fight. Listen, if Unicron were to get the key, he could open a portal through [[Transwarp Drive|time and space]], with no end to the worlds he could destroy. It is now your time to lead the [[Maximal]]s... Optimus Primal."
:—'''Apelinq''' passing the torch to '''Optimus Primal'''.

"So you're this planet's... ''great'' warrior. You have such a beautiful world, filled with an abundance of life. Savory."
:—'''Scourge''' waxes poetic to Apelinq.

"Okay, what are the rules?" 
"Bros before hoes." 
''[Noah glares at Kris]'' 
''(sigh)'' "Don't be a problem. Don't go looking for a problem—" 
"Or else we're gonna have a problem."
:—'''Noah''' and '''Kris''' clarify the rules.

"I ain't breaking into a museum for some space robots." 
"But what about for friendship?" 
''[Noah stares at Mirage incredulously]'' 
"Uh, uh—or or ''or'', what about for cash?"
:—'''Noah''' wants out. '''Mirage''' wants him in.

''"You can't handle the truth!"'' 
"I do not want you going to that drive-in theater anymore."
:— '''Bumblebee's''' references grate on '''Optimus Prime'''.

"Stop following me!" 
"I'm not following you, I'm just escaping in the same direction!"
:—'''Elena''' and '''Noah''' run from the pursuing Sweeps.

"And you call yourself a Prime...Primus would be ''ashamed.''"
:—'''Scourge''' isn't too impressed with Optimus Prime.

"I'm going to take back Scourge's key, and then...''take off his head.''"
:—The origins of '''Optimus Prime's''' "GIVE ME YOUR FACE" phase.

"I love your fire, Prime, but you're going to die on this speck of dust." 
"I can think of no better place to bury you!"
:—'''Scourge''' has gotten on '''Optimus Prime's''' last nerve

"He is not ''the'' Optimus Prime I imagined." 
"Well, he has lost so much." 
"Many more will perish if the key falls into the wrong hands." 
"If you had another chance to save our home, would you act any differently?"
:—'''Optimus Primal''' and '''Airazor'''

"I am sorry, Noah." 
"You were looking out for your own. I can't even be angry at you for that." 
"On my homeworld, we believe that the battle with darkness will continue [['Til all are one|'til all are one]]. I lost sight of that. You fought for yours as I fought for mine, when we should've been fighting the darkness together." 
"Well, I ain't done fighting yet."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Noah''' have a moment as Unicron approaches.

"''I have come here to kick ass!''"
:—'''Bumblebee''' announces his return with a clear message.

"Time to show you the real power of a Prime!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' lays the smackdown on Scourge. An ass kicker cometh.

"Don't, Prime. I can give you everything you want." 
"Then DIE!"
:—'''Unicron's''' temptation falls flat in '''Optimus Prime's''' face.

"I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. We have lost the Transwarp Key, and with it, our ability to go home. But we have gained an ally in our battle against the forces of evil. Forces too powerful for any of us to defeat on our own, but together, we might just have a chance."
:—'''Optimus Prime's''' closing narration. We missed them.

"I am Noah Díaz. What is there to know about me? I was raised out in Brooklyn. I got a little bro who calls me Sonic, and if I gotta help save the universe in order to help save the people I love, well then that's what I'm gonna do."
:—'''Noah''' does his own closing narration.

==Continuity notes==
''Rise of the Beasts'' is a direct sequel to 2018's ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' film, taking place seven years after its events, in 1994. The plot of the film has little impact on this one, beyond it being established that the Autobots have been stranded on Earth since arriving at its end. While waiting for Noah to infiltrate the museum, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee have a conversation that alludes to Bee's time with [[Charlie Watson]].

More notably, ''Rise of the Beasts'' serves to continue the heated debate among fans over whether or not the ''Transformers'' live-action film series has been rebooted, after reshoots to ''Bumblebee'' that served to distance it from the earlier films directed by [[Michael Bay]] introduced some significant discontinuities with Bay's films (2017's ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'' in particular). Though fans were quick to jump on the idea that this meant the film was a total, hard reboot of the movie universe, Paramount has not committed to that idea; ''Rise of the Beasts'' was not promoted as a reboot any more than ''Bumblebee'' was, and many reviews of and articles about the film have casually referred to it as a prequel. Some web outlets would even run articles commenting on Paramount's hazy stance on the movie's (and ''Bumblebee'''s) place in continuity.<ref>[https://www.cbr.com/transformers-7-bumblebee-reboot-mistake "Rise of the Beasts Is Repeating Bumblebee's Worst Mistake" on CBR.com]</ref><ref>[https://movieweb.com/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-is-a-reboot/ "Why Does Paramount Keep Pretending Rise of the Beasts Is Not a Reboot?" on MovieWeb.com]</ref>

In-keeping with this, in the run-up to the film's release, like [[Travis Knight]] before him, director Steven Caple Jr. was reluctant to declare the film a full and total continuity reboot; notably, in one particular interview, he called the film "a reboot for sure," only to walk the statement back ten seconds later, instead saying that one "could call it a reboot" in terms of starting point, reframing it instead as a "refresher" and a "new direction," that nonetheless preserved many elements of the earlier films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's a reboot for sure. The Bayverse... you can still watch the Bayverse and be on your own verse, so to speak. With us, we're definitely like, we want this to work, you know? We want people to... it's a refresher, so we can call reboot in terms of like, where we were starting. But yeah so definitely a new direction for sure. There's some things you could probably connect to it, clearly Bee is like a huge connection to all the movies, you know what I mean? In terms of his car, his design, a Camaro, and things like that, but... it's a very small one, in terms of the big ideas that we have. And so you guys will see definitely where we're going at the end of this film, which is crazy.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MfMFxvT_-Q&t=2452s|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=The Alfonso Nation|title="BAYVERSE vs REBOOT" & Wheeljacks Design | ROTB DIRECTOR STEVEN CAPLE JR Interview!|year=2023|month=05|day=27}}</ref> Longtime producer [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]] has taken a more explicit stance, repeatedly denying that the film is a reboot and stating that it is a prequel that shows how Optimus Prime grows to become the character seen in the Bay films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Hey you know if you look at it from a timeline point of view, it follows ''Bumblebee''... but it is a prequel, in that it's before all the previous movies. So it sort of exists in its own way. What I don't think it is, is a reboot, because it's still our characters. One of the things that Steven brought to the table right from the beginning, which was so great, was the idea that when we meet Optimus Prime, he's different than what we think of him, and we're watching him grow up—if you would—as a leader. And for me that was one of the most exciting parts of the movie, and what was interesting was watching it with audiences, and at first they were uncomfortable a little bit, like, "wait, that's not exactly the Optimus... he should like humans!" You know? So I think it gives the movie a really interesting point of view, and that therefore it stands alone in that way.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11sKGYcq9k&t=871s|name=Lorenzo di Bonaventura|site=a panel at the premiere of ''Rise of the Beasts''|year=2023|month=05|day=26}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=But what's interesting is, and you will appreciate this as a fan, at the end of ''Bumblebee'', Optimus comes to Earth. What he's experienced is failure, probably for the first time in his life, right? He's had to retreat, he's leaving the planet Cybertron. What's happened to him from that experience? When we meet him in 2007, he's a particular person, if you would. In 1994, he's not the same person. He still has growth to do between ‘94 and 2007. So the character arc for Optimus in this, and the fun for the audience is, when you first meet Optimus – and we've had this experience because we've watched it with audiences and we've heard them talk about it – they're like, “It's definitely Optimus, but there's something a little different…” At first, they're like, “Wait, what, who… what Optimus is this?” And by the end of the movie, Optimus has become the guy that you've recognized from the Bay movies. Emotional.|link=https://collider.com/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-michael-bay-movies-producer-comments/|name=Lorenzo di Bonaventura|site=Collider|title='Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' Producer on How It Differs From Michael Bay's Movies|year=2023|month=05|day=24}}</ref> At the same time, di Bonaventura has also conceded that they were "kicking the can down the road" when it came to continuity concerns, preferring to worry about it in the future, and that the films "maybe have" contradicted Bay's movies despite efforts not to.<ref>[https://www.fandom.com/articles/transformers-rise-beast-wars-optimus-prime Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Shows a Different Side of Optimus Prime" on Fandom.com]</ref> These particular claims line up with statements made by Caple after the film's release, in which he stated he is "not worried" about continuity, and is just focused on making the best choices for each individual movie's story. He cites 2007's ''Transformers'' and ''Dark of the Moon'' as "his classics," and says he would "love to stay within that line," but does not feel compelled to adhere much to ''Age of Extinction'' and ''The Last Knight,'' since he views their stories as the result of creators "freestyling," and doubts that "anyone knew exactly where they were going with [them]."<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/rise-of-the-beasts-director-confirms-that-continuity-is-not-a-concern-within-the-transformers-film-franchise/47813/ Extract from an interview with Caple Jr. on the ''Empire Spoiler Specials'' podcast, via Seibertron.com]</ref> And that's... probably about as good an answer as we're going to get right now.

Whichever approach you subscribe to, it's pretty clear the decision to set the film in 1994 was one primarily made to avoid having to directly deal with the timeframe of the Bay movies in any capacity, and tell a new story free of their immediate baggage — the "can-kicking" Lorenzo spoke of. For what it's worth, the film takes some steps to preserve the broad continuity of at least the first Bay film; the Transwarp Key's energy is explicitly stated to operate on a frequency that humans cannot perceive, meaning that they literally cannot ''see'' the huge sky-beam, while massive storm clouds appear to hide the appearance of Unicron from public view. As such, the film ends with the general population of Earth (beyond secret forces within the US government) still entirely unaware of the Transformers' existence, as was the case when the 2007 film began. As the time-gap between these "prequels" and the first movie narrows, though, it becomes increasingly difficult to imagine them fitting together without a lot of hand-waving away of specific details, unless future movies actually start making active attempts to address this.

In terms of active contradictions to established continuity, ''Rise of the Beasts'' appears to take the same approach as ''Bumblebee'' and ignores the events of ''The Last Knight'' by depicting Unicron as a separate planet, rather than the Earth itself, as he appeared in that film. However, it's probably important to note that the film lightly implies that the Maximals are time-travellers from the future (see "Transformers references" for more details), which would mean that the Unicron who appears in this film is also from the future. Thus it ''could'' be argued that his appearance here doesn't technically contradict ''The Last Knight''—but of course, that would mean he was trying to eat his own past self.

==Transformers references==
*The Maximals are broadly depicted the same as they were in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon: as a "highly-advanced race" of beast-mode Transformers who use transwarp technology to travel to other planets and interact with their native species, whose travels bring them to ancient Earth. Steven Caple Jr. has noted that earlier drafts of the screenplay explicitly depicted the Maximals as time-travellers from the future, as they were in the cartoon, and while the concept is so toned down for the finished movie that it probably won't even occur to general audiences, several references to the idea are still made on-screen. Transwarp technology is stated to open portals in time as well as space; Airazor states that the Maximals are "from both [the Autobots'] past and future"; and Optimus Primal says that he is named after the "legendary" Optimus Prime, which all combine to suggest that the Maximals originate from the future.
*The idea of the Maximals hailing from a [[Jungle Planet (colony)|jungle planet]] originates in [[IDW Publishing]]'s comic books, which depicted many ''Beast Wars'' characters as the residents of the planet Eukaris. The planet is implied to be one of many colonised by Transformers in ages past using space bridges generated by the Transwarp Key, before the planets became separated and the key "lost." This concept of a great era of Cybertronian expansion that led to the foundation of lost colonies on other planets where Cybertronian life evolved in new and different directions dates back to 2005's [[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|''Cybertron'' cartoon]], and became a recurring element in ''Transformers'' series in the 2010s and beyond after it was incorporated into the lore of the [[Aligned continuity family|Aligned continuity]].
*Unicron's armies being named the "Terrorcons" hearkens back to both 2004's ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' and 2010's ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'', which both featured the power of Unicron being used to create armies of warriors known as Terrorcons. In particular, the corrupted Airazor's rusted appearance resembles the ''Prime'' Terrorcons, which were also rusted, dilapidated, shambling bots controlled by the will of another.
*Though not identified by name onscreen, Unicron's army includes multiple duplicates of a robotic scorpion identified by the movie's toyline as "Predacon Scorponok." The idea of "Scorponok" being a mass-produced "species" of robots has recently been seen in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron'' cartoon]], where both [[Scorponok (G1)|Generation 1 Scorponok]] ''and'' [[Scorponok (BW)|''Beast Wars'' Scorponok]] were treated this way.
*The Maximals vow to keep the Transwarp Key hidden and safeguard life "no matter the cost," evoking Optimus Prime's iconic line from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'': "Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost."
*Optimus Prime's design features alterations from his earlier ''Bumblebee'' appearance that are influenced by his appearance in the first three Bay films; he has silver hands, feet, sun visors, angled chest windows, retractable orange [[Dual Energon Swords|Energon swords]], a handheld orange [[Energon-axe]] (which transforms out of his arm, coincidentally similar to the [[Optimus Prime (ES)|''Earthspark'' version]]), and a mask-less face sporting similar details. Arcee also transforms into a {{w|Ducati}} motorcycle, like her ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' character.
*Speaking of Arcee, the design of her arms and deployable cannons seem to be directly inspired by her [[Arcee (WFC)|Prime counterpart]].
*Scourge combines aspects of his [[Scourge (G1)|Generation 1]], [[Scourge (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'']] and [[Scourge (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'']] namesakes; he's a herald of Unicron and has an army of [[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] like G1 Scourge, transforms into a black Optimus Prime-like truck like ''RID'' Scourge and hails from a colony world like ''Cybertron'' Scourge. The various insignias he wears as trophies include the symbols of the [[Decepticon]]s, [[Autobot]]s, [[Maximal]]s, [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s, [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s, [[Mercenary|Mercenaries]] and [[Wreckers]]. His designer Eddie Del Rio also admitted on his Instagram to pulling inspiration from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] for his robot mode (and stealing insignias like trophies is well in character for the old bounty hunter as well).
*More obscure characters appear such as Apelinq, who originates from a [[Apelinq (BM)#Toys|BotCon 2000 toy]] and tie-in [[3H Productions]] comics, and Stratosphere, returning from the ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' toyline and last seen in the ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|console video game]], albeit with a new, original design and characterization.
*When [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]] lands at the Museum following the carnage, she makes some [[Starscream (Movie)|very familiar warbling noises]] when she moves.
*The two music tracks used in Unicron's scenes feature segments taken from [[Vince DiCola]]'s "Unicron's Theme" in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
*Scourge stands and talks to Unicron's face from inside his body, similar to a scene with their characters from the Generation 1 episode, "[[Ghost in the Machine (G1)|Ghost in the Machine]]".
*The symbols Elena studies are Maximal [[Cybertronix]], from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon. The access code Elena assembles doesn't translate to anything, and simply reads "XQB," but the text on the side of the Transwarp Key (written in a combination of mirrored and upside-down symbols) reads: "He Who Opens The Door."
*The authors of the paper Elena reads about Peru's unexplained glyphs are Asahi Takara and Daniel H. Tomy, a reference to [[TakaraTomy]], Hasbro's longtime business partner in Transformers toys.
*After meeting Optimus Prime for the first time, Noah incorrectly calls him "Optimal". "Optimal Optimus" is the name of the original [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#OptimalOptimus|Optimus Primal's Transmetal 2 body]].
*When proposing different alternate modes to Noah, Mirage briefly turns into a F1 car, a reference to [[Mirage (G1)|his Generation 1 counterpart]]'s alternate mode. He also turns into a Lamborghini Countach, which wasn't just a really cool car, but also famous in ''Transformers'' lore for being the alternate mode of [[Sideswipe (G1)|Generation 1 Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]. He then claims that he can also turn into a Ferrari, the alternate mode of ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Dino]], whose name in media outside of that movie was "Mirage".
*Mirage is incredulous over the news that musician [[Mark Wahlberg]] is leaving his band, the Funky Bunch, and going into acting—a good-natured jab at the actor's [[Cade Yeager|leading role]] in the earlier ''Transformers'' movies, ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'' and ''The Last Knight''.
*Scourge name-drops [[Primus]] as he taunts Optimus Prime, the first reference to the Transformers' creator god in any of the live-action movies.
*Scourge injures Prime's left flank in the museum battle, which mirrors the injuries [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] gave to the original [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in ''The Transformers: The Movie.'' Prime even grasps the wound in the same way his predecessor did.
*Airazor explains that Unicron imbues his heralds with a "dark energy," which increases their power, but also has a corrupting effect—almost certainly a reference to [[Dark Energon]], the life-energy of Unicron introduced in the Aligned continuity.
*Unicron psychically tortures Scourge from afar in the same way he did [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] in ''The Transformers: The Movie''.
*When Optimus Primal talks to Optimus Prime about how the Maximals trust the humans, he says there's "[[More than Meets the Eye (disambiguation)|more to them than meets the eye]]".
*Optimus states the Cybertronian belief that "the battle with darkness" will continue: "[['Til all are one]]." This phrase, and the idea of a day prophesied in Cybertron legend when it will come to pass, originates with ''The Transformers: The Movie,'' and is here used to thematically connect with the shared struggle of the Autobots, Maximals, and humans.
*When the heroes are lining up for the final battle, brown fins briefly pop out of the sides of Wheeljack's head, evoking his [[Wheeljack (G1)|Generation 1 design]].
*As the heroes charge towards the Terrorcon army, Optimus Primal commands Rhinox and Cheetor to "Maximize!", which was the Maximal [[activation code]] from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.
*Optimus Primal briefly fights with his double bladed scimitar from his [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|original toy]].
*In the final battle, when Unicron sends an army of Sweeps to reinforce his minions on Earth, they make their descent in the form of yellow-and-black orbs, which appears to be a nod to Unicron's [[Mini-Con]] from ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'', the yellow-and-black sphere, [[Dead End (Armada)|Dead End]].
*The armored suit Mirage forms over Noah is conceptually an homage to the Generation 1 [[exosuit]]s, while its overall design hews closer to [[Kicker Jones]]' battlesuit from ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]''.
*In a glorious homage to [[Transformers (film)|the 2007 movie]], the musical highlight of [[Steve Jablonsky]]'s "Arrival to Earth" plays as Optimus, Noah, and Primal escape the collapsing transwarp portal's suction.
* Optimus Prime's final speech is set to a remixed version of the track "No Sacrifice, No Victory" from the 2007 movie's score, which was also reprised for the endings of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' and ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''.
*[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and Transformers have frequently crossed over in comics and the occasional toyline over the years, though this marks the first time the two have co-existed in a feature film. Notably, the G.I. Joe insignia on Burke's business card is the version introduced in the film ''G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra''.
*Before the assault on the Transwarp Gate, Wheeljack says “It sounds like we’re all going to die.” A possible reference to the infamous quote from the Maximal [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]].

==Real-life references==
*A TV screen briefly shows news coverage of the {{w|Murder trial of O. J. Simpson#Bronco chase|O.J. Simpson white Ford Bronco car chase}}, which places the events of the film near [[June 17]], 1994.
*Throughout the film, Noah and Kris use the codenames "[[Sonic the Hedgehog (character)|Sonic]]" and "{{w|Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog)|Tails}}" (and in one instance, Mirage is referred to as "{{w|Knuckles the Echidna|Knuckles}}"), a nod to the characters from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' videogame series.
*Kris wears a shirt of the ''Mighty Morphin' [[Power Rangers]]'', another property owned by Hasbro. A poster of said series also appears on his wall.
*Kris is heard playing ''Super Mario Bros.'' on his [[Game Boy]]. However, see "Anachronisms".
*Noah gives their address as 974 Wilson Avenue in Brooklyn. While the avenue in question exists in reality, the street numbers only reach the 600s.
*Kris attempts to comfort Noah after his unsuccessful interview by relating his struggle to [[Superman|Superman's]] difficulty finding a job before being hired by the {{w|Daily Planet}}.
*When Mirage compliments Noah after the car chase, he quotes the line "I like it a lot" from ''Dumb and Dumber''. However, see "Anachronisms".
*Also in the aftermath of the chase, he refers to the 1988 movie ''{{w|Big (film)|Big}}'' during his impression of Optimus Prime.
*Noah calls Mirage {{w|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.}} for obvious reasons. He also makes a reference to [[Indiana Jones]] when discovering the hidden temple in Peru.
*Bumblebee drops various voice lines from famous real-life films throughout the whole movie, including ''{{w|Die Hard}}'', ''[[Spaceballs]]'', ''{{w|They Live}}'', ''{{w|A Few Good Men}}'' and ''{{w|Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface}}.''
*While fleeing in the museum, Elena sings Zhané's song "{{w|Groove Thang}}" to try to calm herself down.
*As they rendezvous with the other Autobots for the trip to Peru, Mirage announces that "[[Wu-Tang Clan|Wu-Tang]] is in the building."
*Elena sings the TLC song "{{w|Waterfalls (TLC song)|Waterfalls}}" to herself during the flight to Peru. However, see "Anachronisms".
*The {{w|Inti Raymi}} festival taking place when the Autobots arrive in Peru is a real festival that takes place on [[June 24]], further tying the film's events to that month.
*During the mountain road car chase at Peru, the shot of Scourge's insignia-covered grille reflected in Prime's rearview mirror homages a famous shot from [[Steven Spielberg]]'s 1971 film ''{{w|Duel (1971 film)|Duel}}.''
*When meeting Primal, Elena brings up the {{w|Nazca Lines}} and the archeological site at {{w|Tikal}}, asking if the Maximals were responsible for creating them. [[Order of the Witwiccans|In this case]], however, Primal takes no credit for human ingenuity.
*Mirage calls Optimus Primal "{{w|Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong}}".
*At the end of the film, Elena appears on the CBS news program ''[[60 Minutes]]''; host [[Lesley Stahl]] makes a cameo appearance as herself during the segment.
*The award on the wall that serves as the hidden switch to access the G.I. Joe base reads "Real Hero Award" with the image of an American flag, referencing the subtitle of the 1980s ''G.I. Joe'' franchise: "A Real American Hero".

==Errors==
===Filming, animation, and technical errors===
*When Scourge kills Apelinq, he welds his Maximal insignia to his right shoulder, but throughout the rest of the film, Apelinq's insignia is gone. In the same scene, Scourge says "They never learn...", but his mouth is not moving.
*A recurring error sees the CGI models for Freezer and Novakane, which were supposed to have unique head injuries for each character, being switched around at random at various points in the movie. A very noticeable example of this happens when Scourge deploys a single Sweep in Peru whose model has an intact head with just a pair of scars on its forehead, but is moments later replaced by the model with a much bigger wound and a missing left antenna. Several other Sweeps of varying sizes also reuse these models during the final battle, completely taking away the intended uniqueness of each head design.
*When Reek yells down the street as Noah and Kris depart, his dialogue does not match his lips.
*When Optimus Prime is about to throw his axe at Scourge, there is some distance between the two. However, in the next shot they are within just meters of each other.
*When Scourge says "Now, to add a Prime to my collection", his claw is both folded in on his arm and deployed at the same time.
*When Mirage attempts to eavesdrop on Noah and Kris' conversation, he is barely tall enough peer into the balcony while standing on a car. However, a minute later when Kris promises him to keep Noah safe he is somehow tall enough to comfortably look into the balcony without anything to stand on.
*The doors that go onto Wheeljack's back are unmarked brown in the scene of him transforming from van mode, but feature text on them in the very next cut where he is in robot mode.
*When Wheeljack audibly gasps at Noah assuming he can speak Spanish, his mouth is not moving.
*When Mirage and Optimus Prime turn into a street in Cusco, there is another Optimus Prime truck in the background. This can only be seen if you pause at the right moment.
*As Optimus decks Scourge during the Peru chase, Scourge seems to suffer a wardrobe malfunction as a rogue wheel not located anywhere on his torso springs out of his right armpit.
*Additionally, there are times when vehicles just disappear during the Switchback chase;
**Scourge's truck conveniently takes a lot of time to round a corner Optimus has just turned, despite being only feet behind him
**Mirage is no longer visible next to Nightbird when Battletrap pulls his 180 turn stunt.
*When Wheeljack is recovering from being attacked by Rhinox, his mouth is not moving as he says "Ay-ay-ay."
*As the heroes are walking through the jungle, the scene cuts to Elena while she is saying "So, what are you?", which does not match her lips.
*As Optimus Prime looks up at Unicron arriving at the mouth of the portal, Arcee can be seen scuttling about blasting Sweeps; except her blasters produce no laser effects.
*From the time Bumblebee acquires his offroad Camaro, his wheels are inconsistent between his robot and vehicle modes, with some shots showing his normal Camaro's wheels instead of the offroad ones. It is most visible for the wheels on his shoulders.
*Scourge's mouth is not moving as he proclaims "Unicron will prevail!" before shooting the transwarp control panel.
*Elena audibly whimpering in Bumblebee as he drives through hoards of Sweeps does not match her lips.

===Continuity errors===
*The fight between Optimus and Scourge outside the museum has some very inconsistent physics:
**Scourge slams Optimus against a nearby obelisk, the impact somehow doesn't make the structure collapse although the Autobot leader is made of materials much harder than stone or bricks and having much more physical mass. Scourge then punches Prime in the face, again, against the obelisk which might suggest the structure is durable enough to hold a full blow thrown by a highly-advanced mechanical being.
**Yet Scourge breaks it with his bare hands with little effort shortly after in order to hit Optimus again.
**''Yet'' the obelisk is still heavy and hard enough to beat Prime to the ground.
**'''''Yet''''' the impact doesn't leave any visible damage to Optimus while the object itself crumbles like being made of LEGO bricks.
**[[B.O.T. (episode)|Argh.]]
*After Scourge incapacitates Bumblebee, he plucks his Autobot badge off with a normal left hand. In the following shot, however, his left hand is transformed into his giant claw and he is no longer holding the badge.
*During the chase out of Cusco, when Optimus Prime reaches the bend, the Terrorcons are very close behind him. However, when he transforms into robot mode, they are suddenly much further back.
*When Stratosphere transforms in Peru, it starts with him facing away from Optimus Prime. However, in the next shot he's now facing towards him.
*When Scourge walks away with the second half of the key, his left arm switches from the claw to the cannon between shots.

===Geographic discontinuities===
*There ''is'' a museum on Ellis Island... however, it's a [https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/national-immigration-museum/ museum that documents the turn-of-the-century immigrant experience], and not the generalized natural history museum shown in the film. Notably, the actual museum is composited out of the movie's establishing shots so that the made-up museum setpiece can replace it.
*Elena states that she has never left New York. Ellis Island, her place of work, is almost completely owned by the state of New Jersey, discounting a small portion that was the island's original size that is still a part of New York. Even discounting that, the waters surrounding the island are wholly owned by the Garden State.
*When the Autobots arrive at Cusco, they land at the citadel of [[Sacsayhuamán]], an Inca fortress on the northern outskirts of the city, and the site is deserted. Even on a normal day, it should be crawling with tourists, but the Autobots are specifically said to arrive during the [[Inti Raymi]] festival... whose central activity is a recreation of an Inca ceremony ''at'' Sacsayhuamán.
*The fight with the corrupted Airazor takes place at Machu Picchu, which nobody is witness to, as again it is completely deserted. It should be crawling with tourists, the staff that works at the site, the guests and staff of the lodge located right next to the complex, or the population of the town of Aguas Calientes at the base of the mountain.

===Anachronisms===
*Though the "you died!" music and mention of Bowser imply Kris is playing ''Super Mario Bros.'' on his Game Boy, that game wouldn't see a release on the system until 1999's ''[https://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario_Bros._Deluxe Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]'' on the Game Boy Color. The only Mario platformers released for Game Boy by 1994 were the ''Super Mario Land'' games, which featured different antagonists and music.
*The F1-styled car Mirage turns into is based on a design chassis that would be introduced over the course of the second half of the 90s.
*Elena sings "Waterfalls" by TLC to calm herself down. Assuming the film takes place in June, it would still be a few months until the November 1994 release of the album ''CrazySexyCool'', which the song first appeared on.
*Similarly, Mirage quotes a line from ''Dumb and Dumber'', a film that would not release until December 1994.
*A green car that was smashed and thrown in the Museum scene was a B5.5 Volkswagen Passat which would not be released until 2001.
*The promo for ''60 Minutes'' uses the program's contemporary imaging, including the use of the current CBS News logotype above that of the show.

==Music==
A score album, ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Music from the Motion Picture)]]'', was released alongside the film on June 9, 2023. Paramount also compiled a Spotify Playlist, ''[[Transformers Rise of the Beats]]'', featuring songs that appeared in the film.

==Home video releases==
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Just a month after its theatrical release, Paramount released ''Rise of the Beasts'' to digital storefronts on [[July 11]], with the DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray releases following a few months later on [[October 10]]. Bonus features include cast and crew featurettes and deleted/extended scenes.

==Reception==
{{quote|Thanks to some genuine human drama between the set pieces and palpable affection for the title characters, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is one of the franchise's more enjoyable outings.|Critics Consensus|[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_rise_of_the_beasts Rotten Tomatoes]}}

Coming off the back of the generally well-received ''Bumblebee'', ''Rise of the Beasts'' received mixed reviews. While critics largely praised the old-school adventure film sequences and the performances of the human leads, most criticism was directed at the film's protracted final battle scene and its overuse of computer-generated imagery—in particular, some critics juxtaposed the film's tamer action scenes against the madcap, sometimes over-the-top practical effect-based destruction employed by [[Michael Bay]] during his time in the director's chair. As of writing, the film holds a 52% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although the audience score sits at a much higher 91%.

In the US and Canada, ''Rise of the Beasts'' opened to a strong $60.5 million start—higher than both ''The Last Knight'' and ''Bumblebee'' <ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-spider-man-spiderverse-1235412771/ "'Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts' Conquers 'Spider-Verse' With $60M+ Opening, But Animated Pic's Second Weekend Hold Strong -- Box Office"]</ref>—but suffered a brutal 66.1 percent drop in its second weekend, where it lost out to ''{{w|The Flash (film)|The Flash}}'', ''{{w|Elemental (2023 film)|Elemental}}'', and ''{{w|Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse|Across the Spider-Verse}}''.<ref>[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/the-flash-box-office-disappoint-pixar-elemental-flop-1235647927/ "'The Flash' Disappoints With $55 Million Debut, Pixar's 'Elemental' Flops With $29.5 Million in Battle of Box Office Lightweights"]</ref><ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2023W24/?ref_=bo_we_nav Domestic 2023 Weekend 24]</ref> A week later, the film took in a comparatively dismal $11 million.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office-the-flash-no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-1235422274/ 'Spider-Verse' Swinging Ahead Of 'Elemental' After Game Of Chicken; 'Flash' Edging Out 'No Hard Feelings' -- Saturday PM Box Office]</ref> The film's domestic theatrical run came to a close in August 2023 with approximately a $439 million worldwide gross, marking the lowest-grossing instalment in the franchise.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-franchise-box-office-low/]</ref>

Despite the lower-than-expected box office performance, Hasbro seems to regard the film as an overall success and noted it as one of the top box office performers of the year in a subsequent investor presentation.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/08/03/tfw2005-coverage-of-hasbro-2023-q2-earnings-conference-call-492111 TFW2005 Coverage Of Hasbro 2023 Q2 Earnings Conference Call</ref> This optimism might come down to the fact that the summer 2023 movie slate was ''particularly'' packed; this, combined with a post-COVID shift in media demographics, means that pretty much every summer movie that wasn't ''{{w|Barbie (film)|Barbie}}'' or ''{{w|Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer}}'' underperformed to some degree. Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins described the film's performance as "not great, but good" and blamed its financial woes on an increasingly fractured global box office less receptive to American movies—especially in China, the franchise's biggest overseas market, where ''Rise of the Beasts''' gross of $90 million was only half of what Paramount had projected it to earn.<ref>[https://variety.com/2023/film/features/brian-robbins-paramount-pictures-tmnt-mutant-mayhem-tom-cruise-1235679142/ After a Decade in Limbo, Brian Robbins Is Giving Paramount a Makeover With ‘Ninja Turtles,’ Tom Cruise and ‘Gladiator 2’]</ref> It should be noted that ''Rise of the Beasts'' was a huge hit in [[Peru]], where the film's third act is set; it surpassed ''{{w|Avengers: Endgame}}'' as the highest-grossing movie ever in the country,<ref>[https://larepublica.pe/cine-series/2023/08/02/transformers-el-despertar-de-las-bestias-es-la-pelicula-mas-taquillera-de-la-historia-en-peru-transformers-7-machu-picchu-103204 'Transformers: el despertar de las bestias' es la película más taquillera de la historia en Perú]</ref> and Peru ranks as the fourth highest-grossing territory for the film, behind only the United States, China and Mexico.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2443334149/ Rise of the Beasts International Numbers]</ref>

==Development details==

[[File:TRANSFORMERS-2022.jpg|thumb|250px|This guy's got bearings of chrome steel.]]

* 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>
* October 3, 2015 — During his keynote speech at the MIP Junior Conference, [[Allspark (company)|Allspark]]'s [[Stephen J. Davis]] notes that the writing team has come up with film concepts for Transformers 5, 6, 7, and 8.<ref name="stephendaviskeynote">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_P2fw_DlS4&t=812 Stephen Davis's keynote speech] at MIPJunior.</ref>
* February 12, 2016 — At [[Toy Fair 2016]], Hasbro reveals the projected release date of Transformers 7, along with the dates for the two preceding films.<ref name="toyfairreveal" />
* September 23, 2017 — At Licensing Europe 2017, Hasbro announces Transformers 7 will have an "entirely new, exciting storyline".<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/09/23/2019-transformers-movie-feature-entirely-new-storyline-349463 2019 Transformers Movie To Feature An Entirely New Storyline] on TFW2005</ref>
* February 16, 2018 — Hasbro clarifies at [[Toy Fair 2018]] that the film will be a reset of the franchise and has been delayed indefinitely until a new creative team is in place.<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/02/16/transformers-cinematic-universe-current-movie-series-rebooted-358641 Transformers Cinematic Universe Is Over: Current Movie Series To Be Rebooted] on TFW2005</ref>
* May 24, 2018 — Paramount drops the film from their release schedule.<ref>[http://collider.com/transformers-7-cancelled/amp/ Paramount Officially Pulls the Next 'Transformers' Sequel from Their Release Date Schedule] on Collider</ref>
* March 15, 2019 — di Bonaventura states a sequel to ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' is in development.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/two-sequels-in-transformers-live-action-franchise-confirmed-in-development/43083/ Two Sequels in Transformers Live Action Franchise Confirmed in Development] on Seibertron</ref>
* March 18, 2019 — di Bonaventura claims that the next main ''Transformers'' film will be a reboot closely tied to the ''Bumblebee'' sequel, rather than a direct sequel to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''. Either way, Paramount will pick the best script for ''Transformers 7'' and release that first.<ref>[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bumblebee-producer-says-next-transformers-movie-wi/1100-6465652/ Bumblebee Producer Says Next Transformers Movie Will Be A Reboot] on GameSpot</ref>
[[File:Stevencaplejr autobot cast.jpg|thumb|250px|Hey, you think ''that's'' speed? You ain't seen the Golden Rocket.]]
[[File:Stevencaplejr terrorcon cast.jpg|thumb|250px|Then we will create ''alternate forms'', based on the most powerful local creatures!]]
* January 27, 2020 — Variety reports two ''Transformers'' films are being penned, to be produced simultaneously: one written by [[James Vanderbilt]], another to be written by [[Joby Harold]].<ref>[https://variety.com/2020/film/news/transformers-franchise-revamp-bumblebee-james-vanderbilt-joby-harold-1203482496/ ‘Transformers’ Franchise Gets a Revamp With Two Separate Films in the Works] on Variety</ref> Deadline reports that Vanderbilt's script is for a spin-off film based on ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'', while Harold's script continues the story from the ''Bumblebee'' film.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/01/transformers-movies-paramount-1202843234/ Dual ‘Transformers’ Movies In The Works At Paramount] on Deadline</ref>
* May 2, 2020 — [[Hasbro]] CEO [[Brian Goldner]] confirms that a new Transformers live-action movie is slated to release on [[June 24]], 2022. However, only one between Harold's ''Bumblebee'' sequel and Vanderbilt's ''Beast Wars'' film will make it to production first.
* August 21, 2020 — New Republic Pictures is announced as a new co-financier for Paramount in a ten-picture deal in the wake of the success of 2019's ''Rocketman''.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/08/paramount-pictures-new-republic-pictures-10-picture-cofinancing-deal-top-gun-maverick-1203018250/ New Republic Pictures Signs 10-Pic Co-Fi Deal With Paramount Pictures; ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Among Films] on Deadline</ref>
* November 16, 2020 — [[Steven Caple Jr.]] is announced as the director.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/11/transformers-director-steven-caple-jr-1234613830/ Transformers’: ‘Creed 2’ Director Steven Caple Jr. Tapped To Direct Next Installment In Paramount And Hasbro Franchise] on Deadline</ref>
* April 1, 2021 — [[Anthony Ramos]] is in talks for a starring role.<ref>[https://collider.com/transformers-7-cast-anthony-ramos/ Exclusive: Anthony Ramos in Talks to Star in New 'Transformers' Movie] at Collider</ref>
* April 29, 2021 — [[Dominique Fishback]] is in final negotiations to star in the film.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2021/04/transformers-dominique-fishback-anthony-ramos-paramount-eone-and-hasbro-franchise-1234746855/ 'Transformers': Dominique Fishback Lands Lead Role Opposite Anthony Ramos In Next Installment For The Paramount Franchise] on Deadline</ref>
* June 13, 2021 — A casting call sheet for filming in Montreal reveals that the film is set in [[1992]].<ref>[https://www.transformersfr.com/t5190p250-parlons-des-films-transformers-a-venir#190206 Rumeur ― le "7ème Film Transformers en prise de vue réelle" se déroulerait en 1992] on transformersfr.com</ref>
* June 22, 2021 — A Paramount virtual event is held in which the movie's title, premise, and few of the characters and cast are unveiled (revealing it to be both the ''Bumblebee'' and ''Beast Wars'' films in one).<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Currently attending a Paramount virtual event about the next #Transformers film. Report to follow!|link=https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3ABWTF_Ben)%20until%3A2021-06-23%20since%3A2021-06-22|name=Ben Yee|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|link=https://bwtf.com/news/rise-of-the-beasts-character-descriptions|name=Ben Yee|site=BWTF|title=Movie News: "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" Character Descriptions|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref> The film's logo and official premise are also unveiled on official Transformers social media accounts.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The battle on Earth is no longer just between Autobots and Decepticons… Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons join Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, in theatres June 24, 2022.|link=https://twitter.com/transformers/status/1407422768602181632|name=@transformers|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref>
* June 28, 2021 — [[Ron Perlman]] is announced to be reprising his role as Optimus Primal from ''[[Transformers: Power of the Primes (cartoon)|Power of the Primes]]''. [[Darnell Metayer]] and [[Josh Peters]] are confirmed as writers, inspired by Joby Harold's earlier draft.<ref>{{citesocial|quote='''Ron Perlman''' has been tapped to voice Optimus Primal in '''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''', Collider has exclusively learned. [...] ''Rise of the Beasts'' will be led by rising stars '''Anthony Ramos''' (''In the Heights'') and '''Dominique Fishback''' (''Judas and the Black Messiah''), and '''Steven Caple Jr.''' (''Creed II'') is directing from a script by '''Darnell Metayer''' and '''Josh Peters''', who worked off an earlier draft by '''Joby Harold'''.|link=https://collider.com/ron-perlman-optimus-primal-voice-transformers-7-rise-of-the-beasts/|name=Jeff Sneider|site=Collider|title=Exclusive: 'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' Adds Ron Perlman as Voice of Optimus Primal|year=2021|month=06|day=28}}</ref>
* July 11, 2021 — Rapper [[Tobe Nwigwe]] announces on Instagram that he's been cast in the movie.<ref>[https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/houston-s-tobe-nwigwe-earns-emmy-nom-16317174 Houston’s Tobe Nwigwe earns Emmy nom, 'Transformers' role] from the Houston Chronicle</ref>
* October 6, 2021 — Caple Jr. reveals the vehicle modes for the Autobot and Terrorcon cast through his Instagram account.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The squad is out…|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CUsm_wyLory/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2021|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* October 20, 2021 — Filming is completed.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=That’s a wrap 🎬|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOw5z2r9TP/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2021|month=10|day=20}}</ref>
* October 21, 2021 — Cuscopolita reports on the vehicles with the film's Peru crew, confirming the unidentified vehicles as [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] and [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]].<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.facebook.com/cuscopolitamagazine/videos/1941112319403899|name=Cuscopolita|site=Facebook|title=Exclusiva con los Transformers|year=2021|month=10|day=20}}</ref>
* October 22, 2021 — Ramos makes a guest appearance on [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2021]], confirming Cheetor, his favorite ''Beast Wars'' character, will be in the film.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I am a ''Transformers'' fan, ''Beast Wars'' fan, Cheetor is my #1 favorite of all time, so it's dope to have Cheetor, to be in this movie with Cheetor, it's gonna be crazy.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjtxJqrv-bI&t=6051s|name=Anthony Ramos|site=YouTube|title=Hasbro PulseCon 2021 - DAY ONE|year=2021|month=10|day=22}}</ref>
* November 10, 2021 — Paramount announces the film has been delayed to [[June 9]], [[2023]].<ref name="2023release">{{citesocial|quote=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has moved back a year and will now bow June 9, 2023. It previously was slated for June 24, 2022.|link=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-trek-transformers-movie-release-date-1235045937/|name=Aaron Couch|site=The Hollywood Reporter|title=‘Star Trek,’ ‘Transformers’ Movies Pushed Back at Paramount|year=2021|month=11|day=10}}</ref>
* February 15, 2022 — Paramount confirms that ''Rise of the Beasts'' will be the first entry in a trilogy of films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be released theatrically in 2023 and is the first of three new installments. A new animated series from @Nickelodeon arrives this fall. And in 2024, the franchise expands further with a CG animated Transformers theatrical film. #ParamountPlus|link=https://twitter.com/paramountplus/status/1493706271207292928|name=Paramount+|site=Twitter|year=2022|month=02|day=15}}</ref>
* October 11, 2022 — Caple Jr. reveals through Instagram that [[Pete Davidson]] is the voice of Mirage, and [[Michelle Yeoh]] is the voice of Airazor.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sneak peek of Pete voicing Mirage & @michelleyeoh_official blessing us as the voice of Air Razor|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjlx3PPPC_J/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=10|day=11}}</ref>
* October 21, 2022 — [[Tobe Nwigwe]] states on an Instagram post that they are doing some re-shoots for ''Rise of the Beasts'', including featuring his character in additional scenes.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The head people from ''Transformers'' said I did so good in my part they wanna add me to some more scenes. So I gotta go shoot some more stuff for ''Transformers''.|link=https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cj9PnevsVb1/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY|name=Tobe Nwigwe|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=10|day=21}}</ref>
[[File:ROTBTeaserPoster.jpg|thumb|250px|right|I'd say that's PRIME! Let's do it!]]
* December 1, 2022 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWDskI46Js official teaser trailer] is released by Paramount Pictures in conjunction with São Paulo's CCXP convention, giving audiences a first glimpse of the film and its various characters, including Mirage, Arcee, Scourge and the Maximals. Multiple voice cast members are also announced.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2022/12/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-peter-dinklage-liza-koshy-john-dimaggio-cast-1235186104/]</ref>
* December 2, 2022 — [[Jongnic Bontemps]] is announced as the film's score composer.<ref>[http://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/12/02/jongnic-bontemps-to-compose-music-for-steven-caple-jr-s-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts/]</ref>
* December 16, 2022 — Caple Jr. shares a clip of Peter Cullen performing on his Instagram account.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=🐐|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPM80yPcsP/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=12|day=16}}</ref>
* December 26, 2022 — Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal make a "guest" appearance on the 2022 [[Nickelodeon]] Nickmas NFL game, showcasing both modes and their transformations.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5X0F_AvY8Q YouTube upload] of a recording for Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal on the 2022 Nickmas NFL game</ref>
* January 31, 2023 — [[Sam Smith]] reveals toy concept art for a new character from the film, [[Freezer]].<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFlXXNOly1/</ref>
* February 12, 2023 — Paramount airs a 30-second TV spot detailing Mirage's Porsche 911 vehicle mode for Super Bowl LVII in collaboration with Porsche.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/02/2023-super-bowl-movie-trailers-the-flash-fast-x-transformers-ant-man-expected-1235247160/ Super Bowl Movie Trailer Spots Will Include ‘The Flash’, ‘Fast X’, ‘Transformers’ & ‘Ant-Man’ — Deadline]</ref>
* April 2, 2023 — During the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Final Four on CBS, Paramount aired a first-of-its-kind mixed reality TV spot that showed off Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal appearing on a 90s basketball court that transformed from the court the actual basketball match was being played on. A few brief clips from the first trailer were also shown.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeeIfpbUAHg]</ref>
* April 6, 2023 — Actor [[Tongayi Chirisa]] announces on Instagram that he is the voice of Cheetor.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So there is a story to this!!! Per the usual standard .. I had to sign an NDA, so I had NO IDEA what I was reading for.. it was only when I was in the booth to do my voice over that it dawned on me that I was reading for TRANSFORMERS Like what!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯 I totally geeked out in the moment.. Man, to say this is mad exciting is an understatement... So thankful. So honored, so blessed!!!! Massive shout out and THANK YOU to @stevencaplejr for putting your boi on! Appreciate you, fam!!! @transformersmovie..🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 IT WAS ALL A DREAM!!!! Welcome, y'all. I am your transformer #CHEETOR!!!! Let's goooo!!!!!! #NdezvaMwari #Yeshua #smallbeginnings #ontherise|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqs_PQ1J_s6/|name=Tongayi Chirisa|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=04|day=06}}</ref>
* April 14, 2023 — To promote the film, Optimus Prime introduces Tobe Nwigwe's performance of "[[On My Soul]]" at {{w|Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella}}.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Calling all Autobots. @TobeNwigwe and #OptimusPrime have rolled out to #Coachella. #Transformers #RiseOfTheBeasts|link=https://twitter.com/transformers/status/1647069845731803136|name=Transformers|site=Twitter|year=2022|month=04|day=14}}</ref>
* April 27, 2023 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itnqEauWQZM official trailer] is released by Paramount Pictures, revealing more of the movie and Unicron's role in the plot, as well as delivering a first, brief look at the Predacons.
* May 6, 2023 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxore0Gxwpc first clip] is showcased at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, showing the Autobots' first interaction with the Maximals.
* May 12, 2023 — The website Puliwood reveals the film's Hungarian dub cast...including the voice of [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]], a character that had not yet been announced to be appearing in the film.<ref>[https://www.puliwood.hu/ismertetok/exkluziv-ilyen-szinkronhangokkal-jon-a-transformers-a-fenevadak-kora-325900.html EXKLUZÍV: ilyen szinkronhangokkal jön a Transformers: A fenevadak kora]</ref>
* May 27, 2023 — The film's world premiere is held at Marina Bay Sands in [[Singapore]].
* June 5, 2023 — David Sobolov confirms on Instagram that he is also voicing Apelinq in the film.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CtIhCcwu4Ld/|quote=#transformers #riseofthebeasts fans… I just saw our epic premiere in Brooklyn! Tonight, I’m excited to reveal that I am the voice… of Apelinq!|name=David Sobolov|site=Twitter|year=2023|month=06|day=05}}</ref>
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===Changes before, during, and after production===
[[File:ROTB-concept-Rampage.jpg|thumb|250px|I prefer to beat my enemies the old-fashioned way: brutally!]]
* An early cut of the film opened with a different prologue, in which a Decepticon named [[Transit (ROTB)|Transit]], dispatched from a Decepticon-controlled Cybertron to hunt down Optimus Prime, battles and is killed by Optimus, who dumps his body in the Hudson River alongside numerous other Decepticons who have tried to do the same in the past few years. The scene was dropped due to test audiences finding it too dark, but [[John DiMaggio]] remains credited as the voice of Transit even in the finished film. Most of the visual effects for the scene were completed, and it was included (sans the river-dumping part) as a bonus feature with the movie's home media release.
**The scene was replaced for the finished film with Unicron's attack on the Maximal homeworld, which in the earlier cut was recounted by Airazor with hologram visual-aids during the scene when she meets the Autobots mid-movie.
* Cheetor and Rhinox were initially intended to be introduced slightly earlier, encountering Elena and Noah in the underground cavern. In scenes interspersed with the Autobots' and Terrorcons' running battle on the hilltop road, Cheetor was to be the one who took down Freezer as he menaced the two humans, after which Noah's gauntlet would accidentally fire a shot at the Maximal, causing him and Rhinox to chase them through the cave. Cut in favor of making the Autobot/Terrorcon battle one unbroken scene, the alternate version was included as a bonus on the home media release.
* Concept art sketches show [[:File:Rampage-face.jpg|a movie version]] of [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] was originally supposed to appear as [[:File:ROTB-Rampage-concept.jpg|a deceased corpse]] during the underground cavern sequence of the movie. Although scrapped for the final cut, [https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu44E6aoECC/ a full 360° CGI model] for the character was created.
* Multiple changes were made to the film's ending, which originally had a much darker tone like the scrapped opening. Originally, Mirage wasn't planned to survive the final battle, and Optimus would have been sucked into the portal after destroying the Transwarp Key and wind up floating in space before Unicron in the post-credits scene. Reactions by the audience in test screenings convinced Caple to change the ending to something a bit more hopeful, wanting to let the good guys get a solid win.<ref name=AltEnding>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-ending-1235512382/ ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Director Steven Caple Jr. Talks That Ending, Hailee Steinfeld and Test Screening Changes — The Hollywood Reporter]</ref> The scene of Prime and Unicron was included as an extra with the home media release.
* Two versions of the final scene were filmed: one in which Agent Burke's business card reveals him to be part of [[Sector Seven]], and the version used in the film, in which he's part of G.I. Joe. According to Caple, the Sector Seven version was filmed only as misdirection, and the G.I. Joe version was always the one he intended to use.<ref name=Joe/>
* Other deleted/extended scenes included on the home media release include: Elena's moment of panicked disbelief (prominently showcased in the movie's trailer) shortly after the museum battle; Noah speaking with his mother when he returns home after the museum battle; a wholesomely cute moment between Elena and Airazor before Mirage and Noah join the group to depart for Peru, in which Airazor explains the Maximal insignia; and a short scene of Optimus Primal about to hand the Transwarp Key over to Optimus Prime, before they are interrupted by Airazor's rampage.
* Additional cuts not represented in the extras from throughout the film included: a scene of Bumblebee showing a polaroid of himself and [[Charlie Watson]] to Optimus Prime as they wait outside the museum, to emphasise that some humans are trustworthy; innuendos between Arcee and Wheeljack that hint at a romantic attraction between the two; some dialogue from Scourge emphasising that (not unlike Galvatron in the original animated movie) he is an unwilling servant of Unicron; a scene of Wheeljack lending his glasses to Optimus Prime to use like a telescope; and an alternate plan to destroy the Transwarp Key in the final act that involves using the deceased Airazor's spark as a bomb, only for the bomb to be lost, leaving Elena to figure out the codes.
* During production, the Scorponok drones initially had a troll-like robot mode, and dozens of them would have merged into a massive Scorponok [[combiner]] that towered over the Autobots and Maximals in the final battle. Although their [https://www.eddiedelrio.com 3D models] were made, they were ultimately cut out.
* Concept art was created for a fourth Terrorcon who ultimately never made it to the final film. This character was referred to with the working name “[[:File:Bloodhound.jpeg|'''Bloodhound''']]” <ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CuheJkfxGeW/|quote=Early ideas for #bloodhound. He was my first task so I mostly carried over the process used on #bumblebee back in 2017. Swipe and you can see the rough sculpts I did in VR to capture attitude/proportion/etc. Then I would paint in details with photoshop. By the end of the show I was blocking in VR then jumped straight to zbrush/maya as it took roughly the same amount of time to sculpt everything.|name=Shane Baxley|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=07|day=10}}</ref> and would have transformed into a demonic-looking Oldsmobile 442. <ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CuPeUkzROiu/|quote=BLOODHOUND! This was the first #terracon Haworth had me do using an #oldsmobile442 which I think @stevencaplejr has in his garage? Unfortunately the scenes with this guy got cut - but he still got #imdb credit 🤣🤙🏻 #transformers #riseofthebeasts|name=Shane Baxley|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=07|day=03}}</ref>
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==Notes==
* In a first for the franchise, the lead human actors, multiple writers, the composer, and the director are all people of color.
* This is the first movie in the series not to be worked on by [[Industrial Light & Magic]]; this time around the CG effects were done by [[Moving Picture Company]] and [[WetaFX]].
* Steven Caple Jr. was initially sceptical of working on a ''Transformers'' movie, which at that point in development was being called ''Bumblebee 2'', because he was uncertain about jumping right into another sequel after directing ''{{w|Creed II}}''—however, the incorporation of elements inspired by ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', which Caple Jr. had been a fan of, helped sway him. Upon joining the project, he pitched several revisions, drawing from his enthusiasm for ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' by adding [[Unicron]] (and the [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s) and Noah's exosuit, along with a prologue on the [[Maximal]]s' homeworld and a new arc for [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] centred around his initial misanthropy.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The first time that- I did ''Creed 2'', and the first time the studio ever knocked on my door, it was for ''Bumblebee 2''. And I was like, "I don't want to do- I just came out from ''Creed 2'', I don't want to do a sequel..." you know? And so a year had gone by—or maybe two, right before COVID—and they said, "we found out the story we want to tackle: we want to bring in ''Beast Wars''." I was like, "I know all about ''Beast Wars'', I'm down for ''Beast Wars''." And so they developed a script on their own, they passed it to me—2020, October 5th, I remember the date—and I jumped right in and I kind of did my own version of the pitch, I said: "I love where you guys are going, you guys want to do New York, you guys want to do the 90s, you want to do Peru, but here's what I'll do, with the characters..." So I changed up Optimus Prime, I gave him a whole pitch on how I would start him with like, not loving humans at first, and not besiding Noah right off the rip, they're gonna have friction between the two... Gave 'em a pitch for Optimus Primal, where they start off in the top of the movie, and I gave them a new Unicron- I mean a new villain, which was Unicron and the Terrorcon squad. I just felt like, as a fan, we've been tiptoeing around Unicron, and all the other films kind of like hinted towards him towards the end, and I just really want to expand the universe and I felt like he was that perfect source to do so, because he tells us there's another world out there, there's more Transformers out there, it's not just Autobots and Decepticons. And then of course the [[exosuit]], that was my idea, it was homage to the 80s cartoon, so... It was a bit of that, pitched it to 'em and they loved the heart, they love where I was going with the direction of the characters, and yeah, they kind of gave me the key to play!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxUukVwKLCc|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Collider|title=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Interview: Director Reveals Big Change to Film|year=2023|month=06|day=06}}</ref>
* [[Tobe Nwigwe]]'s character of [[Reek]] was based Steven Caple Jr.'s friend Tarik Jackson, who passed away before shooting began in 2021.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The way I got the ''Transformers'' role was insane. [...] One of [Steven Caple Jr.'s] best friends was a fan of the music, and his best friend, right, like, as they was getting ready to start shooting the movie... passed. Passed, yeah. And he had Paramount Studios reach out to me to try to play a specific- the best friend role in ''Transformers''. They kind of emulated who his best friend was in real life. He told Paramount [...] "reach out to Tobe and if he send anything back that's even ''halfway'' decent... I want to use him." But because I had never done no acting ever in my life, I just had this script right here, and just read it like I was acting, and just recorded myself on the iPhone and I was like, "yo there's no way in hell..." [...] I did that, sent that in, and they liked it!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfAoWTKh3R8&t=2638s|name=Tobe Nwigwe|site=Sway's Universe|year=2023|month=01|day=23}}</ref>
*The fourth-wall-breaking [[Mark Wahlberg]] namedrop was ad-libbed by [[Pete Davidson]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=We wanted to break the fourth wall. In all fairness, Pete Davidson made that up in the booth, and we laughed so hard, we're like in tears, and we're like there's no way we could not use this. We had ad-libbed a whole bunch of stuff. One was on, "Beanie Babies was weird", and he was like, what about Marky Mark leaving the Funky Bunch? And we were just in tears. And then we showed the studio and everybody loved it and was like, "let's just break the fourth wall. Do it."|link=https://gizmodo.com/breaking-the-fourth-wall-in-transformers-rise-of-the-b-1850514340|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=io9|title=Breaking the Fourth Wall in ''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''|year=2023|month=06|day=09}}</ref>
* During the production of the film, Ramos had to acquire a driver's license at Caple Jr.'s behest.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DDi5f1SL4oESslcZLjhhG|name=Anthony Ramos|site=the Spout Podcast|year=2021}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=I had a two-week window to get an appointment at the DMV, and the DMV was initially uncooperative. Finally, after much haggling, I was able to secure an appointment. I took the test in my mother's car after a few months of practice with an instructor. Fortunately, I was able to pass.|link=https://theplaylist.net/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-anthony-ramos-talks-representation-in-franchises-getting-his-drivers-license-for-the-film-interview-20230607/|name=Anthony Ramos|site=The Playlist|title='Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts': Anthony Ramos Talks Representation In Franchises & Getting His Driver's License For The Film [Interview]|year=2023|month=06|day=07}}</ref>
* During an interview with a fan, voice actor David Sobolov revealed that Caple Jr. would create storyboards using Transformers toys. Awesome!<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdsfclO5etE&t=1106 "ROTB UNICRON IS THRILLING!" | Interview with DAVID SOBOLOV (Rhinox + Battletrap)! - YouTube]</ref>
* According to Caple Jr., Optimus's unmasked face was modeled after Peter Cullen's.
* As a result of Transit's removal, this is the first live-action film to not feature the Decepticons in any capacity.
* To keep the secret of the ''G.I. Joe'' tease at the end of the movie, most copies of the script and the version of the scene shot for test screenings all used [[Sector Seven]] instead. Michael Kelly also didn't know the big twist with his character until he arrived on set. Caple Jr. even had only a single ''G.I. Joe'' business card printed, on the day of filming, and took it from the set himself afterwards for safekeeping!<ref name=Joe>{{citesocial|quote=There was one version of the script that mentioned the G.I. Joe reveal. All other copies, including the one in the studio's possession, described the military organization as Sector 7. "That way no one could leak the script," Caple notes. [...] Caple says they shot two versions of Kelly's scene, one where Burke's business card reads Sector 7 and one where the card reads G.I. Joe, so audiences in test screenings wouldn't know the true reveal. There was only one copy of the G.I. Joe business card, and Caple took that himself from set for safe keeping. "I was like, 'I'm taking this. I don't want this to be found on the floor,'" he says. "I actually didn't have them printed out until that day [on set]. We were very cautious of it, man. We were really trying to be as secretive as possible."|link=https://ew.com/movies/transformers-g-i-joe-crossover-plans/|name=Nick Romano|site=Entertainment Weekly|title=Inside the top-secret plans for Transformers and G.I. Joe|year=2023|month=06|day=12}}</ref>
*This is the first live-action Transformers movie where the Japanese dub wasn't sound directed by [[Keiichirō Miyoshi]] but instead it is directed by [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]] who had been responsible for the original Beast Wars cartoons dubs localization.

===Foreign names===
* ''Japanese:'' '''''Transformers/Beast Kakusei''''' (トランスフォーマー/ビースト覚醒 ''Toransufōmā Bīsuto Kakusei'', "Transformers: Beast Awakening")
* ''Cantonese:'' '''''Bin3jing4 Gam1gong1: Kwong4sau3 Gwat6hei2''''' (變形金剛：狂獸崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts")
* ''French:'' '''''Transformers : Le Réveil des Bêtes''''' (Canada, "Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''German:'' '''''Transformers: Aufstieg der Bestien''''' ("Transformers: Rise of the Beasts")
* ''Hungarian:'' '''''Transformers: A fenevadak kora''''' ("Transformers: The Age of the Beasts")
* ''Italian: '' '''''Transformers: Il Risveglio''''' ("Transformers: The Awakening")
* ''Mandarin:'' '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Wàn Shòu Juéqǐ''''' (Taiwan, 變形金剛：萬獸崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts"), '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Chāonéng Yǒngshì Juéqǐ''''' (China, 变形金刚：超能勇士崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beast Wars")
* ''Portuguese:'' '''''Transformers: O Despertar das Feras''''' (Brazil, "Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''Spanish:'' '''''Transformers: El Despertar de las Bestias''''' ("Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''Russian:'' '''''Transformery: Voskhozhdeniye Zverobotov''''' (Трансформеры: Восхождение Звероботов, "Transformers: Rise of the Beastbots")
* ''Ukrainian:'' '''''Transformery: Chas Zvirobotiv''''' (Трансформери: Час Звіроботів, "Transformers: Time of the Beastbots")

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'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''' is the seventh film in the [[live-action film series]], serving both as a sequel to ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' and a tribute to ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''. The film is directed by [[Steven Caple Jr.]] and written by [[Joby Harold]], [[Darnell Metayer]], [[Josh Peters]], [[Erich Hoeber]], and [[Jon Hoeber]]. Originally expected to be released on [[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> the film was delayed multiple times until finally being released on [[June 9]], [[2023]].<ref name="2023release"/>

When [[Noah Díaz]], a struggling young man trying to provide for his family, is roped into a conflict between the marooned [[Autobot]]s and the recently arrived [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcons]], he must learn to work with weary Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] so they, with the help of the wise [[Maximal]]s and the unadventurous researcher [[Elena Wallace]], can stop the arrival of the planet-eater [[Unicron]].

{{quote|Maximals..!}}
{{quote|Autobots..!}}
{{quote|Roll out!|[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]}}

==Synopsis==
[[File:ROTBcap-Unicronringedplanet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|This is one unusual planet... whatever it is.]]

Somewhere in time and space, the dark god [[Unicron]] and his minions invade a [[Jungle Planet (colony)|jungle world]] populated by [[Maximal]]s. Unicron, seeking a way to cross galaxies, sends his [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]] herald [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] to retrieve the [[Transwarp Key]], an advanced device that can open portals in space-time. Although the Maximals attempt to fight back, their leader [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]] entrusts [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] and a small group of Maximals—[[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]], [[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]], and [[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]]—with the Transwarp Key and orders them to keep the artifact from Unicron. As Primal and his followers use the key to escape their doomed planet and flee to prehistoric [[Earth]], Scourge kills Apelinq after a brief fight and takes his [[insignia]] as a trophy.

Thousands of years later, in June [[1994]], ex-military electronics expert [[Noah Díaz]] attempts to find a job to support his sick brother [[Kris Díaz|Kris]]. However, after another failed interview, his friend [[Reek]] convinces him to steal an expensive car from a nearby hotel. However, the "car" turns out to be the Autobot [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] in disguise, who takes the terrified Noah on a joyride through the streets of [[New York City]]. At the same time, a museum on Ellis Island comes into possession of an unusual stone falcon with a Maximal insignia. After closing hours, museum intern [[Elena Wallace]] investigates the statue and accidentally breaks it open to reveal half of the Transwarp Key. The artifact releases an energy pulse that attracts the attention of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots, who have been stranded on Earth since their evacuation of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] [[Bumblebee (film)|seven years prior]]. Prime summons the nearest Autobots—[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], and Mirage, who arrives at the meeting spot with Noah in tow. Although Optimus distrusts humans, he believes that they can use the Transwarp Key to return home and liberate their homeworld; eventually, Mirage hatches a scheme to sneak into the museum and have Noah steal the key for them.

[[File:Scourge about to blast bee.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|A treacherous, underhanded sneak attack! I like you, pussycat, yes.]]

Unbeknownst to the Autobots, the accidental activation of the Transwarp Key summons the Terrorcons to Earth. Noah meets Elena inside the museum, but cannot convince her to turn over the relic before the Terrorcons attack; despite Prime's best efforts, Scourge successfully overpowers the Autobot leader, steals the Transwarp Key, and mortally injures Bumblebee before Airazor arrives to help drive the villains away. Airazor explains that the Maximals have been on Earth for millennia, and deliberately split the Transwarp Key in half to prevent Unicron or his followers from using it. The loss of Bumblebee only further galvanizes Optimus's resolve that they must reassemble the key and return home; Noah, fearful of Unicron's arrival, tells Elena that they must destroy the key to protect their own homeworld.

[[File:ROTB-Maximalstandoff.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|Moderate your conflict circuits, Maximals.]]

Elena deduces that the other half of the key is located in a hidden temple in [[Peru]], and Prime recruits the airborne Autobot [[Stratosphere]] to take them there. Near the city of [[Cusco]], the Autobot [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] guides them to the temple, located beneath a [[Convent of Santo Domingo|local monastery]]. A festival prevents the Autobots from moving through the city inconspicuously; as a result, Noah and Elena must make the journey on foot. The pair discover a hidden mechanism that leads to a hidden temple with a stone sarcophogus but find that the other half of the key is no longer inside it. The Terrorcons attack again, and although the Autobots are able to evade the villains, the conflict ends with Scourge infecting Airazor with a portion of Unicron's dark energy. On the other side of the temple, Noah and Elena encounter Optimus Primal and the other two Maximals, who, after a brief standoff that was defused by Airazor, agree to join forces with the Autobots. Optimus Primal explains that they entrusted the Transwarp Key to a tribe of humans who live near the [[energon]]-rich valley that Primal and his followers inhabit—while Optimus Prime distrusts humanity, Primal has lived among them for millennia, and has come to view them as friends and even allies.

The next morning, however, Scourge's corruption finally overtakes Airazor; in the ensuing battle, Primal is forced to crush her spark and put her offline to save Elena. Amidst the chaos, Noah makes an attempt to destroy their half of the Transwarp Key until Optimus convinces him to stand down. However, amidst the chaos, Scourge and the Terrorcons steal the other half of the key and relocate to a nearby volcano, which they reshape into a massive portal that will summon Unicron to Earth.
Having found some common ground between their two races, Optimus Prime and Noah agree to work together; while the Autobot-Maximal alliance battle Unicron's minions, Noah and Elena attempt to sneak into the Terrorcon base and deactivate the [[Unspace|transwarp]] device with a manual shutdown code based on Elena's studies of the Maximal language. Mirage attempts to distract Scourge so that the humans can complete their mission, but the Terrorcon leader gravely injures him; with the last of his strength, Mirage reshapes his body into an [[exosuit]] for Noah. As Unicron begins pushing his way through the portal to Earth and sending down reinforcements in the form of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Scorponok (ROTB)|Scorponok]]s, the energy pulses released by the key ignite the nearby energon deposits and restore Bumblebee to life. As Bumblebee joins the fight, Optimus Prime gains the upper hand and finally kills Scourge, but not before the Terrorcon damages the console and leaves the heroes unable to close the portal. With no other options, Prime destroys the key and triggers a devastating implosion, but Noah and Primal successfully rescue the Autobot leader from falling into the collapsing vortex.

In the aftermath, the surviving Maximals remain in Peru, while the Autobots return to America. Elena is recognized for her archeological discovery, while Noah applies for another security job—but discovers that the job opportunity is actually a front for a clandestine government organization codenamed "[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]," who promise to cover his brother's treatment going forward.

Some time later, Noah has used spare Porsche parts to cobble together a new body for Mirage, and reveals his existence to a bewildered Reek.

==Cast==
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|h1=[[Autobot]]s / [[Maximal]]s|c1=
;Autobots
* [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
* [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] ([[Pete Davidson]])
* [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
* [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] ([[Liza Koshy]])
* [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] ([[Cristo Fernández]])
* [[Stratosphere]] ([[John DiMaggio]])

;Maximals
* [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] ([[Ron Perlman]])
* [[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]] ([[Michelle Yeoh]])
* [[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]] ([[Tongayi Chirisa]])
* [[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]] ([[David Sobolov]])
* [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]] (David Sobolov)

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;Terrorcons
* [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] ([[Peter Dinklage]])
* [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]] ([[Michaela Jaé Rodriguez]])
* [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]] (David Sobolov)
* [[Sweep (ROTB)|Sweep]]s
** [[Freezer]]
** [[Novakane]]

;Predacons
* [[Scorponok (ROTB)|Scorponok]]s

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* [[Noah Díaz]] ([[Anthony Ramos]])
* [[Elena Wallace]] ([[Dominique Fishback]])
* [[Breanna Díaz]] ([[Luna Lauren Velez]])
* [[Kris Díaz]] ([[Dean Scott Vasquez]])
* [[Reek]] ([[Tobe Nwigwe]])
* [[Jillian Robinson]] ([[Sarah Stiles]])
* [[Bishop (ROTB)|Bishop]] ([[Aidan Devine]])
* [[D. Greene]] ([[Leni Parker]])
* [[Amaru]] ([[Lucas Huarancca]])
;[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]
* [[Agent Burke]] ([[Michael Kelly (actor)|Michael Kelly]])

|h4=Others|c4=
* [[Unicron]] ([[Colman Domingo]])
|nonumbering=true
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==Quotes==
"There’s a legend that precedes the dawn of our civilization: a vile god so large, so powerful, that it consumed entire planets as fuel. Few believed such a thing could be true, until the day we saw Unicron with our own eyes…"
:—'''Optimus Primal's''' opening narration.

"I'll hold him off, buy you some time." 
"Then I'm staying with you." 
"This is my fight. Listen, if Unicron were to get the key, he could open a portal through [[Transwarp Drive|time and space]], with no end to the worlds he could destroy. It is now your time to lead the [[Maximal]]s... Optimus Primal."
:—'''Apelinq''' passing the torch to '''Optimus Primal'''.

"So you're this planet's... ''great'' warrior. You have such a beautiful world, filled with an abundance of life. Savory."
:—'''Scourge''' waxes poetic to Apelinq.

"Okay, what are the rules?" 
"Bros before hoes." 
''[Noah glares at Kris]'' 
''(sigh)'' "Don't be a problem. Don't go looking for a problem—" 
"Or else we're gonna have a problem."
:—'''Noah''' and '''Kris''' clarify the rules.

"I ain't breaking into a museum for some space robots." 
"But what about for friendship?" 
''[Noah stares at Mirage incredulously]'' 
"Uh, uh—or or ''or'', what about for cash?"
:—'''Noah''' wants out. '''Mirage''' wants him in.

''"You can't handle the truth!"'' 
"I do not want you going to that drive-in theater anymore."
:— '''Bumblebee's''' references grate on '''Optimus Prime'''.

"Stop following me!" 
"I'm not following you, I'm just escaping in the same direction!"
:—'''Elena''' and '''Noah''' run from the pursuing Sweeps.

"And you call yourself a Prime...Primus would be ''ashamed.''"
:—'''Scourge''' isn't too impressed with Optimus Prime.

"I'm going to take back Scourge's key, and then...''take off his head.''"
:—The origins of '''Optimus Prime's''' "GIVE ME YOUR FACE" phase.

"I love your fire, Prime, but you're going to die on this speck of dust." 
"I can think of no better place to bury you!"
:—'''Scourge''' has gotten on '''Optimus Prime's''' last nerve

"He is not ''the'' Optimus Prime I imagined." 
"Well, he has lost so much." 
"Many more will perish if the key falls into the wrong hands." 
"If you had another chance to save our home, would you act any differently?"
:—'''Optimus Primal''' and '''Airazor'''

"I am sorry, Noah." 
"You were looking out for your own. I can't even be angry at you for that." 
"On my homeworld, we believe that the battle with darkness will continue [['Til all are one|'til all are one]]. I lost sight of that. You fought for yours as I fought for mine, when we should've been fighting the darkness together." 
"Well, I ain't done fighting yet."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Noah''' have a moment as Unicron approaches.

"''I have come here to kick ass!''"
:—'''Bumblebee''' announces his return with a clear message.

"Time to show you the real power of a Prime!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' lays the smackdown on Scourge. An ass kicker cometh.

"Don't, Prime. I can give you everything you want." 
"Then DIE!"
:—'''Unicron's''' temptation falls flat in '''Optimus Prime's''' face.

"I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. We have lost the Transwarp Key, and with it, our ability to go home. But we have gained an ally in our battle against the forces of evil. Forces too powerful for any of us to defeat on our own, but together, we might just have a chance."
:—'''Optimus Prime's''' closing narration. We missed them.

"I am Noah Díaz. What is there to know about me? I was raised out in Brooklyn. I got a little bro who calls me Sonic, and if I gotta help save the universe in order to help save the people I love, well then that's what I'm gonna do."
:—'''Noah''' does his own closing narration.

==Continuity notes==
''Rise of the Beasts'' is a direct sequel to 2018's ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' film, taking place seven years after its events, in 1994. The plot of the film has little impact on this one, beyond it being established that the Autobots have been stranded on Earth since arriving at its end. While waiting for Noah to infiltrate the museum, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee have a conversation that alludes to Bee's time with [[Charlie Watson]].

More notably, ''Rise of the Beasts'' serves to continue the heated debate among fans over whether or not the ''Transformers'' live-action film series has been rebooted, after reshoots to ''Bumblebee'' that served to distance it from the earlier films directed by [[Michael Bay]] introduced some significant discontinuities with Bay's films (2017's ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'' in particular). Though fans were quick to jump on the idea that this meant the film was a total, hard reboot of the movie universe, Paramount has not committed to that idea; ''Rise of the Beasts'' was not promoted as a reboot any more than ''Bumblebee'' was, and many reviews of and articles about the film have casually referred to it as a prequel. Some web outlets would even run articles commenting on Paramount's hazy stance on the movie's (and ''Bumblebee'''s) place in continuity.<ref>[https://www.cbr.com/transformers-7-bumblebee-reboot-mistake "Rise of the Beasts Is Repeating Bumblebee's Worst Mistake" on CBR.com]</ref><ref>[https://movieweb.com/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-is-a-reboot/ "Why Does Paramount Keep Pretending Rise of the Beasts Is Not a Reboot?" on MovieWeb.com]</ref>

In-keeping with this, in the run-up to the film's release, like [[Travis Knight]] before him, director Steven Caple Jr. was reluctant to declare the film a full and total continuity reboot; notably, in one particular interview, he called the film "a reboot for sure," only to walk the statement back ten seconds later, instead saying that one "could call it a reboot" in terms of starting point, reframing it instead as a "refresher" and a "new direction," that nonetheless preserved many elements of the earlier films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's a reboot for sure. The Bayverse... you can still watch the Bayverse and be on your own verse, so to speak. With us, we're definitely like, we want this to work, you know? We want people to... it's a refresher, so we can call reboot in terms of like, where we were starting. But yeah so definitely a new direction for sure. There's some things you could probably connect to it, clearly Bee is like a huge connection to all the movies, you know what I mean? In terms of his car, his design, a Camaro, and things like that, but... it's a very small one, in terms of the big ideas that we have. And so you guys will see definitely where we're going at the end of this film, which is crazy.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MfMFxvT_-Q&t=2452s|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=The Alfonso Nation|title="BAYVERSE vs REBOOT" & Wheeljacks Design | ROTB DIRECTOR STEVEN CAPLE JR Interview!|year=2023|month=05|day=27}}</ref> Longtime producer [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]] has taken a more explicit stance, repeatedly denying that the film is a reboot and stating that it is a prequel that shows how Optimus Prime grows to become the character seen in the Bay films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Hey you know if you look at it from a timeline point of view, it follows ''Bumblebee''... but it is a prequel, in that it's before all the previous movies. So it sort of exists in its own way. What I don't think it is, is a reboot, because it's still our characters. One of the things that Steven brought to the table right from the beginning, which was so great, was the idea that when we meet Optimus Prime, he's different than what we think of him, and we're watching him grow up—if you would—as a leader. And for me that was one of the most exciting parts of the movie, and what was interesting was watching it with audiences, and at first they were uncomfortable a little bit, like, "wait, that's not exactly the Optimus... he should like humans!" You know? So I think it gives the movie a really interesting point of view, and that therefore it stands alone in that way.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11sKGYcq9k&t=871s|name=Lorenzo di Bonaventura|site=a panel at the premiere of ''Rise of the Beasts''|year=2023|month=05|day=26}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=But what's interesting is, and you will appreciate this as a fan, at the end of ''Bumblebee'', Optimus comes to Earth. What he's experienced is failure, probably for the first time in his life, right? He's had to retreat, he's leaving the planet Cybertron. What's happened to him from that experience? When we meet him in 2007, he's a particular person, if you would. In 1994, he's not the same person. He still has growth to do between ‘94 and 2007. So the character arc for Optimus in this, and the fun for the audience is, when you first meet Optimus – and we've had this experience because we've watched it with audiences and we've heard them talk about it – they're like, “It's definitely Optimus, but there's something a little different…” At first, they're like, “Wait, what, who… what Optimus is this?” And by the end of the movie, Optimus has become the guy that you've recognized from the Bay movies. Emotional.|link=https://collider.com/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-michael-bay-movies-producer-comments/|name=Lorenzo di Bonaventura|site=Collider|title='Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' Producer on How It Differs From Michael Bay's Movies|year=2023|month=05|day=24}}</ref> At the same time, di Bonaventura has also conceded that they were "kicking the can down the road" when it came to continuity concerns, preferring to worry about it in the future, and that the films "maybe have" contradicted Bay's movies despite efforts not to.<ref>[https://www.fandom.com/articles/transformers-rise-beast-wars-optimus-prime Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Shows a Different Side of Optimus Prime" on Fandom.com]</ref> These particular claims line up with statements made by Caple after the film's release, in which he stated he is "not worried" about continuity, and is just focused on making the best choices for each individual movie's story. He cites 2007's ''Transformers'' and ''Dark of the Moon'' as "his classics," and says he would "love to stay within that line," but does not feel compelled to adhere much to ''Age of Extinction'' and ''The Last Knight,'' since he views their stories as the result of creators "freestyling," and doubts that "anyone knew exactly where they were going with [them]."<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/rise-of-the-beasts-director-confirms-that-continuity-is-not-a-concern-within-the-transformers-film-franchise/47813/ Extract from an interview with Caple Jr. on the ''Empire Spoiler Specials'' podcast, via Seibertron.com]</ref> And that's... probably about as good an answer as we're going to get right now.

Whichever approach you subscribe to, it's pretty clear the decision to set the film in 1994 was one primarily made to avoid having to directly deal with the timeframe of the Bay movies in any capacity, and tell a new story free of their immediate baggage — the "can-kicking" Lorenzo spoke of. For what it's worth, the film takes some steps to preserve the broad continuity of at least the first Bay film; the Transwarp Key's energy is explicitly stated to operate on a frequency that humans cannot perceive, meaning that they literally cannot ''see'' the huge sky-beam, while massive storm clouds appear to hide the appearance of Unicron from public view. As such, the film ends with the general population of Earth (beyond secret forces within the US government) still entirely unaware of the Transformers' existence, as was the case when the 2007 film began. As the time-gap between these "prequels" and the first movie narrows, though, it becomes increasingly difficult to imagine them fitting together without a lot of hand-waving away of specific details, unless future movies actually start making active attempts to address this.

In terms of active contradictions to established continuity, ''Rise of the Beasts'' appears to take the same approach as ''Bumblebee'' and ignores the events of ''The Last Knight'' by depicting Unicron as a separate planet, rather than the Earth itself, as he appeared in that film. However, it's probably important to note that the film lightly implies that the Maximals are time-travellers from the future (see "Transformers references" for more details), which would mean that the Unicron who appears in this film is also from the future. Thus it ''could'' be argued that his appearance here doesn't technically contradict ''The Last Knight''—but of course, that would mean he was trying to eat his own past self.

==Transformers references==
*The Maximals are broadly depicted the same as they were in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon: as a "highly-advanced race" of beast-mode Transformers who use transwarp technology to travel to other planets and interact with their native species, whose travels bring them to ancient Earth. Steven Caple Jr. has noted that earlier drafts of the screenplay explicitly depicted the Maximals as time-travellers from the future, as they were in the cartoon, and while the concept is so toned down for the finished movie that it probably won't even occur to general audiences, several references to the idea are still made on-screen. Transwarp technology is stated to open portals in time as well as space; Airazor states that the Maximals are "from both [the Autobots'] past and future"; and Optimus Primal says that he is named after the "legendary" Optimus Prime, which all combine to suggest that the Maximals originate from the future.
*The idea of the Maximals hailing from a [[Jungle Planet (colony)|jungle planet]] originates in [[IDW Publishing]]'s comic books, which depicted many ''Beast Wars'' characters as the residents of the planet Eukaris. The planet is implied to be one of many colonised by Transformers in ages past using space bridges generated by the Transwarp Key, before the planets became separated and the key "lost." This concept of a great era of Cybertronian expansion that led to the foundation of lost colonies on other planets where Cybertronian life evolved in new and different directions dates back to 2005's [[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|''Cybertron'' cartoon]], and became a recurring element in ''Transformers'' series in the 2010s and beyond after it was incorporated into the lore of the [[Aligned continuity family|Aligned continuity]].
*Unicron's armies being named the "Terrorcons" hearkens back to both 2004's ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' and 2010's ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'', which both featured the power of Unicron being used to create armies of warriors known as Terrorcons. In particular, the corrupted Airazor's rusted appearance resembles the ''Prime'' Terrorcons, which were also rusted, dilapidated, shambling bots controlled by the will of another.
*Though not identified by name onscreen, Unicron's army includes multiple duplicates of a robotic scorpion identified by the movie's toyline as "Predacon Scorponok." The idea of "Scorponok" being a mass-produced "species" of robots has recently been seen in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron'' cartoon]], where both [[Scorponok (G1)|Generation 1 Scorponok]] ''and'' [[Scorponok (BW)|''Beast Wars'' Scorponok]] were treated this way.
*The Maximals vow to keep the Transwarp Key hidden and safeguard life "no matter the cost," evoking Optimus Prime's iconic line from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'': "Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost."
*Optimus Prime's design features alterations from his earlier ''Bumblebee'' appearance that are influenced by his appearance in the first three Bay films; he has silver hands, feet, sun visors, angled chest windows, retractable orange [[Dual Energon Swords|Energon swords]], a handheld orange [[Energon-axe]] (which transforms out of his arm, coincidentally similar to the [[Optimus Prime (ES)|''Earthspark'' version]]), and a mask-less face sporting similar details. Arcee also transforms into a {{w|Ducati}} motorcycle, like her ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' character.
*Speaking of Arcee, the design of her arms and deployable cannons seem to be directly inspired by her [[Arcee (WFC)|Prime counterpart]].
*Scourge combines aspects of his [[Scourge (G1)|Generation 1]], [[Scourge (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'']] and [[Scourge (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'']] namesakes; he's a herald of Unicron and has an army of [[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] like G1 Scourge, transforms into a black Optimus Prime-like truck like ''RID'' Scourge and hails from a colony world like ''Cybertron'' Scourge. The various insignias he wears as trophies include the symbols of the [[Decepticon]]s, [[Autobot]]s, [[Maximal]]s, [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s, [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s, [[Mercenary|Mercenaries]] and [[Wreckers]]. His designer Eddie Del Rio also admitted on his Instagram to pulling inspiration from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] for his robot mode (and stealing insignias like trophies is well in character for the old bounty hunter as well).
*More obscure characters appear such as Apelinq, who originates from a [[Apelinq (BM)#Toys|BotCon 2000 toy]] and tie-in [[3H Productions]] comics, and Stratosphere, returning from the ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' toyline and last seen in the ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|console video game]], albeit with a new, original design and characterization.
*When [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]] lands at the Museum following the carnage, she makes some [[Starscream (Movie)|very familiar warbling noises]] when she moves.
*The two music tracks used in Unicron's scenes feature segments taken from [[Vince DiCola]]'s "Unicron's Theme" in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
*Scourge stands and talks to Unicron's face from inside his body, similar to a scene with their characters from the Generation 1 episode, "[[Ghost in the Machine (G1)|Ghost in the Machine]]".
*The symbols Elena studies are Maximal [[Cybertronix]], from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon. The access code Elena assembles doesn't translate to anything, and simply reads "XQB," but the text on the side of the Transwarp Key (written in a combination of mirrored and upside-down symbols) reads: "He Who Opens The Door."
*The authors of the paper Elena reads about Peru's unexplained glyphs are Asahi Takara and Daniel H. Tomy, a reference to [[TakaraTomy]], Hasbro's longtime business partner in Transformers toys.
*After meeting Optimus Prime for the first time, Noah incorrectly calls him "Optimal". "Optimal Optimus" is the name of the original [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#OptimalOptimus|Optimus Primal's Transmetal 2 body]].
*When proposing different alternate modes to Noah, Mirage briefly turns into a F1 car, a reference to [[Mirage (G1)|his Generation 1 counterpart]]'s alternate mode. He also turns into a Lamborghini Countach, which wasn't just a really cool car, but also famous in ''Transformers'' lore for being the alternate mode of [[Sideswipe (G1)|Generation 1 Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]. He then claims that he can also turn into a Ferrari, the alternate mode of ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Dino]], whose name in media outside of that movie was "Mirage".
*Mirage is incredulous over the news that musician [[Mark Wahlberg]] is leaving his band, the Funky Bunch, and going into acting—a good-natured jab at the actor's [[Cade Yeager|leading role]] in the earlier ''Transformers'' movies, ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'' and ''The Last Knight''.
*Scourge name-drops [[Primus]] as he taunts Optimus Prime, the first reference to the Transformers' creator god in any of the live-action movies.
*Scourge injures Prime's left flank in the museum battle, which mirrors the injuries [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] gave to the original [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in ''The Transformers: The Movie.'' Prime even grasps the wound in the same way his predecessor did.
*Airazor explains that Unicron imbues his heralds with a "dark energy," which increases their power, but also has a corrupting effect—almost certainly a reference to [[Dark Energon]], the life-energy of Unicron introduced in the Aligned continuity.
*Unicron psychically tortures Scourge from afar in the same way he did [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] in ''The Transformers: The Movie''.
*When Optimus Primal talks to Optimus Prime about how the Maximals trust the humans, he says there's "[[More than Meets the Eye (disambiguation)|more to them than meets the eye]]".
*Optimus states the Cybertronian belief that "the battle with darkness" will continue: "[['Til all are one]]." This phrase, and the idea of a day prophesied in Cybertron legend when it will come to pass, originates with ''The Transformers: The Movie,'' and is here used to thematically connect with the shared struggle of the Autobots, Maximals, and humans.
*When the heroes are lining up for the final battle, brown fins briefly pop out of the sides of Wheeljack's head, evoking his [[Wheeljack (G1)|Generation 1 design]].
*As the heroes charge towards the Terrorcon army, Optimus Primal commands Rhinox and Cheetor to "Maximize!", which was the Maximal [[activation code]] from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.
*Optimus Primal briefly fights with his double bladed scimitar from his [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|original toy]].
*In the final battle, when Unicron sends an army of Sweeps to reinforce his minions on Earth, they make their descent in the form of yellow-and-black orbs, which appears to be a nod to Unicron's [[Mini-Con]] from ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'', the yellow-and-black sphere, [[Dead End (Armada)|Dead End]].
*The armored suit Mirage forms over Noah is conceptually an homage to the Generation 1 [[exosuit]]s, while its overall design hews closer to [[Kicker Jones]]' battlesuit from ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]''.
*In a glorious homage to [[Transformers (film)|the 2007 movie]], the musical highlight of [[Steve Jablonsky]]'s "Arrival to Earth" plays as Optimus, Noah, and Primal escape the collapsing transwarp portal's suction.
* Optimus Prime's final speech is set to a remixed version of the track "No Sacrifice, No Victory" from the 2007 movie's score, which was also reprised for the endings of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' and ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''.
*[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and Transformers have frequently crossed over in comics and the occasional toyline over the years, though this marks the first time the two have co-existed in a feature film. Notably, the G.I. Joe insignia on Burke's business card is the version introduced in the film ''G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra''.
*Before the assault on the Transwarp Gate, Wheeljack says “It sounds like we’re all going to die.” A possible reference to the infamous quote from the Maximal [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]].

==Real-life references==
*A TV screen briefly shows news coverage of the {{w|Murder trial of O. J. Simpson#Bronco chase|O.J. Simpson white Ford Bronco car chase}}, which places the events of the film near [[June 17]], 1994.
*Throughout the film, Noah and Kris use the codenames "[[Sonic the Hedgehog (character)|Sonic]]" and "{{w|Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog)|Tails}}" (and in one instance, Mirage is referred to as "{{w|Knuckles the Echidna|Knuckles}}"), a nod to the characters from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' videogame series.
*Kris wears a shirt of the ''Mighty Morphin' [[Power Rangers]]'', another property owned by Hasbro. A poster of said series also appears on his wall.
*Kris is heard playing ''Super Mario Bros.'' on his [[Game Boy]]. However, see "Anachronisms".
*Noah gives their address as 974 Wilson Avenue in Brooklyn. While the avenue in question exists in reality, the street numbers only reach the 600s.
*Kris attempts to comfort Noah after his unsuccessful interview by relating his struggle to [[Superman|Superman's]] difficulty finding a job before being hired by the {{w|Daily Planet}}.
*When Mirage compliments Noah after the car chase, he quotes the line "I like it a lot" from ''Dumb and Dumber''. However, see "Anachronisms".
*Also in the aftermath of the chase, he refers to the 1988 movie ''{{w|Big (film)|Big}}'' during his impression of Optimus Prime.
*Noah calls Mirage {{w|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.}} for obvious reasons. He also makes a reference to [[Indiana Jones]] when discovering the hidden temple in Peru.
*Bumblebee drops various voice lines from famous real-life films throughout the whole movie, including ''{{w|Die Hard}}'', ''[[Spaceballs]]'', ''{{w|They Live}}'', ''{{w|A Few Good Men}}'' and ''{{w|Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface}}.''
*While fleeing in the museum, Elena sings Zhané's song "{{w|Groove Thang}}" to try to calm herself down.
*As they rendezvous with the other Autobots for the trip to Peru, Mirage announces that "[[Wu-Tang Clan|Wu-Tang]] is in the building."
*Elena sings the TLC song "{{w|Waterfalls (TLC song)|Waterfalls}}" to herself during the flight to Peru. However, see "Anachronisms".
*The {{w|Inti Raymi}} festival taking place when the Autobots arrive in Peru is a real festival that takes place on [[June 24]], further tying the film's events to that month.
*During the mountain road car chase at Peru, the shot of Scourge's insignia-covered grille reflected in Prime's rearview mirror homages a famous shot from [[Steven Spielberg]]'s 1971 film ''{{w|Duel (1971 film)|Duel}}.''
*When meeting Primal, Elena brings up the {{w|Nazca Lines}} and the archeological site at {{w|Tikal}}, asking if the Maximals were responsible for creating them. [[Order of the Witwiccans|In this case]], however, Primal takes no credit for human ingenuity.
*Mirage calls Optimus Primal "{{w|Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong}}".
*At the end of the film, Elena appears on the CBS news program ''[[60 Minutes]]''; host [[Lesley Stahl]] makes a cameo appearance as herself during the segment.
*The award on the wall that serves as the hidden switch to access the G.I. Joe base reads "Real Hero Award" with the image of an American flag, referencing the subtitle of the 1980s ''G.I. Joe'' franchise: "A Real American Hero".

==Errors==
===Filming, animation, and technical errors===
*When Scourge kills Apelinq, he welds his Maximal insignia to his right shoulder, but throughout the rest of the film, Apelinq's insignia is gone. In the same scene, Scourge says "They never learn...", but his mouth is not moving.
*A recurring error sees the CGI models for Freezer and Novakane, which were supposed to have unique head injuries for each character, being switched around at random at various points in the movie. A very noticeable example of this happens when Scourge deploys a single Sweep in Peru whose model has an intact head with just a pair of scars on its forehead, but is moments later replaced by the model with a much bigger wound and a missing left antenna. Several other Sweeps of varying sizes also reuse these models during the final battle, completely taking away the intended uniqueness of each head design.
*When Reek yells down the street as Noah and Kris depart, his dialogue does not match his lips.
*When Optimus Prime is about to throw his axe at Scourge, there is some distance between the two. However, in the next shot they are within just meters of each other.
*When Scourge says "Now, to add a Prime to my collection", his claw is both folded in on his arm and deployed at the same time.
*When Mirage attempts to eavesdrop on Noah and Kris' conversation, he is barely tall enough peer into the balcony while standing on a car. However, a minute later when Kris promises him to keep Noah safe he is somehow tall enough to comfortably look into the balcony without anything to stand on.
*The doors that go onto Wheeljack's back are unmarked brown in the scene of him transforming from van mode, but feature text on them in the very next cut where he is in robot mode.
*When Wheeljack audibly gasps at Noah assuming he can speak Spanish, his mouth is not moving.
*When Mirage and Optimus Prime turn into a street in Cusco, there is another Optimus Prime truck in the background. This can only be seen if you pause at the right moment.
*As Optimus decks Scourge during the Peru chase, Scourge seems to suffer a wardrobe malfunction as a rogue wheel not located anywhere on his torso springs out of his right armpit.
*Additionally, there are times when vehicles just disappear during the Switchback chase;
**Scourge's truck conveniently takes a lot of time to round a corner Optimus has just turned, despite being only feet behind him
**Mirage is no longer visible next to Nightbird when Battletrap pulls his 180 turn stunt.
*When Wheeljack is recovering from being attacked by Rhinox, his mouth is not moving as he says "Ay-ay-ay."
*As the heroes are walking through the jungle, the scene cuts to Elena while she is saying "So, what are you?", which does not match her lips.
*As Optimus Prime looks up at Unicron arriving at the mouth of the portal, Arcee can be seen scuttling about blasting Sweeps; except her blasters produce no laser effects.
*From the time Bumblebee acquires his offroad Camaro, his wheels are inconsistent between his robot and vehicle modes, with some shots showing his normal Camaro's wheels instead of the offroad ones. It is most visible for the wheels on his shoulders.
*Scourge's mouth is not moving as he proclaims "Unicron will prevail!" before shooting the transwarp control panel.
*Elena audibly whimpering in Bumblebee as he drives through hoards of Sweeps does not match her lips.

===Continuity errors===
*The fight between Optimus and Scourge outside the museum has some very inconsistent physics:
**Scourge slams Optimus against a nearby obelisk, the impact somehow doesn't make the structure collapse although the Autobot leader is made of materials much harder than stone or bricks and having much more physical mass. Scourge then punches Prime in the face, again, against the obelisk which might suggest the structure is durable enough to hold a full blow thrown by a highly-advanced mechanical being.
**Yet Scourge breaks it with his bare hands with little effort shortly after in order to hit Optimus again.
**''Yet'' the obelisk is still heavy and hard enough to beat Prime to the ground.
**'''''Yet''''' the impact doesn't leave any visible damage to Optimus while the object itself crumbles like being made of LEGO bricks.
**[[B.O.T. (episode)|Argh.]]
*After Scourge incapacitates Bumblebee, he plucks his Autobot badge off with a normal left hand. In the following shot, however, his left hand is transformed into his giant claw and he is no longer holding the badge.
*During the chase out of Cusco, when Optimus Prime reaches the bend, the Terrorcons are very close behind him. However, when he transforms into robot mode, they are suddenly much further back.
*When Stratosphere transforms in Peru, it starts with him facing away from Optimus Prime. However, in the next shot he's now facing towards him.
*When Scourge walks away with the second half of the key, his left arm switches from the claw to the cannon between shots.

===Geographic discontinuities===
*There ''is'' a museum on Ellis Island... however, it's a [https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/national-immigration-museum/ museum that documents the turn-of-the-century immigrant experience], and not the generalized natural history museum shown in the film. Notably, the actual museum is composited out of the movie's establishing shots so that the made-up museum setpiece can replace it.
*Elena states that she has never left New York. Ellis Island, her place of work, is almost completely owned by the state of New Jersey, discounting a small portion that was the island's original size that is still a part of New York. Even discounting that, the waters surrounding the island are wholly owned by the Garden State.
*When the Autobots arrive at Cusco, they land at the citadel of [[Sacsayhuamán]], an Inca fortress on the northern outskirts of the city, and the site is deserted. Even on a normal day, it should be crawling with tourists, but the Autobots are specifically said to arrive during the [[Inti Raymi]] festival... whose central activity is a recreation of an Inca ceremony ''at'' Sacsayhuamán.
*The fight with the corrupted Airazor takes place at Machu Picchu, which nobody is witness to, as again it is completely deserted. It should be crawling with tourists, the staff that works at the site, the guests and staff of the lodge located right next to the complex, or the population of the town of Aguas Calientes at the base of the mountain.

===Anachronisms===
*Though the "you died!" music and mention of Bowser imply Kris is playing ''Super Mario Bros.'' on his Game Boy, that game wouldn't see a release on the system until 1999's ''[https://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario_Bros._Deluxe Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]'' on the Game Boy Color. The only Mario platformers released for Game Boy by 1994 were the ''Super Mario Land'' games, which featured different antagonists and music.
*The F1-styled car Mirage turns into is based on a design chassis that would be introduced over the course of the second half of the 90s.
*Elena sings "Waterfalls" by TLC to calm herself down. Assuming the film takes place in June, it would still be a few months until the November 1994 release of the album ''CrazySexyCool'', which the song first appeared on.
*Similarly, Mirage quotes a line from ''Dumb and Dumber'', a film that would not release until December 1994.
*A green car that was smashed and thrown in the Museum scene was a B5.5 Volkswagen Passat which would not be released until 2001.
*The promo for ''60 Minutes'' uses the program's contemporary imaging, including the use of the current CBS News logotype above that of the show.

==Music==
A score album, ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Music from the Motion Picture)]]'', was released alongside the film on June 9, 2023. Paramount also compiled a Spotify Playlist, ''[[Transformers Rise of the Beats]]'', featuring songs that appeared in the film.

==Home video releases==
{{main|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)/home video}}
Just a month after its theatrical release, Paramount released ''Rise of the Beasts'' to digital storefronts on [[July 11]], with the DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray releases following a few months later on [[October 10]]. Bonus features include cast and crew featurettes and deleted/extended scenes.

==Reception==
{{quote|Thanks to some genuine human drama between the set pieces and palpable affection for the title characters, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is one of the franchise's more enjoyable outings.|Critics Consensus|[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_rise_of_the_beasts Rotten Tomatoes]}}

Coming off the back of the generally well-received ''Bumblebee'', ''Rise of the Beasts'' received mixed reviews. While critics largely praised the old-school adventure film sequences and the performances of the human leads, most criticism was directed at the film's protracted final battle scene and its overuse of computer-generated imagery—in particular, some critics juxtaposed the film's tamer action scenes against the madcap, sometimes over-the-top practical effect-based destruction employed by [[Michael Bay]] during his time in the director's chair. As of writing, the film holds a 52% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although the audience score sits at a much higher 91%.

In the US and Canada, ''Rise of the Beasts'' opened to a strong $60.5 million start—higher than both ''The Last Knight'' and ''Bumblebee'' <ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-spider-man-spiderverse-1235412771/ "'Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts' Conquers 'Spider-Verse' With $60M+ Opening, But Animated Pic's Second Weekend Hold Strong -- Box Office"]</ref>—but suffered a brutal 66.1 percent drop in its second weekend, where it lost out to ''{{w|The Flash (film)|The Flash}}'', ''{{w|Elemental (2023 film)|Elemental}}'', and ''{{w|Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse|Across the Spider-Verse}}''.<ref>[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/the-flash-box-office-disappoint-pixar-elemental-flop-1235647927/ "'The Flash' Disappoints With $55 Million Debut, Pixar's 'Elemental' Flops With $29.5 Million in Battle of Box Office Lightweights"]</ref><ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2023W24/?ref_=bo_we_nav Domestic 2023 Weekend 24]</ref> A week later, the film took in a comparatively dismal $11 million.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office-the-flash-no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-1235422274/ 'Spider-Verse' Swinging Ahead Of 'Elemental' After Game Of Chicken; 'Flash' Edging Out 'No Hard Feelings' -- Saturday PM Box Office]</ref> The film's domestic theatrical run came to a close in August 2023 with approximately a $439 million worldwide gross, marking the lowest-grossing instalment in the franchise.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-franchise-box-office-low/]</ref>

Despite the lower-than-expected box office performance, Hasbro seems to regard the film as an overall success and noted it as one of the top box office performers of the year in a subsequent investor presentation.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/08/03/tfw2005-coverage-of-hasbro-2023-q2-earnings-conference-call-492111 TFW2005 Coverage Of Hasbro 2023 Q2 Earnings Conference Call</ref> This optimism might come down to the fact that the summer 2023 movie slate was ''particularly'' packed; this, combined with a post-COVID shift in media demographics, means that pretty much every summer movie that wasn't ''{{w|Barbie (film)|Barbie}}'' or ''{{w|Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer}}'' underperformed to some degree. Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins described the film's performance as "not great, but good" and blamed its financial woes on an increasingly fractured global box office less receptive to American movies—especially in China, the franchise's biggest overseas market, where ''Rise of the Beasts''' gross of $90 million was only half of what Paramount had projected it to earn.<ref>[https://variety.com/2023/film/features/brian-robbins-paramount-pictures-tmnt-mutant-mayhem-tom-cruise-1235679142/ After a Decade in Limbo, Brian Robbins Is Giving Paramount a Makeover With ‘Ninja Turtles,’ Tom Cruise and ‘Gladiator 2’]</ref> It should be noted that ''Rise of the Beasts'' was a huge hit in [[Peru]], where the film's third act is set; it surpassed ''{{w|Avengers: Endgame}}'' as the highest-grossing movie ever in the country,<ref>[https://larepublica.pe/cine-series/2023/08/02/transformers-el-despertar-de-las-bestias-es-la-pelicula-mas-taquillera-de-la-historia-en-peru-transformers-7-machu-picchu-103204 'Transformers: el despertar de las bestias' es la película más taquillera de la historia en Perú]</ref> and Peru's ranks as the fourth highest-grossing territory for the film, behind only the United States, China and Mexico.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2443334149/ Rise of the Beasts International Numbers]</ref>

==Development details==

[[File:TRANSFORMERS-2022.jpg|thumb|250px|This guy's got bearings of chrome steel.]]

* 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>
* October 3, 2015 — During his keynote speech at the MIP Junior Conference, [[Allspark (company)|Allspark]]'s [[Stephen J. Davis]] notes that the writing team has come up with film concepts for Transformers 5, 6, 7, and 8.<ref name="stephendaviskeynote">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_P2fw_DlS4&t=812 Stephen Davis's keynote speech] at MIPJunior.</ref>
* February 12, 2016 — At [[Toy Fair 2016]], Hasbro reveals the projected release date of Transformers 7, along with the dates for the two preceding films.<ref name="toyfairreveal" />
* September 23, 2017 — At Licensing Europe 2017, Hasbro announces Transformers 7 will have an "entirely new, exciting storyline".<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/09/23/2019-transformers-movie-feature-entirely-new-storyline-349463 2019 Transformers Movie To Feature An Entirely New Storyline] on TFW2005</ref>
* February 16, 2018 — Hasbro clarifies at [[Toy Fair 2018]] that the film will be a reset of the franchise and has been delayed indefinitely until a new creative team is in place.<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/02/16/transformers-cinematic-universe-current-movie-series-rebooted-358641 Transformers Cinematic Universe Is Over: Current Movie Series To Be Rebooted] on TFW2005</ref>
* May 24, 2018 — Paramount drops the film from their release schedule.<ref>[http://collider.com/transformers-7-cancelled/amp/ Paramount Officially Pulls the Next 'Transformers' Sequel from Their Release Date Schedule] on Collider</ref>
* March 15, 2019 — di Bonaventura states a sequel to ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' is in development.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/two-sequels-in-transformers-live-action-franchise-confirmed-in-development/43083/ Two Sequels in Transformers Live Action Franchise Confirmed in Development] on Seibertron</ref>
* March 18, 2019 — di Bonaventura claims that the next main ''Transformers'' film will be a reboot closely tied to the ''Bumblebee'' sequel, rather than a direct sequel to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''. Either way, Paramount will pick the best script for ''Transformers 7'' and release that first.<ref>[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bumblebee-producer-says-next-transformers-movie-wi/1100-6465652/ Bumblebee Producer Says Next Transformers Movie Will Be A Reboot] on GameSpot</ref>
[[File:Stevencaplejr autobot cast.jpg|thumb|250px|Hey, you think ''that's'' speed? You ain't seen the Golden Rocket.]]
[[File:Stevencaplejr terrorcon cast.jpg|thumb|250px|Then we will create ''alternate forms'', based on the most powerful local creatures!]]
* January 27, 2020 — Variety reports two ''Transformers'' films are being penned, to be produced simultaneously: one written by [[James Vanderbilt]], another to be written by [[Joby Harold]].<ref>[https://variety.com/2020/film/news/transformers-franchise-revamp-bumblebee-james-vanderbilt-joby-harold-1203482496/ ‘Transformers’ Franchise Gets a Revamp With Two Separate Films in the Works] on Variety</ref> Deadline reports that Vanderbilt's script is for a spin-off film based on ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'', while Harold's script continues the story from the ''Bumblebee'' film.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/01/transformers-movies-paramount-1202843234/ Dual ‘Transformers’ Movies In The Works At Paramount] on Deadline</ref>
* May 2, 2020 — [[Hasbro]] CEO [[Brian Goldner]] confirms that a new Transformers live-action movie is slated to release on [[June 24]], 2022. However, only one between Harold's ''Bumblebee'' sequel and Vanderbilt's ''Beast Wars'' film will make it to production first.
* August 21, 2020 — New Republic Pictures is announced as a new co-financier for Paramount in a ten-picture deal in the wake of the success of 2019's ''Rocketman''.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/08/paramount-pictures-new-republic-pictures-10-picture-cofinancing-deal-top-gun-maverick-1203018250/ New Republic Pictures Signs 10-Pic Co-Fi Deal With Paramount Pictures; ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Among Films] on Deadline</ref>
* November 16, 2020 — [[Steven Caple Jr.]] is announced as the director.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/11/transformers-director-steven-caple-jr-1234613830/ Transformers’: ‘Creed 2’ Director Steven Caple Jr. Tapped To Direct Next Installment In Paramount And Hasbro Franchise] on Deadline</ref>
* April 1, 2021 — [[Anthony Ramos]] is in talks for a starring role.<ref>[https://collider.com/transformers-7-cast-anthony-ramos/ Exclusive: Anthony Ramos in Talks to Star in New 'Transformers' Movie] at Collider</ref>
* April 29, 2021 — [[Dominique Fishback]] is in final negotiations to star in the film.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2021/04/transformers-dominique-fishback-anthony-ramos-paramount-eone-and-hasbro-franchise-1234746855/ 'Transformers': Dominique Fishback Lands Lead Role Opposite Anthony Ramos In Next Installment For The Paramount Franchise] on Deadline</ref>
* June 13, 2021 — A casting call sheet for filming in Montreal reveals that the film is set in [[1992]].<ref>[https://www.transformersfr.com/t5190p250-parlons-des-films-transformers-a-venir#190206 Rumeur ― le "7ème Film Transformers en prise de vue réelle" se déroulerait en 1992] on transformersfr.com</ref>
* June 22, 2021 — A Paramount virtual event is held in which the movie's title, premise, and few of the characters and cast are unveiled (revealing it to be both the ''Bumblebee'' and ''Beast Wars'' films in one).<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Currently attending a Paramount virtual event about the next #Transformers film. Report to follow!|link=https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3ABWTF_Ben)%20until%3A2021-06-23%20since%3A2021-06-22|name=Ben Yee|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|link=https://bwtf.com/news/rise-of-the-beasts-character-descriptions|name=Ben Yee|site=BWTF|title=Movie News: "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" Character Descriptions|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref> The film's logo and official premise are also unveiled on official Transformers social media accounts.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The battle on Earth is no longer just between Autobots and Decepticons… Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons join Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, in theatres June 24, 2022.|link=https://twitter.com/transformers/status/1407422768602181632|name=@transformers|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref>
* June 28, 2021 — [[Ron Perlman]] is announced to be reprising his role as Optimus Primal from ''[[Transformers: Power of the Primes (cartoon)|Power of the Primes]]''. [[Darnell Metayer]] and [[Josh Peters]] are confirmed as writers, inspired by Joby Harold's earlier draft.<ref>{{citesocial|quote='''Ron Perlman''' has been tapped to voice Optimus Primal in '''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''', Collider has exclusively learned. [...] ''Rise of the Beasts'' will be led by rising stars '''Anthony Ramos''' (''In the Heights'') and '''Dominique Fishback''' (''Judas and the Black Messiah''), and '''Steven Caple Jr.''' (''Creed II'') is directing from a script by '''Darnell Metayer''' and '''Josh Peters''', who worked off an earlier draft by '''Joby Harold'''.|link=https://collider.com/ron-perlman-optimus-primal-voice-transformers-7-rise-of-the-beasts/|name=Jeff Sneider|site=Collider|title=Exclusive: 'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' Adds Ron Perlman as Voice of Optimus Primal|year=2021|month=06|day=28}}</ref>
* July 11, 2021 — Rapper [[Tobe Nwigwe]] announces on Instagram that he's been cast in the movie.<ref>[https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/houston-s-tobe-nwigwe-earns-emmy-nom-16317174 Houston’s Tobe Nwigwe earns Emmy nom, 'Transformers' role] from the Houston Chronicle</ref>
* October 6, 2021 — Caple Jr. reveals the vehicle modes for the Autobot and Terrorcon cast through his Instagram account.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The squad is out…|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CUsm_wyLory/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2021|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* October 20, 2021 — Filming is completed.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=That’s a wrap 🎬|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOw5z2r9TP/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2021|month=10|day=20}}</ref>
* October 21, 2021 — Cuscopolita reports on the vehicles with the film's Peru crew, confirming the unidentified vehicles as [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] and [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]].<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.facebook.com/cuscopolitamagazine/videos/1941112319403899|name=Cuscopolita|site=Facebook|title=Exclusiva con los Transformers|year=2021|month=10|day=20}}</ref>
* October 22, 2021 — Ramos makes a guest appearance on [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2021]], confirming Cheetor, his favorite ''Beast Wars'' character, will be in the film.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I am a ''Transformers'' fan, ''Beast Wars'' fan, Cheetor is my #1 favorite of all time, so it's dope to have Cheetor, to be in this movie with Cheetor, it's gonna be crazy.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjtxJqrv-bI&t=6051s|name=Anthony Ramos|site=YouTube|title=Hasbro PulseCon 2021 - DAY ONE|year=2021|month=10|day=22}}</ref>
* November 10, 2021 — Paramount announces the film has been delayed to [[June 9]], [[2023]].<ref name="2023release">{{citesocial|quote=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has moved back a year and will now bow June 9, 2023. It previously was slated for June 24, 2022.|link=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-trek-transformers-movie-release-date-1235045937/|name=Aaron Couch|site=The Hollywood Reporter|title=‘Star Trek,’ ‘Transformers’ Movies Pushed Back at Paramount|year=2021|month=11|day=10}}</ref>
* February 15, 2022 — Paramount confirms that ''Rise of the Beasts'' will be the first entry in a trilogy of films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be released theatrically in 2023 and is the first of three new installments. A new animated series from @Nickelodeon arrives this fall. And in 2024, the franchise expands further with a CG animated Transformers theatrical film. #ParamountPlus|link=https://twitter.com/paramountplus/status/1493706271207292928|name=Paramount+|site=Twitter|year=2022|month=02|day=15}}</ref>
* October 11, 2022 — Caple Jr. reveals through Instagram that [[Pete Davidson]] is the voice of Mirage, and [[Michelle Yeoh]] is the voice of Airazor.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sneak peek of Pete voicing Mirage & @michelleyeoh_official blessing us as the voice of Air Razor|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjlx3PPPC_J/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=10|day=11}}</ref>
* October 21, 2022 — [[Tobe Nwigwe]] states on an Instagram post that they are doing some re-shoots for ''Rise of the Beasts'', including featuring his character in additional scenes.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The head people from ''Transformers'' said I did so good in my part they wanna add me to some more scenes. So I gotta go shoot some more stuff for ''Transformers''.|link=https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cj9PnevsVb1/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY|name=Tobe Nwigwe|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=10|day=21}}</ref>
[[File:ROTBTeaserPoster.jpg|thumb|250px|right|I'd say that's PRIME! Let's do it!]]
* December 1, 2022 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWDskI46Js official teaser trailer] is released by Paramount Pictures in conjunction with São Paulo's CCXP convention, giving audiences a first glimpse of the film and its various characters, including Mirage, Arcee, Scourge and the Maximals. Multiple voice cast members are also announced.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2022/12/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-peter-dinklage-liza-koshy-john-dimaggio-cast-1235186104/]</ref>
* December 2, 2022 — [[Jongnic Bontemps]] is announced as the film's score composer.<ref>[http://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/12/02/jongnic-bontemps-to-compose-music-for-steven-caple-jr-s-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts/]</ref>
* December 16, 2022 — Caple Jr. shares a clip of Peter Cullen performing on his Instagram account.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=🐐|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPM80yPcsP/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=12|day=16}}</ref>
* December 26, 2022 — Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal make a "guest" appearance on the 2022 [[Nickelodeon]] Nickmas NFL game, showcasing both modes and their transformations.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5X0F_AvY8Q YouTube upload] of a recording for Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal on the 2022 Nickmas NFL game</ref>
* January 31, 2023 — [[Sam Smith]] reveals toy concept art for a new character from the film, [[Freezer]].<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFlXXNOly1/</ref>
* February 12, 2023 — Paramount airs a 30-second TV spot detailing Mirage's Porsche 911 vehicle mode for Super Bowl LVII in collaboration with Porsche.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/02/2023-super-bowl-movie-trailers-the-flash-fast-x-transformers-ant-man-expected-1235247160/ Super Bowl Movie Trailer Spots Will Include ‘The Flash’, ‘Fast X’, ‘Transformers’ & ‘Ant-Man’ — Deadline]</ref>
* April 2, 2023 — During the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Final Four on CBS, Paramount aired a first-of-its-kind mixed reality TV spot that showed off Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal appearing on a 90s basketball court that transformed from the court the actual basketball match was being played on. A few brief clips from the first trailer were also shown.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeeIfpbUAHg]</ref>
* April 6, 2023 — Actor [[Tongayi Chirisa]] announces on Instagram that he is the voice of Cheetor.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So there is a story to this!!! Per the usual standard .. I had to sign an NDA, so I had NO IDEA what I was reading for.. it was only when I was in the booth to do my voice over that it dawned on me that I was reading for TRANSFORMERS Like what!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯 I totally geeked out in the moment.. Man, to say this is mad exciting is an understatement... So thankful. So honored, so blessed!!!! Massive shout out and THANK YOU to @stevencaplejr for putting your boi on! Appreciate you, fam!!! @transformersmovie..🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 IT WAS ALL A DREAM!!!! Welcome, y'all. I am your transformer #CHEETOR!!!! Let's goooo!!!!!! #NdezvaMwari #Yeshua #smallbeginnings #ontherise|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqs_PQ1J_s6/|name=Tongayi Chirisa|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=04|day=06}}</ref>
* April 14, 2023 — To promote the film, Optimus Prime introduces Tobe Nwigwe's performance of "[[On My Soul]]" at {{w|Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella}}.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Calling all Autobots. @TobeNwigwe and #OptimusPrime have rolled out to #Coachella. #Transformers #RiseOfTheBeasts|link=https://twitter.com/transformers/status/1647069845731803136|name=Transformers|site=Twitter|year=2022|month=04|day=14}}</ref>
* April 27, 2023 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itnqEauWQZM official trailer] is released by Paramount Pictures, revealing more of the movie and Unicron's role in the plot, as well as delivering a first, brief look at the Predacons.
* May 6, 2023 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxore0Gxwpc first clip] is showcased at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, showing the Autobots' first interaction with the Maximals.
* May 12, 2023 — The website Puliwood reveals the film's Hungarian dub cast...including the voice of [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]], a character that had not yet been announced to be appearing in the film.<ref>[https://www.puliwood.hu/ismertetok/exkluziv-ilyen-szinkronhangokkal-jon-a-transformers-a-fenevadak-kora-325900.html EXKLUZÍV: ilyen szinkronhangokkal jön a Transformers: A fenevadak kora]</ref>
* May 27, 2023 — The film's world premiere is held at Marina Bay Sands in [[Singapore]].
* June 5, 2023 — David Sobolov confirms on Instagram that he is also voicing Apelinq in the film.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CtIhCcwu4Ld/|quote=#transformers #riseofthebeasts fans… I just saw our epic premiere in Brooklyn! Tonight, I’m excited to reveal that I am the voice… of Apelinq!|name=David Sobolov|site=Twitter|year=2023|month=06|day=05}}</ref>
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===Changes before, during, and after production===
[[File:ROTB-concept-Rampage.jpg|thumb|250px|I prefer to beat my enemies the old-fashioned way: brutally!]]
* An early cut of the film opened with a different prologue, in which a Decepticon named [[Transit (ROTB)|Transit]], dispatched from a Decepticon-controlled Cybertron to hunt down Optimus Prime, battles and is killed by Optimus, who dumps his body in the Hudson River alongside numerous other Decepticons who have tried to do the same in the past few years. The scene was dropped due to test audiences finding it too dark, but [[John DiMaggio]] remains credited as the voice of Transit even in the finished film. Most of the visual effects for the scene were completed, and it was included (sans the river-dumping part) as a bonus feature with the movie's home media release.
**The scene was replaced for the finished film with Unicron's attack on the Maximal homeworld, which in the earlier cut was recounted by Airazor with hologram visual-aids during the scene when she meets the Autobots mid-movie.
* Cheetor and Rhinox were initially intended to be introduced slightly earlier, encountering Elena and Noah in the underground cavern. In scenes interspersed with the Autobots' and Terrorcons' running battle on the hilltop road, Cheetor was to be the one who took down Freezer as he menaced the two humans, after which Noah's gauntlet would accidentally fire a shot at the Maximal, causing him and Rhinox to chase them through the cave. Cut in favor of making the Autobot/Terrorcon battle one unbroken scene, the alternate version was included as a bonus on the home media release.
* Concept art sketches show [[:File:Rampage-face.jpg|a movie version]] of [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] was originally supposed to appear as [[:File:ROTB-Rampage-concept.jpg|a deceased corpse]] during the underground cavern sequence of the movie. Although scrapped for the final cut, [https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu44E6aoECC/ a full 360° CGI model] for the character was created.
* Multiple changes were made to the film's ending, which originally had a much darker tone like the scrapped opening. Originally, Mirage wasn't planned to survive the final battle, and Optimus would have been sucked into the portal after destroying the Transwarp Key and wind up floating in space before Unicron in the post-credits scene. Reactions by the audience in test screenings convinced Caple to change the ending to something a bit more hopeful, wanting to let the good guys get a solid win.<ref name=AltEnding>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-ending-1235512382/ ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Director Steven Caple Jr. Talks That Ending, Hailee Steinfeld and Test Screening Changes — The Hollywood Reporter]</ref> The scene of Prime and Unicron was included as an extra with the home media release.
* Two versions of the final scene were filmed: one in which Agent Burke's business card reveals him to be part of [[Sector Seven]], and the version used in the film, in which he's part of G.I. Joe. According to Caple, the Sector Seven version was filmed only as misdirection, and the G.I. Joe version was always the one he intended to use.<ref name=Joe/>
* Other deleted/extended scenes included on the home media release include: Elena's moment of panicked disbelief (prominently showcased in the movie's trailer) shortly after the museum battle; Noah speaking with his mother when he returns home after the museum battle; a wholesomely cute moment between Elena and Airazor before Mirage and Noah join the group to depart for Peru, in which Airazor explains the Maximal insignia; and a short scene of Optimus Primal about to hand the Transwarp Key over to Optimus Prime, before they are interrupted by Airazor's rampage.
* Additional cuts not represented in the extras from throughout the film included: a scene of Bumblebee showing a polaroid of himself and [[Charlie Watson]] to Optimus Prime as they wait outside the museum, to emphasise that some humans are trustworthy; innuendos between Arcee and Wheeljack that hint at a romantic attraction between the two; some dialogue from Scourge emphasising that (not unlike Galvatron in the original animated movie) he is an unwilling servant of Unicron; a scene of Wheeljack lending his glasses to Optimus Prime to use like a telescope; and an alternate plan to destroy the Transwarp Key in the final act that involves using the deceased Airazor's spark as a bomb, only for the bomb to be lost, leaving Elena to figure out the codes.
* During production, the Scorponok drones initially had a troll-like robot mode, and dozens of them would have merged into a massive Scorponok [[combiner]] that towered over the Autobots and Maximals in the final battle. Although their [https://www.eddiedelrio.com 3D models] were made, they were ultimately cut out.
* Concept art was created for a fourth Terrorcon who ultimately never made it to the final film. This character was referred to with the working name “[[:File:Bloodhound.jpeg|'''Bloodhound''']]” <ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CuheJkfxGeW/|quote=Early ideas for #bloodhound. He was my first task so I mostly carried over the process used on #bumblebee back in 2017. Swipe and you can see the rough sculpts I did in VR to capture attitude/proportion/etc. Then I would paint in details with photoshop. By the end of the show I was blocking in VR then jumped straight to zbrush/maya as it took roughly the same amount of time to sculpt everything.|name=Shane Baxley|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=07|day=10}}</ref> and would have transformed into a demonic-looking Oldsmobile 442. <ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CuPeUkzROiu/|quote=BLOODHOUND! This was the first #terracon Haworth had me do using an #oldsmobile442 which I think @stevencaplejr has in his garage? Unfortunately the scenes with this guy got cut - but he still got #imdb credit 🤣🤙🏻 #transformers #riseofthebeasts|name=Shane Baxley|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=07|day=03}}</ref>
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==Notes==
* In a first for the franchise, the lead human actors, multiple writers, the composer, and the director are all people of color.
* This is the first movie in the series not to be worked on by [[Industrial Light & Magic]]; this time around the CG effects were done by [[Moving Picture Company]] and [[WetaFX]].
* Steven Caple Jr. was initially sceptical of working on a ''Transformers'' movie, which at that point in development was being called ''Bumblebee 2'', because he was uncertain about jumping right into another sequel after directing ''{{w|Creed II}}''—however, the incorporation of elements inspired by ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', which Caple Jr. had been a fan of, helped sway him. Upon joining the project, he pitched several revisions, drawing from his enthusiasm for ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' by adding [[Unicron]] (and the [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s) and Noah's exosuit, along with a prologue on the [[Maximal]]s' homeworld and a new arc for [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] centred around his initial misanthropy.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The first time that- I did ''Creed 2'', and the first time the studio ever knocked on my door, it was for ''Bumblebee 2''. And I was like, "I don't want to do- I just came out from ''Creed 2'', I don't want to do a sequel..." you know? And so a year had gone by—or maybe two, right before COVID—and they said, "we found out the story we want to tackle: we want to bring in ''Beast Wars''." I was like, "I know all about ''Beast Wars'', I'm down for ''Beast Wars''." And so they developed a script on their own, they passed it to me—2020, October 5th, I remember the date—and I jumped right in and I kind of did my own version of the pitch, I said: "I love where you guys are going, you guys want to do New York, you guys want to do the 90s, you want to do Peru, but here's what I'll do, with the characters..." So I changed up Optimus Prime, I gave him a whole pitch on how I would start him with like, not loving humans at first, and not besiding Noah right off the rip, they're gonna have friction between the two... Gave 'em a pitch for Optimus Primal, where they start off in the top of the movie, and I gave them a new Unicron- I mean a new villain, which was Unicron and the Terrorcon squad. I just felt like, as a fan, we've been tiptoeing around Unicron, and all the other films kind of like hinted towards him towards the end, and I just really want to expand the universe and I felt like he was that perfect source to do so, because he tells us there's another world out there, there's more Transformers out there, it's not just Autobots and Decepticons. And then of course the [[exosuit]], that was my idea, it was homage to the 80s cartoon, so... It was a bit of that, pitched it to 'em and they loved the heart, they love where I was going with the direction of the characters, and yeah, they kind of gave me the key to play!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxUukVwKLCc|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Collider|title=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Interview: Director Reveals Big Change to Film|year=2023|month=06|day=06}}</ref>
* [[Tobe Nwigwe]]'s character of [[Reek]] was based Steven Caple Jr.'s friend Tarik Jackson, who passed away before shooting began in 2021.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The way I got the ''Transformers'' role was insane. [...] One of [Steven Caple Jr.'s] best friends was a fan of the music, and his best friend, right, like, as they was getting ready to start shooting the movie... passed. Passed, yeah. And he had Paramount Studios reach out to me to try to play a specific- the best friend role in ''Transformers''. They kind of emulated who his best friend was in real life. He told Paramount [...] "reach out to Tobe and if he send anything back that's even ''halfway'' decent... I want to use him." But because I had never done no acting ever in my life, I just had this script right here, and just read it like I was acting, and just recorded myself on the iPhone and I was like, "yo there's no way in hell..." [...] I did that, sent that in, and they liked it!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfAoWTKh3R8&t=2638s|name=Tobe Nwigwe|site=Sway's Universe|year=2023|month=01|day=23}}</ref>
*The fourth-wall-breaking [[Mark Wahlberg]] namedrop was ad-libbed by [[Pete Davidson]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=We wanted to break the fourth wall. In all fairness, Pete Davidson made that up in the booth, and we laughed so hard, we're like in tears, and we're like there's no way we could not use this. We had ad-libbed a whole bunch of stuff. One was on, "Beanie Babies was weird", and he was like, what about Marky Mark leaving the Funky Bunch? And we were just in tears. And then we showed the studio and everybody loved it and was like, "let's just break the fourth wall. Do it."|link=https://gizmodo.com/breaking-the-fourth-wall-in-transformers-rise-of-the-b-1850514340|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=io9|title=Breaking the Fourth Wall in ''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''|year=2023|month=06|day=09}}</ref>
* During the production of the film, Ramos had to acquire a driver's license at Caple Jr.'s behest.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DDi5f1SL4oESslcZLjhhG|name=Anthony Ramos|site=the Spout Podcast|year=2021}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=I had a two-week window to get an appointment at the DMV, and the DMV was initially uncooperative. Finally, after much haggling, I was able to secure an appointment. I took the test in my mother's car after a few months of practice with an instructor. Fortunately, I was able to pass.|link=https://theplaylist.net/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-anthony-ramos-talks-representation-in-franchises-getting-his-drivers-license-for-the-film-interview-20230607/|name=Anthony Ramos|site=The Playlist|title='Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts': Anthony Ramos Talks Representation In Franchises & Getting His Driver's License For The Film [Interview]|year=2023|month=06|day=07}}</ref>
* During an interview with a fan, voice actor David Sobolov revealed that Caple Jr. would create storyboards using Transformers toys. Awesome!<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdsfclO5etE&t=1106 "ROTB UNICRON IS THRILLING!" | Interview with DAVID SOBOLOV (Rhinox + Battletrap)! - YouTube]</ref>
* According to Caple Jr., Optimus's unmasked face was modeled after Peter Cullen's.
* As a result of Transit's removal, this is the first live-action film to not feature the Decepticons in any capacity.
* To keep the secret of the ''G.I. Joe'' tease at the end of the movie, most copies of the script and the version of the scene shot for test screenings all used [[Sector Seven]] instead. Michael Kelly also didn't know the big twist with his character until he arrived on set. Caple Jr. even had only a single ''G.I. Joe'' business card printed, on the day of filming, and took it from the set himself afterwards for safekeeping!<ref name=Joe>{{citesocial|quote=There was one version of the script that mentioned the G.I. Joe reveal. All other copies, including the one in the studio's possession, described the military organization as Sector 7. "That way no one could leak the script," Caple notes. [...] Caple says they shot two versions of Kelly's scene, one where Burke's business card reads Sector 7 and one where the card reads G.I. Joe, so audiences in test screenings wouldn't know the true reveal. There was only one copy of the G.I. Joe business card, and Caple took that himself from set for safe keeping. "I was like, 'I'm taking this. I don't want this to be found on the floor,'" he says. "I actually didn't have them printed out until that day [on set]. We were very cautious of it, man. We were really trying to be as secretive as possible."|link=https://ew.com/movies/transformers-g-i-joe-crossover-plans/|name=Nick Romano|site=Entertainment Weekly|title=Inside the top-secret plans for Transformers and G.I. Joe|year=2023|month=06|day=12}}</ref>
*This is the first live-action Transformers movie where the Japanese dub wasn't sound directed by [[Keiichirō Miyoshi]] but instead it is directed by [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]] who had been responsible for the original Beast Wars cartoons dubs localization.

===Foreign names===
* ''Japanese:'' '''''Transformers/Beast Kakusei''''' (トランスフォーマー/ビースト覚醒 ''Toransufōmā Bīsuto Kakusei'', "Transformers: Beast Awakening")
* ''Cantonese:'' '''''Bin3jing4 Gam1gong1: Kwong4sau3 Gwat6hei2''''' (變形金剛：狂獸崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts")
* ''French:'' '''''Transformers : Le Réveil des Bêtes''''' (Canada, "Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''German:'' '''''Transformers: Aufstieg der Bestien''''' ("Transformers: Rise of the Beasts")
* ''Hungarian:'' '''''Transformers: A fenevadak kora''''' ("Transformers: The Age of the Beasts")
* ''Italian: '' '''''Transformers: Il Risveglio''''' ("Transformers: The Awakening")
* ''Mandarin:'' '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Wàn Shòu Juéqǐ''''' (Taiwan, 變形金剛：萬獸崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts"), '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Chāonéng Yǒngshì Juéqǐ''''' (China, 变形金刚：超能勇士崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beast Wars")
* ''Portuguese:'' '''''Transformers: O Despertar das Feras''''' (Brazil, "Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''Spanish:'' '''''Transformers: El Despertar de las Bestias''''' ("Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''Russian:'' '''''Transformery: Voskhozhdeniye Zverobotov''''' (Трансформеры: Восхождение Звероботов, "Transformers: Rise of the Beastbots")
* ''Ukrainian:'' '''''Transformery: Chas Zvirobotiv''''' (Трансформери: Час Звіроботів, "Transformers: Time of the Beastbots")

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

[[Category:Real world films]]
[[Category:Rise of the Beasts| ]]
[[Category:Rise of the Beasts media]]

LetÃcia Quinto

2023-07-25T16:38:46Z

Igordebraga:

Letícia Rodrigues Quinto (b. [[January 26]], [[1974]]) is a Brazilian voice actress, daughter of [[Rosa Maria Baroli]]. Among her notable roles are Saori Kido in ''Saint Seiya'', Sandy Cheeks in ''SpongeBob Squarepants'', and many roles by Anne Hathaway and Kirsten Dunst.
==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: Animated|Animated]]''===
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Quinto, Letícia}}
[[Category: Portuguese voice actors]]

Roberto Macedo

2023-06-27T05:43:19Z

Igordebraga:

[[File:Roberto Macedo.jpg|270px|thumb]]
'''Roberto Macedo''' ([[November 12]], [[1949]] - [[June 26]], [[2023]]) was a Brazilian actor.

He started dubbing in 1976. His most famous voice roles include He-Man in ''Masters of the Universe'', Bruce Wayne / Batman in ''Batman Beyond'', Alfred Molina in several films, and he has been one of the voices of Alan Rickman.

==Voice roles==
===''The Transformers''===
* [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]]
* [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (''Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3'')
* [[Outback (G1)|Outback]] (''The Quintesson Journal'')
* [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (''Madman's Paradise'')
* [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (''Masquerade'')

===''The Transformers: The Movie'' (VHS dub)===
* [[Kranix (G1)|Kranix]]

==External links==
*[https://vvikipedia.fandom.com/pt/wiki/Roberto_Macedo Vikipedia.fandom.com page] ''(Portuguese)''
*[http://casadadublagem10.blogspot.com/2019/03/roberto-macedo.html Casadadublagem page] ''(Portuguese)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4965954/ IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macedo, Roberto}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

LetÃcia Quinto

2023-06-27T05:42:12Z

Igordebraga: Created page with "Letícia Rodrigues Quinto (b. January 26, 1974) is a Brazilian voice actress, daughter of Rosa Maria Baroli. Among her notable roles are Saori Kido in ''Saint Seiy..."

Letícia Rodrigues Quinto (b. [[January 26]], [[1974]]) is a Brazilian voice actress, daughter of [[Rosa Maria Baroli]]. Among her notable roles are Saori Kido in ''Saint Seiya'', Sandy Cheeks in ''SpongeBob Squarepants'', and many roles by Anne Hathaway and Kirsten Dunst.
==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: Animated|Animated]]''===
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baroli, Rosa Maria}}
[[Category: Portuguese voice actors]]

Gilberto Baroli

2023-06-12T02:35:26Z

Igordebraga:

'''Gilberto Baroli''' (b. [[March 14]], [[1942]]) is a Portuguese-language voice actor. As a dubber, he has done work on such franchises as ''Dragon Ball'', ''Galaxy Angel'', ''Full Metal Alchemist'', ''Saint Seiya'', and ''[[Pokeformers|Pokémon]]''. As a dubbing director, he's done work on such franchises as ''Saint Seiya'', ''Dragon Ball'', ''Sailor Moon'', and ''M. D. Geist''. Most of his family also went into dubbing, including son [[Hermes Baroli]] and wife [[Rosa Maria Baroli]].

==Voice roles==
===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''===
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Transformers cartoon|Soundwave]] ("[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]” Fox Kids dub)

===''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]''===
*[[Rampage (BW)#Beast Wars cartoon|Violência]]

===''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]''===
*[[Tracks (Animated)|Tracks]]

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=48874 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baroli, Gilberto}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Rosa Maria Baroli

2023-06-12T02:34:22Z

Igordebraga: Created page with "'''Rosa Maria Baroli Quinto''' (b. April 18, 1956) is a Brazilian voice actress. She is married to Gilberto Baroli and mother of Letícia Quinto. ==Voice roles..."

'''Rosa Maria Baroli Quinto''' (b. [[April 18]], [[1956]]) is a Brazilian voice actress. She is married to [[Gilberto Baroli]] and mother of [[Letícia Quinto]].
==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''===
*[[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baroli, Rosa Maria}}
[[Category: Portuguese voice actors]]

CecÃlia Lemes

2023-06-12T02:19:01Z

Igordebraga: /* Animated */ not her

'''Cecília Lemes''' (b. [[April 10]], [[1960]]) is a Brazilian voice actress. In addition to dubbing in Portuguese for such talent as Andie McDowell, she's worked on such projects as ''Kashi no ki Mokku'' and the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]''===
*[[June Darby]]

===''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''===
*[[Ms. Greene]]

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501265/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 IMDB entry]
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=48871 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lemes, Cecilia}}
[[Category:Portuguese voice actors]]

Arcee (Animated)

2023-06-12T02:18:59Z

Igordebraga: /* Animated cartoon */ wrong dubber

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{{disambig3|Arcee}}
:''Arcee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Animated continuity family]].''
[[File:Animatedarcee.jpg|right|thumb|In Japan, I'm a secretary!]]
Before the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]], '''Teaching Unit RC-687-040'''—'''Arcee''' for short—was a teacher, giving young Autobots the knowledge to make their own decisions and spurring them to think for themselves. Once the conflict erupted, she became an intelligence officer for the Autobot war effort, serving under [[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] in such risky endeavors as [[Project Omega]].

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
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{{voiceactor|[[Susan Blu]] (English), [[Ayahi Takagaki]] (Japanese)|[[Silvia Mißbach]] (German), [[Jessica Toledo]] (Latin-American Spanish, seasons 1 and 2), [[Nancy Cardozo]] (Latin-American Spanish, season 3), [[Antía Jiménez Álvarez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Letícia Quinto]] (Portuguese), [[Minna Tasanto]] (Finnish), [[Anne Plumet]] (French)}}

[[File:Ratchetanimatedthrill.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|"Hi, good-looking, get sick here often?"]]
Arcee was a teacher on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}} and an Autobot intelligence officer during the War. {{storylink|The Thrill of the Hunt}} ''She encountered the "[[Kremzeek]]" trojan horse virus and energy being at least once during her intel days.'' {{storylink|The Return of Blurr}} Originally intended to be the commander of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]], she carried crucial access codes for his activation. {{storylink|TransWarped}}

At one point, Arcee was damaged in the line of duty. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] repaired her and tried to take her to safety, but the two were attacked by [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], who had been hired by the [[Decepticon]]s to bring her in.

Held prisoner within Lockdown's ship, Arcee insisted that Ratchet use his [[electromagnetic pulse]] tool to wipe the codes from her head. Lockdown overheard this and tried to stop the pair, but in the struggle, the device overloaded and sent out a powerful burst. In the confusion, Ratchet and Arcee were somehow able to escape... but Arcee no longer knew who or where she was. The EMP blast had wiped her memory clean. {{storylink|The Thrill of the Hunt}}

[[File:TransWarpedArcee.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Well, this [[Spotlight: Arcee|looks familiar]].]]
Arcee was later taken to Cybertron, where [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] made Ratchet perform open-processor surgery on her vivisected head in an attempt to obtain the access codes for Omega Supreme's activation. This triggered a failsafe which copied the codes to Ratchet's memory. {{storylink|TransWarped}}

[[File:TFAni ThisisWhyIHateMachines Arcee Earth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|Dames—always waking up at the worst possible moment!]]
Arcee never awoke from the open-processor surgery and was stored for the subsequent four-million-plus years in the [[Cybertron Central Infirmary]] in a comatose state. When the Decepticons needed to acquire the command codes to "restart" Omega Supreme into a dreadnought loyal to them, both [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] and Ratchet reasoned that their best chance for this would be from Arcee herself. The two of them battled over Arcee and, thanks to the blundering interference of [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], Shockwave won—abducting Arcee and escaping with her onto Omega Supreme, which Megatron then commanded to transwarp back to the [[Solar System]]. [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] was certain that the damage to Arcee's circuitry was totally irreversible, and there was thus no way for the Decepticons to get the codes from her... but apparently he forgot to tell Arcee herself, who soon woke up on the Decepticon-controlled Omega Supreme, calling for Ratchet. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

On Earth's [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], Shockwave proceeded to rifle through Arcee's memories, initially putting her into a fugue state where she relived her days as "Teaching Unit R-C-687-040" with little awareness of what was going on around her. When [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] transwarped onto the moon, he found her like this and—fearful of what would happen if he disconnected her from the cables plugged into her segmented head—merely opened her commlink before returning to Earth.

[[File:EndgamePart1-BumblebeeArcee.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|But is it art?]]

Eventually, Shockwave managed to access the data tracks from her time as an intel bot, making her aware and—transforming into Longarm Prime mode—asked her to confirm she had the activation codes from Project Omega. When she did so, he unplugged her from the cables, knocking her into stasis mode. Outside, with three purple Omega Supreme clones standing by, as well as the original, he took her fully online again and ordered her to give them the codes. Given that [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] himself was standing right in front of her, she refused, and instead Shockwave "had to extract it manually". The code transferred to [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] was "missing a security upgrade patch", however, meaning Lugnut had to be wired directly into Omega Supreme to get them online; while Shockwave worked further on Arcee to try and get the patch. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}

[[File:EndgamePartII-Arceeisback.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|She's rather personable when she's not a prop.]]

As Shockwave rooted through her processor, most of the restoration work he had previously undertaken was undone, which left her once again as a fugue-state Teaching Unit, even as Shockwave still failed to get the codes. Instead, he used her as bait when Ratchet—accompanied by Bumblebee, [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]—transwarped to the Moon with the aim of retrieving her and Omega Supreme. While Bumblebee and Bulkhead fought off Shockwave, Ratchet and Sari took Arcee and fled to a lab inside Omega Supreme. There, as Ratchet bemoaned the damage the "Deceptiscum" had done to her, Sari was able to use her nascent technopathy to instruct Ratchet in how to restore Arcee, using the very EMP generator which had caused the original damage to her so long before. She came back online, recognizing Ratchet but remembering nothing since their capture by Lockdown. Ratchet promised to fill her in on the stellar cycles she'd missed, but said that they first would need to regain control of Omega Supreme.

Ratchet and Arcee traveled to Omega's head, and the field-tech lowered her using his magnetics to allow her to reactivate Omega Supreme. With this done, Omega ejected Lugnut, and Arcee joined the Earth residents in flying to Detroit aboard the shipbot so that Omega could confront his [[Lugnut Supreme|Decepticon clones]]. Soon afterward, with Megatron's crew all captured or dead, she presumably flew back to Cybertron with them aboard Omega, although she wasn't seen to join them in their triumphant disembarking. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

[[File:StunticonJob-Maincastbox.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right]]
''Following her return to Cybertron, Arcee's memories were fully restored by Sari. She also received a pair of laser swords from Ratchet, who had intended to build her pointers for her re-instated position as a teacher but had gotten carried away. She took a small group consisting of Sari, [[Hosehead (Animated)|Hosehead]], [[Nightbeat (Animated)|Nightbeat]] and [[Siren (Animated)|Siren]] on a field-trip to Cybertron's Metroplex. During the trip, she noticed that Sari had gone missing, and thankfully found her down in the facility's recycling center just in time to save her from being crushed by the machinery there. Sari informed her that a Kremzeek had gotten loose, and Arcee was forced to fight against her own students as they became possessed by the creature. The Kremzeek eventually escaped, intent on making its way to Fortress Maximus, where it could do untold damage to Cybertron. Arcee and Sari pursued it, eventually containing it before it could do anyone serious harm.'' {{storylink|The Return of Blurr}} ''Arcee then attended the [[Team Stunticon|Stunt Convoy]] show in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] alongside her companions from Earth.'' {{storylink|The Stunti-Con Job}} ''She was later present when Optimus Prime used the AllSpark Matrix to restore Blurr to full working condition. She was pleased that her class had learned a valuable lesson about not judging individuals based on their appearances after their adventure together.'' {{storylink|The Return of Blurr}}

===Prevenge===
{{voiceactor|[[Susan Blu]] (English)}}
Arcee was about to learn all about Sari Sumdac's mysterious origins when she was abducted via a trans-dimensional portal. She then found herself in a metallic corridor where she met the Mini-Con [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]]. The pair got off on a rough start at first due to their vastly different visual styles, but they quickly made amends. Next, Sureshock attempted to Powerlinx with Arcee, an act that Arcee found highly inappropriate. Finding a door before them, the pair stepped through and met six other 'bots who had been abducted from their home dimensions: [[Blades (RB)|Blades]], [[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]], [[Ravage (SG)|Ravage]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]], [[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]], and [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]].

The group's captor then made his presence known, and after rather embarrassingly trying to sic a sick [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] on them, ordered the abductees to fight one another to the death. To force his captives into doing so, he threatened to detonate a Dark Energon bomb should they defy him. Arcee protested, stating that Autobots couldn't fight without first participating in the ancient tradition of a "pre-battle huddle." The group devised that whoever had abducted them had purposely avoided bringing in a scientist. With this information, they were able to bluff their captor into admitting that there was no bomb. The [[Skuxxoid]] revealed himself as the architect behind the whole plot, tired of being continuously dismissed by the Transformers in his home universe. Arcee attempted to show the creature some compassion by asking it its name, but the Skuxxoid had forgotten it, having been referred to as "The Skuxxoid" for so long. Snarl then punted the villain over the horizon, leaving the group to figure out a way to get back home on their own. They eventually settled on all laughing together, as characters from a cheesy cartoon are prone to do when an episode comes to an end. Surprisingly enough, this worked, and everyone was sent back to their home dimensions. {{storylink|Prevenge}}

==Toys==
===''Animated''===
[[File:Animatedtoy-Arcee.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Hey, remember the [[:File:Botconarceetoy.jpg|spider]]? Remember when you were content with that?]]
*'''Arcee''' (Deluxe, 2010)
**''Takara ID number:'' '''TA-12'''
**''Takara release date'': [[April 24]], 2010
**''Accessories:'' 2 swords, left & right wings
{{toydesigner|[[Alex Kubalsky]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' Arcee transforms into a Cybertronic "rocket car," notable to [[fandom|fans]] as the first toy of Arcee that transforms from an approximation of the [[Arcee (G1)|original Arcee]]'s [[character model]] into a car. She comes with two wings, which can be attached at the rear of her [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] (or her [[robot mode]] back), and two swords, which can be held in her hands or stored securely in shafts in the rear of her vehicle mode (or atop her shoulder kibble). Some have reported the swords fit loosely, though they are designed to click into place—albeit with a certain amount of fiddling in some cases.

: There is a manufacturing error with many if not all Arcee figures. The more Arcee's swords are inserted into the hands, the more the thumbs weaken and will eventually snap off. This can be remedied by shaving down the two tabs on either side of the sword. Most Arcees have stress marks straight out of the package due to the way her thumbs peg onto her back fenders in vehicle mode. Additionally, the unfortunate placement of a tab on the back of her right knee (used to lock the front of her car mode together) prevents her lower leg from straightening out fully.

: Originally intended to be part of a mass retail wave in the [[Hasbro]] line, Arcee and [[Ratchet (Animated)#Cybertron|Cybertron Mode Ratchet]] were eventually released as [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]]s. Arcee was notably difficult to find for many fans, leading to accusations of mass [[toy scalping]]. Additionally, Arcee was subject to a running change: original shipments had Arcee in a glossy deep magenta color plastic, whereas later shipments switched her plastic to a matte medium-dark pink. The softer matte plastic means that one can now force her lower right leg into position over the tab. At least some later shipped figures had a [[:File: Arceeknee.jpg|remolded tab]] that further corrected the design flaw.

: Arcee was released at mass retail in the Takara ''Animated'' line, in its second wave of product. Her deco has been tweaked and expanded to make her more show-like (in theory): the most immediately-noticeable changes are that her midriff and biceps are now dark drown/burgundy, her toes have been painted white and magenta, and -like all the Takara ''Animated'' product- her faction symbols are now full-color with white outlines rather than the un-outlined metallics of the Hasbro release. Takara Arcee also sports a much brighter white plastic and lighter-pink face paint. (As to if this version has the later running changes to her legs, we don't know at the moment.)

: This mold was used as the model for the Japanese-card-reader-game-only [[Chromia (Animated)|Chromia]], was redecoed for the [[BotCon 2011]] exclusives [[Drag Strip (Animated)|Drag Strip]] and [[Minerva (Animated)|Minerva]], and served as the basis for [[Nightbeat (Animated)|Nightbeat]] in the illustrated portion of [[BotCon 2015]]'s "[[The Return of Blurr]]".

:[[:File:Animated arcee toy.jpg|Stock photography of the toy]] features wings of a similar-but-different sculpt compared to the wings on the production version. They also attached at a point further from the rear of the vehicle.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Autobot/Arcee/arcee.htm More information on Arcee at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
*Arcee's swords and vehicle mode were designed by [[Eric Siebenaler]] rather than the ''Animated'' television staff.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Eric Siebenaler designed the Arcee swords and vechicle mode. Not the Angry Archer.|link=https://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1432265686|name=Derrick J. Wyatt|site=Twitter|year=2009|month=04|day=01|(defunct=)}}</ref>
*After Hasbro decided to make her into a toy, Arcee's [[character model]] grew some new vehicle kibble to match. Her shoulder kibble sprouted tiny wings and wheels, her shins grew wheels, and her vehicle mode's canopy popped out of her butt.
*Initial proposals for [[BotCon 2011]] included redecoes of ''Animated'' Arcee into ''Animated'' versions of [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]], [[Nightracer (G2)|Nightracer]], and [[Antagony (Animated)|Antagony]].<ref>[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report by griffin]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Arcee''' (アーシー ''Āshī'')

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