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Phenolo-Phi

2025-09-17T16:42:07Z

Indridcold13:

:''Space Glider is a [[Micronaut]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]]''

[[File:PhenoloPhiProfileArt.jpg|thumb|Her armor is spearmint-flavoured.]]

'''Phenolo-Phi''', also called '''Phen''' or '''[[Space Glider]]''', is part of [[Oziron Rael|Oz Rael]]’s crew of [[Micronaut]]s. A rebel and thrill-seeker, Phen uses a prototype space suit and glider pack that turns her into a one-woman stealth fighter.

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
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Phenolo-Phi grew up on [[Qwin Primary]], the daughter of a famous artist and a military engineer. When [[Baron Karza]]'s [[Ministry of Defense]] attacked her planet as part of the [[Microspace]]-spanning civil war, her parents were both killed on a tour of her father's research station. Phen survived the initial attack before stealing a prototype glider suit her father had designed and escaping. Phenolo-Phi left Qwin behind and slummed it on [[Lomaari Station]], where she eventually met [[Oziron Rael]], [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]], and [[Microtron]]. With nowhere else to go, Phenolo-Phi joined the Micronauts aboard the starship ''[[Heliopolis]]''. {{storylink|Valley Forge|Phenolo-Phi profile in Revolution #5}}

While [[Scarlett]] expressed her worry about what other forces could appear on Earth following [[All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Optimus Prime's activities]], Phen and the other Micronauts were in the middle of a battle. {{storylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}

After flying the ''Heliopolis'' into the [[Entropy Cloud]] in an attempt to both save their universe and escape Baron Karza, the Micronauts were attacked by [[Repto]]s, a species previously thought destroyed by the cloud. Phen helped Oz Rael and [[Larissa]] fight off the Reptos until the crew was saved by the mysterious [[Time Traveler]]. While the rest of the crew remained mystified as the Time Traveler disappeared, Phen worried about getting the ship flying again.

Several days into their journey, while tracking a mysterious energy source, the Micronauts received a message from Baron Karza. Karza told them that though it had only been a few days for them inside the storm, years had passed for him after he followed them into the cloud. The Micronauts soon arrived at the location of the energy source, or as Karza called it, the birthplace of Microspace: the body of [[Micronus Prime]]. {{storylink|Micronauts: Revolution}} Karza explained to the Micronauts that Micronus's body contained a [[Space bridge|gateway]] to another universe, through which he had been transporting an [[Ore-13|alien mineral]] that could counteract the effects of the entropy cloud. The process was extremely slow, however, and to save their home Karza told the Micronauts that he would need their assistance. Though unsure if they could trust their old nemesis, the Micronauts received an unexpected visitor: a chrono-walking [[Time Traveler]], who urged then to travel through the bridge. Before they could reach a consensus, chunks of Ore-13 emerged from the space bridge and began detonating around them. Before the portal could close forever, Oziron flew their ship through the spacebridge portal...

... and emerged on [[Earth]], inside the spacebridge chamber of the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]. Confused by their colossal surroundings, Phenolo wondered how they could communicate with the native life forms. Before they could get far, they were intercepted by [[Snake-Eyes]], whom they confused for a giant Karza robot. {{storylink|O Ship of State}}

The ensuing battle between the ninja and the tiny aliens drew the attention of [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]], who joined the fight. They were cut short by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]], and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], Soundwave creating a shockwave to forcibly pacify the combatants. Windblade recognized the Micronauts from her own journey into Microspace. The visiting [[Rom]]—responsible for the Ore-13 explosion—apologized to the tiny visitors for his actions; though unable to understand his language, the Micronauts decided they liked the Space Knight. When [[Miles Mayhem]], supported by the forces of [[M.A.S.K.]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s laid siege to [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], the Micronauts, aboard their vessel, joined the fight. {{storylink|The New Colossus}}

Faced with a gigantic, dimensionally-displaced Karza, the Micronauts joined up with Soundwave, Rom, [[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]], and [[Matt Trakker]], "[[Enerchange|enerchanging]]" with Metrotitan's spacebridge and allowing the other heroes to force the Baron back into Microspace. The Micronauts survived the explosion that marked the Baron's defeat, but awoke later on to find that they had been captured by [[human]] scientists. {{storylink|Valley Forge}}

After escaping captivity and embarking on a series of adventures of their own, the Micronauts encountered [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] and [[G.B. Blackrock]] at the [[Pacific Science Center]] in [[Seattle]], believing they might know something about the mysterious "[[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]]". Though still jumpy from their recent escapades, Kup managed to ease tensions by using the [[universal greeting]] to communicate with [[Biotron]]. [[Larissa]] realized that she knew the device from somewhere; using the ''Heliopolis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s sensors, the team of Micronauts and Cybertronians tracked the Talisman to the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], where they encountered Action Man being held hostage by [[Joe Colton|Baron Ironblood]] and [[Mercy Gale|Doctor X]]. The heroes managed to see off the villains and retrieve the Talisman, and the Micronauts returned to Earth. {{storylink|Enter the Shadow}}

===''Aw Yeah Revolution!''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}}}}

==Toys==
===''Revolution''===
[[File:SDCC Revolutions Phenfig.jpg|thumb|upright=1.10]]
*'''Revolution Set''' (SDCC Gift Set, 2017)
:Released as part of a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2017 exclusive set, Phenolo-Phi is one of the nine ''tiny'' non-articulated Micronauts mini-figures, along with [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]], [[Quin-Tillus]], [[Baron Karza]], [[Oberon]], [[Biotron]], [[Xant]], [[Betatron (Micronauts)|Betatron]], and [[Gammatron]].

:They were packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Revolution|Jetfire]], [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)|M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], ''[[Visionaries]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[Leoric]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', and [[Rom]] and a [[Dire Wraith]].

==Notes==
*Phen is a character from IDW's ''Micronauts'' comics. She and her glider suit are based on the Space Glider figure from the original ''Micronauts'' toyline.

==External links==
* [http://www.innerspaceonline.com/new%20sg%20page.htm Space Glider at Inner Space Online]

[[Category:Micronauts]]

The Transformers Compendium Volume 2

2025-04-10T22:05:37Z

Indridcold13:

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'''''The Transformers Compendium Volume 2''''', scheduled to be published by [[Skybound Entertainment]] October [[2025]], is the second in a two-volume series intended to reprint the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|original ''Transformers'' series]] from [[Marvel Comics]]. This volume collects the later years of the comics days, originally published from July 1988 to August 1994.

==Contents==
* ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' [[Club Con!|#47]]–[[End of the Road! (US)|80]]
* ''[[Transformers: The Movie (Marvel comic)|Transformers: The Movie]]'' [[The Planet-Eater!|#1]]–[[The Final Battle!|3]]
* ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Transformers: Generation 2]]'' [[War Without End!|#1]]–[[A Rage in Heaven!|12]]

[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 comic compilations]]

Talk:Cliffjumper (Yolopark)

2025-03-18T09:35:47Z

Indridcold13: Created page with "==Unofficial Convention== •are we going to cover BotCon exclusives when they no longer have offical Hasbro support? Does Ladybug get to be counted among Transformers charact..."

==Unofficial Convention==
•are we going to cover BotCon exclusives when they no longer have offical Hasbro support? Does Ladybug get to be counted among Transformers characters? [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 05:35, 18 March 2025 (EDT)

G.I. Joe (2024) issue 3

2025-02-11T09:59:35Z

Indridcold13:

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'''Clutch finds himself deep in the viper’s nest as the Joes rally to rescue Doctor Venom from Cobra’s clutches.'''

==Synopsis==
Having found himself unwittingly infiltrating [[Cobra]] headquarters in [[Springfield (G.I. Joe)|Springfield]], [[Clutch (G.I. Joe)|Clutch]] (disguised as a [[Cobra Viper]]) looks for a way to contact [[G.I. Joe (team)|the Joes]]. He is halted by [[Mercer]], looking to take out his frustration on one of the Vipers, but is saved by the timely intervention of [[Destro]], who briefs Mercer and the present Vipers on the next phase of Cobra's plan: retrieve [[Doctor Venom|Dr. Archibald Monev]], creator of the [[Brainwave Scanner]], from protective custody before he testifies in front of Congress. Mercer asks what Destro is planning to build with the Brainwave Scanner, but the meeting is interrupted by [[Cobra Commander]], who reveals that there is an infiltrator in their midst. At that moment, one of the Cobra scientists attacks the Commander with an odd dagger, but the Commander easily subdues him and crushes his jaw. The assassin attempts to flee, his face falling off to reveal a reptilian visage, but Cobra Commander drags him to an opening in the middle of the facility, whispering a taunt to the [[Cobra-La]] spy that [[Golobulus]] sent him to die before throwing him into a pit full of robotic serpents that quickly devour the spy. With everyone distracted, Clutch slips away. Cobra Commander tells Destro not to bother sending Mercer and the Vipers to retrieve Dr. Monev, as he's already sent their other allies...

Meanwhile, in [[Pit (G.I. Joe)|the Pit]], [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] and [[Risk (G.I. Joe)|Risk]] continue their brawl. [[Baroness]] is surprised [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Colonel Hawk]] at allowing the fight to continue, but he just figures the two men should get it out of their systems now. Thankfully, the fight is interrupted by [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]], who ridicules them for getting into such a petty squabble. He goes to call [[Rock 'n Roll]]'s family, leaving the rest to review what they know and don't know about Cobra and their weaponry. [[Cover Girl]] then enters with a video transmission from Clutch, informing them of Cobra's plans for Dr. Monev. With Monev a mere six hours away from his Congressional appearance, the Joes must get to him before Cobra!

In [[Washington, D.C.]], Monev rides with his security detail to the Capitol. Conversing with one of the guards, Monev resents the treatment he and his machine have earned, especially the press's nickname for him: "Doctor Venom." Monev soon realizes the car is going the wrong way. The guard then reveals that they aren't taking him to Congress; he's going to be coming with them. Monev asks who "they" are, only to be interrupted by the car attacked by Duke, Baroness, and Risk. They quickly take out the guards and tell Monev they're here to rescue him. When Monev asks if he has a choice, the guard tells him to choose Cobra. Seeing his uniform underneath his clothes, Risk reveals the security to be [[Crimson Guard]] sleeper agents! Baroness has heard of the Crimson Guard and fears that their bosses can't be far behind. Sure enough, the Joes are beset with laser fire from a Cobra [[Stinger (G.I. Joe)|Stinger]] driven by the Crimson Twins, [[Tomax and Xamot]]!
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.<br>
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* [[Clutch (G.I. Joe)|Clutch]] (2)
* [[Baroness]] (7)
* [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] (8)
* [[Risk (G.I. Joe)|Risk]] (9)
* [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (10)
* [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (11)
* [[Cover Girl]] (12)

|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=
* [[Cobra Viper]]s (1)
* [[Mercer]] (3)
* [[Destro]] (4)
* [[Cobra Commander]] (5)
* [[Cobra-La]] assassin (6)
* [[Crimson Guard]]smen (14)
* [[Tomax and Xamot|Tomax & Xamot]] (15 &16)

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* [[Doctor Venom|Archibald Monev]] (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"My instincts are never wrong, Destro. '''Trust that.'''”
:—'''Cobra Commander'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Mercer seems to still have bone to pick with Duke, owing to their first confrontation in ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' [[Duke issue 1|#1]].
* After Cobra Commander dispatched [[Nemesis Enforcer]] in ''[[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]]'' [[Cobra Commander issue 4|#4]], Golobulus ordered another agent be sent to retrieve the Commander and bring him back to Cobra-La in the epilogue of [[Cobra Commander issue 5|''Cobra Commander'' #5]].
* Baroness references the attack on [[M.A.R.S.|M.A.R.S. Industries]] by Cobra from ''Cobra Commander'' #5.
* The Crimson Twins and the Crimson Guard made their Energon Universe debut in the ''[[Destro (comic)|Destro]]'' miniseries. The Twins were business rivals to Destro before falling in with Cobra alongside their competitor. However, that series depicted the Crimson Guard as Tomax and Xamot's personal army rather than elite sleeper agents.

===''G.I. Joe'' references===
* The idea that the Crimson Guard are Cobra sleeper agents that could be anyone in society dates back to their [https://www.yojoe.com/action/85/crimsonguard.shtml original profile card] and [[G.I. Joe (comic)|Marvel comic]] depiction.
* The iconic ''G.I. Joe'' [[RAM]] motorcycle makes its Energon Universe debut in this issue, though sadly lacking its sidecar Gatling gun.

===Errors===
* On the last page, Tomax and Xamot are mislabeled. Xamot is the one with the scar.

===Covers===
* '''Cover A:''' Duke and Risk brawl while Baroness tries to stop them, by Tom Reilly and Jordie Bellaire.
* '''Cover B:''' The Joe team, by [[David Finch]] and [[Adriano Lucas]].
* '''Cover C:''' Baroness and Duke, by [[Pablo Villalobos]].
* '''Cover D (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz|Chameleon]], one of a series of connecting variants featuring the female characters of G.I. Joe, by [[David Nakayama]].
* '''Cover E (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Baroness on an explosion background, by [[Travis Moore]] and Adriano Lucas.
* '''Cover F (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Cobra propaganda, by [[Patricia Martin]].
* '''The 616 Comics Cover''': Baroness, by [[Felix Leon]].

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===Advertisements===
* 4-page preview of ''Invincible Universe: Battle Beast''

===Reprints===
* '''''G.I. Joe Volume 1: The Cobra Strikes!''''' <small> ([[June 18]], [[2025]]) ISBN 1534328076 / ISBN 978-1534328075 </small>
** Collects issues #1–6.
** Trade paperback format.

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[[Category:G.I. Joe (2024) issues]]

Spaceshot

2025-02-07T13:27:05Z

Indridcold13:

{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Spaceshot is a [[Decepticon]] [[Micromaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:SpaceshotAngry.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm SO angry at this cannon right now that my face is turning PURPLE!]]

'''Spaceshot''' is an unflinchingly courageous soldier who'll fight for even the most hopeless causes - such as the cowardly [[Blackout (G1)|Blackout]], whom Spaceshot insists is a valiant and fearless Decepticon warrior despite all evidence to the contrary. The siblings [[combiner|combine]] into a B-1 bomber jet; Spaceshot forms the back end. Together, they pilot [[Anti-Aircraft Base|one of the "most powerful Decepticon weapons of all time"]].

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Spaceshot and [[Blackout (G1)|Blackout]] were sisters, and among the few Decepticons who remained mobile on a post-war [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] thanks to their more energy-efficient [[Micromaster]] bodies. As part of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]'s team operating out of [[Micropolis]], they helped counter the efforts of the [[Resistance]], who sought to overthrow the current Cybertronian government, dominated by the [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders of Cybertron]].

The sisters were called to attend a meeting after the rebel [[Maximal]] [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] managed to steal a potent weapon, the [[G-Virus]]. After Spaceshot brought her commanding officer up to date on the situation, Hot Rod dispatched his team to help guard what he foresaw as being the terrorists' most likely target: [[Tesarus (polity)|Tesarus Arena]] during the upcoming [[Games (competition)|gladiatorial games]].

Hot Rod's prediction turned out to be accurate. When Grimlock and his team's intrusion was detected, Hot Rod had Blackout and Spaceshot accompany him to confront the trespassers. After dodging an [[ion disc]] lobbed at them by The [[Manterror|Man Terror]], Spaceshot, and Blackout occupied themselves with the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] and his fellow rebel, [[Snapper]], while Hot Rod tussled with Grimlock himself. Spaceshot was defeated and dismembered by the Man Terror, leaving her unable to see the fight through to its conclusion. {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}}

In the final days of the [[Grand Uprising]], Blackout and Spaceshot remained part of the Micromaster command team as the Resistance made their final push on the [[High Pavilion]] of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. In jet mode, they made a pass over the marching troops and confirmed at least 50-100,000 Resistance, compared to the 17,000 Micromasters and [[Cyberdroid]]s under Builder command. [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and the [[Builder Assembly]] insisted the Micromasters continue fighting the Resistance all the way to the Pavilion, though it meant guerrilla tactics or even open warfare in civilian areas. Anything to slow the Resistance down until the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s hordes arrived from the rear.

Blackout and Spaceshot objected to the idea of accepting innocent casualties for a delaying tactic. Hot Rod agreed and, with a silent nod from [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] and [[Drillbuster]], claimed communications were breaking down in order to ignore the Assembly's orders. {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1-toy Spaceshot.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm SO sick of Blackout's piloting style that my face is turning GREEN!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Anti-Aircraft Base''' (Micromaster Combiner Anti-Aircraft Base, [[1990]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Anti-Aircraft Base" tank, "scout vehicle", ramp, 2 cannons, bazooka, communications dish, "radar drum", missile launcher

: Released in the seventh and final year of the original ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'' toyline in the US (sixth and not-final in Europe), Spaceshot transforms into the rear half of a blue and gray [[popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#B-1B Lancer|B-1 bomber jet]], designed to combine with his partner [[Blackout (G1)#Toys|Blackout]] to form a ''complete'' jet. As a [[Micromaster Combiner]], Spaceshot can combine with any other Micromaster Combiner, [[Micromaster Combiner Transport|Combiner Transport]], or [[Micro Trailer]] to form new and excitingly unworkable vehicle modes

:He and Blackout were only available packed in with the [[Anti-Aircraft Base]] vehicle.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1990/Decepticon/Spaceshot/spaceshot.htm More information on Spaceshot at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
* "Spaceshot" was also a preliminary name for [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]].
* Spaceshot and Blackout's original Tech Specs completely lacked any kind of pronouns. Although [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' profile comics applied male pronouns to the characters, [[Jim Sorenson]] and [[David Bishop]] made them female in their ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' prose stories.
* Dreamwave's profiles accidentally reversed the character models for Blackout and Spaceshot, portraying Spaceshot as the front half of their combined vehicle mode and Blackout as the rear half. This error was carried over into the bio text as well, so it is entirely possible that the personality assigned to Spaceshot was intended for Blackout, and vice versa.
* That mistake reappeared almost ten years later when, for reasons unknown, Spaceshot was featured in a character lineup on [[Hub Network|Hubworld.com]]'s [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] page, visually represented by Dreamwave's erroneous Blackout art.<ref>[http://www.hubworld.com/transformers/shows/generation-1/images ''Generation 1'' cartoon page] on [http://www.hubworld.com Hubworld.com]</ref> Neither one of them had any business being there, as they didn't even ''exist'' until three years after the cartoon ended.

==References==
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[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Decepticons]]
[[Category:Micromaster combiners]]
[[Category:Variable gender characters]]

ATV

2025-02-04T11:34:46Z

Indridcold13:

{{factions|autobot}}
:''The ATV is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] vehicle from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:Atv-mtmte.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|G2G have a BBQ at the ATV. We're watching the NFL on its HDTV. Make sure to BYOB.]]
When there's ground shakin' to be done, count on [[Groundshaker]] to handle it with his massive '''All-Terrain Vehicle'''. The ATV is a titanium armored transport bristling with heavy weapons. It can also unfold into a stationary battle platform, allowing all the guns to be manned at once and deploying a radar system with a range of ''two miles''. Man, two miles!

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Atv-micromasters.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb]]
The ATV was stowed in [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]]'s [[Rocket Base|rocket base]] as the pair returned to Cybertron after pursuing [[Skystalker (G1)|Skystalker]] across the galaxy. Groundshaker checked and double checked it, taking assurance in its power as he and Countdown prepared to return to their war-torn world. {{storylink|Destined for Nothing}}

Later, Groundshaker used the vehicle's power to drive off the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], who had been assaulting the [[Race Track Patrol]] and the unarmed [[Hot Rod Patrol]] in the wastelands. The Hot Rod Patrol accepted a lift from Groundshaker, who took them back to the rocket base to meet Countdown. {{storylink|The Gray Race}}

When the Hot Rod Patrol returned to the base, asking for Countdown's help, Groundshaker assured them that the ATV was ready to go. {{storylink|Victims of the Revolution}}
{{-}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1Groundshaker toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Girlies on standby, waiting just to say hi. <br> Did you stop? No, I just rolled by.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Groundshaker''' (Micromaster Base, 1989)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Rifle, 2 missile launchers, double-clip ramp, single-clip ramp, figure stand

: Released in the sixth year of the ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'' toyline (fifth year in the European line), the ATV is a large six-wheeled assault vehicle resembling a SIBMAS AFSV-90, "piloted" by a single Micromaster figure. The main gun can raise by about 40° while the small gun and the missile launchers can rotate 360° (being removable accessories held in by [[5 mm post]]s).

: It unfolds into a large battle station, with the cannon now having a much larger range of motion, being on a sliding base and now free to rotate a full 360°. It features a landing pad for aerial-mode Micromasters and points to connect Micromaster ramps; while one ramp is the standard type designed to connect to other Micromaster stations, the other ends in a flattened wedge to let Micros roll smoothly onto the "ground". The ATV base is designed to accommodate several Micromaster figures, so one figure can man the main cannon, another can operate the rear computer console and another can sit in the left side recess.

: This set came with the exclusive Micromaster [[Groundshaker (G1)#Toys|Groundshaker]].

: In Japan, the ATV was released with different decals and a new pilot as the [[Landshaker#Toys|Landshaker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Autobot/Groundshaker/groundshaker.htm More information on Groundshaker (along with the ATV) at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
* Like most Micromaster vehicles, the ATV lacks a true proper name. Instructions, specs, packaging and bio most commonly call it an "ATV", for All-Terrain Vehicle. The instructions also label it as the '"Groundshaker" ATV', as if Groundshaker named the vehicle after himself.
* The ''[[Hunt for the Decepticons]]'' Scout class toy [[Breacher (TF 2010)|Breacher]] was originally listed with the name "[[Groundshaker (disambiguation)|Groundshaker]]" by both Japanese hobby magazines and online stores that offered pre-orders for [[TakaraTomy]]'s ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)#Autobot Alliance|Autobot Alliance]]'' range, suggesting that Breacher's alternate mode was inspired by Groundshaker's ATV.

[[Category:Autobot bases]]
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Flash Sentry

2025-01-20T14:35:30Z

Indridcold13:

{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Flash Sentry is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity|cartoon portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:BotCon2016 FlashSentry CardArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Stop it! I am ''not'' in love with a [[Twilight Sparkle|horse]]!"]]

'''Flash Sentry''' is one of the many [[Photon (subgroup)|Photon]]s led by [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]].

==Fiction==
===''Wings Universe''===
Flash Sentry was a higher-ranked member of the Photons. During the [[Battle of Autobot City]], he and most of the Photons went missing in action. {{storylink|Flash Sentry#Toys|BotCon 2016 Flash Sentry profile card}}

==Toys==
===''Combiner Wars''===
[[File:BotCon2016toy-Flash-Sentry.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Brony jokes in {{CURRENTYEAR}}? Seriously?]]
*'''Flash Sentry''' (Legends Class, 2016)

:''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' Flash Sentry is a redeco of Legends Class [[Reflector (G1)#Combiner Wars|Reflector]], which is a retool of [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Shockwave]], and transforms into a spaceship that resembles Shockwave's Cybertronian handgun. Undocumented in the instructions, Flash Sentry can transform into gun mode for any ''Combiner Wars'' gestalt.

:Flash Sentry was available for the attendants who bought the Golden Ticket package at [[BotCon 2016]].

:This toy also served as the model for the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of [[Movor#Beast Wars: Uprising|Movor]].
{{--}}

==Notes==
* The name "Flash Sentry" [[Transformers names in other Hasbro lines|is a trademark]] recycled from a ''[[My Little Pony]]'' [[Wikia:mlp:Flash Sentry|character]].

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[[Category:Wings Universe Decepticons]]

Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story

2024-11-19T18:25:49Z

Indridcold13:

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|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
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'''Whatever happened to the Decepticon leader?'''

==Synopsis==
As the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' careens toward [[Earth|the blue and green planet]] below, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] tears through the opposing forces of its [[Autobot]] crew. The [[Decepticon]] leader blasts a hole through [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]'s chest, causing an enraged [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to attack him. Megatron taunts Optimus as the two trade blows, blaming him for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s destruction. Using his [[energon-axe]], Optimus slices off Megatron's right arm, allowing him to kick Megatron towards an opening in the ship. Hanging onto the edge, Megatron orders [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] to aid him, but the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] uses this opportunity to finally seize leadership of the Decepticons, blasting Megatron and sending him falling to the planet.

Awaking sometime later — and now missing both arms — in the science labs of [[Cobra-La]], Megatron's fury finally allows him to escape the shackles of his captors, crushing a Cobra-La scientist under his foot. He demands the return of his limbs, but the surviving scientist tells him they were only able to find one. Megatron allows the scientist to live as thanks and reattaches his left arm. However, he is interrupted by the arrival of Lord [[Golobulus]] and his [[Royal Guard]]. Golobulus orders his soldiers not to let "the beast" escape. Living up to this description, Megatron savagely tears his way through the Royal Guard and Golobulus's Cobra-La creatures before Golobulus manages to stab him his remaining eye. Blinded and furious, Megatron flees from the battle by flying upwards, bursting through to the surface of the planet. Amid the snowy mountains, Megatron swears that he will find Starscream and make him pay!

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.<br>
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (2)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (3)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (4)
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (5)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (6)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (1)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (7)

|h3=[[Cobra-La]]|c3=
* Scientists (8)
* [[Golobulus]] (9)
* [[Royal Guard]]s (10)
}}

==Quotes==
"'''STARSCREAMMM!!'''"
:–'''Megatron''' shows us that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

"You are a metal '''Abomination'''! Inorganic filth! You still belong to me!" <br>
"Belong? Pathetic insect...'''Do you know who I am???!!!''' '''I BELONG TO NO ONE!!!'''"
:–'''Golobulus''' provoking '''Megatron'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* This story finally reveals what happened to Megatron prior to the start of the main ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' series. [[Transformers (2023) issue 4|Issue #4]] had previously shown Megatron frozen in ice, with the subsequently released ''[[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]]'' [[Cobra Commander issue 1|#1]] revealing he was found by the people of Cobra-La and taken in to be studied.
** Considering how this story ends, with Megatron emerging into the frozen wastes, the scene from ''Transformers'' #4 either takes place ''after'' his escape from Cobra-La, having been lost in the Arctic, or between his crash landing and his discovery by Cobra.
* Megatron's dialogue hints towards the ideological conflict between the Autobots and Decepticons, something that has frequently been alluded to but not yet fully established in the main ''Transformers'' comics.

===''Transformers'' references===
* Megatron's line of "I BELONG TO NO ONE!!!" echoes what he said to [[Unicron]] in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Reprints===
* '''''Transformers Volume 3: Combiner Chaos''''' <small>([[May 28]], [[2025]]) ISBN 153432559X / ISBN 978-1534325593 </small>
** Collects issues #13–18, plus the ''Energon Universe Special'' story.
** Trade paperback format.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Transformers (2023) issue 7.5}}
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Kelly (RID)

2024-11-14T11:41:18Z

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{{disambigm|Kelly (disambiguation)|Junko (disambiguation)}}
:''Kelly is a very unfortunate [[human]] from the [[Robots in Disguise continuity family]].''

[[File:KellyRID2.jpg|238px|thumb|Do you have any idea how much doing that Anime Waterfall Tear thing hurts your eyes?]]
Poor '''Kelly''', she was most likely born on a Friday the 13th underneath both a ladder and an open umbrella inside a house and possibly within close proximity of numerous black cats. To put it lightly, her luck ''sucks''. On the bright side, Kelly appears to be fabulously wealthy (or at least has great insurance policies). So while her many sports cars typically wind up destroyed during Transformer battles (into which she inadvertently steps ''all the time'', no matter where on the globe she travels in order to get away from "the talking cars"), she can just buy a new one.

Kelly is also quite boy-crazy, always on the lookout for a good man. However, thanks to her bad luck, the only man to ever show any interest in her is [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]], who, unbeknownst to her, is actually macking on the red sports cars she drives.

''Poor, rich Kelly.''

{{bigquote|It's not happening, it's not happening, it's not happening, I'm going to sleep...|Kelly, after watching flying [[Prowl (RID)|police cars]] and [[Optimus Prime (RID)|fire trucks]], along with a swimming [[X-Brawn|SUV]]|"[[The Hunt for Black Pyramid]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Philece Sampler]] (English), [[Chieko Higuchi]] (Japanese)|[[Diana Pérez]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Laura Lenghi]] (Italian), [[Rita Lopes]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:KellyRID1.jpg|left|thumb|WAAAAAH-HOO-HOO-HOOEYYY!!!]]
Kelly's first encounter with those strange, talking cars from another planet happened when her new sports utility vehicle ([[X-Brawn]] to his friends), came to life in response to a call from [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]. Not wanting to lug her into battle, X-Brawn apologized in advance and then launched her violently through his sunroof. {{storylink|Battle Protocol!}}

Her second talking car encounter introduced her to Side Burn, whose advances on her red sports car she misinterpreted as an interest in her. Shortly after this, she took delivery of another red sports car at the docks. Unbeknownst to her, the car contained a bomb planted by terrorists which was coveted by the Predacons, and the car was destroyed when [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] retrieved said device. She was saved from injury by [[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]]. {{storylink|An Explosive Situation}}

Any mode of transport proved to be a problem for Kelly: [[Team Bullet Train|bullet trains]] in [[Metro City]] had a habit of abandoning their carriages, {{storylink|Bullet Train to the Rescue}} traffic was so abysmal she wound up stuck in it for what seemed like an eternity, {{storylink|Spychangers to the Rescue}} and her boating trip was spoiled by police cars and fire engines falling from the sky. {{storylink|The Hunt for Black Pyramid}}

It wasn't long before Kelly was seeking therapy for her constant visions of talking cars and giant robotic animals, and her doctor suggested a quiet, restful walk in some ruins. The tranquility of the ruins was soon ruined by the arrival of Side Burn and a pair of guided missiles. {{storylink|The Secret of the Ruins}}

Perhaps out of desperation she turned to driving X-Brawn again, only to have him once again ditch her for a mission (At least that time it wasn't through the roof). {{storylink|Sideburn's Obsession}} Kelly was driving on the open road when she found her car being harassed by Side-Burn once more. She sped off and managed to give him the slip, only to swerve off the road in order to avoid hitting a cow. At this point, she had no choice but to concede that she must have been under some sort of curse. {{storylink|Secret Weapon: D-5}} Later, Kelly was stuck waiting at a gas station while a [[Mirage (RID)|Lola T94 Indy car]] fueled up ahead of her. When she noticed that, apparently, no one was driving the car as it sped away, she tried to convince herself that it just had a really short driver. {{storylink|Mirage's Betrayal}} Her encounters with various talking cars led her to attempt a holiday in Europe, where [[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]] turned her new hat into roadkill. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}}

[[File:Towline Goes Haywire Kellyxbrawn.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|And believe it or not, this is actually a good day.]]
Perhaps assuming that her previous problems were just bad luck, Kelly went for a calming trip in the forest in X-Brawn, only for him to be randomly towed away by a [[Tow-Line (RID)|talking tow truck]]. {{storylink|Tow-Line Goes Haywire}}

Another holiday, this time in [[China]], was also ruined by Side Burn. {{storylink|The Ultimate Robot Warrior}} Kelly's next attempted vacation took her to America, where her hike in the American wildness was interrupted by the arrival of Optimus Prime and the [[Autobot Brothers]], and a subsequent earthquake as the Predacons uncovered an Autobot spaceship. However it wasn't a total loss, as she was rescued by some cute soldiers and taken back to their army base.

[[File:The Decepticons Kelly.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|This is almost her default expression.]]
Of course, her luck didn't last, as the base was soon attacked by [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] and his Predacons, who had obtained six [[Protoform]]s and were looking for [[alternate mode]]s for them to scan. Attempting to flee in a truck full of rocket fuel (Kelly was a trained truck driver), she almost drove the rig into a crater but was saved by Optimus Prime, shortly before all three of them were scanned to create the Decepticon [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]]'s form. Scourge's bio-signature was, as a result, partially human. {{storylink|The Decepticons}} This would later allow him to pass himself off as human enough to briefly control [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|The Human Element}}

Returning to civilization, Kelly tried her luck at a casino, only to be interrupted by a power cut caused by the destruction of [[Sherman Dam]]. {{storylink|Commandos}} She went on to a [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]] resort on [[Montrose Island]], and enjoyed the hot pools. So much so she stayed in them when the volcano's increased activity heated them up to an abnormally high temperature, almost broiling her. {{storylink|Volcano (episode)|Volcano}}

A drive around the country side was no way to shake off Side Burn either. Kelly was stalked by the love-struck 'bot no matter where she drove, as Side Burn suggested various movies he and Kelly's car could watch together. At least Kelly had her fair share of witty retorts to yell back at him as she shut down his advances this time around. She still wound up at the bottom of a ditch at the end of the day though. {{storylink|Attack from Outer Space}}

Kelly made a trip to the mechanic to get her car fixed after the beating it received at the hands of the “giant robots.” Once her car was repaired, she took it out for a ride immediately. And it got wrecked immediately, as Scourge cleaved off its rear end. Losing her composure, Kelly began laughing hysterically, proclaiming that she'd only have to buy half as much gas for her car from now on. {{storylink|The Test (episode)|The Test}} She then took X-Brawn out for a drive in the mountains to get away from all the crazies. The Predacons lept in front of her, wanting a little talk with her car. Knowing what awaited her if she stuck around, Kelly simply closed her eyes, walked away from her vehicle. and calmly waited for everything to return to normal. {{storylink|The Fish Test}}

Perhaps deciding that vacations were more stressful than relaxing, Kelly returned to Metro City where she found being chased by Side Burn was becoming a regular feature of her day. Even the malls weren't safe after she was almost run down by [[Railspike (RID)|Railspike]], who'd been deposited there by a malfunctioning space bridge. {{storylink|Landfill (episode)|Landfill}}

[[File:Sky-Byte Saves the Day Kelly.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Praying to God to make it all stop.]]
Her trip to the opening of the [[CGA Tower]] similarly ended in disaster when it was unexpectedly attacked by Predacons. Fortunately the tower was saved when the Predacons helped the Autobots stabilise it, and everyone inside was able to cheer on Sky-Byte. {{storylink|Sky-Byte Saves the Day}}

Maybe because her current SUV always got her into trouble, being an Autobot and all, Kelly decided to purchase a brand-new all-terrain vehicle. She couldn't resist getting it in red though, which meant that after a day of surfing, she came back to it, only to find Side Burn nuzzling up to her car. She didn't have to put up with the pest for long this time around... But Side Burn left in a hurry, kicking up a heap of sand on his way out, covering both Kelly and her SUV in the stuff. {{storylink|A Test of Metal}}

Kelly's problems continued, although at one point it looked promisingly like all the talking cars were being hauled away on a [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|car carrier]]. {{storylink|The Two Faces of Ultra Magnus}} Then the talking cars started inexplicably changing colours. {{storylink|Power to Burn!}} Even the most innocent of activities, such as a shopping trip, would end with being chased around by the creepy blue car. {{storylink|Fortress Maximus (episode)|Fortress Maximus}} And there was the encounter with the giant singing shark in the subway. {{storylink|Koji Gets His Wish}}

[[File:Peril from the Past Kelly.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Her life really is a cartoon.]]
She opted to take another holiday, this time in the remote [[Sahara|Sahara desert]]. Her drive through the desert in a red jeep was interrupted by the arrival of the Decepticons. {{storylink|A Friendly Contest}} Then an attempted camel ride resulted in her becoming lost in the desert. Fortunately she was picked up by X-Brawn, who dropped her off at the nearest oasis. {{storylink|Peril from the Past}}

Returning to Metro City once again, Kelly did finally get at least one day off from being hassled by giant robots... though only because [[Tow-Line (RID)|Tow-Line]] restrained Side Burn for a good portion of the day. {{storylink|Maximus Emerges}} Later, she found out that even reading a book while sitting on a park bench was dangerous, as Scourge and [[Mega-Octane]] showed up to cause trouble. {{storylink|Mistaken Identity}} A ride in a pedal-powered swan boat on the lake was similarly interrupted when a massive battle between the two opposing forces of giant robots broke out nearby, and Kelly was forced to swim for her life. {{storylink|Surprise Attack!}}

Soon afterwards, Kelly was, once again, being pursued in her red sports car by Side Burn. {{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}}
{{--}}

====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
{{CRnote|Kelly||Junko Shiragami}}
=====Ask Vector Prime=====
A couple of years after all of that excitement, Junko was attempting to have a nice [[Greece|Grecian]] vacation when the [[Mutant (G1)|Mutant]] [[Burnout (CR)|Burnout]] attempted to kidnap her! She was saved by [[R.E.V.|Super R.E.V.]] The poor girl can't catch a break! {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/01}}

=====''Asterisk Story''=====
[[File:JunkoShiragamiSunstreaker01.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|Seems it's Sunstreaker with the bad luck this time.]]

In [[2005]], Junko Shiragami took a job as a "race queen" model who worked at auto shows. As a member of the [[Interplanetary Personnel Exchange Program]], she was partnered with [[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] as a part of the [[Autobot]] Race Team. Their similar narcissistic attitudes made them a good pair (Junko's favorite colors were also yellow and red, so that helped), though they argued quite a bit. {{storylink|#Binaltech Asterisk|Binaltech Asterisk Junko bio}}

While Junko was going for a drive with her partner (and reading a magazine behind the wheel), Sunstreaker was egged into a race with a human. Despite her protests, Sunstreaker engaged in a very fast and very dangerous race, scaring Junko half to death. While making a sharp turn, Sunstreaker destroyed a road sign. Junko stopped the race and proceeded to chew the Autobot out. {{storylink|I'll Show You Some Great Scenery}}

=====''Legends''/''Unite Warriors''=====
Junko was one of the many women brought to the [[Legends World]] by [[Tigatron]] using the [[10.2 ultra-drill|ultra-drill]] in an attempt to get women who liked him better than [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. It did not work out, as all of the women brought over eventually swooned over Springer. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 19|Bonus Edition Vol. 19}}

In [[2021]], Junko accompanied Sunstreaker when he went to [[Hawaii]] for surfing training. {{storylink|Crossing the Pacific Ocean!?}} She was visiting a public bath when she was shocked to find her old adversaries, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], washing up in a neighboring room. {{storylink|Strategy Meeting in an Earth Bath?!}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
[[File:DWArmada8 Kelly.jpg|upright=0.66|thumb|A cameo in a Dreamwave comic? Her luck really IS terrible.]]
Kelly was nearly mowed down by the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team]] when they responded (against their will) to a [[Mini-Con]] recall signal. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 8|Armada #8}}

===''Classics''===
When [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|an alternate Ultra Magnus]] threatened to destroy Earth with the power of his [[Terminus Blade]], Kelly was seen near Sunstreaker during the evacuation attempts in [[Canada]]. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
Kelly was at [[Poverty Flat]] when the Transformers battled there. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 2: Detonation Boulevard|Detonation Boulevard}}

===Legends World===
Junko was among the passengers on a train who were weirded out by [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattle]]'s new robot body. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 1|Bonus Edition Vol. 1}} She was supposed to narrate a ''Transformers'' live show held at [[Tokyo Toy Show]] 2015, but the performance was interrupted by [[Scourge (RID)|Black Convoy]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Black Convoy)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

===Renegade Rhetoric===
[[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] took Kelly hostage, and the subsequent crisis of conscience this caused allowed him to break his brainwashing and return to Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/07/14}}

==Toys==
===''Binaltech Asterisk''===
[[File:BTA-toy Junko.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb]]
*'''Sunstreaker meets Junko''' (Binaltech Asterisk, 2005)
**''ID number'': '''BTA 02'''
**''Accessories'': Alternate left & right arms, alternate lower body, stand
{{toydesigner|[[Hiroyuki Taiga]] (concept artist)}}

:Part of the second ''[[The Transformers: Binaltech Asterisk|Binaltech Asterisk]]'' set, Junko is a PVC figurine that came packaged with [[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Binaltech Asterisk|Sunstreaker]]. She came with a second set of arms and a "sitting" lower body that lets her drive her partner Sunstreaker, though theoretically she should work with most ''Alternators'' molds.

::*[[Source:Transformers Binaltech Asterisk bios#2|Archive of ''Binaltech Asterisk'' Junko's bio and tech specs]]
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Cybertron/Junko/junko.htm More information on ''Binaltech Asterisk'' Junko Shiragami at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

==Notes==
*Kelly's name is never once spoken during the ''Robots in Disguise'' dub. Rather, it was only ever made known through a casting sheet released online at the time of the show's premiere. However, in the Italian dub of "[[Secret Weapon: D-5]]", when she believes she had successfully escaped from Side Burn, she says to herself: "Congratulations Kelly, you did it!"
*Like all the girls in the ''[[The Transformers: Binaltech Asterisk|Binaltech Asterisk]]'' line, the character of Junko Shiragami was inspired by an existing female human from a past ''Transformers'' series, in this case Kelly (née Junko in Japanese). Since ''Asterisk'' is a Generation 1 toyline, and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)#Japanese release|Car Robots]]'' (''Robots in Disguise''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Japanese iteration) belongs to the mammoth [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Japanese Generation 1 continuity]], they were potentially the same character, but no firm word was given till the [[Hayato Sakamoto|the writer]] of the ''[[Unite Warriors Offshot]]'' story established her as such.
*According to Junko's ''Binaltech Asterisk'' bio, her birthday is [[November 5]], she has a weakness for {{w|Korean barbecue}}, she swims for exercise, and her hair smells like marigolds. The more you know!

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Junko Shiragami''' (白神ジュンコ ''Shiragami Junko'')

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Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story

2024-11-03T04:39:41Z

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'''Whatever happened to the Decepticon leader?'''

==Synopsis==
As the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' careens toward [[Earth|the blue and green planet]] below, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] tears through the opposing forces of its [[Autobot]] crew. The [[Decepticon]] leader blasts a hole through [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]'s chest, causing an enraged [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to attack him. Megatron taunts Optimus as the two trade blows, blaming him for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s destruction. Using his [[energon-axe]], Optimus slices off Megatron's right arm, allowing him to kick Megatron towards an opening in the ship. Hanging onto the edge, Megatron orders [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] to aid him, but the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] uses this opportunity to finally seize leadership of the Decepticons, blasting Megatron and sending him falling to the planet.

Awaking sometime later — and now missing both arms — in the science labs of [[Cobra-La]], Megatron's fury finally allows him to escape the shackles of his captors, crushing a Cobra-La scientist under his foot. He demands the return of his limbs, but the surviving scientist tells him they were only able to find one. Megatron allows the scientist to live as thanks and reattaches his left arm. However, he is interrupted by the arrival of Lord [[Golobulus]] and his [[Royal Guard]]. Golobulus orders his soldiers not to let "the beast" escape. Living up to this description, Megatron savagely tears his way through the Royal Guard and Golobulus's Cobra-La creatures before Golobulus manages to stab him his remaining eye. Blinded and furious, Megatron flees from the battle by flying upwards, bursting through to the surface of the planet. Amid the snowy mountains, Megatron swears that he will find Starscream and make him pay!

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.<br>
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (2)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (3)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (4)
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (5)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (6)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (1)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (7)

|h3=[[Cobra-La]]|c3=
* Scientists (8)
* [[Golobulus]] (9)
* [[Royal Guard]]s (10)
}}

==Quotes==
"'''STARSCREAMMM!!'''"
:–'''Megatron''' shows us that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

"You are a metal '''Abomination'''! Inorganic filth! You still belong to me!" <br>
"Belong? Pathetic insect...'''Do you know who I am???!!!''' '''I BELONG TO NO ONE!!!'''"
:–'''Golobulus''' provoking '''Megatron'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* This story finally reveals what happened to Megatron prior to the start of the main ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' series. [[Transformers (2023) issue 4|Issue #4]] had previously shown Megatron frozen in ice, with the subsequently released ''[[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]]'' [[Cobra Commander issue 1|#1]] revealing he was found by the people of Cobra-La and taken in to be studied.
** Considering how this story ends, with Megatron emerging into the frozen wastes, the scene from ''Transformers'' #4 either takes place ''after'' his escape from Cobra-La, having been lost in the Arctic, or between his crash landing and his discovery by Cobra.
* Megatron's dialogue hints towards the ideological conflict between the Autobots and Decepticons, something that has frequently been alluded to but not yet fully established in the main ''Transformers'' comics.

===''Transformers'' references===
* Megatron's line of "I BELONG TO NO ONE!!!" echoes what he said to [[Unicron]] in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Reprints===
* '''''Transformers Volume 3: Combiner Chaos''''' <small>([[June 5]], [[2024]]) ISBN 153432559X / ISBN 978-1534325593 </small>
** Collects issues #13–18, plus the ''Energon Universe Special'' story.
** Trade paperback format.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Transformers (2023) issue 7.5}}
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The Void! (US)

2024-09-27T14:06:59Z

Indridcold13:

{{disambig3|Void}}
{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #74
|prev=Out of Time!
|next=On the Edge of Extinction!
|title="The Void!"
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #317–318
|prev2=Out of Time!
|next2=On the Edge of Extinction!
|image=MarvelUS-74.jpg
|caption=Bet I can kill more of them than you can! You're on!
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=November [[1990]]
|coverdate=January [[1991]]
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|penciler=[[Andrew Wildman]]
|inker=[[Stephen Baskerville]]
|colorist=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|letterer=[[Rick Parker]]
|editor=[[Rob Tokar]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''And lo, it is the time of the Gathering...'''

==Synopsis==
Once again, the origin of the [[Transformer]]s is related, this time by [[Primus]] through his possessed body of [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]]. He has gathered the combined [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s of [[Earth]] and [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to their home planet in order to battle [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] in his name. As Primus names [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] leader of the combined Cybertronian forces, a lone Autobot slinks away from the rear of the gathering.

Aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] are surprised to return to the ship and not only find it completely empty of life, but the planet Earth totally devoid of Transformers as well. As they set course for Cybertron, Grimlock commands [[Sludge (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Sludge]] to begin pumping [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] into the stasis pods to revive the fallen warriors, unknowing of [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s presence among those in inactivity.

Back on Cybertron, [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]]'s fragile little mind is about to pop, as she is surrounded by her worst nightmare. [[G.B. Blackrock]] asks Optimus Prime to get Primus to return him and the [[Neo-Knights]] to Earth, but the god teleports away instead of listening to Optimus's plea.

Nearby, the mind-controlled [[Acolyte of Unicron|hordes of Unicron]] have gathered, and are preparing to carry out his will and bring death to Optimus Prime.

As [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] makes an excuse to speak to Optimus Prime alone, he confesses to his opposite number a growing fear of dying. Optimus expresses a similar sentiment, and also confides in Scorponok his growing distaste for being manipulated by their "god", against their will. Still, he is bound and determined to face his death with nobility and resolve, if his time has truly come. As the two leaders grow closer, they are suddenly besieged by Unicron's cultists.

[[File:DEATH.jpg|left|upright=1.67|thumb|Look! DEATH!]]
Scorponok quickly realizes that the cultists are completely uninterested in him, and seek only Optimus Prime's death. After briefly toying with the idea of leaving Prime to his doom, Scorponok vigorously returns to the battle and saves Prime from oncoming death. One cultist prepares to drop a grenade down on the fighters, but is caught by Galvatron, who forces the Cybertronian to eat his own grenade before sending up a signal flare to summon reinforcements for Prime and Scorponok.

Meanwhile... the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] has finished repairing its vessel, the deranged [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]. It hungers for a new sensation... revenge!

As the various Autobots and Decepticons rush to their leaders' aid, the battle quickly turns in their favor. Scorponok is slowly torturing the last of the cultists, when Optimus Prime steps in and stops him. He suspects the Cybertronians aren't acting of their own accord, and therefore are innocent victims of Unicron.

Primus confirms Optimus Prime's suspicions, explaining that Unicron managed to place a "sleeper program" in several of Primus's creations eons ago, creating hidden wolves in the fold. Primus deliberately named Optimus Prime leader in order to draw out these cultists, and test the strength of the Cybertronian Alliance.

Just as Optimus Prime is about to give Primus a piece of his mind for all these manipulations, [[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] points out that Unicron has arrived.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
{{collist|2|
*[[Xaaron]] (2)
*[[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]] (9)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (10)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (17)
*[[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] (18)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] (19)
*[[Siren (G1)|Siren]] (24)
*[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]] (25)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (28)
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] (31)
*[[Waverider]] (33)
*[[Cloudburst]] (34)
*[[Landfill (G1)|Landfill]] (39)
*[[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]] (40)
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]] (41)
*[[Snarl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Snarl]] (45)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] (46)
*[[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]] (47)
*[[Slag (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Slag]] (48)
*[[Sludge (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Sludge]] (49)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] (50)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] (51)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] (52)
*[[Getaway]] (20)
*[[Groundbreaker]] (58)
*[[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]] (60)
*[[Splashdown]] (59)
}}
|c2=
{{collist|2|
*[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] (11)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (12)
*[[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]] (13)
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] (14)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (15)
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (16)
*[[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]] (20)
*[[Stranglehold]] (21)
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (22)
*[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] (23)
*[[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] (26)
*[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] (27)
*[[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] (28)
*[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (29)
*[[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]] (30)
*[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] (32)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (35)
*[[Apeface]] (36)
*[[Horri-Bull]] (37)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (38)
*[[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] (42)
*[[Battletrap (G1)|Battletrap]] (43)
*[[Quake (G1)|Quake]] (44)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (53)
*[[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] (54)
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (56)
*[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]] (57)
}}
|c3=
*[[G.B. Blackrock]] (4)
*[[Thunderpunch]] (5)
*[[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]] (6)
*[[Dynamo]] (7)
*[[Rapture]] (8)
|c4=
*[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (1)
*[[Primus]] (3)
*[[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]/[[Dark Matrix]] (55)
}}

==Quotes==
"Prime, may I speak... '''candidly?'''"<br>
"With '''extinction''' perhaps just around the corner, if ever there was a time for candor, it is '''now'''."<br>
"Prime, I see enemies gathering at '''all sides''', forces plotting my downfall, my '''death'''. I want -- I want -- nnn. I want your '''help''', Prime. Matrix help me, but I'm '''scared'''. '''I don't want to die!'''"<br>
"Is that '''all'''? If it helps, my friend, neither do '''I'''."
:— '''Scorponok''' and '''Optimus Prime''' get personal

''I could simply go, save myself. I... owe Prime '''nothing'''. He is, after all, my '''enemy'''. But could I live with myself, knowing I fled, gave in to my fear?'' "What am I '''thinking?''' I am Scorponok, mightiest of Decepticons! Mechanoids -- '''PREPARE TO ''DIE!'''''"
:—'''Scorponok'''

"Though it appears we serve the same master, and, like you, I have little love for Optimus Prime -- I didn't go to all the '''trouble''' of getting him here just to have '''you''' blow him up!"
:—'''Galvatron''' stuffs an acolyte's grenade down his throat

==Notes==
===Artwork and technical errors===
*Slag "head" the boss, when he should have "heard" the boss.
*Ratchet is misspelled "Rachet" on his stasis pod door.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:G1thunderwingthevoid.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb]]
*The Creation Matrix re-animated Thunderwing's barely alive remains and flew off the planet in a vehicle that matches Thunderwing's [[Mega Pretender]] shell's [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] (see image). The Thunderwing [[toy]]'s robot does not fit inside his shell's vehicle mode. Instead, Thunderwing himself combines with his Pretender shell to form a super jet, which is not present in the artwork. So either comic Thunderwing works differently than toy Thunderwing, or Thunderwing himself was left on the planet and the Creation Matrix took off with his Pretender shell.
*Blackrock wore a white shirt and black suit jacket last issue, but on Cybertron he's suddenly sporting a nice pink shirt and no jacket. He'll be back in the suit and white shirt between the end of this issue and the start of the next.
*Why were the Dinobots excluded from Primus's summons to Cybertron?

===Continuity notes===
*The history of Unicron and Primus, previously related by Unicron in UK issue [[The Legacy of Unicron!|#150]] and the [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] in US issue [[The Primal Scream|#61]], is once again different. Primus claims that he and Unicron are the only two deities, that Unicron wiped out the last universe but fragments of it started the Big Bang, and that he was created by the "sentient core" of the new universe to stop Unicron from re-creating a lifeless void. (Why yes! Primus' take ''does'' make him sound more impressive than the previous versions!)
*This issue is the first US appearance for Battletrap and Quake.
*Landfill's shoulder is still damaged from where [[Hook, Line, and Sinker|Hook]] sliced him last issue. Classic Wildman battle damage continuity!
*In a nice bit of continuity, after being transported to Cybertron, the Autobot [[Pretender]]s still don't have their Pretender shells. The Decepticons confiscated them when the Autobots surrendered in [[Surrender!|issue 71]]. They will somehow get them back in time for next issue, however.
*Little character moments and jokes can be seen in the page 4–5 splash. Bludgeon is grimly cleaning his sword; Nightbeat has noticed the Neo-Knights helicopter that he brought with him; Dreadwind is ignoring the speech to tell Darkwing a funny joke, which confuses Sureshot and annoys Highbrow; Cloudburst (who is being held back by Waverider) is bristling at Runamuck pointing at him; an Autobot in the back is pretending to shoot Soundwave; Starscream is looking at his woozy "ally" Shockwave with contempt; Apeface is peeling himself a yummy [[banana]], much to Horri-Bull's amusement; Runabout is patching up Runamuck; and Triggerhappy is looking the other way entirely for no reason.
*Snarl finds only one Transformer life-sign on Earth, seemingly split into two parts. This seems to be a reference to [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], but Fortress Maximus is stored aboard the Ark. Another option might be Spike and his control helmet.

===Real-life references===
*The narration on page 7 compares the abandoned Ark to the ''Marie Celeste'', a ship from the Arthur Conan Doyle story ''{{w|J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement}}''. The ''Marie Celeste'' is a reference to the ''{{w|Mary Celeste}}'', an American merchant ship that was discovered fully intact and completely deserted in 1872.

===UK printing===
[[File:Void-UKspread.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|A desolate, inhospitable domain, and this was the version of the opening pages that were printed there.]]
*The UK version of this story is one page longer. The opening page was expanded into a double-page spread in UK issue #317, incorporating the inside-front-cover of the comic, where a description of the issue's contents usually resided.

'''Issue #317:'''
*'''Reprint ''Transformers'' story:''' "[[The Enemy Within!]]"
*'''Other strips:''' ''[[Combat Colin]]''
*'''[[Transformers AtoZ|AtoZ]]:''' [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]]

'''Issue #318:'''
*'''Other strips:''' ''Machine Man'' - "If This Be Sanctuary?!" and ''Combat Colin''
*'''AtoZ:''' [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]]
*The Machine Man story was previously printed, starting way back in [[The Wrath of Guardian!|issue #31]].

===Other trivia===
*In the credits, over the complete absence of space, editor Rob Tokar and editor-in-chief [[Tom DeFalco]] are credited as "Nobody" and "Nothing".
*''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' profiles for Darkwing and Dreadwind are found after the main story.
{{-}}

===Covers (3)===
*'''US cover:''' Scorponok and Prime vs the hordes of Unicron, by [[Andrew Wildman]].
*'''UK issue #317 cover:''' Xaaron as servant of Primus, by Andrew Wildman and [[Robin Bouttell]].
*'''UK issue #318 cover:''' recolored version of US cover, by Robin Bouttell.
<gallery>
File:MarvelUS-74.jpg|'''US issue #74''' - We hate cosplayers!
File:MarvelUK-317.jpg|'''UK issue #317''' - Xaaron - now with added chrome
File:MarvelUK-318.jpg|'''UK issue #318''' - Head-poppingly fun!
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
====US====
*Revlon and Nintendo ''Super Mario Brothers'' bubble baths and shampoos - inside front cover
*Taito ''Wrath of the Black Manta'' for Nintendo - between pages 5 & 6
*CAPCOM ''Gargoyle's Quest'' for Nintendo Game Boy - between pages 5 & 6
*TSR ''Dungeon'' board game - between pages 7 & 8
*CAPCOM ''Street Fighter 2010, the Final Fight'' for Nintendo - between pages 8 & 9
*Glossy 4-page ad section for Acclaim's ''Arch Rivals'' for Nintendo, Tiger Electronics hand-held games and free ''Days of Thunder'' poster (and more Nintendo games)
*Marvel Universe trading cards - between pages 13 & 14 (2 pages)
*NFL Pro Set Collect-A-Books - between pages 14 & 15
*Bullpen Bulletins - between story and Darkwing profile
*[[Letters page|Transmissions]]
*Marvel subscription service
*LJN ''The [[Punisher]]'' for Nintendo - inside back cover
*Konami LaserScope for Nintendo (back cover)

====UK====
????

===Reprints===
* '''''[[Transformers: All Fall Down]]'' TPB:''' Powermaster Optimus Prime, Megatron/Ratchet, Starscream, Shockwave and half of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]], by [[Andrew Wildman]].
* '''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' [[BotCon]] exclusive cover:''' Powermaster Optimus Prime and Unicron, by [[Geoff Senior]] & [[Oliver Harud]].
* '''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' standard HC:''' [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], by [[Howard Chaykin]] & [[Chris Blythe]].
*'''''[[Best of Transformers: Eye of the Storm]]'':''' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]] and [[Skywarp (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Skywarp]], by Andrew Wildman.
<gallery>
File:All_fall_down_tpb_cover.jpg|'''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' TPB'''<br>(Titan Books, 2001)
File:All_fall_down_botcon_cover.jpg|'''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' hardback Botcon exclusive cover'''<br>(BotCon Exclusive, 2001)
File:All_fall_down_hb_cover.jpg|'''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' hardback standard cover'''<br>(Titan Books, 2003)
File:Best of Transformers.jpg|'''''Best of Transformers: Eye of the Storm'''''<br>(Titan Books, 2008)
</gallery>
*'''[[Classic Transformers Volume 5|''Classic Transformers'' Volume 5]]:''' panels from this issue, "[[Deadly Obsession]]", "[[All Fall Down]]" and "[[...All This and Civil War 2]]".
*'''[[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 6|''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 6]]:''' [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], by [[Guido Guidi]].
*'''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection|''Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection:Volume 18: Edge of Extinction'']]''': [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], above an interior scene (issue #74) of Powermaster [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] battling the [[Acolyte of Unicron|Acolytes of Unicron]]. Grimlock art by [[Guido Guidi]], Retro art by [[Andrew Wildman]] (pencils) and [[Stephen Baskerville]] (inks).
<gallery>
File:Classic Transformers Vol5.jpg|'''''Classic Transformers'' Volume 5'''<br>(IDW Publishing, 2009)
File:TFClassicsVol6.jpg|'''''The Transformers Classics'', Vol. 6'''<br>(IDW Publishing, 2013)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v18.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 18: Edge of Extinction'''''<br>(Hachette Partworks, 2017)
</gallery>

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[[Category:Marvel UK issues]]

The Void! (US)

2024-09-27T14:05:50Z

Indridcold13:

{{disambig3|Void}}
{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #74
|prev=Out of Time!
|next=On the Edge of Extinction!
|title="The Void!"
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #317–318
|prev2=Out of Time!
|next2=On the Edge of Extinction!
|image=MarvelUS-74.jpg
|caption=Bet I can kill more of them than you can! You're on!
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=November [[1990]]
|coverdate=January [[1991]]
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|penciler=[[Andrew Wildman]]
|inker=[[Stephen Baskerville]]
|colorist=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|letterer=[[Rick Parker]]
|editor=[[Rob Tokar]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''And lo, it is the time of the Gathering...'''

==Synopsis==
Once again, the origin of the [[Transformer]]s is related, this time by [[Primus]] through his possessed body of [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]]. He has gathered the combined [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s of [[Earth]] and [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to their home planet in order to battle [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] in his name. As Primus names [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] leader of the combined Cybertronian forces, a lone Autobot slinks away from the rear of the gathering.

Aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] are surprised to return to the ship and not only find it completely empty of life, but the planet Earth totally devoid of Transformers as well. As they set course for Cybertron, Grimlock commands [[Sludge (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Sludge]] to begin pumping [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] into the stasis pods to revive the fallen warriors, unknowing of [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s presence among those in inactivity.

Back on Cybertron, [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]]'s fragile little mind is about to pop, as she is surrounded by her worst nightmare. [[G.B. Blackrock]] asks Optimus Prime to get Primus to return him and the [[Neo-Knights]] to Earth, but the god teleports away instead of listening to Optimus's plea.

Nearby, the mind-controlled [[Acolyte of Unicron|hordes of Unicron]] have gathered, and are preparing to carry out his will and bring death to Optimus Prime.

As [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] makes an excuse to speak to Optimus Prime alone, he confesses to his opposite number a growing fear of dying. Optimus expresses a similar sentiment, and also confides in Scorponok his growing distaste for being manipulated by their "god", against their will. Still, he is bound and determined to face his death with nobility and resolve, if his time has truly come. As the two leaders grow closer, they are suddenly besieged by Unicron's cultists.

[[File:DEATH.jpg|left|upright=1.67|thumb|Look! DEATH!]]
Scorponok quickly realizes that the cultists are completely uninterested in him, and seek only Optimus Prime's death. After briefly toying with the idea of leaving Prime to his doom, Scorponok vigorously returns to the battle and saves Prime from oncoming death. One cultist prepares to drop a grenade down on the fighters, but is caught by Galvatron, who forces the Cybertronian to eat his own grenade before sending up a signal flare to summon reinforcements for Prime and Scorponok.

Meanwhile... the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] has finished repairing its vessel, the deranged [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]. It hungers for a new sensation... revenge!

As the various Autobots and Decepticons rush to their leaders' aid, the battle quickly turns in their favor. Scorponok is slowly torturing the last of the cultists, when Optimus Prime steps in and stops him. He suspects the Cybertronians aren't acting of their own accord, and therefore are innocent victims of Unicron.

Primus confirms Optimus Prime's suspicions, explaining that Unicron managed to place a "sleeper program" in several of Primus's creations eons ago, creating hidden wolves in the fold. Primus deliberately named Optimus Prime leader in order to draw out these cultists, and test the strength of the Cybertronian Alliance.

Just as Optimus Prime is about to give Primus a piece of his mind for all these manipulations, [[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] points out that Unicron has arrived.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
{{collist|2|
*[[Xaaron]] (2)
*[[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]] (9)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (10)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (17)
*[[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] (18)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] (19)
*[[Siren (G1)|Siren]] (24)
*[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]] (25)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (28)
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] (31)
*[[Waverider]] (33)
*[[Cloudburst]] (34)
*[[Landfill (G1)|Landfill]] (39)
*[[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]] (40)
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]] (41)
*[[Snarl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Snarl]] (45)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] (46)
*[[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]] (47)
*[[Slag (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Slag]] (48)
*[[Sludge (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Sludge]] (49)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] (50)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] (51)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] (52)
*[[Getaway]] (20)
*[[Groundbreaker]] (58)
*[[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]] (60)
*[[Splashdown]] (59)
|c2=
{{collist|2|
*[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] (11)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (12)
*[[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]] (13)
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] (14)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (15)
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (16)
*[[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]] (20)
*[[Stranglehold]] (21)
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (22)
*[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] (23)
*[[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] (26)
*[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] (27)
*[[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] (28)
*[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (29)
*[[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]] (30)
*[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] (32)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (35)
*[[Apeface]] (36)
*[[Horri-Bull]] (37)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (38)
*[[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] (42)
*[[Battletrap (G1)|Battletrap]] (43)
*[[Quake (G1)|Quake]] (44)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (53)
*[[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] (54)
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (56)
*[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]] (57)
}}
|c3=
*[[G.B. Blackrock]] (4)
*[[Thunderpunch]] (5)
*[[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]] (6)
*[[Dynamo]] (7)
*[[Rapture]] (8)
|c4=
*[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (1)
*[[Primus]] (3)
*[[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]/[[Dark Matrix]] (55)
}}

==Quotes==
"Prime, may I speak... '''candidly?'''"<br>
"With '''extinction''' perhaps just around the corner, if ever there was a time for candor, it is '''now'''."<br>
"Prime, I see enemies gathering at '''all sides''', forces plotting my downfall, my '''death'''. I want -- I want -- nnn. I want your '''help''', Prime. Matrix help me, but I'm '''scared'''. '''I don't want to die!'''"<br>
"Is that '''all'''? If it helps, my friend, neither do '''I'''."
:— '''Scorponok''' and '''Optimus Prime''' get personal

''I could simply go, save myself. I... owe Prime '''nothing'''. He is, after all, my '''enemy'''. But could I live with myself, knowing I fled, gave in to my fear?'' "What am I '''thinking?''' I am Scorponok, mightiest of Decepticons! Mechanoids -- '''PREPARE TO ''DIE!'''''"
:—'''Scorponok'''

"Though it appears we serve the same master, and, like you, I have little love for Optimus Prime -- I didn't go to all the '''trouble''' of getting him here just to have '''you''' blow him up!"
:—'''Galvatron''' stuffs an acolyte's grenade down his throat

==Notes==
===Artwork and technical errors===
*Slag "head" the boss, when he should have "heard" the boss.
*Ratchet is misspelled "Rachet" on his stasis pod door.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:G1thunderwingthevoid.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb]]
*The Creation Matrix re-animated Thunderwing's barely alive remains and flew off the planet in a vehicle that matches Thunderwing's [[Mega Pretender]] shell's [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] (see image). The Thunderwing [[toy]]'s robot does not fit inside his shell's vehicle mode. Instead, Thunderwing himself combines with his Pretender shell to form a super jet, which is not present in the artwork. So either comic Thunderwing works differently than toy Thunderwing, or Thunderwing himself was left on the planet and the Creation Matrix took off with his Pretender shell.
*Blackrock wore a white shirt and black suit jacket last issue, but on Cybertron he's suddenly sporting a nice pink shirt and no jacket. He'll be back in the suit and white shirt between the end of this issue and the start of the next.
*Why were the Dinobots excluded from Primus's summons to Cybertron?

===Continuity notes===
*The history of Unicron and Primus, previously related by Unicron in UK issue [[The Legacy of Unicron!|#150]] and the [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] in US issue [[The Primal Scream|#61]], is once again different. Primus claims that he and Unicron are the only two deities, that Unicron wiped out the last universe but fragments of it started the Big Bang, and that he was created by the "sentient core" of the new universe to stop Unicron from re-creating a lifeless void. (Why yes! Primus' take ''does'' make him sound more impressive than the previous versions!)
*This issue is the first US appearance for Battletrap and Quake.
*Landfill's shoulder is still damaged from where [[Hook, Line, and Sinker|Hook]] sliced him last issue. Classic Wildman battle damage continuity!
*In a nice bit of continuity, after being transported to Cybertron, the Autobot [[Pretender]]s still don't have their Pretender shells. The Decepticons confiscated them when the Autobots surrendered in [[Surrender!|issue 71]]. They will somehow get them back in time for next issue, however.
*Little character moments and jokes can be seen in the page 4–5 splash. Bludgeon is grimly cleaning his sword; Nightbeat has noticed the Neo-Knights helicopter that he brought with him; Dreadwind is ignoring the speech to tell Darkwing a funny joke, which confuses Sureshot and annoys Highbrow; Cloudburst (who is being held back by Waverider) is bristling at Runamuck pointing at him; an Autobot in the back is pretending to shoot Soundwave; Starscream is looking at his woozy "ally" Shockwave with contempt; Apeface is peeling himself a yummy [[banana]], much to Horri-Bull's amusement; Runabout is patching up Runamuck; and Triggerhappy is looking the other way entirely for no reason.
*Snarl finds only one Transformer life-sign on Earth, seemingly split into two parts. This seems to be a reference to [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], but Fortress Maximus is stored aboard the Ark. Another option might be Spike and his control helmet.

===Real-life references===
*The narration on page 7 compares the abandoned Ark to the ''Marie Celeste'', a ship from the Arthur Conan Doyle story ''{{w|J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement}}''. The ''Marie Celeste'' is a reference to the ''{{w|Mary Celeste}}'', an American merchant ship that was discovered fully intact and completely deserted in 1872.

===UK printing===
[[File:Void-UKspread.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|A desolate, inhospitable domain, and this was the version of the opening pages that were printed there.]]
*The UK version of this story is one page longer. The opening page was expanded into a double-page spread in UK issue #317, incorporating the inside-front-cover of the comic, where a description of the issue's contents usually resided.

'''Issue #317:'''
*'''Reprint ''Transformers'' story:''' "[[The Enemy Within!]]"
*'''Other strips:''' ''[[Combat Colin]]''
*'''[[Transformers AtoZ|AtoZ]]:''' [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]]

'''Issue #318:'''
*'''Other strips:''' ''Machine Man'' - "If This Be Sanctuary?!" and ''Combat Colin''
*'''AtoZ:''' [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]]
*The Machine Man story was previously printed, starting way back in [[The Wrath of Guardian!|issue #31]].

===Other trivia===
*In the credits, over the complete absence of space, editor Rob Tokar and editor-in-chief [[Tom DeFalco]] are credited as "Nobody" and "Nothing".
*''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' profiles for Darkwing and Dreadwind are found after the main story.
{{-}}

===Covers (3)===
*'''US cover:''' Scorponok and Prime vs the hordes of Unicron, by [[Andrew Wildman]].
*'''UK issue #317 cover:''' Xaaron as servant of Primus, by Andrew Wildman and [[Robin Bouttell]].
*'''UK issue #318 cover:''' recolored version of US cover, by Robin Bouttell.
<gallery>
File:MarvelUS-74.jpg|'''US issue #74''' - We hate cosplayers!
File:MarvelUK-317.jpg|'''UK issue #317''' - Xaaron - now with added chrome
File:MarvelUK-318.jpg|'''UK issue #318''' - Head-poppingly fun!
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
====US====
*Revlon and Nintendo ''Super Mario Brothers'' bubble baths and shampoos - inside front cover
*Taito ''Wrath of the Black Manta'' for Nintendo - between pages 5 & 6
*CAPCOM ''Gargoyle's Quest'' for Nintendo Game Boy - between pages 5 & 6
*TSR ''Dungeon'' board game - between pages 7 & 8
*CAPCOM ''Street Fighter 2010, the Final Fight'' for Nintendo - between pages 8 & 9
*Glossy 4-page ad section for Acclaim's ''Arch Rivals'' for Nintendo, Tiger Electronics hand-held games and free ''Days of Thunder'' poster (and more Nintendo games)
*Marvel Universe trading cards - between pages 13 & 14 (2 pages)
*NFL Pro Set Collect-A-Books - between pages 14 & 15
*Bullpen Bulletins - between story and Darkwing profile
*[[Letters page|Transmissions]]
*Marvel subscription service
*LJN ''The [[Punisher]]'' for Nintendo - inside back cover
*Konami LaserScope for Nintendo (back cover)

====UK====
????

===Reprints===
* '''''[[Transformers: All Fall Down]]'' TPB:''' Powermaster Optimus Prime, Megatron/Ratchet, Starscream, Shockwave and half of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]], by [[Andrew Wildman]].
* '''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' [[BotCon]] exclusive cover:''' Powermaster Optimus Prime and Unicron, by [[Geoff Senior]] & [[Oliver Harud]].
* '''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' standard HC:''' [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], by [[Howard Chaykin]] & [[Chris Blythe]].
*'''''[[Best of Transformers: Eye of the Storm]]'':''' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]] and [[Skywarp (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Skywarp]], by Andrew Wildman.
<gallery>
File:All_fall_down_tpb_cover.jpg|'''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' TPB'''<br>(Titan Books, 2001)
File:All_fall_down_botcon_cover.jpg|'''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' hardback Botcon exclusive cover'''<br>(BotCon Exclusive, 2001)
File:All_fall_down_hb_cover.jpg|'''''Transformers: All Fall Down'' hardback standard cover'''<br>(Titan Books, 2003)
File:Best of Transformers.jpg|'''''Best of Transformers: Eye of the Storm'''''<br>(Titan Books, 2008)
</gallery>
*'''[[Classic Transformers Volume 5|''Classic Transformers'' Volume 5]]:''' panels from this issue, "[[Deadly Obsession]]", "[[All Fall Down]]" and "[[...All This and Civil War 2]]".
*'''[[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 6|''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 6]]:''' [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], by [[Guido Guidi]].
*'''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection|''Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection:Volume 18: Edge of Extinction'']]''': [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], above an interior scene (issue #74) of Powermaster [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] battling the [[Acolyte of Unicron|Acolytes of Unicron]]. Grimlock art by [[Guido Guidi]], Retro art by [[Andrew Wildman]] (pencils) and [[Stephen Baskerville]] (inks).
<gallery>
File:Classic Transformers Vol5.jpg|'''''Classic Transformers'' Volume 5'''<br>(IDW Publishing, 2009)
File:TFClassicsVol6.jpg|'''''The Transformers Classics'', Vol. 6'''<br>(IDW Publishing, 2013)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v18.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 18: Edge of Extinction'''''<br>(Hachette Partworks, 2017)
</gallery>

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This is the place for discussion of topics that affect the entire wiki. For less wide-reaching subjects, either use articles' individual talk pages or [https://discord.com/invite/N99Bygq our Discord server.]

Some topics that would ordinarily be here have merited their own pages:

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<div class="list-header">'''Moving From Wikia:'''</div>
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Arriving|Arriving]]
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving|Leaving]]
* [[Transformers Wiki:Community Portal/Complaints|Complaints]]
<br/><div class="list-header">'''New Ad Policy:'''</div>
* [[Transformers Wiki:Ads|Ads]]
<br/><div class="list-header">'''Bookworm Database-Crash:'''</div>
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central|Damage Control Central]]
* [[Project:Bookworm Crash]]
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving2|Leaving Take 2]]
<br/><div class="list-header">'''Server Move:'''</div>
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Arriving2|Arriving Take 2]]
<br/><div class="list-header">'''Relicensing:'''</div>
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Relicensing|Relicensing]]
<br/><div class="list-header">'''Dealing With Vandalism:'''</div>
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Vandalism|Vandalism]]
<br/><div class="list-header">'''GoBots Sister Wiki:'''</div>
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/GoBots|Discussion on the place of GoBots in this wiki]]
<br/> <div class="list-header">'''Wiki Technical Information:'''</div>
* [[Transformers Wiki:Tech|A Not So Brief Summary of the Horrible Things That McFly and Co. Have Done To Keep This Wiki From Melting Down]]
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== Press release or logo for 30,000 articles? ==
Is it worth putting something together as we get very very close? Maybe something like:
* 3 from Thrilling 30 logo
* 0 from the 40th logo
* 0 from the Vector Sigma "Featured" logo
* 0 from the cosmic-streaking O in the TFTM opener
* 0 from GO!

Just a suggestion.... --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 13:45, 10 November 2023 (EST)
:If we wanted to go down that route, maybe tie into some of the contemporary material? Say, the "O"s from [[Energon Universe]] or [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution|Evolution]]? (Though the latter isn't exactly straight-on...) --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 14:38, 10 November 2023 (EST)
::Sure! I lean towards the Energon Universe choice. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 15:48, 10 November 2023 (EST)
:Apologies, I've corrected the count on the main page as it was inaccurate, so we're not as close as it looked like we were. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 16:20, 10 November 2023 (EST)
::That just means we have more time to decide and, if so, pull things together. :) -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 16:51, 10 November 2023 (EST)
:::Feels like we just leapt up 40 new articles in the last 2-3 days. Is it worth putting a graphic together? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 22:47, 18 January 2024 (EST)

=="Multi-pack" vs "gift set" and suchlike==
Incoming semantics, but... as I've been going through the toy entries, been trying to standardize/streamline a lot of stuff, and I think maybe a set of consistent terms/definitions for "a bunch of separate toys packed together" is in order. So lemme throw this out here for discussion/future reference...
*'''Multi-pack''' — A pack of toys where the contents (or at least most/some/any of them) are exclusive to this release, not sold in other packaging. Most multi-toy releases nowadays would fall under this umbrella by default.
*'''Gift set''' — A pack of toys where all of the contents are/were concurrently (or close enough) sold individually as well, without changes, in the same market. Like all the various G1 combiner sets.
The latter brings up the question of if we want to label all the Takara "VS" packs and the various UT-era "VALUE PACK!" sets under that umbrella, which I'm ambivalent-to-marginally-in-favor-of over. Especially as Takara's been putting out new "VS" packs where the toys are new decos not available elsewhere... also we kinda made up the "VS pack" term anyway, as memory serves, so. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:15, 8 January 2024 (EST)
:Hasbro has used the word "[[Giftset]]" to refer to unique variants not available separately. I'm inclined to think we shouldn't directly contradict that. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 21:21, 8 January 2024 (EST)
::and damn but does that article need updating. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 21:22, 8 January 2024 (EST)
:::I'm inclined to think that Hasbro uses lots of terms in ways that are not exactly conducive to organizing a wiki. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 21:29, 8 January 2024 (EST)

==More bullet point insignia?==
Okay so... I recall there were some other possible faction symbol bullet points we could maybe use. I ran across a few with this batch of toy pics we might consider adding. I'll list them here, see if people can think of more. I feel like there might be a couple more two-faction matchups out there.
* Rescue Bots
* The various BotBots squads
* My First Transformers

I'm not un-convinced that we should have the bespoke insignia for stuff like the Disney Label, since they do use them on the packaging. So uh... there. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 01:51, 13 January 2024 (EST)
:Also, while looking at the list of all the bullets on the template page... maybe we should see if we can split the list up a smidge? Like, put all the mutli-faction icons in one section, a section just for BotBots since there's gonna be quite a few of them? Alphabetizing them might also be in order. (I have exactly zero idea how those templates are coded, so uh, lemme know if that's doable.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 04:42, 13 January 2024 (EST)
::There's also the [[Star Wars Transformers]]... though I'm not sure if using ''Star Wars'' insignia falls too much out of this wiki's scope, although we do use at least use them on the actual characters' pages (see [[Darth Vader]]). [[User:Turborun|Turborun]] ([[User talk:Turborun|talk]]) 10:34, 13 January 2024 (EST)
:::I don't think we'd use SW insignia because, near as I can tell, the toy packaging doesn't mark the toys that way. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 05:27, 14 January 2024 (EST)

== Idea for reducing the size of toy sections by compacting unchanged toy entries ==

I've come up with an idea that I think would make toy sections on character pages a little better and more intuitive. Instead of having a long list of entries for multiple releases of the exact same toy completely unchanged, we could just compact them all in a single entry, describing how the toy was available both individually and unchanged in a bunch of multipacks. This could be especially helpful with toy sections that are way too long, such as both the Movie Optimus Prime and Bumblebee toy pages that have been subject to a lot of discussion already.

[[User:Fritz/Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|I used the 2007 Legends Class section of the Movie Optimus Prime toy page to make a quick example out of it.]] The entries would be reduced from four to two toys, since 3/4 of them are the same toy anyway, and a lot of white space would be removed. As for the images of the multipacks, I don't think we would be losing much in removing them since the wiki has never prioritized images of packagings for anything really and, as I know is written somewhere in the "rules", the wiki isn't supposed to be used as an image hosting website in the first place.

So, any thoughts? --[[User:Fritz|Fritz]] ([[User talk:Fritz|talk]]) 20:18, 20 January 2024 (EST)
: We used to do this and it was actually kind of worse. There's also complications when unchanged toys end up being sold under different franchise headers, and when you add in all the other bullet point data a toy/set might have, you could end up with a lonnnnng list of bullet points before you get to the actual writeup, plus describing the multi-packs' contents... you're not really saving space while also kinda hurting the demi-chronological flow of the information. And deleting the multi-pack package imagery feels very wrong. It's one of those cases where there's no real ideal situation, but there's a least-bad one.
:That said, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to make sure the first entry mentions these "repacks" alongside the redecoes and links to the relevant items. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 21:34, 21 January 2024 (EST)
::Good points, as usual. Now that you mentioned it, I think I do have a vague memory of this being done in the past. I was going to suggest the repacks from different toylines should remain separate, though. My mentality was that maybe we could have a way to highlight the "main" releases (original and redecoes/retools) from the "minor" ones (unchanged repacks) to make it easier to identify in a glance how many actually-different toys were released within a toyline, but I wouldn't want it to cause ''more'' confusion than ''less''. Anyway thanks for taking the time to evaluate the idea. --[[User:Fritz|Fritz]] ([[User talk:Fritz|talk]]) 05:54, 22 January 2024 (EST)

==Repurposings, continuity transplants, and using Template:Main/Template:See to improve navigability==
I've gone back to the drawing board to come up with a way to signal to readers where closely-related pages exist, as I don't think [[Help:Disambiguation|disambiguation]] pages are enough and have found [[Template:OtherVersions]] to be unideal. [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive70#Proposal re: G1 pages|Previously]], I'd suggested merging a bunch of pages for so-called "[[Continuity family|continuity]] transplants", but other users convinced me this would be a poor solution. One alternative suggestion, from [[User:Broadside]], was to use [[Template:Main]] to put key links to a character's appearances in other continuity families directly in the fiction section—[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive70#Handling of "former GoBots" and "former Diaclone" characters on the wiki|reactions at the time]] were neutral-positive. You can see mockups for [[User:Broadside/Sandbox:Cy-Kill|Cy-Kill]] and [[User:Broadside/Sandbox:Bug Bite|Bug Bite]]. This strikes me as the best of both worlds, because it keeps the consistent schema (which helps for page length and organisation) but also puts a link to the information in the place where your typical reader is expecting to find it (on the page for the highest-profile first incarnation of the character).

With the same philosophy in mind, I've also designed two new templates. The first, [[Template:Toyappeared]], is intended for use in toy write-ups as a way of linking to fiction write-ups and character pages. It covers [[repurposing]]s, "continuity transplants", notable instances of [[Show-accuracy|toy-accuracy]], in-fiction [[Reformatting|powerups]], [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos|"virtual" redecos]], you name it. Toy write-ups are increasingly being duplicated across multiple character pages, which creates maintenance overhead, as both instances must be manually kept in sync. My suggestion is to use [[Template:See]] to link to the full information regarding a toy on the original page, with the repurposed instance giving only brief information of what the toy is and ''why'' it was repurposed or whatever. The second of my new templates has a much more specific intended use case: [[Template:Bwucharacter]] provides an easy way of explaining how/why a character was reinterpreted for their ''Uprising'' appearance, as ''Uprising'' accounts for most of the situations I view as being problematic.

I realise I'm proposing like five things at once here, so [[User:The Wadapan/sandbox/repurposing|my sandbox]] has [[User:The Wadapan/sandbox/repurposing#Full example|a full example]] demonstrating how it all works together, along with tons of individual examples of the templates' usage and a more thorough explanation of what I'm trying to address with them. Take a look, and let me know which aspects you like, which parts you don't like, or any ideas you have to add! —[[User:The Wadapan|The Wadapan]] ([[User talk:The Wadapan|talk]]) 06:24, 12 February 2024 (EST)
:I can vouch for these templates! [[User:ShootingStar7X|ShootingStar7X]] ([[User talk:ShootingStar7X|talk]]) 15:38, 26 February 2024 (EST)
: I'm seeing a lot of problems with the implementation of some of this, and a lot of future headaches. The ones rolled out put what look like stub headers in a fiction section with just a small normal missable note up top; and in Override's case in specific, multiple stubs with completely redundant information. What this is ''going'' to do is get new people thinking that these are missing information that needs to be filled, then we gotta revert it and tell them no all that goes elsewhere, which is utterly unintuitive and will just lead to arguments and headaches all around.
: As for toys, in the instances of BWU-type stuff where it's a one-toy Mini-Con or whatever, I feel like NOT having the actual toy info for them on the BWU page, as with the Mini-Con Snow Cat toy currently, is not doing the reader any favors. Quite the opposite. Why are we making them jump to a different page for information that has no reason to not be right there? I don't like making readers jump through hoops needlessly, and that's all this feels like. And it's not like the toy sections of most of these are gonna see major changes, so lack of cross-updating is very, very, very unlikely to be an issue.
: I really don't think these require new templates and a bunch of new-editor landmines. At most, there's a decent argument to be made for re-positioning the "you look familiar" template that already exists, maybe below the main character writeup (above feels like a bad layout choice, pushing all kinds of stuff down.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 02:11, 28 February 2024 (EST)

== Listings and accessories ==

When I was making the description for cannonball based on the Walmart listing, there was mention of a Gatling gun and hammer not shown in the stock images,and left them out.

If I run into this type of situation again, what do I do?[[User:Poliwag06|Poliwag06]] ([[User talk:Poliwag06|talk]]) 10:56, 7 March 2024 (EST)

== A few suggestions ==

Gallery pages should only include images that aren't easily accessed by going to the main page, to avoid cluttering. I guess this is not an issue now since the current gallery pages are fairly short.

There should be more dedication in listing alt-modes of characters. Maybe there should be a header or something. For example, if the Dreamwave version of [[Sunstorm (G1)#Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Sunstorm]] transforms into an F-16 jet, it should be listed in the beginning with a header for the sake of easy access to the said information.--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 13:59, 17 March 2024 (EDT)

== Will we get an article on The Masked Singer? ==

Will there be an article on TFWiki about The Masked Singer, specifically their recent "Transformers Night" episode (https://the-masked-singer.fandom.com/wiki/Transformers_Night)? --[[User:John Pannozzi|John Pannozzi]] ([[User talk:John Pannozzi|talk]]) 20:01, 12 April 2024 (EDT)

: Assuming it's a licensed appearance (I can't check the credits myself :C ), I can't think why it wouldn't be [[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]]) 21:15, 12 April 2024 (EDT)

:: It was indeed licensed. --[[User:John Pannozzi|John Pannozzi]] ([[User talk:John Pannozzi|talk]]) 22:30, 12 April 2024 (EDT)
:::Yes, as an official Hasbro-sanctioned piece of TF media, the episode does meet our requirements for inclusion. It just needs someone to write it up. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 23:22, 12 April 2024 (EDT)

== Franchise articles ==
So I was looking at the franchise pages to try and get an idea of what the standard is supposed to be for how they are written. Should all of them be updated to be more like the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)]] article? What was making me wonder this was that on the [[Transformers: Energon (franchise)]] article it had a section for "Homages" and one for "New characters" which I don't think any other franchise article has. --[[User:1levichurch|1levichurch]] ([[User talk:1levichurch||talk]]) 22:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

== AI upscaled images ==
With fresh offsite talks about the matter, I put forth we add an official policy against posting AI upscaled images of any kind to the wiki, owing to their subpar performance in "enhancing" the quality of images. [[User:McBaggins|McBaggins]] ([[User talk:McBaggins|talk]]) 23:52, 1 May 2024 (EDT)
:Agreed. It's literally faking information and presenting it as official. (Also often noticeably terrible.) Sometimes the best quality available of something sucks, but we simply have to deal. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 23:57, 1 May 2024 (EDT)
::100 percent agreed. It's called "artificial" for a reason. Plenty of details would be lost out through the upscaling, and several times errors on the wiki somehow became official through Hastak using the wiki for references (the whole [[Circular reporting]] thing). If we start allowing AI upscaled images, then we're likely to have things lost to the annals of time. Potato quality is better than lost quality[[User:Singularity|Singularity]] ([[User talk:Singularity|talk]]) 00:11, 2 May 2024 (EDT)
: Sure. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 00:43, 2 May 2024 (EDT)

== Ending addition of high-end statues ==
This is something I doubt other people have noticed, but I'm putting down a tent-peg on it: After having built the entries for dozens of high-end collectable TF statues in the last 2-3 years, from firms like Diamond Select, Imaginarium, Azure Sea, XM Studios, etc., and then seeing most of them either officially cancelled or never spoken of again with no reported purchases, I am going to stop adding such items here. If someone else feels like cataloguing them, great.

It really may not be possible for us to keep up with toy-like non-transforming merchandise (figurines and statues) the way we used to. There are at least two ''released'' series of G1 core cast micro-figurines with micro-comics and magnifying glasses, which would have been the rage of the fandom in 2005, that nobody ever got around to adding, and it feels like too much of a chore for me to start. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 10:35, 3 May 2024 (EDT)
: It's an unfortunate but very real thing that once you enter the world of licensed merch, we're ''gonna'' have big gaps. It's... a lot, on top of the "a lot" that is the regular TF toyline and fictional output today. I've said that the work involved in keeping up with all of TF's merch ought to be a full-time paying job, and I genuinely mean it. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 16:39, 3 May 2024 (EDT)

== Transformers Roleplaying Game releases on the front page and sidebar ==

The [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]] is getting pretty frequent releases of both sourcebooks and pre-written adventures, and it occurs to me that it might be a good idea to have it on the "current releases" section of the front page and/or the navigation sidebar. How would people feel about that? --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 15:49, 4 May 2024 (EDT)
: I think that makes a lot of sense, as long as we have people keeping up with the new releases to document them. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:51, 4 May 2024 (EDT)

==How we handle weapons' toy/merch sections==
Okay, so like... I'm not really convinced that what we've been doing is the best way to handle the weapon pages' toys/merch sections. Honestly, they end up looking... really shoddy. There's just tiny scraps of info, vast wads of whitespace, few to no links, the images are tons of different sizes. <br>
I'm thinking that instead of all this... maybe this is a place where a gallery is in order, just a chronological procession. Have the captions just say what lines/toys the weapons came with and link to the toys directly on the character page. It's not like there's much to say about any of these, why not let the toy listing on the character page say it? Why make people scroll through screens of mostly-emptiness, which I feel they're increasingly unlikely to do? I may do a sandbox if I'm feeling up to it. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 22:24, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
:[[User:M Sipher/Sandbox:WeaponPageToysSection]] - So... this, basically. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 22:39, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
:I'd be on board with that. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 22:34, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
:I like it. It would be far more compact than our current approach for, say, [[Fusion cannon#Toys]], while still getting the point across. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 11:13, 10 May 2024 (EDT)

==Proposal for Unproduced or Unreleased Template==
I don't think the Apocrypha template is particularly useful. It was created specifically for Alignment, but most of the things in it don't fit that criteria. Something like Unproduced or Unreleased Transformer media would be more self explanatory. [[User:WillR113|WillR113]] ([[User talk:WillR113|talk]]) 07:05, 11 May 2024 (EDT)

== Use of pictures from ebay, fan sites, etc ==

Is it appropriate to use pictures of toys from ebay, fan reviews, video review screenshots and the like? Under fair use and with source credit? Sometimes rarer items we don't have good pictures of on the wiki show up in these places. In particular I found a ebay seller with good images of EZ collection toys and and old Japanese review blog with images of Takara variants of HFTD/Autobot Alliance toys so that got me wondering. —[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 10:10, 12 May 2024 (EDT)
:Images from eBay and other fan sites have been and can continue to be used, giving the fullest source credit feasible. I don't think we've ever needed to rely on video review screenshots and would always prefer to have a "normal" still image instead whenever possible. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 11:02, 16 May 2024 (EDT)

== ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' “再構成版” エピソード視聴ガイド "Re-Configuration Version" aka "Re-Constructed Version" Episode Viewing Guide ==

We really need to document the "canon" Japanese viewing order for ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' & ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010'' originally included with the ''Pioneer'' Laserdisc booklets & later apparently revised by [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] (市川裕文) for the DVD BOX SET 2 Instruction Booklet as it would help clean-up the chronology on many wiki pages here. From what I've been able to gather this particular viewing order differs from both the US/Japan production orders, the US-Airing order and the Japanese-Airing order. So what exactly is the order of the episodes of these two series according to these documents? Does anyone own them and able to list the specific order in which the episodes appear in those LD/DVD "Instruction Booklets" word-for-word? As it stands, we've only mentioned that a "narrative viewing order" exists but do not have it listed anywhere. For further clarification, it is not the order in which the episodes appear on the Japanese DVDs. [[User:Astrobotix|Astrobotix]] ([[User talk:Astrobotix|talk]]) 01:09, 15 May 2024 (EDT)
:While this information would be valuable and is worth documenting, it's unlikely to result in us making any major changes to the way our information is structured. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 17:31, 16 May 2024 (EDT)
:Okay, having seen the booklets in question, it just lists the episodes in production order, continuity errors and all. So...absolutely no change, then. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 20:44, 17 May 2024 (EDT)

== Documenting MSRP? ==

Would it be worth documenting MSRP prices (in usd at least)? For the regular retail classes that's for the most part covered by the [[size class]] page, but we don't keep track of them for more specialty items like Masterpieces, multipacks, exclusives, one-off releases not in a normal size class, special lines like Missing Link, etc. It's something I find personally interesting and would've liked to know for older figures and someone in the future might want to know about today's releases. It can also offer some neat bits of info like how Premium Finish releases were generally one price point up compared to the figure's size or how the upcoming United Cliffjumper multipack is a whole $30 off what the individual figures would cost --[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 14:20, 21 May 2024 (EDT)
:I think this would be very interesting, particularly when you scroll down pages for G1 toys that got multiple reissues like the Seekers, Insecticons, and tape players. It's just that - like the Designer Notes and the proper insignias on each and every toy - it would take forever to add and would probably wind up being one super-dedicated person having to do most of the work. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 14:28, 21 May 2024 (EDT)
::I might try to do what I can, going back to recatalogue everything would definitely be a chore. But at the very least I strongly believe it's something we can and should implement for future toy entries. I've started a [[User:BluJayWarrior/Sandbox|MSRP Sandbox]] to try out a few formats, any feedback is appreciated. --[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 05:18, 23 May 2024 (EDT)
::Cleaned up the sandbox page. Anyone have anything to say about the format? Might try applying Style 1 to a few pages this weekend if no one makes any objections. [[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 12:58, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
:::Of those options I like Style 1 the best. As you already noted, the [[size class]] pages covers basically all normal U.S. retail from BW through Legacy, missing things like Platinum and MP. To find contemporary G1 prices, here are some good resources:
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20181125082555/https://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf84.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114081109/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf85.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114091052/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf86.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114090836/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf87.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114084922/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf88.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114081716/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf89.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114085830/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf90.html
:::https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/g1-original-retail-price-listing.1167895/
:::I tried looking for G2 MSRP but couldn't find anything as obvious. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 13:24, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
::::Thanks for the sources, gonna have to sort through that later. Planning to start with new ROTB characters since they're smaller pages and prices can still be found. I've decided to add prices for retail classes for reader convenience; not everyone will know to go to the size class page for them and its not linked often enough to make it reasonable they would. [[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 14:22, 24 May 2024 (EDT)

: I'd been working on a project like this a long time ago, had originally proposed adding this to the wiki, but then kinda stopped... mostly because near as I could tell, the MSRP in the 80s was something retailers could just make the hell up. The price ranges for any given toy were kinda all over the damn place, and the MSRP was something some retailers used to go "no really we're cheaper SEE?" then make up some price they supposedly "discounted" down from... you know, the thing that got Kay-Bee in legal-type troubles. I was increasingly unsure how to handle that wild price variance concisely on the wiki. In fact...
::https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PBE2i9vLE6fkr933GQbXosA1cxIqB3CkOSnzW0BMdwc/edit#gid=448439989
: Take a look-see. There's at least three different MSRP values for the standard Headmasters, never mind actual sticker prices. Like, I ''want'' to provide this kind of context, I really do, and it's pretty easy once we get to the unified price points of BW on... but for G1 and G2? Woof. That's going to take a bit of mulling. "Average" price maybe, but there's gonna be some Prices Georg here and there throwing shit off. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 16:35, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
::RE: The sandbox... I'm gonna have to vote against Style 1, because, as noted, price info is very likely going to get... cluttered, and the longer that parenthetical is, the worse it is. I'd REALLY like to keep that to just "size class/type (if not obvious) and release year". And don't forget Takara-release prices, which can be more flexible even within a size class... but at least those have been ''extensively'' documented. I think we need to talk about bit more about everything we'd need to cover and ''how'' before we go implementing anything, and get a few more people in on the discussion. (Sorry for all the add-ons, lightly scattered today.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 18:18, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
:::Fair enough on the old stuff since that gets convoluted, but the newer stuff is comparatively easier to do and I'd rather start sooner before some MSRP prices get harder to find (ROTB Autobots Unite subline prices seem to have disappeared already). Added the ROTB Airazor page I was gonna start with to the sandbox so you can see how the page might look as a whole. Since you object to Style 1 I added a Style 2 version too. --[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 18:38, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
:::: Assemble the data, sure, but I am going to say do ''not'' actually apply any of this to live articles. Again, there's barely been any time or discussion on a project that is... vast in scope, and we simply do not jump on stuff like this right away, because that means things will get not considered and then we have to re-do hundreds to thousands of pages... and we absolutely do ''not'' do it when there's a giant obvious gap (the first decade of the franchise) that still needs to be considered, as how we handle ''that'' will affect how we handle all the others, because we try and keep things consistent.
:::: Like, just off the top of my head, there's non-US-or-Japan markets to consider for just about everything normal-retail. Which makes me think we may want to look into a collapsible template, like with the toy designers and voice actors, to handle the other markets without overloading the bullet point sections, some of which are already a bit husky. There's the fact that Walmart and Target just dropped the prices on TF Deluxes in the US... but apparently, Hasbro didn't change their "MSRP"/cost at all. In fact a quick jump to Hasbro Pulse shows they're still charging $25 for a ''Legacy/Studio'' Deluxe, while I can pop to the local Target/Walmart and buy 'em at $20, so we gotta consider ranges just like with G1/G2. And again... ''I'm moderately convinced that "MSRP" in the USA was bullshit all along,'' so I don't know that it's the term we even want to use in the first place. Maybe "Retail price" would be better. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 00:17, 25 May 2024 (EDT)
:::::I think just documenting the MSRP, if we know it, is enough. No need to go down the rabbit hole of tracking down what individual retailers sell them at when they disregard the MSRP (which as, after all, only a suggested price). In my opinion, at least, it's little different from listing the cover prices of books - the only difference is that Hasbro doesn't print their suggested price directly on the box.
:::::Totally hear you on waiting to the pull the trigger until it's been properly discussed, though. Also, I prefer BluJay's Style 2 as well. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 03:46, 25 May 2024 (EDT)
:::::: Um, the problem is, again... I really don't think we HAVE any actual MSRPs outside of Takara's. What's been cataloged here are just "prices they were sold at", which isn't ''specifically'' a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price, the specific price suggested specifically by the manufacturer. Those we'd need a source for, and as I've pointed out, the handful of stated "MSRP"s we've seen for Hasbro stuff... well, someone was lying, likely multiple someones. For BW on we have a pretty strong ''inference'' of MSRP, but, well. And even that's not reliable... I just remembered that Walmart and Target were charging markedly different prices for the ''EarthSpark'' Tacticons, like, a $2 diff.
:::::: What I'm saying is, we might want to just not call it "MSRP" because of that (also, frankly I question how many people even recognize that acronym). And because of the wide variance in prices for older stuff, no, we don't need to list every price at every retailer (there were a billion retailers in the 80s... man, remember when actual competition in the market was a thing?), but we really OUGHT to account for the variance somehow, because it can be wide and ''full''. "''Original price''" might be best, since that's what we're actually reporting here, with something like "$2.99 - $4.99 (US) / ¥500 (Japan) <expand>". I'd rather do a range than a single-price "average" on old stuff, especially when we have so MUCH data on what these were sold at across the nation that we can see the trends and when a particularly high or low price is an outlier adn should not have been counted. "Modern" stuff we can certainly ignore, say, Kohl's's higher prices and just do the average probable-MSRP-if-those-actually-exist prices most places (all two of them) charge. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 17:10, 25 May 2024 (EDT)
::::Alright, I'll make a [[User:BluJayWarrior/MSRP Catalog|separate sub page]] to catalog prices for now while that gets sorted out
::::As Dark T said, I think prioritizing initial Hasbro MSRP is best as it is the "intended" price (this is what [https://brickset.com Brickset] does for Lego). It's a point of consistency since historically different retailers tend have slight variations on the price anyway (Target/Walmart sometimes being slightly lower, Kohls/BBTS being higher, general lag on reflecting the msrp price increases a few years ago, etc) and I don't think that whole range needs to be noted. Admittedly the current Target/Walmart prices drops are pretty unusual (a whole $5?!) but unless it becomes something more widespread I personally wouldn't consider it as a data point. Might be worth making a note of somewhere if anything, though I'm not sure where --[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 04:26, 25 May 2024 (EDT)

==Micronauts, etc.==
Why are we suddenly gaining detailed issue write-ups for so much of Micronauts, which contains no TF elements at all? Isn't that the point of the IDW Hasbroverse wiki? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 13:14, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
:Oh and look, now whole issues of M.A.S.K. written 7 years ago with no TF content whatsoever are being pasted from the Hasbroverse wiki. Is the other site going offline or something? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 14:26, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
::I don't think it was really our intention to formally unveil the project until we were further along, but some of us have been doing a fair bit of work towards creating a [https://gijoe.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page sister wiki for ''G.I. Joe''] where the [https://gijoe.miraheze.org/wiki/Comics#IDW_Publishing_3 out-of-scope IDW Joe coverage] has already been re-homed. The Joe crew hasn't made any calls about what do with non-Joe stuff to be clear (we're sort of preoccupied, there's so much Joe you guys) but I'm guessing the idea here is to align the rest with our [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive71#Energon Universe coverage|current approach]] to [[Energon Universe|Skybound's shared universe]] and sundown the IDW one? --[[User:AzimuthAcolyte|AzimuthAcolyte]] ([[User talk:AzimuthAcolyte|talk]]) 15:43, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
:::That is more or less the intention, yeah. The Hasbroverse wiki was built at a time where it was perhaps anticipated to be grander than it ended up being, and it wasn't certain how long it was going to run; with the end result being "not very", having this other vestigial site for what is ultimately not a lot of content just doesn't feel practical. The exception, of course, is pre-V5 Joe, which has ''always'' been the sticking point in discussions about moving Hasbroverse content here, both for the amount and for how little it has to do with the IDW Transformers line. Having a dedicated Joe wiki solves that problem and frees up the rest of the Hasbroverse stuff to be reintegrated. Plus, there's still new Joe material being released to this day; arguably having a complete and better curated site for the franchise as a whole that continues to be updated with new releases is more likely to drive traffic and get other people to contribute than it would be linking to a dead wiki for a long-ended comic line that's had the same featured articles for five years because no one cares to add anything to it anymore. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:59, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
::::It does look like a rough consensus was reached to do this back in 2021 ([[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Archive69#Reintegration_of_Hasbroverse_wiki_content|Archive 69]]), it was just never implemented. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 16:10, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
::Like half of MASK issues have something from Transformers in them. Picking and choosing which select issues to cover here is hair-splitting and obnoxious for readers. It's immensely better to just have all the information in one, easily-accessible spot and regard Hasbro Universe as a de facto spinoff of Transformers, much like Beastformers and Energon Universe are. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 17:10, 1 August 2024 (EDT)

==One spoilers==
I propose that information about this movie be withheld until it actually opens in its largest market next weekend. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 11:04, 14 September 2024 (EDT)
: Agreed. [[User:Locoman|Locoman]] ([[User talk:Locoman|talk]]) 11:08, 14 September 2024 (EDT)

==Transformers One and the conversation we've all been waiting for==

On September 12th, Lorenzo di Bonaventura [https://comicbook.com/movies/news/is-transformers-one-a-prequel-optimus-prime-origin-story-exclusive/ clarified the relationship] between ''Transformers One'' and the live-action ''Transformers'' films, describing them as "two universes" that will be "separate". For some, this kind of explicit confirmation may come as a relief after years of wishy-washy answers regarding ''Bumblebee'' and ''Rise of the Beasts'', but it also leaves us with questions on how to best handle ''One''-related information going forward. Around 2015, we adopted a unique layout we applied to all the movie characters, where we organized their movie appearances at the top of the page, regardless of chronological order of release (see "[[Optimus Prime (Movie)#Movies]]"). Obviously, this leads to some questions regarding how we should handle our ''One'' coverage going forward.

The way I see it, we have three options:

* '''Keep the page format as is, and keep''' '''''One''''' '''up with the rest of the movies''': For obvious reasons I think this is probably our weakest possible solution; it's pretty clear at this point that our current solution for classifying the films is not really sustainable, and mashing them all together under a single loosely-affiliated umbrella is already confusing and frustrating people who aren't intimately acquainted with the mechanics of the wiki.

* '''Reorganize movie character pages so that we acknowledge the live-action films and''' '''''One''''' '''as separate continuities within one continuity family, similar to how our G1 pages cover Sunbow, Marvel, JG1, IDW, etc.''': Historically speaking, this is probably the safest option, but from what I understand there is very little "connective tissue"—visually, character-wise, plot-beats—between the live-action films and ''One'' beyond the inertia of "they were both made by Paramount". As some people have discussed in the past, this could lead to a full or partial reformat of our movie character coverage to more clearly reflect the ambiguous "prequel" status of ''Bumblebee'' and ''Rise of the Beasts'', but this may be a conversation for another time.

* '''Separate''' '''''One''''' '''as an entirely new continuity family and split out the relevant information so we have pages for "Optimus Prime (One)", "Megatron (One)", etc.''' Probably the most radical proposal, but this is honestly where I'm at right now: from what I understand the movie is a pretty radical departure from everything that's gone before, with entirely new interpretations of old ''Transformers'' lore—I'd classify it as the start of a new "franchise" in the same way that we distinguish ''Earthspark'' and ''Cyberverse'' despite them both clearly drawing on the same well of post-Aligned lore, and these days "new franchise" is generally synonymous with "new continuity family" for the ease of wiki bookkeeping.

We would appreciate hearing your thoughts on the matter! '''As the film is not out yet in all regions please refrain from posting spoilers here'''. [[User:Locoman|Locoman]] ([[User talk:Locoman|talk]]) 08:56, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

:I could see option 3 being the way we go, but what holds me back from that is that beyond just Paramount, Spielberg and Bay are still executive producers on the film. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 09:39, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

::I think we should put them on the Earthspark Continuity pages to satisfy no-one /j - but yeah, the film is drawing from the same vaguely Binder Of Revelation backstory as everything else for the last 10 years, and unless they have been hiding The Fallen twisting D-16 to evil or the twist that the Creators were the Quintessons all along, One feels pretty decoupled from the rest of the movies. The big issue I see with splitting out fully is that people wondering why we do not do the same for Bumblebee/ROTB, but that more easily passes a "vibe check" as being "Movie-adjacent" and belonging on the same page as the Bay 5-dom than One so far. Agree that trying to put them directly alongside the other movies as a prequel feels both unwieldy and confusing. [[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]]) 09:41, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

:I vote for '''option 3''', I think creating separate pages is the way to go. [[User:MrRald|MrRald]] ([[User talk:MrRald|talk]]) 09:54, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
::I vote for '''option 2'''. To me the movie is different enough to be a separate universe but not an entirely different continuity. Josh Cooley himself on April 18 when asked whether the film is a fresh start, a prequel to the live-action films, or its own thing, replied with: "yes to all of the above" https://comicbook.com/movies/news/transformers-one-director-confirms-new-movies-canon-status. (And having seen the movie I can confirm those connections to the live-action series do exist). [[User:Grievous Prime|Grievous Prime]] ([[User talk:Grievous Prime|talk]]) 10:05, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

:I vote for '''option 3'''. One has always felt very different to the previous live action movies so I feel it should get its own dedicated pages. As for BB and ROTB, there is "connective tissue" to the Bayverse movies so I feel they can stay on the pre-existing movie pages. [[User:PublicCrown|PublicCrown]] ([[User talk:PublicCrown|talk]]) 10:25, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:Having viewed the film at an advance screening, I think there are easily enough references and homages to previous films that '''option two''' makes the most sense. - [[User:Archforce|Archforce]] ([[User talk:Archforce|talk]]) 10:45, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

::I'm favorable for the '''3rd option''', it is still produced under Paramount & there are some producers attached to the project that were on previous movies, but my stance is that we should judge based on the final product & having seen the movie, it doesn't try to be in line to what came before (there are some similarities in design & names, but it stops there since every popular TF stories has influence over the next ones), helped by the new team of writers & creatives. If we can treat each new cartoon as its own entity (even tho in recent years they are streamlined in some areas), I think we can do the same for the recent movies that have more contradictory elements to the Bayverse –[[User:MahXyme|MahXyme/MahXymal]] ([[User talk:MahXyme|talk]]) 10:49, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:'''<nowiki>#3</nowiki>''' is the cleanest option to me. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 11:32, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

:I think from a practical perspective, '''#3''' is the only real option. Looking at the loose guidelines for a new family on our [[continuity family]] page:
:*"a fresh continuity" — Yep, even Lorenzo's acknowledged this. Even if we questioned that, there's stuff like the AllSpark being absent (with the Matrix pretty much taking exactly the role the AllSpark would have), Megatronus being a good guy, and Sentinel's role being entirely irreconcilable with Dark of the Moon.
:*"within a separate franchise" — Yep. New franchise, and the marketing hasn't done anything to allude to the live-action films specifically.
:*"significantly different in cast, theme, style, etc." — This is the big sticking point for me. One makes no attempt to align with the visual style or characterisations of the live-action films. The sole real connective point is B-127 (name from ''Bumblebee'', he has the big cheeks and antenna of the movie guy, and his talking a lot is clearly a meta-gag about him losing his voice), but even he's characterised completely differently, as the "comedy crazy guy" who's a peer to Optimus and co instead of the cool-but-rude big brother figure from Bay/Bee/Beasts.
:I'm sympathetic to the Paramount/Bay/Spielberg/Di Bonaventura connective tissue, but my big rebuttal there is that we don't consider ''EarthSpark'' to be Aligned because Nicole Dubuc is the showrunner. Ultimately, if we hadn't had pre-release producer statements (now contradicted) calling it a prequel to the other movies, there's absolutely no way this would be in question — we'd already have it as a separate continuity family. And from a wiki organisation standpoint I don't think there's any way to, say, write up Sentinel Prime's opening paragraph in a way that adequately covers both the DOTM and One characters without genericising it to the point of uselessness. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 12:33, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
::Yeah, I think '''#3''' is straightforward and likely the approach we'd take if we were presented with the film, as a story, with zero context on the studio releasing it or EPs involved or whatever. I also think there's a high likelihood that the next live-action film will have Elita appear and be like "hey Optimus remember when we were in Transformers One?" and we'll all groan and have to reconsider, but until then, I think the real-world context is basically the only thing separating One from just being the next Broadly Aligned-y New Thing like Cyberverse and EarthSpark before it, which we consistently split out for organisation reasons. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 13:45, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:Toss me in for '''Option 3''' of an entirely new continuity given how ''different'' the story details has been laid out when compared to the original 2007 film-verse and then later what's set by ''Bumblebee''. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] ([[User talk:Lonegamer78|talk]]) 14:38, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:Voting for '''option #2'''. While we would still have the outlier of TF:TAM 86 being a theatrically released movie in the G1 continuity family, I see no reason why "movie continuity family" would not only include transmedia spinoffs from feature films (''Reign of Starscream'', toy redeco Tech Specs, etc. etc.) but also feature films which are belonging different timelines and story universes. This would also free us from having to reconcile Movie 'Bee's history -- did he come to Earth in the 1940s or the 1980s? -- and put to bed *that* long running argument about whether the Bay-directed films were the same universe as BB and RotB or not -- now they don't have to be! [[User:Banpei the Mini-Con|Banpei the Mini-Con]] ([[User talk:Banpei the Mini-Con|talk]]) 14:58, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:Having seen the movie, I think '''#3''' is our cleanest option. Between the Lorenzo interview and, without going into spoilers, the numerous discrepencies there are, I don't think we can get away with suiting it out ala G1. The time may come when we do that for Bumblebee onwards but as far as One goes, I say we treat it as a new continuity. [[User:Ezim93|Ezim93]] ([[User talk:Ezim93|talk]]) 19:53, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:'''#3'''. #2 was close for me, but TFOne (having seen the movie) is so artistically different from the live action movies, it feels pointless to keep it on the same page like G1/IDW. Ironically, we could give Bayverse/BB&ROTB the G1/IDW treatment. [[User:Boingus|--Boingus]] ([[User talk:Boingus|talk]]) 23:23, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:I think 3 is where I'm leaning after seeing the film. Keeping this as "movie continuity" simply because it was released theatrically doesn't make sense to me. We wouldn't do that with a new comic or show because it was the same medium, why do it for a movie just because of that? Yes There is some CNA here to the live action films, but it could be argued it has just as much pulled from G1. One is it's own thing in the end. Trying to fit it into the live action movie box just doesn't feel right in this case.--[[User:ParadoxFactor|ParadoxFactor]] ([[User talk:ParadoxFactor|talk]]) 05:47, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
:I vote for '''Option 3''' for all the reasons previously mentioned as well as size concerns. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 09:29, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
:'''Option 3''', I believe the movie was clearly made with a new continuity in mind.-[[User:TitaniumToughGuy|TitaniumToughGuy]] ([[User talk:TitaniumToughGuy|talk]]) 09:38, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
===CHECKPOINT (2024/09/16)===
*Votes for Option 1: 1 (96megatron)
*Votes for Option 2: 3 (GrievousPrime, Archforce, Banpei the Mini-Con)
*Votes for Option 3: 15 (Locoman, AkibaSilver, MrRald, PublicCrown, MahXyme, Saix, Broadside, Jalaguy, Lonegamer, Ezim93, Boingus, ParadoxFactor, Khajidha, TitaniumToughGuy, CyberLink420)
As it stands, current consensus is pretty overwhelmingly in favor of Option 3 by a ratio of 5:1. I know it's only been a day, but barring a sudden swell of support for #2, it might be prudent to start switching everything over. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 10:20, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
: I'm reluctant to make actual changes until the movie hits wide release and the general public can make informed input. Give it a few more days. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 10:40, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
::::This. Let people... SEE the movie before we make important decisions. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 19:49, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
::::Right. We can wait a few days for more than a small handful of people to see this and base their decision on, you know, '''''the actual movie''''' rather than whatever someone who had something to do with it says ''this'' week, which historically has waffled between "vague" and "contradictory". Hell, even ''now'' some of them are still being all "well maybe it is and maybe it isn't" and frankly I have no faith they won't ride that ambiguity for a long time like they've done since ''Bumblebee''. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:49, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
::I've said ever since Keegan Michael Key tweeted as much that One should be treated as a separate continuity. '''Option 3''' for sure. {{unsigned|jmcdavid}}
:'''Option 3'''. I've seen the movie and other users have covered why that seems like the best choice. It feels as different from the previous movies as Prime is from Animated, or Earthspark from Sunbow (which, despite directly homaging/referencing Sunbow, Earthspark is considered separate from). [[User:Ashendawn|Ashendawn]] ([[User talk:Ashendawn|talk]]) 18:01, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
::I vote '''Option 2'''. There seems to be a large focus on whether or not the film fits in continuity with the prior films, but considering how little they fit with each other that feels irrelevant to me. The creators have been rather unclear whether this film should be considered separate from the ongoing live-action series in terms of production, just in terms of universe. If we had a sense this was the springboard for an entirely separate animated film series I'd say Option 3, but it feels unwarranted at this time. [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 20:29, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
:I'm voting '''Option 3'''; much of my reasons are the same as others have stated above, and I do apologise for opening this bags of worms on the ''One'' talk page. It's not that I don't understand why some people are opposed to creating a new set if pages, but for argument's sake, if ''One'' gets one or more sequels, it would likely draw further away from the established live-action films and become its own continuity/franchise (though that's more of a what-if right now). Overall, I personally think that separating live-action films and animated ones into their own continuities is a reasonable option, and I believe that ''One'' has proven itself a different entity. [[User:Prime Temple|Prime Temple]] ([[User talk:Prime Temple|talk]]) 06:26, 17 September 2024 (EDT)

::Also '''Option 3''' . In tone, content, continuity, style, story, just feels too different to me from the Michael Bay and other films, really only having the method of release in common. It feels more separate from the other movies than even Cyberverse from G1, and that’s happily separate. —[[User:MissDaria|MissDaria]] ([[User talk:MissDaria|talk]]) 10:05, 17 September 2024 (EDT)
:Screen Rant: I vote for '''Option 1''' This came out from ScreenRant today. Is Transformers One considered a prequel to the recent movies of Bumblebee and Rise of the Beast or the original live-action film starting in 2007? Or is it something completely, entirely new? ... Lorenzo di Bonaventura: "It obviously exists beforehand. I think we figured it out. It was like 300 million years before the first Michael Bay movie, so if that's a prequel, that's a prequel. But we're really following the lore about where it starts, and so we really just think about it as the beginning of the story. The origin, yes, but literally the beginning of the thing that we've all come to appreciate." https://screenrant.com/transformers-one-lorenzo-di-bonaventura-and-josh-cooley-interview/ [[User:96megatron|96megatron]] ([[User talk:96megatron|talk]]) 10:56, 17 September 2024 (EDT)
::Voting for '''Option 2'''. If adding stuff like Aligned backstory influence disqualifies One from being movie, then there could be an argument for splitting IDW characters off from the G1 pages because of things like the absence of the traditional "Ark crashes on Earth, everyone wakes up 4 million years later" backstory, and no amount of Owning The Bayverse (which I can't help but feel some of the desire to split One off is fueled by) is worth opening that can of worms. [[User:BattleBlade|BattleBlade]] ([[User talk:BattleBlade|talk]]) 12:31, 17 September 2024 (EDT)
:Voting '''Option 3''', y'all gotta stop taking Lorenzo's word as gospel especially over the actual creatives behind these movies. [[User:Jman98|Jman98]] ([[User talk:Jman98|talk]]) 14:25, 17 September 2024 (EDT)
:Voting '''Option 3''', Lorenzo has made multiple contradictory statements in the past, some having been outright proven wrong. He doesn't seem like he's involved enough in the productions in order to make concrete statements about their continuity, nor is he a representative of Hasbro. [[User:TheDarkMage10218|TheDarkMage10218]] ([[User talk:TheDarkMage10218|talk]]) 19:30, 17 September 2024 (CST)
:: While I would agree that splitting it out makes the most sense as I currently see it, lets also not pretend the wiki is under some thrall to the evil boogeyman known as "the fandoms view of Lorenzo" and ignore that multiple creatives for all the movies people like to argue are definitely not Bayverse for realsies have made contradictory statements about whether or not the films are all supposed to be prequels / sequels, and its because [https://x.com/SJ_Broadside/status/1836084548020338988 they are not ubernerds who care about whether this movie perfectly follows the backstory of one from nearly 2 decades ago]. Just personally, I am seeing this like the High Moon Games advertising themselves as a G1 prequel back in the day - for people not like us, all of Transformers falls into the same vague umbrella, so sure, it can be a "prequel" to the rest of the movies, in the same way Optimus Prime is Optimus Prime is Optimus Prime to Hasbro, no matter whether he be G1, Movie, Animated, or Armada. [[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]]) 04:34, 18 September 2024 (EDT)
:::Haven't seen the movie yet, but I strongly agree with that comment. This wiki has never been governed by author intent, and particularly regarding the live-action movies there are too many authors giving too much contradictory intent about contradictory material. ''We'' made up the concept of a "continuity family," that concept ''we made up'' is now old enough for a driver's license, we will have to continue making our own judgments about which stories mesh with what. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 08:45, 18 September 2024 (EDT)
:::: All this, and as to that last point: "continuity family" ''has literally '''NEVER''' meant "all fits into one actual internal timeline"''. There's a reason we used the word "family". We treat the totally-irreconcilable-timelines-having G1 cartoon and G1 comic as part of the same "family" (and BW as well), because of an ''external'' concept of them being "related" to each other by dint of the how and who and why of their creations. And this has held true as we moved forward, the above-mentioned High Moon statements being a very good example. The sheer squirreliness of multiple creatives -and the films themselves- over the past half-decade or so over "continuity" (and let's just dismiss out of hand what a ''voice actor'' thinks, okay), doesn't exactly make me think that the future won't see more squirreliness in whatever comes next. "The existing character pages are too big already" is a more convincing argument for a full-on split, and we got subpages/suites for that problem. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 17:17, 18 September 2024 (EDT)
::::: You all make great points; I amend my reasoning for my choice of Option 3: One deviates stylistically and tonally from the live-action movies, and it isn't even live-action to begin with. [[User:TheDarkMage10218|TheDarkMage10218]] ([[User talk:TheDarkMage10218|talk]]) 22:37, 18 September 2024 (EDT)
:Having seen the movie, I believe '''Option 3''' is the best. It is irreconcilable with the Bay films on several levels (more so than ROTB/Bumblebee). It is extremely aesthetically and tonally different from them as well. I feel that grouping One with the rest of the live-action films simply because they share the same release venue would be akin to grouping Prime and G1. [[User:Paladin Denn|Paladin Denn]] ([[User talk:Paladin Denn|talk]]) 15:22, 18 September 2024 (EDT)

:Just got out of the advanced screening, I think '''Option 3''' would be the best option. There's a few details that clash with the prior films in many regards. It has an overall different feel. --[[User:GordonShumway8690|GordonShumway8690]] ([[User talk:GordonShumway8690|talk]]) 22:10, 18 September 2024 (EDT)

:Just saw the movie, and I vote '''Option 3'''. This movie ''cannot'' be in the same continuity as the other films, so Option 3 would be our safest bet. [[User:Decepticon Stryker|Decepticon Stryker]] ([[User talk:Decepticon Stryker|talk]]) 01:06, 19 September 2024 (EDT)

:Another vote by a movie watcher for '''Option 3.''' Several events in the third act counter what has happened in Bay's films. For the ease of the wiki having it stay separated is the best way to prevent headaches and finger pointing by having it all on the same page. [[User:Singularity|Singularity]] ([[User talk:Singularity|talk]]) 12:21, 19 September 2024 (EDT)
:Does my vote count when I watch it tomorrow? [[User:JasenomousTF|JasenomousTF]] ([[User talk:JasenomousTF|talk]]) 17:27, 19 September 2024 (EDT)

:Saw the film yesterday, only delayed a response because I didn't think I could come up with any unique arguments. But a vote is a vote, and mine is '''Option 3'''. [[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] ([[User talk:Bobpiecheese|talk]]) 19:32, 19 September 2024 (EDT)

:Count me among the other votes for '''Option 3'''. After seeing the movie, there really is no possible way to finagle it into the pre-existing Movie continuity, even in an Aligned Continuity "works-if-you-squint" manner. It's absolutely its own thing by the definitions the Wiki uses to separate continuities from one another. [[User:SlimerJoel|SlimerJoel]] ([[User talk:SlimerJoel|talk]]) 19:42, 19 September 2024 (EDT)

Just got back from seeing the movie, giving a vote for '''Option 3'''. The film is significantly different in tone, lore, designs, characterization, and story beats from bayverse. Arguably closer to aligned or idw1 [[User:Arren1234|Arren]] ([[User talk:Arren1234|talk]]) 21:31, 19 September 2024 (EDT)

:Having just seen the film, it is thoroughly '''Option 3'''. There isn't a single link in play between this and the live action films, not even in design or animation language. Hell, you could make a vastly stronger argument for it being a prequel to the Aligned continuity than the films. Just from an ease of use angle, I also don't think people who are coming in for Transformers One info are going to want to dig through years of irrelevant existing live action film content in the first place. [[User:MCRG|MCRG]] ([[User talk:MCRG|talk]]) 02:16, 20 September 2024 (EDT)

:Just seen the film. Definitely '''Option 3'''. I was just thinking it would be easier too for newcomers looking for info to not have to encounter a mainpic and write-up that describes a totally different person up top. [[User:Nu-Priest|Nu-Priest]] ([[User talk:Nu-Priest|talk]]) 09:10, 20 September 2024 (EDT)

Coming out of the movie, I was '''Option 2'''. Definitely separate from the live action films, but I think it would be convenient to have all the films (that aren’t extended episodes of a pre-existing cartoon) all under the same umbrella. I do understand the arguments that it’s really different in tone and content from the other films, but so is 2005 IDW to G1. Maybe do a suite page that includes everything One related? Like, Optimus Prime (Movie) Main/Games/Toys/One? [[User:Cylasbreakdown|Cylasbreakdown]] ([[User talk:Cylasbreakdown|talk]]) 20:34, 20 September 2024 (EDT)
:Suiting is only done in instances where a single subject, such as a specific piece of media or a toy section, gets ''so'' big that it starts to overwhelm the page, something that absolutely does not apply to ''One'' yet. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 20:39, 20 September 2024 (EDT)
::Correct me if I’m wrong, but was Shattered Glass Unicron really overwhelming the rest of the page on its own? Or RID2001 Universe Optimus Prime? I figured they were just really distinct and separate from all the ether appearances. Unless there’s something I’m not completely understanding about the suiteing rules (which I admit is entirely possible), I think that hypothetically making a One suite for all the big main characters and their toys would be convenient. [[User:Cylasbreakdown|Cylasbreakdown]] ([[User talk:Cylasbreakdown|talk]]) 11:12, 21 September 2024 (EDT)
:::Shattered Glass Unicron and the female, yellow 2003 Universe RID2001 Optimus Prime pages also have arguments of merging them with the larger articles they were originally spun off from. [[User:Shockwave2018|Shockwave2018]] ([[User talk:Shockwave2018|talk]]) 21:07, 23 September 2024 (GMT-3)

'''Option 3'''. After having watched the movie, it's substantially different so as to be disconnected from the live action movies, and I don't like the precedence it sets to lump every movie together from here on out, especially if this one's success inspires future free-standing Transformers movies down the line. I understand it with the live-action movies, because the line was very blurry, but it's pretty obvious that this one is separate. [[User:Thunderwolf|Thunderwolf]] ([[User talk:Thunderwolf|talk]]) 21:10, 20 September 2024 (EDT)

'''Option 3'''. I just got back from watching the movie, and it's the option that makes the most sense. There's just too much to connect it to the previous films, and while I do see where Option 2 is coming from I don't even think there's enough in common for it to be in the same continuity family (and I don't think its a good idea to throw every single movie that we're unsure about into the the 2007 family imo). Also taking into account the contradictory statements regarding the movie from producers and higher-ups, I think the simplest and most user-friendly option is to put everything into one new continuity family. If something changes so be it, but based on what we have 3 is the best choice. [[User:Hyperious|Hyperious]] ([[User talk:Hyperious|talk]]) 18:19, 21 September 2024 (EDT)

:Might as well throw my vote for '''Option 3''' in too. Even if we keep having this conversation over every new movie they release, it's already very clear that the best ''for wiki purposes'' is to split One from the rest. -- [[User:Fritz|Fritz]] ([[User talk:Fritz|talk]]) 20:23, 21 September 2024 (EDT)
I haven't seen the movie yet, so I don't quite feel right casting a vote here, but I do have one question: to those in favor of option 2, what do you feel makes Transformers One in the same family as the live-action movies, that didn't make Earthspark in the same family as Cyberverse? -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 03:39, 24 September 2024 (EDT)
: The fact that Cyberverse and Earthspark are sold as entirely separate franchises, whereas this is just the new movie. [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 07:19, 24 September 2024 (EDT)

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== Press release or logo for 30,000 articles? ==
Is it worth putting something together as we get very very close? Maybe something like:
* 3 from Thrilling 30 logo
* 0 from the 40th logo
* 0 from the Vector Sigma "Featured" logo
* 0 from the cosmic-streaking O in the TFTM opener
* 0 from GO!

Just a suggestion.... --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 13:45, 10 November 2023 (EST)
:If we wanted to go down that route, maybe tie into some of the contemporary material? Say, the "O"s from [[Energon Universe]] or [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution|Evolution]]? (Though the latter isn't exactly straight-on...) --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 14:38, 10 November 2023 (EST)
::Sure! I lean towards the Energon Universe choice. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 15:48, 10 November 2023 (EST)
:Apologies, I've corrected the count on the main page as it was inaccurate, so we're not as close as it looked like we were. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 16:20, 10 November 2023 (EST)
::That just means we have more time to decide and, if so, pull things together. :) -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 16:51, 10 November 2023 (EST)
:::Feels like we just leapt up 40 new articles in the last 2-3 days. Is it worth putting a graphic together? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 22:47, 18 January 2024 (EST)

=="Multi-pack" vs "gift set" and suchlike==
Incoming semantics, but... as I've been going through the toy entries, been trying to standardize/streamline a lot of stuff, and I think maybe a set of consistent terms/definitions for "a bunch of separate toys packed together" is in order. So lemme throw this out here for discussion/future reference...
*'''Multi-pack''' — A pack of toys where the contents (or at least most/some/any of them) are exclusive to this release, not sold in other packaging. Most multi-toy releases nowadays would fall under this umbrella by default.
*'''Gift set''' — A pack of toys where all of the contents are/were concurrently (or close enough) sold individually as well, without changes, in the same market. Like all the various G1 combiner sets.
The latter brings up the question of if we want to label all the Takara "VS" packs and the various UT-era "VALUE PACK!" sets under that umbrella, which I'm ambivalent-to-marginally-in-favor-of over. Especially as Takara's been putting out new "VS" packs where the toys are new decos not available elsewhere... also we kinda made up the "VS pack" term anyway, as memory serves, so. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:15, 8 January 2024 (EST)
:Hasbro has used the word "[[Giftset]]" to refer to unique variants not available separately. I'm inclined to think we shouldn't directly contradict that. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 21:21, 8 January 2024 (EST)
::and damn but does that article need updating. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 21:22, 8 January 2024 (EST)
:::I'm inclined to think that Hasbro uses lots of terms in ways that are not exactly conducive to organizing a wiki. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 21:29, 8 January 2024 (EST)

==More bullet point insignia?==
Okay so... I recall there were some other possible faction symbol bullet points we could maybe use. I ran across a few with this batch of toy pics we might consider adding. I'll list them here, see if people can think of more. I feel like there might be a couple more two-faction matchups out there.
* Rescue Bots
* The various BotBots squads
* My First Transformers

I'm not un-convinced that we should have the bespoke insignia for stuff like the Disney Label, since they do use them on the packaging. So uh... there. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 01:51, 13 January 2024 (EST)
:Also, while looking at the list of all the bullets on the template page... maybe we should see if we can split the list up a smidge? Like, put all the mutli-faction icons in one section, a section just for BotBots since there's gonna be quite a few of them? Alphabetizing them might also be in order. (I have exactly zero idea how those templates are coded, so uh, lemme know if that's doable.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 04:42, 13 January 2024 (EST)
::There's also the [[Star Wars Transformers]]... though I'm not sure if using ''Star Wars'' insignia falls too much out of this wiki's scope, although we do use at least use them on the actual characters' pages (see [[Darth Vader]]). [[User:Turborun|Turborun]] ([[User talk:Turborun|talk]]) 10:34, 13 January 2024 (EST)
:::I don't think we'd use SW insignia because, near as I can tell, the toy packaging doesn't mark the toys that way. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 05:27, 14 January 2024 (EST)

== Idea for reducing the size of toy sections by compacting unchanged toy entries ==

I've come up with an idea that I think would make toy sections on character pages a little better and more intuitive. Instead of having a long list of entries for multiple releases of the exact same toy completely unchanged, we could just compact them all in a single entry, describing how the toy was available both individually and unchanged in a bunch of multipacks. This could be especially helpful with toy sections that are way too long, such as both the Movie Optimus Prime and Bumblebee toy pages that have been subject to a lot of discussion already.

[[User:Fritz/Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|I used the 2007 Legends Class section of the Movie Optimus Prime toy page to make a quick example out of it.]] The entries would be reduced from four to two toys, since 3/4 of them are the same toy anyway, and a lot of white space would be removed. As for the images of the multipacks, I don't think we would be losing much in removing them since the wiki has never prioritized images of packagings for anything really and, as I know is written somewhere in the "rules", the wiki isn't supposed to be used as an image hosting website in the first place.

So, any thoughts? --[[User:Fritz|Fritz]] ([[User talk:Fritz|talk]]) 20:18, 20 January 2024 (EST)
: We used to do this and it was actually kind of worse. There's also complications when unchanged toys end up being sold under different franchise headers, and when you add in all the other bullet point data a toy/set might have, you could end up with a lonnnnng list of bullet points before you get to the actual writeup, plus describing the multi-packs' contents... you're not really saving space while also kinda hurting the demi-chronological flow of the information. And deleting the multi-pack package imagery feels very wrong. It's one of those cases where there's no real ideal situation, but there's a least-bad one.
:That said, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to make sure the first entry mentions these "repacks" alongside the redecoes and links to the relevant items. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 21:34, 21 January 2024 (EST)
::Good points, as usual. Now that you mentioned it, I think I do have a vague memory of this being done in the past. I was going to suggest the repacks from different toylines should remain separate, though. My mentality was that maybe we could have a way to highlight the "main" releases (original and redecoes/retools) from the "minor" ones (unchanged repacks) to make it easier to identify in a glance how many actually-different toys were released within a toyline, but I wouldn't want it to cause ''more'' confusion than ''less''. Anyway thanks for taking the time to evaluate the idea. --[[User:Fritz|Fritz]] ([[User talk:Fritz|talk]]) 05:54, 22 January 2024 (EST)

==Repurposings, continuity transplants, and using Template:Main/Template:See to improve navigability==
I've gone back to the drawing board to come up with a way to signal to readers where closely-related pages exist, as I don't think [[Help:Disambiguation|disambiguation]] pages are enough and have found [[Template:OtherVersions]] to be unideal. [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive70#Proposal re: G1 pages|Previously]], I'd suggested merging a bunch of pages for so-called "[[Continuity family|continuity]] transplants", but other users convinced me this would be a poor solution. One alternative suggestion, from [[User:Broadside]], was to use [[Template:Main]] to put key links to a character's appearances in other continuity families directly in the fiction section—[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive70#Handling of "former GoBots" and "former Diaclone" characters on the wiki|reactions at the time]] were neutral-positive. You can see mockups for [[User:Broadside/Sandbox:Cy-Kill|Cy-Kill]] and [[User:Broadside/Sandbox:Bug Bite|Bug Bite]]. This strikes me as the best of both worlds, because it keeps the consistent schema (which helps for page length and organisation) but also puts a link to the information in the place where your typical reader is expecting to find it (on the page for the highest-profile first incarnation of the character).

With the same philosophy in mind, I've also designed two new templates. The first, [[Template:Toyappeared]], is intended for use in toy write-ups as a way of linking to fiction write-ups and character pages. It covers [[repurposing]]s, "continuity transplants", notable instances of [[Show-accuracy|toy-accuracy]], in-fiction [[Reformatting|powerups]], [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos|"virtual" redecos]], you name it. Toy write-ups are increasingly being duplicated across multiple character pages, which creates maintenance overhead, as both instances must be manually kept in sync. My suggestion is to use [[Template:See]] to link to the full information regarding a toy on the original page, with the repurposed instance giving only brief information of what the toy is and ''why'' it was repurposed or whatever. The second of my new templates has a much more specific intended use case: [[Template:Bwucharacter]] provides an easy way of explaining how/why a character was reinterpreted for their ''Uprising'' appearance, as ''Uprising'' accounts for most of the situations I view as being problematic.

I realise I'm proposing like five things at once here, so [[User:The Wadapan/sandbox/repurposing|my sandbox]] has [[User:The Wadapan/sandbox/repurposing#Full example|a full example]] demonstrating how it all works together, along with tons of individual examples of the templates' usage and a more thorough explanation of what I'm trying to address with them. Take a look, and let me know which aspects you like, which parts you don't like, or any ideas you have to add! —[[User:The Wadapan|The Wadapan]] ([[User talk:The Wadapan|talk]]) 06:24, 12 February 2024 (EST)
:I can vouch for these templates! [[User:ShootingStar7X|ShootingStar7X]] ([[User talk:ShootingStar7X|talk]]) 15:38, 26 February 2024 (EST)
: I'm seeing a lot of problems with the implementation of some of this, and a lot of future headaches. The ones rolled out put what look like stub headers in a fiction section with just a small normal missable note up top; and in Override's case in specific, multiple stubs with completely redundant information. What this is ''going'' to do is get new people thinking that these are missing information that needs to be filled, then we gotta revert it and tell them no all that goes elsewhere, which is utterly unintuitive and will just lead to arguments and headaches all around.
: As for toys, in the instances of BWU-type stuff where it's a one-toy Mini-Con or whatever, I feel like NOT having the actual toy info for them on the BWU page, as with the Mini-Con Snow Cat toy currently, is not doing the reader any favors. Quite the opposite. Why are we making them jump to a different page for information that has no reason to not be right there? I don't like making readers jump through hoops needlessly, and that's all this feels like. And it's not like the toy sections of most of these are gonna see major changes, so lack of cross-updating is very, very, very unlikely to be an issue.
: I really don't think these require new templates and a bunch of new-editor landmines. At most, there's a decent argument to be made for re-positioning the "you look familiar" template that already exists, maybe below the main character writeup (above feels like a bad layout choice, pushing all kinds of stuff down.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 02:11, 28 February 2024 (EST)

== Listings and accessories ==

When I was making the description for cannonball based on the Walmart listing, there was mention of a Gatling gun and hammer not shown in the stock images,and left them out.

If I run into this type of situation again, what do I do?[[User:Poliwag06|Poliwag06]] ([[User talk:Poliwag06|talk]]) 10:56, 7 March 2024 (EST)

== A few suggestions ==

Gallery pages should only include images that aren't easily accessed by going to the main page, to avoid cluttering. I guess this is not an issue now since the current gallery pages are fairly short.

There should be more dedication in listing alt-modes of characters. Maybe there should be a header or something. For example, if the Dreamwave version of [[Sunstorm (G1)#Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Sunstorm]] transforms into an F-16 jet, it should be listed in the beginning with a header for the sake of easy access to the said information.--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 13:59, 17 March 2024 (EDT)

== Will we get an article on The Masked Singer? ==

Will there be an article on TFWiki about The Masked Singer, specifically their recent "Transformers Night" episode (https://the-masked-singer.fandom.com/wiki/Transformers_Night)? --[[User:John Pannozzi|John Pannozzi]] ([[User talk:John Pannozzi|talk]]) 20:01, 12 April 2024 (EDT)

: Assuming it's a licensed appearance (I can't check the credits myself :C ), I can't think why it wouldn't be [[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]]) 21:15, 12 April 2024 (EDT)

:: It was indeed licensed. --[[User:John Pannozzi|John Pannozzi]] ([[User talk:John Pannozzi|talk]]) 22:30, 12 April 2024 (EDT)
:::Yes, as an official Hasbro-sanctioned piece of TF media, the episode does meet our requirements for inclusion. It just needs someone to write it up. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 23:22, 12 April 2024 (EDT)

== Franchise articles ==
So I was looking at the franchise pages to try and get an idea of what the standard is supposed to be for how they are written. Should all of them be updated to be more like the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)]] article? What was making me wonder this was that on the [[Transformers: Energon (franchise)]] article it had a section for "Homages" and one for "New characters" which I don't think any other franchise article has. --[[User:1levichurch|1levichurch]] ([[User talk:1levichurch||talk]]) 22:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

== AI upscaled images ==
With fresh offsite talks about the matter, I put forth we add an official policy against posting AI upscaled images of any kind to the wiki, owing to their subpar performance in "enhancing" the quality of images. [[User:McBaggins|McBaggins]] ([[User talk:McBaggins|talk]]) 23:52, 1 May 2024 (EDT)
:Agreed. It's literally faking information and presenting it as official. (Also often noticeably terrible.) Sometimes the best quality available of something sucks, but we simply have to deal. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 23:57, 1 May 2024 (EDT)
::100 percent agreed. It's called "artificial" for a reason. Plenty of details would be lost out through the upscaling, and several times errors on the wiki somehow became official through Hastak using the wiki for references (the whole [[Circular reporting]] thing). If we start allowing AI upscaled images, then we're likely to have things lost to the annals of time. Potato quality is better than lost quality[[User:Singularity|Singularity]] ([[User talk:Singularity|talk]]) 00:11, 2 May 2024 (EDT)
: Sure. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 00:43, 2 May 2024 (EDT)

== Ending addition of high-end statues ==
This is something I doubt other people have noticed, but I'm putting down a tent-peg on it: After having built the entries for dozens of high-end collectable TF statues in the last 2-3 years, from firms like Diamond Select, Imaginarium, Azure Sea, XM Studios, etc., and then seeing most of them either officially cancelled or never spoken of again with no reported purchases, I am going to stop adding such items here. If someone else feels like cataloguing them, great.

It really may not be possible for us to keep up with toy-like non-transforming merchandise (figurines and statues) the way we used to. There are at least two ''released'' series of G1 core cast micro-figurines with micro-comics and magnifying glasses, which would have been the rage of the fandom in 2005, that nobody ever got around to adding, and it feels like too much of a chore for me to start. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 10:35, 3 May 2024 (EDT)
: It's an unfortunate but very real thing that once you enter the world of licensed merch, we're ''gonna'' have big gaps. It's... a lot, on top of the "a lot" that is the regular TF toyline and fictional output today. I've said that the work involved in keeping up with all of TF's merch ought to be a full-time paying job, and I genuinely mean it. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 16:39, 3 May 2024 (EDT)

== Transformers Roleplaying Game releases on the front page and sidebar ==

The [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]] is getting pretty frequent releases of both sourcebooks and pre-written adventures, and it occurs to me that it might be a good idea to have it on the "current releases" section of the front page and/or the navigation sidebar. How would people feel about that? --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 15:49, 4 May 2024 (EDT)
: I think that makes a lot of sense, as long as we have people keeping up with the new releases to document them. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:51, 4 May 2024 (EDT)

==How we handle weapons' toy/merch sections==
Okay, so like... I'm not really convinced that what we've been doing is the best way to handle the weapon pages' toys/merch sections. Honestly, they end up looking... really shoddy. There's just tiny scraps of info, vast wads of whitespace, few to no links, the images are tons of different sizes. <br>
I'm thinking that instead of all this... maybe this is a place where a gallery is in order, just a chronological procession. Have the captions just say what lines/toys the weapons came with and link to the toys directly on the character page. It's not like there's much to say about any of these, why not let the toy listing on the character page say it? Why make people scroll through screens of mostly-emptiness, which I feel they're increasingly unlikely to do? I may do a sandbox if I'm feeling up to it. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 22:24, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
:[[User:M Sipher/Sandbox:WeaponPageToysSection]] - So... this, basically. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 22:39, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
:I'd be on board with that. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 22:34, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
:I like it. It would be far more compact than our current approach for, say, [[Fusion cannon#Toys]], while still getting the point across. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 11:13, 10 May 2024 (EDT)

==Proposal for Unproduced or Unreleased Template==
I don't think the Apocrypha template is particularly useful. It was created specifically for Alignment, but most of the things in it don't fit that criteria. Something like Unproduced or Unreleased Transformer media would be more self explanatory. [[User:WillR113|WillR113]] ([[User talk:WillR113|talk]]) 07:05, 11 May 2024 (EDT)

== Use of pictures from ebay, fan sites, etc ==

Is it appropriate to use pictures of toys from ebay, fan reviews, video review screenshots and the like? Under fair use and with source credit? Sometimes rarer items we don't have good pictures of on the wiki show up in these places. In particular I found a ebay seller with good images of EZ collection toys and and old Japanese review blog with images of Takara variants of HFTD/Autobot Alliance toys so that got me wondering. —[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 10:10, 12 May 2024 (EDT)
:Images from eBay and other fan sites have been and can continue to be used, giving the fullest source credit feasible. I don't think we've ever needed to rely on video review screenshots and would always prefer to have a "normal" still image instead whenever possible. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 11:02, 16 May 2024 (EDT)

== ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' “再構成版” エピソード視聴ガイド "Re-Configuration Version" aka "Re-Constructed Version" Episode Viewing Guide ==

We really need to document the "canon" Japanese viewing order for ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' & ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010'' originally included with the ''Pioneer'' Laserdisc booklets & later apparently revised by [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] (市川裕文) for the DVD BOX SET 2 Instruction Booklet as it would help clean-up the chronology on many wiki pages here. From what I've been able to gather this particular viewing order differs from both the US/Japan production orders, the US-Airing order and the Japanese-Airing order. So what exactly is the order of the episodes of these two series according to these documents? Does anyone own them and able to list the specific order in which the episodes appear in those LD/DVD "Instruction Booklets" word-for-word? As it stands, we've only mentioned that a "narrative viewing order" exists but do not have it listed anywhere. For further clarification, it is not the order in which the episodes appear on the Japanese DVDs. [[User:Astrobotix|Astrobotix]] ([[User talk:Astrobotix|talk]]) 01:09, 15 May 2024 (EDT)
:While this information would be valuable and is worth documenting, it's unlikely to result in us making any major changes to the way our information is structured. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 17:31, 16 May 2024 (EDT)
:Okay, having seen the booklets in question, it just lists the episodes in production order, continuity errors and all. So...absolutely no change, then. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 20:44, 17 May 2024 (EDT)

== Documenting MSRP? ==

Would it be worth documenting MSRP prices (in usd at least)? For the regular retail classes that's for the most part covered by the [[size class]] page, but we don't keep track of them for more specialty items like Masterpieces, multipacks, exclusives, one-off releases not in a normal size class, special lines like Missing Link, etc. It's something I find personally interesting and would've liked to know for older figures and someone in the future might want to know about today's releases. It can also offer some neat bits of info like how Premium Finish releases were generally one price point up compared to the figure's size or how the upcoming United Cliffjumper multipack is a whole $30 off what the individual figures would cost --[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 14:20, 21 May 2024 (EDT)
:I think this would be very interesting, particularly when you scroll down pages for G1 toys that got multiple reissues like the Seekers, Insecticons, and tape players. It's just that - like the Designer Notes and the proper insignias on each and every toy - it would take forever to add and would probably wind up being one super-dedicated person having to do most of the work. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 14:28, 21 May 2024 (EDT)
::I might try to do what I can, going back to recatalogue everything would definitely be a chore. But at the very least I strongly believe it's something we can and should implement for future toy entries. I've started a [[User:BluJayWarrior/Sandbox|MSRP Sandbox]] to try out a few formats, any feedback is appreciated. --[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 05:18, 23 May 2024 (EDT)
::Cleaned up the sandbox page. Anyone have anything to say about the format? Might try applying Style 1 to a few pages this weekend if no one makes any objections. [[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 12:58, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
:::Of those options I like Style 1 the best. As you already noted, the [[size class]] pages covers basically all normal U.S. retail from BW through Legacy, missing things like Platinum and MP. To find contemporary G1 prices, here are some good resources:
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20181125082555/https://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf84.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114081109/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf85.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114091052/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf86.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114090836/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf87.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114084922/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf88.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114081716/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf89.html
:::https://web.archive.org/web/20191114085830/http://pleasesavemerobots.com/vstp/vstptf90.html
:::https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/g1-original-retail-price-listing.1167895/
:::I tried looking for G2 MSRP but couldn't find anything as obvious. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 13:24, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
::::Thanks for the sources, gonna have to sort through that later. Planning to start with new ROTB characters since they're smaller pages and prices can still be found. I've decided to add prices for retail classes for reader convenience; not everyone will know to go to the size class page for them and its not linked often enough to make it reasonable they would. [[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 14:22, 24 May 2024 (EDT)

: I'd been working on a project like this a long time ago, had originally proposed adding this to the wiki, but then kinda stopped... mostly because near as I could tell, the MSRP in the 80s was something retailers could just make the hell up. The price ranges for any given toy were kinda all over the damn place, and the MSRP was something some retailers used to go "no really we're cheaper SEE?" then make up some price they supposedly "discounted" down from... you know, the thing that got Kay-Bee in legal-type troubles. I was increasingly unsure how to handle that wild price variance concisely on the wiki. In fact...
::https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PBE2i9vLE6fkr933GQbXosA1cxIqB3CkOSnzW0BMdwc/edit#gid=448439989
: Take a look-see. There's at least three different MSRP values for the standard Headmasters, never mind actual sticker prices. Like, I ''want'' to provide this kind of context, I really do, and it's pretty easy once we get to the unified price points of BW on... but for G1 and G2? Woof. That's going to take a bit of mulling. "Average" price maybe, but there's gonna be some Prices Georg here and there throwing shit off. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 16:35, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
::RE: The sandbox... I'm gonna have to vote against Style 1, because, as noted, price info is very likely going to get... cluttered, and the longer that parenthetical is, the worse it is. I'd REALLY like to keep that to just "size class/type (if not obvious) and release year". And don't forget Takara-release prices, which can be more flexible even within a size class... but at least those have been ''extensively'' documented. I think we need to talk about bit more about everything we'd need to cover and ''how'' before we go implementing anything, and get a few more people in on the discussion. (Sorry for all the add-ons, lightly scattered today.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 18:18, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
:::Fair enough on the old stuff since that gets convoluted, but the newer stuff is comparatively easier to do and I'd rather start sooner before some MSRP prices get harder to find (ROTB Autobots Unite subline prices seem to have disappeared already). Added the ROTB Airazor page I was gonna start with to the sandbox so you can see how the page might look as a whole. Since you object to Style 1 I added a Style 2 version too. --[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 18:38, 24 May 2024 (EDT)
:::: Assemble the data, sure, but I am going to say do ''not'' actually apply any of this to live articles. Again, there's barely been any time or discussion on a project that is... vast in scope, and we simply do not jump on stuff like this right away, because that means things will get not considered and then we have to re-do hundreds to thousands of pages... and we absolutely do ''not'' do it when there's a giant obvious gap (the first decade of the franchise) that still needs to be considered, as how we handle ''that'' will affect how we handle all the others, because we try and keep things consistent.
:::: Like, just off the top of my head, there's non-US-or-Japan markets to consider for just about everything normal-retail. Which makes me think we may want to look into a collapsible template, like with the toy designers and voice actors, to handle the other markets without overloading the bullet point sections, some of which are already a bit husky. There's the fact that Walmart and Target just dropped the prices on TF Deluxes in the US... but apparently, Hasbro didn't change their "MSRP"/cost at all. In fact a quick jump to Hasbro Pulse shows they're still charging $25 for a ''Legacy/Studio'' Deluxe, while I can pop to the local Target/Walmart and buy 'em at $20, so we gotta consider ranges just like with G1/G2. And again... ''I'm moderately convinced that "MSRP" in the USA was bullshit all along,'' so I don't know that it's the term we even want to use in the first place. Maybe "Retail price" would be better. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 00:17, 25 May 2024 (EDT)
:::::I think just documenting the MSRP, if we know it, is enough. No need to go down the rabbit hole of tracking down what individual retailers sell them at when they disregard the MSRP (which as, after all, only a suggested price). In my opinion, at least, it's little different from listing the cover prices of books - the only difference is that Hasbro doesn't print their suggested price directly on the box.
:::::Totally hear you on waiting to the pull the trigger until it's been properly discussed, though. Also, I prefer BluJay's Style 2 as well. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 03:46, 25 May 2024 (EDT)
:::::: Um, the problem is, again... I really don't think we HAVE any actual MSRPs outside of Takara's. What's been cataloged here are just "prices they were sold at", which isn't ''specifically'' a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price, the specific price suggested specifically by the manufacturer. Those we'd need a source for, and as I've pointed out, the handful of stated "MSRP"s we've seen for Hasbro stuff... well, someone was lying, likely multiple someones. For BW on we have a pretty strong ''inference'' of MSRP, but, well. And even that's not reliable... I just remembered that Walmart and Target were charging markedly different prices for the ''EarthSpark'' Tacticons, like, a $2 diff.
:::::: What I'm saying is, we might want to just not call it "MSRP" because of that (also, frankly I question how many people even recognize that acronym). And because of the wide variance in prices for older stuff, no, we don't need to list every price at every retailer (there were a billion retailers in the 80s... man, remember when actual competition in the market was a thing?), but we really OUGHT to account for the variance somehow, because it can be wide and ''full''. "''Original price''" might be best, since that's what we're actually reporting here, with something like "$2.99 - $4.99 (US) / ¥500 (Japan) <expand>". I'd rather do a range than a single-price "average" on old stuff, especially when we have so MUCH data on what these were sold at across the nation that we can see the trends and when a particularly high or low price is an outlier adn should not have been counted. "Modern" stuff we can certainly ignore, say, Kohl's's higher prices and just do the average probable-MSRP-if-those-actually-exist prices most places (all two of them) charge. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 17:10, 25 May 2024 (EDT)
::::Alright, I'll make a [[User:BluJayWarrior/MSRP Catalog|separate sub page]] to catalog prices for now while that gets sorted out
::::As Dark T said, I think prioritizing initial Hasbro MSRP is best as it is the "intended" price (this is what [https://brickset.com Brickset] does for Lego). It's a point of consistency since historically different retailers tend have slight variations on the price anyway (Target/Walmart sometimes being slightly lower, Kohls/BBTS being higher, general lag on reflecting the msrp price increases a few years ago, etc) and I don't think that whole range needs to be noted. Admittedly the current Target/Walmart prices drops are pretty unusual (a whole $5?!) but unless it becomes something more widespread I personally wouldn't consider it as a data point. Might be worth making a note of somewhere if anything, though I'm not sure where --[[User:BluJayWarrior|BluJayWarrior]] ([[User talk:BluJayWarrior|talk]]) 04:26, 25 May 2024 (EDT)

==Micronauts, etc.==
Why are we suddenly gaining detailed issue write-ups for so much of Micronauts, which contains no TF elements at all? Isn't that the point of the IDW Hasbroverse wiki? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 13:14, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
:Oh and look, now whole issues of M.A.S.K. written 7 years ago with no TF content whatsoever are being pasted from the Hasbroverse wiki. Is the other site going offline or something? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 14:26, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
::I don't think it was really our intention to formally unveil the project until we were further along, but some of us have been doing a fair bit of work towards creating a [https://gijoe.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page sister wiki for ''G.I. Joe''] where the [https://gijoe.miraheze.org/wiki/Comics#IDW_Publishing_3 out-of-scope IDW Joe coverage] has already been re-homed. The Joe crew hasn't made any calls about what do with non-Joe stuff to be clear (we're sort of preoccupied, there's so much Joe you guys) but I'm guessing the idea here is to align the rest with our [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive71#Energon Universe coverage|current approach]] to [[Energon Universe|Skybound's shared universe]] and sundown the IDW one? --[[User:AzimuthAcolyte|AzimuthAcolyte]] ([[User talk:AzimuthAcolyte|talk]]) 15:43, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
:::That is more or less the intention, yeah. The Hasbroverse wiki was built at a time where it was perhaps anticipated to be grander than it ended up being, and it wasn't certain how long it was going to run; with the end result being "not very", having this other vestigial site for what is ultimately not a lot of content just doesn't feel practical. The exception, of course, is pre-V5 Joe, which has ''always'' been the sticking point in discussions about moving Hasbroverse content here, both for the amount and for how little it has to do with the IDW Transformers line. Having a dedicated Joe wiki solves that problem and frees up the rest of the Hasbroverse stuff to be reintegrated. Plus, there's still new Joe material being released to this day; arguably having a complete and better curated site for the franchise as a whole that continues to be updated with new releases is more likely to drive traffic and get other people to contribute than it would be linking to a dead wiki for a long-ended comic line that's had the same featured articles for five years because no one cares to add anything to it anymore. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:59, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
::::It does look like a rough consensus was reached to do this back in 2021 ([[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Archive69#Reintegration_of_Hasbroverse_wiki_content|Archive 69]]), it was just never implemented. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 16:10, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
::Like half of MASK issues have something from Transformers in them. Picking and choosing which select issues to cover here is hair-splitting and obnoxious for readers. It's immensely better to just have all the information in one, easily-accessible spot and regard Hasbro Universe as a de facto spinoff of Transformers, much like Beastformers and Energon Universe are. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 17:10, 1 August 2024 (EDT)

==One spoilers==
I propose that information about this movie be withheld until it actually opens in its largest market next weekend. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 11:04, 14 September 2024 (EDT)
: Agreed. [[User:Locoman|Locoman]] ([[User talk:Locoman|talk]]) 11:08, 14 September 2024 (EDT)

==Transformers One and the conversation we've all been waiting for==

On September 12th, Lorenzo di Bonaventura [https://comicbook.com/movies/news/is-transformers-one-a-prequel-optimus-prime-origin-story-exclusive/ clarified the relationship] between ''Transformers One'' and the live-action ''Transformers'' films, describing them as "two universes" that will be "separate". For some, this kind of explicit confirmation may come as a relief after years of wishy-washy answers regarding ''Bumblebee'' and ''Rise of the Beasts'', but it also leaves us with questions on how to best handle ''One''-related information going forward. Around 2015, we adopted a unique layout we applied to all the movie characters, where we organized their movie appearances at the top of the page, regardless of chronological order of release (see "[[Optimus Prime (Movie)#Movies]]"). Obviously, this leads to some questions regarding how we should handle our ''One'' coverage going forward.

The way I see it, we have three options:

* '''Keep the page format as is, and keep''' '''''One''''' '''up with the rest of the movies''': For obvious reasons I think this is probably our weakest possible solution; it's pretty clear at this point that our current solution for classifying the films is not really sustainable, and mashing them all together under a single loosely-affiliated umbrella is already confusing and frustrating people who aren't intimately acquainted with the mechanics of the wiki.

* '''Reorganize movie character pages so that we acknowledge the live-action films and''' '''''One''''' '''as separate continuities within one continuity family, similar to how our G1 pages cover Sunbow, Marvel, JG1, IDW, etc.''': Historically speaking, this is probably the safest option, but from what I understand there is very little "connective tissue"—visually, character-wise, plot-beats—between the live-action films and ''One'' beyond the inertia of "they were both made by Paramount". As some people have discussed in the past, this could lead to a full or partial reformat of our movie character coverage to more clearly reflect the ambiguous "prequel" status of ''Bumblebee'' and ''Rise of the Beasts'', but this may be a conversation for another time.

* '''Separate''' '''''One''''' '''as an entirely new continuity family and split out the relevant information so we have pages for "Optimus Prime (One)", "Megatron (One)", etc.''' Probably the most radical proposal, but this is honestly where I'm at right now: from what I understand the movie is a pretty radical departure from everything that's gone before, with entirely new interpretations of old ''Transformers'' lore—I'd classify it as the start of a new "franchise" in the same way that we distinguish ''Earthspark'' and ''Cyberverse'' despite them both clearly drawing on the same well of post-Aligned lore, and these days "new franchise" is generally synonymous with "new continuity family" for the ease of wiki bookkeeping.

We would appreciate hearing your thoughts on the matter! '''As the film is not out yet in all regions please refrain from posting spoilers here'''. [[User:Locoman|Locoman]] ([[User talk:Locoman|talk]]) 08:56, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

:I could see option 3 being the way we go, but what holds me back from that is that beyond just Paramount, Spielberg and Bay are still executive producers on the film. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 09:39, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

::I think we should put them on the Earthspark Continuity pages to satisfy no-one /j - but yeah, the film is drawing from the same vaguely Binder Of Revelation backstory as everything else for the last 10 years, and unless they have been hiding The Fallen twisting D-16 to evil or the twist that the Creators were the Quintessons all along, One feels pretty decoupled from the rest of the movies. The big issue I see with splitting out fully is that people wondering why we do not do the same for Bumblebee/ROTB, but that more easily passes a "vibe check" as being "Movie-adjacent" and belonging on the same page as the Bay 5-dom than One so far. Agree that trying to put them directly alongside the other movies as a prequel feels both unwieldy and confusing. [[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]]) 09:41, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

:I vote for '''option 3''', I think creating separate pages is the way to go. [[User:MrRald|MrRald]] ([[User talk:MrRald|talk]]) 09:54, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
::I vote for '''option 2'''. To me the movie is different enough to be a separate universe but not an entirely different continuity. Josh Cooley himself on April 18 when asked whether the film is a fresh start, a prequel to the live-action films, or its own thing, replied with: "yes to all of the above" https://comicbook.com/movies/news/transformers-one-director-confirms-new-movies-canon-status. (And having seen the movie I can confirm those connections to the live-action series do exist). [[User:Grievous Prime|Grievous Prime]] ([[User talk:Grievous Prime|talk]]) 10:05, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

:I vote for '''option 3'''. One has always felt very different to the previous live action movies so I feel it should get its own dedicated pages. As for BB and ROTB, there is "connective tissue" to the Bayverse movies so I feel they can stay on the pre-existing movie pages. [[User:PublicCrown|PublicCrown]] ([[User talk:PublicCrown|talk]]) 10:25, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:Having viewed the film at an advance screening, I think there are easily enough references and homages to previous films that '''option two''' makes the most sense. - [[User:Archforce|Archforce]] ([[User talk:Archforce|talk]]) 10:45, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

::I'm favorable for the '''3rd option''', it is still produced under Paramount & there are some producers attached to the project that were on previous movies, but my stance is that we should judge based on the final product & having seen the movie, it doesn't try to be in line to what came before (there are some similarities in design & names, but it stops there since every popular TF stories has influence over the next ones), helped by the new team of writers & creatives. If we can treat each new cartoon as its own entity (even tho in recent years they are streamlined in some areas), I think we can do the same for the recent movies that have more contradictory elements to the Bayverse –[[User:MahXyme|MahXyme/MahXymal]] ([[User talk:MahXyme|talk]]) 10:49, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:'''<nowiki>#3</nowiki>''' is the cleanest option to me. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 11:32, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

:I think from a practical perspective, '''#3''' is the only real option. Looking at the loose guidelines for a new family on our [[continuity family]] page:
:*"a fresh continuity" — Yep, even Lorenzo's acknowledged this. Even if we questioned that, there's stuff like the AllSpark being absent (with the Matrix pretty much taking exactly the role the AllSpark would have), Megatronus being a good guy, and Sentinel's role being entirely irreconcilable with Dark of the Moon.
:*"within a separate franchise" — Yep. New franchise, and the marketing hasn't done anything to allude to the live-action films specifically.
:*"significantly different in cast, theme, style, etc." — This is the big sticking point for me. One makes no attempt to align with the visual style or characterisations of the live-action films. The sole real connective point is B-127 (name from ''Bumblebee'', he has the big cheeks and antenna of the movie guy, and his talking a lot is clearly a meta-gag about him losing his voice), but even he's characterised completely differently, as the "comedy crazy guy" who's a peer to Optimus and co instead of the cool-but-rude big brother figure from Bay/Bee/Beasts.
:I'm sympathetic to the Paramount/Bay/Spielberg/Di Bonaventura connective tissue, but my big rebuttal there is that we don't consider ''EarthSpark'' to be Aligned because Nicole Dubuc is the showrunner. Ultimately, if we hadn't had pre-release producer statements (now contradicted) calling it a prequel to the other movies, there's absolutely no way this would be in question — we'd already have it as a separate continuity family. And from a wiki organisation standpoint I don't think there's any way to, say, write up Sentinel Prime's opening paragraph in a way that adequately covers both the DOTM and One characters without genericising it to the point of uselessness. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 12:33, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
::Yeah, I think '''#3''' is straightforward and likely the approach we'd take if we were presented with the film, as a story, with zero context on the studio releasing it or EPs involved or whatever. I also think there's a high likelihood that the next live-action film will have Elita appear and be like "hey Optimus remember when we were in Transformers One?" and we'll all groan and have to reconsider, but until then, I think the real-world context is basically the only thing separating One from just being the next Broadly Aligned-y New Thing like Cyberverse and EarthSpark before it, which we consistently split out for organisation reasons. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 13:45, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:Toss me in for '''Option 3''' of an entirely new continuity given how ''different'' the story details has been laid out when compared to the original 2007 film-verse and then later what's set by ''Bumblebee''. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] ([[User talk:Lonegamer78|talk]]) 14:38, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:Voting for '''option #2'''. While we would still have the outlier of TF:TAM 86 being a theatrically released movie in the G1 continuity family, I see no reason why "movie continuity family" would not only include transmedia spinoffs from feature films (''Reign of Starscream'', toy redeco Tech Specs, etc. etc.) but also feature films which are belonging different timelines and story universes. This would also free us from having to reconcile Movie 'Bee's history -- did he come to Earth in the 1940s or the 1980s? -- and put to bed *that* long running argument about whether the Bay-directed films were the same universe as BB and RotB or not -- now they don't have to be! [[User:Banpei the Mini-Con|Banpei the Mini-Con]] ([[User talk:Banpei the Mini-Con|talk]]) 14:58, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:Having seen the movie, I think '''#3''' is our cleanest option. Between the Lorenzo interview and, without going into spoilers, the numerous discrepencies there are, I don't think we can get away with suiting it out ala G1. The time may come when we do that for Bumblebee onwards but as far as One goes, I say we treat it as a new continuity. [[User:Ezim93|Ezim93]] ([[User talk:Ezim93|talk]]) 19:53, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:'''#3'''. #2 was close for me, but TFOne (having seen the movie) is so artistically different from the live action movies, it feels pointless to keep it on the same page like G1/IDW. Ironically, we could give Bayverse/BB&ROTB the G1/IDW treatment. [[User:Boingus|--Boingus]] ([[User talk:Boingus|talk]]) 23:23, 15 September 2024 (EDT)
:I think 3 is where I'm leaning after seeing the film. Keeping this as "movie continuity" simply because it was released theatrically doesn't make sense to me. We wouldn't do that with a new comic or show because it was the same medium, why do it for a movie just because of that? Yes There is some CNA here to the live action films, but it could be argued it has just as much pulled from G1. One is it's own thing in the end. Trying to fit it into the live action movie box just doesn't feel right in this case.--[[User:ParadoxFactor|ParadoxFactor]] ([[User talk:ParadoxFactor|talk]]) 05:47, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
:I vote for '''Option 3''' for all the reasons previously mentioned as well as size concerns. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 09:29, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
:'''Option 3''', I believe the movie was clearly made with a new continuity in mind.-[[User:TitaniumToughGuy|TitaniumToughGuy]] ([[User talk:TitaniumToughGuy|talk]]) 09:38, 16 September 2024 (EDT)

===CHECKPOINT (2024/09/16)===
*Votes for Option 1: 0
*Votes for Option 2: 3 (GrievousPrime, Archforce, Banpei the Mini-Con)
*Votes for Option 3: 15 (Locoman, AkibaSilver, MrRald, PublicCrown, MahXyme, Saix, Broadside, Jalaguy, Lonegamer, Ezim93, Boingus, ParadoxFactor, Khajidha, TitaniumToughGuy, CyberLink420)
As it stands, current consensus is pretty overwhelmingly in favor of Option 3 by a ratio of 5:1. I know it's only been a day, but barring a sudden swell of support for #2, it might be prudent to start switching everything over. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 10:20, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
: I'm reluctant to make actual changes until the movie hits wide release and the general public can make informed input. Give it a few more days. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 10:40, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
::::This. Let people... SEE the movie before we make important decisions. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 19:49, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
::I've said ever since Keegan Michael Key tweeted as much that One should be treated as a separate continuity. '''Option 3''' for sure. {{unsigned|jmcdavid}}
:'''Option 3'''. I've seen the movie and other users have covered why that seems like the best choice. It feels as different from the previous movies as Prime is from Animated, or Earthspark from Sunbow (which, despite directly homaging/referencing Sunbow, Earthspark is considered separate from). [[User:Ashendawn|Ashendawn]] ([[User talk:Ashendawn|talk]]) 18:01, 16 September 2024 (EDT)
:I vote '''Option 2'''. There seems to be a large focus on whether or not the film fits in continuity with the prior films, but considering how little they fit with each other that feels irrelevant to me. The creators have been rather unclear whether this film should be considered separate from the ongoing live-action series in terms of production, just in terms of universe. If we had a sense this was the springboard for an entirely separate animated film series I'd say Option 3, but it feels unwarranted at this time. [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 20:29, 16 September 2024 (EDT)

Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook

2024-08-24T02:52:29Z

Indridcold13:

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'''''Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook''''' is a guide to the first season of ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]''. Like [[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|some older reference books]], the book takes the form of an in-universe series of diaries written by various members of the Malto family, primarily [[Mo Malto|Mo]] and her father [[Alex Malto|Alex]].

==Contents==
In chapter-by-chapter format, the book covers:

{{collist|3|
* Welcome to [[Witwicky (town)|Witwicky]], by [[Mo Malto]]
* A Brief History of [[Transformer]]s Robots, by [[Alex Malto]]
* Malto Family Farm, by Mo
* [[Dot Malto|Dorothy "Dot" Malto]], by Alex Malto
* Alex Malto, by Robby Malto
* [[Robby Malto]], by Mo Malto
* Mo Malto, by Mo Malto
* [[Secret Legacy, Part 1|The Mysterious Cavern]], by Mo Malto
* The [[Emberstone]], by Alex Malto
* [[Secret Legacy, Part 1|Meet the Terrans]], by Mo Malto
* [[Cyber-sleeve]]s, by Alex Malto
* [[Twitch]], by Robby and Mo Malto
* [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], by Mo Malto
* [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]], by Alex Malto
* [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]], by Alex Malto
* [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]], by Alex Malto
* [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]], by Alex Malto
* [[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]], by Alex Malto
* [[Teletraan-1 (ES)|Teletraan-1]], by Alex Malto
* [[G.H.O.S.T.]], by Dot Malto
* [[Mandroid|Dr. "Mandroid" Meridian]]
* [[Arachnamech]]s
* [[Secret Legacy, Part 2|More about Mandroid]], by Mo Malto
* [[Friends and Family|Witwicky School]], by Mo Malto
* [[Friends and Family|Water Power]], by Mo Malto
* [[Cybertronian language|Cybertronian writing]], by Mo Malto
* [[Age of Evolution, Part 1|Three More Terrans!]] by Mo Malto
* [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]], by Mo Malto
* [[Nightshade (ES)|Nightshade]], by Mo Malto
* [[Jawbreaker (ES)|Jawbreaker]], by Mo Malto
* [[Hashtag: Oops|Barn Remodel]], by Mo Malto
* [[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]], by Alex Malto
* [[Starscream (ES)|Starscream]], by Alex Malto
* [[Soundwave (ES)|Soundwave]], by Alex Malto
* [[Mini-Cassette]] Bots, by Alex Malto
* [[Swindle (ES)|Swindle]] & [[Hardtop (ES)|Hardtop]], by Alex Malto
* [[Nova Storm (ES)|Nova Storm]] & [[Skywarp (ES)|Skywarp]], by Alex Malto
* [[Tarantulas (ES)|Tarantulas]], by Alex Malto
* [[Security Protocols|Speed Trap]], by Alex Malto
* Danger in the Dugout, by Mo Malto}}

==Notes==
* Parts of the book appear to have been written using pre-finalized reference material from earlier in ''Earthspark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s development—most notably, the entry for [[Teletraan-1 (ES)|Teletraan-1]] claims that the Autobots came to Earth aboard the ''Ark'' in search of the [[AllSpark]], whereas the truncated backstory seen in "[[Secret Legacy, Part 1]]" showed both sides travelling to Earth via [[Space bridge|spacebridge]].
* The book states that Optimus was the one to jettison the AllSpark off Cybertron, where it wound up on Earth by accident; however, in the cartoon, it was the Decepticons who removed the AllSpark from the planet as recounted by Megatron in "[[Warzone]]".
* Nightshade's profile notes that they identify as "Terran" rather than as any specific gender, an older concept for the character that was eventually dropped in favour of making them explicitly nonbinary.
* Megatron's profile expands on the brief story he told Jawbreaker in "[[Outtakes]]" regarding his decision to scan an Earth alternate mode; it was to rescue Dot and her squadron from the airborne [[Astrotrain (ES)|Astrotrain]].

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[[Category:Reference texts]]

Talk:Transformers One (film)

2024-04-20T11:36:09Z

Indridcold13:

Just putting it out there - the caption theme for this page HAS to be quotes from the 2007 movie, right? Bring us full circle? --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 21:09, 27 April 2023 (EDT)
:For once, I think TFTM would be an appropriate theme. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 22:17, 27 April 2023 (EDT)
::We already do that on the '07 page. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 23:30, 27 April 2023 (EDT)
:Some sort of prequel film - Revenge of the Sith, maybe, if a third Star Wars movie isn't pushing it. But we've only just gotten a cast and a reminder that this is still happening, it's too early to make a real call. [[User:BattleBlade|BattleBlade]] ([[User talk:BattleBlade|talk]]) 03:24, 28 April 2023 (EDT)
::I have an idea, captions from ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''. Considering that this movie is getting the same treatment for the cast as that movie did. Energizier 02:25, 3 July 2023 (EDT)

==Split characters?==
Just based on the trailer that just dropped, this film's aesthetic and characterisations are radically different from the two live action movie continuities, so should the characters be considered separate and given new pages (example; Optimus Prime (One), Sentinel Prime (One), etc) rather than share them with the already established film character pages? --[[User:Prime Temple|Prime Temple]] ([[User talk:Prime Temple|talk]]) 22:23, 20 April 2023 (EDT)
:No. The difference in characterisations is probably intentional as part of it being a prequel, with them changing dramatically over time. That and the art style do not overwrite the fact that the film is being treated by official sources as a prequel to the already existing films. We can note where details may not line up but unless the creators say otherwise they're considered the same characters here. [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 07:36, 20 April 2024 (EDT)

Nicole Dubuc

2024-04-03T17:39:02Z

Indridcold13: Added short story mention

[[File:Nicole Dubuc WGA Award.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2]]
'''Nicole Dubuc''' (born [[November 6]], [[1978]]) is a television writer. She started out as a child actor, appearing in the sitcom ''{{w|Major Dad}}'' as Robin, one of the kids. After graduating from Yale, she began a career in children's animated television, writing a number of episodes for ''Kim Possible''. She has since written scripts for shows such as ''W.I.T.C.H.'', ''Todd World'', ''Jackie Chan Adventures'', and ''Finley the Fire Engine''. She served as story editor for season 2 of ''My Friends Tigger & Pooh'', and is currently a trustee for the Animation Guild. As well as writing scripts (and theme song lyrics) for ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'', she co-developed the series with [[Jeff Kline]] and [[Brian Hohlfeld]] and was story editor. She went on to create and executive produce the show's sequel series ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy]]'', and later served as an executive producer on ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]''.

==Scripts==
===''Transformers: Prime''===
* "[[Darkness Rising, Part 2]]"
* "[[Deus ex Machina]]"
* "[[Out of His Head]]"
* "[[Metal Attraction]]"
* "[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]" (with [[Duane Capizzi]])
* "[[Orion Pax, Part 1]]"
* "[[Operation Bumblebee, Part 2]]"

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
{{collist|2|
*"[[Family of Heroes]]"
*"[[Under Pressure]]"
*"[[Walk on the Wild Side]]"
*"[[Shake Up]]"
*"[[It's a Bot Time]]"
*"[[A Virtual Disaster]]"
*"[[Buddy System]]"
*"[[Changes]]"
*"[[Double Villainy]]"
*"[[Land Before Prime (episode)|Land Before Prime]]"
*"[[Unfinished Business]]"
*"[[I Have Heard the Robots Singing]]"
*"[[Today and Forever]]"
*"[[New Normal]]"
*"[[Arrivals]]"
*"[[Enemy of My Enemy (RB)|Enemy of My Enemy]]"
*"[[Upgrades]]"
}}

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise''===
* "[[More than Meets the Eye (RID)|More than Meets the Eye]]" (story, with [[Steven Melching]])

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy''===
*"[[Recruits Part I]]"
*"[[Recruits Part II]]"
*"[[All Washed Up]]"
*"[[Metal Munchers]]"

===''Transformers: EarthSpark''===
''All episodes co-written with [[Dale Malinowski]]''
*"[[Secret Legacy, Part 1]]"
*"[[Secret Legacy, Part 2]]"
*"[[Age of Evolution, Part 1]]"
*"[[Age of Evolution, Part 2]]"
*"[[Home, Part 1]]" (with [[Mae Catt]])
*"[[Home, Part 2]]" (with Mae Catt)

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (All episodes except [[Uninvited Guest]])<ref>Dubuc recorded Bumblebee's speech, which would then be replaced with sound effects in the finished episodes.</ref>
*[[CAT]]
*[[Mrs. Luskey]]

===''Transformers: EarthSpark''===
*[[Skywarp (ES)|Skywarp]]
*[[Nova Storm (ES)|Nova Storm]]

==Convention appearances==
* [[BotCon 2013]]
* [[BotCon 2014]]

==Notes==
* Having [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] complain "I needed that!" originated in Dubuc's scripts.
* In 2024 she contributed a ''Rescue Bots'' short story entitled ''Past's Present'' to a fanzine published by TurboFox Zines.<ref>https://www.allspark.com/rescue-bots-re-roll-to-the-rescue-in-new-fanzine-with-short-story-by-nicole-dubuc/</ref>

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

==External links==
*[https://twitter.com/NicoleDubuc Nicole Dubuc's Twitter]
*{{w|Nicole Dubuc|Nicole Dubuc on Wikipedia}}

===Interviews===
*August 2021—[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofz6mCIxVks&t=3251 TFNation] (''Rescue Bots'', with [[Brian Hohlfeld]], [[Jeff Kline]], and [[Greg Johnson]])
*August 2021—[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6tvD6NyzY&t=14459s TFNation] (''Prime'', with [[Jeff Kline]], [[Marsha Griffin]], [[Joseph Kuhr]], [[Steven Melching]], and [[Duane Capizzi]])

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[[Category:English voice actors]]
[[Category:Hasbro Studios]]
[[Category:Story editors]]
[[Category:Writers]]

User:Indridcold13/WIP

2023-07-21T01:46:33Z

Indridcold13: In progress

[[File:MLP-Deck-Building-Game-Cover.jpg|thumb|300px|]] The '''My Little Pony: Adventures in Equestria Deck-Building Game''' is a card-based game released by [[Renegade Game Studios]] in [[2022]] based on the [[My Little Pony]] franchise. In [[2023]] an expansion titled '''Collision Course''' is scheduled to be released based on the crossover miniseries ''[[My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise!|Friendship in Disguise!]]'' and ''[[My Little Pony/Transformers: The Magic of Cybertron|The Magic of Cybertron]]''.

==Gameplay==
Players take on the role of a [[Transformer]] and explore a "Matrix" of hidden cards, which can then be bought or, if they are an Adversary, battled once turned face up. Each player begins the game with a set of ten simple cards, drawing a hand of five of them to use each turn, but this deck can be bolstered with the ones bought from the Matrix – the titular "deck-building" aspect. Most cards provide Power (used to buy or battle other cards) and/or Move (used to move and search the Matrix) when played, and can also provide a variety of extra abilities or combat effects.

Multiple different gameplay modes are available: a single faction's base game allows for either cooperative or competitive play (with the latter justified as a "friendly competition" between teammates), but combining both base games makes [[Autobot]] vs. [[Decepticon]] team gameplay possible, and expansion packs add yet more options, including a "One vs. Many" mode. Thus far, each base game or expansion has been accompanied by a matching "Bonus Pack" available only direct from Renegade Game Studios, which adds a small number of extra cards to the game.

===Card types===
"Main deck" cards come in a variety of types, which determine how a player can use and interact with them.
*'''Starter''' – These cards make up your starting ten-card deck, and typically provide limited utility compared to others. Once they've started buying better cards, a player will likely want to "destroy" their Starters when possible to improve their deck.
*'''Basic''' – This term is used to denote cards that are stored publicly on the table rather than being hidden within the Matrix, including Damage cards that are applied to players during attacks, and Roll Out!/Rise Up!/Reinforcement cards that can be bought by players at any time.
*'''Robot''' – These cards represent Autobot and Decepticon "NPCs" found within the Matrix. A Robot of the same faction as you can be bought, adding them to your deck, while a Robot who is your Adversary can be battled, which will usually score you an immediate Victory Point bonus and send them to your Vault to score further at the end of the game. If an Adversary Robot is revealed on your current space, it will trigger an "Ambush" against you, as will entering a space with a revealed Adversary.
*'''Boss''' – If anyone is playing as Autobots, Decepticon Bosses will be included in a game, and ''vice versa''. Boss characters come in levels of I, II and III, and one of each will be seeded through the main deck at certain points (Level I near the top of the deck, Level II near the middle, etc.). Revealing a boss character in the Matrix will trigger a "Reveal Attack" against all players, and to defeat them a "Confrontation" must be triggered, which will potentially see multiple players contributing cards to defeat them. Defeating all three bosses will trigger the immediate end of a Solo, Cooperative or Competitive game.
*'''Ally''' – These represent individuals or equipment that can aid the player, and are notable for staying on the table between turns, providing an ongoing or start-of-turn benefit to the player for as long as they remain there. Earlier sets largely focused on humans and their technology, but later releases have included alien characters and even faction-neutral Transformers.
*'''Maneuver''' – Representing particular combat skills, these cards generally have useful battle effects once bought for your deck.
*'''Technology''' – Representing a variety of equipment, these cards can provide useful abilities once in your deck, but typically don't generate Move for you.
*'''Relic''' – Relics are the most expensive cards to buy, but provide very beneficial abilities once they are in your deck. Typically, Relics can also be voluntarily placed in your "Vault", which removes it from your deck, but allows you to score Victory Points for it at the end of the game.
*'''Site''' – These cards cannot be bought, and once revealed instead serve as a special location within the Matrix, with some kind of unique benefit that you can activate while visiting it.
*'''Cooperative Scheme''' – Included in the deck for Cooperative games, these cards cause some undesirable change in gameplay once revealed, but can be "thwarted" with effort from players.
*'''Decepticon Scheme/Autobot Initiative''' – Faction schemes/initiatives are similar to Cooperative Schemes, but are not exclusive to Co-op games, serving instead to provide "enemy action" in games where players are either all Autobots or all Decepticons.
*'''Polity''' - Similar in mechanic to Sites but added in like Bosses, players can take command of a polity for their faction to gain beneficial effects and Victory Points at the end of the game.
*'''Ruin''' - Cards similar to sites, they are placed on the board after finishing a battle and have harmful effects when moved onto. If all 10 ruins are on the board at once the game ends, they can be cleared and provide rewards for doing so.
*'''Mission'''- Secret goals of adversary players that give a Victory Point bonus when fulfilled, and subtract Victory Points if left in play by the end of the game.

==Releases==
===Core Set game===
The original Core Set release introduces Autobots as playable characters, and includes three modes of play: Solo, Cooperative and Competitive.

'''Playable characters'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]}}

'''Starter'''
{{columnlist|4|*Courage × 30
*Firepower × 5
*Fix × 5
*Patrol × 5
*Reserves × 5}}

'''Basic'''
{{columnlist|4|*Roll Out! × 16
*Damage × 20}}

'''Decepticon Boss'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (Level I)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (Level I)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (Level II)
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (Level II)
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (Level III)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (Level III)}}

'''Robot - Autobot'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]}}

'''Robot - Decepticon'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]]
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]
*[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]]
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (Bonus Pack)}}

'''Ally'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Kyle Pennington]]
*Military Airstrike
*Military Transport
*[[Sparkplug Witwicky]]
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]
*[[Verity Carlo]]}}

'''Relic'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (also Robot)
*[[Matrix of Leadership]]
*[[Phase shifter|Phase Shifter]]
*[[Polarity gauntlet|Polarity Gauntlet]]
*[[Resonance Blaster]]
*[[Tox-En]]}}

'''Maneuver'''
{{columnlist|4|*Charge × 2
*Dodge × 2
*Helping Hand × 2
*Heroic Effort × 2
*Jump × 2
*More than Meets the Eye × 2
*Quick Change × 2
*Recon × 2}}

'''Technology'''
{{columnlist|4|*Dropship × 2
*Energon Drill × 2
*[[Sword|Energy Swords]] × 2
*[[Force field|Force Dome]] × 2
*[[Galactic Positioning System]] × 2
*[[GroundBridge|Ground Bridge]] × 2
*Repair Bay × 2
*[[Teletraan I|Teletraan 1]] × 2}}

'''Site'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Arctic]]
*Autobot Base
*City
*Desert
*Energon Mine - Small
*Energon Mine - Large
*Military Base}}

'''Decepticon Scheme'''
{{columnlist|4|*All-Out Assault
*Divided Loyalties
*Hostage Crisis
*Magnetized Core
*[[Space bridge|Space Bridge]] to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]}}

'''Cooperative Scheme'''
{{columnlist|4|*Energon Embargo
*Mass Extermination
*Orbital Laser
*Rising Darkness
*Stolen Power}}

===''A Rising Darkness'' game===
''A Rising Darkness'' is a matching Decepticon-themed counterpart to the Core Set, and by itself includes the same game modes. When both games are combined, Team vs. Team gameplay becomes available, allowing Autobot and Decepticon players to compete in teams of one or two. The corresponding Bonus Pack includes the game's first playable [[Triple Changer]], [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]].

'''Playable characters'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]}}

'''Starter'''
{{columnlist|4|*Wrath × 30
*Firepower × 5
*Fix × 5
*Hunt × 5
*Reserves × 5}}

'''Basic'''
{{columnlist|4|*Rise Up! × 16
*Damage × 15
*Damage - Short Circuit × 5}}

'''Autobot Boss'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (Level I)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (Level I)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (Level II)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (Level II)
*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (Level III)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (Level III)}}

'''Robot - Autobot'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]
*[[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]}}

'''Robot - Decepticon'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]]
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]}}

'''Ally'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Doctor Arkeville]]
*[[Facsimile construct|Facsimile Constructs]]
*[[Marissa Faireborn]]
*[[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]]
*[[Shawn Berger]]
*The [[Machination]]}}

'''Relic'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Apex Armor (G1)|Apex Armor]]
*[[Enigma of Combination]]
*[[Forge of Solus Prime]]
*[[Pearl of Bahoudin]]
*[[Spark extractor|Spark Extractor]]
*[[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]}}

'''Maneuver'''
{{columnlist|4|*Change of Plans × 2
*Decepticons, Attack! × 2
*Evade × 2
*[[Size changing|Mass Displacement]] × 2
*Strafe × 2
*This Isn't Over × 2
*To Punish and Enslave × 2
*Wingman × 2}}

'''Technology'''
{{columnlist|4|*Chameleon Mesh × 2
*Guided Missile × 2
*[[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] × 2
*[[Mirror response mode|Mirror Response Mode]] × 2
*[[Plasma-density charge|Plasma Density Charges]] × 2
*Power Up × 2
*[[Power chip rectifier|Rectifier]] Machine × 2
*Spacebridge × 2}}

'''Site'''
{{columnlist|4|*Abandoned Energon Mine
*Construction Site
*Decepticon Command Bunker
*[[Section Sabine|Lunar Dome]]
*[[Ore-13]] Refinery
*Power Plant
*Weapons Facility}}

'''Autobot Initiative'''
{{columnlist|4|*Let's Even the Odds
*Not So Fast!
*Robots in Disguise
*Running on Empty
*[[Skywatch]] Alliance
*This Time We Hit Back
*[[Tyrest Accord]] Violation}}

===''Infiltration Protocol'' expansion===
This expansion pack requires at least one of the two base games to play, and adds a variety of new cards and playable characters, as well as two new gameplay modes. One vs. Many pits a single, overpowered player against a team of two or three, while Infiltration Phase mode adds a series of objectives that teams must complete in order while dealing with changing constraints.

'''Playable characters'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (Bonus Pack)
}}

'''Basic'''
{{columnlist|4|*Damage - T-Cog Jam × 5}}

'''Boss'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (Level I Autobot)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (Level II Autobot)
*[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] (Level III Autobot)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (Level I Decepticon)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (Level II Decepticon)
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (Level III Decepticon)
*[[Black Shadow (G1)|Black Shadow]] (Level III Decepticon Phase-Sixer)
*[[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] (Level III Decepticon Phase-Sixer, Bonus Pack)
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] (Level III Decepticon Phase-Sixer)}}

'''Robot - Autobot'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Cloudburst]]
*[[Rack'n'Ruin (G1)|Rack 'n' Ruin]]
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]]
*[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]]
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]]}}

'''Robot - Decepticon'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]
*[[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]]
*[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]}}

'''Ally'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Doubledealer]] (also Robot)
*[[Garnak]]
*Local Resistance Fighters
*[[Mayhem Attack Squad|Mayhem]]
*[[Reaper]]s}}

'''Relic'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Triptych Mask|Onyx Triptych]]
*[[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]]}}

'''Maneuver'''
{{columnlist|4|*Killshot × 2
*[[Orbital jump|Orbital Bounce]] × 2}}

'''Technology'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Electric cannon|High-Voltage Electric Cannon]] × 2
*[[Pretender]] Shell × 2}}

'''Site'''
{{columnlist|4|*Energy Stockpile
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (also Boss)
*[[Infiltration protocol|Siege Armature]] (also Boss)
*Tunnel Network
*[[Ark-19|Underwater Base]]}}

'''Initiative/Scheme'''
{{columnlist|4|*Wreck and Rule! (Autobot Initiative)
*Conflagration (Decepticon Scheme)
*[[Alpha-Scenario]] (Cooperative Scheme)
*[[Garrus-9]] Prison Break (Scheme, also Boss, Bonus Pack)}}

===''Dawn of the Dinobots'' expansion===
A second expansion pack adds the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], as well as the game's first playable [[Combiner]].

'''Playable characters'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]
*[[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (Bonus Pack)
}}

'''Starter'''
{{columnlist|4|*Wrath [[Bonecrusher (G1)| Bonecrusher]]
*Wrath [[Mixmaster (G1)| Mixmaster]]
*Wrath [[Scrapper (G1)| Scrapper]]
*Wrath [[Hook (G1)| Hook]]
*Warth [[Long Haul (G1)| Long Haul]]
*Wrath [[Scavenger (G1)| Scavenger]]}}

'''Basic'''
{{columnlist|4|*Damage - Stasis Lock × 5}}

'''Boss'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Slash (POTP)|Slash]] (Level I Autobot)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (Level II Autobot)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (Level III Autobot)
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] (Level III Autobot, Bonus Pack)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (Level I Decepticon)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (Level II Decepticon)
*[[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] (Level III Decepticon)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (Level III Decepticon, Bonus Pack)}}

'''Robot - Autobot'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Catilla (G1)|Catilla]]
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]
*[[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]
*[[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]}}

'''Robot - Decepticon'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]]
*[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]]
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
*[[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]]
*[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]]
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]}}

'''Ally'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Ammonite]]s
*[[Carly|Carly Witwicky]]
*[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]]
*[[Insecticon clone|Insecticon Clones]]}}

'''Relic'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Ore-1]]
*[[Liegian Darts]]}}

'''Maneuver'''
{{columnlist|4|*Combine! × 2
*Death From Above × 2
*Logic Puzzle × 2
*Me Smash Brains × 2}}

'''Technology'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Circuit speeder|Circuit Speeders]] × 2
*[[Kronosphere]] × 2
*[[Sonic sword|Sonic Sword]] × 2
*[[Transformation cog|T-Cog]] Device × 2}}

'''Site'''
{{columnlist|4|*Energy Stockpile
*Active Volcano
*[[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]]
*Secret Lab
*Tar Pits}}

'''Initiative/Scheme'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Halonix Maximus]] (Autobot Initiative)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] Rises (Decepticon Scheme)
*[[Cybertonium]] Depletion (Cooperative Scheme)}}

===''War on Cybertron'' game===
A standalone set that is compatible with previous Core Sets and expansions introducing Polities, Ruins and Missions.

'''Playable characters'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Barricade (G1)|Barricade]]
*[[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]]
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurr]]
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (Bonus Pack)
*[[Slipstream (G1)|Slipstream]]
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (Bonus Pack)}}

'''Starter'''
{{columnlist|4|*Bold × 24
*Resupply × 4
*Scout × 4
*Patch × 4
*Artillery × 4}}

'''Basic'''
{{columnlist|4|*Reinforcements × 16
*Damage - Blast Wound × 10
*Damage - Energon Leak × 15}}

'''Boss'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (Level I Autobot)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (Level I Autobot)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (Level II Autobot)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (Level II Autobot)
*[[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (Level III Autobot)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (Level III Autobot)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (Level I Decepticon)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (Level I Decepticon)
*[[Octane]] (Level II Decepticon)
*[[Turmoil]] (Level II Decepticon)
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (Level III Decepticon)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (Level III Decepticon)}}

'''Robot - Autobot'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]]
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]
*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]
*Elita-1
*[[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]]
*[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]]
*Optimus Prime
*Orion Pax (Bonus Pack)
*[[Ramhorn (G1)|Ramhorn]]
*[[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]]
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]}}

'''Robot - Decepticon'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Barricade (G1)| Barricade]]
*[[Breakdown (G1)| Breakdown]]
*[[Cutthroat (G1)| Cutthroat]]
*[[Drag Strip (G1)| Drag Strip]]
*[[Flamewar (G1)| Flamewar]]
*Megatron
*Miner Megatron (Bonus Pack)
*[[Motormaster (G1)| Motormaster]]
*[[Ramjet (G1)| Ramjet]]
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)| Rippersnapper]]
*[[Slipstream (G1)| Slipstream]]
*[[Slugfest (G1)| Slugfest]]
*[[Sunstorm (G1)| Sunstorm]]}}

'''Ally'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] (also Robot)
*[[Decimus (G1)|Decimus]] (also Robot)
*[[Guardian robot|Guardians]]
*[[M.T.O.]]
*[[Mercenary|Mercenaries]]
*Spy Network}}

'''Relic'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Crystal City]] (also Site & Ruin)
*[[Dark Spark]]
*[[Key to Vector Sigma]]
*[[Photonic crystal]]
*[[Sword of Primus]]}}

'''Maneuver'''
{{columnlist|4|*Deep Cover × 2
*Entrenched × 2
*First Strike × 2
*Fivefold Manuever × 2
*King of the Hill × 2
*Omega Formation × 2
*Overwhelming Force × 2
*Sneak Attack × 2}}

'''Technology'''
{{columnlist|4|*Anti-Personnel Mine × 2
*Armor Plating × 2
*Auxiliary power × 2
*Clocking Tech × 2
*[[Electro-scrambler|Electro-Scrambler]] × 2
*[[Gideon's Glue]] × 2
*[[Ionic displacer rifle|Ionic Displacer Rifle]] × 2
*[[Robosmasher]] × 2}}

'''Site'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Maccadam's]]
*Mining Outpost
*[[Rust Sea]]
*Smelting Pool
*[[Vector Sigma]]}}

'''Corporative Scheme'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Centurion droid|Centurion Droids]]
*Death of Cybertron
*Reactor Coolant Failure
*[[Rust worm|Rust Worms]]
*Saboteur
*[[The Rise]]}}

'''Ruins'''
{{columnlist|4|*Hazardous Wreckage
*Hidden Dangers
*Pile of Scrap
*Toxic War Zone}}

'''Polities'''
{{columnlist|4|*[[Kalis]] (Level I)
*[[Polyhex]] (Level I)
*[[Praxus]] (Level I)
*[[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] (Level III)
*[[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]] (Level II)
*[[Vos (polity)|Vos]] (Level II)}}

===''Clash of the Combiners'' expansion===
An expansion focusing on and featuring multiple [[Combiner]]s.
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===Convention exclusives===
Renegade Games Studio periodically distribute exclusive add-on content at gaming conventions such as GenCon. To date the below has not been made outside the convention, although this remains a possibility.

'''GenCon 2022'''
*[[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Autobot Megatron]]
: The Robot card Autobot Megatron has a unique "Autobot/Decepticon" faction, it is considered both factions and thus can be bought by either while not being considered an adversary.

==Notes==
*The first edition of the Core Set used "Transform" as a keyword, but due to Hasbro's crackdown on the language reprintings and future sets instead use "Convert." The Basic card "Transform and Roll Out!" has also been renamed to simply "Roll Out!" for the same reason.

===Errors===
Current releases have several known errors that should be fixed in future printings.
*The Vortex and Brawl robot cards included in the Core Set and its Bonus Pack should have the Combaticon keyword.
*The Core Set rulebook contains a less clear explanation of the "assist" mechanic, the revised version makes it easier to parse.
*The +1 Power available on Ironhide's player card in the Core Set should only trigger when going into bot mode.
*The Desert site card in the Core Set should leave Sites if it reveals one.
*The Soundwave robot card in ''A Rising Darkness'' has a Move arrow with no number; the arrow being there is an error and the card is not supposed to provide Move.
*The Ultra Magnus player card in the ''Infiltration Protocol'' Bonus Pack should say that both Energon abilities cost 2 instead of the first costing 1.
*Devastator's player card in ''Dawn of the Dinobots'' says he gets 1 Power with Range 1 in combined mode, it should say Range 0.
*Shockwave's player card in ''Dawn of the Dinobots'' should have 0 Move instead of 3 in alt-mode.

===External links===
* [https://renegadegamestudios.com/content/File%20Storage%20for%20site/Rulebooks/Transformers%20Deck-Building%20Game/TF_DeckBuilder_Rulebook_revised.pdf Core Set rulebook (revised)]
* [https://renegadegamestudios.com/content/File%20Storage%20for%20site/Rulebooks/Transformers%20Deck-Building%20Game/Transformers%20Rising%20Darkness%20Deck%20Builder%20Rulebook_WEB.pdf ''A Rising Darkness'' rulebook]
* [https://renegadegamestudios.com/content/File%20Storage%20for%20site/Rulebooks/Transformers%20Deck-Building%20Game/Transformers%20Infiltration%20Protocol%20Deck%20Builder%20Rulebook_WEB.pdf ''Infiltration Protocol'' rulebook]
* [https://renegadegamestudios.com/content/File%20Storage%20for%20site/Rulebooks/Transformers%20Deck-Building%20Game/Transformers%20Dawn%20of%20the%20Dinobots%20Deck%20Builder%20Rulebook_Web.pdf ''Dawn of the Dinobots'' rulebook]
* [https://store-kftzvkkgjv.mybigcommerce.com/content/File%20Storage%20for%20site/Rulebooks/Transformers%20Deck-Building%20Game/TF_SKU9_WoC_Rulebook_web.pdf ''War on Cybertron'' rulebook]

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2023-07-19T22:44:12Z

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Terran

2023-02-23T20:37:47Z

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'''Terrans''' (''Cybertronus terran'')<ref>"[[Secret Legacy, Part 2]]"</ref> are [[Transformer]]s "born" on [[Earth]], brought about by [[Quintus Prime]]'s [[Emberstone]]. Instead of being comprised of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] [[living metal]], they are made of Earth's own elements, and their molecular structure looks as organic as it does mechanical. Though their systems do register [[energon]] levels, they don't actually use it to survive. Instead, they consume liquid [[water]], though it has to be found in underground pools which likewise bear the touch of [[Quintus Prime]].

All known Terrans were created by [[Robby Malto|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto]]'s contact with the Emberstone, and are bonded to them by [[cyber-sleeve|cyber-sleeves]].

Known Terrans include:
*[[Twitch]]
*[[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]]
*[[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]]
*[[Jawbreaker (ES)|Jawbreaker]]
*[[Nightshade (ES)|Nightshade]]

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
The first two Terrans, [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], were created when the siblings [[Robby Malto|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto]] discovered the [[Emberstone]] of [[Quintus Prime]] in cave beneath [[Witwicky (town)|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. When they activated it, the Emberstone created Twitch and Thrash from the cave water, an act witnessed by [[Mandroid|Dr. Meridian]]'s [[Arachnamech]]s. Having been granted [[cyber-sleeve]]s that linked them to the newborns, the humans took them to their family farm. Electing to keep Twitch and Thrash a secret, Robby and Mo hid them in their barn, providing them with comic books about the Cybertronian race to inform them of their heritage. The next morning, they had their father, [[Alex Malto]], recite the history of the [[Autobot]]/[[Decepticon]] war only to learn that Twitch and Thrash felt disconnected from Cybertron and instead sought to learn about Earth. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 1}}

A later play session allowed Twitch to discover her [[scanning]] abilities, letting her take on a drone as an [[alternate mode]]. Feeling left out, Thrash was taken to Witwicky so he could scan an alternate mode of his own. Their excursion was interrupted by the arrival of more Arachnamechs. While Twitch managed to dispatch one, the rest were defeated by [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]], [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] and [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]]. The adults decided that Twitch and Thrash would be best cared for in [[G.H.O.S.T.]] custody only for Meridian to pose as G.H.O.S.T. and abduct them. Scanning the two, Meridian discovered their partially organic make-up, dubbing them as Terrans before he prepared to dissect them. The cyber-sleeves worn by the Malto siblings allowed G.H.O.S.T. to track down the Terrans who managed to rescue them from Meridian's base, Thrash even managing to scan a motorcycle alternate mode in the process. In the aftermath, Optimus agreed to keep the Terrans a secret and allow them to remain with the Maltos, assigning [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] to mentor them. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 2}}

Though keeping G.H.O.S.T. ignorant of the Terrans, {{storylink|Classified}} Optimus informed the other Autobots of the existence of Earth-born Transformers. {{storylink|Traditions}} {{storylink|Decoy (episode)|Decoy}} Suspecting that the handful of Cybertronians on Earth represented the last of their kind, the Autobots came to view the Terrans as hope for rebuilding their species. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

On Robby and Mo's first day of school, Twitch and Thrash began malfunctioning. Eventually losing their higher functions, the two Terrans made for the cave system that had birthed them. Bumblebee and the Malto children arrived in time for Twitch to cause a cave-in whereupon the Terrans succumbed to [[stasis lock]]. Though it was intially feared that they had passed, Robby and Mo splashed enough of Quintus' water on their friends to revive them. {{storylink|Friends and Family}}

After being forced to remain hidden during a Decepticon attack, Twitch angrily revealed enough of the Terrans' origins to Optimus Prime for him to recognize the Emberstone, he and Bumblebee setting out with the Terrans to retrieve it. No sooner had they claimed the stone did [[Skywarp (ES)|Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)|Nova Storm]] attack, releasing a swarm of Arachnamechs. Outnumbered, Mo beseeched Quintus for aid, the Prime activating the Emberstone to creat three new Terrans; [[Nightshade (ES)|Nightshade]], [[Jawbreaker (ES)|Jawbreaker]] and [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]]. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

With Megatron and [[Dot Malto]] held prisoner by Meridian, Optimus concocted a plan to rescue them, having the new Terrans pose as Decepticons who would turn over Optimus, Twitch and Thrash to Meridian in exchange for safe haven. Though the ruse was found out in short order, and the group was forced to contend with Meridian's base defences, they managed to rescue Dot and Megatron. In the aftermath, the three new Terrans were brought to live on the Malto farm. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 2}}

==Toys==
===''EarthSpark''===

[[File:Earthspark Thrash Warrior Class Toy.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.3|Warrior Class Thrash]]
*'''Twitch''' (Deluxe, 2023)
*'''Thrash''' (Warrior, 2023)

{{comingsoontoy|Warrior Class Thrash}}

==References==
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2023-01-25T22:12:40Z

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Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)

2023-01-05T22:27:25Z

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'''''Transformers: Cybertron''''', known as '''''Transformers: Galaxy Force''''' (トランスフォーマーギャラクシーフォース) in Japan, is a cartoon series produced by [[GONZO]] and ran in the United States in the years 2005–2006, serving as the third and final part of the "[[Unicron Trilogy]]" begun by its predecessors, ''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]''. The series premiered in the United States in July 2005.

The story centers on a [[Unicron Singularity|giant black hole]] that threatens to devour [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and other worlds. Only the power of the [[Omega Lock]] can stop it; [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and a small(?) team of [[Autobot]]s travel to various worlds in search of the lock and the four [[Cyber Planet Key]]s needed to activate it. [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]], even more obsessed with power and godhood, attempts to seize the lock and the keys to boost his own personal power.

The series' Japanese counterpart ''Galaxy Force'' was confirmed by [[We've]] Inc. in an October 2004 press release to be a continuation from the ''Energon'' series, but it was soon clear that this was not the case.<ref>[http://www.fantofan.jp/newsarchive2004.htm 22 October 2004 and 10 November 2004, Fantofan.jp]</ref> When it launched, ''Galaxy Force'' was presented as a continuity reboot, seemingly in contrast to the original intent for the series. As it went on, the show made subtle attempts to fix this and tie itself back to the previous two cartoons, with later material fully retconning ''Galaxy Force'' into a sequel to ''Super Link''. The ''Cybertron'' dub and toyline presented themselves as a sequel to ''Energon'' right from the start, with the English writers adding several callbacks to try and help smooth over the cracks.

[[Japanese themes|Songs]] include opening "[[Call You... Kimi to Boku no Mirai|CALL YOU... Kimi to Boku no Mirai]]" and ending "[[Itsumo]]", and opening "[[Ignition!|IGNITION!]]" with ending "[[Growing Up!!]]" in the latter half of the run.

{{bigquote|Our worlds are in danger!<br>To save them and the galaxy we ''must'' find the four Cyber Planet Keys before the Decepticons can use them for evil.<br>''It'' is our ''mission.''<br>Hot Shot! Jetfire! Vector Prime! Landmine! Scattorshot! Optimus Prime!<br>Transform and roll out!|Optimus Prime|''Cybertron'' opening credits}}

==Storyline==
When the destruction of [[Unicron]] results in the formation of a massive black hole, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] is threatened, and its population is evacuated to [[Earth]], taking the forms of local vehicles and machinery to hide from humanity. As this occurs, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s elite team of [[Autobot]] warriors are approached by the ancient Transformer [[Vector Prime]], who has emerged from his resting place outside of time to inform them of the legendary [[Cyber Planet Key]]s, ancient artifacts of power which can stop the black hole and save the universe. Lost due to an accident during an attempt to create a cross-universal [[space bridge]] network, the Cyber Planet Keys now reside on four worlds somewhere in the universe—unfortunately, Vector Prime's map showing their location is stolen by [[Decepticon]] leader [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]], and both forces relocate to Earth as the race to find them begins.

On Earth, in the town of [[Rockville]], the Autobots befriend three human children named [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] and [[Lori Jiménez|Lori]], who aid them in locating the [[Omega Lock]], the control device for the Cyber Planet Keys' power. With new "Cyber Key Powers" awakened in them, the Transformers battle on many fronts, searching for the Lock on Earth while [[Hot Shot (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Hot Shot]] and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] head for [[Velocitron]], the "Speed Planet", resting place of the first key. As Hot Shot competes in the planet's grand racing championship to win the key from planet leader [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]], the Lock is located on Earth in the bulk of the crashed Transformer spaceship the ''[[Atlantis]]''. Soon after, Autobot [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] heads for the next world, [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Jungle Planet]], where the power of its Cyber Planet Key reformats him into Leobreaker. Megatron ingratiates himself with Jungle Planet ruler [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]], while at the same time, his scheming lieutenant [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] teams up with the mysterious [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]], working towards his own goals.

Ultimately, the Autobots succeed in acquiring the Keys of both Velocitron and Jungle Planet, at which point the existence of Earth's own Cyber Planet Key is revealed. Starscream makes his power play and overthrows Megatron, stealing the Omega Lock and all three keys from the Autobots and using them to grow in size and power. Their forces bolstered by the ancient Autobots from Earth and the arrival of [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]], who combines with Optimus Prime, the Autobots fight their way through a vengeful Megatron and defeat Starscream - but the battle is not without casualties, as Hot Shot, Red Alert and [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] are gravely wounded and rebuilt into the even more powerful [[Cybertron Defense Team (Cybertron)|Cybertron Defense Team]].

Returning to Cybertron, the Autobots use the Omega Lock and Cyber Planet Keys, which awaken the spirit of their deity and creator, [[Primus]] and transform Cybertron itself into the god's body. After a battle in which Starscream taps the power of Primus and grows to planetary size—only to be defeated by Primus himself—the location of the fourth and final key is determined as [[Gigantion]], the Giant Planet. Bested by Gigantion's leader [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]], Megatron taps into the power of Gigantion's Cyber Planet Key to become Galvatron. Sideways, now joined by the equally mysterious [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]], reveals himself to be an inhabitant of [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]], a world destroyed by the Gigantions, upon whom he and Soundwave seek revenge. Galvatron blasts them and Starscream into another dimension and finally acquires the Lock and Keys for himself, intending to use their power to accelerate the universal degeneration caused by the black hole and remake the cosmos in his own image. Vector Prime sacrifices his life to get the Autobots back to Cybertron, and the five planet leaders confront Galvatron within the black hole and defeat him. With all the Cyber Planet Keys now in his possession, Primus uses their power to finally seal the black hole, ending its threat.

As the planet's various civilizations attempt to return to life as normal, Galvatron attacks the Autobots for one final time. Without any troops to call his own, Galvatron engages Optimus Prime in a one-on-one duel, and is finally destroyed for good. With this final victory, Optimus Prime begins a new space bridge initiative, and the Transformers set sail for the four corners of the universe, and new adventures.

==Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] ([[Garry Chalk]])
*[[Vector Prime]] ([[Richard Newman]])
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] ([[Brian Drummond]])
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] ([[Paul Dobson]])
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul/Leobreaker]] (Paul Dobson/[[Dave Ward]])
*[[Cybertron Defense Team (Cybertron)|Cybertron Defense Team]]
**[[Hot Shot (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Hot Shot]] ([[Kirby Morrow]])
**[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] ([[Brian Dobson]])
**[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] ([[Richard Ian Cox]])
*[[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]]/[[Sonic Bomber (Cybertron)|Sonic Bomber]]* ([[Peter Kelamis]])

;[[Velocitron|Speed Planet]] native
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] ([[Lisa Ann Beley]]/[[Nicole Oliver]])
*[[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]] ([[Michael Dobson]])
*[[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]] (Brian Dobson)

;[[Jungle Planet (colony)|Jungle Planet]] native
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] ([[Scott McNeil]])
*[[Backstop (Cybertron)|Backstop]] (Scott McNeil)

;[[Earth]] native
*[[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] ([[Bill Mondy]])
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] ([[Michael Donovan]])

;[[Gigantion|Giant Planet]] native
*[[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] ([[Ron Halder]])
*[[Quickmix (Cybertron)|Quickmix]] ([[Michael Daingerfield]])

;Refugees
*[[Joyride (Cybertron)|Joyride]] (Nicole Oliver)
*[[Signal Lancer (Cybertron)|Signal Lancer]] (Paul Dobson)
*[[Phreaker]] ([[Terry Klassen]])
*[[Blurr (Cybertron)|Blurr]]
*[[Longrack (Cybertron)|Longrack]]

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron/Galvatron]] ([[David Kaye]])
*[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (Michael Dobson)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] ([[Mark Oliver]])
*[[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] ([[Dale Wilson]])

;Speed Planet native
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] ([[Mark Acheson]])
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] ([[Louis Chirillo]])
*[[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]] (Michael Donovan)

;Jungle Planet native
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] ([[Trevor Devall]])
*[[Undermine (Cybertron)|Undermine]] (Mark Oliver)
*[[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]] (Terry Klassen)

;Earth native
*[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] ([[Maryke Hendrikse]])
*[[Lugnutz]] ([[Michael Adamthwaite]])

;Giant Planet native
*[[Menasor (Cybertron)|Menasor]] ([[Sam Vincent]])

;Others
*[[Nemesis Breaker]]
*[[Scrapmetal (race)|Scrapmetal]]s

|c3=
;Autobot allies
*[[Coby Hansen]] (Sam Vincent)
*[[Bud Hansen]] ([[Ryan Hirakida]])
*[[Lori Jiménez|Lori]] ([[Sarah Edmondson]])
*[[Lucy Suzuki]] ([[Tabitha St. Germain]])
*[[Mike Franklin]] (Michael Dobson)

;Others
*[[Robert Hansen]] (Mark Oliver)
*[[Mrs. Hansen]] (Nicole Oliver)
*[[Tim Hansen]] (Terry Klassen)
*[[Ernesto Jiménez|Ernesto]] (Michael Dobson)
*[[Gloria Jiménez|Lori's Mother]] (Lisa Ann Beley)
*[[Stanton]] (Terry Klassen)

|c4=
*[[Primus]] (Michael Donovan)
*[[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]] (Scott McNeil)
*[[Initial T]]

;[[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] native
*[[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]]/[[Noisemaze (Cybertron)|Noisemaze]]* ([[Ted Cole]])
*[[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]] ([[Robert O. Smith]])
*[[Laserbeak (Cybertron)|Laserbeak]]
*[[Noisemaze Mass Production Type Version]]s
*[[Laserbeak drone (Cybertron)|Laserbeak drones]]

;[[Mini-Con]]s
*[[Drill Bit (Cybertron)|Drill Bit]]
*[[Heavy Load (Cybertron)|Heavy Load]]
*[[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]]
*[[Stripmine]]
*[[Recon Mini-Con Team]]
**[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (Brian Drummond)
**[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]]
**[[Six-Speed (Cybertron)|Six-Speed]]

|nonumbering=true
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Those characters were treated as entirely new individuals in the original ''Galaxy Force'' cartoon and retconned to be preexisting characters despite their inconsistent backstories (still retained in the dub). See their articles for details.

==Episodes==
{{main|List of Cybertron episodes}}

{{collist|4|
# [[Fallen (episode)|Fallen]]
# [[Haven]]
# [[Hidden]]
# [[Landmine (episode)|Landmine]]
# [[Space (episode)|Space]]
# [[Rush (episode)|Rush]]
# [[Speed]]
# [[Collapse]]
# [[Time (episode)|Time]]
# [[Search (episode)|Search]]
# [[Deep]]
# [[Ship]]
# [[Hero (episode)|Hero]]
# [[Race]]
# [[Detour (episode)|Detour]]
# [[Savage]]
# [[Sand]]
# [[Champion]]
# [[Ice]]
# [[Honor]]
# [[Primal (Cybertron)|Primal]]
# [[Trust (Cybertron)|Trust]]
# [[Trap]]
# [[Invasion (episode)|Invasion]]
# [[Retreat]]
# [[Revelation (episode)|Revelation]]
# [[Critical]]
# [[Assault]]
# [[Starscream (episode)|Starscream]]
# [[United]]
# [[Cybertron (episode)|Cybertron]]
# [[Balance]]
# [[Darkness (episode)|Darkness]]
# [[Memory (Cybertron)|Memory]]
# [[Escape (episode)|Escape]]
# [[Family]]
# [[Titans]]
# [[Warp]]
# [[Giant]]
# [[Fury (Cybertron)|Fury]]
# [[City]]
# [[Ambush (episode)|Ambush]]
# [[Challenge]]
# [[Scourge (episode)|Scourge]]
# [[Optimus (episode)|Optimus]]
# [[Showdown (Cybertron)|Showdown]]
# [[Guardian (episode)|Guardian]]
# [[Homecoming (episode)|Homecoming]]
# [[End]]
# [[Unfinished]]
# [[Beginning]]
# [[Inferno (episode)|Inferno]] ("Lost" episode)
}}

==Differences with ''Galaxy Force''==
[[File:GalaxyForcevsCybertron.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|It rarely got this extreme.]]In contrast to ''Armada'' and ''Energon'', the dubs of which had stuck quite closely to their original Japanese counterparts (unrelenting plethora of errors notwithstanding), ''Cybertron'' went to much greater lengths to localize ''Galaxy Force''. English scripts for the series were written by [[David McDermott]], [[Marc Handler]], [[Seth Walther]], [[Stephanie Sheh]] and [[James W. Bates]] (but the series does not include episode writer credits, so precisely who wrote which episodes is left unknown).

On the most basic level, dialogue was frequently re-written, sticking to the ''intent'' of the original but adding many more colorful turns of phrase, flavor and character, doing away with much of the formality and unflappability with which the Autobots handled every situation (a common trait of the Autobots in Japanese ''Transformers'' cartoons). ''Cybertron'' would also ''add'' more dialogue to scenes that were silent in ''Galaxy Force''; in particular, the show's extensive use of [[stock footage]] was livened up with new dialogue from characters as they transformed. Paraphrased dialogue from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' was common. The show's soundtrack mostly remained unaltered; the only new music was a new [[theme song|theme tune]] recorded by [[Paul Oakenfold]], which was often used during transformation stock footage (but not with 100% consistency) and would sometimes be extended to replace the background music of the scenes that immediately followed said transformations. In other, more sparing instances, music would be replaced with ''different'' pieces from the original soundtrack; usually, this involved replacing melodramatic or "evil" music with more exciting tracks to ramp up action sequences.

A few aspects of the plot of the series were consistently modified or excised by the ''Cybertron'' dub, while some were created whole cloth. For instance, one of most notable changes of the series was the transformation of the male Nitro Convoy into the ''female'' Override, at the request of Cartoon Network. Other examples include the removal of suggestions in early ''Galaxy Force'' episodes that Coby had an unsteady relationship with his family, and the notion that Cybertron was consumed by the black hole in the first episode (since the characters were able to return to the planet later in the series without ill effect). In terms of newly created ideas, ''Cybertron'' justified the continued presence of the Autobots' human allies Coby, Bud and Lori after their usefulness had realistically ended by crafting the concept of the [[Omega Frequency]], the signal of the [[Omega Lock]] which only they could hear, making them necessary in the search for the Lock and Keys. This particular example is indicative of ''Cybertron''{{'}}s efforts to make as much technical and logical sense as it could, where ''Galaxy Force'' was content to hand-wave many things off with [[Burning justice|Burning Justice]]. Innumerable times in the course of the cartoon, characters glow with energy that comes from nowhere; while ''Galaxy Force'' does not address this strangeness, treating it as a normal thing for Transformers to do, ''Cybertron'' regularly inserts explanations, or at least has the characters react in an amazed fashion to this unusual thing that is happening to them.

Outside of these major overarching examples, there are sometimes other changes both major and minor made to the content of individual episodes for numerous reasons. {{SITENAME SHORT}} notes such changes on the individual episode articles.

==Reception==
With the bad taste of ''Armada'' and ''Energon'' still lingering in the mouths of the fandom, ''Cybertron'' had a long way to go to make itself seem like an appealing prospect. On the English side of things, it generally succeeded: the show's dub is ''much'' more polished, lacking the myriad errors that had plagued the previous shows and bringing many distinct voices and accents into the mix, along with numerous pop-culture and ''Transformers'' references. Since the scripts had comprehensible context and some actual ''work'' put into them, the voice actors were likewise able to turn in stronger performances than they had in prior years. This effort was not appreciated by all viewers, unfortunately; those who had previously viewed subtitled ''Galaxy Force'' episodes online objected to the English dub taking greater liberties and occasionally altering aspects of the series, and were not shy about letting people know it.<ref>[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/screwball/ The result of people watching the subbed version first.]</ref>

Like ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' before it, ''Cybertron'' was animated using shaded [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] for the Transformers characters, and hand-drawn animation for most everything else. Though [[GONZO]]'s ''Cybertron'' work was more advanced than that of [[Actas Inc.]] and [[Studio A-CAT]]'s work in ''Energon'', the CGI still suffers from most of the problems of its predecessor, including a restricted range of motion, a tendency for the Transformers to stand around like statues, and crude walk cycles. Few facial expressions exist beyond "mouth open" and "mouth closed" (though to the animators' credit, there is an occasional smirk, smile, growl, etc. And Optimus Prime at one point manages to look furious ''with his mouthplate up''.) The shading techniques used on the Transformer characters also means they look very strange alongside their traditionally-animated human cohorts.

There is a sense that ''Cybertron'' actively attempts to avoid the main problem that plagued ''Energon''—that is to say, running out of plot. Consequently, while the basic plot of ''Cybertron'' is far more focused and coherent than that of ''Energon'', its first half is quite ponderous and drawn out, ''especially'' in the case of the [[Velocitron]] story arc, which spans fourteen episodes (running alongside plots set on Earth and the Jungle Planet)—an arc that consists of nothing more than characters repeatedly taking part in races over and over again, with ''very'' little actual plot involved. Conversely, then, in the final quarter of the series, the stories of [[Gigantion]] and [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] seem ''very'' truncated, as if the drawn-out first half left no room to see these plots through to their fullest extent.

In addition, ''Cybertron'' delights in the use of [[Stock footage|stock transformation sequences]], using them to pad out episodes like the cinematic equivalent of Styrofoam packing peanuts. What's worse, even the ''battle scenes'' frequently recycle the same "two characters charging at each other, their fists colliding in mid-air" stock footage. Partway through the show's run, the dub crew started to dub over the stock footage too, using it for exposition, jokes, or characters trash talking the enemy. "[[Critical]]", for example, has the upgraded [[Cybertron Defense Team (Cybertron)|Cybertron Defense Team]] threatening to kick the crap out of Megatron for what he did to them.

Overall, while not hailed as the greatest thing ever, it wasn't widely rejected like its predecessors were.

==Airing and Syndication==
Initially, ''Cybertron'' aired on Cartoon Network in early morning and evening time slots, but was later moved to The WB's [[Kids' WB]] block in the 4:30-5:00 PM Eastern time slot, making it the only Unicron Trilogy cartoon to air on a non-cable network and during an after school time slot. The first half of the series was aired twice on Kids' WB before the show was dropped from the network. (The run ended on a [[Retreat|cliffhanger]], so viewers without cable were left thinking the Decepticons won!) The remaining episodes were picked up by [[Cartoon Network]] and ran in the late evening and early morning slots until the series concluded.

The series would be aired on Discovery Kids' "Action Blast" variety show (which was owned by Hasbro), replacing the ''Beast Wars'' episodes that were originally part of the show.

Starting fall 2018 episodes aired on [[KidsClick]], running until March 31, 2019.

==Continuity==
As noted above, the Japanese version of the cartoon (''Galaxy Force'') originally treated the story as stand-alone, unconnected to any previous story. The American version draws connections to the ''Armada'' and ''Energon'' cartoons, but various incongruities still exist:

*In general, nobody really seems to remember the events of ''Energon''. The Autobots act as though they've never been to [[Earth]] before and have no familiarity with its culture, despite having spent ten years there in places like [[Ocean City]].
*The Autobots are utterly dependent on the three human kids to help them blend into human society, when they previously had numerous human allies including Dr. Jones and his family, Rad, Alexis & Carlos, and the innumerable human inhabitants of Ocean City and the other Cybertron settlements on Earth.
*Likewise, despite the Autobots' presence being fairly common knowledge in ''Energon'', it is considered urgent to hide the Autobots from Earth's population in ''Cybertron''.
*The Energon cities themselves are never seen or mentioned.
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] and [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] both have distinctively different voices than in the previous cartoons. [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] has essentially the same voice, but with a different accent. Also, Red Alert seems to have a bit more emotion and acts less mechanical than he did in Armada.
*Formerly prominent characters like [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]], [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]], the [[Omnicon]]s, and Kicker have vanished without a word; new characters [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] and [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] appear out of nowhere; and Red Alert returns after being absent for all of ''Energon''.
*Returning characters are ''all'' in brand-new bodies with no explanation.
*When he first combines with [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]], Optimus Prime declares that he's never heard of two Autobots combining into one before. This is a rather odd statement, considering that such combinations were commonplace during ''Energon'', and Optimus himself had been combining with other Autobots since ''Armada''; given later events, it's possible he was referring to the specific manner in which they combined, though this is at best an awkward rationalization.
*Nobody seems surprised that Megatron and Starscream are alive and well again.
*The grand black hole is explained as a by-product of "Unicron's destruction". In ''Energon'', that event happened in [[Alpha Q's universe|Alpha Q's alternate universe]], a fact that's not mentioned in the show. Likewise, Cybertron was last seen in that same alternate universe. It's not much of a stretch to assume the Autobots moved it back where it came from, but in that case, why is it so close to the black hole?
*The collapse of the Energon sun would mean that everything the Autobots fought for during ''Energon'' was in vain, and Alpha Q's worlds would die again, left in darkness without a sun and consumed by the black hole. Nobody seems to notice this little setback. To the contrary, Red Alert's report mentions an uninhabited planet that's ''not'' one of Alpha Q's planets as the black hole's first victim.
*Some "returning" character's personalities, like Wing Saber and Sideways, are different from their portrayals in other series. Furthermore, Hot Shot, after being portrayed as a mature veteran throughout all of ''Energon'', is again depicted as an immature rookie in ''Cybertron''.

Within the show, most of these problems were never directly addressed; the cartoon simply went about telling its story without much regard to previous events. Indeed, vanishing characters and new bodies had previously occurred in the changeover between ''Armada'' and ''Energon'' with equally little attention, though the second show at least established the existence of a ten-year fictional gap between them, making it ''somewhat'' less intrusive (such a gap also exists between ''Energon'' and ''Cybertron'', but it was never noted in dialogue in the series).

At the time, Hasbro copywriter [[Forest Lee]] made some effort at papering over some inconsistencies. The [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|''Cybertron'' comic]] storyline ''[[Transformers: Cybertron: Balancing Act|Balancing Act]]'', for example, [[Vector Prime]] claims that the Autobots are suffering memory problems, caused by temporal disturbances from the [[Unicron Singularity]]. Jetfire's new accent was meanwhile explained on the Hasbro web site as a result of time spent on the planet [[Nebulos|Nebulon]].

===''Energon'' comic===
At one point, some fans believed that the cartoon followed the unfinished [[Transformers: Energon (comic)|''Energon'' comic book series]] from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]. This theory was fuelled entirely by Forest Lee's efforts, who treated the cartoon as such in the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|''Cybertron'' comic]] storyline ''Balancing Act'' (which had comic-only character [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]] hooking himself into the Planetary Database, following on from an unfinished plot thread in ''Energon'') and in ''Cybertron'' [[Scorponok (Energon)|Dark Scorponok]]'s bio (which referenced his death at the hands of Megatron, an event which only occurred in the ''Energon'' comic).

Of course, the Japanese writers of ''Galaxy Force'' weren't even following the idea that it was a sequel to the prior shows ''Armada'' and ''Energon'', let alone a comparatively obscure unfinished comic series from the west!

==Home video releases==
===Galaxy Force===

{{main|Victor Entertainment}}
The ''Galaxy Force'' version of ''Cybertron'' was released on DVD by Victor Entertainment in [[Japan]] while the series was still on air. Several of the DVDs were packaged with exclusive [[redeco]]s of toys, such as a ''Masterforce'' [[Minerva (human)|Minerva]]-themed [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)#Minerva|Chromia]] and a ''Generation 1'' [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]-themed [[Hot Shot (Armada)/toys#CyDVD|Exillion]].
[[File:Tf galaxy force vol 01.jpg|thumb|150px]]
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 01 (2005)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 02 (2005)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 03 (2005)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 04 (2005)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 05 (2005)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 06 (2005)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 07 (2005)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 08 (2006)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 09 (2006)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 10 (2006)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 11 (2006)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 12 (2006)
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 13 (2006)

{{main|Geneon Universal Entertainment}}
Geneon Universal Entertainment will release the entire episodes in one set.
*''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' DVD Set (2016)
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===Cybertron===
{{main|Paramount Pictures}}
[[File:Cybertron Ultimate Collection DVD.jpg|thumb|150px]]
Paramount Home Entertainment released a single ''Cybertron'' disc in 2005 as a follow-up to their four separate ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' releases. They then took some time off to concentrate on the [[Transformers (film)|live-action movie]] before finally releasing a complete box set in 2008.
*''Transformers: Cybertron'' — A New Beginning (2005)
*''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection (2008)

====Malaysia release====
Sometime in 2007, a complete DVD boxset of the ''Cybertron'' series was released in Malaysia which, despite initial appearances, was apparently ''not'' a bootleg, given that it was region-encoded (Region 3, to be precise). The set featured two English audio tracks (2.0 and 5.1) and was fully subtitled with an accurate transcription of the English dialogue. All told, this was more than the eventual American release managed. The set also moved "[[Inferno (episode)|Inferno]]", from its ill-sitting placement as episode 52 back to being the second episode on the set.

====Shout! Factory====
[[Shout! Factory]] released the complete series on a seven-disc DVD set in 2014.
*''Transformers Cybertron'': The Complete Series (2014)
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==Notes==
* The series had a particularly confusing broadcast history on Cartoon Network's Central and Eastern European subdivision, which resulted in the last six episodes never airing in Poland and Romania, and only airing in Hungary after an eight-year wait. The show debuted in these regions on September 9, 2005, ignoring the [[Fallen (episode)|pilot]] and beginning with the [[Haven|second episode]], undoubtedly confusing many viewers. Episodes 2 to 16 were then shown on repeat, one each weekday, until February 13, 2006, at which point episodes 17-26 were also added to the schedule. The pilot was then ''finally'' released on February 27, and Cartoon Network kept on looping the episodes in order until June 5 of that year, when most of the remaining episodes began airing. However, rather than concluding the series, the channel abruptly stopped at [[Showdown (Cybertron)|episode 46]] on June 30, then inexplicably began rerunning the show ''yet again'', only to take it off the air entirely on September 1 before all episodes could be released. It is unknown if the missing episodes were dubbed at all in these countries, especially given the rather sporadic way in which the early parts of the series had been localized – inconsistent release schedule aside, several character voices, names (and [[Override (Cybertron)|in one case]] even genders) would alter throughout the series, suggesting the dubbing process was anything but well organized. In Hungary, the now-defunct kids' network {{w|Megamax}} would at least remedy this omission somewhat in 2014 by redubbing the series with a mostly new voice cast and different name translations, finally airing the entire show uninterrupted from April 13 to June 4 of that year.

===Foreign Names===
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Sāibótǎn Chuánqí''''' (China, 变形金刚：塞伯坦传奇, "Transformers: Cybertron Saga")

==Footnotes==
<references />

==External links==
*{{w|lang=ja|トランスフォーマーギャラクシーフォース|''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' at the Japanese Wikipedia}}

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Antagony (BW)

2022-12-28T12:25:55Z

Indridcold13: De-disambiguated

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{{disambig2|the ''Beast Wars'' Predacon|the ''Animated'' Decepticon|Antagony (Animated)}}
:''Antagony is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:BW Antagony boxart.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|A ''female'' worker ant? This is unheard of!]]
The mysterious future-Predacon '''Antagony''' is the [[Herald Maximo]] of the fearsome Predacon warlord [[Shokaract]], second only to Shokaract himself. She is utterly ruthless and without a shred of pity or mercy, and harbors a secret death-feud against the upstart Predacon [[Cataclysm (BW)|Cataclysm]] who threatens her position. Though utterly loyal to Shokaract, she will do anything short of open revolt to make sure she remains the Herald Maximo. Antagony's armor makes her virtually invulnerable to pain and it has been speculated that she enjoys inflicting it so much just so she can attempt to understand the utterly alien sensation.
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==Fiction==
===3H comics===
{{voiceactor|[[Susan Blu]] (English)}}

[[File:Herald Cataclysm's Ko-tu.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I. Am. VERY. Happy. For. You. Cataclysm.]]

In the 32nd century, Antagony rose to become one of the elite [[Herald of Shokaract|Heralds of Shokaract]]. {{storylink|Schism (story)|Schism}} One of her campaigns led to the conquest of the [[Kolar]]. {{storylink|Paradox}} Ambitious and coveting the title of [[Herald Maximo]], Antagony quickly forged a mutual hatred with her rival for the position, [[Cataclysm (BW)|Cataclysm]]. Their private feuding nearly went public during the all-important [[Horus Campaign|campaign]] against [[Horus]], an immensely powerful warlord and self-proclaimed god who drew limitless power from the sun itself, and opposed Shokaract's expansion. Whereas Antagony committed her forces to an elaborate diversion in order to get in close and battle Horus face-to-face, Cataclysm simply blew up the sun. With his power source gone, Horus quickly fell before Antagony, but her personal victory was stolen from her, as Shokaract gave credit to both her and Cataclysm for the win. Antagony and Cataclysm continued their vendetta, with Antagony scoring several minor victories. First, she arranged for Cataclysm's favored [[Cub|fission-brother]] to be given a nearly impossible assassination before he could prove his worth as a potential Herald. She also exposed Cataclysm's fear of time travel, thus securing a prized mission for herself. {{storylink|Herald}}

Traveling back in time, Antagony was seeking to preserve the [[Dark Essence]]. The Maximals [[Packrat]] and [[Onyx Primal]] managed to temporarily divert her attention towards [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], but Megatron in turn painted the incoming [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] as his ally, leading Antagony to attack him. She was damaged in battle with Primal, and fell at Megatron's feet. Antagony described herself as [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s doom, his destruction, and his worst enemy. Megatron naturally assumed this meant she was [[Raksha]]. She corrected this misunderstanding and attempted to take [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] hostage in order to make Megatron back off. It surprisingly worked for a few moments, but then a stray cloud of dust made her sneeze and blow Waspinator's head clean off. This last energy discharge consumed what was left of her energy, and she went into [[stasis lock]]. {{storylink|Visitations}}

[[File:Antagony megatron.jpg|left|thumb|Antagony didn't last too long.]]

Megatron spent long hours in his torture chamber attempting to break Antagony and uncover her secrets. When conventional methods failed, he turned towards one of [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]'s favorite toys—a [[mind-drill]] that employed invasive nano-probes. Antagony ultimately succumbed to the nano-invasion, but a failsafe device built into her skull by Shokaract utterly destroyed her mind before Megatron could retrieve any useful information. {{storylink|Herald}}

Antagony continued to serve Shokaract even after death. Once Shokaract himself traveled back in time to [[Point Omega]] in order to protect the Dark Essence, he was assaulted by the united Beast Warriors and [[Covenant (group)|Covenant]]. To clear away the distractions, Shokaract retrieved Antagony and restored her mind. Alongside a similarly revived Cataclysm, she was sent to destroy her master's foes while Shokaract himself defended the Dark Essence. Both eventually perished in battle, Antagony at the hands of Leonicus and Ariex. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}}
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===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:BWAscending4 Antagony capsule.jpg|thumb|Hi, I'm here to make myself expensive again.]]
Antagony was not an agent of [[Shokaract]] from the future as she believes at all, but in reality was an experimental creation of the [[Vok]] sent through various realities by those enigmatic aliens to cause trouble and test the limits of the Cybertronian organism. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #1}}

Meanwhile, Antagony '''''is''''' a Herald of Shokaract and ultimately, [[Unicron]]. When the vessel for Unicron's return engaged the Maximals in battle, Antagony and the other Heralds distributed [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capsule]]s amongst Cybertron's population in an effort to sow dissent and chaos. The Heralds were defeated and ultimately fled when [[Magmatron]] pulled Shokaract into limbo and convinced him to destroy himself to prevent Unicron's victory. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

===Theft of the Golden Disk===
A statue of Antagony was kept in the [[Cybertropolis Maximal Data Archive]]. {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}}

===''TransTech''===
Antagony scuttled about the Under City in [[Axiom Nexus]], in a crowd of countless off-worlders. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Antagony was a chief to [[Shokaract]], a warlord who seized power for himself in the region of [[Hyperious]] during the [[Grand Uprising]]. After the war ended, Shokaract's reign was officially recognized and Hyperious was granted a seat in the new [[Cybertronian Parliament]]. At Shokaract's direction, Antagony battled her fellow [[Cataclysm (BW)|Cataclysm]] in the [[Hyperious Arena]] for the right to represent him. To the relief of many, this Game was not to the death, but Antagony claimed victory after seizing Cataclysm's tail-whip as a trophy. She took her place in the Parliament. {{storylink|Derailment}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:FirstStrike2-Antagony.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]
Antagony was present in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] on the date of the ceremony commemorating [[Earth]]'s formal induction into the [[Council of Worlds]]. {{storylink|First Strike issue 1|First Strike #1}} When [[Iron Ring|a group of villains]] led by [[Joe Colton|Baron Ironblood]] attacked, disrupting the ceremony, she was among those who attempted to flee, but she was attacked by [[Tempest (G.I. Joe)|Storm Shadow]], who managed to disable and capture her so that the [[Microspace]]-native [[Shazraella]] could [[enerchange]] with her in order to gain the advantages of Cybertronian size. {{storylink|First Strike issue 2|First Strike #2}}

Shazraella was eventually arrested and reduced to her original form, {{storylink|First Strike issue 6|First Strike #6}} though Antagony perished soon afterwards as a result of the enerchange. A skeptic doubted [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] would be present at her funeral. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}}

Another Antagony was a [[Maximal]].<ref>Writer [[John Barber]] did not specify the background characters to appear on page 11 of ''Unicron'' #6, leaving line artist [[Andrew Griffith]] to choose the Maximals for the scene. Alas, Griffith was evidently never informed that Antagony had appeared separately and died in ''First Strike''.</ref> During [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]'s attack on Earth, Antagony and several comrades battled Autobots in orbit. {{storylink|Ceremony}}
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==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWtoy-Antagony.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|I like my Inferno redecoes like I like my coffee: black, and thousands of dollars on the secondary market.]]
*'''Antagony''' (Mega Class, 1998)
**''Accessories:'' Mandible claw, missile launcher, 2 leg-segment missiles

: One of two exclusive toys from the [[BotCon 1998]] convention in Anaheim, California, USA, ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' Antagony is a black and lavender [[redeco]] of [[Inferno (BW)#Toys|Inferno]], transforming into an ant. Her [[beast mode]] mandibles conceal a missile launcher weapon, plus her abdomen splits open to form spinning blades surrounding a quad-jet thruster. Only 600 pieces were made of her and [[Vice Grip#Toys|Vice Grip]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Predacon/Antagony/antagony.htm More information on Antagony at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
* Just as [[Cataclysm (BW)|Cataclysm’s]] name refers to his cat alt-mode, so too does Antagony for her ant alt-mode, presumably riffing on the term "{{w|agony aunt}}"—a colloquialism for an advice columnist in a newspaper. The word "antagony" itself is [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Antagony an archaic synonym for antagonism].

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://botcon.com/archive/story/characters/antagony.html Antagony's BotCon: Beyond profile on the BotCon Online archives]

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Nuclear weapon

2022-12-08T01:46:31Z

Indridcold13:

{{disambig2|the weapon of mass destruction|the potent and addictive substance made from chronal enriched [[Nucleon (substance)|nucleon]]|Nuke}}
[[File:InternationalIncident4 Cosmos on nuke.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|DO NOT RIDE THE BOMB]]
'''Nuclear weapons''', also known as '''atom bombs''' or '''nukes''', are extremely powerful weapons that harness atomic energy.
{{quote|This is a "no-nuke" show; there should be no mention of <u>nuclear</u> energy in the stories.|Further notes from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon series]]' [[production bible]]}}

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel Comics continuity====
=====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics=====
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:Generic autobots marvel uk 166.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.0]]
Although [[Mister O|his father]] was apparently quite relaxed about the arrival of [[Transformer|giant transforming robots]] in [[Oregon]], even going so far as to dress up like [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] to drum up [[Mister O's|business]], [["O"]] was more concerned about what might happen if they started firing nukes and wanted no part of it. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

As [[G.B. Blackrock]] was preparing to unveil his new [[Anti-Robot Photonic Multi-Cannon|his new weapon]] to deal with the [[Decepticon|giant robots in the area]] at the [[Blackrock Motor Speedway]], a journalist asked him if it was true that the weapon fired nuclear missiles. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}}

[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] was so strong that nothing less than a nuclear bomb could even scratch him. {{storylink|The Transformers Universe}}

''During his time in control of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] reprogrammed the combat drone [[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardian]] and booby-trapped it with a thermo-nuclear bomb.'' {{storylink|The Wrath of Guardian!}} ''With the bomb's countdown timer ticking, [[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]] carried Guardian away from the Ark, saving the Autobot base from the explosion but seemingly at the cost of his own life.'' {{storylink|The Wrath of Grimlock!}}

''After an incredibly powerful explosion in [[Kalis]] shook the subterranean [[Autobase]] there, [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] initially suspected that the Decepticons had started nuking them.'' {{storylink|Legion of the Lost!}}
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======Rhythms of Darkness!======
With the [[North America]]n continent under the control of [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]], the [[European Crisis Coalition|governments]] of the [[Earth]]'s remaining free nations planned to eliminate the Decepticon threat with a nuclear strike. However, thanks to the efforts of [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]], [[Lisa]], and a handful of [[Autobot]]s, the US flag was raised above the [[Decepticon Powerbase]] as a sign that [[United States of America|America]] was still fighting and the strike was called off. {{storylink|Rhythms of Darkness!}}

=====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''=====
The Decepticons sent a party to raid [[Nevada Alpha]], the most modern nuclear arms cache of the United States, but the station managed to get a distress call to the Autobots and a squad is dispatched, led by [[Powermaster]] Optimus Prime. Despite the Decepticons being outnumbered, the battle was even and although the Autobots eventually claimed victory, [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] got away with three of the nuclear missiles.{{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 8|Save Nevada Alpha}}

Having stolen three nuclear missiles from the United States, [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] sent an ultimatum to Earth—send him one million tons of [[oil]] or [[New York City]], [[Berlin]], and [[Moscow]] will be destroyed! To counter this threat, Optimus Prime volunteered [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]], and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] to become Classic [[Pretender]]s and the three Autobots fought Pretender [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], the [[Firecon]]s, and the other Decepticon Pretenders at the Decepticon base. Ultimately Bumblebee was able to stop the nuclear countdown and the Autobots took back the nuclear missiles. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 8|Megatron's Ultimatum}}

=====''Regeneration One''=====
[[File:LooseEndsPart3-boom.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"The cake will be burned!"]]

When Megatron was revived on Earth in [[1994]] and began systematically conquering the world, the humans resorted to nuclear tactics but he was able to hack into their missile systems and use their own weapons against them, destroying major population centres and reducing much of the planet to a wasteland. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} Alerted to the situation by the [[Wreckers]], Optimus Prime finally arrived in [[2012]] to confront his old foe and Megatron gleefully revealed that he had taken steps to ensure that this would be their last confrontation: when their duel reached its end, whatever the outcome, the Ark's [[Aunty|computer]] would launch nuclear missiles all across the world, destroying winners, losers, and everyone else. Fortunately [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]] was able to stop Megatron's final solution by shorting out the Ark's computer systems and shutting down the missiles. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}

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====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
{{notekeepers}}
[[File:DWPrimeDirective6 Superion nuke.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6|DO NOT PUNCH THE BOMB]]
As the Autobots and Decepticons fought in [[San Francisco]], [[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] decided to fire a nuclear missile at the city to wipe out all the Transformers, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} forcing [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] to sacrifice his life to save everyone else. While the actual missile strike was stopped, the shock wave from the blast still hit the city. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}} ''San Francisco was contaminated with radiation from the fallout.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}

''As an alliance of Autobots and Decepticons battled the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] in [[Las Vegas]], the US government jumped the gun on their plans and launched a nuclear missile in the hopes of ridding themselves of all the Transformers and aliens in one fell swoop. The missile detonated, but [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] was able to use the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to absorb the nuclear fire and direct it all at the Keepers.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Annihilation|Annihilation}} ''Megatron would then publicly reveal the [[President of the United States|President]]'s decision to launch the nuke as a warning not to interfere with his plans in future.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}
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====''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''====
Peace talks around the issue of nuclear weapons being held in [[Washington, D.C.]]—and their attendant protests—were interrupted by a sudden attack by the terrorist organisation [[Cobra]], using never-before-seen technology. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #1}}

Later, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] intended to partner with [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] in an attack on [[Cobra Island]] to rescue the captured and brainwashed Autobots, but the humans' higher-ups disagreed, planning to nuke the island instead. [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] regretfully incapacitated the robots with a magnetic pulse, but Wheeljack stayed conscious enough to overhear their plans and warned Hawk that a nuclear impact on Cobra's [[energon]] stockpile would cause a chain reaction and send half the planet into a nuclear winter. With this revelation, Hawk broke orders and went ahead with the original strategy.{{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}}

Upon arriving at the island, Wheeljack patched through a message to all Autobots that the United States had decided to nuke Cobra Island despite having their own troops located there. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} He quickly improvised a way to avoid the impending nuclear holocaust by using the [[SPS Satellite]]'s solar-powered energy beams to shoot down the nuclear warheads before they arrived. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:AHM12 thundercracker nuke.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|DO NOT CUDDLE THE BOMB]]
During the 1960s, twenty-three nuclear fusion weapons were detonated on [[Marshall Islands|Bikini Atoll]], leaving deposits of fissile materials such as {{w|Strontium-90}} and {{w|Cesium-137}} on the island.{{storylink|Earthfall Part 4: Full Fathom Five|Full Fathom Five}}

In [[2008]], the Decepticons seized New York City and began hitting other sites across the planet. A group of world leaders met in [[Versailles]] and discussed plans for a [[European Union]] assault on New York, and a plan ''within'' that plan to hit New York with a nuclear bomb during the attack, without telling all the nations involved. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}}

With [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] and his Decepticons squabbling over control of New York, the EU launched the strike against them. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}} However, the plane carrying the nuclear bomb turned out to be [[Octane|Tankor]] in disguise. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} Megatron ordered Tankor to drop the bomb anyway, but it was ultimately intercepted and diverted into space by [[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Thundercracker]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

After catching wind of a Transformer battle at the [[China|Chinese]]-[[North Korea]]n border, [[Russia]] launched a nuclear bomb forcing [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] to intercept the warhead. Thanks to some clever rewiring on his part, it detonated harmlessly in the [[Arctic|Arctic Circle]]. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|All My Sins Remembered}}

After the Transformers left Earth, G.I. Joe and Cobra fought a war in [[Nanzhao]] that resulted in the complete nuclear devastation of the country, a destructive act second only to the Decepticon invasion in all of Earth's history. {{storylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}

Thundercracker's [[Film|movie]] ''[[Last Laugh: The Life and Death of Chuckles]]'' depicted the title character saving the entire world from [[Cobra Commander]]'s fiendish plot to launch nuclear missiles.{{storylink|Starscream: The Movie (comic)|Starscream: The Movie}}

The Cobra terrorist [[Cesspool]], assisted by his mutant [[Army Ant]]s, held [[Mexico City]] to ransom with a nuclear bomb. As G.I. Joe arrived to shut his plot down, Cesspool threatened to detonate his bomb but was taken out by [[Lady Jaye]] with a [[laser javelin]] to the back. {{storylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}

====''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''====
Having infected [[Saturn]], [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], and the Moon with its technological touch, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] was now directly above planet Earth. [[General Flagg]] appealed to the "[[Jugglers]]"—a secret cabal within the government—to let him nuke Cybertron, but he was rebuffed. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
With the success of the [[Autobot]]s' [[S.T.A.R.S.]] program, the [[Decepticon]]s of [[Primax 185.0 Beta]] responded with their own Decepto-Packs, enslaving humans to augment their capabilities and help them conquer the planet. [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] eventually provoked a nuclear strike that provided him the [[energon]] necessary to have his slaves build [[Zod]] drones, which he unleashed across the universe, conquering many systems. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/04}}

====2019 IDW continuity====
The [[Thraal]] carried out a policy of deliberate, targeted sterilization of the [[A'ovan]] [[Na'conda|homeworld]] by bombarding the planet with nuclear weapons. {{storylink|Nautica: Home}} Though a small population of A'ovan refugees were able to find sanctuary on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], their planet was left an irradiated wasteland. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}}
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===Panini ''Armada'' comic===
Having established a base on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] planned to simply nuke [[Autobase]]. Negotiations with the [[Mini-Con]]s bought the Autobots the time they needed to repair their [[space bridge]] and link it to the Decepticons' one, so when Megatron fired the missiles, they were warped straight back into his own short-lived base. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 8|Earthshaker!}}

===Live-action film series===
====Movies====
=====''Dark of the Moon'' film=====
[[Dino]], [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Que]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] were sent on a mission to take out an illegal nuclear weapons site in the [[Middle East]]. They were able to penetrate the base with ease thanks to Que disguising himself as the car of the country's Defense Minister, but Dino transformed to [[robot mode]] the instant they were through the barrier and, blades flashing, politely requested that the human guards lie on the ground while the Autobots went about their destructive business. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

=====''The Last Knight'' film=====
With Cybertron in orbit above Earth, [[NASA]] scientists devised a plan to destroy the [[ignition chamber]] by nuking a nearby chunk of the planet, causing it to detach and swing into the chamber. Despite the devastating impact, the chamber continued to function before coming to rest on another part of Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

====IDW movie comics====
Though he was instrumental in the US winning [[World War II]] thanks to his hand in inventing the atomic bomb, [[Robert Oppenheimer]]'s socialist background led to him being accused of communism and disgraced by [[Bill Simmons]] and others. {{storylink|Frozen}}

After the Decepticons had been defeated in [[Mission City]], their bodies were dumped in the [[Laurentian Abyss]] and buried by a nuclear blast. {{storylink|Movie Adaptation issue 4|Movie Adaptation #4}}

====Titan movie comics====
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Following the Decepticon conquest of the United States of America, [[NATO]] tried both communications and conventional military force against the Decepticons, to no avail and calls began to grow for a nuclear strike against Decepticon-held territory. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}} Eventually, a nuclear assault was ordered, with fleets in the [[Bay of Biscay]] and [[Newfoundland]] preparing to attack... when the Decepticons whacked them first. Ten minutes of combat saw NATO losses of 11,506 before the Decepticons finished their victory by obliterating the NATO headquarters in the [[Palais Bourbon]] and everyone in it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}}

Later, the President of the United States [[Theodore Allen|Theodore F. Allen]] (under the control of a Decepticon [[cerebro-strip]]) convinced Congress to vote for the eviction of all Autobot forces from the nation in the hope of appeasing Decepticon terrorists. Once the Autobots actually set off, Allen had a nuclear missile fired at their ship, seemingly killing them all... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution Part 1}}

====''Bumblebee Movie Prequel''====
The Decepticon [[Malignus (BB)|Malignus]] sought to inflame the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]] into open conflict, intending to use the cover of a nuclear war to allow the Decepticons to move about undetected. As he prepared to launch a nuclear missile from an abandoned castle on a peninsula of the [[United Kingdom]] at the [[Soviet Union]], his plans were foiled by the interventions of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], [[David Reeve]], [[Diana Lux]], and ultimately, [[Diabla (BB)|Diabla]]. {{storylink|From Cybertron with Love}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====Titan ''Prime'' comic====
A nuclear weapon was "forgotten" in [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]] when the United States of America turned it over to [[Team Prime]]. When the Autobots discovered and activated it while testing their new [[Safe]]. After the Autobots had chased away the [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] who mistook the radiation for energon, they turned over the warhead to [[William Fowler]]'s team of scientists who managed to defuse it. [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] then told the humans to take the bomb with them as they left. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
Following the establishment of a [[Darkmount (Earth)|Decepticon fortress]] on Earth and the devastation of [[Jasper]], Agent Fowler contacted [[Bryce|General Bryce]] about the evacuation, only to be told that the military were of a mind to nuke the Decepticons. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}}

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[[Category:Dark of the Moon weapons]]
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Talk:Cosmo and Wanda

2022-12-08T01:34:27Z

Indridcold13:

Is there any evidence that this was actually authorized by Hasbro or someone in the Transformers brand? Because I really don't think that this kind of third-party social media posting falls under our purview. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 07:02, 7 December 2022 (EST)
:Its an official ad by Nickelodeon so it should count. --[[User:GobotsFanForever|GobotsFanForever]] ([[User talk:GobotsFanForever|talk]]) 07:09, 7 December 2022 (EST)
::If nothing else, it's a cross-social-media promotion for the current Transformers show by Hasbro's production and broadcast partner for that show. If we don't want to give each of these their own page, we could have a single group page like the [[Memobot]]s? Or even just a subsection on the Nickelodeon page? --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 10:16, 7 December 2022 (EST)
:::It think this is fine and harmless. If we're keeping [[Lizard]] based on one obscure callout on the packaging, we can do the same for media tied with ''Transformers''. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 10:26, 7 December 2022 (EST)
:::: I think the important thing to remember here is "official ''Nickelodeon'' ad". As far as we can tell the Transformers brand itself wasn't involved in this art at all; it's not showing up on any Transformers-related social media pages, or anything officially connected to the Transformers brand. Even stuff like the Lizard was a physical product advertised as "featuring Transformers technology" which at least indicates that there was at least a negligible level of involvement from the Transformers team somewhere along the line. It's also probably noteworthy that, from what I can tell, none of the social media captions actually ''use'' the phrase "Transformer" to describe the characters other than in the context of advertising the Earthspark show, which suggests that people involved in this were writing around trademarks. As a result, the immediate jump to making wiki pages for these characters seems, at least to me, like a scenario where Cartoon Network's Twitter page retweeted something like Derrick Wyatt's Ben 10 fanart and we made an article for it—even though Hasbro doesn't seem to have signed off on any part of the project. Obviously, these kinds of scenarios will ''always'' be grey areas, but in this case I think the apparent lack of Hasbro involvement suggests that this is a case where we err on the side of caution.
:::: Beyond this, I think we need to lay down some concrete guidelines dealing with these kinds of commercial-exclusive crossovers, because I feel like we're already starting to bump against the limits of "notability". Like, The Hub did a promo where the ''Fraggle Rock'' characters talked about the Transformers, does that mean they should get a page? There's that one commercial where Bumblebee goes to Walmart with Lightning McQueen and Cinderella, do they get pages now? At ''most'', I think these kinds of outside-Hasbro licensee things need to be restricted to a note in the relevant character sections, or, in the case of these Nick crossover things, a brief overview in the notes of the actual Nickelodeon page. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 20:14, 7 December 2022 (EST)
:::::Right. I feel like this is something that should be -at most- rolled up into the Nickelodeon page, but is not something that should be divvied out into a bunch of individual pages. It's ''riiiiight'' up against the border of "Robot Chicken did a skit about Transformers and we don't cover that no matter how many voice actors from TF they hired". --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:23, 7 December 2022 (EST)
::::::Not only does Nickelodeon have the official license to Transformers tho, but these are also official ads for ''EarthSpark''.--[[User:GobotsFanForever|GobotsFanForever]] ([[User talk:GobotsFanForever|talk]]) 20:26, 7 December 2022 (EST)
::::::: Nickelodeon being liscenced to make a specific series doesn’t automatically mean these images are official Transformers media. [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 20:33, 7 December 2022 (EST)

Talk:Cosmo and Wanda

2022-12-08T01:33:59Z

Indridcold13:

Is there any evidence that this was actually authorized by Hasbro or someone in the Transformers brand? Because I really don't think that this kind of third-party social media posting falls under our purview. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 07:02, 7 December 2022 (EST)
:Its an official ad by Nickelodeon so it should count. --[[User:GobotsFanForever|GobotsFanForever]] ([[User talk:GobotsFanForever|talk]]) 07:09, 7 December 2022 (EST)
::If nothing else, it's a cross-social-media promotion for the current Transformers show by Hasbro's production and broadcast partner for that show. If we don't want to give each of these their own page, we could have a single group page like the [[Memobot]]s? Or even just a subsection on the Nickelodeon page? --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 10:16, 7 December 2022 (EST)
:::It think this is fine and harmless. If we're keeping [[Lizard]] based on one obscure callout on the packaging, we can do the same for media tied with ''Transformers''. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 10:26, 7 December 2022 (EST)
:::: I think the important thing to remember here is "official ''Nickelodeon'' ad". As far as we can tell the Transformers brand itself wasn't involved in this art at all; it's not showing up on any Transformers-related social media pages, or anything officially connected to the Transformers brand. Even stuff like the Lizard was a physical product advertised as "featuring Transformers technology" which at least indicates that there was at least a negligible level of involvement from the Transformers team somewhere along the line. It's also probably noteworthy that, from what I can tell, none of the social media captions actually ''use'' the phrase "Transformer" to describe the characters other than in the context of advertising the Earthspark show, which suggests that people involved in this were writing around trademarks. As a result, the immediate jump to making wiki pages for these characters seems, at least to me, like a scenario where Cartoon Network's Twitter page retweeted something like Derrick Wyatt's Ben 10 fanart and we made an article for it—even though Hasbro doesn't seem to have signed off on any part of the project. Obviously, these kinds of scenarios will ''always'' be grey areas, but in this case I think the apparent lack of Hasbro involvement suggests that this is a case where we err on the side of caution.
:::: Beyond this, I think we need to lay down some concrete guidelines dealing with these kinds of commercial-exclusive crossovers, because I feel like we're already starting to bump against the limits of "notability". Like, The Hub did a promo where the ''Fraggle Rock'' characters talked about the Transformers, does that mean they should get a page? There's that one commercial where Bumblebee goes to Walmart with Lightning McQueen and Cinderella, do they get pages now? At ''most'', I think these kinds of outside-Hasbro licensee things need to be restricted to a note in the relevant character sections, or, in the case of these Nick crossover things, a brief overview in the notes of the actual Nickelodeon page. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 20:14, 7 December 2022 (EST)
:::::Right. I feel like this is something that should be -at most- rolled up into the Nickelodeon page, but is not something that should be divvied out into a bunch of individual pages. It's ''riiiiight'' up against the border of "Robot Chicken did a skit about Transformers and we don't cover that no matter how many voice actors from TF they hired". --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:23, 7 December 2022 (EST)
::::::Not only does Nickelodeon have the official license to Transformers tho, but these are also official ads for ''EarthSpark''.--[[User:GobotsFanForever|GobotsFanForever]] ([[User talk:GobotsFanForever|talk]]) 20:26, 7 December 2022 (EST)
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::::::: Nickelodeon being liscenced to make a specific series doesn’t automatically mean these images are official Transformers media. [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 20:33, 7 December 2022 (EST)

Talk:Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)

2022-12-08T00:56:23Z

Indridcold13:

== "the series was later announced to be premiering globally on Paramount+ at Nickelodeon's upfront in March 2022." ==

But we are on June? So has the Series already premiered? ([[User:AutoTrooper2801|AutoTrooper2801]] ([[User talk:AutoTrooper2801|talk]]) 15:51, 15 June 2022 (EDT))
:That sentence is probably written badly; it's referring to an ''announcement'' that was made in March 2022; I don't think we have a release date yet. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 18:39, 15 June 2022 (EDT)
::Oh, I take it back, they said November. Let me edit that in. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 18:42, 15 June 2022 (EDT)

Where’d the new cast list come from? [[User:Chip|Chip]] ([[User talk:Chip|talk]]) 18:01, 9 October 2022 (EDT)
:[https://www.ky3.com/prnewswire/2022/10/09/paramount-nickelodeon-hasbros-entertainment-one-debut-official-trailer-original-animated-series-transformers-earthspark-new-york-comic-con-2022/ An official press release]. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 20:24, 9 October 2022 (EDT)
::Thanks. I assume Hardtop is that guy I’ve been calling Snow Cat for the past month, but we’ll see. [[User:Chip|Chip]] ([[User talk:Chip|talk]]) 11:15, 10 October 2022 (EDT)
==Coverage Can Start Now?==
Like the UK had the entire ep released, is it's safe to say we start the coverage? (And on side note will it be reliable for me to watch and not be abruptly cancelled off to force me on paramount+? I can't find it on my local Nick.)
:The whole season is publicly available on P+ and can be covered here, though all episode and character entries should be spoiler-protected through Dec 11. As of now I don't think we know of any episodes on Nick after the first two; those may well have been a teaser meant to get more streaming subscribers.
:Before we really start the entries, though, I think we all need to be clear up-front on the continuity positioning of this show...
{{spoiler|Earthspark season 1|December 11, 2022}}
:This show is a G1 offshoot continuity, as much as [[Regeneration One]] or [[Beast Machines]] or [[Transformers: Last Bot Standing|Last Bot Standing]]. The carry-over characters should be listed as their G1 selves. I personally think this is obvious, but there should be community discussion / acknowledgment before anyone starts the heavy lifting on a whole season's worth of stuff. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 15:59, 11 November 2022 (EST)
::Unless this cartoon is explicitly a sequel to preexisting G1 fiction, I'm not seeing the need? Cyberverse was pretty much G1, but we decided then that every major reboot gets separate articles because the G1 wastebasket taxon is overloaded as is. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:08, 11 November 2022 (EST)
:::Pretty explicit. They show a bunch of Sunbow character models and scenery and Sunbow Cybertron and the narrator says "Here's this, that, and the other of our cast members as they looked in September 1984!". This is not a first-contact-with-Earth, blank slate show like Cyberverse. Some recognizable permutation of G1 season 1 (and possibly more) happened and was then covered up as events diverged. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 16:20, 11 November 2022 (EST)
::::Except the backstory is VERY different. No Ark, no contact with Cybertron in at least 30 years. No one on Earth knows if Cybertron still exists. And the first contact is touched on with the details on the Transformer War that happened. We just haven't been given full details yet. EarthSpark is doing it's own thing, just giving some nostalgia nods with the G1 flashback images, similar to Animated's war footage and Armada's use of G1 character models, just more explicitly. [[User:ParadoxFactor|ParadoxFactor]] ([[User talk:ParadoxFactor|talk]]) 16:27, 11 November 2022 (EST)
:::::To add to this, the flashback is explicitly framed as a story being told by the dad, a Transformers fan, to his kids. Until we see something that contradicts it, it's entirely probable that the use of G1 designs is a non-literal stylistic choice to convey "this happened back in the 80s".
:::::And on top of that... Continuity families are an organisational tool. We split things out because that's more friendly to new readers. Quibbling over whether the new show with its own backstory should be shoved into the box with the general morass of G1 is, frankly, unhelpful to both casual users ''and'' to our editors. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 16:33, 11 November 2022 (EST)
::::::Agree with everything Riptide has said. I'm content to leave this separate under the "Animated episode 1 war footage" precedent. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 16:37, 11 November 2022 (EST)
:::::::I strongly agree with Riptide's second point as a guiding principle. -[[User:AzimuthAcolyte|AzimuthAcolyte]] ([[User talk:AzimuthAcolyte|talk]]) 16:58, 11 November 2022 (EST)
::::::::Riptide said my point in more explicit terms, so seconding the agreement. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 17:18, 11 November 2022 (EST)
:::::::::''Animated'' is a great counterpoint. So um... yeah, no, what is clearly a pop-culture fantasy sequence filtered through a fictional adult fandork as a wink-and-nod to ''real-life'' adult fandorks is not "proof" this "explicitly" is from the same cartoon whatever. And yes, for the wiki's purposes, massive Hasbro-initiated new "reboot" franchises are treated as new, separate things, even if they're going to circle the drain of G1 aesthetic fordamnever anymore it seems, if only to avoid the clutter of adding a ton more sub-pages to half the cast from 1984-1986. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 06:25, 12 November 2022 (EST)

::::So why were Netflix WFC (with an ''Allspark'') and IDW19 considered to be G1, but not this? They've each got a ton of new backstory. There was just now a discussion of how [[Drag Strip (G1)]] isn't Shadowstrip because of an out-of-universe YouTube interview; Earthspark shows some pretty expensively-rendered in-story commentary that "This is the same Optimus Prime as he looked in September 1984 (*cue re-created Sunbow animation*)."

::::I agree with the importance of not confusing / burdening our readers. I hope other editors here see the risk of causing confusion by telling readers to forget what they saw and heard because our own schema is more important.
--[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 02:09, 12 November 2022 (EST)
:::: Grimlock exists on Cybertron. Frenzy and Skywarp are girls. The Autobots and Decepticons come to earth via space bridge in 1984 instead of flying here aboard the ''Ark'' and ''Nemesis'' four million years in the past. Elita-1 comes to Earth with Optimus while Bumblebee stays behind. Guys like Hardtop and Skullcruncher are running around on Earth. There's an actual photograph from the past in one of the later episodes where Megatron looks like his present-day self. The flashback is ''very'' clearly a non-literal easter egg being told by an unreliable narrator to his kids and should be regarded in the same way that Optimus Prime watching old G1 clips in ''Animated'' should be. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 06:44, 12 November 2022 (EST)
== Poor pages ==
So I noticed ES related pages are getting nuked a lot due to to poor quality. I'm curious, what does a good page to base the red links of look like? Just asking l, as I want to attempt to make those pages but fear they're gonna get deleted becuz low effort.--[[User:Poliwag06|Poliwag06]] ([[User talk:Poliwag06|talk]]) 18:47, 14 November 2022 (EST)

== Chars missing pics ==

Is it ok to take char pics from trailers? Like TVTropes and BTVA already has some of their mugshots, but then its just plagiarism, and I can't buy P+ so I can't snap pics from the show itself I also considered online clips but they r likely unofficial so taking screenshots from them is a no-no.
--[[User:Poliwag06|Poliwag06]] ([[User talk:Poliwag06|talk]]) 21:09, 16 November 2022 (EST)

== The Scenario with the background G1 bots ==
Should I hold of from creating their pages? Like not much seems to be known about them, and then Seaspray exists...

== Weird promotion ==

Should we make a page to access all the weird random ES-related crossovers and whatnot we've been getting recently?--[[User:Poliwag06|Poliwag06]] ([[User talk:Poliwag06|talk]]) 19:44, 7 December 2022 (EST)
* Does Nickelodeon posting a bunch of pics referencing Transformers count as actual Transformers media though? I could see making a note on the Nickelodeon page but individual character pages seems a bit much. [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 19:53, 7 December 2022 (EST)

Talk:Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)

2022-12-08T00:53:56Z

Indridcold13:

== "the series was later announced to be premiering globally on Paramount+ at Nickelodeon's upfront in March 2022." ==

But we are on June? So has the Series already premiered? ([[User:AutoTrooper2801|AutoTrooper2801]] ([[User talk:AutoTrooper2801|talk]]) 15:51, 15 June 2022 (EDT))
:That sentence is probably written badly; it's referring to an ''announcement'' that was made in March 2022; I don't think we have a release date yet. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 18:39, 15 June 2022 (EDT)
::Oh, I take it back, they said November. Let me edit that in. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 18:42, 15 June 2022 (EDT)

Where’d the new cast list come from? [[User:Chip|Chip]] ([[User talk:Chip|talk]]) 18:01, 9 October 2022 (EDT)
:[https://www.ky3.com/prnewswire/2022/10/09/paramount-nickelodeon-hasbros-entertainment-one-debut-official-trailer-original-animated-series-transformers-earthspark-new-york-comic-con-2022/ An official press release]. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 20:24, 9 October 2022 (EDT)
::Thanks. I assume Hardtop is that guy I’ve been calling Snow Cat for the past month, but we’ll see. [[User:Chip|Chip]] ([[User talk:Chip|talk]]) 11:15, 10 October 2022 (EDT)
==Coverage Can Start Now?==
Like the UK had the entire ep released, is it's safe to say we start the coverage? (And on side note will it be reliable for me to watch and not be abruptly cancelled off to force me on paramount+? I can't find it on my local Nick.)
:The whole season is publicly available on P+ and can be covered here, though all episode and character entries should be spoiler-protected through Dec 11. As of now I don't think we know of any episodes on Nick after the first two; those may well have been a teaser meant to get more streaming subscribers.
:Before we really start the entries, though, I think we all need to be clear up-front on the continuity positioning of this show...
{{spoiler|Earthspark season 1|December 11, 2022}}
:This show is a G1 offshoot continuity, as much as [[Regeneration One]] or [[Beast Machines]] or [[Transformers: Last Bot Standing|Last Bot Standing]]. The carry-over characters should be listed as their G1 selves. I personally think this is obvious, but there should be community discussion / acknowledgment before anyone starts the heavy lifting on a whole season's worth of stuff. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 15:59, 11 November 2022 (EST)
::Unless this cartoon is explicitly a sequel to preexisting G1 fiction, I'm not seeing the need? Cyberverse was pretty much G1, but we decided then that every major reboot gets separate articles because the G1 wastebasket taxon is overloaded as is. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:08, 11 November 2022 (EST)
:::Pretty explicit. They show a bunch of Sunbow character models and scenery and Sunbow Cybertron and the narrator says "Here's this, that, and the other of our cast members as they looked in September 1984!". This is not a first-contact-with-Earth, blank slate show like Cyberverse. Some recognizable permutation of G1 season 1 (and possibly more) happened and was then covered up as events diverged. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 16:20, 11 November 2022 (EST)
::::Except the backstory is VERY different. No Ark, no contact with Cybertron in at least 30 years. No one on Earth knows if Cybertron still exists. And the first contact is touched on with the details on the Transformer War that happened. We just haven't been given full details yet. EarthSpark is doing it's own thing, just giving some nostalgia nods with the G1 flashback images, similar to Animated's war footage and Armada's use of G1 character models, just more explicitly. [[User:ParadoxFactor|ParadoxFactor]] ([[User talk:ParadoxFactor|talk]]) 16:27, 11 November 2022 (EST)
:::::To add to this, the flashback is explicitly framed as a story being told by the dad, a Transformers fan, to his kids. Until we see something that contradicts it, it's entirely probable that the use of G1 designs is a non-literal stylistic choice to convey "this happened back in the 80s".
:::::And on top of that... Continuity families are an organisational tool. We split things out because that's more friendly to new readers. Quibbling over whether the new show with its own backstory should be shoved into the box with the general morass of G1 is, frankly, unhelpful to both casual users ''and'' to our editors. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 16:33, 11 November 2022 (EST)
::::::Agree with everything Riptide has said. I'm content to leave this separate under the "Animated episode 1 war footage" precedent. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 16:37, 11 November 2022 (EST)
:::::::I strongly agree with Riptide's second point as a guiding principle. -[[User:AzimuthAcolyte|AzimuthAcolyte]] ([[User talk:AzimuthAcolyte|talk]]) 16:58, 11 November 2022 (EST)
::::::::Riptide said my point in more explicit terms, so seconding the agreement. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 17:18, 11 November 2022 (EST)
:::::::::''Animated'' is a great counterpoint. So um... yeah, no, what is clearly a pop-culture fantasy sequence filtered through a fictional adult fandork as a wink-and-nod to ''real-life'' adult fandorks is not "proof" this "explicitly" is from the same cartoon whatever. And yes, for the wiki's purposes, massive Hasbro-initiated new "reboot" franchises are treated as new, separate things, even if they're going to circle the drain of G1 aesthetic fordamnever anymore it seems, if only to avoid the clutter of adding a ton more sub-pages to half the cast from 1984-1986. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 06:25, 12 November 2022 (EST)

::::So why were Netflix WFC (with an ''Allspark'') and IDW19 considered to be G1, but not this? They've each got a ton of new backstory. There was just now a discussion of how [[Drag Strip (G1)]] isn't Shadowstrip because of an out-of-universe YouTube interview; Earthspark shows some pretty expensively-rendered in-story commentary that "This is the same Optimus Prime as he looked in September 1984 (*cue re-created Sunbow animation*)."

::::I agree with the importance of not confusing / burdening our readers. I hope other editors here see the risk of causing confusion by telling readers to forget what they saw and heard because our own schema is more important.
--[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 02:09, 12 November 2022 (EST)
:::: Grimlock exists on Cybertron. Frenzy and Skywarp are girls. The Autobots and Decepticons come to earth via space bridge in 1984 instead of flying here aboard the ''Ark'' and ''Nemesis'' four million years in the past. Elita-1 comes to Earth with Optimus while Bumblebee stays behind. Guys like Hardtop and Skullcruncher are running around on Earth. There's an actual photograph from the past in one of the later episodes where Megatron looks like his present-day self. The flashback is ''very'' clearly a non-literal easter egg being told by an unreliable narrator to his kids and should be regarded in the same way that Optimus Prime watching old G1 clips in ''Animated'' should be. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 06:44, 12 November 2022 (EST)
== Poor pages ==
So I noticed ES related pages are getting nuked a lot due to to poor quality. I'm curious, what does a good page to base the red links of look like? Just asking l, as I want to attempt to make those pages but fear they're gonna get deleted becuz low effort.--[[User:Poliwag06|Poliwag06]] ([[User talk:Poliwag06|talk]]) 18:47, 14 November 2022 (EST)

== Chars missing pics ==

Is it ok to take char pics from trailers? Like TVTropes and BTVA already has some of their mugshots, but then its just plagiarism, and I can't buy P+ so I can't snap pics from the show itself I also considered online clips but they r likely unofficial so taking screenshots from them is a no-no.
--[[User:Poliwag06|Poliwag06]] ([[User talk:Poliwag06|talk]]) 21:09, 16 November 2022 (EST)

== The Scenario with the background G1 bots ==
Should I hold of from creating their pages? Like not much seems to be known about them, and then Seaspray exists...

== Weird promotion ==

Should we make a page to access all the weird random ES-related crossovers and whatnot we've been getting recently?--[[User:Poliwag06|Poliwag06]] ([[User talk:Poliwag06|talk]]) 19:44, 7 December 2022 (EST)
* Does Nickelodeon posting a bunch of pics referencing Transformers count as actual Transformers media though? [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 19:53, 7 December 2022 (EST)

Sideswipe (G1)

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:''Sideswipe is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:NYSideswipeCardart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I've never done anything important, but people love me anyway! Sweet!]]
'''Sideswipe''' is not nearly as much of a sociopath as his [[Relatives|brother]] [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], but he is every bit as skillful. He's more into battle for the sport of it. A bit of a jock, Sideswipe most craves a glorious fight to the finish as a test of his mettle.

With a little reckless edge in his tactics, Sideswipe makes rash decisions that may endanger him, all in the name of possible victory. When everything is on the line, nothing is out of the question for Sideswipe, even cheating. Although his reckless attitude has not changed over time, his cause has: once in it solely for the glory, he's now driven by the desire to defend freedom and the innocent.

{{quote|Used to be, it was good guys versus Decepticons—the end. Reason enough to live, and simple goals.|Sideswipe|''[[The Life of Sideswipe]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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[[File:G1SideswipeMarvelFist.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|My shoulders are black because this is where my toy's wheels go!]]
Sideswipe, along with his brother Sunstreaker, was part of the original crew of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. When the [[Decepticon]]s attacked the ship, it crashed on [[Earth]], and Sideswipe, along with the rest of the combatants, lay dormant for 4 million years. When the [[Mount St. Hilary|volcano]] that housed the Ark erupted, the Ark's internal mechanisms revived all Transformers, making no distinction between [[Autobot]] and Decepticon. Sideswipe was alive again. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

When the Autobots went to retrieve their fallen comrade [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] from [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s [[S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service|garage]], they were attacked by Decepticons. Against his brother's better judgment, Sideswipe employed his [[Transformer fuel|fuel]]-gobbling [[Jet pack|rocket backpack]] to take the fight right to the Decepticon jets, blinding [[Thundercracker (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Thundercracker]] with his [[flare gun]]. The 'Cons were driven off, but without a source of fuel to recharge on, several Autobots, including Sideswipe, were left virtually empty after the battle. {{storylink|Power Play!}} Having sustained some damage during the battle, Sideswipe rode along with [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] in Optimus Prime's trailer back to the Ark to conserve fuel. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}

[[File:Sideswipe mirage enemy within.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
''While the Autobots busied themselves repairing the Ark, [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] was subjected to a violent electrical feedback. This shock altered his mind, and he lashed out towards his fellow Autobots. Among his victims was Sideswipe, who was man-handled by his erratic comrade, leaving him confused as to whether it had been something he had said which had sent Brawn into a rage. Sideswipe and the Autobots tracked Brawn down as he rampaged through a nearby town, and managed to return him to normal with another electrical shock. Unfortunately, they had no proof that he was his old self, and Brawn was put through [[Trial by Combat|trial by combat]] against [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] to prove his loyalties. Sideswipe was depressed when he thought that the duel had ended with Brawn's demise, only to be overjoyed to see him intact afterwards, his death having been a ruse orchestrated by [[Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Mirage]] and Optimus.'' {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} ''Though he could not go on missions, Sideswipe was still able to defend the Ark from invasion when the Decepticons came right to his doorstep. He was confronted by that junk-punk [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]'s earthquake-making ability and turned the tables on him, overpowering Rumble with his pile-driver punches.'' {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} ''At some point, he helped protect [[Sherman Dam]] from some Decepticons, although the Autobots were ultimately unsuccessful at preventing its destruction. Sideswipe and his teammates raced ahead of the resulting flood in order to evacuate a nearby town before the waters reached it. In his vehicle mode, Sideswipe transported many humans to safety, racing against [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] all the while.'' {{storylink|Decepticon Dam-Busters!}}

Sideswipe was present when it was discovered that the human [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] had given the Decepticons the fuel they needed to defeat the Autobots. Soon afterwards he was interred into one of the Ark's [[Tubes of Transference]], using his fuel to bolster the power of Optimus Prime, [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], [[Ironhide (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ironhide]], [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and Mirage as the Autobots' last line of defence. Although they were able to defeat [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s forces, they didn't count on the reappearance of [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]], who took over the Ark and deactivated all the Autobots in the ship. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} Along with his fellow Autobots, Sideswipe was left hanging from the Ark's ceiling like a slab of beef. {{storylink|The New Order}} Upon infiltrating the Ark, [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] beheld his fellow Autobot in this sad state. {{storylink|Warrior School!}} After the medic regained control of the Ark for the Autobots, he was able to revive Sideswipe to full functionality in short order, and their new deal for fuel with [[G.B. Blackrock]] kept them energized. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}} He was ''possibly'' part of the group of Autobots who battled [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] when [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] and the newly built [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] assembled a [[transdimensional radiowave scrambler]] to contact Cybertron. Though the Autobots managed to destroy the scrambler, The Decepticons managed to get most of their message through to Cybertron nonetheless. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}}

[[File:PrimeTime-Sideswipe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|So you've read my profile.]]
Though Shockwave was ultimately evicted from the Ark, he still had Optimus Prime's head held captive in his [[Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One|Blackrock Aerospace Plant headquarters]]. When the Autobots overheard that Optimus Prime's head had outlived its usefulness and would be disposed of, Sideswipe was part of the large group of Autobots who departed the Ark to rendezvous with the drop-off point. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}} Sure enough, the Decepticon drone [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] approached with the head, though Sideswipe initially proposed blowing it out of the sky. [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]]'s caution at first seemed prudent, as Jetfire dropped Prime's head into the swamp in front of them, but their minds changed after they waded into the swamp, retrieved the head, and placed it on Prime's body. The head was in fact a Decepticon decoy that took control of Prime's body and attacked them. On top of that, a strike team led by Soundwave quickly joined them, and Sideswipe soon found himself at the mercy of [[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]], who began tearing out his back with his jaws. Fortunately for the Autobots, Prime's real head was returned, and Sideswipe was one of first to rise from the onslaught to witness their costly victory. {{storylink|Prime Time!}} ''These events were observed by the [[time travel]]ling [[Dicet Alpha-zero]].'' {{storylink|The Quest!}}

[[File:Sideswipe dinobot hunt.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9]]
''Sideswipe was aboard the Ark when it came under attack by a flying Transformer—the missing [[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]] who had fallen under the control of the human [[Peter Anthony Morris|Professor Morris]]. After attempting to restrain Swoop using non-lethal force, the Autobots discovered that Swoop's primary [[cybo-dendron]]s had burnt out during his years in the tar pit, meaning that all the Dinobots were due to going berserk.'' {{storylink|The Icarus Theory}} ''During the subsequent Dinobot Hunt, Sideswipe traveled to [[Doonstown]] with Huffer and Bluestreak on a mission to capture the feral [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]. They proved unable to subdue their quarry, and were left battered and beaten in the ruins of the town.'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}

''On a mission to build friendly relations with the people of [[Pinewoodsville]], Sideswipe and several other Autobots were hit with a strange blast of energy that reversed their personalities. The group rampaged through the town, ruining months of goodwill work. Tracking the source of the blast to England, the Autobots flew overseas to put an end to what they assumed was a Decepticon plot. But the Decepticons had also been affected by the blast, and were likewise tracking its origin. Sideswipe, Prowl, Jazz, and Mirage holed up inside Optimus's trailer to conserve energy, but were shaken out of their hiding spot by Starscream, just as another personality-reversing blast hit the group. Optimus was sent crashing into a tree off the road, and his troops began calling for a violent mutiny. Sideswipe was the first to return to his senses, just in time to stop Jazz from executing their leader. Nonetheless, Optimus was left too banged-up to carry on with the mission; he hid in a tunnel while his troops soldiered on. The culprit behind the energy blasts turned out to be a human invention, the "[[Purnel's Auto-Reverse Defence|PARD]]." It was destroyed, along with [[Zeke Heilmann|a spy]] trying to steal it, after Starscream battled Jazz over both. With the threat neutralized, the Autobots carried Optimus back to their UK Base, where Ratchet was waiting to fix him up.'' {{storylink|To a Power Unknown!}}

Sideswipe was next seen in Ratchet's repair bay along with several others. Ratchet remarked to Optimus Prime that some of them might never be battle-capable again. Optimus Prime told him to do his best for Sideswipe and the others, and then promptly left to oversee the creation of their replacements. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

Years later, Sideswipe was seen again on board the Ark when the new Autobot leader Grimlock threatened the lives of some [[Spacehikers|human children]] to smoke out the "traitor" [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]. {{storylink|Spacehikers!}} Soon after, he left the Ark with the rest of its crew to watch the battle between Blaster and Grimlock on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. The assembled Autobot forces were attacked during the duel, a devastating first blow bringing down several of them. Blaster and Grimlock were able to put aside their differences long enough to drive off [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s forces however, and Sideswipe was among those still standing in the aftermath. {{storylink|Totaled!}} He also joined the Autobots in answering a distress signal sent by [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] near the Decepticons' [[Arctic]] [[Club Con|base]], resulting in an ambush. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
[[File:Sideswipe stranglehold ghosts.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6]]
During a conflict with the lingering forces of Bludgeon, Sideswipe and the Autobots were rushed off-world by the [[Guardian (G2)|guardian]] of an ancient civilization. {{storylink|Ghosts}}

The war seemingly over, Sideswipe joined the [[Firestormer]]s, a group of Autobots who aimed to hunt down the last few pockets of Decepticon resistance. He, [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Blades (G1)|Blades]], and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] attacked Decepticon [[Nexus Seven|Outpost B-67]], where they met [[Outpost B-67 exo-structuring party|great numbers]] but minimal resistance. He expected the liberated citizens of Nexus Seven to be more grateful, but Hound pointed out that their rescuees looked more frightened than pleased, and blamed their group's bloodthirstiness.

[[File:WarWithoutEnd-Sideswipe.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Black is the new "I have more words in this single panel than I did in the past 80 issues."]]
But the Firestormers' quest led them to the staggering discovery that these scattered Decepticon outposts were actually just the tip of the iceberg. There were just seventeen conquered and recolonized planets in that sector of space, suggesting that there was something bigger on the horizon than the remnants of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s old team. After [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] was called to hear this news from Sideswipe and the other Firestormers, they were suddenly attacked and captured by a ship in orbit. Sideswipe and the others were put in prison cells aboard the starship ''[[Twilight (G2)|Twilight]]'', which was under the command of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], the [[Liege Centuro]] of a forgotten race of Transformers. This revelation momentarily shook Optimus Prime's resolve, but after being brought back to his senses by [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], the two Autobots freed Sideswipe and the others from their cells. They fought their way through the starship to an escape vessel and escaped without injury, though they were burdened with this new knowledge. {{storylink|War Without End!}}

Sideswipe was present when the Autobots met Jhiaxus's Decepticons in battle on a planet within the [[K'tord Nebula]]. At first, tempers merely flared, but soon both sides lost themselves in a violent, bloody rage. Before they were completely lost to their baser instincts, the source of their behavior was discovered to be tar-like emotional parasites. The parasites were removed, and both factions decided to leave peacefully. {{storylink|Primal Fear!}}

[[File:Sideswipe grimlock devices and desires.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|Chin cleft added to ensure badassery.]]
Grimlock, disobeying Optimus Prime's orders, led a covert team onto the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]] ship ''[[Twilight (G2)|Twilight]]'' to defeat [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and his army of "evolved Decepticons". Sideswipe was wary of their plan to steal a ship and slip on board, but Grimlock assured him that the plan was foolproof. Grimlock changed his tune when they soon learned that they were led into a trap, resulting in [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]'s death and the Autobots' capture. Sideswipe and the others were rounded up onto a shuttle to be inspected by the [[Liege Maximo]], but managed to escape their fate with assistance from Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Devices and Desires! (Marvel)|Devices and Desires!}}

Later, while Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] were discussing an alliance against Jhiaxus's Cybertronians, Sideswipe interrupted to tell them that they had received a distress signal from the planet [[Ethos]]. {{storylink|Escalation!|Tales of Earth Part Five}} Sure enough, upon arrival, the Autobots found an advanced civilization in ruins, but managed to repel the Cybertronians thanks to their new Decepticon allies. {{storylink|Escalation!}}

Finally, Jhiaxus took the full force of his Empire to [[Earth]], where the Autobot/Decepticon alliance had camped. Sideswipe joined them in shooting their attackers out of the sky as they approached. {{storylink|Total War!}}

====Fleetway ''Generation 2'' comic====
[[File:Sideswipe war without end.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
Years later, Sideswipe was part of [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]]'s Special Commando Unit, summoned to Earth along with Optimus Prime by [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] when [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] began open war on the humans. Prime decided to go after Bludgeon himself, and he assigned Jazz, Sideswipe and [[Skram (G2)|Skram]] to take down one Decepticon strike team at a time because the Decepticon forces were spread very thin. While still in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], Sideswipe shot [[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]] in the crotch, then transformed and hoped aloud that Prime would be okay in the face of Bludgeon's mysterious powers. {{storylink|War Without End (issue)|War Without End}}

When the [[Skyscorcher]]s left in the middle of battle, Jazz concluded they had another target to go after—which he and Sideswipe simultaneously realized to be Optimus Prime! The Skyscorchers had ''actually'' left to go after Bludgeon's enemy Megatron, whom Sideswipe and his comrades helped shoot at when they arrived in the middle of a fight between the one-time Decepticon leader, Prime, and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. Following Megatron's retreat, Sideswipe helped secure prisoners and weapons for withdrawal to the [[Autobase]] hidden on Earth's moon. {{storylink|War Zone}}
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====''Classics''====
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[[File:Invasion-Radcontrolroom.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe joined Optimus Prime's crew on Earth after Megatron resurfaced. They braved the Ark's defenses in order to break inside and recover their lost comrade, Ratchet. Sideswipe unsealed him from the [[CR chamber]] Megatron had left the medic in, and together the twins carried him away to safety. {{storylink|At Fight's End}}

Subsequently, Sideswipe was stationed with several other Autobots in [[Canada]] within the ''[[Ark II]]''. He was present one day when [[Rad (G1)|Rad]] reported from the [[Ironworks (facility)|Ironworks]] base in [[Oregon]] about a foiled attack by [[Overlord (G1)|Gigatron]] and his Decepticons. Soon thereafter, due to the actions of an evil [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]] from [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|another dimension]], a rift of space time opened over Earth, causing catastrophes worldwide. Sideswipe, with the aid of his rocket pack, assisted his peers in evacuating a devastated city block. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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Sideswipe was part of an armed assault team that accompanied [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and Optimus Prime to Earth to confront Megatron and his [[zombie]] army of lobotomised Transformers. On their return to Cybertron aboard the ''[[Valiant (G1)|Valiant]]'', the ship was threatened by the planet's defence systems under the control of Scorponok's troops. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Four}} After the missiles were aborted at the last minute, Sideswipe and the others prepared for immediate deployment upon landing, though [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s efforts had already foiled [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]]'s [[Gene Key]] shenanigans. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Five}}

Later, Sideswipe and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] guarded [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] as he met with [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] at [[Eugenesis Plaza]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 2}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:DinobotIsland Sideswipe digging friends out.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Should I feel sorry for this pour guy?]]
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
An original member of the Autobots when they crash-landed on Earth, Sideswipe was a cool guy with jack-hammer arms, a rocket pack and little in the way of personality. Those accessories, though.

In a [[splinter timeline]] Sideswipe had more adventures, including one where he gained a new [[Binaltech (technology)|Binaltech]] body until [[time travel]] said otherwise. He continued serving the Autobots well into the year [[2011]], where he was stationed on both [[Athenia]] and Earth simultaneously, but nobody noticed. In the years that followed, he would mature and shed his rebellious nature, taking on covert missions out of a sense of duty rather than a desire to show off.
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===''The Special Teams''===
After crashing on Earth in the Ark and remaining dormant for millions of years, Sideswipe, along with Optimus and Ratchet, were the first Autobots to awaken after the Decepticons’ own resurrection. These three helped the other Autobots repair themselves with the aid of the Ark's computer. {{storylink|The Special Teams}}

===Sticker Adventures books===
When the Decepticons attacked an Autobot construction site, Sideswipe helped his fellow Autobots in driving them back. {{storylink|Return to Cybertron}}

===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
Sideswipe was amongst the thirty-five Autobots active on Earth. When the Autobots engaged The Devastator for the very first time, Sunstreaker lead Sideswipe, Windcharger, Jazz and Mirage in the initial charge against him. Their attack was ineffective, and they were blasted away by the mighty gestalt. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

[[File:Autobothuddle-ASW.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.0|left]]
Upon hearing that his "twin Autobot" had been captured by the Decepticons, Sideswipe flew into a rage and vowed to rescue Sunstreaker himself. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] advised Sideswipe to take [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] and [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with him, as they would surely encounter [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] within the Decepticons' headquarters. The three Autobots made their way towards Decepticon territory, encountering numerous traps along the road. Sideswipe was almost done in by a land mine, but managed to transform in time to avoid being seriously damaged. When the trio arrived at the Decepticon camp, another obstacle presented itself in the form of a duo of Decepticon guards. Making short work of these two, Sideswipe's group entered the Decepticon basewhere they came face-to-face against Devastator, as anticipated. Despite their best efforts, the Autobots were overpowered by Devastator, and put in a holding cell alongside Sunstreaker. Later, Megatron announced that the Autobots had agreed to surrender, and brought out his prisoner to look upon the Autobots' peace offering; a life-size statue of Devastator. The surrender turned out to be a ruse however, and Autobot reinforcements burst forth from within the Devastator statue. Sideswipe joined the battle between Autobots and Decepticons that followed. The Autobots were ultimately victorious, and Sideswipe was amongst the Autobots still standing in the aftermath. Optimus ordered his troops to gather the wounded, and the Autobots returned home. {{storylink|The Autobots' Secret Weapon}}
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===Marvel coloring books===
A long time ago, on the planet Cybertron, Sideswipe helped load a particularly large shipment of Energon onto the Ark. The shipment would eventually become lost when the Ark crashlanded into Mt. St. Hillary. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

With Sparkplug acting as their referee, Sideswipe and Bluestreak raced one another in order to determine who was the fastest. The race ended in a tie, with Sparkplug declaring them both winners. Just then, Thundercracker and Starscream swooped down onto the trio, and cast [[Sleep Net]]s unto them, rendering them unconscious. Sideswipe was brought to Megatron's newly constructed prison, and was incarcerated within. Luckily, Bumblebee had not been captured, and managed to free the other Autobots. Upon their escape, Sideswipe and Bluestreak shot Starscream and Thundercracker out of the sky. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue!}}

Sideswipe was one of the many Autobots who prevented the Decepticons from killing Sparkplug and Buster on their latest attempt on the humans' lives. He later helped the Autobots protecting the Hoover Dam. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}}

Sideswipe was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into battle when it was discovered that the Decepticons were using a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel all around the globe. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}} {{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}}}}

Sideswipe polished himself as he looked on at Gears casually lifting an elephant over his head. Later, when Gears had fallen into a Decepticon trap and gotten himself crushed, Sideswipe, Ratchet and Mirage somehow instantly knew of the situation and showed up on the scene. Sideswipe kicked up some dust into Ravage's joints, paralyzing the Decepticons. The three Autobots managed to beat back the Decepticons and rescue Gears, who was fixed right up by Ratchet. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

Sideswipe (or Sunstreaker) was part of a small strike team of Autobots assembled by Ultra Magnus to help the Dinobots, who were currently engaged in battle against the Decepticons, just outside of Autobot City. After they defeated the Decepticons, Sideswipe/Sunstreaker and the others were cheered on by the nearby oil rig workers as they drove back to Autobot City. {{storylink|Battle at Oil Valley}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
Upon awakening on Earth after being offline for about 65 million years, Sideswipe met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Sideswipe was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Sideswipe ''really'' enjoyed fighting Decepticons. When the other Autobots went on a mission to rescue [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] from [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] mind control, Sideswipe was sure to remind them that beating Decepticons was very important too. {{storylink|Insecticon Attack!}}

When the Decepticons invaded a car show at the Coliseum, Sideswipe was one of the robots in disguise who infiltrated the show to thwart the Decepticon plot. {{storylink|Car Show Blow Up}}

===Deadly Paradise===
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Sideswipe was surprised to find himself accused of destroying the [[Nova Suspension Bridge]]. He claimed he was not guilty of the act, but with several eyewitnesses proclaiming otherwise and the Autobot-Human relations strained by the crime, Optimus Prime had no choice but to deactivate him. Prowl later discovered that the Sideswipe who had destroyed the bridge was in fact [[Sideswipe clone (G1)|a clone]] controlled by Megatron. He and a team returned to Autobot headquarters with the evidence necessary to clear Sideswipe's name, who was presumably reactivated afterwards. {{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}

===The Battle for Planet Earth===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
Sideswipe was one of the group of Autobots who explored for energy in [[South America]], and engaged in a battle with the Decepticons on [[Mount Sheelah]] shortly before the volcano erupted. {{storylink|Terror of Mount Sheelah}} After a hard day's work repairing the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], he and the other Autobots were relaxing and watching [[television]] when they learned the Decepticons had started kidnapping humans. Sideswipe favored mounting an attack, but it was pointed out that that would endanger the humans. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}}

Following the Decepticons to [[Stanley Lake]] dam, Sideswipe used his flare gun to lure them out in front of the dam. After a brief fight, the Autobots retreated and flooded the valley with water, washing the Decepticons away. {{Storylink|Menace at the Dam}} After [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defected to the Autobots as a trick, Sideswipe showed him a box supposedly containing the [[Deuterium Orbital Laser Tracing System]]. Starscream, in reality spying for the Decepticons, sent Megatron's forces on a wild goose chase, and Sideswipe and the other Autobots took the opportunity to destroy the Decepticon base. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

===Ladybird Books continuity===
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe marveled at Spike's explanation of electricity that comes from the sky. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
In the path where Mirage used a hologram of Optimus Prime to lure the four [[cerebro-shell]]-controlled [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] over the edge of [[Bandit's Bluff]] and into the ocean, Sideswipe was one of the Autobots crewing [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] destroyer mode. He helped haul the unconscious quartet aboard for safe transport back to the Ark.

If Optimus Prime chose to immediately attack the Dinobots without a real plan, Sideswipe responded to Prime's order to, "Bring them down fast and hard," by blasting [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who just wouldn't go down. He yelled to Sunstreaker for help, which he provided with a series of high-energy electron pulses, their combined attack ultimately knocking the Dinobot commander over and dislodging his cerebro-shell. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}

====Attack of the Insecticons====
Sideswipe was present, yet mostly uninvolved, in a number of possible adventures revolving around the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug that would end the Autobots' energy woes. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

===Frito-Lay posters===
When the Decepticons threatened [[sherman Dam|Boulder Dam]], Sideswipe rocketed into action! He extended his robots arms and swung them about wildly while still driving in vehicle mode. The Autobots successfully drove off the Decepticons in the end. {{storylink|Battle in the Desert Valley}}
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===Toy pack-in material===
While cruising through a desert, Sideswipe and Jazz crossed paths with the Constructicons! Knowing they ''had'' to be stopped, Sideswipe led the charge against the enemy robots. His "cosmic clash" against Long Haul was subsequently heard around the world! {{storylink|Sweepstakes Offer!}}

===The Official ''Transformers: Generation 2'' Annual===
In the early days of the war, Sideswipe served with the civil defense forces in [[Vos (polity)|Vos]]. He was nearly killed when [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s army cut a swath through the city-state, and vowed revenge against the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Sideswipe's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}}

{{note|This suggests that something similar to "[[State Games]]" occurred in the past of this Annual's [[micro-continuity]], although little elaborated upon.}}

On Earth, Sideswipe participated in an Autobot sting operation against the Decepticons. They tricked the Decepticons into boarding a rigged shuttle on [[Table Mountain]] in [[Africa]] and launched them up into the stratosphere. {{storylink|Day of the Decepticons}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Before the war, Sideswipe was a trader who liked to con his customers. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|The Ultimate Guide}} He was one of the few Autobots to continue operating under that title during the [[Dark Ages]] of Cybertron, after Optimus Prime and Megatron had both disappeared into a prototype space-bridge. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Sideswipe was one of the elite warriors serving under [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and as such was chosen for the mission that sent him against the newly constructed Decepticon battle station, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Though the Autobots believed they would be able to find the station before it was fully operational, Trypticon revealed himself to already be battle-ready. {{storylink|Devastation}} Despite throwing everything they had at the titan, the Autobots weren't able to even slow it down. Prowl ordered his troops to try and outrun Trypticon, which Sideswipe misinterpreted as meaning they would try to "run it in circles and then pop it one in the exhaust vent." Neither tactic worked in any case, and the Autobots were only spared because Trypticon suddenly received a transmission recalling him to the neutral zones, and broke off from the fight to respond to it. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}} Sideswipe and his teammates returned to their headquarters for repairs, where Sideswipe received a communique from [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], explaining that both [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] had mysteriously vanished. The cause of these disappearances then made itself apparent, as [[The Fallen]] broke into the [[Autobase]] and abducted [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] from one of its holding cells. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} Once The Fallen's base of operations was uncovered, Sideswipe joined a cross-faction army in rushing it to put an end to the ancient Transformer's scheme. Ultimately, The Fallen was defeated by the power of [[Primus]] himself, and all factions agreed to keep the chamber The Fallen had tried to breach sealed to prevent anyone from further abusing the power held within it. {{storylink|Conflagration}}

Some time later, Megatron returned to Cybertron with an army of [[Air Warrior]]s backing him. He quickly took over the planet, and enslaved the majority of Autobots. Sideswipe was among the many unfortunates captured, and put to work in [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

{{unreleased WW comic}}
Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

[[File:DWPrimeDirective2 SunstreakerSideswipe.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|"This is what [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] was whining about? Loser."]]
Sideswipe was part of Operation Liberation in 1998, a joint human-Autobot effort to defeat the Earth-bounded Decepticons. At the end it was a success, and the captured Decepticons along with the Autobots and a human crew departed Earth en route to Cybertron in the ''[[Ark II]]''. The ship, however, was sabotaged and exploded upon liftoff.

A few years later, Megatron and other Transformers, including Autobots, were seen causing havoc. It was discovered that [[Lazarus]], a scientist who participated in the ''Ark II'' project, was responsible for the sabotage of the ship and the resurrection of several Transformers under his control via technological tampering. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}}

[[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] of the [[United States military|US military]] contacted [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] to ask him if he could do something to help them reactivate Optimus Prime, whom they had recovered locked in a state of stasis. Spike managed to reactivate Optimus with a portion of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] that Optimus had given him prior the ill-fated journey of the ''Ark II''. Optimus subsequently went to the Arctic and used the Matrix to reactivate several Transformers, including Sideswipe. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}}

[[File:DWPrimeDirective5 SideswipeSunstreaker Devastator.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|We're trying to look dynamic, but all these [[Pat Lee|puffy proportions]] are putting a stop to that.]]
Sideswipe accepted the new task at hand and fought alongside his brother when the Autobots faced the Decepticons at Lazarus' ruined base (punching Starscream in the face for attacking Wheeljack) before Hallo betrayed the Autobots by attempting to destroy both factions with a nuclear weapon. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} The Autobots survived when Megatron's technovirus absorbed the blast, and Sideswipe helped his comrades recover the captive Autobots imprisoned inside the base.

As Jazz's unit worked on Megatron's virus, Sideswipe followed Optimus Prime to [[San Francisco]] for the last battle against Megatron and his Decepticons. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} When [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] was taken down, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker heroically (though foolishly) charged at [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], and they were smashed between the giant Constructicon's palms for their trouble. After Optimus Prime brought Devastator down with a blast to the head, Sideswipe was restrained by the surviving Decepticons. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} However, through [[human]] intervention, Optimus Prime freed his Autobots and the battle was rejoined. Sideswipe tag-teamed with his brother to pummel [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], though the Decepticons eventually escaped when Superion sacrificed his life to save the city from General Hallo's unauthorized nuclear missile launch. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Months later, after Optimus Prime, Megatron, and an assortment of other Transformers and humans vanished in a flash of light from Tokyo, Japan, the world went on high alert. When the U.S. military detected [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in the Nevada canyons, Sideswipe accompanied a flight of jets in confronting the Decepticon. Their battle led down a tight box canyon, and Sideswipe had some difficulty chasing Starscream while also coordinating with his military wingmen, as he tried to limit the human casualties. Eventually, Sideswipe was led straight into Devastator, who had been hiding in the canyon on Starscream's order. The combined surprise firepower of Starscream's arsenal and a near-pointblank blast from Devastator's solar energy rifle left Sideswipe in several charred pieces. {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}''

''Sideswipe was eventually repaired by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and returned to duty just in time to fight in Nevada once more. This time, the Autobots and Decepticons had joined forces against an ambush arranged by the President of the United States, who hoped to rid his country of the Transformers. Sideswipe waded through General [[Michelle Grajkowski]]'s troops, heavily routing her Delta Team, but the [[deconstructionite]] weapons being used by the U.S. Armed Forces were too much of a surprise for the Cybertronians—they were clearly on the losing end of the battle as many of their number fell before the severity of the weaponized nanites became evident. Sideswipe and Prowl helped load the injured Autobots into Prime's trailer as they made their getaway. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:G1 Sideswipe Sunstreaker DWissue7.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Hi, I'm a jock.]]
The Autobots were entrenched against Megatron's forces when agents from the united Cybertron led by Shockwave arrived on Earth. Despite using his pile-drivers to send some of these attackers for a tumble, Sideswipe found himself severely overpowered by the newcomers, along with the rest of the Autobots. He and the others retreated as the Decepticons were taken in as war criminals. Optimus Prime split his forces so that their wounded could be tended to while a small scouting party was sent out to investigate further Shockwave and his followers. Sideswipe was among those who returned to the Ark, where the Autobots discussed whether they could take Shockwave's word at face value. {{storylink|New World Order}} As Prime and many other Autobots traveled back to Cybertron with Shockwave, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and their crew, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker remained on Earth with several other Autobots under Jazz's command. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}}

After the end of Shockwave's despotic rule over Cybertron, the Autobots on Cybertron made contact with Sideswipe's crew for an update and promised to send supplies. {{storylink|Generation 1 issue 0|Generation 1 #0}} Unfortunately, Starscream arrived on Earth first, backed up by a small cadre of soldiers. Sideswipe and company managed to stave off an initial attack from the Decepticons, only for Starscream to unleash his trump card on the battlefield: [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Sideswipe was deactivated in battle with the combiner, and was left to rust at the bottom of a lake. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] later dredged him and the others up, only to be taken into custody by [[Earth Defense Command]]. {{storylink|The Omega Effect}} The Autobots were then taken to a secret underground facility by the humans. {{storylink|Atonement}} Jazz, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker were reactivated to help [[Marissa Faireborn]] and [[EDC Night Force Unit|her team]] in investigating several mysterious disappearances (with extraterrestrial involvement suspected) in small-town America. During their trip out into the field, Sideswipe game the much less experienced [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] a hard time for his fretting and worrying, but rushed to the little guy's rescue after he was attacked within the town's movie theater. As he did so, the Autobots found out what they were dealing with was an outbreak of [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]]. {{storylink|Infestation (Dreamwave)|Infestation}} Sideswipe and Sunstreaker wound up in an underground hatching chamber, filled with Insecticon eggs. Wandering about while his brother contemplated the hatchery, Sideswipe came upon some fully-grown Insecticon clones and attacked them... only to inadvertently blind himself by bringing down a wall, allowing light to flood in and overwhelm his night-vision. Though Sunstreaker came to his rescue, the two brother wound up prisoners of the Insecticons nonetheless. Thankfully, Bumper, who had since found his courage, freed Sideswipe and Sunstreaker in time for them to participate in their team's last stand against the enemy swarm. Sideswipe took out Shrapnel in the fight by toppling an entire building atop of him. But the conflict culminated with the Autobots against an enemy they couldn't just beat down: the mind-controlled townspeople. Bumper once more came to his team's rescue by downing Bombshell, disabling his mind-control network over the town, allowing an Autobot victory. {{storylink|Extermination}}

After routing and capturing the Decepticons, Sideswipe and the other Autobots said their goodbyes to their EDC and departed in the ''Orion''. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} Afterwards, they joined up with the returning team from Cybertron under Prowl's command, and began construction of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}
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===3H comics===
Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]], and [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]] returned to the [[technorganic]] [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after a prolonged journey and were welcomed by the [[Maximal]]s. [[Unicron]] abducted these newly returned Transformers, in addition to many others from different times and universes, to start a final confrontation against [[Primus]]. Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were rebuilt into new forms, {{storylink|Abduction}} corrupted by Unicron's influence, and set against one another in the [[Cauldron]]. Before either brother could land a killing blow, however, the fight was broken up by [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]. Sideswipe then fought his way out of Unicron alongside many other Transformers rescued by Primal and returned to Cybertron. {{storylink|OTFCC Live-Action Drama}} {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}}

Back on Cybertron at the [[Oasis Research and Development Facility]], [[Ratchet (Universe)|Ratchet]] tried to remove the [[Unicron virus]] from Sideswipe to no avail. {{storylink|Homecoming (Universe)|Homecoming}}

Some time later, Sideswipe was back in his original body and a member of Optimus Primal's [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]]. During the final battle with [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|Minions of Unicron]], Unicron began to dissolve beneath them (as a result of the [[Unicron Singularity]]). Sideswipe grabbed Sunstreaker and used his jetpack to get them into a portal presumably back to their native Cybertron. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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Along with several other Transformers, the dormant Sideswipe was found on the crashed ''Ark'' by [[Cobra]], a human terrorist organization who soon reprogrammed the alien robots to serve them. Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were rebuilt into Cobra [[Stinger (G.I. Joe)|Stingers]] and sent to assault the [[SPS Research Facility]] alongside [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and his [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|minions]]. The two brothers didn't succeed in their mission, though, as they were rammed aside by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] while charging at the building and were eventually ordered to retreat. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}} Wheeljack later freed Sideswipe and the others from Cobra's control, and he helped Sunstreaker and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] fight back against the similarly freed Decepticons and their former captors. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

Two years later, [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] took control of the Decepticon forces on Cybertron and captured Optimus Prime. Sideswipe joined a team of Autobots led by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] who were planning on charging in and rescuing their leader as soon as the opportunity came up. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}} After reinforcements arrived in the form of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], the Autobots made their move and attacked Serpent O.R.'s Decepticon army, ultimately defeating it. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

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Sideswipe returned to Earth a few months later, where he worked to keep Cybertronian technology from being misused by humans. During one mission to [[Cuba]], he helped stop [[Destro]] from selling [[S.N.A.K.E.]]s to one Mr. [[Calandero]], but failed to capture the arms dealer and returned to the Autobots' base, the ''[[Arc II]]''. When the ship was attacked by the [[Pretender Monster]]s, Sideswipe was the first to fall. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2}} The crew later received medical attention at the [[Pit (G.I. Joe)|Pit]], where they'd eventually recover from their injures. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2}}
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===The Beast Within===
Sideswipe participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons. He was ganged-up on by several Constructicons early in the battle. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===''Hearts of Steel''===
Sideswipe participated in the pursuit of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], and partially transformed from artillery boxcar mode to [[robot mode]] in order to shoot down [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. He stated, "The name is Sideswipe." {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 4|Hearts of Steel #4}}

{{note|For unclear reasons, in the original comic book issue, the Autobot who shoots down Scourge identifies himself as [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], not Sideswipe. Sideswipe only appears in the trade paperback collection.}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:SpotlightSideswipe Sideswipe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''[[Ryu|SHIN SHORYUKEN!]]'']]
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/2005 IDW continuity}}
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===''Mini Mayhem!''===
Some jerk in a [[Spider-Man]] outfit led a legion of [[Clone trooper]]s to smash Sideswipe and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]'s [[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] [[Transformers: Crossovers]] toys. Sideswipe's pleas for him to stop were left unheeded.

Later, Sideswipe was seen waiting in line in anticipation for the [[Transformers (film)|live-action Transformers film]].
{{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Sideswipe was chasing a mysterious plane that had stolen supplies of [[energon]], using his [[Jet pack|rocket pack]] to catch up with it. But the next thing he knew, the plane was gone! The befuddled Sideswipe ran into [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], who was chasing a truck also charged with energon theft. Just then, the truck arrived before them, revealing itself to be the plane as well. It was the [[Triple Changer]] [[Octane]]! Though Octane tried to attack the two Autobots, Sideswipe blasted the Decepticon and knocked him to the ground. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 6|Henkei! Henkei! #6}}
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
When Optimus first discovered the Matrix of Leadership, Sideswipe looked on in amazement as the Autobot leader put the relic inside his chest. Sideswipe was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
{{note|Near the end of Action Blast 1, as the Autobots are taking on their Earth modes, Sideswipe is shown in [[robot mode]] amongst the other Autobots, but not Tracks. When the cartoon cuts back to the Autobots, now in their [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]s, Tracks has inexplicably taken Sideswipe's place in the line-up.}}
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===''United''===
Sideswipe was in attendance for a ceremony commending the Autobot [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s and [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s after they had retrieved the cure for a deadly nano-virus infecting the Autobots stationed on Earth. {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:SideswipeKREO-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Note the lack of anything resembling a sword.]]
Sideswipe was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}}

Sideswipe was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}

During the holiday season, Sideswipe and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] sneaked a [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] ''Kre-O'' set into [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]]'s pile of presents, so Bumblebee could surprise the Decepticon leader. They later went and did the same to [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|A Gift For Megatron}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Another Episode, Part 1}} {{storylink|Another Episode, Part 2}} {{storylink|The Fated Rival, Once Again...}} {{storylink|To Earth}} {{storylink|Reunion and Parting}} {{storylink|Plans of the Emperor of Destruction}} {{storylink|Revenge (All Spark)|Revenge}} {{storylink|Ray of Hope}} {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} {{storylink|Conclusion}}}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Sideswipe was supposed to search for the legendary [[Red Bucket]] alongside [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], only to get himself lost in a forest. By the time he found the bucket, it was empty: the other two had beaten him to it and taken all the blocks home. {{storylink|Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!}} Optimus Prime later borrowed Sideswipe's jetpack without permission, causing him much distress. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}

===''Transformers × Evangelion''===
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Sideswipe was among the Autobots who boarded [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] and traveled to [[Tokyo-3]] on Earth, {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 1}} where he witnessed the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] possess the body of an [[Angel]]. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 2}} When Optimus Prime scanned [[Evangelion Unit-01]], growing greatly in size in order to take on Starscream, Sideswipe got anxious and asked Prime to confirm that he was feeling alright. Following Starscream's defeat, Sideswipe aided [[Nerv]] staff in renovating Prime's trailer into a mobile base. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 4}}
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Yūichi Nakamura]] (Japanese)}}
{{Charstubfiction|{{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Explorer}} {{storylink|Mystery of Return of Convoy}}}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
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In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], [[Mirage (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Mirage]] and Sideswipe attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}

{{note|Sideswipe's coloration in this universe is based on his unreleased ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' toy. See [[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Notes]] for further details.}}
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
[[File:Siege-Sideswipe-CardArt.jpeg|thumb|upright=0.85]]
On Cybertron, Sideswipe was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Command Infantry Private]], whose function was a soldier. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' webpage}}<ref name=Siege>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/siege ''Siege'' website]</ref> During the final days of the Great War on Cybertron, Sideswipe was deployed to investigate possible [[Energon]] reserves in [[Kalis]]—home to the subsurface fusion reactor that powered most of Cybertron's key locations. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}<ref name=Siege/>

At some unknown point, Sideswipe was used as a template for a [[Sideswipe (IDW)|clone]] built for covert operations who was also made a member of the [[Firestormer|Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege#Exclusives|Final Strike Figure Series marketing material}}<ref>[https://www.amazon.com.au/TRANSFORMERS-Generations-War-Cybertron-Siege/dp/B07NZ7W14Z Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce on Amazon Australia]</ref>

Closer than ever to reaching the [[AllSpark]], the Autobots awakened after crash-landing on pre-Ice Age Earth. While battling the Decepticons, both sides were joined by the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s, their epic battle changing their combined destinies. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

During the collective battle, Sideswipe and [[Skywarp (BW)|Skywarp]] attempted to keep the Decepticon/Predacon threat at bay while being pursued by [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' Battle Across Time Collection marketing material}}<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08TM27396/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Battle Across Time Collection on Amazon]</ref>

{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files#Autobots vs. Decepticons stop motion|Autobots vs. Decepticons stop motion}}}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Whitten]] (English), [[Mutsuki Iwanaka]] (Japanese)|[[Yuri Tupper]] (Portuguese), [[Jean-Christophe Clément]] (French), [[Sebastian Kluckert]] (German), [[Aitor González]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Miguel Ángel Ruiz]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|Siege and Kingdom, plus rewrite for Earthrise}}
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Sideswipe was rendered inactive aboard the ''Ark'', following its journey through the space bridge. He was captured by [[Doubledealer]] and his [[Mercenary|Mercenaries]], and was among the Autobots bought to Charr and hauled before Deseeus. Sideswipe was held back with the other Autobots as Optimus was bought alone to face the Quintesson. Sideswipe then aided with the escape from Charr and left the world aboard the ''Ark'' with the other Autobots. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 2}}

Sideswipe was among the team of Autobots who accompanied Optimus to Nebulos Station. There, he aided in the fight against Scorponok. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 3}}. Sideswipe helped fight against Scorponok until the arrival of the Decepticons. Sideswipe, alongside his fellow Autobots, made their escape while Scorponok was preoccupied with the Decepticons. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 4}} Sideswipe was aboard the ''Ark'' when it was sent crashing down to Earth. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

===''Bumblebee'' graphic novels===
Sideswipe was among the Autbots attempting to keep a [[cybertonium]] meteor out of Decepticon hands. At Optimus's prompting, he transformed to protect Bumblebee from enemy fire. He encouraged Bee to keep up before shooting down Thundercracker. Optimus then ordered him to speed around the enemies perimiter and fire on them. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Go For the Gold|Go for the Gold}} Later he was in the Autobot base when Bumblebee returned from his test drive. Optimus sent him to retrive a component from Wheeljack's lab and bring it to him in [[Nevada]] in order to fix a radiation leak. Much later he was seen taking [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] into captivity. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Win If You Dare|Win If You Dare}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part Three|''Transformers'' #3]] (mentioned); [[The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two|#8]] (full)}}

Sideswipe was forged after the [[War of the Threefold Spark]]. Joining [[Security Operations]] when he reached maturity, his eagerness to fight rubbed some of the war veterans the wrong way. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

[[File:TheCracksBeneathYourFeetPartThree SideswipeThermalLance.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2.1]]
In the wake of [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s murder, [[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]] and Sideswipe were tracking possible members of [[The Rise]]. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}} When [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] crashed into Security Operations headquarters, Sideswipe came running, thinking a bomb had gone off. When the veteran revealed the existence of a Rise base beneath the [[Memorial Crater]], [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] told an overeager Sideswipe to open the armory. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}} Arriving at the crater with Chromia and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], Sideswipe salivated over the weapons he'd brought with him before Chromia dropped down into the base. Left on the surface, Sideswipe chatted up Windblade before [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] made herself known and one-upped Sideswipe's [[thermal lance]]. Quickly recovering, Sideswipe engaged the Riser in a duel before she took her leave, an act that heralded the base's violent death. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}} Retreating to headquarters, Sideswipe was tended to by [[Flatline (G1)|Flatline]] whom he griped to about Flamewar's choice of insult, she'd called him "Slowswipe", with the doctor feeling he should get his priorities straight. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Four}}

[[File:TheChangeInYourNaturePartOne SideswipeSpringer.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|]]
When [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] returned to Cybertron, he sent out literally every Security Operations agent to root out the Rise. Partnered with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Sideswipe patrolled the regions around [[Crystal City]] before an alert came in from an [[energon processing station]]. Springer quickly changed to copter mode to reach the crime scene leaving Sideswipe to catch up on the ground, finding Springer having been made a fool of. As the [[Triple Changer]] picked himself up, he told Sideswipe to call in everyone. The duo trailed the group to a [[Titan (group)|Titan]] corpse in the [[Cybertronian Mountains]] but quickly found the aggressors' superior firepower put them at a disadvantage. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

When reinforcements arrived, Sideswipe took up a sniping position, being backed up by [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and [[Strongarm (G1)|Strongarm]], his lust for violence quickly earning Kup's ire. After [[Javelin]] had been struck, [[Flak (G1)|Flak]] fired a harassment barrage providing cover for Sideswipe who planted explosive charges on one of the Titan's airlocks. While [[Kaskade]] was knocked down, [[Lowload]] recovered quickly, using his drill tank mode to harass Kup and Strongarm. Sideswipe tackled the brute from behind, planting a grenade on him, but the wounded Riser managed to retreat back inside the Titan. Grumbling, Sideswipe requested heavier artillery. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

[[File:WarWorldPrime SideswipeSavesBumper.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
After the [[Tether]] had collapsed, Sideswipe helped clear debris from the [[A'ovan habitat]] where he requested a transfer into [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s new counterterrorism unit only to be shot down. Joining up with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s unit as they prepared for a raid on [[Swindle's]], Sideswipe took up position on a nearby rooftop, Sideswipe tackled [[Storm Cloud (G1)|Storm Cloud]], downing him with his thermal lance and allowing Security Operations to take him into custody. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}}

When the Decepticons revealed themselves and seized the [[Senate]] building, Sideswipe was part of the operation to retake it. Under Prowl's command again, he complimented Javelin's return to action after her injury and stood ready with the rest of his team to provide cover fire for anyone escaping the Senate building. After [[Clench (G1)|Clench]] turned a [[rail gun]] on the Autobots, Sideswipe moved in to rescue [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]], who had been shot. Sideswipe took heavy damage carrying the wounded Bumper out of the line of fire. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}}

They both recovered and were soon back on security duty with Strongarm in [[Crystal City]], watching over an experiment [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] performed involving [[Jumpstream]]. After having saved his life, Sideswipe now found Bumper annoyingly eager to impress him, and told the rookie to make a perimeter sweep of the building. Once Bumper ran off, Strongarm pointed out his obvious hero worship of Sideswipe, which Sideswipe seemed oblivious to. She told him he was a role model now, something Sideswipe didn't think he was cut out for. Before they could discuss it further, Jumpstream materialized before them briefly, Perceptor's new [[teleportation]] rig suffering a malfunction. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}}

[[File:DustOfCrystals SideswipeCovering.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.9|]]
Sideswipe was on sentry duty when the Decepticons attacked Crystal City. He and his group opened fire at the horde of enemies at their gates until an explosion destroyed their high ground and they were confronted by some of [[Strika's Heavies]]. Sideswipe was determined to make a last stand, with the impressionable and terrified Bumper ready to back him up. However, Strongarm reminded Sideswipe of his responsibilities and he instead told the others to retreat while he covered them. Sideswipe held off the Heavies with his thermal lance until being overwhelmed, with Windblade and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] managing to pull his injured body to safety before he was killed. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}

After the Autobots began their trek to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], they were corralled by a Decepticon artillery barrage into the path of a horde of [[rust worm]]s. {{storylink|Radical Time}} Sideswipe joined a group led by [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] that attempted to scout an escape route, but they were cut off and turned back by airborne Decepticons that enforced the perimeter. They returned to the larger Autobot force and fought off the rust worms until a repurposed [[Insecticon clone]] swarm arrived to feast on the worms, allowing the Autobots to continue onward. {{storylink|End of Time}}

[[File:FateOfCybertron SideswipeBumper.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Surviving a confrontation with Megatron and an [[imploder]] next, the Autobots finally arrived at Darkmount and began preparing for an inevitable Decepticon attack to prevent them from leaving the planet. Hunkered down behind ramparts and awaiting the battle, Bumper began nervously humming, which Sideswipe was initially annoyed by. The bigger Autobot quickly apologized and told Bumper to do whatever he pleased in the face of the coming fight. When the Decepticons attacked, Sideswipe and the others held the line until [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] made a last stand, buying the others time to board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and blast off. Leaving Cybertron behind and headed for the [[Winged Moon]], Bumper cheerfully suggested to Sideswipe and Strongarm that they ask Ironhide to join the [[Senate Guard|Prime Guard]]. Sideswipe expressed hesitance, but Bumper assured his friend that he had his back. On approach to the Winged Moon, Sideswipe and the other Autobots listened to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] deliver a speech about their future out among the stars. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}
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===''Transformers vs. The Terminator''===
One of the Autobots aboard the ''Ark'', the ship's crash and the Decepticons' ransacking of the ship upon reactivation had left Sideswipe in deep stasis. He was eventually moved to the medical bay for repairs but this only wound up placing him at ground zero of one of the duplicitous [[T-800]]'s pilfered bombs. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}
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==Commercial appearances==
Sideswipe appeared in many [[commercial]]s. The following had original footage of Sideswipe:
*The very first Transformers animation, advertising the Marvel comic book. He drove out of a base alongside Jazz and Prowl; the three arrived at a power plant and counter-attacked the Decepticons. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#The Transformers #1|''The Transformers'' #1 commercial}}
*Sideswipe, Jazz, and Prowl encountered Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp in the middle of a desert. The two groups scuffled briefly. This was a toy commercial for all six of the featured characters. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Decepticon jets & Autobot cars|Decepticon jets & Autobot cars commercial}}
*Footage from the previous two commercials was spliced in with new footage of Jazz, Sideswipe, and Prowl charging into battle alongside Optimus Prime in a commercial advertising toys for both Optimus and Megatron. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Optimus Prime and Megatron|Optimus Prime and Megatron commercial}}
*Prowl, Jazz, and Sideswipe are once more seen together, this time storming the Decepticon base. But unknown to them, the inconspicuous micro-cassette recorder is the Decepticon communications officer, Soundwave! As soon as the Autobots are past him, Soundwave transforms and sics Laserbeak on them. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Soundwave|Soundwave commercial}}
*Sideswipe helped fend off [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Triple Changers and Perceptor|Triple Changers and Perceptor commercial}}
*Sideswipe was briefly seen driving alongside Jazz through a roller coaster city highway. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 2#Jets and cars|Generation 2 jets and cars commercial}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Sideswipe could come to Optimus Prime's aid, helping him move around the Decepticons' maze-like base. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Sideswipe is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Autobot duplicates in the Decepticon campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}{{-}}

===''Transformers G1: Awakening''===
[[File:Gluawakening sideswipe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85]]
Sideswipe was among the Autobots who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], and spent four million years in stasis after it was shot down over Earth by the Decepticons. As one of the more badly damaged Autobots, Sideswipe was stored in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] until the Autobots could gather enough energon to revive him. He was eventually revived in time to take part in the final assault on the Decepticons' Cybertron fortress to free the many enslaved Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers G1: Awakening}}
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===''Kreon Chaos''===
Sideswipe joined his fellow Autobots after they had managed to retrieve the Optimus Prime Kre-O kit parts from within Decepticon headquarters, and assembled it into a colossal Optimus Prime. The group then went out and used some Decepticons as target practice. {{storylink|Kreon Chaos}}
{{charstubgame|"Earth" and "Moon" stages}}

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===''Transformers Legends''===
Sideswipe was among the Autobots who thwarted Starscream's plan to destroy Earth, saving the planet by firing the [[Exponential Generator]] into orbit. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (Legends)|Countdown to Extinction}} Sideswipe was the first of the Autobots to coat themselves in [[Electrum]] after finding a Golden Lagoon. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon (Legends)|The Golden Lagoon}} He was in charge of a [[Sun-Farming facility]] which [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s group decided to attack. Alerted, Sideswipe had the other Autobots hang back so that they could ambush the enemy, however the gambit ultimately failed. Sideswipe and his men were forced to abandon the facility, leaving it in Decepticon hands. {{storylink|Revelation (Legends)|Revalation}}

After the Decepticons succeeded in driving the Autobots off Earth, the badly-damaged Optimus and his men sought refuge on Cybertron. Optimus eventually recovered, and as they prepared a ship to return to Earth, Sideswipe and his team defended it against the [[Insecticon swarm]]. The Autobots eventually reached Earth and retook it from the Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron (Legends)|All Hail Megatron}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Sideswipe}}
Sideswipe appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Devastation''===
{{voiceactor|[[Michael Bell]]}}
Sideswipe had by far the fastest vehicle mode among the Autobots under Optimus's command. His fighting style was oriented toward melee combat over ranged. His overdrive ability let him dash forward with temporary invulnerability, while his ultimate attack allowed him to use his shoulder-mounted rocket launcher for a short time to attack enemies. He possessed two unique weapons- "Sideswipe's Swords" and a Flaregun that functioned as a short-range flamethrower. Like his fellow Autobot Bumblebee, he wasn't strong enough to use heavy weapons such as most missile and grenade launchers available to the Autobots.

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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:SideswipeEarthWars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|Aww, no Jetpack? And I look like my brother too? And you got my animation model wrong?]]

Sideswipe came to earth after a scouting mission of a mysterious base that had [[Viper|weird drones]] stationed around the base.
Sideswipe had to avoid line fire and keep a cold trail after Viper came after him. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars/Events|Operation Snakebite}}

Sideswipe eventually made it to the Autobot outpost, and his brother [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] greeted him with open arms.

*'''Class''': Warrior
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 Star
*'''Weapons''': Sideswipe uses a standard issue laser rifle to blast targets, and then closes in and smashes it with his fists.
*'''Ability: Shattering Charge''' - Rush into battle spreading Glass Gas along the way. All affected buildings take more damage for 7 seconds (Level 1)
**'''Cost:''' 4 ability Points +3 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:sideswipe Sideswipe at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]

===''Transformers Online'' (2017 video game)===
Sideswipe thought Sunstreaker was the strongest Autobot on the battlefield, as the latter's performance was cold-blooded, ruthless, and merciless. {{storylink|Transformers Online (2017 video game)|Transformers Online}} <ref>[http://tfol.qq.com/act/a20160726data/hero10.shtml Sunstreaker on the Transformers Online website]</ref>

===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Sideswipe-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Man, I'm good!"]]
Sideswipe was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! As a Scout, he jumpstarts the Power race at the start of the fight, and whenever he dodges projectiles. He deals Critical Damage at a high rate and Evades when attacked often. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}

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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
[[File:BBOSideswipe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left]]
Sideswipe took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. 800 Armor, 800 Blaster Strength, Score x6, Coins x3, Blaster Speed: Medium {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*Sideswipe's first ''Transformers'' toy was originally intended to be an Autobot-aligned release of the red version of the ''[[Diaclone]]'' toy "No. 1 Countach LP500S", alongside his brother, then named "Spinout", as a yellow "No. 15 New Countach LP500S" — that is to say, Sideswipe was supposed to look like a red Sunstreaker, and Sunstreaker was supposed to look like a yellow Sideswipe. This notion survived long enough into production that the original [[Production bible|series bible]] and his published ''[[The Transformers Universe]]'' bio describe Sideswipe with features of ''Sunstreaker's'' toy. During development, the characters had their molds swapped, but ''not'' their colors, making the yellow Countach Sunstreaker and the red New Countach Sideswipe that we know today. This whole shebang resulted in discrepancies such as Sideswipe being noted for his [[jet pack]] (in reality, Sunstreaker's vehicle mode exposed engine) and Sunstreaker's red shoulder stickers (which were intended to match with an otherwise red toy). In the decades since, Hasbro and TakaraTomy have been inducting old ''Diaclone'' colorways into ''Transformers''dom; the characters of [[Spin-Out (G1)|Spin-Out]] and [[Tigertrack]] are modern updates of the toys that were intended for Sideswipe and Sunstreaker respectively.
[[File: G1toon_sideswipes_pistons.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.75|I wanna bee-heee... your jackhammer!]]
*Sideswipe's piston arms (apparently derived from the "rocket booster" missiles of the Sunstreaker toy) were, for whatever reason, drawn differently in pretty much every episode of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] he utilized them in. A model sheet using the design from "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]" did in fact exist as evident by its inclusion in [[The Ark series|''The Ark'' series]] books, however; it would seem the model for the pistons was designed after Sideswipe's model was finalized, as they are absent from all of the known model sheets that have surfaced in the years since. Presumably, this piston model sheet was merely drawn up for that particular episode with the intent of it being discarded afterwards, much like the models used for other one-shot gadgets from other episodes, leaving the animators with no choice but to make up something the next time around.
**Both the original design and the subsequent alternate designs have been realized in toy form: the first "[[A Plague of Insecticons]]" design came with ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Sideswipe; the "[[Dinobot Island, Part 2|Dinobot Island]]" design was an Amazon-exclusive accessory for the ''Masterpiece'' toy; and the "S.O.S. Dinobots" design came with ''Masterpiece'' [[Clampdown (G1)|Clampdown]].
*Sideswipe's Japanese name, "Lambor" (ランボル) is derived from the name of his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], a Lamborghini (ランボルギーニ). It may also be a word play on the Japanese word "ranbō" (乱暴), which means "reckless, violent, rough". Wouldn't be the [[Autorooper|last]] [[Nine Great Demon Generals|time]] Takara's done such [[Japanese language|word puns]].
*According to a [[story page]] in the October 1985 issue of ''[[TV Magazine]]'', Sideswipe and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] are brothers, with Sideswipe being slightly older than Red Alert. This connection may have been invented because, aside from Sideswipe and Red Alert sharing the same mold, Sunstreaker was not sold in the Japanese market outside of a special "versus" set with [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. However, the familial dynamic between Sideswipe and Sunstreaker was '''not''' changed in the Japanese dub of the original ''Transformers'' cartoon, leading some Japanese fans to consider the three Lamborghini characters as triplets.
*Sideswipe has the dubious distinction of being the only one of the European Autobot Classic Heroes range not to feature in Marvel UK's [[Earthforce]] stories, not even making a late appearance like fellow 1991 addition Tracks.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Lambor''' (ランボル ''Ranboru''), '''Sideswipe''' (サイドスワイプ ''Saidosuwaipu'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Swipe''' (斯韋伯 ''Si Wai Baak'')
*''Czech:'' '''Stěrač'''
*''French:'' '''Frérot''' (Canada, "Bro")
*''Hebrew:'' '''Métsóded''' (מצודד, "Sidler")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Csatár''' ("Striker")
*''Italian:'' '''Freccia''' ("Arrow")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Cèsǎo''' (Taiwan, 側掃, "Side Swipe"), '''Héngpào''' (China, 横炮, "Horizontal Cannon")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Esgalhador''' (Portugal comic), '''Surrupio''' (Brazil comic)
*''Russian:'' '''Apperkot''' (Апперкот, "Uppercut")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Krutobiy''' (Крутобій, "Toughpuncher")

==References==
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[[Category:Children of Primus]]
[[Category:Classics Autobots]]
[[Category:Dreamwave Generation 1 Autobots]]
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[[Category:Generation 2 Go-Bots]]
[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
[[Category:IDW (2019) Autobots]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Regeneration One Autobots]]
[[Category:United Autobots]]
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Sideswipe (G1)

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:''Sideswipe is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:NYSideswipeCardart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I've never done anything important, but people love me anyway! Sweet!]]
'''Sideswipe''' is not nearly as much of a sociopath as his [[Relatives|brother]] [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], but he is every bit as skillful. He's more into battle for the sport of it. A bit of a jock, Sideswipe most craves a glorious fight to the finish as a test of his mettle.

With a little reckless edge in his tactics, Sideswipe makes rash decisions that may endanger him, all in the name of possible victory. When everything is on the line, nothing is out of the question for Sideswipe, even cheating. Although his reckless attitude has not changed over time, his cause has: once in it solely for the glory, he's now driven by the desire to defend freedom and the innocent.

{{quote|Used to be, it was good guys versus Decepticons—the end. Reason enough to live, and simple goals.|Sideswipe|''[[The Life of Sideswipe]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:G1SideswipeMarvelFist.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|My shoulders are black because this is where my toy's wheels go!]]
Sideswipe, along with his brother Sunstreaker, was part of the original crew of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. When the [[Decepticon]]s attacked the ship, it crashed on [[Earth]], and Sideswipe, along with the rest of the combatants, lay dormant for 4 million years. When the [[Mount St. Hilary|volcano]] that housed the Ark erupted, the Ark's internal mechanisms revived all Transformers, making no distinction between [[Autobot]] and Decepticon. Sideswipe was alive again. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

When the Autobots went to retrieve their fallen comrade [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] from [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s [[S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service|garage]], they were attacked by Decepticons. Against his brother's better judgment, Sideswipe employed his [[Transformer fuel|fuel]]-gobbling [[Jet pack|rocket backpack]] to take the fight right to the Decepticon jets, blinding [[Thundercracker (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Thundercracker]] with his [[flare gun]]. The 'Cons were driven off, but without a source of fuel to recharge on, several Autobots, including Sideswipe, were left virtually empty after the battle. {{storylink|Power Play!}} Having sustained some damage during the battle, Sideswipe rode along with [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] in Optimus Prime's trailer back to the Ark to conserve fuel. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}

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''While the Autobots busied themselves repairing the Ark, [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] was subjected to a violent electrical feedback. This shock altered his mind, and he lashed out towards his fellow Autobots. Among his victims was Sideswipe, who was man-handled by his erratic comrade, leaving him confused as to whether it had been something he had said which had sent Brawn into a rage. Sideswipe and the Autobots tracked Brawn down as he rampaged through a nearby town, and managed to return him to normal with another electrical shock. Unfortunately, they had no proof that he was his old self, and Brawn was put through [[Trial by Combat|trial by combat]] against [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] to prove his loyalties. Sideswipe was depressed when he thought that the duel had ended with Brawn's demise, only to be overjoyed to see him intact afterwards, his death having been a ruse orchestrated by [[Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Mirage]] and Optimus.'' {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} ''Though he could not go on missions, Sideswipe was still able to defend the Ark from invasion when the Decepticons came right to his doorstep. He was confronted by that junk-punk [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]'s earthquake-making ability and turned the tables on him, overpowering Rumble with his pile-driver punches.'' {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} ''At some point, he helped protect [[Sherman Dam]] from some Decepticons, although the Autobots were ultimately unsuccessful at preventing its destruction. Sideswipe and his teammates raced ahead of the resulting flood in order to evacuate a nearby town before the waters reached it. In his vehicle mode, Sideswipe transported many humans to safety, racing against [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] all the while.'' {{storylink|Decepticon Dam-Busters!}}

Sideswipe was present when it was discovered that the human [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] had given the Decepticons the fuel they needed to defeat the Autobots. Soon afterwards he was interred into one of the Ark's [[Tubes of Transference]], using his fuel to bolster the power of Optimus Prime, [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], [[Ironhide (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ironhide]], [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and Mirage as the Autobots' last line of defence. Although they were able to defeat [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s forces, they didn't count on the reappearance of [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]], who took over the Ark and deactivated all the Autobots in the ship. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} Along with his fellow Autobots, Sideswipe was left hanging from the Ark's ceiling like a slab of beef. {{storylink|The New Order}} Upon infiltrating the Ark, [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] beheld his fellow Autobot in this sad state. {{storylink|Warrior School!}} After the medic regained control of the Ark for the Autobots, he was able to revive Sideswipe to full functionality in short order, and their new deal for fuel with [[G.B. Blackrock]] kept them energized. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}} He was ''possibly'' part of the group of Autobots who battled [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] when [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] and the newly built [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] assembled a [[transdimensional radiowave scrambler]] to contact Cybertron. Though the Autobots managed to destroy the scrambler, The Decepticons managed to get most of their message through to Cybertron nonetheless. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}}

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Though Shockwave was ultimately evicted from the Ark, he still had Optimus Prime's head held captive in his [[Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One|Blackrock Aerospace Plant headquarters]]. When the Autobots overheard that Optimus Prime's head had outlived its usefulness and would be disposed of, Sideswipe was part of the large group of Autobots who departed the Ark to rendezvous with the drop-off point. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}} Sure enough, the Decepticon drone [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] approached with the head, though Sideswipe initially proposed blowing it out of the sky. [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]]'s caution at first seemed prudent, as Jetfire dropped Prime's head into the swamp in front of them, but their minds changed after they waded into the swamp, retrieved the head, and placed it on Prime's body. The head was in fact a Decepticon decoy that took control of Prime's body and attacked them. On top of that, a strike team led by Soundwave quickly joined them, and Sideswipe soon found himself at the mercy of [[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]], who began tearing out his back with his jaws. Fortunately for the Autobots, Prime's real head was returned, and Sideswipe was one of first to rise from the onslaught to witness their costly victory. {{storylink|Prime Time!}} ''These events were observed by the [[time travel]]ling [[Dicet Alpha-zero]].'' {{storylink|The Quest!}}

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''Sideswipe was aboard the Ark when it came under attack by a flying Transformer—the missing [[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]] who had fallen under the control of the human [[Peter Anthony Morris|Professor Morris]]. After attempting to restrain Swoop using non-lethal force, the Autobots discovered that Swoop's primary [[cybo-dendron]]s had burnt out during his years in the tar pit, meaning that all the Dinobots were due to going berserk.'' {{storylink|The Icarus Theory}} ''During the subsequent Dinobot Hunt, Sideswipe traveled to [[Doonstown]] with Huffer and Bluestreak on a mission to capture the feral [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]. They proved unable to subdue their quarry, and were left battered and beaten in the ruins of the town.'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}

''On a mission to build friendly relations with the people of [[Pinewoodsville]], Sideswipe and several other Autobots were hit with a strange blast of energy that reversed their personalities. The group rampaged through the town, ruining months of goodwill work. Tracking the source of the blast to England, the Autobots flew overseas to put an end to what they assumed was a Decepticon plot. But the Decepticons had also been affected by the blast, and were likewise tracking its origin. Sideswipe, Prowl, Jazz, and Mirage holed up inside Optimus's trailer to conserve energy, but were shaken out of their hiding spot by Starscream, just as another personality-reversing blast hit the group. Optimus was sent crashing into a tree off the road, and his troops began calling for a violent mutiny. Sideswipe was the first to return to his senses, just in time to stop Jazz from executing their leader. Nonetheless, Optimus was left too banged-up to carry on with the mission; he hid in a tunnel while his troops soldiered on. The culprit behind the energy blasts turned out to be a human invention, the "[[Purnel's Auto-Reverse Defence|PARD]]." It was destroyed, along with [[Zeke Heilmann|a spy]] trying to steal it, after Starscream battled Jazz over both. With the threat neutralized, the Autobots carried Optimus back to their UK Base, where Ratchet was waiting to fix him up.'' {{storylink|To a Power Unknown!}}

Sideswipe was next seen in Ratchet's repair bay along with several others. Ratchet remarked to Optimus Prime that some of them might never be battle-capable again. Optimus Prime told him to do his best for Sideswipe and the others, and then promptly left to oversee the creation of their replacements. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

Years later, Sideswipe was seen again on board the Ark when the new Autobot leader Grimlock threatened the lives of some [[Spacehikers|human children]] to smoke out the "traitor" [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]. {{storylink|Spacehikers!}} Soon after, he left the Ark with the rest of its crew to watch the battle between Blaster and Grimlock on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. The assembled Autobot forces were attacked during the duel, a devastating first blow bringing down several of them. Blaster and Grimlock were able to put aside their differences long enough to drive off [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s forces however, and Sideswipe was among those still standing in the aftermath. {{storylink|Totaled!}} He also joined the Autobots in answering a distress signal sent by [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] near the Decepticons' [[Arctic]] [[Club Con|base]], resulting in an ambush. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
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During a conflict with the lingering forces of Bludgeon, Sideswipe and the Autobots were rushed off-world by the [[Guardian (G2)|guardian]] of an ancient civilization. {{storylink|Ghosts}}

The war seemingly over, Sideswipe joined the [[Firestormer]]s, a group of Autobots who aimed to hunt down the last few pockets of Decepticon resistance. He, [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Blades (G1)|Blades]], and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] attacked Decepticon [[Nexus Seven|Outpost B-67]], where they met [[Outpost B-67 exo-structuring party|great numbers]] but minimal resistance. He expected the liberated citizens of Nexus Seven to be more grateful, but Hound pointed out that their rescuees looked more frightened than pleased, and blamed their group's bloodthirstiness.

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But the Firestormers' quest led them to the staggering discovery that these scattered Decepticon outposts were actually just the tip of the iceberg. There were just seventeen conquered and recolonized planets in that sector of space, suggesting that there was something bigger on the horizon than the remnants of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s old team. After [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] was called to hear this news from Sideswipe and the other Firestormers, they were suddenly attacked and captured by a ship in orbit. Sideswipe and the others were put in prison cells aboard the starship ''[[Twilight (G2)|Twilight]]'', which was under the command of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], the [[Liege Centuro]] of a forgotten race of Transformers. This revelation momentarily shook Optimus Prime's resolve, but after being brought back to his senses by [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], the two Autobots freed Sideswipe and the others from their cells. They fought their way through the starship to an escape vessel and escaped without injury, though they were burdened with this new knowledge. {{storylink|War Without End!}}

Sideswipe was present when the Autobots met Jhiaxus's Decepticons in battle on a planet within the [[K'tord Nebula]]. At first, tempers merely flared, but soon both sides lost themselves in a violent, bloody rage. Before they were completely lost to their baser instincts, the source of their behavior was discovered to be tar-like emotional parasites. The parasites were removed, and both factions decided to leave peacefully. {{storylink|Primal Fear!}}

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Grimlock, disobeying Optimus Prime's orders, led a covert team onto the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]] ship ''[[Twilight (G2)|Twilight]]'' to defeat [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and his army of "evolved Decepticons". Sideswipe was wary of their plan to steal a ship and slip on board, but Grimlock assured him that the plan was foolproof. Grimlock changed his tune when they soon learned that they were led into a trap, resulting in [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]'s death and the Autobots' capture. Sideswipe and the others were rounded up onto a shuttle to be inspected by the [[Liege Maximo]], but managed to escape their fate with assistance from Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Devices and Desires! (Marvel)|Devices and Desires!}}

Later, while Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] were discussing an alliance against Jhiaxus's Cybertronians, Sideswipe interrupted to tell them that they had received a distress signal from the planet [[Ethos]]. {{storylink|Escalation!|Tales of Earth Part Five}} Sure enough, upon arrival, the Autobots found an advanced civilization in ruins, but managed to repel the Cybertronians thanks to their new Decepticon allies. {{storylink|Escalation!}}

Finally, Jhiaxus took the full force of his Empire to [[Earth]], where the Autobot/Decepticon alliance had camped. Sideswipe joined them in shooting their attackers out of the sky as they approached. {{storylink|Total War!}}

====Fleetway ''Generation 2'' comic====
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Years later, Sideswipe was part of [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]]'s Special Commando Unit, summoned to Earth along with Optimus Prime by [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] when [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] began open war on the humans. Prime decided to go after Bludgeon himself, and he assigned Jazz, Sideswipe and [[Skram (G2)|Skram]] to take down one Decepticon strike team at a time because the Decepticon forces were spread very thin. While still in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], Sideswipe shot [[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]] in the crotch, then transformed and hoped aloud that Prime would be okay in the face of Bludgeon's mysterious powers. {{storylink|War Without End (issue)|War Without End}}

When the [[Skyscorcher]]s left in the middle of battle, Jazz concluded they had another target to go after—which he and Sideswipe simultaneously realized to be Optimus Prime! The Skyscorchers had ''actually'' left to go after Bludgeon's enemy Megatron, whom Sideswipe and his comrades helped shoot at when they arrived in the middle of a fight between the one-time Decepticon leader, Prime, and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. Following Megatron's retreat, Sideswipe helped secure prisoners and weapons for withdrawal to the [[Autobase]] hidden on Earth's moon. {{storylink|War Zone}}
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====''Classics''====
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Sunstreaker and Sideswipe joined Optimus Prime's crew on Earth after Megatron resurfaced. They braved the Ark's defenses in order to break inside and recover their lost comrade, Ratchet. Sideswipe unsealed him from the [[CR chamber]] Megatron had left the medic in, and together the twins carried him away to safety. {{storylink|At Fight's End}}

Subsequently, Sideswipe was stationed with several other Autobots in [[Canada]] within the ''[[Ark II]]''. He was present one day when [[Rad (G1)|Rad]] reported from the [[Ironworks (facility)|Ironworks]] base in [[Oregon]] about a foiled attack by [[Overlord (G1)|Gigatron]] and his Decepticons. Soon thereafter, due to the actions of an evil [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]] from [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|another dimension]], a rift of space time opened over Earth, causing catastrophes worldwide. Sideswipe, with the aid of his rocket pack, assisted his peers in evacuating a devastated city block. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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Sideswipe was part of an armed assault team that accompanied [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and Optimus Prime to Earth to confront Megatron and his [[zombie]] army of lobotomised Transformers. On their return to Cybertron aboard the ''[[Valiant (G1)|Valiant]]'', the ship was threatened by the planet's defence systems under the control of Scorponok's troops. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Four}} After the missiles were aborted at the last minute, Sideswipe and the others prepared for immediate deployment upon landing, though [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s efforts had already foiled [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]]'s [[Gene Key]] shenanigans. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Five}}

Later, Sideswipe and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] guarded [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] as he met with [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] at [[Eugenesis Plaza]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 2}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
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An original member of the Autobots when they crash-landed on Earth, Sideswipe was a cool guy with jack-hammer arms, a rocket pack and little in the way of personality. Those accessories, though.

In a [[splinter timeline]] Sideswipe had more adventures, including one where he gained a new [[Binaltech (technology)|Binaltech]] body until [[time travel]] said otherwise. He continued serving the Autobots well into the year [[2011]], where he was stationed on both [[Athenia]] and Earth simultaneously, but nobody noticed. In the years that followed, he would mature and shed his rebellious nature, taking on covert missions out of a sense of duty rather than a desire to show off.
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===''The Special Teams''===
After crashing on Earth in the Ark and remaining dormant for millions of years, Sideswipe, along with Optimus and Ratchet, were the first Autobots to awaken after the Decepticons’ own resurrection. These three helped the other Autobots repair themselves with the aid of the Ark's computer. {{storylink|The Special Teams}}

===Sticker Adventures books===
When the Decepticons attacked an Autobot construction site, Sideswipe helped his fellow Autobots in driving them back. {{storylink|Return to Cybertron}}

===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
Sideswipe was amongst the thirty-five Autobots active on Earth. When the Autobots engaged The Devastator for the very first time, Sunstreaker lead Sideswipe, Windcharger, Jazz and Mirage in the initial charge against him. Their attack was ineffective, and they were blasted away by the mighty gestalt. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

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Upon hearing that his "twin Autobot" had been captured by the Decepticons, Sideswipe flew into a rage and vowed to rescue Sunstreaker himself. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] advised Sideswipe to take [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] and [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with him, as they would surely encounter [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] within the Decepticons' headquarters. The three Autobots made their way towards Decepticon territory, encountering numerous traps along the road. Sideswipe was almost done in by a land mine, but managed to transform in time to avoid being seriously damaged. When the trio arrived at the Decepticon camp, another obstacle presented itself in the form of a duo of Decepticon guards. Making short work of these two, Sideswipe's group entered the Decepticon basewhere they came face-to-face against Devastator, as anticipated. Despite their best efforts, the Autobots were overpowered by Devastator, and put in a holding cell alongside Sunstreaker. Later, Megatron announced that the Autobots had agreed to surrender, and brought out his prisoner to look upon the Autobots' peace offering; a life-size statue of Devastator. The surrender turned out to be a ruse however, and Autobot reinforcements burst forth from within the Devastator statue. Sideswipe joined the battle between Autobots and Decepticons that followed. The Autobots were ultimately victorious, and Sideswipe was amongst the Autobots still standing in the aftermath. Optimus ordered his troops to gather the wounded, and the Autobots returned home. {{storylink|The Autobots' Secret Weapon}}
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===Marvel coloring books===
A long time ago, on the planet Cybertron, Sideswipe helped load a particularly large shipment of Energon onto the Ark. The shipment would eventually become lost when the Ark crashlanded into Mt. St. Hillary. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

With Sparkplug acting as their referee, Sideswipe and Bluestreak raced one another in order to determine who was the fastest. The race ended in a tie, with Sparkplug declaring them both winners. Just then, Thundercracker and Starscream swooped down onto the trio, and cast [[Sleep Net]]s unto them, rendering them unconscious. Sideswipe was brought to Megatron's newly constructed prison, and was incarcerated within. Luckily, Bumblebee had not been captured, and managed to free the other Autobots. Upon their escape, Sideswipe and Bluestreak shot Starscream and Thundercracker out of the sky. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue!}}

Sideswipe was one of the many Autobots who prevented the Decepticons from killing Sparkplug and Buster on their latest attempt on the humans' lives. He later helped the Autobots protecting the Hoover Dam. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}}

Sideswipe was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into battle when it was discovered that the Decepticons were using a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel all around the globe. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

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Sideswipe polished himself as he looked on at Gears casually lifting an elephant over his head. Later, when Gears had fallen into a Decepticon trap and gotten himself crushed, Sideswipe, Ratchet and Mirage somehow instantly knew of the situation and showed up on the scene. Sideswipe kicked up some dust into Ravage's joints, paralyzing the Decepticons. The three Autobots managed to beat back the Decepticons and rescue Gears, who was fixed right up by Ratchet. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

Sideswipe (or Sunstreaker) was part of a small strike team of Autobots assembled by Ultra Magnus to help the Dinobots, who were currently engaged in battle against the Decepticons, just outside of Autobot City. After they defeated the Decepticons, Sideswipe/Sunstreaker and the others were cheered on by the nearby oil rig workers as they drove back to Autobot City. {{storylink|Battle at Oil Valley}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
Upon awakening on Earth after being offline for about 65 million years, Sideswipe met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Sideswipe was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Sideswipe ''really'' enjoyed fighting Decepticons. When the other Autobots went on a mission to rescue [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] from [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] mind control, Sideswipe was sure to remind them that beating Decepticons was very important too. {{storylink|Insecticon Attack!}}

When the Decepticons invaded a car show at the Coliseum, Sideswipe was one of the robots in disguise who infiltrated the show to thwart the Decepticon plot. {{storylink|Car Show Blow Up}}

===Deadly Paradise===
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Sideswipe was surprised to find himself accused of destroying the [[Nova Suspension Bridge]]. He claimed he was not guilty of the act, but with several eyewitnesses proclaiming otherwise and the Autobot-Human relations strained by the crime, Optimus Prime had no choice but to deactivate him. Prowl later discovered that the Sideswipe who had destroyed the bridge was in fact [[Sideswipe clone (G1)|a clone]] controlled by Megatron. He and a team returned to Autobot headquarters with the evidence necessary to clear Sideswipe's name, who was presumably reactivated afterwards. {{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}

===The Battle for Planet Earth===
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Sideswipe was one of the group of Autobots who explored for energy in [[South America]], and engaged in a battle with the Decepticons on [[Mount Sheelah]] shortly before the volcano erupted. {{storylink|Terror of Mount Sheelah}} After a hard day's work repairing the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], he and the other Autobots were relaxing and watching [[television]] when they learned the Decepticons had started kidnapping humans. Sideswipe favored mounting an attack, but it was pointed out that that would endanger the humans. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}}

Following the Decepticons to [[Stanley Lake]] dam, Sideswipe used his flare gun to lure them out in front of the dam. After a brief fight, the Autobots retreated and flooded the valley with water, washing the Decepticons away. {{Storylink|Menace at the Dam}} After [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defected to the Autobots as a trick, Sideswipe showed him a box supposedly containing the [[Deuterium Orbital Laser Tracing System]]. Starscream, in reality spying for the Decepticons, sent Megatron's forces on a wild goose chase, and Sideswipe and the other Autobots took the opportunity to destroy the Decepticon base. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

===Ladybird Books continuity===
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe marveled at Spike's explanation of electricity that comes from the sky. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
In the path where Mirage used a hologram of Optimus Prime to lure the four [[cerebro-shell]]-controlled [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] over the edge of [[Bandit's Bluff]] and into the ocean, Sideswipe was one of the Autobots crewing [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] destroyer mode. He helped haul the unconscious quartet aboard for safe transport back to the Ark.

If Optimus Prime chose to immediately attack the Dinobots without a real plan, Sideswipe responded to Prime's order to, "Bring them down fast and hard," by blasting [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who just wouldn't go down. He yelled to Sunstreaker for help, which he provided with a series of high-energy electron pulses, their combined attack ultimately knocking the Dinobot commander over and dislodging his cerebro-shell. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}

====Attack of the Insecticons====
Sideswipe was present, yet mostly uninvolved, in a number of possible adventures revolving around the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug that would end the Autobots' energy woes. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

===Frito-Lay posters===
When the Decepticons threatened [[sherman Dam|Boulder Dam]], Sideswipe rocketed into action! He extended his robots arms and swung them about wildly while still driving in vehicle mode. The Autobots successfully drove off the Decepticons in the end. {{storylink|Battle in the Desert Valley}}
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===Toy pack-in material===
While cruising through a desert, Sideswipe and Jazz crossed paths with the Constructicons! Knowing they ''had'' to be stopped, Sideswipe led the charge against the enemy robots. His "cosmic clash" against Long Haul was subsequently heard around the world! {{storylink|Sweepstakes Offer!}}

===The Official ''Transformers: Generation 2'' Annual===
In the early days of the war, Sideswipe served with the civil defense forces in [[Vos (polity)|Vos]]. He was nearly killed when [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s army cut a swath through the city-state, and vowed revenge against the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Sideswipe's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}}

{{note|This suggests that something similar to "[[State Games]]" occurred in the past of this Annual's [[micro-continuity]], although little elaborated upon.}}

On Earth, Sideswipe participated in an Autobot sting operation against the Decepticons. They tricked the Decepticons into boarding a rigged shuttle on [[Table Mountain]] in [[Africa]] and launched them up into the stratosphere. {{storylink|Day of the Decepticons}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Before the war, Sideswipe was a trader who liked to con his customers. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|The Ultimate Guide}} He was one of the few Autobots to continue operating under that title during the [[Dark Ages]] of Cybertron, after Optimus Prime and Megatron had both disappeared into a prototype space-bridge. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Sideswipe was one of the elite warriors serving under [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and as such was chosen for the mission that sent him against the newly constructed Decepticon battle station, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Though the Autobots believed they would be able to find the station before it was fully operational, Trypticon revealed himself to already be battle-ready. {{storylink|Devastation}} Despite throwing everything they had at the titan, the Autobots weren't able to even slow it down. Prowl ordered his troops to try and outrun Trypticon, which Sideswipe misinterpreted as meaning they would try to "run it in circles and then pop it one in the exhaust vent." Neither tactic worked in any case, and the Autobots were only spared because Trypticon suddenly received a transmission recalling him to the neutral zones, and broke off from the fight to respond to it. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}} Sideswipe and his teammates returned to their headquarters for repairs, where Sideswipe received a communique from [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], explaining that both [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] had mysteriously vanished. The cause of these disappearances then made itself apparent, as [[The Fallen]] broke into the [[Autobase]] and abducted [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] from one of its holding cells. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} Once The Fallen's base of operations was uncovered, Sideswipe joined a cross-faction army in rushing it to put an end to the ancient Transformer's scheme. Ultimately, The Fallen was defeated by the power of [[Primus]] himself, and all factions agreed to keep the chamber The Fallen had tried to breach sealed to prevent anyone from further abusing the power held within it. {{storylink|Conflagration}}

Some time later, Megatron returned to Cybertron with an army of [[Air Warrior]]s backing him. He quickly took over the planet, and enslaved the majority of Autobots. Sideswipe was among the many unfortunates captured, and put to work in [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

[[File:DWPrimeDirective2 SunstreakerSideswipe.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|"This is what [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] was whining about? Loser."]]
Sideswipe was part of Operation Liberation in 1998, a joint human-Autobot effort to defeat the Earth-bounded Decepticons. At the end it was a success, and the captured Decepticons along with the Autobots and a human crew departed Earth en route to Cybertron in the ''[[Ark II]]''. The ship, however, was sabotaged and exploded upon liftoff.

A few years later, Megatron and other Transformers, including Autobots, were seen causing havoc. It was discovered that [[Lazarus]], a scientist who participated in the ''Ark II'' project, was responsible for the sabotage of the ship and the resurrection of several Transformers under his control via technological tampering. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}}

[[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] of the [[United States military|US military]] contacted [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] to ask him if he could do something to help them reactivate Optimus Prime, whom they had recovered locked in a state of stasis. Spike managed to reactivate Optimus with a portion of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] that Optimus had given him prior the ill-fated journey of the ''Ark II''. Optimus subsequently went to the Arctic and used the Matrix to reactivate several Transformers, including Sideswipe. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}}

[[File:DWPrimeDirective5 SideswipeSunstreaker Devastator.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|We're trying to look dynamic, but all these [[Pat Lee|puffy proportions]] are putting a stop to that.]]
Sideswipe accepted the new task at hand and fought alongside his brother when the Autobots faced the Decepticons at Lazarus' ruined base (punching Starscream in the face for attacking Wheeljack) before Hallo betrayed the Autobots by attempting to destroy both factions with a nuclear weapon. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} The Autobots survived when Megatron's technovirus absorbed the blast, and Sideswipe helped his comrades recover the captive Autobots imprisoned inside the base.

As Jazz's unit worked on Megatron's virus, Sideswipe followed Optimus Prime to [[San Francisco]] for the last battle against Megatron and his Decepticons. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} When [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] was taken down, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker heroically (though foolishly) charged at [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], and they were smashed between the giant Constructicon's palms for their trouble. After Optimus Prime brought Devastator down with a blast to the head, Sideswipe was restrained by the surviving Decepticons. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} However, through [[human]] intervention, Optimus Prime freed his Autobots and the battle was rejoined. Sideswipe tag-teamed with his brother to pummel [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], though the Decepticons eventually escaped when Superion sacrificed his life to save the city from General Hallo's unauthorized nuclear missile launch. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Months later, after Optimus Prime, Megatron, and an assortment of other Transformers and humans vanished in a flash of light from Tokyo, Japan, the world went on high alert. When the U.S. military detected [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in the Nevada canyons, Sideswipe accompanied a flight of jets in confronting the Decepticon. Their battle led down a tight box canyon, and Sideswipe had some difficulty chasing Starscream while also coordinating with his military wingmen, as he tried to limit the human casualties. Eventually, Sideswipe was led straight into Devastator, who had been hiding in the canyon on Starscream's order. The combined surprise firepower of Starscream's arsenal and a near-pointblank blast from Devastator's solar energy rifle left Sideswipe in several charred pieces. {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}''

''Sideswipe was eventually repaired by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and returned to duty just in time to fight in Nevada once more. This time, the Autobots and Decepticons had joined forces against an ambush arranged by the President of the United States, who hoped to rid his country of the Transformers. Sideswipe waded through General [[Michelle Grajkowski]]'s troops, heavily routing her Delta Team, but the [[deconstructionite]] weapons being used by the U.S. Armed Forces were too much of a surprise for the Cybertronians—they were clearly on the losing end of the battle as many of their number fell before the severity of the weaponized nanites became evident. Sideswipe and Prowl helped load the injured Autobots into Prime's trailer as they made their getaway. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:G1 Sideswipe Sunstreaker DWissue7.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Hi, I'm a jock.]]
The Autobots were entrenched against Megatron's forces when agents from the united Cybertron led by Shockwave arrived on Earth. Despite using his pile-drivers to send some of these attackers for a tumble, Sideswipe found himself severely overpowered by the newcomers, along with the rest of the Autobots. He and the others retreated as the Decepticons were taken in as war criminals. Optimus Prime split his forces so that their wounded could be tended to while a small scouting party was sent out to investigate further Shockwave and his followers. Sideswipe was among those who returned to the Ark, where the Autobots discussed whether they could take Shockwave's word at face value. {{storylink|New World Order}} As Prime and many other Autobots traveled back to Cybertron with Shockwave, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and their crew, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker remained on Earth with several other Autobots under Jazz's command. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}}

After the end of Shockwave's despotic rule over Cybertron, the Autobots on Cybertron made contact with Sideswipe's crew for an update and promised to send supplies. {{storylink|Generation 1 issue 0|Generation 1 #0}} Unfortunately, Starscream arrived on Earth first, backed up by a small cadre of soldiers. Sideswipe and company managed to stave off an initial attack from the Decepticons, only for Starscream to unleash his trump card on the battlefield: [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Sideswipe was deactivated in battle with the combiner, and was left to rust at the bottom of a lake. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] later dredged him and the others up, only to be taken into custody by [[Earth Defense Command]]. {{storylink|The Omega Effect}} The Autobots were then taken to a secret underground facility by the humans. {{storylink|Atonement}} Jazz, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker were reactivated to help [[Marissa Faireborn]] and [[EDC Night Force Unit|her team]] in investigating several mysterious disappearances (with extraterrestrial involvement suspected) in small-town America. During their trip out into the field, Sideswipe game the much less experienced [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] a hard time for his fretting and worrying, but rushed to the little guy's rescue after he was attacked within the town's movie theater. As he did so, the Autobots found out what they were dealing with was an outbreak of [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]]. {{storylink|Infestation (Dreamwave)|Infestation}} Sideswipe and Sunstreaker wound up in an underground hatching chamber, filled with Insecticon eggs. Wandering about while his brother contemplated the hatchery, Sideswipe came upon some fully-grown Insecticon clones and attacked them... only to inadvertently blind himself by bringing down a wall, allowing light to flood in and overwhelm his night-vision. Though Sunstreaker came to his rescue, the two brother wound up prisoners of the Insecticons nonetheless. Thankfully, Bumper, who had since found his courage, freed Sideswipe and Sunstreaker in time for them to participate in their team's last stand against the enemy swarm. Sideswipe took out Shrapnel in the fight by toppling an entire building atop of him. But the conflict culminated with the Autobots against an enemy they couldn't just beat down: the mind-controlled townspeople. Bumper once more came to his team's rescue by downing Bombshell, disabling his mind-control network over the town, allowing an Autobot victory. {{storylink|Extermination}}

After routing and capturing the Decepticons, Sideswipe and the other Autobots said their goodbyes to their EDC and departed in the ''Orion''. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} Afterwards, they joined up with the returning team from Cybertron under Prowl's command, and began construction of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}
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===3H comics===
Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]], and [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]] returned to the [[technorganic]] [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after a prolonged journey and were welcomed by the [[Maximal]]s. [[Unicron]] abducted these newly returned Transformers, in addition to many others from different times and universes, to start a final confrontation against [[Primus]]. Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were rebuilt into new forms, {{storylink|Abduction}} corrupted by Unicron's influence, and set against one another in the [[Cauldron]]. Before either brother could land a killing blow, however, the fight was broken up by [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]. Sideswipe then fought his way out of Unicron alongside many other Transformers rescued by Primal and returned to Cybertron. {{storylink|OTFCC Live-Action Drama}} {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}}

Back on Cybertron at the [[Oasis Research and Development Facility]], [[Ratchet (Universe)|Ratchet]] tried to remove the [[Unicron virus]] from Sideswipe to no avail. {{storylink|Homecoming (Universe)|Homecoming}}

Some time later, Sideswipe was back in his original body and a member of Optimus Primal's [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]]. During the final battle with [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|Minions of Unicron]], Unicron began to dissolve beneath them (as a result of the [[Unicron Singularity]]). Sideswipe grabbed Sunstreaker and used his jetpack to get them into a portal presumably back to their native Cybertron. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:Sideswipe and Zartan GIJoevsTFs3.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
Along with several other Transformers, the dormant Sideswipe was found on the crashed ''Ark'' by [[Cobra]], a human terrorist organization who soon reprogrammed the alien robots to serve them. Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were rebuilt into Cobra [[Stinger (G.I. Joe)|Stingers]] and sent to assault the [[SPS Research Facility]] alongside [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and his [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|minions]]. The two brothers didn't succeed in their mission, though, as they were rammed aside by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] while charging at the building and were eventually ordered to retreat. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}} Wheeljack later freed Sideswipe and the others from Cobra's control, and he helped Sunstreaker and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] fight back against the similarly freed Decepticons and their former captors. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

Two years later, [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] took control of the Decepticon forces on Cybertron and captured Optimus Prime. Sideswipe joined a team of Autobots led by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] who were planning on charging in and rescuing their leader as soon as the opportunity came up. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}} After reinforcements arrived in the form of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], the Autobots made their move and attacked Serpent O.R.'s Decepticon army, ultimately defeating it. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

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Sideswipe returned to Earth a few months later, where he worked to keep Cybertronian technology from being misused by humans. During one mission to [[Cuba]], he helped stop [[Destro]] from selling [[S.N.A.K.E.]]s to one Mr. [[Calandero]], but failed to capture the arms dealer and returned to the Autobots' base, the ''[[Arc II]]''. When the ship was attacked by the [[Pretender Monster]]s, Sideswipe was the first to fall. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2}} The crew later received medical attention at the [[Pit (G.I. Joe)|Pit]], where they'd eventually recover from their injures. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2}}
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===The Beast Within===
Sideswipe participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons. He was ganged-up on by several Constructicons early in the battle. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===''Hearts of Steel''===
Sideswipe participated in the pursuit of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], and partially transformed from artillery boxcar mode to [[robot mode]] in order to shoot down [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. He stated, "The name is Sideswipe." {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 4|Hearts of Steel #4}}

{{note|For unclear reasons, in the original comic book issue, the Autobot who shoots down Scourge identifies himself as [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], not Sideswipe. Sideswipe only appears in the trade paperback collection.}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:SpotlightSideswipe Sideswipe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''[[Ryu|SHIN SHORYUKEN!]]'']]
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/2005 IDW continuity}}
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===''Mini Mayhem!''===
Some jerk in a [[Spider-Man]] outfit led a legion of [[Clone trooper]]s to smash Sideswipe and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]'s [[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] [[Transformers: Crossovers]] toys. Sideswipe's pleas for him to stop were left unheeded.

Later, Sideswipe was seen waiting in line in anticipation for the [[Transformers (film)|live-action Transformers film]].
{{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:HenkeiVol6-lambor.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|left|You are stupid! You are stupid! And don't forget; you are ''stupid''!]]
Sideswipe was chasing a mysterious plane that had stolen supplies of [[energon]], using his [[Jet pack|rocket pack]] to catch up with it. But the next thing he knew, the plane was gone! The befuddled Sideswipe ran into [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], who was chasing a truck also charged with energon theft. Just then, the truck arrived before them, revealing itself to be the plane as well. It was the [[Triple Changer]] [[Octane]]! Though Octane tried to attack the two Autobots, Sideswipe blasted the Decepticon and knocked him to the ground. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 6|Henkei! Henkei! #6}}
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
When Optimus first discovered the Matrix of Leadership, Sideswipe looked on in amazement as the Autobot leader put the relic inside his chest. Sideswipe was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
{{note|Near the end of Action Blast 1, as the Autobots are taking on their Earth modes, Sideswipe is shown in [[robot mode]] amongst the other Autobots, but not Tracks. When the cartoon cuts back to the Autobots, now in their [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]s, Tracks has inexplicably taken Sideswipe's place in the line-up.}}
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===''United''===
Sideswipe was in attendance for a ceremony commending the Autobot [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s and [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s after they had retrieved the cure for a deadly nano-virus infecting the Autobots stationed on Earth. {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:SideswipeKREO-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Note the lack of anything resembling a sword.]]
Sideswipe was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}}

Sideswipe was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}

During the holiday season, Sideswipe and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] sneaked a [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] ''Kre-O'' set into [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]]'s pile of presents, so Bumblebee could surprise the Decepticon leader. They later went and did the same to [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|A Gift For Megatron}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Another Episode, Part 1}} {{storylink|Another Episode, Part 2}} {{storylink|The Fated Rival, Once Again...}} {{storylink|To Earth}} {{storylink|Reunion and Parting}} {{storylink|Plans of the Emperor of Destruction}} {{storylink|Revenge (All Spark)|Revenge}} {{storylink|Ray of Hope}} {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} {{storylink|Conclusion}}}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Sideswipe was supposed to search for the legendary [[Red Bucket]] alongside [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], only to get himself lost in a forest. By the time he found the bucket, it was empty: the other two had beaten him to it and taken all the blocks home. {{storylink|Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!}} Optimus Prime later borrowed Sideswipe's jetpack without permission, causing him much distress. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}

===''Transformers × Evangelion''===
[[File:Transformers Mode Eva ch 2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Sideswipe was among the Autobots who boarded [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] and traveled to [[Tokyo-3]] on Earth, {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 1}} where he witnessed the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] possess the body of an [[Angel]]. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 2}} When Optimus Prime scanned [[Evangelion Unit-01]], growing greatly in size in order to take on Starscream, Sideswipe got anxious and asked Prime to confirm that he was feeling alright. Following Starscream's defeat, Sideswipe aided [[Nerv]] staff in renovating Prime's trailer into a mobile base. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 4}}
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Yūichi Nakamura]] (Japanese)}}
{{Charstubfiction|{{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Explorer}} {{storylink|Mystery of Return of Convoy}}}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
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In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], [[Mirage (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Mirage]] and Sideswipe attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}

{{note|Sideswipe's coloration in this universe is based on his unreleased ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' toy. See [[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Notes]] for further details.}}
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
[[File:Siege-Sideswipe-CardArt.jpeg|thumb|upright=0.85]]
On Cybertron, Sideswipe was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Command Infantry Private]], whose function was a soldier. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' webpage}}<ref name=Siege>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/siege ''Siege'' website]</ref> During the final days of the Great War on Cybertron, Sideswipe was deployed to investigate possible [[Energon]] reserves in [[Kalis]]—home to the subsurface fusion reactor that powered most of Cybertron's key locations. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}<ref name=Siege/>

At some unknown point, Sideswipe was used as a template for a [[Sideswipe (IDW)|clone]] built for covert operations who was also made a member of the [[Firestormer|Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege#Exclusives|Final Strike Figure Series marketing material}}<ref>[https://www.amazon.com.au/TRANSFORMERS-Generations-War-Cybertron-Siege/dp/B07NZ7W14Z Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce on Amazon Australia]</ref>

Closer than ever to reaching the [[AllSpark]], the Autobots awakened after crash-landing on pre-Ice Age Earth. While battling the Decepticons, both sides were joined by the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s, their epic battle changing their combined destinies. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

During the collective battle, Sideswipe and [[Skywarp (BW)|Skywarp]] attempted to keep the Decepticon/Predacon threat at bay while being pursued by [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' Battle Across Time Collection marketing material}}<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08TM27396/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Battle Across Time Collection on Amazon]</ref>

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====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Whitten]] (English), [[Mutsuki Iwanaka]] (Japanese)|[[Yuri Tupper]] (Portuguese), [[Jean-Christophe Clément]] (French), [[Sebastian Kluckert]] (German), [[Aitor González]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Miguel Ángel Ruiz]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|Siege and Kingdom, plus rewrite for Earthrise}}
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Sideswipe was rendered inactive aboard the ''Ark'', following its journey through the space bridge. He was captured by [[Doubledealer]] and his [[Mercenary|Mercenaries]], and was among the Autobots bought to Charr and hauled before Deseeus. Sideswipe was held back with the other Autobots as Optimus was bought alone to face the Quintesson. Sideswipe then aided with the escape from Charr and left the world aboard the ''Ark'' with the other Autobots. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 2}}

Sideswipe was among the team of Autobots who accompanied Optimus to Nebulos Station. There, he aided in the fight against Scorponok. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 3}}. Sideswipe helped fight against Scorponok until the arrival of the Decepticons. Sideswipe, alongside his fellow Autobots, made their escape while Scorponok was preoccupied with the Decepticons. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 4}} Sideswipe was aboard the ''Ark'' when it was sent crashing down to Earth. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

===''Bumblebee'' graphic novels===
Sideswipe was among the Autbots attempting to keep a [[cybertonium]] meteor out of Decepticon hands. At Optimus's prompting, he transformed to protect Bumblebee from enemy fire. He encouraged Bee to keep up before shooting down Thundercracker. Optimus then ordered him to speed around the enemies perimiter and fire on them.{{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Go For the Gold|Go for the Gold}} Later he was in the Autobot base when Bumblebee returned from his test drive. Optimus sent him to retrive a component from Wheeljack's lab and bring it to him in [[Nevada]] in order to fix a radiation leak. Much later he was seen taking [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] into captivity.{{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Win If You Dare|Win If You Dare}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part Three|''Transformers'' #3]] (mentioned); [[The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two|#8]] (full)}}

Sideswipe was forged after the [[War of the Threefold Spark]]. Joining [[Security Operations]] when he reached maturity, his eagerness to fight rubbed some of the war veterans the wrong way. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

[[File:TheCracksBeneathYourFeetPartThree SideswipeThermalLance.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2.1]]
In the wake of [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s murder, [[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]] and Sideswipe were tracking possible members of [[The Rise]]. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}} When [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] crashed into Security Operations headquarters, Sideswipe came running, thinking a bomb had gone off. When the veteran revealed the existence of a Rise base beneath the [[Memorial Crater]], [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] told an overeager Sideswipe to open the armory. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}} Arriving at the crater with Chromia and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], Sideswipe salivated over the weapons he'd brought with him before Chromia dropped down into the base. Left on the surface, Sideswipe chatted up Windblade before [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] made herself known and one-upped Sideswipe's [[thermal lance]]. Quickly recovering, Sideswipe engaged the Riser in a duel before she took her leave, an act that heralded the base's violent death. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}} Retreating to headquarters, Sideswipe was tended to by [[Flatline (G1)|Flatline]] whom he griped to about Flamewar's choice of insult, she'd called him "Slowswipe", with the doctor feeling he should get his priorities straight. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Four}}

[[File:TheChangeInYourNaturePartOne SideswipeSpringer.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|]]
When [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] returned to Cybertron, he sent out literally every Security Operations agent to root out the Rise. Partnered with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Sideswipe patrolled the regions around [[Crystal City]] before an alert came in from an [[energon processing station]]. Springer quickly changed to copter mode to reach the crime scene leaving Sideswipe to catch up on the ground, finding Springer having been made a fool of. As the [[Triple Changer]] picked himself up, he told Sideswipe to call in everyone. The duo trailed the group to a [[Titan (group)|Titan]] corpse in the [[Cybertronian Mountains]] but quickly found the aggressors' superior firepower put them at a disadvantage. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

When reinforcements arrived, Sideswipe took up a sniping position, being backed up by [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and [[Strongarm (G1)|Strongarm]], his lust for violence quickly earning Kup's ire. After [[Javelin]] had been struck, [[Flak (G1)|Flak]] fired a harassment barrage providing cover for Sideswipe who planted explosive charges on one of the Titan's airlocks. While [[Kaskade]] was knocked down, [[Lowload]] recovered quickly, using his drill tank mode to harass Kup and Strongarm. Sideswipe tackled the brute from behind, planting a grenade on him, but the wounded Riser managed to retreat back inside the Titan. Grumbling, Sideswipe requested heavier artillery. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

[[File:WarWorldPrime SideswipeSavesBumper.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
After the [[Tether]] had collapsed, Sideswipe helped clear debris from the [[A'ovan habitat]] where he requested a transfer into [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s new counterterrorism unit only to be shot down. Joining up with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s unit as they prepared for a raid on [[Swindle's]], Sideswipe took up position on a nearby rooftop, Sideswipe tackled [[Storm Cloud (G1)|Storm Cloud]], downing him with his thermal lance and allowing Security Operations to take him into custody. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}}

When the Decepticons revealed themselves and seized the [[Senate]] building, Sideswipe was part of the operation to retake it. Under Prowl's command again, he complimented Javelin's return to action after her injury and stood ready with the rest of his team to provide cover fire for anyone escaping the Senate building. After [[Clench (G1)|Clench]] turned a [[rail gun]] on the Autobots, Sideswipe moved in to rescue [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]], who had been shot. Sideswipe took heavy damage carrying the wounded Bumper out of the line of fire. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}}

They both recovered and were soon back on security duty with Strongarm in [[Crystal City]], watching over an experiment [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] performed involving [[Jumpstream]]. After having saved his life, Sideswipe now found Bumper annoyingly eager to impress him, and told the rookie to make a perimeter sweep of the building. Once Bumper ran off, Strongarm pointed out his obvious hero worship of Sideswipe, which Sideswipe seemed oblivious to. She told him he was a role model now, something Sideswipe didn't think he was cut out for. Before they could discuss it further, Jumpstream materialized before them briefly, Perceptor's new [[teleportation]] rig suffering a malfunction. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}}

[[File:DustOfCrystals SideswipeCovering.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.9|]]
Sideswipe was on sentry duty when the Decepticons attacked Crystal City. He and his group opened fire at the horde of enemies at their gates until an explosion destroyed their high ground and they were confronted by some of [[Strika's Heavies]]. Sideswipe was determined to make a last stand, with the impressionable and terrified Bumper ready to back him up. However, Strongarm reminded Sideswipe of his responsibilities and he instead told the others to retreat while he covered them. Sideswipe held off the Heavies with his thermal lance until being overwhelmed, with Windblade and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] managing to pull his injured body to safety before he was killed. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}

After the Autobots began their trek to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], they were corralled by a Decepticon artillery barrage into the path of a horde of [[rust worm]]s. {{storylink|Radical Time}} Sideswipe joined a group led by [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] that attempted to scout an escape route, but they were cut off and turned back by airborne Decepticons that enforced the perimeter. They returned to the larger Autobot force and fought off the rust worms until a repurposed [[Insecticon clone]] swarm arrived to feast on the worms, allowing the Autobots to continue onward. {{storylink|End of Time}}

[[File:FateOfCybertron SideswipeBumper.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Surviving a confrontation with Megatron and an [[imploder]] next, the Autobots finally arrived at Darkmount and began preparing for an inevitable Decepticon attack to prevent them from leaving the planet. Hunkered down behind ramparts and awaiting the battle, Bumper began nervously humming, which Sideswipe was initially annoyed by. The bigger Autobot quickly apologized and told Bumper to do whatever he pleased in the face of the coming fight. When the Decepticons attacked, Sideswipe and the others held the line until [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] made a last stand, buying the others time to board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and blast off. Leaving Cybertron behind and headed for the [[Winged Moon]], Bumper cheerfully suggested to Sideswipe and Strongarm that they ask Ironhide to join the [[Senate Guard|Prime Guard]]. Sideswipe expressed hesitance, but Bumper assured his friend that he had his back. On approach to the Winged Moon, Sideswipe and the other Autobots listened to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] deliver a speech about their future out among the stars. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}
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===''Transformers vs. The Terminator''===
One of the Autobots aboard the ''Ark'', the ship's crash and the Decepticons' ransacking of the ship upon reactivation had left Sideswipe in deep stasis. He was eventually moved to the medical bay for repairs but this only wound up placing him at ground zero of one of the duplicitous [[T-800]]'s pilfered bombs. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}
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==Commercial appearances==
Sideswipe appeared in many [[commercial]]s. The following had original footage of Sideswipe:
*The very first Transformers animation, advertising the Marvel comic book. He drove out of a base alongside Jazz and Prowl; the three arrived at a power plant and counter-attacked the Decepticons. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#The Transformers #1|''The Transformers'' #1 commercial}}
*Sideswipe, Jazz, and Prowl encountered Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp in the middle of a desert. The two groups scuffled briefly. This was a toy commercial for all six of the featured characters. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Decepticon jets & Autobot cars|Decepticon jets & Autobot cars commercial}}
*Footage from the previous two commercials was spliced in with new footage of Jazz, Sideswipe, and Prowl charging into battle alongside Optimus Prime in a commercial advertising toys for both Optimus and Megatron. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Optimus Prime and Megatron|Optimus Prime and Megatron commercial}}
*Prowl, Jazz, and Sideswipe are once more seen together, this time storming the Decepticon base. But unknown to them, the inconspicuous micro-cassette recorder is the Decepticon communications officer, Soundwave! As soon as the Autobots are past him, Soundwave transforms and sics Laserbeak on them. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Soundwave|Soundwave commercial}}
*Sideswipe helped fend off [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Triple Changers and Perceptor|Triple Changers and Perceptor commercial}}
*Sideswipe was briefly seen driving alongside Jazz through a roller coaster city highway. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 2#Jets and cars|Generation 2 jets and cars commercial}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Sideswipe could come to Optimus Prime's aid, helping him move around the Decepticons' maze-like base. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Sideswipe is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Autobot duplicates in the Decepticon campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}{{-}}

===''Transformers G1: Awakening''===
[[File:Gluawakening sideswipe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85]]
Sideswipe was among the Autobots who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], and spent four million years in stasis after it was shot down over Earth by the Decepticons. As one of the more badly damaged Autobots, Sideswipe was stored in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] until the Autobots could gather enough energon to revive him. He was eventually revived in time to take part in the final assault on the Decepticons' Cybertron fortress to free the many enslaved Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers G1: Awakening}}
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===''Kreon Chaos''===
Sideswipe joined his fellow Autobots after they had managed to retrieve the Optimus Prime Kre-O kit parts from within Decepticon headquarters, and assembled it into a colossal Optimus Prime. The group then went out and used some Decepticons as target practice. {{storylink|Kreon Chaos}}
{{charstubgame|"Earth" and "Moon" stages}}

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===''Transformers Legends''===
Sideswipe was among the Autobots who thwarted Starscream's plan to destroy Earth, saving the planet by firing the [[Exponential Generator]] into orbit. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (Legends)|Countdown to Extinction}} Sideswipe was the first of the Autobots to coat themselves in [[Electrum]] after finding a Golden Lagoon. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon (Legends)|The Golden Lagoon}} He was in charge of a [[Sun-Farming facility]] which [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s group decided to attack. Alerted, Sideswipe had the other Autobots hang back so that they could ambush the enemy, however the gambit ultimately failed. Sideswipe and his men were forced to abandon the facility, leaving it in Decepticon hands. {{storylink|Revelation (Legends)|Revalation}}

After the Decepticons succeeded in driving the Autobots off Earth, the badly-damaged Optimus and his men sought refuge on Cybertron. Optimus eventually recovered, and as they prepared a ship to return to Earth, Sideswipe and his team defended it against the [[Insecticon swarm]]. The Autobots eventually reached Earth and retook it from the Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron (Legends)|All Hail Megatron}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Sideswipe appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Devastation''===
{{voiceactor|[[Michael Bell]]}}
Sideswipe had by far the fastest vehicle mode among the Autobots under Optimus's command. His fighting style was oriented toward melee combat over ranged. His overdrive ability let him dash forward with temporary invulnerability, while his ultimate attack allowed him to use his shoulder-mounted rocket launcher for a short time to attack enemies. He possessed two unique weapons- "Sideswipe's Swords" and a Flaregun that functioned as a short-range flamethrower. Like his fellow Autobot Bumblebee, he wasn't strong enough to use heavy weapons such as most missile and grenade launchers available to the Autobots.

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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:SideswipeEarthWars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|Aww, no Jetpack? And I look like my brother too? And you got my animation model wrong?]]

Sideswipe came to earth after a scouting mission of a mysterious base that had [[Viper|weird drones]] stationed around the base.
Sideswipe had to avoid line fire and keep a cold trail after Viper came after him. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars/Events|Operation Snakebite}}

Sideswipe eventually made it to the Autobot outpost, and his brother [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] greeted him with open arms.

*'''Class''': Warrior
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 Star
*'''Weapons''': Sideswipe uses a standard issue laser rifle to blast targets, and then closes in and smashes it with his fists.
*'''Ability: Shattering Charge''' - Rush into battle spreading Glass Gas along the way. All affected buildings take more damage for 7 seconds (Level 1)
**'''Cost:''' 4 ability Points +3 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:sideswipe Sideswipe at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]

===''Transformers Online'' (2017 video game)===
Sideswipe thought Sunstreaker was the strongest Autobot on the battlefield, as the latter's performance was cold-blooded, ruthless, and merciless. {{storylink|Transformers Online (2017 video game)|Transformers Online}} <ref>[http://tfol.qq.com/act/a20160726data/hero10.shtml Sunstreaker on the Transformers Online website]</ref>

===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Sideswipe-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Man, I'm good!"]]
Sideswipe was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! As a Scout, he jumpstarts the Power race at the start of the fight, and whenever he dodges projectiles. He deals Critical Damage at a high rate and Evades when attacked often. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}

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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
[[File:BBOSideswipe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left]]
Sideswipe took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. 800 Armor, 800 Blaster Strength, Score x6, Coins x3, Blaster Speed: Medium {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*Sideswipe's first ''Transformers'' toy was originally intended to be an Autobot-aligned release of the red version of the ''[[Diaclone]]'' toy "No. 1 Countach LP500S", alongside his brother, then named "Spinout", as a yellow "No. 15 New Countach LP500S" — that is to say, Sideswipe was supposed to look like a red Sunstreaker, and Sunstreaker was supposed to look like a yellow Sideswipe. This notion survived long enough into production that the original [[Production bible|series bible]] and his published ''[[The Transformers Universe]]'' bio describe Sideswipe with features of ''Sunstreaker's'' toy. During development, the characters had their molds swapped, but ''not'' their colors, making the yellow Countach Sunstreaker and the red New Countach Sideswipe that we know today. This whole shebang resulted in discrepancies such as Sideswipe being noted for his [[jet pack]] (in reality, Sunstreaker's vehicle mode exposed engine) and Sunstreaker's red shoulder stickers (which were intended to match with an otherwise red toy). In the decades since, Hasbro and TakaraTomy have been inducting old ''Diaclone'' colorways into ''Transformers''dom; the characters of [[Spin-Out (G1)|Spin-Out]] and [[Tigertrack]] are modern updates of the toys that were intended for Sideswipe and Sunstreaker respectively.
[[File: G1toon_sideswipes_pistons.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.75|I wanna bee-heee... your jackhammer!]]
*Sideswipe's piston arms (apparently derived from the "rocket booster" missiles of the Sunstreaker toy) were, for whatever reason, drawn differently in pretty much every episode of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] he utilized them in. A model sheet using the design from "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]" did in fact exist as evident by its inclusion in [[The Ark series|''The Ark'' series]] books, however; it would seem the model for the pistons was designed after Sideswipe's model was finalized, as they are absent from all of the known model sheets that have surfaced in the years since. Presumably, this piston model sheet was merely drawn up for that particular episode with the intent of it being discarded afterwards, much like the models used for other one-shot gadgets from other episodes, leaving the animators with no choice but to make up something the next time around.
**Both the original design and the subsequent alternate designs have been realized in toy form: the first "[[A Plague of Insecticons]]" design came with ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Sideswipe; the "[[Dinobot Island, Part 2|Dinobot Island]]" design was an Amazon-exclusive accessory for the ''Masterpiece'' toy; and the "S.O.S. Dinobots" design came with ''Masterpiece'' [[Clampdown (G1)|Clampdown]].
*Sideswipe's Japanese name, "Lambor" (ランボル) is derived from the name of his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], a Lamborghini (ランボルギーニ). It may also be a word play on the Japanese word "ranbō" (乱暴), which means "reckless, violent, rough". Wouldn't be the [[Autorooper|last]] [[Nine Great Demon Generals|time]] Takara's done such [[Japanese language|word puns]].
*According to a [[story page]] in the October 1985 issue of ''[[TV Magazine]]'', Sideswipe and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] are brothers, with Sideswipe being slightly older than Red Alert. This connection may have been invented because, aside from Sideswipe and Red Alert sharing the same mold, Sunstreaker was not sold in the Japanese market outside of a special "versus" set with [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. However, the familial dynamic between Sideswipe and Sunstreaker was '''not''' changed in the Japanese dub of the original ''Transformers'' cartoon, leading some Japanese fans to consider the three Lamborghini characters as triplets.
*Sideswipe has the dubious distinction of being the only one of the European Autobot Classic Heroes range not to feature in Marvel UK's [[Earthforce]] stories, not even making a late appearance like fellow 1991 addition Tracks.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Lambor''' (ランボル ''Ranboru''), '''Sideswipe''' (サイドスワイプ ''Saidosuwaipu'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Swipe''' (斯韋伯 ''Si Wai Baak'')
*''Czech:'' '''Stěrač'''
*''French:'' '''Frérot''' (Canada, "Bro")
*''Hebrew:'' '''Métsóded''' (מצודד, "Sidler")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Csatár''' ("Striker")
*''Italian:'' '''Freccia''' ("Arrow")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Cèsǎo''' (Taiwan, 側掃, "Side Swipe"), '''Héngpào''' (China, 横炮, "Horizontal Cannon")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Esgalhador''' (Portugal comic), '''Surrupio''' (Brazil comic)
*''Russian:'' '''Apperkot''' (Апперкот, "Uppercut")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Krutobiy''' (Крутобій, "Toughpuncher")

==References==
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[[Category:Children of Primus]]
[[Category:Classics Autobots]]
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[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
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Sideswipe (G1)

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:''Sideswipe is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:NYSideswipeCardart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I've never done anything important, but people love me anyway! Sweet!]]
'''Sideswipe''' is not nearly as much of a sociopath as his [[Relatives|brother]] [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], but he is every bit as skillful. He's more into battle for the sport of it. A bit of a jock, Sideswipe most craves a glorious fight to the finish as a test of his mettle.

With a little reckless edge in his tactics, Sideswipe makes rash decisions that may endanger him, all in the name of possible victory. When everything is on the line, nothing is out of the question for Sideswipe, even cheating. Although his reckless attitude has not changed over time, his cause has: once in it solely for the glory, he's now driven by the desire to defend freedom and the innocent.

{{quote|Used to be, it was good guys versus Decepticons—the end. Reason enough to live, and simple goals.|Sideswipe|''[[The Life of Sideswipe]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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[[File:G1SideswipeMarvelFist.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|My shoulders are black because this is where my toy's wheels go!]]
Sideswipe, along with his brother Sunstreaker, was part of the original crew of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. When the [[Decepticon]]s attacked the ship, it crashed on [[Earth]], and Sideswipe, along with the rest of the combatants, lay dormant for 4 million years. When the [[Mount St. Hilary|volcano]] that housed the Ark erupted, the Ark's internal mechanisms revived all Transformers, making no distinction between [[Autobot]] and Decepticon. Sideswipe was alive again. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

When the Autobots went to retrieve their fallen comrade [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] from [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s [[S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service|garage]], they were attacked by Decepticons. Against his brother's better judgment, Sideswipe employed his [[Transformer fuel|fuel]]-gobbling [[Jet pack|rocket backpack]] to take the fight right to the Decepticon jets, blinding [[Thundercracker (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Thundercracker]] with his [[flare gun]]. The 'Cons were driven off, but without a source of fuel to recharge on, several Autobots, including Sideswipe, were left virtually empty after the battle. {{storylink|Power Play!}} Having sustained some damage during the battle, Sideswipe rode along with [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] in Optimus Prime's trailer back to the Ark to conserve fuel. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}

[[File:Sideswipe mirage enemy within.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
''While the Autobots busied themselves repairing the Ark, [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] was subjected to a violent electrical feedback. This shock altered his mind, and he lashed out towards his fellow Autobots. Among his victims was Sideswipe, who was man-handled by his erratic comrade, leaving him confused as to whether it had been something he had said which had sent Brawn into a rage. Sideswipe and the Autobots tracked Brawn down as he rampaged through a nearby town, and managed to return him to normal with another electrical shock. Unfortunately, they had no proof that he was his old self, and Brawn was put through [[Trial by Combat|trial by combat]] against [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] to prove his loyalties. Sideswipe was depressed when he thought that the duel had ended with Brawn's demise, only to be overjoyed to see him intact afterwards, his death having been a ruse orchestrated by [[Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Mirage]] and Optimus.'' {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} ''Though he could not go on missions, Sideswipe was still able to defend the Ark from invasion when the Decepticons came right to his doorstep. He was confronted by that junk-punk [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]'s earthquake-making ability and turned the tables on him, overpowering Rumble with his pile-driver punches.'' {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} ''At some point, he helped protect [[Sherman Dam]] from some Decepticons, although the Autobots were ultimately unsuccessful at preventing its destruction. Sideswipe and his teammates raced ahead of the resulting flood in order to evacuate a nearby town before the waters reached it. In his vehicle mode, Sideswipe transported many humans to safety, racing against [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] all the while.'' {{storylink|Decepticon Dam-Busters!}}

Sideswipe was present when it was discovered that the human [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] had given the Decepticons the fuel they needed to defeat the Autobots. Soon afterwards he was interred into one of the Ark's [[Tubes of Transference]], using his fuel to bolster the power of Optimus Prime, [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], [[Ironhide (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ironhide]], [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and Mirage as the Autobots' last line of defence. Although they were able to defeat [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s forces, they didn't count on the reappearance of [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]], who took over the Ark and deactivated all the Autobots in the ship. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} Along with his fellow Autobots, Sideswipe was left hanging from the Ark's ceiling like a slab of beef. {{storylink|The New Order}} Upon infiltrating the Ark, [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] beheld his fellow Autobot in this sad state. {{storylink|Warrior School!}} After the medic regained control of the Ark for the Autobots, he was able to revive Sideswipe to full functionality in short order, and their new deal for fuel with [[G.B. Blackrock]] kept them energized. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}} He was ''possibly'' part of the group of Autobots who battled [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] when [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] and the newly built [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] assembled a [[transdimensional radiowave scrambler]] to contact Cybertron. Though the Autobots managed to destroy the scrambler, The Decepticons managed to get most of their message through to Cybertron nonetheless. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}}

[[File:PrimeTime-Sideswipe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|So you've read my profile.]]
Though Shockwave was ultimately evicted from the Ark, he still had Optimus Prime's head held captive in his [[Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One|Blackrock Aerospace Plant headquarters]]. When the Autobots overheard that Optimus Prime's head had outlived its usefulness and would be disposed of, Sideswipe was part of the large group of Autobots who departed the Ark to rendezvous with the drop-off point. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}} Sure enough, the Decepticon drone [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] approached with the head, though Sideswipe initially proposed blowing it out of the sky. [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]]'s caution at first seemed prudent, as Jetfire dropped Prime's head into the swamp in front of them, but their minds changed after they waded into the swamp, retrieved the head, and placed it on Prime's body. The head was in fact a Decepticon decoy that took control of Prime's body and attacked them. On top of that, a strike team led by Soundwave quickly joined them, and Sideswipe soon found himself at the mercy of [[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]], who began tearing out his back with his jaws. Fortunately for the Autobots, Prime's real head was returned, and Sideswipe was one of first to rise from the onslaught to witness their costly victory. {{storylink|Prime Time!}} ''These events were observed by the [[time travel]]ling [[Dicet Alpha-zero]].'' {{storylink|The Quest!}}

[[File:Sideswipe dinobot hunt.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9]]
''Sideswipe was aboard the Ark when it came under attack by a flying Transformer—the missing [[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]] who had fallen under the control of the human [[Peter Anthony Morris|Professor Morris]]. After attempting to restrain Swoop using non-lethal force, the Autobots discovered that Swoop's primary [[cybo-dendron]]s had burnt out during his years in the tar pit, meaning that all the Dinobots were due to going berserk.'' {{storylink|The Icarus Theory}} ''During the subsequent Dinobot Hunt, Sideswipe traveled to [[Doonstown]] with Huffer and Bluestreak on a mission to capture the feral [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]. They proved unable to subdue their quarry, and were left battered and beaten in the ruins of the town.'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}

''On a mission to build friendly relations with the people of [[Pinewoodsville]], Sideswipe and several other Autobots were hit with a strange blast of energy that reversed their personalities. The group rampaged through the town, ruining months of goodwill work. Tracking the source of the blast to England, the Autobots flew overseas to put an end to what they assumed was a Decepticon plot. But the Decepticons had also been affected by the blast, and were likewise tracking its origin. Sideswipe, Prowl, Jazz, and Mirage holed up inside Optimus's trailer to conserve energy, but were shaken out of their hiding spot by Starscream, just as another personality-reversing blast hit the group. Optimus was sent crashing into a tree off the road, and his troops began calling for a violent mutiny. Sideswipe was the first to return to his senses, just in time to stop Jazz from executing their leader. Nonetheless, Optimus was left too banged-up to carry on with the mission; he hid in a tunnel while his troops soldiered on. The culprit behind the energy blasts turned out to be a human invention, the "[[Purnel's Auto-Reverse Defence|PARD]]." It was destroyed, along with [[Zeke Heilmann|a spy]] trying to steal it, after Starscream battled Jazz over both. With the threat neutralized, the Autobots carried Optimus back to their UK Base, where Ratchet was waiting to fix him up.'' {{storylink|To a Power Unknown!}}

Sideswipe was next seen in Ratchet's repair bay along with several others. Ratchet remarked to Optimus Prime that some of them might never be battle-capable again. Optimus Prime told him to do his best for Sideswipe and the others, and then promptly left to oversee the creation of their replacements. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

Years later, Sideswipe was seen again on board the Ark when the new Autobot leader Grimlock threatened the lives of some [[Spacehikers|human children]] to smoke out the "traitor" [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]. {{storylink|Spacehikers!}} Soon after, he left the Ark with the rest of its crew to watch the battle between Blaster and Grimlock on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. The assembled Autobot forces were attacked during the duel, a devastating first blow bringing down several of them. Blaster and Grimlock were able to put aside their differences long enough to drive off [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s forces however, and Sideswipe was among those still standing in the aftermath. {{storylink|Totaled!}} He also joined the Autobots in answering a distress signal sent by [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] near the Decepticons' [[Arctic]] [[Club Con|base]], resulting in an ambush. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
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During a conflict with the lingering forces of Bludgeon, Sideswipe and the Autobots were rushed off-world by the [[Guardian (G2)|guardian]] of an ancient civilization. {{storylink|Ghosts}}

The war seemingly over, Sideswipe joined the [[Firestormer]]s, a group of Autobots who aimed to hunt down the last few pockets of Decepticon resistance. He, [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Blades (G1)|Blades]], and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] attacked Decepticon [[Nexus Seven|Outpost B-67]], where they met [[Outpost B-67 exo-structuring party|great numbers]] but minimal resistance. He expected the liberated citizens of Nexus Seven to be more grateful, but Hound pointed out that their rescuees looked more frightened than pleased, and blamed their group's bloodthirstiness.

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But the Firestormers' quest led them to the staggering discovery that these scattered Decepticon outposts were actually just the tip of the iceberg. There were just seventeen conquered and recolonized planets in that sector of space, suggesting that there was something bigger on the horizon than the remnants of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s old team. After [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] was called to hear this news from Sideswipe and the other Firestormers, they were suddenly attacked and captured by a ship in orbit. Sideswipe and the others were put in prison cells aboard the starship ''[[Twilight (G2)|Twilight]]'', which was under the command of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], the [[Liege Centuro]] of a forgotten race of Transformers. This revelation momentarily shook Optimus Prime's resolve, but after being brought back to his senses by [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], the two Autobots freed Sideswipe and the others from their cells. They fought their way through the starship to an escape vessel and escaped without injury, though they were burdened with this new knowledge. {{storylink|War Without End!}}

Sideswipe was present when the Autobots met Jhiaxus's Decepticons in battle on a planet within the [[K'tord Nebula]]. At first, tempers merely flared, but soon both sides lost themselves in a violent, bloody rage. Before they were completely lost to their baser instincts, the source of their behavior was discovered to be tar-like emotional parasites. The parasites were removed, and both factions decided to leave peacefully. {{storylink|Primal Fear!}}

[[File:Sideswipe grimlock devices and desires.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|Chin cleft added to ensure badassery.]]
Grimlock, disobeying Optimus Prime's orders, led a covert team onto the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]] ship ''[[Twilight (G2)|Twilight]]'' to defeat [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and his army of "evolved Decepticons". Sideswipe was wary of their plan to steal a ship and slip on board, but Grimlock assured him that the plan was foolproof. Grimlock changed his tune when they soon learned that they were led into a trap, resulting in [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]'s death and the Autobots' capture. Sideswipe and the others were rounded up onto a shuttle to be inspected by the [[Liege Maximo]], but managed to escape their fate with assistance from Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Devices and Desires! (Marvel)|Devices and Desires!}}

Later, while Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] were discussing an alliance against Jhiaxus's Cybertronians, Sideswipe interrupted to tell them that they had received a distress signal from the planet [[Ethos]]. {{storylink|Escalation!|Tales of Earth Part Five}} Sure enough, upon arrival, the Autobots found an advanced civilization in ruins, but managed to repel the Cybertronians thanks to their new Decepticon allies. {{storylink|Escalation!}}

Finally, Jhiaxus took the full force of his Empire to [[Earth]], where the Autobot/Decepticon alliance had camped. Sideswipe joined them in shooting their attackers out of the sky as they approached. {{storylink|Total War!}}

====Fleetway ''Generation 2'' comic====
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Years later, Sideswipe was part of [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]]'s Special Commando Unit, summoned to Earth along with Optimus Prime by [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] when [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] began open war on the humans. Prime decided to go after Bludgeon himself, and he assigned Jazz, Sideswipe and [[Skram (G2)|Skram]] to take down one Decepticon strike team at a time because the Decepticon forces were spread very thin. While still in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], Sideswipe shot [[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]] in the crotch, then transformed and hoped aloud that Prime would be okay in the face of Bludgeon's mysterious powers. {{storylink|War Without End (issue)|War Without End}}

When the [[Skyscorcher]]s left in the middle of battle, Jazz concluded they had another target to go after—which he and Sideswipe simultaneously realized to be Optimus Prime! The Skyscorchers had ''actually'' left to go after Bludgeon's enemy Megatron, whom Sideswipe and his comrades helped shoot at when they arrived in the middle of a fight between the one-time Decepticon leader, Prime, and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. Following Megatron's retreat, Sideswipe helped secure prisoners and weapons for withdrawal to the [[Autobase]] hidden on Earth's moon. {{storylink|War Zone}}
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====''Classics''====
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Sunstreaker and Sideswipe joined Optimus Prime's crew on Earth after Megatron resurfaced. They braved the Ark's defenses in order to break inside and recover their lost comrade, Ratchet. Sideswipe unsealed him from the [[CR chamber]] Megatron had left the medic in, and together the twins carried him away to safety. {{storylink|At Fight's End}}

Subsequently, Sideswipe was stationed with several other Autobots in [[Canada]] within the ''[[Ark II]]''. He was present one day when [[Rad (G1)|Rad]] reported from the [[Ironworks (facility)|Ironworks]] base in [[Oregon]] about a foiled attack by [[Overlord (G1)|Gigatron]] and his Decepticons. Soon thereafter, due to the actions of an evil [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]] from [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|another dimension]], a rift of space time opened over Earth, causing catastrophes worldwide. Sideswipe, with the aid of his rocket pack, assisted his peers in evacuating a devastated city block. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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Sideswipe was part of an armed assault team that accompanied [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and Optimus Prime to Earth to confront Megatron and his [[zombie]] army of lobotomised Transformers. On their return to Cybertron aboard the ''[[Valiant (G1)|Valiant]]'', the ship was threatened by the planet's defence systems under the control of Scorponok's troops. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Four}} After the missiles were aborted at the last minute, Sideswipe and the others prepared for immediate deployment upon landing, though [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s efforts had already foiled [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]]'s [[Gene Key]] shenanigans. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Five}}

Later, Sideswipe and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] guarded [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] as he met with [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] at [[Eugenesis Plaza]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 2}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:DinobotIsland Sideswipe digging friends out.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Should I feel sorry for this pour guy?]]
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An original member of the Autobots when they crash-landed on Earth, Sideswipe was a cool guy with jack-hammer arms, a rocket pack and little in the way of personality. Those accessories, though.

In a [[splinter timeline]] Sideswipe had more adventures, including one where he gained a new [[Binaltech (technology)|Binaltech]] body until [[time travel]] said otherwise. He continued serving the Autobots well into the year [[2011]], where he was stationed on both [[Athenia]] and Earth simultaneously, but nobody noticed. In the years that followed, he would mature and shed his rebellious nature, taking on covert missions out of a sense of duty rather than a desire to show off.
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===''The Special Teams''===
After crashing on Earth in the Ark and remaining dormant for millions of years, Sideswipe, along with Optimus and Ratchet, were the first Autobots to awaken after the Decepticons’ own resurrection. These three helped the other Autobots repair themselves with the aid of the Ark's computer. {{storylink|The Special Teams}}

===Sticker Adventures books===
When the Decepticons attacked an Autobot construction site, Sideswipe helped his fellow Autobots in driving them back. {{storylink|Return to Cybertron}}

===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
Sideswipe was amongst the thirty-five Autobots active on Earth. When the Autobots engaged The Devastator for the very first time, Sunstreaker lead Sideswipe, Windcharger, Jazz and Mirage in the initial charge against him. Their attack was ineffective, and they were blasted away by the mighty gestalt. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

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Upon hearing that his "twin Autobot" had been captured by the Decepticons, Sideswipe flew into a rage and vowed to rescue Sunstreaker himself. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] advised Sideswipe to take [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] and [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with him, as they would surely encounter [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] within the Decepticons' headquarters. The three Autobots made their way towards Decepticon territory, encountering numerous traps along the road. Sideswipe was almost done in by a land mine, but managed to transform in time to avoid being seriously damaged. When the trio arrived at the Decepticon camp, another obstacle presented itself in the form of a duo of Decepticon guards. Making short work of these two, Sideswipe's group entered the Decepticon basewhere they came face-to-face against Devastator, as anticipated. Despite their best efforts, the Autobots were overpowered by Devastator, and put in a holding cell alongside Sunstreaker. Later, Megatron announced that the Autobots had agreed to surrender, and brought out his prisoner to look upon the Autobots' peace offering; a life-size statue of Devastator. The surrender turned out to be a ruse however, and Autobot reinforcements burst forth from within the Devastator statue. Sideswipe joined the battle between Autobots and Decepticons that followed. The Autobots were ultimately victorious, and Sideswipe was amongst the Autobots still standing in the aftermath. Optimus ordered his troops to gather the wounded, and the Autobots returned home. {{storylink|The Autobots' Secret Weapon}}
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===Marvel coloring books===
A long time ago, on the planet Cybertron, Sideswipe helped load a particularly large shipment of Energon onto the Ark. The shipment would eventually become lost when the Ark crashlanded into Mt. St. Hillary. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

With Sparkplug acting as their referee, Sideswipe and Bluestreak raced one another in order to determine who was the fastest. The race ended in a tie, with Sparkplug declaring them both winners. Just then, Thundercracker and Starscream swooped down onto the trio, and cast [[Sleep Net]]s unto them, rendering them unconscious. Sideswipe was brought to Megatron's newly constructed prison, and was incarcerated within. Luckily, Bumblebee had not been captured, and managed to free the other Autobots. Upon their escape, Sideswipe and Bluestreak shot Starscream and Thundercracker out of the sky. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue!}}

Sideswipe was one of the many Autobots who prevented the Decepticons from killing Sparkplug and Buster on their latest attempt on the humans' lives. He later helped the Autobots protecting the Hoover Dam. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}}

Sideswipe was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into battle when it was discovered that the Decepticons were using a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel all around the globe. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

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Sideswipe polished himself as he looked on at Gears casually lifting an elephant over his head. Later, when Gears had fallen into a Decepticon trap and gotten himself crushed, Sideswipe, Ratchet and Mirage somehow instantly knew of the situation and showed up on the scene. Sideswipe kicked up some dust into Ravage's joints, paralyzing the Decepticons. The three Autobots managed to beat back the Decepticons and rescue Gears, who was fixed right up by Ratchet. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

Sideswipe (or Sunstreaker) was part of a small strike team of Autobots assembled by Ultra Magnus to help the Dinobots, who were currently engaged in battle against the Decepticons, just outside of Autobot City. After they defeated the Decepticons, Sideswipe/Sunstreaker and the others were cheered on by the nearby oil rig workers as they drove back to Autobot City. {{storylink|Battle at Oil Valley}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
Upon awakening on Earth after being offline for about 65 million years, Sideswipe met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Sideswipe was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Sideswipe ''really'' enjoyed fighting Decepticons. When the other Autobots went on a mission to rescue [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] from [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] mind control, Sideswipe was sure to remind them that beating Decepticons was very important too. {{storylink|Insecticon Attack!}}

When the Decepticons invaded a car show at the Coliseum, Sideswipe was one of the robots in disguise who infiltrated the show to thwart the Decepticon plot. {{storylink|Car Show Blow Up}}

===Deadly Paradise===
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Sideswipe was surprised to find himself accused of destroying the [[Nova Suspension Bridge]]. He claimed he was not guilty of the act, but with several eyewitnesses proclaiming otherwise and the Autobot-Human relations strained by the crime, Optimus Prime had no choice but to deactivate him. Prowl later discovered that the Sideswipe who had destroyed the bridge was in fact [[Sideswipe clone (G1)|a clone]] controlled by Megatron. He and a team returned to Autobot headquarters with the evidence necessary to clear Sideswipe's name, who was presumably reactivated afterwards. {{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}

===The Battle for Planet Earth===
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Sideswipe was one of the group of Autobots who explored for energy in [[South America]], and engaged in a battle with the Decepticons on [[Mount Sheelah]] shortly before the volcano erupted. {{storylink|Terror of Mount Sheelah}} After a hard day's work repairing the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], he and the other Autobots were relaxing and watching [[television]] when they learned the Decepticons had started kidnapping humans. Sideswipe favored mounting an attack, but it was pointed out that that would endanger the humans. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}}

Following the Decepticons to [[Stanley Lake]] dam, Sideswipe used his flare gun to lure them out in front of the dam. After a brief fight, the Autobots retreated and flooded the valley with water, washing the Decepticons away. {{Storylink|Menace at the Dam}} After [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defected to the Autobots as a trick, Sideswipe showed him a box supposedly containing the [[Deuterium Orbital Laser Tracing System]]. Starscream, in reality spying for the Decepticons, sent Megatron's forces on a wild goose chase, and Sideswipe and the other Autobots took the opportunity to destroy the Decepticon base. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

===Ladybird Books continuity===
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe marveled at Spike's explanation of electricity that comes from the sky. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
In the path where Mirage used a hologram of Optimus Prime to lure the four [[cerebro-shell]]-controlled [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] over the edge of [[Bandit's Bluff]] and into the ocean, Sideswipe was one of the Autobots crewing [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] destroyer mode. He helped haul the unconscious quartet aboard for safe transport back to the Ark.

If Optimus Prime chose to immediately attack the Dinobots without a real plan, Sideswipe responded to Prime's order to, "Bring them down fast and hard," by blasting [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who just wouldn't go down. He yelled to Sunstreaker for help, which he provided with a series of high-energy electron pulses, their combined attack ultimately knocking the Dinobot commander over and dislodging his cerebro-shell. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}

====Attack of the Insecticons====
Sideswipe was present, yet mostly uninvolved, in a number of possible adventures revolving around the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug that would end the Autobots' energy woes. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

===Frito-Lay posters===
When the Decepticons threatened [[sherman Dam|Boulder Dam]], Sideswipe rocketed into action! He extended his robots arms and swung them about wildly while still driving in vehicle mode. The Autobots successfully drove off the Decepticons in the end. {{storylink|Battle in the Desert Valley}}
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===Toy pack-in material===
While cruising through a desert, Sideswipe and Jazz crossed paths with the Constructicons! Knowing they ''had'' to be stopped, Sideswipe led the charge against the enemy robots. His "cosmic clash" against Long Haul was subsequently heard around the world! {{storylink|Sweepstakes Offer!}}

===The Official ''Transformers: Generation 2'' Annual===
In the early days of the war, Sideswipe served with the civil defense forces in [[Vos (polity)|Vos]]. He was nearly killed when [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s army cut a swath through the city-state, and vowed revenge against the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Sideswipe's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}}

{{note|This suggests that something similar to "[[State Games]]" occurred in the past of this Annual's [[micro-continuity]], although little elaborated upon.}}

On Earth, Sideswipe participated in an Autobot sting operation against the Decepticons. They tricked the Decepticons into boarding a rigged shuttle on [[Table Mountain]] in [[Africa]] and launched them up into the stratosphere. {{storylink|Day of the Decepticons}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Before the war, Sideswipe was a trader who liked to con his customers. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|The Ultimate Guide}} He was one of the few Autobots to continue operating under that title during the [[Dark Ages]] of Cybertron, after Optimus Prime and Megatron had both disappeared into a prototype space-bridge. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Sideswipe was one of the elite warriors serving under [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and as such was chosen for the mission that sent him against the newly constructed Decepticon battle station, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Though the Autobots believed they would be able to find the station before it was fully operational, Trypticon revealed himself to already be battle-ready. {{storylink|Devastation}} Despite throwing everything they had at the titan, the Autobots weren't able to even slow it down. Prowl ordered his troops to try and outrun Trypticon, which Sideswipe misinterpreted as meaning they would try to "run it in circles and then pop it one in the exhaust vent." Neither tactic worked in any case, and the Autobots were only spared because Trypticon suddenly received a transmission recalling him to the neutral zones, and broke off from the fight to respond to it. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}} Sideswipe and his teammates returned to their headquarters for repairs, where Sideswipe received a communique from [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], explaining that both [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] had mysteriously vanished. The cause of these disappearances then made itself apparent, as [[The Fallen]] broke into the [[Autobase]] and abducted [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] from one of its holding cells. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} Once The Fallen's base of operations was uncovered, Sideswipe joined a cross-faction army in rushing it to put an end to the ancient Transformer's scheme. Ultimately, The Fallen was defeated by the power of [[Primus]] himself, and all factions agreed to keep the chamber The Fallen had tried to breach sealed to prevent anyone from further abusing the power held within it. {{storylink|Conflagration}}

Some time later, Megatron returned to Cybertron with an army of [[Air Warrior]]s backing him. He quickly took over the planet, and enslaved the majority of Autobots. Sideswipe was among the many unfortunates captured, and put to work in [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

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Sideswipe was part of Operation Liberation in 1998, a joint human-Autobot effort to defeat the Earth-bounded Decepticons. At the end it was a success, and the captured Decepticons along with the Autobots and a human crew departed Earth en route to Cybertron in the ''[[Ark II]]''. The ship, however, was sabotaged and exploded upon liftoff.

A few years later, Megatron and other Transformers, including Autobots, were seen causing havoc. It was discovered that [[Lazarus]], a scientist who participated in the ''Ark II'' project, was responsible for the sabotage of the ship and the resurrection of several Transformers under his control via technological tampering. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}}

[[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] of the [[United States military|US military]] contacted [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] to ask him if he could do something to help them reactivate Optimus Prime, whom they had recovered locked in a state of stasis. Spike managed to reactivate Optimus with a portion of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] that Optimus had given him prior the ill-fated journey of the ''Ark II''. Optimus subsequently went to the Arctic and used the Matrix to reactivate several Transformers, including Sideswipe. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}}

[[File:DWPrimeDirective5 SideswipeSunstreaker Devastator.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|We're trying to look dynamic, but all these [[Pat Lee|puffy proportions]] are putting a stop to that.]]
Sideswipe accepted the new task at hand and fought alongside his brother when the Autobots faced the Decepticons at Lazarus' ruined base (punching Starscream in the face for attacking Wheeljack) before Hallo betrayed the Autobots by attempting to destroy both factions with a nuclear weapon. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} The Autobots survived when Megatron's technovirus absorbed the blast, and Sideswipe helped his comrades recover the captive Autobots imprisoned inside the base.

As Jazz's unit worked on Megatron's virus, Sideswipe followed Optimus Prime to [[San Francisco]] for the last battle against Megatron and his Decepticons. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} When [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] was taken down, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker heroically (though foolishly) charged at [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], and they were smashed between the giant Constructicon's palms for their trouble. After Optimus Prime brought Devastator down with a blast to the head, Sideswipe was restrained by the surviving Decepticons. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} However, through [[human]] intervention, Optimus Prime freed his Autobots and the battle was rejoined. Sideswipe tag-teamed with his brother to pummel [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], though the Decepticons eventually escaped when Superion sacrificed his life to save the city from General Hallo's unauthorized nuclear missile launch. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Months later, after Optimus Prime, Megatron, and an assortment of other Transformers and humans vanished in a flash of light from Tokyo, Japan, the world went on high alert. When the U.S. military detected [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in the Nevada canyons, Sideswipe accompanied a flight of jets in confronting the Decepticon. Their battle led down a tight box canyon, and Sideswipe had some difficulty chasing Starscream while also coordinating with his military wingmen, as he tried to limit the human casualties. Eventually, Sideswipe was led straight into Devastator, who had been hiding in the canyon on Starscream's order. The combined surprise firepower of Starscream's arsenal and a near-pointblank blast from Devastator's solar energy rifle left Sideswipe in several charred pieces. {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}''

''Sideswipe was eventually repaired by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and returned to duty just in time to fight in Nevada once more. This time, the Autobots and Decepticons had joined forces against an ambush arranged by the President of the United States, who hoped to rid his country of the Transformers. Sideswipe waded through General [[Michelle Grajkowski]]'s troops, heavily routing her Delta Team, but the [[deconstructionite]] weapons being used by the U.S. Armed Forces were too much of a surprise for the Cybertronians—they were clearly on the losing end of the battle as many of their number fell before the severity of the weaponized nanites became evident. Sideswipe and Prowl helped load the injured Autobots into Prime's trailer as they made their getaway. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:G1 Sideswipe Sunstreaker DWissue7.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Hi, I'm a jock.]]
The Autobots were entrenched against Megatron's forces when agents from the united Cybertron led by Shockwave arrived on Earth. Despite using his pile-drivers to send some of these attackers for a tumble, Sideswipe found himself severely overpowered by the newcomers, along with the rest of the Autobots. He and the others retreated as the Decepticons were taken in as war criminals. Optimus Prime split his forces so that their wounded could be tended to while a small scouting party was sent out to investigate further Shockwave and his followers. Sideswipe was among those who returned to the Ark, where the Autobots discussed whether they could take Shockwave's word at face value. {{storylink|New World Order}} As Prime and many other Autobots traveled back to Cybertron with Shockwave, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and their crew, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker remained on Earth with several other Autobots under Jazz's command. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}}

After the end of Shockwave's despotic rule over Cybertron, the Autobots on Cybertron made contact with Sideswipe's crew for an update and promised to send supplies. {{storylink|Generation 1 issue 0|Generation 1 #0}} Unfortunately, Starscream arrived on Earth first, backed up by a small cadre of soldiers. Sideswipe and company managed to stave off an initial attack from the Decepticons, only for Starscream to unleash his trump card on the battlefield: [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Sideswipe was deactivated in battle with the combiner, and was left to rust at the bottom of a lake. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] later dredged him and the others up, only to be taken into custody by [[Earth Defense Command]]. {{storylink|The Omega Effect}} The Autobots were then taken to a secret underground facility by the humans. {{storylink|Atonement}} Jazz, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker were reactivated to help [[Marissa Faireborn]] and [[EDC Night Force Unit|her team]] in investigating several mysterious disappearances (with extraterrestrial involvement suspected) in small-town America. During their trip out into the field, Sideswipe game the much less experienced [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] a hard time for his fretting and worrying, but rushed to the little guy's rescue after he was attacked within the town's movie theater. As he did so, the Autobots found out what they were dealing with was an outbreak of [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]]. {{storylink|Infestation (Dreamwave)|Infestation}} Sideswipe and Sunstreaker wound up in an underground hatching chamber, filled with Insecticon eggs. Wandering about while his brother contemplated the hatchery, Sideswipe came upon some fully-grown Insecticon clones and attacked them... only to inadvertently blind himself by bringing down a wall, allowing light to flood in and overwhelm his night-vision. Though Sunstreaker came to his rescue, the two brother wound up prisoners of the Insecticons nonetheless. Thankfully, Bumper, who had since found his courage, freed Sideswipe and Sunstreaker in time for them to participate in their team's last stand against the enemy swarm. Sideswipe took out Shrapnel in the fight by toppling an entire building atop of him. But the conflict culminated with the Autobots against an enemy they couldn't just beat down: the mind-controlled townspeople. Bumper once more came to his team's rescue by downing Bombshell, disabling his mind-control network over the town, allowing an Autobot victory. {{storylink|Extermination}}

After routing and capturing the Decepticons, Sideswipe and the other Autobots said their goodbyes to their EDC and departed in the ''Orion''. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} Afterwards, they joined up with the returning team from Cybertron under Prowl's command, and began construction of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}
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===3H comics===
Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]], and [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]] returned to the [[technorganic]] [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after a prolonged journey and were welcomed by the [[Maximal]]s. [[Unicron]] abducted these newly returned Transformers, in addition to many others from different times and universes, to start a final confrontation against [[Primus]]. Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were rebuilt into new forms, {{storylink|Abduction}} corrupted by Unicron's influence, and set against one another in the [[Cauldron]]. Before either brother could land a killing blow, however, the fight was broken up by [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]. Sideswipe then fought his way out of Unicron alongside many other Transformers rescued by Primal and returned to Cybertron. {{storylink|OTFCC Live-Action Drama}} {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}}

Back on Cybertron at the [[Oasis Research and Development Facility]], [[Ratchet (Universe)|Ratchet]] tried to remove the [[Unicron virus]] from Sideswipe to no avail. {{storylink|Homecoming (Universe)|Homecoming}}

Some time later, Sideswipe was back in his original body and a member of Optimus Primal's [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]]. During the final battle with [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|Minions of Unicron]], Unicron began to dissolve beneath them (as a result of the [[Unicron Singularity]]). Sideswipe grabbed Sunstreaker and used his jetpack to get them into a portal presumably back to their native Cybertron. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:Sideswipe and Zartan GIJoevsTFs3.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
Along with several other Transformers, the dormant Sideswipe was found on the crashed ''Ark'' by [[Cobra]], a human terrorist organization who soon reprogrammed the alien robots to serve them. Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were rebuilt into Cobra [[Stinger (G.I. Joe)|Stingers]] and sent to assault the [[SPS Research Facility]] alongside [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and his [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|minions]]. The two brothers didn't succeed in their mission, though, as they were rammed aside by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] while charging at the building and were eventually ordered to retreat. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}} Wheeljack later freed Sideswipe and the others from Cobra's control, and he helped Sunstreaker and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] fight back against the similarly freed Decepticons and their former captors. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

Two years later, [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] took control of the Decepticon forces on Cybertron and captured Optimus Prime. Sideswipe joined a team of Autobots led by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] who were planning on charging in and rescuing their leader as soon as the opportunity came up. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}} After reinforcements arrived in the form of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], the Autobots made their move and attacked Serpent O.R.'s Decepticon army, ultimately defeating it. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

[[File:Prowl and Swideswipe BlackHorizon1.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5]]
Sideswipe returned to Earth a few months later, where he worked to keep Cybertronian technology from being misused by humans. During one mission to [[Cuba]], he helped stop [[Destro]] from selling [[S.N.A.K.E.]]s to one Mr. [[Calandero]], but failed to capture the arms dealer and returned to the Autobots' base, the ''[[Arc II]]''. When the ship was attacked by the [[Pretender Monster]]s, Sideswipe was the first to fall. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2}} The crew later received medical attention at the [[Pit (G.I. Joe)|Pit]], where they'd eventually recover from their injures. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2}}
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===The Beast Within===
Sideswipe participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons. He was ganged-up on by several Constructicons early in the battle. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===''Hearts of Steel''===
Sideswipe participated in the pursuit of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], and partially transformed from artillery boxcar mode to [[robot mode]] in order to shoot down [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. He stated, "The name is Sideswipe." {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 4|Hearts of Steel #4}}

{{note|For unclear reasons, in the original comic book issue, the Autobot who shoots down Scourge identifies himself as [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], not Sideswipe. Sideswipe only appears in the trade paperback collection.}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:SpotlightSideswipe Sideswipe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''[[Ryu|SHIN SHORYUKEN!]]'']]
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/2005 IDW continuity}}
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===''Mini Mayhem!''===
Some jerk in a [[Spider-Man]] outfit led a legion of [[Clone trooper]]s to smash Sideswipe and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]'s [[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] [[Transformers: Crossovers]] toys. Sideswipe's pleas for him to stop were left unheeded.

Later, Sideswipe was seen waiting in line in anticipation for the [[Transformers (film)|live-action Transformers film]].
{{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Visualize Shot 1}} {{storylink|Visualize Shot 8}}}}

===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:HenkeiVol6-lambor.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|left|You are stupid! You are stupid! And don't forget; you are ''stupid''!]]
Sideswipe was chasing a mysterious plane that had stolen supplies of [[energon]], using his [[Jet pack|rocket pack]] to catch up with it. But the next thing he knew, the plane was gone! The befuddled Sideswipe ran into [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], who was chasing a truck also charged with energon theft. Just then, the truck arrived before them, revealing itself to be the plane as well. It was the [[Triple Changer]] [[Octane]]! Though Octane tried to attack the two Autobots, Sideswipe blasted the Decepticon and knocked him to the ground. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 6|Henkei! Henkei! #6}}
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
When Optimus first discovered the Matrix of Leadership, Sideswipe looked on in amazement as the Autobot leader put the relic inside his chest. Sideswipe was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
{{note|Near the end of Action Blast 1, as the Autobots are taking on their Earth modes, Sideswipe is shown in [[robot mode]] amongst the other Autobots, but not Tracks. When the cartoon cuts back to the Autobots, now in their [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]s, Tracks has inexplicably taken Sideswipe's place in the line-up.}}
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===''United''===
Sideswipe was in attendance for a ceremony commending the Autobot [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s and [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s after they had retrieved the cure for a deadly nano-virus infecting the Autobots stationed on Earth. {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:SideswipeKREO-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Note the lack of anything resembling a sword.]]
Sideswipe was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}}

Sideswipe was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}

During the holiday season, Sideswipe and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] sneaked a [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] ''Kre-O'' set into [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]]'s pile of presents, so Bumblebee could surprise the Decepticon leader. They later went and did the same to [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|A Gift For Megatron}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Another Episode, Part 1}} {{storylink|Another Episode, Part 2}} {{storylink|The Fated Rival, Once Again...}} {{storylink|To Earth}} {{storylink|Reunion and Parting}} {{storylink|Plans of the Emperor of Destruction}} {{storylink|Revenge (All Spark)|Revenge}} {{storylink|Ray of Hope}} {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} {{storylink|Conclusion}}}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Sideswipe was supposed to search for the legendary [[Red Bucket]] alongside [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], only to get himself lost in a forest. By the time he found the bucket, it was empty: the other two had beaten him to it and taken all the blocks home. {{storylink|Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!}} Optimus Prime later borrowed Sideswipe's jetpack without permission, causing him much distress. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}

===''Transformers × Evangelion''===
[[File:Transformers Mode Eva ch 2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Sideswipe was among the Autobots who boarded [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] and traveled to [[Tokyo-3]] on Earth, {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 1}} where he witnessed the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] possess the body of an [[Angel]]. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 2}} When Optimus Prime scanned [[Evangelion Unit-01]], growing greatly in size in order to take on Starscream, Sideswipe got anxious and asked Prime to confirm that he was feeling alright. Following Starscream's defeat, Sideswipe aided [[Nerv]] staff in renovating Prime's trailer into a mobile base. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 4}}
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Yūichi Nakamura]] (Japanese)}}
{{Charstubfiction|{{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Explorer}} {{storylink|Mystery of Return of Convoy}}}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
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In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], [[Mirage (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Mirage]] and Sideswipe attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}

{{note|Sideswipe's coloration in this universe is based on his unreleased ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' toy. See [[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Notes]] for further details.}}
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
[[File:Siege-Sideswipe-CardArt.jpeg|thumb|upright=0.85]]
On Cybertron, Sideswipe was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Command Infantry Private]], whose function was a soldier. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' webpage}}<ref name=Siege>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/siege ''Siege'' website]</ref> During the final days of the Great War on Cybertron, Sideswipe was deployed to investigate possible [[Energon]] reserves in [[Kalis]]—home to the subsurface fusion reactor that powered most of Cybertron's key locations. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}<ref name=Siege/>

At some unknown point, Sideswipe was used as a template for a [[Sideswipe (IDW)|clone]] built for covert operations who was also made a member of the [[Firestormer|Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege#Exclusives|Final Strike Figure Series marketing material}}<ref>[https://www.amazon.com.au/TRANSFORMERS-Generations-War-Cybertron-Siege/dp/B07NZ7W14Z Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce on Amazon Australia]</ref>

Closer than ever to reaching the [[AllSpark]], the Autobots awakened after crash-landing on pre-Ice Age Earth. While battling the Decepticons, both sides were joined by the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s, their epic battle changing their combined destinies. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

During the collective battle, Sideswipe and [[Skywarp (BW)|Skywarp]] attempted to keep the Decepticon/Predacon threat at bay while being pursued by [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' Battle Across Time Collection marketing material}}<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08TM27396/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Battle Across Time Collection on Amazon]</ref>

{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files#Autobots vs. Decepticons stop motion|Autobots vs. Decepticons stop motion}}}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Whitten]] (English), [[Mutsuki Iwanaka]] (Japanese)|[[Yuri Tupper]] (Portuguese), [[Jean-Christophe Clément]] (French), [[Sebastian Kluckert]] (German), [[Aitor González]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Miguel Ángel Ruiz]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|Siege and Kingdom, plus rewrite for Earthrise}}
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Sideswipe was rendered inactive aboard the ''Ark'', following its journey through the space bridge. He was captured by [[Doubledealer]] and his [[Mercenary|Mercenaries]], and was among the Autobots bought to Charr and hauled before Deseeus. Sideswipe was held back with the other Autobots as Optimus was bought alone to face the Quintesson. Sideswipe then aided with the escape from Charr and left the world aboard the ''Ark'' with the other Autobots. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 2}}

Sideswipe was among the team of Autobots who accompanied Optimus to Nebulos Station. There, he aided in the fight against Scorponok. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 3}}. Sideswipe helped fight against Scorponok until the arrival of the Decepticons. Sideswipe, alongside his fellow Autobots, made their escape while Scorponok was preoccupied with the Decepticons. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 4}} Sideswipe was aboard the ''Ark'' when it was sent crashing down to Earth. {{Storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

===''Bumblebee'' graphic novels===
Sideswipe was among the Autbots attempting to keep a [[cybertroniun]] meteor out of Decepticon hands. At Optimus's prompting, he transformed to protect Bumblebee from enemy fire. He encouraged Bee to keep up before shooting down Thundercracker. Optimus then ordered him to speed around the enemies perimiter and fire on them.{{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Go For the Gold|Go for the Gold}} Later he was in the Autobot base when Bumblebee returned from his test drive. Optimus sent him to retrive a component from Wheeljack's lab and bring it to him in [[Nevada]] in order to fix a radiation leak. Much later he was seen taking [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] into captivity.{{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Win If You Dare|Win If You Dare}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part Three|''Transformers'' #3]] (mentioned); [[The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two|#8]] (full)}}

Sideswipe was forged after the [[War of the Threefold Spark]]. Joining [[Security Operations]] when he reached maturity, his eagerness to fight rubbed some of the war veterans the wrong way. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

[[File:TheCracksBeneathYourFeetPartThree SideswipeThermalLance.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2.1]]
In the wake of [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s murder, [[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]] and Sideswipe were tracking possible members of [[The Rise]]. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}} When [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] crashed into Security Operations headquarters, Sideswipe came running, thinking a bomb had gone off. When the veteran revealed the existence of a Rise base beneath the [[Memorial Crater]], [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] told an overeager Sideswipe to open the armory. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}} Arriving at the crater with Chromia and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], Sideswipe salivated over the weapons he'd brought with him before Chromia dropped down into the base. Left on the surface, Sideswipe chatted up Windblade before [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] made herself known and one-upped Sideswipe's [[thermal lance]]. Quickly recovering, Sideswipe engaged the Riser in a duel before she took her leave, an act that heralded the base's violent death. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}} Retreating to headquarters, Sideswipe was tended to by [[Flatline (G1)|Flatline]] whom he griped to about Flamewar's choice of insult, she'd called him "Slowswipe", with the doctor feeling he should get his priorities straight. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Four}}

[[File:TheChangeInYourNaturePartOne SideswipeSpringer.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|]]
When [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] returned to Cybertron, he sent out literally every Security Operations agent to root out the Rise. Partnered with [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Sideswipe patrolled the regions around [[Crystal City]] before an alert came in from an [[energon processing station]]. Springer quickly changed to copter mode to reach the crime scene leaving Sideswipe to catch up on the ground, finding Springer having been made a fool of. As the [[Triple Changer]] picked himself up, he told Sideswipe to call in everyone. The duo trailed the group to a [[Titan (group)|Titan]] corpse in the [[Cybertronian Mountains]] but quickly found the aggressors' superior firepower put them at a disadvantage. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

When reinforcements arrived, Sideswipe took up a sniping position, being backed up by [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and [[Strongarm (G1)|Strongarm]], his lust for violence quickly earning Kup's ire. After [[Javelin]] had been struck, [[Flak (G1)|Flak]] fired a harassment barrage providing cover for Sideswipe who planted explosive charges on one of the Titan's airlocks. While [[Kaskade]] was knocked down, [[Lowload]] recovered quickly, using his drill tank mode to harass Kup and Strongarm. Sideswipe tackled the brute from behind, planting a grenade on him, but the wounded Riser managed to retreat back inside the Titan. Grumbling, Sideswipe requested heavier artillery. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

[[File:WarWorldPrime SideswipeSavesBumper.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
After the [[Tether]] had collapsed, Sideswipe helped clear debris from the [[A'ovan habitat]] where he requested a transfer into [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s new counterterrorism unit only to be shot down. Joining up with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s unit as they prepared for a raid on [[Swindle's]], Sideswipe took up position on a nearby rooftop, Sideswipe tackled [[Storm Cloud (G1)|Storm Cloud]], downing him with his thermal lance and allowing Security Operations to take him into custody. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's|Swindle's}}

When the Decepticons revealed themselves and seized the [[Senate]] building, Sideswipe was part of the operation to retake it. Under Prowl's command again, he complimented Javelin's return to action after her injury and stood ready with the rest of his team to provide cover fire for anyone escaping the Senate building. After [[Clench (G1)|Clench]] turned a [[rail gun]] on the Autobots, Sideswipe moved in to rescue [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]], who had been shot. Sideswipe took heavy damage carrying the wounded Bumper out of the line of fire. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}}

They both recovered and were soon back on security duty with Strongarm in [[Crystal City]], watching over an experiment [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] performed involving [[Jumpstream]]. After having saved his life, Sideswipe now found Bumper annoyingly eager to impress him, and told the rookie to make a perimeter sweep of the building. Once Bumper ran off, Strongarm pointed out his obvious hero worship of Sideswipe, which Sideswipe seemed oblivious to. She told him he was a role model now, something Sideswipe didn't think he was cut out for. Before they could discuss it further, Jumpstream materialized before them briefly, Perceptor's new [[teleportation]] rig suffering a malfunction. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}}

[[File:DustOfCrystals SideswipeCovering.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.9|]]
Sideswipe was on sentry duty when the Decepticons attacked Crystal City. He and his group opened fire at the horde of enemies at their gates until an explosion destroyed their high ground and they were confronted by some of [[Strika's Heavies]]. Sideswipe was determined to make a last stand, with the impressionable and terrified Bumper ready to back him up. However, Strongarm reminded Sideswipe of his responsibilities and he instead told the others to retreat while he covered them. Sideswipe held off the Heavies with his thermal lance until being overwhelmed, with Windblade and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] managing to pull his injured body to safety before he was killed. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}

After the Autobots began their trek to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], they were corralled by a Decepticon artillery barrage into the path of a horde of [[rust worm]]s. {{storylink|Radical Time}} Sideswipe joined a group led by [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] that attempted to scout an escape route, but they were cut off and turned back by airborne Decepticons that enforced the perimeter. They returned to the larger Autobot force and fought off the rust worms until a repurposed [[Insecticon clone]] swarm arrived to feast on the worms, allowing the Autobots to continue onward. {{storylink|End of Time}}

[[File:FateOfCybertron SideswipeBumper.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Surviving a confrontation with Megatron and an [[imploder]] next, the Autobots finally arrived at Darkmount and began preparing for an inevitable Decepticon attack to prevent them from leaving the planet. Hunkered down behind ramparts and awaiting the battle, Bumper began nervously humming, which Sideswipe was initially annoyed by. The bigger Autobot quickly apologized and told Bumper to do whatever he pleased in the face of the coming fight. When the Decepticons attacked, Sideswipe and the others held the line until [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] made a last stand, buying the others time to board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and blast off. Leaving Cybertron behind and headed for the [[Winged Moon]], Bumper cheerfully suggested to Sideswipe and Strongarm that they ask Ironhide to join the [[Senate Guard|Prime Guard]]. Sideswipe expressed hesitance, but Bumper assured his friend that he had his back. On approach to the Winged Moon, Sideswipe and the other Autobots listened to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] deliver a speech about their future out among the stars. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}
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===''Transformers vs. The Terminator''===
One of the Autobots aboard the ''Ark'', the ship's crash and the Decepticons' ransacking of the ship upon reactivation had left Sideswipe in deep stasis. He was eventually moved to the medical bay for repairs but this only wound up placing him at ground zero of one of the duplicitous [[T-800]]'s pilfered bombs. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}
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==Commercial appearances==
Sideswipe appeared in many [[commercial]]s. The following had original footage of Sideswipe:
*The very first Transformers animation, advertising the Marvel comic book. He drove out of a base alongside Jazz and Prowl; the three arrived at a power plant and counter-attacked the Decepticons. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#The Transformers #1|''The Transformers'' #1 commercial}}
*Sideswipe, Jazz, and Prowl encountered Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp in the middle of a desert. The two groups scuffled briefly. This was a toy commercial for all six of the featured characters. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Decepticon jets & Autobot cars|Decepticon jets & Autobot cars commercial}}
*Footage from the previous two commercials was spliced in with new footage of Jazz, Sideswipe, and Prowl charging into battle alongside Optimus Prime in a commercial advertising toys for both Optimus and Megatron. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Optimus Prime and Megatron|Optimus Prime and Megatron commercial}}
*Prowl, Jazz, and Sideswipe are once more seen together, this time storming the Decepticon base. But unknown to them, the inconspicuous micro-cassette recorder is the Decepticon communications officer, Soundwave! As soon as the Autobots are past him, Soundwave transforms and sics Laserbeak on them. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Soundwave|Soundwave commercial}}
*Sideswipe helped fend off [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Triple Changers and Perceptor|Triple Changers and Perceptor commercial}}
*Sideswipe was briefly seen driving alongside Jazz through a roller coaster city highway. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 2#Jets and cars|Generation 2 jets and cars commercial}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Sideswipe could come to Optimus Prime's aid, helping him move around the Decepticons' maze-like base. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Sideswipe is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Autobot duplicates in the Decepticon campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}{{-}}

===''Transformers G1: Awakening''===
[[File:Gluawakening sideswipe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85]]
Sideswipe was among the Autobots who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], and spent four million years in stasis after it was shot down over Earth by the Decepticons. As one of the more badly damaged Autobots, Sideswipe was stored in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] until the Autobots could gather enough energon to revive him. He was eventually revived in time to take part in the final assault on the Decepticons' Cybertron fortress to free the many enslaved Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers G1: Awakening}}
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===''Kreon Chaos''===
Sideswipe joined his fellow Autobots after they had managed to retrieve the Optimus Prime Kre-O kit parts from within Decepticon headquarters, and assembled it into a colossal Optimus Prime. The group then went out and used some Decepticons as target practice. {{storylink|Kreon Chaos}}
{{charstubgame|"Earth" and "Moon" stages}}

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===''Transformers Legends''===
Sideswipe was among the Autobots who thwarted Starscream's plan to destroy Earth, saving the planet by firing the [[Exponential Generator]] into orbit. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (Legends)|Countdown to Extinction}} Sideswipe was the first of the Autobots to coat themselves in [[Electrum]] after finding a Golden Lagoon. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon (Legends)|The Golden Lagoon}} He was in charge of a [[Sun-Farming facility]] which [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s group decided to attack. Alerted, Sideswipe had the other Autobots hang back so that they could ambush the enemy, however the gambit ultimately failed. Sideswipe and his men were forced to abandon the facility, leaving it in Decepticon hands. {{storylink|Revelation (Legends)|Revalation}}

After the Decepticons succeeded in driving the Autobots off Earth, the badly-damaged Optimus and his men sought refuge on Cybertron. Optimus eventually recovered, and as they prepared a ship to return to Earth, Sideswipe and his team defended it against the [[Insecticon swarm]]. The Autobots eventually reached Earth and retook it from the Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron (Legends)|All Hail Megatron}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Sideswipe}}
Sideswipe appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Devastation''===
{{voiceactor|[[Michael Bell]]}}
Sideswipe had by far the fastest vehicle mode among the Autobots under Optimus's command. His fighting style was oriented toward melee combat over ranged. His overdrive ability let him dash forward with temporary invulnerability, while his ultimate attack allowed him to use his shoulder-mounted rocket launcher for a short time to attack enemies. He possessed two unique weapons- "Sideswipe's Swords" and a Flaregun that functioned as a short-range flamethrower. Like his fellow Autobot Bumblebee, he wasn't strong enough to use heavy weapons such as most missile and grenade launchers available to the Autobots.

{{charstubgames|{{storylink|Transformers: Devastation}}}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:SideswipeEarthWars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|Aww, no Jetpack? And I look like my brother too? And you got my animation model wrong?]]

Sideswipe came to earth after a scouting mission of a mysterious base that had [[Viper|weird drones]] stationed around the base.
Sideswipe had to avoid line fire and keep a cold trail after Viper came after him. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars/Events|Operation Snakebite}}

Sideswipe eventually made it to the Autobot outpost, and his brother [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] greeted him with open arms.

*'''Class''': Warrior
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 Star
*'''Weapons''': Sideswipe uses a standard issue laser rifle to blast targets, and then closes in and smashes it with his fists.
*'''Ability: Shattering Charge''' - Rush into battle spreading Glass Gas along the way. All affected buildings take more damage for 7 seconds (Level 1)
**'''Cost:''' 4 ability Points +3 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:sideswipe Sideswipe at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]

===''Transformers Online'' (2017 video game)===
Sideswipe thought Sunstreaker was the strongest Autobot on the battlefield, as the latter's performance was cold-blooded, ruthless, and merciless. {{storylink|Transformers Online (2017 video game)|Transformers Online}} <ref>[http://tfol.qq.com/act/a20160726data/hero10.shtml Sunstreaker on the Transformers Online website]</ref>

===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Sideswipe-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Man, I'm good!"]]
Sideswipe was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! As a Scout, he jumpstarts the Power race at the start of the fight, and whenever he dodges projectiles. He deals Critical Damage at a high rate and Evades when attacked often. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}

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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
[[File:BBOSideswipe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left]]
Sideswipe took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. 800 Armor, 800 Blaster Strength, Score x6, Coins x3, Blaster Speed: Medium {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*Sideswipe's first ''Transformers'' toy was originally intended to be an Autobot-aligned release of the red version of the ''[[Diaclone]]'' toy "No. 1 Countach LP500S", alongside his brother, then named "Spinout", as a yellow "No. 15 New Countach LP500S" — that is to say, Sideswipe was supposed to look like a red Sunstreaker, and Sunstreaker was supposed to look like a yellow Sideswipe. This notion survived long enough into production that the original [[Production bible|series bible]] and his published ''[[The Transformers Universe]]'' bio describe Sideswipe with features of ''Sunstreaker's'' toy. During development, the characters had their molds swapped, but ''not'' their colors, making the yellow Countach Sunstreaker and the red New Countach Sideswipe that we know today. This whole shebang resulted in discrepancies such as Sideswipe being noted for his [[jet pack]] (in reality, Sunstreaker's vehicle mode exposed engine) and Sunstreaker's red shoulder stickers (which were intended to match with an otherwise red toy). In the decades since, Hasbro and TakaraTomy have been inducting old ''Diaclone'' colorways into ''Transformers''dom; the characters of [[Spin-Out (G1)|Spin-Out]] and [[Tigertrack]] are modern updates of the toys that were intended for Sideswipe and Sunstreaker respectively.
[[File: G1toon_sideswipes_pistons.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.75|I wanna bee-heee... your jackhammer!]]
*Sideswipe's piston arms (apparently derived from the "rocket booster" missiles of the Sunstreaker toy) were, for whatever reason, drawn differently in pretty much every episode of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] he utilized them in. A model sheet using the design from "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]" did in fact exist as evident by its inclusion in [[The Ark series|''The Ark'' series]] books, however; it would seem the model for the pistons was designed after Sideswipe's model was finalized, as they are absent from all of the known model sheets that have surfaced in the years since. Presumably, this piston model sheet was merely drawn up for that particular episode with the intent of it being discarded afterwards, much like the models used for other one-shot gadgets from other episodes, leaving the animators with no choice but to make up something the next time around.
**Both the original design and the subsequent alternate designs have been realized in toy form: the first "[[A Plague of Insecticons]]" design came with ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Sideswipe; the "[[Dinobot Island, Part 2|Dinobot Island]]" design was an Amazon-exclusive accessory for the ''Masterpiece'' toy; and the "S.O.S. Dinobots" design came with ''Masterpiece'' [[Clampdown (G1)|Clampdown]].
*Sideswipe's Japanese name, "Lambor" (ランボル) is derived from the name of his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], a Lamborghini (ランボルギーニ). It may also be a word play on the Japanese word "ranbō" (乱暴), which means "reckless, violent, rough". Wouldn't be the [[Autorooper|last]] [[Nine Great Demon Generals|time]] Takara's done such [[Japanese language|word puns]].
*According to a [[story page]] in the October 1985 issue of ''[[TV Magazine]]'', Sideswipe and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] are brothers, with Sideswipe being slightly older than Red Alert. This connection may have been invented because, aside from Sideswipe and Red Alert sharing the same mold, Sunstreaker was not sold in the Japanese market outside of a special "versus" set with [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. However, the familial dynamic between Sideswipe and Sunstreaker was '''not''' changed in the Japanese dub of the original ''Transformers'' cartoon, leading some Japanese fans to consider the three Lamborghini characters as triplets.
*Sideswipe has the dubious distinction of being the only one of the European Autobot Classic Heroes range not to feature in Marvel UK's [[Earthforce]] stories, not even making a late appearance like fellow 1991 addition Tracks.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Lambor''' (ランボル ''Ranboru''), '''Sideswipe''' (サイドスワイプ ''Saidosuwaipu'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Swipe''' (斯韋伯 ''Si Wai Baak'')
*''Czech:'' '''Stěrač'''
*''French:'' '''Frérot''' (Canada, "Bro")
*''Hebrew:'' '''Métsóded''' (מצודד, "Sidler")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Csatár''' ("Striker")
*''Italian:'' '''Freccia''' ("Arrow")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Cèsǎo''' (Taiwan, 側掃, "Side Swipe"), '''Héngpào''' (China, 横炮, "Horizontal Cannon")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Esgalhador''' (Portugal comic), '''Surrupio''' (Brazil comic)
*''Russian:'' '''Apperkot''' (Апперкот, "Uppercut")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Krutobiy''' (Крутобій, "Toughpuncher")

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Children of Primus]]
[[Category:Classics Autobots]]
[[Category:Dreamwave Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 2 Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 2 Go-Bots]]
[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
[[Category:IDW (2019) Autobots]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Regeneration One Autobots]]
[[Category:United Autobots]]
[[Category:Universe Autobots]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Earthrise Autobots]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Kingdom Autobots]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Siege Autobots]]

Robby Malto

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Indridcold13:

''Robby Malto is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]] [[continuity family]].''
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Robby was not at all happy to move from [[Pennsylvania]] to [[Witwicky (town)|Witwicky]]. The internet reception here isn't great, so he can't talk to his friends, and he doesn't understand ''why'' they had to move for the sake of [[Dot Malto|his mother]]'s new job. If only he could return to his real home...

At least, that was how he was, before [[Secret Legacy, Part 1|a chance encounter]] with the [[Terran|Terrans]] have given him reason to stay...well, the second reason to do so after his sister [[Mo Malto|Mo]].
==Fiction==
{{voiceactor|[[Sydney Mikayla]] (English)}}
Robby and his family moved from Pennsylvannia to Witwicky, much to his chagrin. After a failed attempt to get internet reception, he got into an argument with his parents and attempts to cycle back to Pennsylvania, with Mo chasing after him. Mo's bike broke on the highway out, and when Robby attempted to fix it, a confrontation between [[Arachnamech|a bunch of giant spider robots]] and [[G.H.O.S.T.|a group of vehicles]] forced them down a cliff, which eventually led them to a mysterious cave and a [[Emberstone|an equally mysterious artefact]]. He accidentally tips the rock off its standing point, and Mo helped him to move it back into place, both were given [[Cyber-sleeve|Cyber-sleeves]] as they witnessed the creation of the [[Terran|Terrans]] [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], who they were bonded to. Twitch saves them from those same scary spider robots from earlier, and the siblings sneak the Terrans back home without their parents notice.

When a night's reading of comics failed to teach the Terrans about being [[Transformer|Transformers]], Robby and Mo reached out to [[Alex Malto|their father]] to lecture about the Great War, which yielded naught.{{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 1}}
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[[Category:Earthspark humans]]

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Concept art of [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] for [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|Transformers: EarthSpark]] by ArtCup. <ref>https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VyEkYg</ref>

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Indridcold13:

Concept art of [[Twitch]] for [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|Transformers: EarthSpark]] by ArtCup. <ref>https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VyEkYg</ref>

File:ES Thrash concept art - ArtCup.jpg

2022-11-25T10:59:16Z

Indridcold13:

Concept art of [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] for [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|Transformers: EarthSpark]] by ArtCup. <ref>https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VyEkYg</ref>

Multiverse

2022-11-19T15:45:09Z

Indridcold13:

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[[File:TransformersCollisionCourse-multiverse.jpg|thumb|right|300px|One encouraging thing the Guide does have to say on the subject of parallel universes is that you don't stand the remotest chance of understanding it. You can therefore say "What?" and "Eh?" and even go cross-eyed and start to blither if you like without any fear of making a fool of yourself.]]

The '''multiverse''', aka the '''Universal Continuum''', the '''Multi-Verse of Eternity''', or the '''Spacetime World''' (時空界 ''Jikūkai''), is the overall collection of [[Continuity|universes and timelines]] related to the [[Transformer]]s and their adventures. The multiverse consists of a very large number of universes, and millions of them have been classified and categorized as [[universal stream]]s. Between these streams, outside of time and space, exists the interdimensional void of [[unspace]]. Many, but not all, realities within the multiverse can be characterized by the presence of shapeshifting mechanoid lifeforms—most often the Cybertronians themselves, but also [[Robotix]], [[Waruder]]s, [[Planicron]]s, [[GoBot]]s, or [[Go-Bot (species)|Go-Bot]]s—and the existence of either the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] or [[Skalorr|some]] [[Gobotron|suitable]] [[Botropolis|analogue]].

Although some have theorized that the prevalence of Cybertron across the dimensions means that it acts as a kind of "stable axis" upon which the entire multiverse spins, many individual Cybertrons and their inhabitants might never know that they exist on a larger continuum; on a cosmic scale, travel between individual universes is comparatively rare, and often accidental. However, there exist certain groups and individuals dedicated to monitoring, moving between, and/or protecting the many worlds of the multiverse, including [[Vector Prime]], the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]] and their successors the [[Planicron|Flaternity]], the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTechs]], and the [[Autobot#Cloud|Spacetime Police]] of [[Cloud World]]. There are also others who are a threat to the multiverse including [[Unicron]], [[The Fallen]], the [[Megatron Aggregate]], the [[Elder God]]s, the [[Quintesson#Cyberverse cartoon|Quintessons]], and [[Megatron (Cloud)|Megatron]] of the Cloud World.

Beyond the multiverse lies the [[Megaverse]], a larger collection of universes primarily unrelated to but still thinly connected to the Transformers, and beyond that, the [[Omniverse]], which contains all the many myriad realities that exist across infinity.

{{bigquote|The Multiverse is indeed a complicated and wonderful place, is it not? The moment you start to believe you understand its grand celestial mechanics, a new exception gives you cause for pause.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/05]]}}

==Conceptual history==
[[File:Nyc-alternate-future1.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]

The idea of parallel worlds, alternate dimensions, and different realities is older than the science-fiction genre itself, although the term "multiverse" was not used to describe the idea of multiple simultaneous realities until 1963. As a broad science-fiction pastiche, it should come as no surprise that the ''Transformers'' franchise would touch on the idea: while the third season of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''The Transformers'' cartoon]] featured a brief jaunt to a strange "[[negative universe]]", it would be the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comic]] that hewed closer to what was to come when its [[Rhythms of Darkness!|67th issue]] spotlighted a dystopian "possible future" where [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] ruled supreme and ended with [[Hook, Line, and Sinker|Unicron's minions]] dragging Galvatron back to the primary timeline. From day one, the cartoon and comic book were never meant to overlap; they diverged almost immediately by adding or killing off characters as needed while ancillary media like storybooks and coloring books freely mixed and matched characters at will: today, we refer to these strange little offshoots as "[[micro-continuity|micro-continuities]]". Early fans divided these two primary timelines into the "Marvel" or "Sunbow" universes; at this point in time, of course, all of the ''Transformers'' fiction took place in what would later become the "[[Generation 1 continuity family]]"—although 1996's ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' featured an entirely new cast of [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s, it soon became clear that they hailed from another such "possible future" and that their timeline had experienced a version of the classic Generation 1 storyline in their past.

[[File:Universe1afull.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

After the conclusion of the "[[Beast Era]]" in 2000, Hasbro returned to basics by porting the Japanese "Car Robots" anime and redubbing it into ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' to become the brand's first complete reboot. Two years later, ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' upped the ante by taking a page from the early days of the brand: a [[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|cartoon]], a [[Transformers: Armada (Dreamwave)|mutually irreconcilable comic book]], plus the usual swathe of books, video games, and mini-comics all set in their own little continuities brought the number of major continuities up to seven. In 2002, when developing what would become ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'', [[Aaron Archer]] proposed a franchise known as ''[[Transformers: Super Cross|Super Cross]]'', which would've featured a damaged [[Unicron]] kidnapping heroes and villains from many different realities—including ''Armada'', ''Beast Wars'', ''Robots in Disguise'', and "Generation 1", in a bid to restore his damaged body.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3687399744633791&id=247519665288500&m_entstream_source=permalink ''Super Cross'' pitch binder]</ref> Parts of the scrapped ''Super Cross'' backstory evolved into 2003's ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' storyline; this first true exploration of the "multiverse" concept expanded the concept to include [[Shell Game|several entirely]] [[Transformers: Universe CD-ROM|new realities]]. Around the same time, author [[Simon Furman]] penned the "[[Worlds Collide]]" storyline in Dreamwave's ''Armada'' comic book, which featured "Generation 1" Galvatron and a group of Decepticons jumping realities to serve as Unicron's heralds. Indeed, Unicron would play a key role in the multiverse meta-lore to come: around the same time as ''Universe'', multiple Furman works established that certain key figures in the ''Transformers'' mythos, most prominently Unicron and his benevolent opposite [[Primus]], were unique beings who transcended dimensional barriers and could exist or travel to multiple timelines simultaneously. Hasbro copywriter [[Forest Lee]] extrapolated on Furman's work, extended the concept to encompass [[Vector Prime]], [[The Fallen]], and the rest of the [[Thirteen|thirteen original Transformers]], and coined the term "[[multiversal singularity]]" to describe this phenomenon.

Shortly after [[IDW Publishing]] brought Simon Furman on to develop a pitch for their then-newly acquired ''Transformers'' license in 2005, he originally proposed a crossover story that would've brought together the casts of both ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' and [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] in response to a Unicron-based threat and an "omniverse in chaos". Evidently, IDW turned down the pitch, and Furman wound up writing the ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' miniseries instead.<ref>''Transformers, a New Direction'', Simon Furman's Transformers proposal printed in [[The Transformers: The Best of Simon Furman|The Best of Simon Furman]]</ref>

[[File:Axiomnexusgonetoofar.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]

It would take another few years before the multiverse concept returned to the forefront: in early [[2008]], [[BotCon]] licensee [[Fun Publications]] introduced the ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]'' setting as a means of exploring the increasingly vast ''Transformers'' multiverse. Co-opting its name and cast from Hasbro's [[Transtech|aborted ''Beast Machines'' sequel]], the ''TransTech'' prose stories and comic books introduced the hyper-advanced city of [[Axiom Nexus]], inhabited by both highly evolved "[[Transcendent Technomorph]]s" and "offworlder" travellers who hailed from every conceivable corner of the ''Transformers'' multiverse, ranging from mainstream "Generation 1" realities to obscure offshoots like the original ''[[GoBots|Challenge of the GoBots]]'' television show. ''TransTech'' stitched together throwaway bits of lore: notably, it tied together throwaway concepts like "subspace" and "transwarp" into [[Unspace|a single unifying concept]] that occupied the space between individual realities. Most notably for the purposes of this article, the ''TransTech'' stories featured scientists observing and classifying different realities under a specific alphanumeric system. Although author [[Greg Sepelak]] has gone on record to say that this "[[universal stream]]" system was originally conceived as a way of making the TransTech seem detached and alien,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201113130526/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/101932-tfwikinet-thread-or-the-all-new-all-different-community-portal/page-320#entry3411810 The Allspark Forums, 2nd January 2016]</ref> this did not stop both fans and other creatives from using it as a definitive system of universal classification—a home-grown substitute for the elaborate cosmologies of the {{w|Multiverse (Marvel Comics)|Marvel}} and {{w|Multiverse (DC Comics)|DC}} multiverses.

From 2009 to 2010, the [[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|Allspark Almanac]] expanded the ''Transtech'' notation to, among other things, include a [[Gargent|proper universal cluster]] for ''GoBots'', [[Nexus|another]] for the TransTech themselves, and even one for [[Quadwal|the "real world"]]. For the next eight years, the multiverse would define Fun Publications' time on the brand; stories would frequently involve characters crossing into different realities or embarking upon epic cross-dimensional quests.

[[File:MarceloMatere-continuities.jpg|thumb|right|250px| I keep changing it, don't I? Which do you prefer: Universe? Multiverse? Omni-fragging verse - ohh it doesn't really fragging matter, does it?]]

As most adult-oriented Japanese fiction tends to play in the margins of the complicated [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Japanese cartoon continuity]], the idea of exploring the entire ''Transformers'' multiverse as a concept did not crop up as frequently in most Japanese fiction. However, different works of fiction featured time-travel plots and branching timelines—the most prominent of these splinter realities would be the [[BT World]], which would give rise to the powerful, multiverse-spanning "[[Alternity (species)|Alternity]]", until they were superseded by the two-dimensional [[Planicron]]s from [[Flatworld]] in a [[pack-in material|pack-in]] epic spanning from 2003 all the way to 2012. The ''[[Transformers Cloud]]'' prose stories from 2014 to 2015 featured by far Takara's most extensive flirtation with the concept, introducing another hub reality in the form of the artificially induced "[[Cloud World]]" inhabited by "Spacetime Police" who took a much more active role in the multiverse than their Transtech cousins and utilized their own, simpler, "[[Multiverse#Spacetime|Spacetime]]" system of universe classification.

That same year, Fun Publication's "[[Ask Vector Prime]]" feature offered the most definitive look at the multiverse yet: in addition to fleshing out obscure realities, delving into the history of the TransTech and the multiverse itself, tying together bits of ''TransTech'', ''Cloud'', and ''Alternity'' lore, and exploring the lives of other pan-dimensional beings like the [[Hytherion]], the column took a stab at laying out a definitive multiversal cosmology by establishing both the [[Megaverse]] and the wider [[Omniverse]], and providing in-fiction explanations for things like [[animation error]]s and fictional crossovers. Ultimately, however, with their time on the brand winding down, Fun Publications introduced the "[[Shroud]]" in late 2015: after years of increasingly contentious debate about their position in the multiverse meta-lore, the Shroud provided an in-fiction means of retroactively nullifying the concept of multiversal singularities entirely while also "strengthening the dimensional boundaries" and rendering further dimensional travel much harder.

With the end of BotCon in 2016 and the eventual dissolution of Fun Publications, the multiverse again took a back seat. It would not be until 2019 that the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|''Cyberverse'' cartoon]] returned to the concept over the course of its second and third seasons, although these multiverse tales were smaller in scope compared to what had come before, hearkening back to the possible futures and alternate timelines of Marvel's ''Transformers'' comic. In 2022, however, Hasbro brought the concept back in a big way: the [[Transformers: Legacy|''Legacy'' toyline]], a celebration of the brand as a whole, features characters from across the ''Transformers'' multiverse <ref>"Universes collide! TRANSFORMERS: LEGACY brings together fan-favorite characters from across the TRANSFORMERS multiverse with figures featuring deco inspired by their universe."</ref>—as of writing, the toyline features characters from "Generation 1", the "[[Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Unicron Trilogy]]", and the [[Aligned continuity family|"Aligned"]] continuity families.

In a moment of supreme irony, IDW Publishing—whether through coincidence or an attempt to capitalize on ''Legacy'''s main marketing push— again attempted to tackle the multiverse again in 2022's ''[[Transformers: Collision Course]]'' miniseries; due to unclear circumstances, however, the comic would be scrapped at the last moment. With IDW's loss of the ''Transformers'' license at the end of 2022, it's unclear if future licensees will touch upon this corner of the ''Transformers'' mythos.

==Multiversal cartography==
{{quote|It is only natural for my species (and yours) to attempt to name, label, classify and clarify, build a taxonomy. But there will always be realms that defy understanding, always be mysteries left to uncover, always be exceptions to every rule. Isn't it glorious?|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 5/21/2015]]}}

[[File:WotT Cybertron.jpg|thumb|left|400px|There are many worlds, but they share the same sky...]]

The ''Transformers'' multiverse is vast, but just ''how'' vast is not entirely clear. As a subset of the endless [[Omniverse]], the multiverse encompasses an extremely large number of potential realities: according to [[Vector Prime]], this number lies somewhere in the millions,<ref>[[Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 5/21/2015]]</ref> the [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s of [[Axiom Nexus]] claim to have discovered at least 15,962,782 different universes,<ref>"[[Withered Hope]]"</ref> the Autobots of [[Transformers: Armada (Dreamwave)|one universe]] analyzed 75,890,007 realities while searching for [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|their Optimus Prime]],<ref>"[[Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4]]"</ref> [[Bug Bite (GoBots)|Bug Bite]] once put the number at a whopping fifteen quadrillion,<ref>"[[Games of Deception]]"</ref> and other stories have described the multiverse as infinite.<ref>[[Balancing Act, Part 2]]</ref><ref>[[Transformers: Deviations]]</ref><ref>[[The Trial]]</ref> Regardless of how many potential realities might exist, there exist a finite number of beings with the technological sophistication and drive to explore and chart them, and as a result groups of Transformers and Transformer-analogues across the dimensions have come up with different ways to chart and classify these parallel realities.

{{--}}

===Universal streams===
{{main|Universal stream|List of universal streams}}
Within the fictional ''Transformers'' multiverse, the advanced [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s of [[Axiom Nexus]] identify individual timelines with in the multiverse as specific "[[universal stream]]s", each encompassing a specific cartoon, comic book, video game, movie, toy commercial, or just about any other form of ''Transformers'' media. Each universal stream receives a specific name regarding the continuity family of origin (known in-fiction as a "universal cluster"), a number that indicates its "real-world" date of creation, and a Greek letter that denotes the specific form of media. Using this notation, one could identify the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original ''Transformers'' cartoon]] and [[The Transformers: The Movie|the animated film]] as taking place in universe "[[Primax 984.17 Alpha]]". A universal stream might encompass a single work of fiction, or many interconnected franchises; for example, the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|''Transformers Prime'']], ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'', and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' cartoons all take place in "[[Uniend 911.05 Alpha]]". A single universal stream might also form the foundation for multiple divergent timelines, all mutually contradictory in their own way: so it is that universe "[[Primax 984.0 Gamma]]", the reality of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|original Marvel comic]], branches off at different points into [[Primax 490.0 Gamma]], [[Primax 512.5 Gamma]], [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon]], or [[Primax 290.03 Gamma]].

Thanks to a simple and relatively intuitive classification scheme, it became easy for both official creators and fans to retroactively identify basically every universe and continuity that had appeared up to that point, and due to its prominence in official fiction compared to other forms of universal classification, we usually default to Axiom Nexus notation when categorizing universes on this wiki. From 2015 to 2016, the "[[Ask Vector Prime]]" Facebook feature namedropped ''hundreds'' of universal streams—some based upon mainstream cartoons and comics, others on obscure toy commercials and storybooks, still others spinning off out of original stories or outlandish "what-if" scenarios. However, Vector Prime was careful to inform his readers that the efforts of the TransTech, while admirable, were but arbitrary labels attempting to tidily categorize a nigh-infinite phase space. Universal clusters and the beings that dwell within them blur, overlap, and do not always fall into clear-cut categories, as evidenced by the existence of realities like [[Primax 610.17 Kappa]] or [[Iocus 1012.30 Gamma]].

Ultimately, however, with the termination of the Fun Publications/Hasbro partnership at the end of [[2016]], no new TransTech fiction has been or likely ever will be published. New continuities introduced after this cut-off date—including ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]'' or ''[[Transformers: BotBots (franchise)|BotBots]]''—do not possess in-fiction universal stream designations and probably never will.

===Worlds===
For most TakaraTomy fiction that involves different universes (notably ''[[Transformers Legends (comic)|Legends]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]''), many characters utilize a dirt simple system whereby the more plot-relevant universes are designated short names based on content and referred to as X "World"(世界 ''Sekai''). A prominent example is the "[[G1 World]]" (G1世界), containing the main Japanese Generation 1 timeline. Universes are also described more generically, such as "the world of ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]''" (アニメイテッドの世界).<ref>"[[LG-16 Slipstream Sequel]]"</ref>

The higher dimensional [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]] use the universal stream system in conjunction with the simpler names. Residents of the [[Cloud World]] may appear to use this system, but their usage of "World" is very different ([[#Spacetimes|see below]]).

===Spacetimes===
In ''[[Transformers Cloud]]'', the multiversal regulators of [[Cloud World]] organize the multiverse, which they call the "Spacetime World", under a system of "Spacetimes" (時空 ''Jikū''). Each spacetime falls under a two-letter code designating its general dimensional category, such as "[[The Transformers (franchise)|OG]]" or "[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|MD]]", representing real world franchises rather than continuity. These categories can also be referred to as "Worlds" (世界 ''Sekai'') or unnumbered spacetimes. Individual timelines are then numbered via two digit time coordinates. As such, you get designations like "24-BW Spacetime" (第24BW時空 ''Dai-Nijūyon Bīdaburyū Jikū''). This does not indicate strict separation, as many spacetimes are connected in greater "flows of time" (時の流れ ''toki no nagare''), representing continuities, that can cross different world categorizations; the numerical designations indicate branches in this flow.

These relatively well-behaved spacetimes have a tendency to indicate somewhere in the vicinity of a franchise's cartoon. In the event an "irregular spacetime" does not have a cartoon, Cloud's "Spacetime Police" have been known to just kind of wing it, producing designations such as "EX-LG Spacetime" (indicating [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Deadlock)|Deadlock's ''Legends'' comic]]) and "15-OGSS Spacetime" (a divergent spacetime that spun out of 01-OG Spacetime due to the events of ''[[Transformers: The Battle of the Star Gate|The Battle of the Star Gate]]'').

One very special spacetime that does not quite follow the system established above is OG001 Spacetime (OG001時空), representing the very first episode of a ''Transformers'' cartoon—the English version of "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]". Consequentially, this spacetime is regarded by Cloud natives as the origin point of the multiverse as a whole.

===Levels===
The [[GoBot]]s of several Gargent realities, such as [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha]], refer to an alternate reality as a "Level", as depicted in the ''Challenge of the GoBots'' cartoon and later ''Transformers''-[[canon]]ized by [[Ask Vector Prime#Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric]]. Unlike a "stream", a "level" can refer to a main universe's entire timeline in addition to all of its splinter timelines. The GoBots' home universe is the 1st level while the dread reality ruled by Queen [[Exor]]'s [[Insectoid]]s is the 21st level. [[Primax 984.0 Gamma]], as well as its splinter [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon]], is dubbed the 22nd level in "[[Withered Hope]]", and one or more [[Viron]] realities is dubbed the 44th level in "[[Echoes and Fragments]]". Other GoBot-populated realities or reality systems include the 8th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 25th, 28th, 30th, 33rd, and 52nd levels; as per hidden text in "[[Cultural Appropriation]]", the GoBots identify other ''Transformers''-affiliated realities as Levels 16, 29, 34, 39, 51, 59, 63, 69, 72, and 77, though it's not clear how these map onto the standard TransTech notation.

===Strata===
Riffing off the aforementioned system of "levels", the Autobots of [[Primax 085.0 Eta]] call universal streams "Strata", with reference to their specific reality as "Strata 1". Only one other designation is known: [[Gargent 087.0 Kappa]] is referred to as Strata 22 in both "Ask Vector Prime" and "[[Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric]]".

===Cybertrons===
The Cybertronians who inhabit the negative-polarity version of [[Axiom Nexus]] utilize a slightly modified version of the standard universal stream notation: under their system, universes are classified as "Cybertron-[x]", with [x] using the first letter of its cluster name, the first letter of its universe type, and the year of its creation. Using this system, the [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|original "Shattered Glass" universe]] would be "Cybertron-PE08".

===Universes===
Promotional material for the multiverse-themed ''[[Transformers: Legacy]]'' toyline classifies its characters under a system of "origin universes" that roughly correspond to when and where they originally appeared. Under this schema, the versions of [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] who debuted in the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' cartoon hail from the "Prime Universe"; likewise, ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] belongs to the "Cybertron Universe". What exactly constitutes a single "universe" is unclear and sometimes inconsistent: for instance, ''Legacy'' considers characters like [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and [[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]] to be denizens of the "G1 Universe", which covers a [[Generation 1 continuity family|vast swathe of mutually contradictory cartoons, comics, storybooks, and more]]; fellow G1 character [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]], meanwhile, comes from the "Comic Universe", a veiled reference to the specific [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|Marvel UK universe]] in which Impactor first appeared. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Legacy|''Legacy'' Laser Optimus Prime]], on the other hand, hails from the "G2 Universe", which would, at least in theory, identify him as a member of the 1990s [[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|''Generation 2'' comic]]... a comic in which he never actually ''appeared'' in this body. Additionally, there are some instances where two characters that come from different universes have the same label, and ones who come from the same universe having different labels. As mentioned, Impactor originated in Marvel UK, while [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]] hails from [[IDW Publishing]]’s 2005 continuity, yet both have the same label, Comic Universe. The flip side of this is with Unicron Trilogy characters, such as [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Cybertron Metroplex]] and [[Starscream (Armada)|Armada Starscream]], who technically are from the same universe, but are labeled for their cartoons of origin (although that’s probably due to the differing styles between the series).

Suffice it to say that Hasbro, and indeed most of the toy-buying public, cares very little about these kinds of inconsistencies.

===Others===
Some alternate realities are given more descriptive names by their discoverers or the inhabitants who live there. Examples include the "[[X-Dimension]]", "[[Limbo]]", "the [[Dead Universe]]", "[[Alpha Q's universe]]", or "[[Menonia]]".

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
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During their reign over [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the [[Quintesson]]s used a specialized portal chamber to exile prisoners to alternate dimensions, including an ice world, a place with no physical substance, and the magical land of [[Menonia]]. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}}

While trying to escape a [[Quintesson]] scientist, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]], [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]], and [[Marissa Faireborn]], accidentally flew the Quintesson's ship into a [[black hole]] that led to a strange “[[negative universe]]”. By travelling back through that universe's “white hole”, the group returned to their original reality. {{storylink|The Killing Jar (episode)|The Killing Jar}}
=====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity=====
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The [[Precursor World]] came into existence as a multiverse unto itself, composed of seven monochromatic universes, each containing its own variant of a mysterious energy known as [[Star Power]]. In the final battle between the native [[Primus Vanguard]] and their nemeses the [[Specter]]s, the Primus Vanguard pooled all their Star Power into a [[Silver Matrix|single vessel]] to obliterate the Specters, and in so doing fused their multiverse into a single shared reality. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Part 1|Finale Part 1}}

When the Precursor World eventually met its end in the [[Big Bang (event)|Big Bang]], at least one daughter universe was birthed in the form of the [[G1 World]]. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Part 2|Finale Part 2}} The denizens of these two closely intertwined realities subsequently bothered each other via [[time travel]]. Like, a lot. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic}}

In [[2004]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] travelled to the [[Legends World]] following a [[solitarium]] explosion. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 6|Bonus Edition Vol. 6}} The Autobot returned with [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] and [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] in tow {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 7|Bonus Edition Vol. 7}} and the Destronger was forced to leave by [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Scourge)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

The meddling of the time traveler [[Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ravage]] to tip history in favor of the [[Decepticon]]s irrevocably altered the timeline of the G1 World from [[2005]] onwards, eventually producing a splinter universe known as the [[BT World]]. {{storylink|Changing Lanes}} This BT World would lead to the creation of the truly multidimensional [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], who protected the universes against threats like the [[Hytherion]] {{storylink|From Here to Alternity}} and [[Megatron (G1)|those who sought to control the beast]]. {{storylink|To Mega Therion}} The Alternity's battles spanned multiple universes till a plot by Megatron forced the Alternity to be replaced by the [[Planicron]]s. {{Storylink|Alternation}}

The [[Binaltech (technology)|Binaltech]]s and [[Protector]]s traveled to G1 World to attend the trial of [[Primacron]] by the [[Quintesson]]s in [[2011]]. Upon the conclusion of proceedings, Primacron departed the G1 World for dimensions unknown. {{storylink|Controverse}} In the same year, the Autobots traveled to a parallel dimension to assist the inhabitants of [[Sandra (planet)|Sandra]], a parallel version of Earth. {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}}

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At some point, [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] bathed in [[Dimension Slide]] particles, giving him new abilities that allowed him to transverse the multiverse. He, with another version of himself called [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], leapt to another universe to deal with an errant ghost of Starscream from Skids's own universe. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}} Becoming a "Dimensional Investigator", Skids policed the dimensions with his [[Skids Squadron]], made up of Skidses from across dimensions. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}}

In [[2015]], the G1 World was accessed by the Legends World's Rattrap via his dreams. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 8|Bonus Edition Vol. 8}} {{storylink|2015's Swerve}} {{storylink|Transformers 2015 Tailgate/G1 Mini-Con Chapter|Tailgate/G1 Mini-Con Chapter}} {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 9|Bonus Edition Vol. 9}} {{storylink|Transformers 2015 Brainstorm Chapter|Brainstorm Chapter}}

In [[2021]], [[Unicron]] summoned [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] from their native dimensions to aid in the resurrection of his G1 World incarnation, reformatting them into fodder for [[Grand Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Grand Galvatron Chapter}} Unicron later summoned [[Grand Scourge]] to the G1 World in an attempt to bamboozle [[Ruination (RID)|Ruination]] into fighting alongside his warriors. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part One}} Unicron's tampering with the timeline and universe threatened to destabilize the multiversal barriers, so everybody banded together to stop Unicron's plans, but not before Grand Scourge and [[Galvatron II]] were tossed to locations unknown through a crack in spacetime. {{storylink|Ruination Chapter, Part Two}} Around this time, many beings went back and forth to the Legends World for various reasons.

During the 2030s, many beings also went to the Legends World for various reasons. It was during this time that the Legends World was properly created by the Zamojin. After that world was destroyed, its refugees found shelter in the G1 World during this era till the Legends World's recreation.

Breakdown returned to his home universe and Slipstream (having went to the G1 World following her stint in the Legends World) also returned to her proper reality. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

Upon his purification of [[Angolmois Energy|malicious Angolmois]] by [[Lio Convoy]] in [[2050]], [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s unhindered [[spark]] traveled back in time to the Precursor World under its own power to save both universes. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Part 2|Finale Part 2}}

Centuries later [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] were revived after [[Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|their deaths]] by [[Logos Prime]] and had some trippy adventures aboard his multiversal pyramid ship thing before being deposited on a [[Jungle Planet (colony)#Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Jungle Planet]] somewhere in the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Aurex cluster]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars Reborn}}

After the [[Great Transformation]], Cheetor sent Rattrap and Waspinator to recover Rhinox's spirit from the Legends World. Despite interference from the ghost of Starscream, they succeeded. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rattrap)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Waspinator)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rhinox)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

======Legends World======
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As an experiment to study [[Beast Power]], the [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]] sought to use their [[spirit energy|telepathic powers]] to create a universe from scratch. In the 2030s of the [[G1 World]], the Zamojin had [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] and [[Twin Twist (G1)|Twin Twist]] assist them by procuring the [[Zodiac]]. With that, the Zamojin's telepathic powers, and [[proton energy]] from the [[Space Pirates]], the Legends World was created. The two Autobots felt obligated to help as their comrades, [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] and [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]], were from the Legends World, but had migrated to the G1 World in [[2004]]—time was a meaningless consideration in inter-universal travel. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 66|Bonus Edition Vol. 66}} The Beast Power used was copied from beast Transformers from across the G1 World and duplicated in the Legends World, forming deformed versions of those same Beast Transformers who would go on to populate the universe's [[Earth]]. The Legends World also had an interesting property in that the adventures of Transformers from across the multiverse were extant as ''Transformers''-branded media, with accompanying toys. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 41|Bonus Edition Vol. 41}}

The Legends World's [[spirit energy|inherent properties]] allowed its [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] to access the G1 World through dreaming. There, he was able to meet various Autobot heroes in the [[2015]] of the G1 World that he knew from media in his native universe. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 8|Bonus Edition Vol. 8}} {{storylink|2015's Swerve}} {{storylink|Transformers 2015 Tailgate/G1 Mini-Con Chapter|Tailgate/G1 Mini-Con Chapter}} {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 9|Bonus Edition Vol. 9}} {{storylink|Transformers 2015 Brainstorm Chapter|Brainstorm Chapter}} [[Tigatron]] would later join Rattrap in another "dream", this time to the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|''Adventure'' cartoon]]. {{storylink|Go! Adventure}}

[[File:LegendsVol16-Slipstream.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]

In the G1 World's 2004, the [[Predacon (BW)|Destronger]] [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] and the [[Autobot]] [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] were thrown into the [[Legends World]] by a [[solitarium]] explosion. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 6|Bonus Edition Vol. 6}} Jetfire would return to his proper universe with Whirl and Roadbuster in tow. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 7|Bonus Edition Vol. 7}} Seeking allies in his mission to recover [[Megatron (RID)|Devil Gigatron]] from the [[Dimensional Patrol]]'s clutches, [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] arrived in the Legends World and convinced Sky-Byte to leave the life he'd established for the regular G1 World. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Scourge)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

When [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] threatened to destroy the Legends World on the behalf of its creators, the [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]], the denizens of the universe were able to pull in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] from the late 2030s through a portal to handle her. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 12|Bonus Edition Vol. 12}} {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} He would soon be followed by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], who found a portal to the Legends World and established his presence there. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 23}} [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Another Megatron]] arrived with a seemingly resurrected [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. Together, they attempted to rob the world of its [[Mini-Con]] "toys". {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Armada Megatron)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} To counter them, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] travelled to the Legends World with the [[10.2 ultra-drill|ultra-drill]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 14|Bonus Edition Vol. 14}} Escaping inevitable imprisonment by the Autobot authorities on her [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] used transdimensional gyro-rotors acquired from [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] to flee to the Legends World. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 16|Bonus Edition Vol. 16}} Due to the growing Decepticon power on the Legends World, Alpha Trion brought in [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 17|Bonus Edition Vol. 17}} Armada Megatron and Armada Starscream would be finally sent back to their universe when Alpha Trion used the ultra-drill to bring in [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] to calm down Starscream before he sacrificed himself again. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 18|Bonus Edition Vol. 18}}

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To alleviate his recent weight gain, the [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] of the 2030s went to the Legends World to get a new body from that universe's [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]. {{storylink|LG19 Sprung Prologue}} Jealous of the attention Springer was getting from the women of the Legends World, Tigatron stole the ultra-drill and brought in women from across the multiverse. His plan didn't work out, as they all ended swooning over Springer anyway. Except one. The Legends World's own [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]; this rejection sent Springer crying back home. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 19|Bonus Edition Vol. 19}} This universe was soon visited by the [[Deadlock (Cloud)|Deadlock]] of [[Cloud World]], with [[SARA]] in tow. After some angst about not being like the [[Drift (disambiguation)|Drift]] of other universes, he was sent on his way back by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], who was now a dimensional investigator. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Deadlock)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} The Legends World was in turn visited by [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] from after the [[Great Transformation]], who were in search of the spirit of [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rattrap)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]'s ghost arrived to possess Waspinator again, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Waspinator)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} but was foiled by the resurrected Rhinox. Together, the three Beast Warriors returned to their proper world and time. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rhinox)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

Sick of the constant universal incursions, Skids attempted to expel all foreign beings from the Legends World with the assistance of the multiversal [[Skids Squadron]] and seal it, but the natives fought against this effort and convinced Skids that he was the one destroying the peace of this universe. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}}

In [[2021]], one of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s plots involving a [[black hole]] led a group of Autobots and Decepticons being forced to become small [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] in order to escape their continually shrinking bodies. {{storylink|Headmaster Chapter Prologue}} Knowing of Whirl and Roadbuster's origins in the Legends World and that its natives could easily build new bodies for them, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]] pinpointed the world's spacetime coordinates from the two [[Wreckers]]' residual radiation and used solitarium to travel there. The Decepticons had the same idea, joining up with [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] in the Legends World to get new bodies. {{storylink|Headmaster Chapter Prologue}} To keep the former [[Headmaster Junior|Headmasters Jr]] (and [[Clouder]]) safe, [[Grand Maximus]] sent them over to the Legends World into Fortress's care. Shockwave, having detected Megatron in the same universe, travelled there as well. {{storylink|LG24 Shockwave & Cancer Prologue}} [[Devil Z]], having died in the G1 World, was resurrected in the Legends World through dark magic. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 34|Bonus Edition Vol. 34}}

Through means unknown, the [[Precursor World]]'s [[Convobat]]'s [[transtector]] travelled to the [[Legends World]], where it acted in a move chronicling Convobat's adventures. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Convobat)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

When a mysterious transtector appeared in the Legends World, the Autobot Headmasters Jr summoned [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] to that world to claim it. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 35|Bonus Edition Vol. 35}} Soon, Rattrap visited [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] again in his sleep, inspiring the Headmaster to finally come over to the Legends World. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 39|Bonus Edition Vol. 39}}

[[Zarak (G1)|Lord Zarak]], of a universe similar to the G1 World, attempted to invade the Legends World with his Scorponok, but was foiled with the help of heroic [[Nebulan]] Headmasters from the villain's universe. {{storylink|LGEX Headmaster Set Chapter}} Having travelled through many worlds, [[Lio Convoy|Leo Prime]] came face to face with [[Katsu Don]] over the fate of the Legends World, for Transformers in his time had eventually realized it existed and were inspired by children cheering on the heroes while watching and reading ''Transformers'' media. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 41|Bonus Edition Vol. 41}} In preparation for civil war between the Decepticon factions on the Legends World, [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]] came over to act as the black box for a new [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter}}

Turned good by a reformed Devil Gigatron, [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] attempted to use the might of the Dimensional Patrol to control the Legends World and hunt down the [[Commando (RID)|Combatrons]] who were hiding out in that universe. He and Skids banned the use of transtectors, which made the other denizens of the Legends World turn against them and help [[Dark Ai]] restore all six Combatrons' evil personalities. All involved were forced out the universe. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Scourge 2)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

To explain Ginrai's mysterious transformation into [[Magna Convoy]], [[Delta Magnus]] and [[Marissa Faireborn|Marissa]] were brought in by Waspinator using the ultra-drill. They had no idea what the wasp was talking about. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Magna Convoy)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} In the wake of Trypticon's devastation of [[Tokyo]], Alpha Trion brought in the G1 World's [[Disaster Relief Team]] to assist in rebuilding. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 43|Bonus Edition Vol. 43}}

The smaller Targetmaster partners, lost since the [[black ball]] incident, were transported to the Legends World when the Decepticon Targetmasters forced Alpha Trion to use his ultra-drill. {{storylink|Mutant Targetmaster Birth Chapter}} Not knowing of this, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] and [[Shaoshao Li]] arrived in the Legends World in search of the Targetmasters. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Prologue}} Also present on the world were [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] and [[Sue Faireborn]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 46|Bonus Edition Vol. 46}} Hearing of [[Blowpipe (G1)|Blowpipe]]'s new ability to clone beings with his beam, [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] traveled to the Legends World to use it to create [[Insecticon clone]]s. Also present were [[Mega]] and [[Giga]], resurrected by Devil Z from their deaths in the G1 World. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 47|Bonus Edition Vol. 47}}

The Legends World faced an invasion by evil [[Kreon]]s. They were quickly stopped by good Kreons and they all returned to their universe of Kre-O blocks. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Special Chapter|Special Chapter}} Seeking redemption and escape from the authorities, the [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] of [[2022]] came to the Legends World with [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]]. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 50|Bonus Edition Vol. 50}} [[White Leo]] had the same idea, but to use the Legends World's native to build a bestial army against the [[Laser Beast]]s that threatened to conquer [[Beast (planet)|Beast]] in the G1 World. He was followed by his rival [[Tigerburn]], but the warring beasts were forced back home. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 51|Bonus Edition Vol. 51}}

To assist the Legends World against future threats, the [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] of the 2030s were sent there. Desiring the power of Broadside's enormous transtector, [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] and [[Trickdiamond]] followed. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 53|Bonus Edition Vol. 53}} To build up defenses against an expected return of [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]], Ginrai went to the G1 World's [[G Nebula 89]] to upgrade his transtector and returned to the Legends World. Unbeknownst to him, he brings over [[White Lune]], sister of White Leo, as "delivery". {{storylink|TF Legends Late Xmas Present Chapter|Late Xmas Present Chapter}}

Pursued by the [[Concurrence]]-controlled [[Galactic Peace Alliance]] and its [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] came to the Legends World to throw them off. The Throttlebots nevertheless followed with Spike's impostor (in actuality [[Old Snake]]) coming along. The impostor was foiled and sent back to the G1 World. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 54|Bonus Edition Vol. 54}} To investigate the Zamojin's hand in the Legends World, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] crossed over, only to run into Katsu Don. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 56|Bonus Edition Vol. 56}} Desiring to become a Headmaster, the bodiless [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] convinced [[Lunaclub]] and [[Moonheart]] to facilitate travel there, which they did. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 57|Bonus Edition Vol. 57}}

Working against the fake Spike Witwicky, the Autobot [[Clone (subgroup)|Clones]] arrived in the Legends World to escape pursuit by "Spike" and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. "Spike" was revealed as Old Snake in disguise and he returned to the G1 World. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 58|Bonus Edition Vol. 58}}

Seeking worlds to conquer, the [[Quintesson]]s (of times ancient compared to the Legends World immigrants) attempted to invade the Legends World, only to be sent back their way by [[Big Convoy|Big Fight]] and their former servant, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]. As the Quintessons were from a time long before the actual creation of the Legends World, they investigated who they knew to be the universe's creators, the Zamojin, and sealed their region of space with a [[quadrant lock]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 59|Bonus Edition Vol. 59}} Seeking the proton energy that created the Legends World, the Decepticon Clones came to pilfer it. They discover that the Autobot Targetmaster partners have absorbed it. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 61|Bonus Edition Vol. 61}}

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After his multiple trips to the Legends World, Old Snake decided to use the full might of the Concurrence to conquer it so that they could use the planet's resources to fight against the Galactic Peace Alliance. Thanks to the efforts of G1 Megatron, the Concurrence were defeated and they fled back to the G1 World. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 63|Bonus Edition Vol. 63}} Losing the war on Beast, Tigerburn returned to the Legends World in an effort to conquer it and transform its denizens into Laser Beasts, but was stopped by the visiting [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] and [[Alana]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 64|Bonus Edition Vol. 64}}

When the world came under attack by a Zamojin-controlled Windblade and the Targetmasters, Springer, Roadbuster, Whirl, Topspin, and Twin Twist came to help in its defense. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 65|Bonus Edition Vol. 65}} After using [[spirit energy|Shinchōkon]] to resurrect [[Jack (Headmasters)|Jack]], Sixshot, now "Greatshot", returned with his new partner to the G1 World. After the Concurrence was defeated, Spike, Daniel, and Bumblebee also returned. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Greatshot)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

Putting his revenge in action, Devil Z pulled in Scorponok so that the two of them could reunite as a new "BlackZarak" and conquer all universes after consuming the Legends World. (Such a scenario happening was why the Zamojin wanted to destroy the Legends World.) Fortunately, Grand Maximus was able to come over and defeat BlackZarak. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Grand Maximus)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} Surviving, Scorponok decided to simply blow up the Legends World and established forces consisting of his loyal Decepticons, [[Majin Zarak]], and the Zamojin. They were fought against by everybody else and the Dimensional Patrol. As a final resort, Scorponok engineered the Targetmasters to create a planetary-sized explosion. {{Storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One}} Scorponok's forces were defeated and Majin Zarak forced out of the universe, but Devil Z, having also survived, pushed the Targetmasters to continue with the explosion. Using the [[Drill Base]] to create portals all around the world, all living beings were evacuated to the G1 World as the Legends World was destroyed. Those who travelled to the Legends World were returned to their proper times. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}}

After some turmoil, the Legends World was restored through the efforts of many and through the collection of the Zodiac, the last remaining soil of the Legends World, [[Energon Z]], the Zamojin's telepathy, and White Leo's [[MVP Weapon]]. Megatron, who had died in the interim, was resurrected and left the Legends World to its own devices after some time. Leo Prime, his job finished, also left for parts unknown. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}
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=====''Deviations''=====
The multiverse contains an infinite number of quantum universes with every single possible outcome, including a reality where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] did not die in the [[Battle of Autobot City]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Deviations|Deviations}}

====Marvel Comics continuity====
=====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics=====
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''[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] was tricked into blowing up what he thought was [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], twenty years before the Seeker was ''meant'' to die. He believed this meant he'd created an alternate timeline, and what he did in the past wouldn't affect the future of ''his'' reality.'' {{storylink|Target: 2006}}

''Individuals displaced by [[time travel]] wound up in a bizarre [[limbo]] dimension, a black void populated by [[Limbo parasite|parasitic life-forms]] who fed on the emotions of their victims.'' {{storylink|Distant Thunder!}}

[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]'s minions [[Hook, Line, and Sinker]] travelled to an alternate timeline to fetch [[Galvatron II|that reality's Galvatron]], who'd ruled the bombed-out ruins of America ever since "his" Unicron had triumphed and destroyed Cybertron. {{storylink|Rhythms of Darkness!}}

=====''Regeneration One''=====
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[[File:RG1 93 rodimii.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Everyone stop arguing and listen to Rodimus-One!]]

When [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] returned to the [[Primus]] chamber with the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], he had a vision of numerous multiversal versions of himself. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Three}} Primus, using [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] as a vessel, sent Hot Rod on a journey through [[Zero Space]], the void that exists between realities. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Four}} While the journey through Zero Space took him to three periods of his own timeline's past, the final stop was on a [[Junkion (planet)|planet of junk]] in [[Primax 490.0 Gamma|Galvatron II's home timeline]], where the Unicron-empowered Decepticon destroyed Hot Rod's counterpart, Rodimus Prime. Unobserved by the victorious Decepticons, Hot Rod recovered his counterpart's [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] and returned to his own timeline, reborn as Rodimus Prime himself. {{storylink|Less Than Zero}}

However, "Primus" turned out to be the corrupted fragment of Matrix energy that had empowered the [[Deathbringer (Marvel)|Deathbringer]] more than two decades earlier. {{storylink|Dark Creation}} Rodimus had witnessed that this energy had survived the destruction of the Deathbringer, {{storylink|Less Than Zero}} and this "Dark Matrix creature", having gained sentience, had been manipulating events ever since. When Primus brought the Transformers on Earth back to Cybertron in order to confront Unicron {{storylink|The Void! (US)}}, he had inadvertently brought the creature back as well. It had hidden itself in the shadows, stirring up the [[Demon]]s in the aftermath of the conflict, and hoping to draw upon the chaos that followed the demise of Primus. But when the [[Last Autobot]] was activated and able to stabilize the planet, the creature found it could not thrive on the ensuing peace. It had manipulated [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] into restarting the war; it had reawakened Galvatron on Earth and brought him back to Cybertron; and it had affected events on [[Nebulos]], culminating in the possession of the original head of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and kidnapping [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]] from Earth. And when it was ready to launch its endgame, it corrupted nearly every Transformer left on Cybertron, turning them all into [[shadow-leech]]es.

The creature was now using Spike, whom to it represented the "trinity"—a fusion of the worlds of Earth, Cybertron, and Nebulos (having undergone the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster process]])—as a focal point for the chaos energies generated on those worlds. The creature intended to use those energies to shatter the barriers of Zero Space and spread itself throughout the multiverse, so that it could create even more chaos.

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Rodimus Prime, using the [[Covenant of Primus]] to reenter Zero Space and bearing the [[Sword of Primus]], confronted the creature, who beset upon Rodimus three versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]—his present self, alongside two past forms, all corrupted by the creature, although the present Optimus struggled to resist the corruption. The weakened dimensional barriers, however, allowed Rodimus Prime's multiversal counterparts to enter Zero Space and join the fray. As the other Rodimuses attacked the creature, Optimus regained his senses long enough to reveal what he'd learned of Primus's grand plan—that it would ultimately result in the creation of an optimum universe made up of the best elements of the other universes. Since the creature could not be destroyed, only contained, the only way to prevent it from corrupting the grand plan was to seal off their own universe forever. Using this knowledge, Rodimus was able to snap Spike out of his fugue, allowing him to break free. Rodimus then prevented the creature from escaping into the closing crack by sealing it with the Sword of Primus. With the creature trapped, Optimus, Rodimus, and Spike were returned to the Primus chamber, and the other Rodimuses returned to their home realities. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
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Conventional Cybertronian science held that parallel universes, such as those created through [[time travel]], did not exist. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue}} At some point, [[Micronus Prime]] abandoned his original reality and created his own personal dimension, the realm of [[Microspace]]. {{storylink|Informed}}

An extradimensional [[Elder God]], summoned to this universe by the writings of [[H.P. Lovecraft|Howard Lovecraft]], briefly awoke sometime in the 19th century and was subsequently defeated by [[Domitius Major]] in the guise of "Optimus Prime". {{storylink|Strange Visitors}}

In the year [[2014]], [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] used a time machine to reach back through history to the moment time began in another universe, and used a time machine to siphon off its life energy from the moment of its creation to fulfill his grand scheme. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} This stillborn "[[Dead Universe]]" was somehow able to reach out to the reality that had originally created it: some six million years ago, [[Nova Prime]] and the crew of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark-1]]'' were drawn through a portal in the [[Benzuli Expanse]] that led to the Dead Universe. There, they were corrupted by the realm's immortal darkness; their original mission of exploration and conquest was twisted into a malevolent plot of "[[Expansion]]" meant to merge the two universes together. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}} {{storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}} When Nova Prime, now "Nemesis Prime", and his minions met the Autobots in battle on [[Gorlam Prime]], their beachhead for their eventual invasion of the universe, Optimus Prime's forces triumphed and most of the invaders were banished back to the Dead Universe. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

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Years later, [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]—one of the few architects of the Dead Universe invasion to escape this fate—stumbled across an anomalous mass of metal and frozen flesh in deep space. He and his followers brought the strange object on board, but soon realized that they'd accidentally loosed a horde of ravenous [[zombie]]s. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infestation issue 1|Infestation #1}} Both the zombies and their undead leader [[Britt]] hailed from outside their universe: in her home timeline, she'd been corrupted into serving the dread [[Undermind]] in its pan-dimensional invasion, which spread to [[Ghostbusters|multiple]] [[Star Trek|divergent]] [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|universes]]. {{storylink|Infestation issue 1|Infestation #1}} Once they'd crash-landed on [[Earth]], Galvatron and his followers fought back, even recruiting some grudging Autobot assistance, {{storylink|The Transformers: Infestation issue 1|The Transformers: Infestation #1}} but Britt transformed into a living [[space bridge]] to send her horde back in time to devour pre-war Cybertron. However, Galvatron used [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]]'s remote mind-link to instruct [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] to sabotage the space bridge and send the zombies to the Dead Universe, where the Undermind would have nothing to feed upon. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infestation issue 2|The Transformers: Infestation #2}} Once she returned to her native dimension, Britt threw off the Undermind's influence and banished it for good. {{storylink|Infestation issue 2|Infestation #2}}

As part of a plan to change history, [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]] attempted to travel backwards in time in the hopes of changing Megatron's future and preventing the Great War entirely. However, his efforts created a dystopian alternate timeline in which the [[Functionist Council]] ruled Cybertron. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue}} Using a quantum duplicate of his [[time case]], the crew of the ''[[Lost Light]]'' managed to prevent Brainstorm from killing Megatron and permanently overwriting history with this new series of events. As a result of [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Perceptor]]'s tampering with the time case's anti-paradox locks, however, the would-be "new history" branched off into its own separate timeline, the "[[Functionist Universe]]", and Perceptor speculated that the event might've given rise to an infinite set of branching histories. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

After communing with the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]], [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] had her consciousness hurled through the multiverse—glimpsing various alternate versions of herself along the way—before entering [[Microspace]]. {{storylink|Informed}}

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====''Hearts of Steel''====
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Despite being trapped in a dimensional prison, the [[Elder God]]s had the power to reach out to sensitive beings. Among them was [[H. P. Lovecraft|Howard Lovecraft]], who channeled the Elder Gods' call into horror prose. Despite the clandestine organization [[Oblivion]] succeeding at killing Lovecraft before his art could threaten to allow the Elder Gods into the universe, his stories spread into popular culture. This collective imagination, with the help of [[Artillica]], let loose the Elder Gods. Free and unencumbered, they rampaged across [[Covert Vampiric Operations|one plane of existence]] along with {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Publishing)|infinite}} {{w|Dungeons & Dragons (IDW Publishing)|other}} [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|ones]] throughout the multiverse. {{Storylink|Infestation 2 issue 1|Infestation 2 #1}} One Elder God invaded a [[Hearts of Steel|universe]] in which the Transformers had awoken in the 19th century and forced the Autobots to reactivate Optimus Prime to meet the threat head-on. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1|Infestation 2: The Transformers #1}} {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 2|Infestation 2: The Transformers #2}}

[[Covert Vampiric Operations|CVO]] ended the threat of the Elder Gods by using Artillica and the [[Relic]] to seal the tear in their reality. {{Storylink|Infestation 2 issue 2|Infestation 2 #2}} {{storylink|The X-Files: Conspiracy: The Transformers|The X-Files: Conspiracy}}

{{IDW HOS}}

====''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''====
Trapped in the white-hot core of the Earth's [[Sun]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] tried to flee this dimension by tapping the power of his black hole heart to open a portal and escape into another reality to rebuild his strength. Megatron's body survived the trip, but not his spark: in [[Equestria|another dimension]], a group of confused [[Pony|ponies]] discovered his charred corpse. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}

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====''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''====
[[File:MazingerZvsTransformers-realities.jpg|thumb|left|250px|You got your Mazinger in my Transformers! You got your Transformers in my Mazinger!]]

While observing different realities, group of mysterious hooded figures opened the dimensional gates and sent a group of Autobots and Decepticons to the world of ''Mazinger Z'' for no real reason. {{storylink|Mazinger Z versus Transformers}}

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====''My Little Pony/Transformers''====
Rather than connecting two points in space, a malfunctioning [[space bridge|spacebridge]] attempted to reach out across dimensions—when its energies somehow overlapped with [[Queen Chrysalis]]'s [[magic]], it wound up transporting multiple Autobots and Decepticons to the land of [[Equestria]]. {{storylink|Transformation Is Magic}} Later, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] refined the technology and used it to create a deliberate cross-dimensional bridge between the two universes. {{storylink|The Magic of Cybertron}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
[[File:EarthriseEpisode5-SkyLynxfloating.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sorry, Jimbo, looks like you're going to the shadow realm.]]

In ancient times, [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] banished the arrogant [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] into the Dead Universe when he laid claim to the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. After passing through that same universe in the present day and crash-landing on Earth, {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}} the shipwrecked Autobots and Decepticons encountered the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s: Cybertronains who had time-travelled back to Earth's past to prevent a dystopian future from ever coming to pass. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} Although the Maximals wondered if securing the AllSpark and changing history would consequentially erase them from the timeline, this was not the case, suggesting that this reality operates on a multiversal model of [[time travel]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}}

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====2019 IDW continuity====
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When [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s experimental teleport harness malfunctioned, it wound up sending [[Jumpstream]] through [[unspace]] and stranded her on an alternate Cybertron where [[Exarchon]] had conquered the planet. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}} Although both Perceptor and Jumpstream assumed that they'd somehow crossed over into an alternate timeline, they soon discovered that they'd actually travelled through ''time'', not ''space'', and had glimpsed a possible future of their own universe. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II}}

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====''King Grimlock''====
In eons past, Optimus Prime visited the other-dimensional realm of [[Menonia]] and helped establish the [[Golden One]] as the land's new ruler. Many years later, when the Golden One had been corrupted by the power of his deity [[Soltron]], the citizens of [[Valerift]] used [[energon]] to bring him back to their dimension. It didn't go as planned, however, and they wound up summoning [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] instead. {{storylink|Grimlock the Rebel}}

===3H comics===
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Upon purification by the Matrix, the newly enlightened [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] evolved into new beings known as the [[Vok]]. Having been given a new purpose by [[Primus]], the Vok spread across the multiverse, seeding every plane of existence in preparation for the fulfillment of Primus's [[Grand Plan]]: The unification of all worlds balanced and organized into perfect harmony and synchronicity. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 3}}

As [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]] was about to disappear due to the nullification of his timeline of origin, {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}} [[Primus]] divinely intervened, preserved him from being nullified. Windrazor was then deposited in a new location to function as a "spirit guide" for other champions of Primus from various realities. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

[[Unicron]] abducted Transformers from the various universes in order to fight in gladiatorial combat. Consequently, Primus and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] resurrected [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] from the dead to lead [[Child of Primus|an army]] in the [[Universe War|multiversal war]] against Unicron. {{storylink|Abduction}} Optimus Primal conducted his opening salvo by traveling into the [[Cauldron]], and with the help of some abductees, initiating a mass jailbreak. Subsequently, Primal and the abductees returned to his native technorganic Cybertron, from which most of the abductees were sent back to their home universes. {{storylink|OTFCC Live-Action Drama}} {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}} {{storylink|Homecoming (Universe)|Homecoming}}

During the Universe War, [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] built a device to counteract Unicron's attempts to abduct Transformers from other universes. Two attempts at deflection only partially succeeded, stranding the victims on an icy planetoid. The Children deployed a rescue team, but Unicron sent a team of [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|Minion]]s as well. Teaming up with the victims, the rescue team was able to drive off the Minions, and everyone was sent back to their proper eras and realities. {{storylink|Voice Actor Drama}}

After a long conflict rivaling the intensity of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 9|Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal's profile}} the Children of Primus emerged victorious when Unicron himself disappeared (as a result of the [[Unicron Singularity]]). {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}

===Universe CD-ROM===
[[Unicron]] kidnapped Decepticons from the various universes in order to assemble an army. Meanwhile, [[Primus]] recruited his own army of Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Universe CD-ROM}}

===Unicron Trilogy continuity family===
====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====
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Cybertronian science had an understanding of the multiverse and parallel realities. One million years before the war, [[Astroscope]] and the [[Space Team]] experimented with dimensional travel, but they proved unable to breach the dimensional barriers and contact one of these other timelines. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}}

As he slowly devoured his way across the multiverse, Unicron developed a grisly habit of sending a fatally wounded [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime]] from one universe to the next, a kind of warning to its inhabitants that he'd soon arrive. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}} To aid his endless quest, Unicron assembled a legion of five "[[Herald of Unicron|heralds]]" plucked from different realities, who would prepare new dimensions for his arrival. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}}

As Unicron prepared to devour [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma|the next reality]], the [[Mini-Con]] [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]] escaped his universe in an experimetal [[null-reality pod]] with the [[Mini-Con Matrix]] and hoping to stop Unicron from devouring yet another reality. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} The heralds of Unicron were tasked with defeating Cybertronian leadership and centers of power and capture the Mini-Con Matrix. They used the Decepticons' [[space bridge]] network to open portals to other realities in order to initiate "phase two" of Unicron's plan, but were ultimately defeated one by one. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}} As a result, Unicron encountered a unified alliance of Autobots, Decepticons, and Mini-Cons, who defeated him with the help of the Mini-Con Matrix. {{storylink|The End (Armada)|The End}}

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====Force of Habit====
At the onset of the search for the [[Cyber Planet Key]]s, alternate universes were only considered theoretical by Autobot scientists. The Singularity's uniquely strange readings, however, prompted some scientists to worry that the Singularity could spread to the hypothetical alternate universes. {{storylink|Force of Habit}}

====Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity====
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When Megatron recklessly released Decepticon-flavored energon from Unicron's body, it interacted with the Autobot-flavored energon from Unicron's head. The resultant catastrophic reaction opened a [[Rift|rift in space]], a tear in the fabric of space which led to an alternate dimension. {{storylink|Ripped Up Space}} Within the [[Alpha Q's universe|new universe]], [[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] released the seeds of the many planets destroyed by Unicron and used [[energon]] to restore them. {{storylink|Protection}}

After his return, [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] utilized another pocket dimension known as the [[fire dimension]] as his headquarters. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}

In an alternate dimension, the denizens of the crime-ruled [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] learned that all life in their universe was slowly dying out. Utilizing their mastery of science, they discovered the planet [[Gigantion]] in another, more healthy dimension. Plotting to make Gigantion their new homeworld, Planet X's residents used a space warp to pull it into their own dimension and commenced a full-scale invasion. Unfortunately, Gigantion's residents fought back, utilizing the power of their [[Cyber Planet Key]] to successfully repel the invaders. The residents of Planet X ultimately proved to be their own undoing as they unleashed their ultimate weapon on Gigantion, only for the superweapon to backfire and blow their homeworld up. {{storylink|Challenge}} Despite this fact, the survivors of Planet X swore vengeance against Gigantion by any means necessary. [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (Cybertron)|Laserbeak]], and [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] were among those who traversed space for a way to destroy Gigantion, eventually entering into the service of the planet destroyer [[Unicron]] in exchange for Gigantion's assured destruction. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 9|''Cybertron'' Soundwave's profile}}

{{note|The ''Cybertron'' cartoon never clarified whether the native dimension of Planet X was a parallel universe of its own or simply a pocket dimension such as the fire dimension.}}

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Centuries later, the Autobots of Cybertron utilized the space warp in the [[Skeleton Nebula]] to travel to the dimension where Gigantion had been transported to, seeking the Cyber Planet Key to end the [[Unicron Singularity]] crisis. {{storylink|Warp}} After securing the key, the Autobots built an enhanced [[space bridge]] to get them home again, though the difficulties of bending spacetime to get back cost [[Vector Prime]] his life. {{storylink|Guardian (episode)|Guardian}}

Sideways and Soundwave (and Laserbeak) later tried to make their own grab for the Cyber Planet Keys, but they were consumed in a huge reality-bending explosion from a clash between [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Showdown (Cybertron)|Showdown}} This turned out to be good for them, though, as when they were last seen, they had apparently found their way to a dimension containing an intact version of their homeworld! {{storylink|Beginning}}
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====Ask Vector Prime====
A group of dimensionally-displaced Maximals and Predacons waged some version of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] in Alpha Q's universe, until the Alternity got involved to avert a catastrophic spacetime crash. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/03}}
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===''Timelines''===
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The ''Transformers'' multiverse is but a fragment of the greater [[Omniverse]], an infinite set that contains every conceivable reality imaginable. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/21}} Between the multiverse and the omniverse lies the vaguely-defined "[[Megaverse]]", which encompasses both the primary ''Transformers'' multiverse and tangentially-connected realities that include [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]], the [[Animorphs]], and [[M.A.S.K.]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/11}} These are not clear-cut boundaries, however; different realities within the ''Transformers'' multiverse, such as [[Primax 984.0 Gamma]] or [[Lukas 577.25 Beta]], overlap with different omniversal dimensions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/21}}

When and how the multiverse came into being is not clear, and [[Vector Prime]] has speculated that its true history may be unknowable—indeed, it might have retroactively come into being after [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|one iteration of Perceptor]] tampered with a duplicate of [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]]'s [[time case]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/27}} More common theories include the original [[Big Bang (event)|Big Bang]] spawning multiple pocket universes which then budded off to form their own full-fledged realities, [[The One]]'s creation of both Primus and Unicron causing multiple dimensional schisms, or the idea that the multiverse always existed in its present state, and that new realities only come into being when a [[Forest Lee|sufficiently powerful outside observer]] identifies and classifies them. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/25}} The [[Primax]] universal cluster is the largest and oldest of the group, which has led Vector Prime to speculate that it might contain the original universe from which all other realities spring from, {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/11/01}} although the discovery of the [[Cymond]] cluster on the very edge of the multiverse suggests that it might be the "common ancestor" of all ''Transformers'' realities. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/15}}

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A higher-dimensional phenomenon known as "[[trans-dimensional harmonic resonance]]" means that certain concepts, characters, and ideas repeat throughout the multiverse: in this way do most realities feature some version of Optimus, Megatron, and a war between their respective factions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/24}} This kind of pattern may have something to do with how the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] acts as the "stable axis of the multiverse"; every iteration of the planet is connected on an infinite curve,{{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 2}} {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 22/06/2015}} and the destruction of the planet in any one reality threatens the inherent stability of that entire universe. The cascading ripple effect caused by one Cybertron's destruction can potentially jeopardize multiple timelines, as was the case when [[Scorponok (G1)|MegaZarak]] destroyed the Cybertron of [[G1 World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 22/06/2015}} {{storylink|Echoes and Fragments}}

As the guardian of time, [[Vector Prime]] patrolled the multiverse for eons, and intervened when needed to preserve its essential stability. {{storylink|Vector Prime: In the Beginning}} While Primus and Unicron slumbered, Vector, [[Nexus Prime]], [[Alpha Trion (disambiguation)|Alpha Trion]], and [[Solus Prime]] made the decision to split Nexus Prime into five pieces to conceal the location of the five fragments of Prima's [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]] sword, a weapon that could destroy star systems, from their evil brother [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]. Using the blade of the Star Saber, Nexus Prime was cut into five other robots: [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]], [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]], [[Topspin (Classics)|Topspin]], and [[Heatwave (Timelines)|Heatwave]], who were subsequently scattered across the multiverse and lost to the ages. {{Storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Beyond Unicron and The Fallen, other multiversal deities included the [[Hytherion]], who preyed upon dead and dying realities and once drove [[Logos Prime]] mad, {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/14}} and [[Mogahn the Mass]], who absorbed entire star systems until Vector Prime and the [[Time Warrior (AVP)|Time Warriors]] defeated him. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12}} The cruel and inscrutable [[Elder God]]s, beings who dwarfed even Primus and Unicron in power, inhabited the [[unspace|swirling void]] sandwiched between dimensions. {{Storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 5|Ramjet's profile in Club magazine #5}}

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The higher-dimensional geography of the multiverse is loosely organized around the small [[Nexus]] universal cluster; as a result, dimensional travellers have a higher-than ordinary chance of ending up in the city of [[Axiom Nexus]] in universe [[Nexus 208.0 Epsilon]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 05/14/2015}} At first, the native [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s assumed these travelers to be mere extraplanetary travelers and gave them passage off-planet. However, the natives of Cybertron soon realized that these travelers were in fact from another Cybertron(s). With the existence of a multiverse of other Cybertrons confirmed, the TransTechs realized the pettiness of their internal disputes and began focusing on other universes. The TransTechs became the watchers of the multiverse, welcoming travelers from the various universes in the city of [[Axiom Nexus]] and sifting [[unspace|transwarp]] for beings who would otherwise die in mundane accidents involving transwarp-based transportation. Spearheaded by the efforts of [[Rhinox (TransTech)|Rhinox]], [[Prowl (TransTech)|Prowl]], and [[Silverbolt (TransTech)|Silverbolt]], they compiled an extensive, continually expanding catalog of the [[universal stream]]s, both existent and no longer existent. {{storylink|Withered Hope}} {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist}}

Some universal clusters, like [[Xobitor]] and [[Cymond]], are considered "distant", and lie on the transitional boundary between the edge of the multiverse and the wider Megaverse. It is very rare, although not entirely unheard of, for travellers from these distant realities to end up in Axiom Nexus. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/06/29}} {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/19}} Other universal clusters with their own unique cosmology include the [[Malgus]] cluster, which lacks multiversal singularities due to the effects of the "the "non-linear WY-att pulse function", {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/22}} and the [[Lukas]] cluster, which overlaps with [[Star Wars (franchise)|other realities in the Omniverse]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/13}}

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Eventually, however, the "war of balance" between Primus and Unicron began again when the [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] of [[Primax 984.0 Gamma|one particular reality]] accidentally blasted Primus as he slumbered. His "cosmic scream" reverberated across the multiverse, allowing Unicron to find Primus and begin his battle against his ancient foe anew. Although the Cybertronians weakened Unicron when he attacked one such universe, the wounded but still living god kickstarted the dimension-spanning [[Universe War]] as he abducted beings from across the multiverse in a bid to restore his physical form. {{storylink|Vector Prime: In the Beginning}}

Beyond the TransTech, other prominent multiversal guardians include the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]] and the Autobots of [[Cloud World]]; although they did not take a direct role in the Universe War, they worked in a behind-the-scenes capacity to defend stricken realities from the Hytherion. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/08}} The [[Unicron Singularity]] created by Unicron's destruction briefly posed an existential threat to the multiverse: its pull was so strong that even alternate Unicrons were drawn into it. The self-replicating singularity spread across many universes, merged their histories into a single messy timeline, and eventually threatened the entire multiverse. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 2}} [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], recently arrived on this Cybertron from the [[Universe War]], revealed that that conflict had abruptly ended when Unicron was destroyed as a result of the Singularity's effects spreading throughout the multiverse. Vector Prime understood that this indicated the threat posed by the black hole was more urgent than the inhabitants of one universe might be able to perceive. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}} Fortunately, the local Autobots of were able to restore Primus to power so that he could close the Singularity. {{storylink|Revelations Part 6}}

One particular universe would go onto enjoy a particularly fraught history: when universal stream [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon]] branched off from [[Primax 984.0 Gamma|its parent timeline]], this new universe possessed a nearly identical frequency to [[Primax 984.0 Gamma|a completely unrelated timeline]]. After first destroying [[Primax 1291.0 Zeta|another tangent universe]], Primax 207.0 Espilson then began "overwriting" this sister universe. {{storylink|Withered Hope}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac}} At first, the native [[GoBot]]s who inhabited this dimension sent a group of agents to Primax 207.0 Epsilon to try and intervene; they first wound up in Axiom Nexus by accident, {{storylink|Withered Hope}} and only [[Bug Bite (GoBots)|Bug Bite]] eventually made it to their intended destination. When he failed in his mission, however, {{storylink|Games of Deception}} the GoBots put a contingency plan into play and coordinated a vast [[Diaspora|multiversal evacuation]] in which teams of dimension-hopping GoBots infiltrated other realities and posed as native Cybertronians. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}} As a result of repeated dimensional travel, however, some refugees like [[Crasher (GoBots)|Crasher]] were refracted and duplicated across multiple simultaneous universes. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/17}}

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In this same universe, the native [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] encountered [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]] and [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]], who'd been drawn together on an elaborate multiversal quest. Together, the three encountered [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]], who'd been sequestered in this universe and protected by the [[Caretaker]]. With the multiverse spiralling into entropy, the Caretaker supercomputer sent the group on to meet with another component of Nexus Prime: while Skyfall, Breakaway, and Landquake travelled on to Axiom Nexus, {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 1}} Cliffjumper wound up stranded in a [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|bizarre mirror universe]]. {{storylink|Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass}} After all of his components reformed into Nexus Prime, he and the heroic Quintesson [[Aquarius (SG)|Aquarius]] spent some time travelling the multiverse in search of the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 6}} Some years later, a group of evil Autobots from that same mirror universe invaded Primax 207.0 Epsilon and used [[Rarified Energon]] to destroy it. The Transformers on Earth wound up teleporting the entire planet into the negative-polarity universe, {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}} while all of the humans on the planet wound up shunted onto the Earth of [[Of Masters and Mayhem|a different alternate reality]] where [[Thunder Mayhem|an out-of-control Decepticon combiner]] had prematurely ended the Cybertronian war. {{storylink|Assembly (OMAM)|Assembly}}

The destruction of this universe proved a double-edged sword: thanks in part to the efforts of [[Lio Convoy]], who'd passed through the dimension and helped the remaining inhabitants of that universe buy some more time, {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}} {{storylink|Sunrise}} the Cataclysm was ultimately forestalled. However, the destruction of that same reality caused entire dimensions to fold together or simply be ripped apart. To address the crisis, TransTech [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]] broke the standard rules of [[Axiom Nexus]] and assembled the [[Convoy (group)|Convoy]]. {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}} The Convoy's formation was also necessitated by the defeat of the [[Hytherion]] by the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], as there was no longer a beast of time to consume weakened and damaged universes. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist}} One of the Convoy's first actions was to deploy [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] to the past of [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon]] to protect the [[Origin Matrix]]. {{storylink|Invasion: Epilogue}}

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For a long period of time, an impenetrable "quantum membrane" isolated the [[Uniend]] universal cluster from the rest of the multiverse until the passage of the [[Dark Spark]] from that reality to the [[Tyran]] cluster revealed its existence to the inhabitants of Axiom Nexus. Because of this, multiversal singularities like Vector Prime began absorbing the memories and traits of their Uniend counterparts. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/18}} However, this process would prove short-lived: by the time that a reunified Nexus Prime reunited the [[Origin Matrix]], reassembled the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], and seized the [[Terminus Blade]] from [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|its previous owner]], it was clear that the fabric of the multiverse had been irreparably damaged, {{storylink|Restoration}} and the defeat of the Hytherion at the hands of the Alternity left no natural mechanism to deal with dead and dying realities. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/08}}

In a last-ditch attempt to stabilize spacetime, Nexus Prime brought together the relics he'd gathered at a key point in interdimensional space and used them to rewrite the fabric of reality: his attempt to "seal the doorways between universes" would have a unique effect on [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularities]] like himself, and he would be forever altered by his actions. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}} From this point on, the concept of multiversal singularies ceased to exist and multiversal travel was rendered much harder, effectively stranding all of the many Offworlders in Axiom Nexus with no way to return home. The TransTech dubbed this phenomenon "the [[Shroud]]", and its effects proved retroactive—multiversal singularities had ''never'' existed, and each universe could now contain a new version of Primus, Unicron, or the Thirteen or none at all. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist}} {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

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While trying to recalibrate their monitoring arrays to adjust to the new reality they faced, Rhinox and Vector Prime identified nine specific universes as "pillar realities", streams with an unusually high number of branching points and quantum echoes: [[Primax 984.0 Gamma]], [[Primax 984.17 Alpha]], [[Primax 496.22 Alpha]], [[Viron 901.8 Alpha]], [[Aurex 802.23 Alpha]], [[Primax 1005.19 Gamma]], [[Tyran 707.04 Delta]], [[Malgus 1207.26 Alpha]], and [[Uniend 911.05 Alpha]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/11/05}}

Later that year, fear spread across Axiom Nexus when it looked like the entire multiverse had been destroyed. As it turned out, [[Waspinator (TransTech)|Waspinator]] had merely misinterpreted the sight of Rhinox shutting down some now-obsolete monitoring equipment in the wake of the Shroud and had phoned in a panicked tip. {{storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2016/12/31}} The creation of the Shroud had a final, unexpected consequence: in a negative-polarity Axiom Nexus, [[Rhinox (SG TransTech)|Rhinox]] and [[Airazor (SG TransTech)|Airazor]] successfully discovered an entire, previously hidden, negative multiverse that corresponded to the positive-polarity multiverse. {{storylink|Epilogue Two}}

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===''Animated''===
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The destruction of [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon]] left a quantum vacuum that [[Primax 512.5 Gamma]] went on to occupy. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|Ask Vector Prime, The Complete AllSpark Almanac}} [[Tyran]] universes undergo a particularly high rate of divergence, perhaps due to the malign influence of [[The Fallen]], whose evil spans multiple dimensions. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|Ask Vector Prime, The Complete AllSpark Almanac}}

A trans-dimensional [[Vector Prime]] observed some of the events in the [[Transformers Animated (comic)|''Transformers Animated'' comic]] and identified that they took place in the same reality as the [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|cartoon]]: universal stream [[Malgus 1207.26 Alpha]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac}} A time-traveller from the distant future named [[Natasha Pyraniac]] interfered with the timestream, and Vector Prime explained that as a result outside observers would notice minor changes in that universe's history. Multiple iterations of [[Sideways (disambiguation)|Sideways]] have been known to hop dimensions; {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|Ask Vector Prime, The Complete AllSpark Almanac}} according to the unreliable testimony of one Sideways, he had [[Sideways (Animated)|previously visited this universe]] and escaped to the Tyran cluster by using a black hole. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Sideways, 8/7/2015}}

''[[Venus (magazine)|Venus]]'' was a trans-dimensional magazine, {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac}} while ''[[ALTernity Today]]'' covered newsworthy events from across the multiverse. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}} [[Jim Sorenson (Animated)|Jim Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster (Animated)|Bill Forster]] traveled from their home universal stream of [[Quadwal -3760.925 Theta]] where they wrote the ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|AllSpark Almanac]]''. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac}}
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===Unit:E===
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The world of the Transformers was just one universe in a multiverse of limitless possibilities. (Other possibilities included [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]], [[M.A.S.K.]], [[Jem]], and {{w|Stretch Armstrong|a couple}} [[Micronauts|other guys]] [[Action Man|you]] {{w|Drizzt Do'Urden|might}} {{w|Candy Land|know}}.) The mysterious organization known as "Unit: E" operated in the "slipstream" beyond the spacetime continuum and used this vantage point to explore and protect different worlds. {{storylink|Unit:E (issue)|Unit:E}}
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===''Cloud''===
At the beginning of all time and space, the "Spacetime World" came into being in a [[Big Bang (event)|massive explosion]]. Seeking a means of maintaining the integrity of the many fractal dimensions composing this multiverse that would come to be known as "Spacetimes," the [[Creator of Life]] made a universe, "[[Cloud World]]" full of machines designed to maintain the multiversal fabric, and dispatched to it an emissary named [[SARA]] to guide them. In time, the robots of Cloud World evolved into [[Transformer|sapient super-robot lifeforms]], complete with transformation abilities. The Transformers of the Cloud World cherished SARA and embraced the task the Creator asked of them using [[Dimension Gate]]s created by SARA. In addition to their other duties they gathered surplus energy from a myriad of sources in different universes for SARA so that she might continue to maintain Cloud World's integrity. In time, these Transformers came to be known as the [[Autobot#Cloud|Spacetime Police]]. Unsurprisingly, the people of Cloud World regarded SARA as holy and their rulers saw that she was kept under strict guard. {{storylink|Prologue}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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During a battle in space between the Autobots and Decepticons, the [[AllSpark]] briefly tumbled into a [[unspace|quantum tunnel]] into another universe populated by angry birds and mischievous pigs. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers issue 1|Angry Birds Transformers #1}} Eventually, however, the transformed "Autobirds" sent the AllSpark back through the tunnel from whence it had came, and accidentally sent one of the [[Minion Pig]]s to this [[Generation 1 continuity family|alternate universe]]. {{storylink|Hard Boiled}}

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===Aligned continuity family===
====''Portal''====
{{stub|[[Transformers: Portal]]}}

===''Go-Bots'' comic===
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After assuming leadership over the [[GoBot|Go-Bots]], [[Road Ranger]] announced that they would create a [[Transformer|new race of Go-Bots]], who would populate [[Cybertron (planet)|copies of their metal homeworld]] across the entire multiverse. {{storylink|Go-Bots issue 5|Go-Bots #5}}

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===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
[[File:TheScientist-AlternateSoundwaves.jpg|thumb|left|300px|This place is a real who's-who of who's you and me.]]
The [[Quintesson]]s were a trans-dimensional race of beings who used their [[multiverse drive]] technology to travel across infinity and assimilate beings native to that timeline into new [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judges]], who would pass judgement on individual universes. Realities that did not pass judgement were destroyed with vast quantities of lethal [[unspace]], which collapsed realities from within. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}} The Quintesson [[Scientist (Cyberverse)|Scientist]] developed a hobby of abducting different iterations of [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] from the many doomed realities he'd destroyed. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

After the [[Ark (Cyberverse)|''Ark'']] wound up stranded in [[unspace]], the Autobots encountered multiple versions of themselves from other realities who had all met the same fate, including a crew of Autobots from a reality where [[Rack'n'Ruin (Cyberverse)|Rack'n'Ruin]] led the Autobots. [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] and his alternate-universe counterpart theorized that unspace must be the meeting place of the multiverse. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

During the Quintesson invasion of Cybertron, [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] and [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]] stole the multiverse drive and travelled to other realities. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}} Their journey gave Megatron the ability to channel exotic energy, {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}} before he landed in a reality where he'd won the [[Great War (Cyberverse)|Great War]] and stole the [[Matrix of Leadership]] from his [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|that universe's Megatron]]. {{storylink|Silent Strike}} Along with his [[Decepticon supersoldier]]s, that alternate Megatron crossed over to the primary universe to reclaim his Matrix only to be defeated and left paralyzed. Eager for vengeance on his old master, [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]] took the alternate Megatron within him and announced his intention to keep him trapped forever. {{storylink|The Other One}} After Megatron X perished, the remaining Decepticon supersoldiers invaded the dimension that they'd once imperiled, but eventually laid down their arms after the death of their leader [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]]. {{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

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==Games==
===''DreamMix TV World Fighters''===
To boost the ratings of the ''[[World Fighters]]'' TV show, [[Mujoe]] and [[Haruna]] invited beings from several different worlds, including [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], to compete on the show. {{storylink|DreamMix TV World Fighters}}

===''Transformers Battle Universe''===
At the edge of time, the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] summoned warriors from [[Generation 1 continuity family|multiple]] [[Movie continuity family|different]] [[Animated continuity family|realities]] to choose a new host. {{storylink|Transformers Battle Universe}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
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In [[Aligned continuity family|one universe]], the Autobots battled to keep the malevolent [[Dark Spark]], a trans-dimensional artifact of pure malice, out of [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]'s hands. The subsequent battle blasted the Dark Spark into [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (franchise)|another universe]], where the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] briefly seized it. However, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|that universe's Optimus Prime]] was able to keep Lockdown occupied long enough for [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] to remove the Dark Spark, and Prime subsequently used the Matrix to send the Dark Spark through time and space into [[Generation 1 continuity family|yet another universe]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
A spatial warp field pulled [[Marissa Faireborn]] and the Autobots aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] crash-landed on an [[New Quintessa|unknown planet]] in another universe, where they encountered multiple Autobots and Decepticons from [[Live-action film series|another reality]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}

===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
Upon using an unstable [[space bridge|spacebridge]], [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] warned them that the passage could strand them in unspace, a nexus point where multiple timelines collided, and excitedly theorized about the existence of other universes before [[Arcee (Cyberverse)|Arcee]] reined him in. {{storylink|Transformers: Battlegrounds}}

==Notes==
*When originally developing what would become the [[Aligned continuity family]], [[Aaron Archer]] and [[Rik Alvarez]] suggested that it was entirely separate from the rest of the ''Transformers'' multiverse.<ref name="allspark2011botcon">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79726 AllSpark.com live transcript of Archer and Alvarez's 2011 BotCon panel]</ref> When asked about [[The Fallen]] and how his status as a [[multiversal singularity]] would relate to the new fiction, Hasbro replied "anything you know from past generations of the brand may or may not be factual in the new continuity".<ref name="fallen">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=74182&view=findpost&p=1675011 Allspark.com Hasbro Q&A, Nov. 2010]</ref> Notably, its version of the [[Thirteen]] included characters like [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], choices that were largely irreconcilable with the lore that [[Fun Publications]] had previously laid out. Eventually, however, this conceit would be quietly dropped: the profile cards for Aligned [[Slipstream (WFC)#TransTech|Slipstream]]'s [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service|TFSS]] toy and the online comic "[[Timeless]]" involved the cast of ''TransTech'' glimpsing events from the Aligned universe. After multiple creative shakeups and a [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|new direction]] for the Aligned continuity as a whole, the ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' and [[Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter]] confirmed that Aligned took place in the "[[Uniend]]" universal cluster; that same year, any and all singularity-related discrepancies were later handwaved away via the introduction of the [[Shroud]].
*2011's ''[[Infestation (IDW)|Infestation]]'' crossover event featured [[Britt]] invading and corrupting four separate universes: ''[[2005 IDW continuity|Transformers]]'', ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', ''[[Star Trek]]'', and ''[[Ghostbusters]]''. Just five years later, however, IDW's "[[Hasbro Universe]]" initiative retconned both ''Transformers'' and ''G.I. Joe'' together by revealing that they'd always taken place in the same reality, meaning that Britt attacked the same universe twice. Less than a year later, ''[[Revolutionaries]]'' [[Strange Visitors|#5]] established that events identical to "[[Infestation 2]]" had also played out in the past of IDW's primary ''Transformers'' timeline—meaning that the [[Elder God]]s simultaneously attacked two nigh-identical realities.
*A dropped plotline in ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets the Eye]]'' would've featured the original [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] travelling the multiverse, searching for a way to return to his original timeline. At some point, he would've jumped into the world of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel UK comic]] in the midst of the "[[Target: 2006]]" storyline and encountered that reality's [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]].<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/james-roberts-ama-mtmte-ll-questions-answered-transcript.1164603/ Transcription of 30 November 2018 James Roberts Q&A on Instagram]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Tagen'uchū''' (多元宇宙), '''multiverse''' (マルチバース ''maruchibāsu''), '''Multi-Verse of Eternity''' (無限の世界 ''Mugen no Sekai'')<ref>[[World of the Transformers]]</ref>

==References==
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Optimus Prime (ES)

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[[File:HiddenLegacyPart1-Optimus.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|The dad of the task force.]]

:''Optimus Prime is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]] [[continuity family]].''

Long ago, '''Optimus Prime''' took up arms to save [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] from [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]] and his [[Decepticon]]s, a conflict that eventually brought him and his followers to [[Earth]]. Although he and the [[Autobot]]s finally blunted the Decepticon advance and shattered their ranks for good, victory left them stranded on a world that had turned against them.

In his new role as a [[G.H.O.S.T.]] operative, Optimus now serves as a liason between humanity and his own kind as he mops up Decepticon stragglers with the assistance of [[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] and the repentant Megatron. The bumpy post-war transition weighs heavily upon him, as do the occasionally-amoral actions of his human colleagues, but Optimus perseveres; only by bringing the people of Earth and Cybertron together can they forge a unified future, and the rise of a new generation of Earth-born "[[Terran]]s" might be the first step on the road to permanent peace.

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Alan Tudyk]] (English)|[[Alberto Angrisano]] (Italian)}}
[[File:Optimus and Elita alt-modes.jpg|thumb|left|320px|"Hey honey, it's been [[:File:ElitaVehicle01.jpg|a while]] since we drove together like this. Weren't you on my left side last time?"]]

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==Toys==
[[File:TF-EarthSpark-Deluxe-Optimus-Prime.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|His axe is minty fresh!]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Deluxe, 2023)
**Accessories: Blaster, Energon axe, left arm for [[Mandroid]]

:Released as part of the first Deluxe Class wave, Optimus Prime is a show-accurate mold that transforms from a robot into a semi-truck. He also comes with a Build-A-Figure piece for [[Mandroid]].
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*'''Optimus Prime''' (Warrior, 2023)
[[File:Transformers-EarthSpark-Warrior-Class-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]

:Released as part of the first Warrior Class wave, Optimus Prime is a show accurate mold that transforms from a robot into a semi-truck. The action feature includes an axe that flips out from the underside of his right arm.
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2026

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{{yearofthe|2026}}
The year '''2026''' (MMXXVI) will be the 42nd year of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]].

{{see|Transformers timeline}}

==Events==
===Fiction===
====''Legends'' comic====
[[Sixshot (G1)|Greatshot]] reunites with his old friends after being injured in the [[Silvart War]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Greatshot)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

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[[Category:Fictional events by year]]

2026

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2026

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{{yearofthe|2026}}
The year '''2026''' (MMXXVI) will be the 42nd year of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]].

{{see|Transformers timeline}}

==Events==
===Fiction===
====''Legends'' comic====
[[Sixshot (G1)|Greatshot]] reunites with his old friends after being injured in the [[Silvart War]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Greatshot)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

Generation 1 continuity family

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The '''Generation 1 continuity family''' is the biggest, oldest, and longest-running [[continuity family]] in the ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' [[canon]]. Its core is all of the fiction published under the [[The Transformers (franchise)|original ''The Transformers'' franchise]], which got off to a bifurcated start in [[1984]] with the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comic]] and [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Sunbow cartoon]], two distinct universes starring the same cast of characters. Along with those two main continuities came many smaller continuities, mostly in the form of [[List of Generation 1 books|books]].

For the next decade and a half, basically every subsequent franchise—most notably ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''—used bits and pieces of cartoon and comic lore as they saw fit, joining them together and extending the continuity into the distant future. It would take until [[2001]] for the first true "reboot" to break cleanly away from that which had gone before—and even [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|that cartoon]] would eventually get subsumed back into the extremely complicated [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] as part of a series of complicated retcons.

In more recent years, the Generation 1 continuity family has remained a perennial favourite with modern comic publishers seeking nostalgic audiences. Companies like [[Dreamwave Productions]] and [[IDW Publishing]] have published a steady stream of ''The Transformers''-branded comics since 2003; although the majority of these stories generally take more inspiration from the more famous [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] than the Marvel Comics continuity, both have received their fair share of sequels, spinoffs, and homages.

Within the fictional ''Transformers'' [[multiverse]], the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] classify every Generation 1 continuity as a part of the "[[Primax]]" [[universal stream|universal cluster]].

==Blurring the lines==
[[File:DesperateTimes-CarcerTeam.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A ''Prime'' villain, two ''Beast Wars'' protagonists, a fan-created Autobot, and an ''Animated'' crowdfiller walk into a bar...]]

Most continuity families—the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Unicron Trilogy]], ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''—are synonymous with individual franchises; they arrive, bringing with them a slew of toys, television shows and ancillary media before eventually petering out several years later. Of the various continuity families, it is Generation 1 alone who has managed to buck that trend—initially through the efforts of ancillary comic publishing houses like [[Dreamwave Productions]] and [[IDW Publishing]], whose teen-to-adult-focused ''Transformers'' media, marketed to nostalgic fans of the original cartoons, and comics, focused on new versions of the Generation 1 cast and stories at a time when Hasbro itself was promoting franchises like ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]''. In this way, the Generation 1 continuity kept itself alive, albeit in a reduced state, as other franchises like the Unicron Trilogy, ''Animated'', and ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'' came and went.

Some time around 2013, following the rise and fall of G1 revival toylines like ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'', toylines, Hasbro twigged on to the increasing popularity of "neo-G1" among the fandom; in particular, IDW's ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' ongoing garnered mainstream attention and became a gateway for many new fans. As a result, the "Thrilling 30" subline of the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' toyline would contain number of IDW-original characters and designs, a transition between the old and what was to come.

As IDW's [[2005 IDW continuity|ongoing comic universe]] chugged along, it began incorporating characters from many other ''Transformers'' universes: "[[Aligned continuity family|Aligned]]" characters like [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]], new versions of [[Megatron (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Megatron]] and [[Midnight Express (RID)|Midnight Express]], and many, many ''Beast Wars'' characters. While this kind of "bleed" between continuity families is not a new phenomenon within the franchise itself—the ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|Allspark Almanac]]'' duology is a good example of this phenomenon in action—the rate and speed at which this phenomenon occured was unprecedented, and soon spread to other IDW comics: ''Prime'' Airachnid randomly appeared in the pages of 2018's ''[[Star Trek vs. Transformers]]'' crossover, and the [[My Little Pony/Transformers: The Magic of Cybertron|second ''My Little Pony'']] miniseries contained a veritable bonanza of characters, ranging from [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|''Cyberverse'' Slipstream]] to [[Sureshock (Armada)|''Armada'' Sureshock]] to [[Wildwheel (Cyberverse)|''Cyberverse'' Wildwheel]] to IDW's original character [[Killmaster]].

[[File:LastBotStanding2-Steeljawmeetsrodimus.jpg|thumb|left|350px|"Damn continuity-transplanting punks, get out of my universe!"]]

It is a well-established fact that Hasbro doesn't really care about the idea of separate continuities: to them, Airachnid is Airachnid is Airachnid, regardless of the universe or which set of characters she's interacting with. With the rise of ''Generations'' as Hasbro's primary "adult" brand, so too was Generation 1 as a concept pushed increasingly to the forefront: the producers of the "[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]" cartoon spoke of their show as a "prequel to G1", although this statement is more metaphorical than literally true. IDW's [[2019 IDW continuity|second ''Transformers'' universe]] pushed the concept even farther; as a result, the "bleed" between different iterations of the brand has grown increasingly murkier. Megatron's past as a downtrodden miner-turned-gladiator, for instance, began with 2007's ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'' comic, wound its way into the "Aligned" universe via ''[[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]'' and the ''Prime'' cartoon, and has subsequently become the basic "origin story" for basically every new version of Megatron: ranging from IDW's rebooted Generation 1 universe, to ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'', and even 2021's ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (IDW)|Shattered Glass]]'' miniseries.

All of this has led to a considerable amount of debate among the fandom and users on this very wiki regarding the prevalence of G1 ideas, characters, and concepts in different stories. Should, for instance, the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|''Cyberverse'' cartoon]] be considered a subfamily of G1? The answers to these questions are unclear, and as a result the Generation 1 continuity family as a whole has become a bit of a {{w|wastebasket taxon|wastebasket taxon}} that incorporates all of those stories that don't really clearly fit anywhere else.

==Major continuities==
The sheer number of Generation 1 media makes a complete list of every possible continuity a near-impossible task. As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, we identify eight major continuities, many of which possess a number of notable sub-branches and [[micro-continuity|micro-continuities]]. The lists below are not meant to be complete guides to every work in that continuity, but provide a quick overview of that continuity's most notable media.

===Marvel Comics===
{{main|Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel Comics timeline}}

{{collist|2|
* [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] (1984-1991)
* [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] (1984-1991)
* ''[[G.I. Joe and the Transformers (comic)|G.I. Joe and the Transformers]]'' (1986)
* ''[[The Transformers: Headmasters|Headmasters]]'' (1987)
* [[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|''Generation 2'' (Marvel)]] (1993-1994)
* [[Transformers: Generation 2 (Fleetway)|''Generation 2'' (Fleetway)]] (1994-1995)
* ''[[Transformers: Classics#Fiction|Classics]]'' (2007-2012)
* ''[[The Transformers: Regeneration One|Regeneration One]]'' (2012-2014)
* ''[[Transformers '84: Secrets & Lies|Transformers '84]]'' (2019-2020)}}

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The first-ever ''Transformers'' continuity—beating the cartoon to markets by four months—tells the story of the Autobots and Decepticons, two feuding factions of alien robots from the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] who brought their ancient conflict to modern [[Earth]]; their struggle for energy and new fuel sources initially brings them into contact with a cast of eccentric human characters, including a [[G.I. Joe and the Transformers (comic)|crossover]] with the cast of Marvel's contemporary ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' comic. A considerably more serialized affair than the contemporary ''Transformers'' cartoon with an ever-rotating cast of new toys to sell, the book eventually branched out from its Earthbound setting to tell stories set on Cybertron, the Moon, and various alien worlds. Following a dramatic battle against the dark god [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]], the comic concludes with a final showdown on the planet [[Klo]] that sees the Decepticons defeated.

At the same time, Marvel's UK division produced its own ''Transformers'' comic; in between reprints of the American stories, the UK magazine published a number of new ''Transformers'' tales, intended to slot in between these American reprints. Some discrepancies inevitably arose; the UK universe, for instance, did not count the US's ''G.I. Joe'' crossover as canon. The UK continuity was a considerably more tangled affair than its American parent, and featured several history-altering time travel stories and glimpses into alternate futures; perhaps, then, it should come as no surprise that an increasing number of storytelling discrepancies eventually led to future UK stories like "[[Earthforce]]" taking place in their own self-contained timelines separate from the ongoing events over in the US comic. UK writer [[Simon Furman]] eventually jumped across the pond to become the chief writer on both ''Transformers'' books.

From this point, there are three notable sequel series that all spin off from the conclusion of [[End of the Road! (US)|Marvel US #80]], all of which mostly ignore the UK continuity. After [[G.I. Joe (comic)|another crossover]] with ''G.I. Joe'', Simon Furman returned only two years later to write the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Generation 2]]'' comic, a direct sequel to the original comic that pitted both the Autobots and Decepticons against the malevolent [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and his [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronians]]. The comic would be cancelled after only twelve issues, but Furman's unofficial novella "[[Alignment]]" provided a semi-definitive ending.

Some years later, [[Fun Publications]] established the ''[[Transformers: Classics#Fiction|Classics]]'' timeline, a separate reality that followed several minor characters as they struggled to pick up the pieces from the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. In 2012, "[[Invasion (issue)|Invasion]]" brought this universe to an unceremonious end when evil Autobots from the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' universe destroyed it. However, many "Classicsverse" characters survived by evacuating into this parallel universe of evil Autobots and heroic Decepticons, where they continued to have adventures for some years afterwards. 2012 also saw the debut of ''[[The Transformers: Regeneration One|Regeneration One]]''; again helmed by Furman, this comic adapted several characters and plot points from both ''Generation 2'' and the UK comics, but was otherwise its own universe. Set twenty-one years after Marvel US #80, ''Regeneration One'' tied up various loose ends from the original comic before throwing the cast into a final battle against Jhiaxus and the [[Dark Matrix]]. Finally, in 2019, Furman penned ''[[Transformers '84: Secrets & Lies|Transformers '84]]'', a "lost history" miniseries that acts as a prequel to the US Marvel series.

===English cartoons===
{{main|Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 cartoon timeline}}

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* [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''The Transformers'']] (1984-1987)
* ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' (1986)
* [[The Transformers (Madman)|''The Transformers'' (Madman comic)]] (2007)
* "[[Rodimus vs. Cyclonus]]" (2011)
* ''[[Mars Attacks: The Transformers]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'' (2009-2015)
* ''[[Transformers: Deviations|Deviations]]'' (2016)

Over the course of its three-year run, the original ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' captured the imagination of millions of children, and it is arguably one of the best-remembered and most iconic components of the entire ''Transformers'' franchise. In 1986, ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' and its cavalier approach to merchandise-based storytelling likely traumatised those same children—the film featured the abrupt, violent deaths of many cast members to pave the way for that year's new toyline, and the most infamous casualty would be [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] himself. Though [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] became Autobot leader for a time, the third season of the cartoon would ultimately undo this controversial decision by restoring Optimus to life in "[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1]]".

Though most, if not all, subsequent ''Transformers'' works draw at least ''some'' inspiration from either the cartoon or the animated film, very few works of American fiction have directly revisited the universe. [[Madman Entertainment]]'s ''[[The Transformers (Madman)|The Transformers]]'' comic touched on the twenty-year timeskip between the cartoon's second season, and [[IDW Publishing]]'s "[[Rodimus vs. Cyclonus]]" comic took place during the movie, while the very silly ''[[Mars Attacks: The Transformers]]'' crossover one-shot satirized many of the tropes and writing conventions endemic to the cartoon.

In 2009, [[Fun Publications]] launched the "[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]". Though it initially focused on the adventures of a young [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] and the other members of Cybertron's [[Elite Guard]] during the early days of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict, it eventually jumped forward to a point set after the events of "[[The Rebirth, Part 3]]" taking place in the futuristic year of [[2010]] and featuring a cast of next-generation Autobots and Decepticons. As per official sources, however, the ''Wings Universe'' stories are ''not'' set in the original cartoon universe: they are set in a closely connected timeline that is almost identical to the original animated, but with enough leniency to accommodate for storytelling differences. In [[2016]], IDW took a sideways look at the universe with ''[[Transformers: Deviations|Deviations]]'', a "what-if" tale about what might have happened had Optimus Prime survived ''The Movie''.

===Japanese cartoons===
{{main|Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)}}

{{collist|3|* [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers|''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'']] (1985-1986)
* "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]" (1986)
* [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010|''2010'']] (1986-1987)
* ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]'' (1987-1988)
* ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Super-God Masterforce]]'' (1988-1989)
* ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Victory]]'' (1989-1990)
* ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Zone]]'' (1990)
* [[Transformers: Return of Convoy (franchise)|''Return of Convoy''/''The Battlestars'']] (1991-1992)
* ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (franchise)|Operation Combination]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)#Transformers: G-2|G-2]]'' (1995-1996)
* ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)#Beast Wars: Super Robot Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars]]'' (1997-1998)
* ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' (1998-1999)
* ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)#Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals|Beast Wars Metals]]'' (1999-2000)
* ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Car Robots]]'' (2000)
* ''[[The Transformers: Micromaster|Micromaster]]'' (2002-2003)
* ''[[Transformers: The Battle of the Star Gate|The Battle of the Star Gate]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Story of Binaltech|Binaltech]]'' (2003-2008)
* ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' (2004-2005)
* ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)#Japanese release|Beast Wars Returns]]'' (2004-2005)
* ''[[Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go!|Teletraan 15 Go! Go!]]'' (2005-2007)
* ''[[Asterisk Story|Binaltech Asterisk]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]'' (2006-2007)
* [[E-HOBBY#e-HOBBY exclusive fiction|e-HOBBY comics]] (2007-2017)
* ''[[Transformers United EX|United EX]]'' (2012)
* ''[[Transformers Legends (comic)|Legends]]'' (2014-2019)
* ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' (2015-2016)
* ''[[Generations Selects Special Comic|Generations Selects]]'' (2019-2021)}}

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The sprawling labyrinth that is the Japanese Generation 1 continuity has its origins in the original ''The Transformers'' cartoon. When the American cartoon and movie were exported to Japan, only the first three seasons were broadcast—although declining sales and viewership in the US meant that the cartoon's truncated fourth season wrapped up the show, the franchise was still going strong in Japan, and so [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] created ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]'' to carry on the story. ''The Headmasters'' spun off from the events of season three while ignoring the events of "The Rebirth" entirely, creating an entirely new origin for the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s by introducing them as tiny Transformers from the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]]; eventually, the show rotated out most of the movie's cast in favour of new toys. 1988's ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]'' introduced the [[Headmaster Junior]]s and [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]]s, humans who could become Transformers and vice versa.

''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (franchise)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory]]'' turned command of the Autobots over to [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] and his [[Brainmaster]]s as they fought [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]. By this point, however, the Japanese line was on the wane, and ''[[Transformers: Zone (franchise)|Zone]]'' only got a single OVA in which [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]] battled [[Violengiguar]]. After several more short-lived manga adaptations and toylines, the line went dormant for a time.

In 2004, the resurgence of the ''Transformers'' brand prompted Takara to produce numerous new series starring the Generation 1 cast, setting them in-between installments in the cartoon universe—these included stories like ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Alternators#Binaltech|Binaltech]]'', which took place between the second season of ''The Transformers'' and ''The Movie'', while ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]'' took place between the end of the movie and the beginning of season three. Then, two years later, a ''Kiss Players'' paperback collection produced a new timeline that chronicled the ''entire'' universe up to that point, a complex, labyrinthine affair that integrated stories that had never been directly connected to the Generation 1 cartoon universe, such as the ''[[Transformers: The Battle of the Star Gate|Battle of the Star Gate]]'' or even television shows like 2001's ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|Car Robots]]'' cartoon. This timeline also incorporates ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', and their two Japanese-exclusive cartoon sequels. In the years since, official Takara publications have continued revisiting this complicated universe through mediums like ''[[Transformers Legends (comic)|Legends]]'' and ''[[Generations Selects Special Comic|Generations Selects]]'', marking it as one of, if not ''the'', largest, longest-running continuities in the ''Transformers'' [[multiverse]].
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===Beast Era===
{{main|Beast Era|Beast Era timeline}}

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* ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' (1996-1999)
* ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' (1999-2000)

When the [[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|''Generation 2'']] franchise failed to reinvigorate ''Transformers'' as a successful intellectual property, [[Hasbro]] farmed out the ailing ''Transformers'' brand to its subsidiary [[Kenner]]. Kenner went back to the drawing board and introduced the world to ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'', which featured organic animals who changed into ''Terminator''-style cyborgs. The tie-in cartoon revealed that these [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s were the time-travelling descendants of the original Autobots and Decepticons, and the franchise proved popular enough to garner a sequel franchise—''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' returned the action to Cybertron and featured [[technorganic]] Maximals against evil [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s.

From the late 1990s until the early-mid 2000s, almost all contemporary ''Transformers'' fiction fell under the banner of the Beast Era, including 3H's ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)|Universe]]'' comic. Japan independently produced two more installments in the series, set many thousands of years after the events of the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' cartoon. Although an enduring and popular addition to the ''Transformers'' mythos, the ''Beast Wars'' continuity has a complicated, many-tiered relationship to the rest of the Generation 1 continuity and even its own cartoon.

See the [[Beast Wars continuity]] page for more details.
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
{{main|Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave timeline}}

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* ''[[Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave)|Generation 1]]'' (2002-2004)
* ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]]'' (2002-2003)
* ''[[Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages|War Within: The Dark Ages]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Transformers: Micromasters|Micromasters]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Transformers: War Within: The Age of Wrath|War Within: The Age of Wrath]]'' (2004)
* ''[[The Transformers Trilogy]]'' (2003-2004)

In 2002, [[Dreamwave Productions]] acquired the license to publish ''Transformers'' comics; in addition to the contemporary ''[[Transformers: Armada (Dreamwave)|Armada]]'' comic, it capitalised on the then-current eighties nostalgia boom by publishing a series of Generation 1-themed comics. This new universe begins on Earth some time after the Autobots and Decepticons mysteriously disappear, and the [[Prime Directive|first arc]] of the comic deals with the return of the Transformers as they clash with each other and the sinister [[Lazarus]]. The second arc sees [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] take center stage as he travels to Earth to force an end to the war on Earth, while ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Micromasters|Micromasters]]'' detail the early days of the conflict on Cybertron and the events leading up to the [[Great Shutdown]].

This continuity also encompasses a trilogy of novels—''[[Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired]]'', ''[[Transformers: Annihilation|Annihilation]]'', and ''[[Transformers: Fusion|Fusion]]'', in which Autobots and Decepticons contend with a malevolent faction of alien [[Keeper (species)|Keeper]]s—and the ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye]]'' guidebooks, which provided profiles for basically every Autobot and Decepticon who had appeared up until that point.

Ultimately, however, a combination of poor management, numerous financial troubles, and some ''extremely'' dubious business practices resulted in the company declaring bankruptcy in early 2005, though Hasbro had already decided to not renew their partnership with Dreamwave the year before.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14839 Lying in the Gutters reporting that Hasbro had revoked Dreamwave's ''Transformers'' license]</ref> As a result, several miniseries abruptly ended partway through their scheduled runs; although several scripts have since come to light, the abrupt, messy dissolution of Dreamwave left many dangling plot threads and unanswered questions in this particular continuity.

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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{main|2005 IDW continuity|2005 IDW timeline}}

{{collist|2|* ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' (2005-2006)
* ''[[The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation]]'' (2006-2007)
* ''[[The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'' (2007-2008)
* ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|Spotlight]]'' (2006-2013)
* ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' (2008-9)
* [[The Transformers (IDW)|''The Transformers'' vol. 1]] (2009-2011)
* ''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' (2010)
* [[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|''Robots in Disguise''/''The Transformers'' vol. 2]] (2012-2016)
* ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' (2012-2016)
* ''[[The Transformers: Till All Are One|Till All Are One]]'' (2016-2017)
* ''[[Revolution]]'' (2016)
* ''[[The Transformers: Lost Light|Lost Light]]'' (2016-2018)
* ''[[Optimus Prime (comic)|Optimus Prime]]'' (2016-2018)
* ''[[Transformers: Unicron|Unicron]]'' (2018)}}

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Following the end of Dreamwave Productions, [[IDW Publishing]] inherited the license to publish ''Transformers'' comics, and wasted no time establishing a brand-new continuity of their own. [[Simon Furman]] began the universe with ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'', which followed a group of humans embroiled in a cloak-and-dagger war between the Autobots and Decepticons over a miraculous fuel source known as [[Ore-13]], until a devastating cosmic "[[Expansion]]" interrupts their battle. Pulling evenly from just about every ''Transformers'' story that had gone before, and unafraid to dramatically reimagine characters and events to fit the needs of its story, the 2005 IDW continuity is notable for changing hands multiple times over. 2008's ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' saw the Decepticon conqueror vanquish the Autobots and shift the tone into an action-oriented romp in line with the concurrent [[Transformers (film)|live-action film]]; the 2009 [[The Transformers (IDW)|''The Transformers'']] ongoing continued this theme as the Autobots form an uneasy alliance with the humans of [[Skywatch]] to mop up any remaining Decepticons until a betrayal in their ranks and a crisis on Cybertron prompts both sides to abandon Earth.

In [[2012]], the IDW universe did the unthinkable: the fourteen-part "[[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos]]" storyline sees the effective end of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] between the Autobots and the Decepticons when [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] returns [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to life. This did not mark the end of the universe, however: ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]]'' followed [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] as he attempted to rebuild Cybertronian society, while the critically-acclaimed ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' saw [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]] and a group of misfit Autobots leave Cybertron to search the galaxy for the mythical [[Knights of Cybertron]]. The two comics crossed over in the 2013 "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]" event, which notably saw this reality's [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] defect to the Autobots, and 2014's ''[[The Transformers: Windblade|Windblade]]'' laid the foundation for a number of future stories involving Cybertron's lost [[Cybertronian colonies|colony worlds]], including ''[[Combiner Wars (comic)|Combiner Wars]]'', ''[[The Transformers: Till All Are One|Till All Are One]]'', and ''[[Titans Return (comic)|Titans Return]]''.

In 2016, IDW announced the formation of the [[Hasbro Universe]], which amalgamated a number of forgotten Hasbro franchises—including IDW's current ''Transformers'' output—into a single comic universe. The various characters teamed up in that year's "[[Revolution]]"; the ethos of the Hasbro Universe carried on into the ''[[Optimus Prime (comic)|Optimus Prime]]'' comic, which ran alongside ''[[The Transformers: Lost Light|Lost Light]]'' to continue the two primary ongoing plot threads in the universe. Eventually, declining sales prompted IDW to wrap up the universe in 2018 with ''[[Transformers: Unicron|Unicron]]'', a colossal crisis crossover that pitted the Cybertronian race against [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] himself.

Running for over thirteen years and spanning dozens of ongoings, miniseries, and one-shots, this continuity is one of the largest, longest-running universes in the ''Transformers'' multiverse, with far too many books, alternate universes, and future timelines to cover in this abridged writeup. For more information, see our full article on the [[2005 IDW continuity]].

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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{main|2019 IDW continuity}}

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* ''[[Transformers (2019 comic)|Transformers]]'' (2019-2022)
* ''[[Transformers: Galaxies|Galaxies]]'' (2019-2020)
* ''[[Transformers: Escape|Escape]]'' (2020-2021)
* ''[[Transformers: Wreckers—Tread & Circuits|Wreckers—Tread & Circuits]]'' (2021-2022)
* ''[[Transformers: War's End|War's End]]'' (2022)

One month after ''Unicron'', IDW Publishing announced that they would reboot their ''Transformers'' license, a fresh start entirely unconnected to any prior IDW fiction. Compared to the sprawling, decade-plus epic that was IDW's previous ''Transformers'' continuity, this new universe would be a modest, tightly-focussed affair that focussed on a single ongoing comic supported by one miniseries at a time. This primary comic, simply titled ''[[Transformers (2019 comic)|Transformers]]'', charts a once-utopic Cybertron's slow descent into war as [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] spearheads a populist uprising against the reigning [[Autobot]] party.

Several side stories and miniseries take place in and around the primary focus of the comic: ''[[Transformers: Galaxies|Galaxies]]'' comic tells stories in outer space far from Cybertron, ''[[Transformers: Escape|Escape]]'' follows a crew of scientists and engineers as they work to rescue Cybertron's [[alien]] immigrants from the Decepticons, and ''[[Transformers: Wreckers—Tread & Circuits|Tread & Circuits]]'' introduces a new version of the fan-favourite [[Wreckers]] to the universe. In 2022, with IDW's time on the ''Transformers'' brand winding down, the universe wrapped up with ''[[Transformers: War's End|War's End]]''.

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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
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* ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' (2020-2021)

The ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' debuted on [[Netflix]] in [[2020]] to support the concurrent ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'' toyline. Although it shares several story beats with the original ''The Transformers'' cartoon, it is a darker, grittier take that is otherwise irreconcilable with its predecessors. The trilogy is split into three separate "chapters": ''Siege'' focuses on [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] leading the [[Autobot]]s to escape from a post-apocalyptic Cybertron aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', ''Earthrise'' splits time between the Autobots and Decepticons as they travel through outer space while [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]] leads an underground rebellion on Cybertron, and ''Kingdom'' completes the trilogy by having both sides encounter time-travelling [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s from the future while stranded on prehistoric Earth.

Various supplementary material provided via the ''Transformers'' website or the "Galactic Odyssey" short stories more or less fit in with the story presented in the Netflix cartoon.

IDW's [[2019 IDW continuity|2019 comic book reboot]] makes extensive use of various ''Siege'' designs for many of its characters where applicable, but the two stories are not set in the same continuity.
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==Minor continuities==
Continuities that comprise multiple books, issues, or installments, and so are not [[Micro-continuity|micro-continuities]], but are still far less significant.

===Toy bios===
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In the early years of the ''Transformers'' brand, each ''Transformers'' toy came with a short [[bio]] based on the profiles [[Bob Budiansky]] had written. Usually, these bios were more or less faithful to the cartoons and comics—after all, the staffs of those shows were working from production bibles based on Budiansky's. As the original ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|The Transformers]]'' franchise went into a decline, however, less and less media came out to introduce new product, and many Transformers came out without any media backup at all beyond the information on their bio card—and as time passed, even those were crowded out by product descriptions hyping [[gimmick]]s like [[Pretender]]s and [[Micromaster]]s.

In more recent years, this trend has occasionally resurfaced—the ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' toyline was notable for featuring a number of intricate bios that took heavy inspiration from the [[2005 IDW continuity]], but had no bearing on the later [[Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)|''Combiner Wars'' cartoon]] that would follow. A similar phenomenon occurred with the ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' toyline, in which the [[Titans Return: The Power of the Titan Masters|promotional comic book]] made to advertise the toyline presented a backstory and lore that had almost nothing to do with the ''[[Transformers: Titans Return (cartoon)|Titans Return]]'' cartoon. This phenomenon is not exclusive to the Generation 1 continuity family.

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===Commercials===
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This phenomenon also arises with the various [[commercial]]s that advertised the brand, particularly in the later years—the commercial that advertises the [[Action Master]]s, for instance, features multiple Autobots volunteering to undergo the change, while the concurrent [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel US]] series presented the transformation into an Action Master as an unexpected side-effect from processing [[nucleon (substance)|nucleon]]. A similar phenomenon arises with the [[Monsterbot (G1)|Monsterbot]]s; while both American and Japanese media depicted them as ordinary Transformers, their commercials introduced the three as laboratory experiments gone wrong.

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===Marvel coloring books===
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{{main|Marvel Books}}

{{collist|2|* [[Super-Size Coloring Activity Book]] (1984)
* [[Search for Treasure Under the Sea]](1984)
* [[Bumblebee to the Rescue!]] (1984)
* [[Decepticon Patrol]] (1984)
* [[The Deadly Fuel Shortage]] (1984)
* [[Summertime Coloring Book]] (1985)
* [[A Message From Outer Space]] (1985)
* [[Forest Rescue Mission]] (1985)
* [[Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission]] (1985)
* [[The Autobot Smasher!]] (1985)
* [[The Big Book of Coloring Fun]] (1985)
* [[The Autobot Spy in the Sky]] (1985)
* [[Battle at Oil Valley]] (1986)
* [[The Invasion of the Decepticon Camp]] (1986)
* [[The Lost Treasure of Cybertron]] (1986)
* [[Hot Rod's Escape]] (1986)}}

To support the launch of the ''Transformers'' franchise in [[1984]], [[Marvel Books]] published a number of tie-ins, including a series of coloring books. As one might expect, this continuity incorporated several episodic stories which saw the Autobots courageously foil various nonsensical Decepticon schemes.

In 1986, the setting updated itself to align with the characters and settings introduced in ''The Movie'' and switched Optimus Prime and Megatron for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]; however, subsequent books continued to feature characters who had famously perished in the film like [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]].

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===Sticker Adventures===
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*"[[Revenge of the Decepticons]]" (1984)
*"[[Return to Cybertron]]" (1984)
*"[[Battle on the Junk Planet]]" (1986)
*"[[Galvatron Attacks]]" (1986)

Similar to the various ''Transformers'' coloring books, Marvel Books' [[Sticker Adventures]] featured a number of self-contained tales. In 1986, the series moved forward to the setting of ''The Transformers: The Movie''.

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===Big Looker Story Books===
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{{main|Big Looker Storybook}}
* "[[Battle for Cybertron]]" (1984)
* "[[The Great Car Rally]]" (1984)
* "[[Decepticon Hijack]]" (1985)
* "[[Insecticon Attack!]]" (1985)
* "[[Car Show Blow Up]]" (1986)
* "[[The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson]]" (1986)

The [[Big Looker Storybook]]s are notable for their lavish illustrations and sometimes fanciful depictions of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict. Like many other ongoing Generation 1 titles released during the early years of the franchise, they shifted to a version of ''The Movie''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 2005 setting in 1986 and featured [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] as the leaders of their respective factions.

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===S.T.A.R.S. continuity===
{{main|S.T.A.R.S. continuity}}
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* [[Reinforcements from Cybertron!]] (1984)
* [[The battle is far from over!]] (1985)
* [[Tech-Spec Manual]] (1985)
* [[Earthlings: THE S.T.A.R.S. need your help now!]] (1985)
* [[Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?]] (1985)
* [[Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?]] (1986)
* [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:]] (1986)
* [[You Have Been Chosen.]] (1986)
* [[Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.]] (1987)
* [[Transformers Combat Data]] (1987)
* [[The Autobots Are Under Attack!]] (1988)

The [[S.T.A.R.S. continuity]], supported through a series of [[Pack-in material#Mail-order flyers|mail-order flyer]]s, is notable for blurring the lines between fiction and reality by presenting itself as a series of "real" missives documenting the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth and recruiting [[human]] agents to become members of the "[[S.T.A.R.S.|Secret Transformer Autobot Rescue Squad]]".

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===Marvel Storybooks===
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{{main|Marvel Books}}

* "[[Battle for Earth]]" (1985)
* "[[The Autobots' Secret Weapon]]" (1985)

A pair of storybooks set in a continuity where the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s and [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s are among the Cybertronians reactivated by the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''.

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===Kid Stuff Talking Story Books===
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{{main|Kid Stuff}}

* "[[Satellite of Doom]]" (1985)
* "[[When Continents Collide]]" (1985)
* "[[Storms of Destruction]]" (1985)
* "[[Jaws of Terror]]" (1986)
* "[[Slaves of the Insecticons]]" (1986)
* "[[Attack of the Decepticons]]" (1986)

[[Kid Stuff]] published a number of ''Transformers'' titles. There were two sets of books; one consisted of adapted [[Big Looker Storybook|Big Looker]] stories previously published by [[Marvel Books]], while the other group contained original stories. The original stories in this continuity are notable for their bizarre focus on [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] using various drilling machines and the graphic acts of geological violence they commit while searching for [[oil]].

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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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{{main|Ladybird Books}}
*"[[Autobots' Lightning Strike]]" (1985)
*"[[Megatron's Fight for Power]]" (1985)
*"[[Autobots Fight Back]]" (1985)
*"[[Laserbeak's Fury]]" (1985)
*"[[Galvatron's Air Attack]]" (1986)
*"[[Decepticon Hideout]]" (1986)
*"[[Decepticons at the Pole]]" (1987)
*"[[Autobots Strike Oil]]" (1987)
*"[[Autobot Hostage]]" (1988)
*"[[Decepticons Underground]]" (1988)

The [[Ladybird Books]] continuity draws a number of concepts directly from the original "[[More than Meets the Eye (mini-series)|More than Meets the Eye]]" miniseries but soon spins off into its own universe. Though it initially hews close to the Sunbow television series—with the caveat that the Cybertronians are unknown to most humans save [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky]], and must remain a secret—1986 featured a movie-based shakeup, with the blurb incorporating a version of the popular "[[Target: 2006]]" storyline from Marvel UK into this small continuity to explain how [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] travelled back in time and took over the Decepticons. 1987 and 1988 moved the action to the planet [[Nebulos]], with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] taking command of the Autobots and Decepticons respectively.

Ladybird Books also published a [[Transformers the Movie (Ladybird adaptation)|book adaptation]] of ''The Movie'', but it does not fit in their larger continuity.

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===The Battle for Planet Earth===
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{{main|The Battle for Planet Earth}}
*[[Terror of Mount Sheelah]] (1985)
*[[Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue]] (1985)
*[[Menace at the Dam]] (1985)
*[[Espionage!!!!!]] (1985)

This continuity constitutes a set of four audio-only adventures that document a series of battles fought between Autobots and Decepticons over the course of a few weeks; unlike many other early Generation 1 continuities, the Cybertronians are unknown to most humans and must maintain their secrecy. Instead of the more famous [[Witwicky]] family, the Autobots in this reality appear to have befriended a pair of humans named [[John Gordon|John]] and [[Tim Gordon]].

In [[2015]], "[[Ask Vector Prime]]" revealed that the Cybertronians in this universe had multiple dimension-hopping encounters with the heroic [[Guardian (GoBots)|Guardian]]s and evil [[Renegade]]s of ''[[GoBots]]'' fame.

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===Find Your Fate Junior===
{{main|Find Your Fate Junior}}

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* [[Dinobots Strike Back]] (1985)
* [[Battle Drive]] (1985)
* [[Attack of the Insecticons]] (1985)
* [[Earthquake (book)|Earthquake]] (1986)
* [[Desert Flight]] (1986)
* [[Decepticon Poison]] (1986)
* [[Autobot Alert!]] (1986)
* [[Project Brain Drain]] (1986)
* [[The Invisibility Factor]] (1986)

One of the weirder continuities in this article, [[Ballantine Books]] published a series of multipath "choose your own adventure" ''Transformers'' novels under the title "[[Find Your Fate Junior]]." As a result, each book features multiple endings, and, in true choose-your-own-adventure tradition, many of them involve either [[you]] or the Autobots dying horribly. As a result of these fractured narratives, there is no real carryover from one book to the next, and on this wiki we lump them together as a single "continuity" mostly for organization's sake.

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===''Transformers in 3-D''===
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* [[Transformers in 3-D]] (1987-1988)

Another oddball, the three-issue ''[[Transformers in 3-D]]'' comic series features a jumbled story set at some point in an unspecified future timeline. For unknown reasons, the series ended on part one of a three-part story that would've seen the Autobots and Decepticons fighting side by side against the evil [[Destructons]], leaving their ultimate fate unclear.

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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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{{main|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity}}

* ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]'' (2003)
* ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II]]'' (2004)
* ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War]]'' (2006)
* ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon]]'' (2007)

[[Devil's Due Press]]'s ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]'' debuted at around the same time as the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]], but was unconnected to the events of that universe and indeed outlasted it by several years. In this continuity, the [[human]] terrorist organization [[Cobra]] finds the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and rebuild the Autobots and Decepticons within into mindless weapons of war—their first attack upon the [[United States of America]] prompts the United States government to create [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] to fight back. The 2004 [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II|sequel series]] sees [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] step up as the new Decepticon leader after [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s destruction and use the [[Teletran 3]] supercomputer to invade Earth until a freak accident strands a group of Cybertronians in different Earth time periods, forcing the Joes and Cobras to search the timestream before their presence eradicates all life on Earth.

[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War|The third installment]] pits the Autobots and Joes against [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]], a powerful synthetic lifeform created using pilfered Cybertronian technology, and who threatens to unite the scattered Decepticon remnants into a new army before G.I. Joe operative [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] kills the rogue leader using the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon|Black Horizon]]'', the fourth and final chapter, draws heavily upon the cosmic mythologies introduced in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' and the {{w|G.I. Joe: The Movie|animated ''G.I. Joe'' film}} by introducing [[Unicron]] and the hidden nation of [[Cobra-La]] as antagonists.

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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
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* ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe]]'' (2003-2004)
* ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe: Divided Front]]'' (2004)

Around the same time as the first ''G.I. Joe'' crossover, [[Dreamwave Productions]] launched their own take on the concept with ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe]]''. This continuity, however, changed things up by setting the story in 1939, on the eve of [[World War II]]. This reality saw [[Cobra]] stumble across the dormant Decepticons on the remote [[Fera Islands]] and form an alliance with the aliens to conquer [[Europe]], and it falls to the men and women of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] to stop them with the assistance of th Autobots.

Notable for its usage of period-appropriate [[alternate mode]]s for every Cybertronian character involved in the story, ''Transformers/G.I.Joe'' received a sequel series set fifty years later, but Dreamwave's bankruptcy meant that only one issue of ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe: Divided Front|Divided Front]]'' saw release.

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===''The Beast Within''===
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* "[[The Beast Within]]" (2004)
* "[[The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences]]" (2004)

A continuity in which the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s possess the power to [[combiner|combine]] into a monster called "[[Beast (G1)|the Beast]]".

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===''Hearts of Steel''===
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* ''[[Hearts of Steel]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Infestation 2|Infestation 2: The Transformers]]'' (2011)
* ''[[The X-Files: Conspiracy: The Transformers]]'' (2014)

After receiving the ''Transformers'' license, [[IDW Publishing]] planned a line of ''{{w|Elseworlds}}''-style comics under the title ''[[The Transformers: Evolutions|Evolutions]]''. For a variety of reasons, the line didn't pan out, and only one story ever saw release. In ''[[Hearts of Steel]]'', the Autobots come to Earth in the [[Ice Age]]; when human activity reawakens them in the late 1800s, both sides adopt turn-of-the-century vehicle forms like trains, steamboats, and zeppelins to form alliances with humans before a final showdown sees [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s splinter faction routed with the help of [[John Henry]] and [[Mark Twain]].

Five years later, IDW returned to the universe during its ''[[Infestation 2]]'' crossover, in which the Autobots reactivate the still-dormant [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to battle a Cthulhu-type [[Elder God]] and his infested Decepticon minions. Another three years later, the ''[[The X-Files: Conspiracy: The Transformers|X-File Conspiracy]]'' crossover brought the universe into the modern day by having the Autobots team up with a [[human]] group known as the [[Lone Gunmen]] to rescue [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] from [[Skylogic Systems|a sinister secret organization]].

Then, in [[2017]], ''[[Revolutionaries]]'' revealed that a version of ''Hearts of Steel'' and ''Infestation''—but not ''Conspiracy''—had also taken place within IDW's [[2005 IDW continuity|primary ongoing continuity]], a series of events masterminded by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], who had deliberately shot down and brainwashed a group of [[Maximal]] explorers into believing that they were the real Autobots and Decepticons. This was not a strict retcon, however, and the original story plus ''Conspiracy'' still occupies its own fictional universe.

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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers''===
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* [[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (pack-in manga)|''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers'' pack-in manga]] (2008-2009)
* ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (Comic Bun Bun)|''Henkei! Henkei! Comic Bun Bun'' manga]]'' (2008-9)
* ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-]]'' (2008-9)

Unusually for a Japanese manga, ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (franchise)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' did not position itself somewhere within the sprawling [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], instead opting for a kid-friendly, back-to-basics tale to help advertise the concurrent [[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|toyline]]. Artist [[Naoto Tsushima]] drew three separate stories under this banner, which share some story beats but are all otherwise mutually incompatible with one another—the [[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (pack-in manga)|pack-in manga]] and [[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-|''Visualize'' prose stories]] advertised the concurrent toyline, while the [[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (Comic Bun Bun)|''Comic Bun Bun'' manga]] has the Autobots befriend hyperactive schoolkid [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]] while searching for the [[Energon Cube#Henkei! Henkei! Comic Bun Bun pack-in manga|Energon Cube]].

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===''Alternity''===
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* "[[From Here to Alternity]]" (2009)
* "[[To Mega Therion]]" (2009)
* "[[Arch-Nemesis!]]" (2009)
* "[[To Die Game!]]" (2009)
* "[[The World Is Flat!]]" (2009)
* "[[Ace of Swords]]" (2009)
* "[[Foreshadows]]" (2010)
* "[[Hunt for the Planicrons]]" (2010)
* "[[Nissan GT-R / Ultra Magnus (Brilliant Pearl White)]]" (2010)
* "[[Alternation]]" (2010)

''[[Transformers: Alternity]]'' is complicated.

From a toyline perspective, the line was simply a successor to ''Binaltech'' and its usage of licensed 1:24 vehicle modes but the fiction these toys received is something else entirely. In a nutshell, the characters who constitute the Alternity are not from any single dimension in the ''Transformers'' [[multiverse]]: the 'bots who constitute the "Alternity" are higher-dimensional creatures, amalgamated beings who encompass many alternate-dimensional counterparts. The stories feature their adventures across multiple pre-existing dimensions and timelines, encountering [[Planicron|two-dimensional invader]]s and battling the reality-devouring beast known as the [[Hytherion]]; in 2015 the Facebook "[[Ask Vector Prime]]" feature established them as powerful guardians of the infinite multiverse on-par with the advanced [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s and the inhabitants of [[Cloud World]]. Owing to these multidimensional shenanigans, which include frequent crossovers with the long-running [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], ''Alternity'' is not a strictly self-contained universe; however, we recognize it as a continuity and organize it as such on this wiki whenever possible for sanity's sake.

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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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* ''[[Transformers: All Spark|All Spark]]'' (2012-2013)

Similar to ''Henkei! Henkei!'', ''[[Transformers: All Spark]]'' is a vague retelling of the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] based loosely on the "[[More than Meets the Eye (mini-series)|More than Meets the Eye]]" miniseries, but features a number of details and bodies lifted from the [[Aligned continuity family]] as part of its mandate to advertise the then-current Japanese ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' toyline,

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===''Transformers GT''===
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* "[[Test Run Battle! –Prelude–]]" (2013)
* "[[First Fast Attack! –Whoever Strikes First Wins–]]" (2013)
* "[[One Shot and One Kill!! –Finishing Blow–]]" (2013)
* "[[A Biggest Sword! –The Last Resort–]]" (2013)
* ''[[Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (comic)|Transformers GT: Mission GT-R]]'' (2013)
* [[Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (story page)|''Transformers GT'' story pages]] (2013)

A continuity set in a universe where the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] has evolved into the [[Transformers GT (race)|Transformers GT]], a series of friendly races held between the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s.

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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
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* ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'' (2014-2016)
* ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe: The Movie Adaptation]]'' (2017)

''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'' opens on a dystopian [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] where [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] has vanished and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] reigns supreme. When Cybertron enters our [[Solar System]], the task of making first contact with the metal invaders falls to the heroes of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]—but when the Decepticons refuse to bargain and enter into an unholy alliance with the home-grown villains of [[Cobra]], the Joes go on the offensive by launching their own invasion of Cybertron. As they explore this alien world, they learn some strange truths about Earth, Cybertron, and the cosmic connection that binds them together.

Written and illustrated by [[Tom Scioli]], ''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe'' is a retro-styled comic that emulates the trippy Silver Age sagas of {{w|Jack Kirby}}, featuring radical reinterpretations of classic characters and plenty of intricate callbacks to ''Transformers'' and ''Joe'' lore. In 2017, the series received a mind-screwing [[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe: The Movie Adaptation|one-shot "movie adaptation"]] that presented itself as an adaptation of an equally fictitious movie based on what the original comic might look like had it received the screen treatment.

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===''Devastation''===
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* ''[[Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'' (2015)

The ''[[Transformers: Devastation]]'' continuity incorporates story beats from both the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] and the [[2005 IDW continuity]], which features the Autobots battling an [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] swarm attempting to [[cyberforming|cyberform]] Earth.

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===''Of Masters and Mayhem''===
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* ''[[Of Masters and Mayhem]]'' (2016)
* "[[The Truth We Make]]" (2016)
* "[[Life Finds a Way]]" (2016)
* "[[The Toxic Transformer]]" (2016)
* "[[Foundation and Wreckage Part 1: Deadly Aim|Deadly Aim]]" (2016)
* "[[Lively Pursuit]]" (2016)

In this universe, the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] came to an unceremonious end when the awesomely powerful Decepticon [[combiner]] [[Thunder Mayhem]] turned against his creators and razed [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] entirely, scattering a handful of survivors to the stars.

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===''Prime Wars Trilogy''===
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* ''[[Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)|Combiner Wars]]'' (2016)
* ''[[Transformers: Titans Return (cartoon)|Titans Return]]'' (2017-2018)
* ''[[Transformers: Power of the Primes (cartoon)|Power of the Primes]]'' (2018)

The ''[[Prime Wars Trilogy]]'' is set in a universe that takes heavy inspiration from the concurrent IDW comics, featuring a post-war [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] jointly ruled by a post-factional alliance of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]], and the [[Mistress of Flame]]. When the looming [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]] threaten to dash this fragile peace, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] return from their self-imposed exiles to battle villains old and new—a treacherous Starscream, [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]], [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], and the brainwashed [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Cron]].

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===''Bumblebee'' graphic novels===
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* ''[[Transformers: Bumblebee - Win If You Dare|Bumblebee - Win If You Dare]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Transformers: Bumblebee - Go For the Gold|Bumblebee - Go For the Gold]]'' (2018)

A cartoon-inspired continuity where the Autobots and Decepticons are active in the mid-to-late 1990s. Unlike the cartoon, however, the Cybertronians are not common knowledge except to select members of the [[United States military]].

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===''Star Trek vs. Transformers''===
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* ''[[Star Trek vs. Transformers]]'' (2018-2019)

A continuity in which the Autobots and Decepticons leave Earth to escape [[World War III]] and later encounter [[Starfleet]] and the [[Klingon Empire]] in the twenty-third century.

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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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* ''[[Mazinger Z versus Transformers]]'' (2019)

This Japanese-exclusive manga sees the Autobots and Decepticons from a very cartoon-like universe teleported to the world of the long-running Japanese mecha franchise ''{{w|Mazinger Z}}''. It cannot, however, fit into the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], as the story ends with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] dying a fairly unambiguous death.

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===''Transformers/Ghostbusters''===
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* ''[[Transformers/Ghostbusters]]'' (2019)

A continuity in which the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] ended a thousand years ago, with the Autobots fleeing [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] before the extradimensional deity [[Gozer]] destroyed their homeworld. The present day sees Autobot nerd [[Ectotron|Ectronymous Diamatron]] join up with the [[Ghostbusters]] to investigate paranormal Cybertronian activity on [[Earth]].

While ''Transformers/Ghostbusters'' is, from "our" perspective, just one of many possible universes within the ''Transformers'' multiverse, the series is written in mind to fit into IDW Publishing's own long-running ''Ghostbusters'' continuity and features a number of call-backs and references to prior events.

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===''Transformers vs. The Terminator''===
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* ''[[Transformers vs. The Terminator]]'' (2020)

The [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] of this continuity kills a still-deactivated [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in [[1984]], ensuring a complete Decepticon victory and the extinction of mankind by the year [[2029]]. To win the war, the human-built artificial intelligence [[Skynet]] sends a [[T-800]] unit back in time to kill all Cybertronians and change history—but its interference leads to some unexpected consequences.

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===''My Little Pony/Transformers''===
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* ''[[My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise!|Friendship in Disguise!]]'' (2020)
* ''[[My Little Pony/Transformers: The Magic of Cybertron|The Magic of Cybertron]]'' (2021)

The ''[[My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise!|My Little Pony/Transformers]]'' continuity begins with a freak [[space bridge|spacebridge]] accident that transports the Autobots and Decepticons to the magical land of [[Equestria]], where they team up with the native ponies to take down [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and the evil [[Queen Chrysalis]]. The [[My Little Pony/Transformers: The Magic of Cybertron|sequel miniseries]] reverses the premise, with [[Twilight Sparkle]] and her friends travelling to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to battle [[King Sombra]].

Both comics use a number of characters and concepts that originated or were adapted into in the [[2005 IDW continuity|2005]] and [[2019 IDW continuity|2019]] IDW continuities, but it is set in its own independent continuity that amalgamates concepts from several different universes.

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===''Transformers/Back to the Future''===
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* ''[[Transformers/Back to the Future]]'' (2020-2021)

A continuity in which the Decepticons abuse [[Doc Brown]]'s [[DeLorean time machine]] to change history and win the war.

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===''Transformers: King Grimlock''===
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* ''[[Transformers: King Grimlock|King Grimlock]]'' (2021)

A gritty, pulp-fantasy tale inspired by the Generation 1 cartoon episode "[[Madman's Paradise]]".

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===''Transformers: Last Bot Standing''===
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* ''[[Transformers: Last Bot Standing|Last Bot Standing]]'' (2022)

A post-apocalyptic tale intended to act as a hypothetical "final ''Transformers'' story" in the vein of ''{{w|Old Man Logan}}''.

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==References==
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Jazz (G1)

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:''Jazz is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:IDWJazzPostcard.jpg|upright=2|thumb|He does Special Ops for special Ops.]]
'''Jazz''' is [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s [[Second-in-command|right-hand man]]. Unlike [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], Prime's military strategist, Jazz responds well to change and improvisation. Whatever surprises the Decepticons spring, Jazz can deal with it. His position as [[Special Operations]] head calls for all the skills he possesses, yet he still has time to add some style to everything he does. Jazz's upbeat and outgoing personality makes him one of the most popular Autobots among the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s crew.

An admirer of [[Earth]] music of every kind, Jazz loves culture. More than most other Autobots, he has his finger on the pulse of Earth trends and lingo, effortlessly incorporating human slang into his vocabulary. Chances are, Jazz could tell you the status of almost any reality television show and each week's Top 40 list.

{{quote|Do it with style or don't bother doing it.|Jazz's [[bio]] quote}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:BadGuysBall-Jazzparty.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|P-A-R-T-Why? Because I GOTTA!]]

{{main|Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

A veteran Autobot even before the crash of the ''Ark'' on Earth, Jazz's love of [[human]] culture led him on many adventures during his time on the planet; notable escapades included his encounter with the [[Man of Iron]] and a mission to rescue [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] from Decepticon custody, before he was taken offline by an [[Underbase]]-empowered [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]]. Eventually, however, Jazz would return to life, clad in a new [[Pretender]] body; it was in this form that he participated in the [[Matrix Quest]], part of the mission to the planet [[VsQs]] where he and the other Pretenders fought the [[Matrixspawn]]. Eventually, Jazz would take part in the showdown against [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] as part of the united Autobot-Decepticon alliance.

In an alternate universe, Jazz would become a leading member of [[Earthforce]], clashing with foes such as the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and eventually having to confront his old foe [[Megadeath]] during a mission to Cybertron's [[Acid Wastes]]. In another timeline, Jazz returned to Earth to defend the planet from [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and his [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]]s, and in yet another divergent reality he took part in various battles against [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], Jhiaxus, and the [[Dark Matrix]].

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:SOSDinobots Jazz avoids fire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|He was the best thing about ''The Shining'' and the worst thing about ''Twilight Zone the Movie''.]]

{{Main|Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}

Jazz was one of the original members of Optimus Prime's crew when their ship crash-landed on Earth. As such, he participated in many of the most important battles between the Autobots and the Decepticons throughout the 1980s. Jazz could be recognized by his love of music, his friendly nature, and his incredibly cool voice and disposition. In 2005, Jazz narrowly survived an encounter with Unicron, only to make scant appearances in battles afterward (though he ''did'' win an event in the [[Galactic Olympics]]).

In a splinter timeline, Jazz had many more adventures, including one in which he gained a new [[Binaltech (technology)|Binaltech]] body (only to lose it due to time travel). He continued serving on Cybertron, Earth and [[Athenia]] through 2011 before disappearing again. Jazz eventually turned back up in 2025, where he joined fellow Autobots Bumblebee and Grimlock in beating up Starscream in the far reaches of space.

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===Marvel coloring books===
Jazz was one of the many Autobots who stopped the Decepticons from harming Sparkplug and Buster Witwicky. Later, he helped the Autobots in protecting Hoover Dam from the evil robots. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}}

Jazz discovered that fuel was vanishing from gas tanks all around the world. Quikcly deducing that the Decepticons were behind the thefts, Jazz joined that convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat. En route to the Decepticons' stronghold, the convoy encountered a squad of flying Decepticons. Jazz saved Sunstreaker from an attack when he saw Laserbeak sneak up on the Autobot, and blasted the Decepticon with his flamethrower. As the Autobots were beginning to run low on fuel after this battle, Ironhide donated some of his fuel to the more fuel-efficient Jazz so that he could continue fighitng. Together with Optimus, Mirage, Hound and Bumblebee, Jazz infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold and fought the guards guarding the Decepticons' [[molecular transfer device]]. Bumblebee managed to turn the device on the Decepticons, and Jazz and Prowl hoisted Bumblebee up on their shoulders in celebration. He then helped return the stolen fuel to its rightful owners after the Decepticons had been sent fleeing into the wilderness. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}}}

Jazz was on a vacation trip with the other Autobots when they encountered the Decepticons tearing up the place. The Autobots overpowered the Decepticons then restored the forest back to normal. {{storylink|Forest Rescue Mission}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}

Jazz was part of a small strike team of Autobots assembled by Ultra Magnus to help the Dinobots, who were currently engaged in battle against the Decepticons just outside of Autobot City. After they defeated the Decepticons, Jazz and the others were cheered on by the nearby oil rig workers as they drove back to Autobot City. {{storylink|Battle at Oil Valley}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Invasion of the Decepticon Camp}}}}
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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Jazz and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 million years, Jazz and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Jazz was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Jazz was among the Autobots who welcomed Grapple back to the fold after he shook off the Insecticons' cerebro-shell.
{{storylink|Insecticon Attack!}}

Jazz was also present at Autobot City when Hot Rod warned Ultra Magnus about the Decepticon raid on the Coliseum. {{storylink|Car Show Blow Up}}
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===The Battle for Planet Earth===
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Jazz liked [[human]]s and their culture so much, the other Autobots suspected he'd probably stay on Earth when the time came to return to Cybertron. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}} He was part of a mission to [[South America]] to look for energy sources. While they were examining [[Mount Sheelah]], Jazz spotted the Decepticons incoming, giving the Autobots time to defend their position. Thanks to their human friends, they avoided being caught in the volcano's eruption. {{storylink|Terror of Mount Sheelah}} When the Decepticons started kidnapping humans as slaves, Jazz despaired at how they would deal with the problem. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}}

The Decepticon conquest of [[Stanley Lake]] dam did not go unnoticed by the Autobots. When they encountered the dam's [[senior engineer]] by the lake, Jazz accompanied him back into the control room after the Autobots lured the Decepticons out, and they flooded the valley below the dam, washing away the Decepticons. When [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] tried to corner them, Jazz used his [[sound and light show]] to dazzle the Decepticon until the other Autobots got back. {{storylink|Menace at the Dam}} When [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] attempted to defect, Jazz thought the Decepticon wasn't his style at all. The defection was a trick, but the Autobots were too wily to fall for it and while they had Starscream send the other Decepticons on a wild goose chase, Jazz and the others leveled the Decepticon fortress. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
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The Autobots subsequently returned to Cybertron aboard a refueled and repaired ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' with the defeated Decepticons, taking the Decepticons on Cybertron unawares and quickly capturing control Cybertron. Peace reigned for a time until a series of natural disasters began, the source of which was determined to be the planet [[Moebius]] in [[Gargent 087.0 Kappa|a parallel universe]], designated the 22nd Strata. The Autobots assembled a team to travel to this alternate universe and stop the threat at its source; [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], Jazz, [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Silverstreak]] made up the team; they dubbed themselves [[Spy Changer]]s because they aimed to achieve their goal with stealth and diplomacy. The team modified their bodies to match the 22nd Strata's native cyborgs using data acquired from the [[Sky Spy]] and traveled to the 22nd Strata but were soon attacked by the local [[Guardian (GoBots)|Guardian]]s, who mistakenly presumed them to be [[Renegade]]s. The Spy Changers were then rescued by the real Renegades, who presumed them to be potential allies and took them back to their flagship, the ''[[Rogue Star]]''. Renegade leader [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] attempted to court the Spy Changers as allies, but Optimus saw through Cy-Kill's deception. Optimus sent Jazz to discover the truth of the situation, and the Renegade alliance with [[Gog]] of Moebius came to light. Eventually, the Autobots formed a secret alliance with the Guardians as well as discovered the cause of Cybertron's troubles: Renegade bases on Moebius were draining the planet's energy. The planet's geometry had turned it into a crude [[Dimensional Interfacer]], and Moebius was tapping into Cybertron to sustain itself. Hoist was able to end the crisis by triggering the bases' remote detonation sequence. Cy-Kill was furious, but in the ensuing battle, the Autobot-Guardian alliance triumphed over the Renegades. Optimus Prime and [[Leader-1 (GoBots)|Leader-1]] shook hands, and the Spy Changers returned to their home reality, secure in the knowledge that they had allies in places as distant as alternate realities. {{Storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/30}}

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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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Jazz's "cool" was broken when he misunderstood his first lightning storm and rushed out to defend against Decepticon attackers. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

Realizing the Decepticons had a secret construction project somewhere in an undeveloped area, the Autobots needed a way to search the terrain without alerting the Cons to their presence. Spike found a flyer for a car rally through the area, and he and Jazz volunteered to scout the terrain as part of the rally. They found some old abandoned mining tunnels where the Decepticons were constructing their ion drive. The Autobot cavalry got into a shoot out with the Decepticons until Spike had an idea using the old mining carts. After the brakes were disabled, Jazz shoved the carts at full force through the mineshafts, bowling over the Decepticons and destroying the ion drive. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}

===Listen 'n Play audiobooks continuity===
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Out patrolling Arizona for Decepticon bases, Jazz stumbled on [[Steve Guymo]] lying by the side of the road, and took the delirious human back to base. The Autobots learned from Steve that the Decepticons were behind the recent abduction of humans from airports across the nation. They were able to locate and free the hostages, before defeating [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s squad. {{storylink|Sun Raid (Listen 'n Play)}}

===Deadly Paradise storybook===
Since Jazz is Autobot [[second-in-command]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] needed him at base while [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] was acccused of destroying the [[Nova Suspension Bridge]]. Optimus therefore had [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] lead the mission to [[Carob Island]] instead. {{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}

===Peril from the Stars===
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[[You]] met with Jazz while vacationing with your [[Jack Richards|Uncle Jack]] and [[Sue Richards|Aunt Sue]] at the [[Los Palmos observatory]]. Together, you set out to stop a plot devised by Starscream and Bombshell to acquire ancient Cybertronian weaponry orbiting the Sun. Jazz's fate, and your own, was up to you! {{storylink|Peril from the Stars}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
In one outcome, Jazz was part of the Autobots' attack on [[Mount Lomas]], where the Decepticons were on the verge of converting the black coral in nearby [[Dolphin's Bay]] into a superfuel that would triple their war-making capacity. Jazz made it into the lab and sealed the Autobots' victory by using his flamethrower on the conversion equipment, starting a fire which gutted the entire mountain base and turned Operation Black ''Coral'' into Operation Black ''Ashes''. (It's unknown if that joke was Jazz's idea) {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}

====Battle Drive====
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Jazz was amongst the Autobots that came to Bumblebee's rescue in certain versions of the events that came about when Sparkplug discovered a fatal flaw in the Decepticons' circuitry.

If events played out differently, Jazz was one of the many Autobots shocked by Bumblebee's report on the Decepticons' latest plot: they were planning to destroy acres of farmland in order to starve humanity into submission! He subsequently volunteered for the squad Optimus deployed to halt the Decepticons' efforts.

Although Jazz noticed the message you attempted to deliver to the Autobots about the Decepticons' plan being false information, he was unable to convince Optimus of this fact, and was destroyed along the rest of the other Autobots in one possible sequence of events.

In another possible path, Jazz and Optimus came to each other's rescue when they became wise to the Decepticons' plot to lure them into open farmland to ambush the Autobots, and made it safely back to Autobot headquarters following a mad rush to safety. {{storylink|Battle Drive}}

====Attack of the Insecticons====
Jazz was present, yet mostly uninvolved, in a number of possible adventures revolving around the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug that would end the Autobots' energy woes. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Decepticon Poison====
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Jazz was amongst the Autobots about to be topped up with their latest batch of fuel when Red Alert burst into Autobot headquarters, warning everyone about Ramjet being spotted nearby. Red Alert's warning came in just in time, as the Autobots’ fuel had been poisoned, and Jazz would have been left unable to transform had he ingested any of it.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Jazz was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Jazz and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In yet another possible scenario, Optimus opted to use the tainted fuel as a weapon against an encroaching Decepticon squadron. Jazz was tasked with lighting the fuel aflame once the Decepticons were near enough, creating a toxic smog that would poison the Decepticons. Igniting the pit at the last possible moment, Jazz and Optimus then retreated within the Autobot base while the approaching Decepticons got caught in the ensuing cloud of smoke. The plan went off without a hitch, and the Autobots celebrated another victory over the Decepticons.

In a completely different sequence of events, Optimus opted to go for a more aggressive angle after the Autobots had been poisoned, and led a small team of Autobots to retrieve the antidote from the Decepticons through force. Upon his return with the cure, Optimus informed his troops of the Decepticons’ newest plot. The evil robots planned to poison the humans’ nearby water supply.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Jazz was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action.

Happening upon Decepticons hauling drums of poison out of their base, the Autobots had to devise a plan to stop them. One such plan involved Windcharger using his magnetic powers to levitate the barrels above the Decepticons, and for Prowl to riddle them with holes with some quick shooting. Then came Jazz's part; using his flamethrower, Jazz ignited the poison, forcing the Decepticon to retreat into their base. Warpath finished off the job with his sonic boom, and the Autobots drove back to base victoriously. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}

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====Autobot Alert!====
Jazz was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Jazz was selected alongside Mirage, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates. Jazz acted as the shuttle's pilot. Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. On Ultra Magnus's orders, Jazz maneuvered the shuttle to retrieve Cosmos quickly, before they could be spotted by the enemy. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Jazz was ordered to open fire onto Cyclonus as they came into range. He and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Jazz and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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====Project Brain Drain====
In one possible scenario, Jazz was out on patrol with Kup and Hot Rod when the three of them heard nearby commotion and went to investigate. Finding Wreck-Gar and Sparkplug being attacked by Thrust and Laserbeak, the Autobots moved in to rescue them and fended off the Decepticons. Jazz, Hot Rod and Kup were informed of the situation as it were; the Decepticons were going to drain the minds of hundreds of thousands of concert-goers with their [[Brain Drain device]]. The Autobots then decided whether they would launch a counter-attack on the Decepticons’ lab, or if they would send Hot Rod for reinforcements while the rest of them headed directly to the concert.

If the Autobots decided to storm the laboratory, the group attacked with such ferocity and suddenness that they scared off most of the Decepticons guarding the place. Finding their only opposition left being a small group of Decepticons, Jazz and the others successfully beat them back, until Soundwave attempted to escape with the Brain Drain device in hand.

If Hot Rod attempted to stop Soundwave, Laserbeak managed to grab hold of the device and flew off to meet Galvatron. The Autobots being too low on power to pursue meant that the Decepticons would ultimately be victorious.

If Jazz attempted to stop Soundwave, the Autobot used all of the sound equipment within his body to send a powerful sonic wave towards the fleeing Decepticon. Overwhelmed by the blast, Soundwave exploded, crushing the Brain Drain device in the process.

Alternatively, if Wreck-Gar, Sprakplug, Kup and Jazz headed towards the concert while Hot Rod headed back to Metroplex for reinforcements, the small group found themselves wondering how they could defend the huge sea of people by themselves upon their arrival. Hearing the Decepticons approaching, but uncertain from which direction they were coming from, the Autobots had to decide whether they would station themselves on the west side of the concert, or at its south.

If the Autobots decided to head for the west side of the concert, Jazz and the others positioned themselves just in time to see a whole squadron of Decepticons coming into view. Catching the Decepticons by surprise with a first volley, the Autobots managed to buy themselves a few minutes as the Decepticons regrouped before circling around for another pass. During the Decepticons’ second pass, Jazz was hit in the legs by a [[proton bomb]]. Despite his injury, he continued fighting. The Autobots were successful in driving away the Decepticons, thanks in no small part to Jazz and the others exhausting their forces, leaving their foes underpowered to deal with the new arrivals.

Alternatively, if the Autobots headed for the south side of the concert, they were unable to see the Decepticons coming from the other direction, and were destroyed in a surprise Decepticon attack. {{storylink|Project Brain Drain}}
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====The Invisibility Factor====
In one possible scenario, the Autobots were informed by Kup and Hot Rod that the Decepticons had taken possession of an [[Invisibility Device]], created by the human [[Sarah Sanders]], and taken it into space to study it. Ultra Magnus put together a team of Autobots and took off in one of their shuttles to pursue them. Jazz was amongst the Autobots chosen. Once in space, however, the Autobots had difficulty pinpointing the Decepticons’ location. The ship's crew had to decided where to look next for the Decepticons.

If the Autobots decided to investigate the dark side of the moon, they found themselves unable to see anything on the satellite's shadowy surface. When Hot Rod suggested they fire down a shot to see if the Decepticons would fire back, Jazz chimed in that he thought the plan was too risky, and claimed he had a better plan in mind.

If Ultra Magnus decided to go through with Hot Rod's anyways, the Autobots succeeded only in making themselves an easy target for their enemies. The Decepticons blasted their shuttle to bits. Jazz and his friends were reduced to space junk.

If Ultra Magnus listened to Jazz's plan, he ordered his Autobots to remain silent, and to shut off all of the shuttle's lights and mechanisms. Launching a probe as a decoy, the Autobots successfully tricked the Decepticons into revealing their position when they mistook the probe as their shuttle and opened fire upon it. Firing back, the Autobots began crippling the Decepticons’ ship, until a lucky shot rocked their own shuttle. Though the Decepticons attempted to escape while the Autobots were off-balance, the Autobots were able to deliver the finishing blow, ending the Decepticons’ menace as the evil robots' ship exploded.

In an alternate scenario wherein the Autobots listened to Prowl's suggested and searched the Asteroid Belt beyond Mars, they soon found themselves struggling to get through the maze of floating rocks. Jazz was in favour of retreating from the asteroid field when it proved increasingly difficult to navigate it.

If the Autobots pushed on their search in the Asteroid Belt, they soon found themselves on a collision course with two enormous asteroids. If they only managed to blast one of asteroids, the Autobots were forced to retreat back to Earth after their shuttle took substantial damage. If the Autobots managed to blast neither of the Asteroids, they were all crushed between the giant pieces of space debris.

If they managed to blast away both asteroids, they reached a vast, empty expanse of space within the asteroid belt. Hot Rod confessed that he still felt uneasy, and Jazz agreed with his sentiment; it felt as though they were being watched. Their suspicions were confirmed when the Decepticons, now invisible, began opening fire onto the Autobots’ shuttle. Jazz suggested the Autobots retreat, as they could not fight an invisible opponent. The Autobots considered retreating, but Kup reminded them that Sarah Sanders had not perfected her device yet, and the Decepticons’ invisibility may yet wear off.

If the Autobots attempted to flee from the Decepticons’ attack, they found themselves at too much of a disadvantage to successfully make it out of the Asteroid Belt. They were blown into space junk before they could reach Earth.

If the Autobots held their ground, they were instructed by Ultra Magnus not to open fire upon the Decepticons until ordered to do so. Though things were tense as the Autobots were hit over and over again by their invisible opponents, soon the enemy ship came into view, just as Kup had predicted. The Autobots opened fire on the flimsier vessel, blowing it and the Decepticons within to smithereens.

If the Autobots did retreat out of the Asteroid Belt, they convinced one another that the Decepticons most likely perished within it. Then, a few days later, when the invisible Decepticons attacked Metroplex city, Jazz and the rest of the Autobots were reduced to scrap metal, unable to fight the unseen enemy.

In a completely different possible scenario, Springer was sent out with Jazz, Sunstreaker and Prowl to accompany Kup and Hot Rod when the latter two reported having seen the mysterious ship land in the middle of the desert.

If the Autobots gave up searching for the ship, Ultra Magnus and the rest of the Autobots within Metroplex were caught by surprise by a fleet of identical ships swooping down upon them. The Autobots were all destroyed as Galvatron gloated of his victory.

If Hot Rod and Kup convinced the other Autobots to keep on looking, Hot Rod eventually found trail marks, indicating that a heavy object the size of their spacecraft had indeed landed and had been dragged away. Jazz and the others followed the trail to a more rocky terrain, where tracking the ship would become more difficult. The trail seemingly lost, the Autobots then heard someone incoming, and took cover. From their hiding places, they saw the Decepticons Scavenger, a human captive within the grasp of his steam-shovel.

If the Autobots decided to rescue Sarah immediately, Scavenger dropped the woman, and cried for help while attempting to flee.

If the Autobots pursued Scavenger, they found him rejoining a whole squadron of Decepticons. Fighting the Decepticons immediately would cost them their lives. Otherwise, if the Autobots decided on a retreat when faced by the whole squadron of Decepticons, they managed to do so by blinding their enemies by their high beams and then splitting off into different direction. They later regrouped and found Sarah Sanders wandering in the desert.

If the Autobots asked Sarah to build them their own Invisibility Device, Sarah refused, stating she would not build weapons for war. Running away from the group Sarah was almost killed when Dirge passed overhead and dropped a missile on her position. After rescuing her from the Decepticon attack, Jazz and the others brought Sarah to safety within Metroplex. Grateful for the rescue, Sarah showed the Autobots how to create an [[Invisibility Scrambler]] to counteract the Decepticons’ Invisibility Device. Anticipating the Decepticons’ attack, the Autobots successfully defeated the evil robots when they came.

If instead of asking Sarah to build them an Invisibility Device, Jazz and the others attempted once more to retrieve her ship, the whole group snuck over to where the Decepticons were stationed. Once there, Hot Rod and Prowl argued over which plan of action would be the smartest to undertake next.

If the Autobots agreed with Hot Rod to try and take the Decepticons by surprise with a head-on attack, the Autobots manage to stun the Decepticons by dazzling them with their headlights. Jazz provided Hot Rod some cover fire while the young Autobot raced down and snatched the Invisibility Device from the Decepticons. The Autobots then successfully peeled back, congratulating one another on a job well done.

If the Autobots agreed with Prowl to take a moment to come up with a more detailed plan, Prowl instructed Hot Rod to taunt the Decepticons into following him. The plan worked, and the bulk of the Decepticons took off after the young Autobot. With only Scavenger, Shockwave and Galvatron left behind, Jazz and the others easily defeated the Decepticons still guarding the spaceship, and forced Galvatron to retreat. In one possible scenario that followed, Jazz helped destroy a hidden Decepticon base that Hot Rod found while the Decepticons gave him chase. In another, Jazz watched on as Sarah left in her spaceship in order to destroy it, vowing it would never be used to bring destruction.

In an alternate scenario where the Autobots silently trailed Scavenger while the Decepticon held Sarah Sanders captive, Jazz and the others followed him all the way to the Decepticons’ secret desert base. Inside, they spied upon Galvatron telling Sarah Sanders that the Decepticons would use Cerebro-Shells to control her mind, so that she would reveal to them to secret of invisibility. At this point, the Autobots decided to step in. A direct attack would only end in the Autobots’ defeat. In order to rescue Sarah, the Autobots would need to employ trickery. Using Jazz's special abilities, the Autobots could do just that. In this scenario, the Autobots grabbed Sarah while the Decepticons were too dazzled by the illusions that Jazz projected. Sarah directed the Autobots towards where the Decepticons had stored her ship. Upon following her directions, Jazz and the others came upon two doors, unable to tell behind which one they would find their means of escape. If the Autobots happened upon Sarah's ship as they were, they would be destroyed by the droids guarding it. However, if the Autobots first opened the door which lead to a closet filled with Decepticon spare parts, they found a pile of spare Decepticon emblems. Donning them, Jazz and the rest of his team were able to fool the Decepticon Droids guarding Sarah's ship. Escaping in the ship, despite the Decepticons best efforts to stop them, the Autobots returned to Metroplex. Sarah then gave the Autobots the secret to her Invisibility Device, ensuring the Autobots their victory in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Invisibility Factor}}
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===Frito-Lay posters===
Jazz opened fire on Devastator during a desert battle between the Transformers. It is very likely his shoulders hurt. {{storylink|The Power Struggle}}

Jazz participated in a battle to defend [[Sherman Dam|Boulder Dam]] against the Decepticons. He and Trailbreaker worked in conjunction to back up Optimus Prime in his duel against Megatron. Ultimately, the Autobots were successful in defending the dam. {{storylink|Battle in the Desert Valley}}
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===Toy pack-in material===
Jazz and Sideswipe were cruising through a desert when they crossed paths with the Constructicons. Sideswipe led the charge against the enemy robots, with Jazz acting as his back-up. {{storylink|Sweepstakes Offer!}}

===The Official ''Transformers: Generation 2'' Annual===
[[File:Jazz day of the decepticons.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|"What, these G1 faction symbols? Ignore 'em. G2 all the way, baby!"]]
Jazz served as Optimus Prime's second-in-command on Cybertron. He was instrumental in the defence of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and saved his leader's life after a surprise attack rendered Prime non-functional. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Jazz's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}}

Jazz, along with the rest of the Ark crew, crash-landed on Earth and awoke millions of years later to find that the war continued there. As part of a plan devised by Optimus Prime's new second-in-command Prowl, Jazz and the other Autobots were stationed at [[Table Mountain]] in [[Africa]] to defend a newly discovered spaceship with the power to return them to Cybertron. When the Decepticons arrived to take the ship by force, Jazz was easily swatted aside by Megatron, and the Autobots retreated to let the victors claim their prize. The doors of the ship slammed shut, and it began to hurtle uncontrollably away from the planet, leaving the Decepticons to realise they had walked into a trap and leaving Jazz back on Earth to ponder: If they'd conned the Decepticons, did that make them ''Deceptibots''? {{storylink|Day of the Decepticons}}

Jazz was on duty at the Ark when one of its automatic sensors picked up a Transformer power emission emanating from [[Brazil]], and he, Optimus Prime and [[Fizzle|Blaze]] drove there to investigate. Upon arrival in Brazil, Jazz was immediately knocked offline by [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and played no further part in the proceedings. {{storylink|The Dinobots!}}
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===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
[[File:Agenda3-AutobotsonArkattack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|He's fallen and he's not getting up.]]
Four million years ago, Jazz, Ratchet, Optimus Prime, Prowl, and Ironhide were on the bridge of the Ark when it was suddenly attacked by the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. It crashed in a dormant volcano for untold years until it was disturbed by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], who had traveled from the far future. Jazz's body was sprawled across a section of the navigation controls. Frozen in [[stasis lock]] as he was, Jazz was unable to stop the Predacon from assassinating the equally comatose Optimus Prime. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}} This act would have rewritten history from that moment forward, but the ensuing time storm was stopped by [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and some time-traveling [[Maximal]]s. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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8.2 million years ago, Jazz and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] met [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] in the remains of [[Praxus]]'s [[Helix Gardens]] to discuss the worthiness of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optronix]] to lead the Autobots. Jazz later attended the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-transfer ceremony at the [[Chamber of the Ancients]]. He attempted to save Optronix—now Optimus Prime—when Prime was attacked by [[Decepticon]]s, but was restrained by Grimlock. When Prime defeated the assassins, Jazz was convinced of his worth. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}}

[[File:Jazz war within.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Exits to the sides and rear, dig?"]]
Soon afterward, Jazz questioned Prowl's decision to allow Prime to explore the depths of the planet alone, but was prevented from pressing the issue any further when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] attacked [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] with an army of Decepticons. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} Jazz helped direct the battle from the [[Decagon]], but the defenders were soon overwhelmed. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} Jazz was forced to begin evacuating important artifacts and hardware from the city, but was unable to finish before the Decepticons overran the Decagon. {{storylink|The War Within issue 4|The War Within #4}} He and a handful of Autobots made a desperate last stand, {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} but narrowly avoided annihilation when [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] activated Cybertron's planetary engines, devastating the city and forcing Shockwave's army to retreat. Iacon was reduced to a crater, but Jazz and the other Autobots safely made it out of the area. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}}

7.4 million years ago, Jazz witnessed the [[space bridge]] explosion that seemingly killed Prime and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. After the subsequent fragmentation of the Autobot faction, Jazz remained with the Prowl-led Autobots, though he longed for the days when the Autobots were a united force. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} He accompanied a group of Autobots to investigate a [[Trypticon (G1)|new mobile battle base]] at the [[Praetorus Wharf]], only to learn that the base was fully operational. {{storylink|Devastation}} Despite the arrival of reinforcements, the titan was too much for Jazz and his cohorts; only when Trypticon received a message from the [[Neutral Territories]], recalling him there, were they saved from certain doom. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}}

Battered, Jazz and the others limped back to Iacon, only to be forced to repel an attack on [[Autobase]] by [[The Fallen]]. Although Jazz, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] fought valiantly, the mysterious entity defeated them and achieved his objective: freeing [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] from captivity. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} The Fallen was in time defeated. Jazz would later aid [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] in his struggle to re-unite Cybertron under the Autobot banner. The unification of their race nearly succeeded... only for Megatron to return. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}}

Jazz was among the crew of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he awoke in 1984 to battle the Decepticons. After years of fighting, Jazz and the other Autobots took part in [[Operation Liberation]] in 1998, a joint human/Autobot operation that defeated and captured the Earth-bound Decepticons. However, the ''[[Ark II]]'', which was meant to convey the Autobots, the captured Decepticons, and a number of humans back to Cybertron, was sabotaged by General [[Robert Hallo]], sending Jazz and his comrades to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}}

[[File:Jazz prime directive.jpg|thumb|...you're still not BOOGIEING!!!]]
A few years later, Optimus Prime awoke Jazz and a number of other Autobots to combat the sinister [[Lazarus]]. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} He aided in the cleanup of Lazarus's latest target, the SmitCo [[oil]] refinery, and then moved on to Lazarus's base, which had been taken over by a revived Megatron and his deadly "metal virus". Jazz and the others briefly battled the Decepticons, but were stopped in their tracks when Hallo dropped a nuclear bomb on them. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} The virus absorbed most of the blast, leaving the Transformers unharmed, but continued to expand across the countryside. Jazz remained behind with a team to combat the virus, while Optimus Prime took a contingent of warriors to combat Megatron in [[San Francisco]]. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Armed with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]-designed blasters to combat the virus, Jazz and his squad fought bravely, despite the blasters draining their energy and the well-meaning interference of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Army. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} But soon the virus overwhelmed them, forcing Wheeljack to sacrifice use the last of his energy reserves to destroy it. Jazz cradled Wheeljack's inert form afterwards. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

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Some time later, Jazz participated in a battle in Alaska over possession of an escape pod containing [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], only to be forced to flee with the other Autobots when Shockwave arrived from Cybertron, proclaiming a new era of peace, and all Earthbound Transformers to be war criminals. As the other Autobots bickered over what to do, Jazz told them to shut up, as they were making his head hurt. {{storylink|New World Order}} Jazz couldn't believe [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] working as Shockwave's lieutenant, and almost got into a fight with Grimlock over the matter. Though he wasn't confident about his abilities, Jazz was left behind on Earth to command a small team of Autobots while Optimus and the rest of the Autobots surrendered to Magnus. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After Magnus and Prime had departed, Jazz, [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] returned to the battlefield, but found no trace of the pod or Scourge. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}}

[[File:Marissafairebornedw.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|...Maybe?]]
After the end of Shockwave's despotic rule over Cybertron, the Autobots on Cybertron made contact with Jazz's crew for an update and promised to send supplies.{{storylink|Generation 1 issue 0|Generation 1 #0}} Unfortunately, Starscream returned to Earth with a small unit of Decepticons first. Jazz and his team fought back against them and managed to capture most of the invaders. Starscream's enforcer [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], however, proved to be too much for them to handle, and Jazz was deactivated and left to rust at the bottom of a lake by the mighty super-robot. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} He was eventually fished out by [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] (who had arrived from Cybertron with Bumblebee with supplies), but they were waylaid by [[Earth Defense Command]], {{storylink|The Omega Effect}} who took them to an underground facility. {{storylink|Atonement}} The EDC completed the repairs on Jazz, Sunstreaker and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] themselves, and asked a favor in return: for the Autobots to accompany their agents in investigating [[San Desto|a small town]] which had mysteriously gone off the grid a few days beforehand. With [[Marissa Faireborn]] and some [[EDC Night Force Unit|EDC soldiers]], they explored the deserted town, though Jazz had to contend with keeping the other Autobots in-line the whole time. After splitting into teams, tey found the cause of the problem — a swarm of techno-organic [[Insecticon clone|Insecticlones]], which rose out of the ground and surrounded Jazz's squad. {{storylink|Infestation (Dreamwave)|Infestation}} Jazz and Marissa [[Crothers Auto-Body|escaped]] the swarm and found the hatching facility beneath [[Aztec Theatres|a theater]]. Jazz torched the eggs, only to confronted by [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] and [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]], who were mighty annoyed that he'd destroyed the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s' work. Sideswipe and Sunstreaker managed to cover Jazz and Marissa's escape back to the surface, where the Autobots were confronted by the towns people, rendered zombies by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s. The Autobots were unwilling to fight against human foes, but thankfully [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] was able to use a spare shell to disable Bombshell's control, saving them all. {{storylink|Extermination}}
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Afterward, Jazz farewelled Marissa at the EDC base in Nevada, as the Autobot forces departed for Alaska in the ''[[Orion]]''. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} In Alaska, they found Prowl's forces constructing [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

Some time in the future, Jazz was augmented with the Pretender technology. Bumblebee wrote in his personal datatracks that now that Jazz had a Pretender shell, the latter was even more likely to get involved with human affairs. He also questioned why Spike always said that the latter expected Jazz's shell to look a little different. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye#Issue #7|Pretender Jazz's ''More Than Meets The Eye'' profile}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF2 Jazz Stun.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left]]
Jazz was aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] when it crashed on Earth several million years in the past. The vessel was eventually discovered by the human terrorist organization [[Cobra]], who decided to use its deactivated occupants for their own needs. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #1}} Jazz was reprogrammed to serve Cobra and rebuilt to transform into a three-wheeled Cobra [[Stun]] vehicle. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

When the reprogramming was undone by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], Jazz joined [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] and continued the battle against the Decepticons, who had also been freed. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} Jazz warned a damaged [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] about attacking [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] head-on, but was rebuffed, as there was no other option. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} The Decepticons on Earth were eventually defeated with help from [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], and the Autobots returned to Cybertron aboard a new ''Ark''. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}

[[File:GIJoeTFJazzPimpmobile.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Number 6, Pimpmobile.]]
Unfortunately, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had all but conquered the planet in their absence, and the Autobots became little more than a team of resistance fighters. After a successful mission to steal [[energon cube]]s from the Decepticons, Jazz was suddenly sent to 1970's Earth when a malfunctioning [[Teletran 3]] cracked the timestream. As complicated issues with time travel threatened to destroy Earth, a number of G.I. Joe and Cobra members followed Jazz into the past in order to retrieve him. Finding Jazz trapped in the form of a car owned by a [['70s pimp|local pimp]]: a 1970s {{w|Cadillac Eldorado#1971-1978|Cadillac Eldorado}}, [[Snake-Eyes]] planted a [[disruption unit]] on the Autobot, allowing him to reboot and help them find other trapped Transformers. Together the group located [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] before returning to present-day Cybertron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}}

However, this mostly meant that Jazz had to sit tight inside a force field surrounded by the entire Decepticon army. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}} The Autobots were captured when the force field went down, but were soon saved by the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. The following day, Jazz joined Bumblebee and Optimus Prime in saying goodbye to the Joes and Cobras. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
[[File:DWTFJoe2 Jazz Prowl.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left]]
Jazz was among the Autobots that lay dormant and buried somewhere on the [[Fera Islands]] for three million years until [[1939]], when [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] accidentally awakened them. After getting reformatted into a military jeep, Jazz voiced his gratitude to the humans for bringing him and his friends back online. {{storylink|Transformed}}

Though not clearly seen again during the following conflict with Cobra and the Decepticons, Jazz was presumably deactivated with all the other Transformers when [[Snake-Eyes]] shattered the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}
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===''The Beast Within''===
Jazz was incapacitated early during a savage battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, receiving a dehabilitating shoulder wound. Ratchet was able to get to him, and began repairs even as [[Beast (G1)|The Beast]] began rampaging across the battlefield, killing Autobots and Decepticons alike.{{storylink|The Beast Within}}

Jazz's unconscious body was later carried by Ratchet into Optimus Prime's trailer, as the Autobots attempted to outrun The Beast. Thankfully, Jetfire showed up just in time to rescue Prime's passengers, save Skids, who was crushed moments before Jetfire's arrival.{{storylink|The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences}}
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===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:Escalation2 Jazz transform.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]

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===''Mini Mayhem!''===
When a surprise party was thrown for Optimus in honor of the 20th anniversary of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', Jazz didn't wind up getting invited.

After being nominated two years in a row, Jazz was sure he'd be a shoo-in for [[2011]]'s [[Transformers Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]]. He discussed the topic with Grimlock and Shockwave until [[Erector (G1)|Erector]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] came along. The trio mistook Erector for Bumblebee, and so spared him any ridicule, but verbally tore into Waspinator. After insisting that the Predacon would never stand a chance against them, Jazz and the others walked off in a huff. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
Jazz was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. After the war had raged for some time, he was one of the few Autobots privileged with seeing Optimus insert the Matrix of Leadership into his chest for the first time. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun'' manga===
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
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Jazz was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Jazz was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Unit:E'' comic===
Upon approaching the planet [[Earth]], the artificial intelligence [[Synergy]] presented footage of the Autobots to her crew-mate, the young [[Microman|Acroyear]], so that he could learn about his potential allies and enemies on the alien world. Jazz could be seen standing side by side with Arcee on one of Synergy's view-screens. {{storylink|Unit:E (issue)|Unit:E}}

===''Transformers: All Spark''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Another Episode, Part 1}} {{storylink|Another Episode, Part 2}} {{storylink|The Fated Rival, Once Again...}} {{storylink|To Earth}} {{storylink|Plans of the Emperor of Destruction}} {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} {{storylink|Conclusion}}}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
'''Green Sports Car''' (緑のスポーツカー ''Midori no Supōtsu Kā'') played in the ''Quiz! BeCool'' show as part of a team with [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]. Despite their best efforts, they ultimately lost. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Green Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}

Green Sports Car watched the making a film that was interrupted by a fire brigade who thought the pyrotechnics were a real fire. {{storylink|The Story of the Fire Brigade Dispatch!}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Jazz was surprised when Optimus Prime brought a bunch of Decepticons to their picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}} Together with [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] he went looking for the legendary [[Red Bucket]], only to encounter [[Bludgeon (Kre-O)|Bludgeon]]'s Decepticons. Bludgeon tipped the bucket over on them, but Jazz was able to use the blocks in it to construct a Mega-Jazz robot and send the Decepticons packing. {{storylink|Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!}} He was present when [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] conquered [[Metroplex (Kre-O)|Metroplex]], having eaten some of Metroplex's blocks and thus contributed to his collapse. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}

Jazz and the Autobots panicked when Optimus Prime was partially turned into an [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}} When the Decepticons created [[Soundwave (Kre-O)|Soundwave]] clones to brainwash humanity using hypnotic music, Jazz opposed them, offended by their use of music for evil. The ensuing musical battle between Jazz and Soundwave led to such good vibes that the Autobots and Decepticons actually stopped fighting and threw a party. {{storylink|Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!}} Later, a space bridge accident sent Jazz and the other Autobots [[Earth|another world]], where they scuffled with the Decepticons before returning home on a rocket. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise! The Transformers Are by Your Side!?}}
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===IDW ''Angry Birds'' Transformers comic===
[[File:ABTF1 Jazz.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left]]
As part of the bridge crew on the ship carrying the [[AllSpark]], Jazz initiated an emergency [[Quantum generator|quantum jump]] in order to flee a Decepticon attack on the vessel. Unfortunately the AllSpark had fallen out of the ship at the time, and was sucked into the resulting quantum tunnel. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers issue 1|Angry Birds Transformers #1}} After a fruitless search by Jazz and the others, the relic suddenly came to them, flying back straight through a windshield together with a [[Minion Pig|strange green pig]]. {{storylink|Hard Boiled}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
Jazz was among the Autobot and [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joe]] forces defending [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] from an attack by the Decepticons and [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}}
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Kōji Yusa]] (Japanese)}}
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===''Timelines''===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], the [[Laser Cycle]] Jazz attempted to evacuate the surrounding area, with fellow Laser Cycle [[Soundwave (G1)#Timelines|Soundwave]] in pursuit. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}} In the final battle of the third Cybertronian war, special operations officer Jazz worked with [[Hound (G1)#TransTech|Sergeant Hound]] to provide [[Optimus Prime (G1)#General Optimus|General Optimus Prime]] with vital intelligence that allowed the newly reconstituted [[Firestormer]]s to successfully strike against [[Megatron (G1)#ATB Megatron|Megatron]]'s [[Decepticon Empire|Decepticon Star Empire]]. {{storylink|Hound (G1)/toys#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Sgt. Hound profile card}}

{{note|Jazz's body in this universe is his [[Jazz (G1)/toys#LaserCycle|unreleased ''Generation 2'' toy]].}}

===When Worlds Collide===
When trying to retrieve the stolen [[Matrix of Leadership]], a [[Kreon]] version of Jazz and the Autobots joined forces with a variety of humans and other beings in their fight against Megatron and Cobra Commander's forces. {{storylink|When Worlds Collide}}

===''Prime Wars Trilogy'' marketing material===
The Autobot special ops officer Jazz could wield powers of the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]s by linking with [[Prime Master]]s. {{storylink|Jazz (G1)/toys#Power of the Primes|''Power of the Primes'' Jazz packaging bio}}
{{note|For a list of powers manifested by Jazz, see [[Prime Master/Combinations|this chart]].}}
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===''Star Trek vs. Transformers''===
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A crew member aboard the ''Ark'' when the Autobot starship left Cybertron, Jazz was one of the Autobots who awoke on modern-day Earth to continue their secret war against the Decepticons. However, when the [[Eugenics Wars]] swept Earth, followed by the apocalyptic outbreak of [[World War III]], Jazz and the other Autobots left the planet behind aboard Fortress Maximus in search of fuel elsewhere in the galaxy. Embittered and disappointed by the capacity for violence humans had displayed, Jazz was left with a particularly low opinion of the human race during their subsequent voyage. Eventually, the Autobots discovered a suitable fuel source over the distant moon of [[Cygnus Seven]], only to learn that they had been tailed by the Decepticons aboard their own Titan, Trypticon. In the ensuing struggle, Megatron and his Decepticons boarded Maximus, but the disabled ship plummeted to the barren planetoid and knocked all of the combatants into stasis lock.

Centuries later, Cygnus Seven would be colonized by the [[Federation]], and those colonists would inadvertently stumble upon the buried remains of Fortress Maximus while mining [[dilithium]]. First reactivating the Decepticons, then the Autobots, Jazz and the other Autobots awoke to find that Optimus had already vanished—unbeknownst to them, to stop the Decepticons from terrorizing the inhabitants of the colony—and found themselves confronted by [[James T. Kirk|Captain Kirk]] and the crew of the ''[[USS Enterprise]]'', who had arrived to investigate the distress signal. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part One}} Initially believing that the humans were responsible for Prime's disappearance, and briefly believing that the organics had ''killed'' Prime, the Autobots were eaisly able to subdue the humans before Kirk revealed that they had come in peace. Jazz had Bumblebee tell Kirk and the others their unusual story befor ethe two parties decided to form a tentative alliance. Before they could head back to the surface and rescue the wounded Optimus, however, a Decepticon ambush caved in the mine and left the heroes trapped inside Fortress Maximus. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}}

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With Ratchet hatching a desperate plan to bring Fortress Maximus back online, Jazz watched as the medic prepared a device that would allow the wounded [[Titan (group)|Titan]] to return to full functionality by scanning Kirk's own mind. Despite Jazz's skepticism that the gambit would succeed, Maximus was indeed roused back to life, reconfiguring his body into a Cybertronian-scaled copy of the ''Enterprise'' and promptly blasting free, with Jazz and the other Autobots rolling out to confront the Decepticons and their new [[Klingon]] allies. When Trypticon transformed out of his [[Warbird (Star Trek)|warbird]] disguise, Kirk and Maximus responded in kind to become "Fortress Tiberius," as the other Autobots watched on. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Three}}

As the two Titans clashed, Jazz narrowly avoided being crushed by Trypticon; [[Hikaru Sulu]] observed that Jazz had just felt what humans ''always'' experienced around Cybertronians, and this comment helped to erode some of Jazz's own cynicism regarding humanity. Though the Autobots were able to rout and capture the Klingons, they were too late to stop Megatron and the other Decepticons from retreating to pursue Starscream, who had absconded with a load of stolen dilithium with the intention of conquering [[Kronos]], the Klingon homeworld. Boarding Fortress Tiberius, the Autobots and [[Starfleet]] members rejoined the real ''Enterprise'', with the Autobots helping to repair the damaged starship before the two set off in pursuit. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Four}}

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En route to Kronos, Kirk hit upon the idea of using the two ships' [[replicator]]s to help engineer a series of [[Crewbot|armored battlesuits]] to bolster the Autobots; after arriving and discovering that Starscream had functionally conquered the planet, only to be immediately usurped by Megatron, the Autobot-Federation alliance took the fight to the Decepticons, joined by [[Kuri]] and his Klingons. Although the heroes initially had the upper hand, a paralyzing blast from Soundwave took them out of commission... all of them, that is, save for the Klingons, whose immunity to Soundwave's specific frequency allowed them to uncloak a flotilla of warbirds, who promptly incapacitated the Decepticons.

In the aftermath of the adventure, Jazz and the other Autobots parted ways with the crew of the ''Enterprise'' to continue roaming the stars aboard Fortress Tiberius, though Prime pledged to Kirk that the Autobots would remain on call to assist the Federation if their services were ever required. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Five}}

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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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Jazz was one of the many Autobots battling the Decepticons for control of a [[space bridge]] when a freak accident teleported both factions into the [[Japan]] of an alternate reality. After arriving, [[Baron Ashura]] initially misled the Autobots into helping the [[Iron Mask Army]] attack the [[Photonic Power Laboratory]], but when the group fetched up against [[Kōji Kabuto]]'s [[Mazinger Z]] super robot they soon realized that they'd been deceived and turned on their erstwhile allies.

When the Decepticons formed an alliance with the villains and made a second run on the building, Jazz took part in the battle and was present to witness the arrival of a Mazinger-powered Starscream. Ultimately, "Mazinscream's" destruction opened another dimensional rift that teleported Jazz and all of the remaining Cybertronians back to their home dimension. {{storylink|Mazinger Z versus Transformers}}

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===''Transformers/Ghostbusters''===
[[File:GhostsOfCybertronPart1-Jazz.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

When the Decepticons won the Great War, Jazz was one of the Autobots who fled the planet aboard the ''Ark'', being spared the destruction of Cybertron and the near-extinction of the Cybertronian race by [[Gozer]]. A thousand years later, when [[Ectotron|Ectronymous Diamatron]] detected a Cybertronian beacon on the planet Earth, Ironhide opined that it was a Decepticon trick only for Jazz to wave this off as a paranoia. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 1}}

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===''Transformers vs. The Terminator''===
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One of the Autobots aboard the ''Ark'', Jazz survived the Decepticons' ransacking of the ship but by [[2029]], he had been destroyed, his corpse littering [[Los Angeles]]. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part One}} To avert this timeline, the AI [[Skynet]] sent a lone [[T-800]] back to 1984 to destroy the Cybertronians before they emerged. After the unit's interference had led to the Autobots surviving, Bumblebee and Arcee moved Jazz to the medical bay for repairs but this only wound up placing him at ground zero of one of the duplicitous T-800's pilfered bombs. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}

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===2019 IDW continuity===
[[File:StormHorizonPart1-Jazz.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"... and bring back a pizza while you're at it."]]

Jazz had connections with Cybertron's [[Colonial Security]] division and the [[Black Hub]]. {{storylink|Light/Star}} After [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] had gone missing, Jazz contacted Ultra Magnus, Trion's pupil, aboard the ''[[Fist of Iacon]]'' to inform him of this and covertly authorized a search and rescue mission. Given the political situation on Cybertron, Jazz felt it prudent to encrypt the relevant data. {{storylink|Storm Horizon Part 1}}

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===Precursor World===
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A Transformer resembling a particularly dazzling Jazz was a follower of [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] in the [[Golden Age (GS)|Golden Age]]. Like his fellows, he dutifully assisted Primus in his efforts to confiscate the [[Star Power|Seven Lights]] from his dissenting army the [[Primus Vanguard]] and destroy the universe.

Jazz was present in the strike team Primus brought to bear against the [[Powered Master]]s in an expedition to the year [[2050]] of the [[G1 World|next universe]] to capture its newly formed, empty [[Silver Matrix]] for his patsy [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]]. {{storylink|Abominus comic 2}}

When Star Convoy grew wise to his master's plan, Jazz helped restrain him as their master personally gathered the last two Star Powers from [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron Omega]] and [[Purple Wicked Convoy]]. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Part 1|Finale 1}}

Primus's plan went real sideways after that, with Primus being reduced to his diminutive core form ''Oracle'' by the onslaught of the behemoth [[Blue Planet (GS)|Neo Primus]] (no relation) and the Seven Lights being captured by malevolent future warrior [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Gold Megatron]] and used to create his own seven-part force, the [[New Primus Vanguard]]. Realizing the dire nature of the threat, Oracle reversed his orders, and Jazz and company freed Star Convoy and pooled their [[Golden Power]] into him. Star arose deputized into the Golden Age as ''Gold Primus Convoy'', Primus's eighth and final champion! {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Part 2|Finale 2}}

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===''My Little Pony/Transformers''===
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Jazz was one of the many Transformers who'd been brainwashed into a slave of the evil [[King Sombra]]. He and the other brainwashed Cybertronians fired on the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]s and [[Wonderbolts]] when they launched a coordinated attack, but was incapacitated by [[Rainbow Dash]]'s powerful "Sonic Rainboom" maneuver and captured in an energy net until a means of breaking the spell could be found. {{storylink|Stunt Flying}}

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===''Transformers/Back to the Future''===
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Jazz was one of the Autobots [[Gigawatt]] and [[Marty McFly]] pre-emptively reactivated in 1984 to prevent a time-travelling [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] from altering history. {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 4}}

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===''Transformers Fan Book''===
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, he could chance upon Jazz to navigate inside the Decepticons' maze-like base. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''The Transformers'' (1985)===
Jazz was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}

===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{voiceactor|[[Alex Easley]] (English)}}

In [[2003]], Jazz accompanied [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] to the planet [[Zel Samine]]. A spacetime anomaly had recently occurred in the area, and an Autobot research team had lost contact with home base. Optimus and his lieutenants arrived to assess the situation. They soon learned that [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and the Decepticons were also on Zel Samine looking for the anomaly, and willing to help themselves to the planet's power supplies in the meantime.

Jazz and the Autobots thwarted Decepticon efforts to steal energy from the Zel Samine wind, geothermal and hydroelectric power plants. During the conflict, they were joined by [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] of the research team, who provided them with more information about the UFO that fell to the planet after the spacetime anomaly.

While mulling over the new information, the Autobots received an SOS call from elsewhere on the planet, and raced to answer it. After fighting through the forces of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], Decepticon of the future, Jazz and his compatriots met up with [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], and the Autobot leader of [[2010]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]. Rodimus explained that in their time, the Decepticon military commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] acquired a source of infinite power called [[Zel Quartz]]. It drove him to madness, and he destroyed Cybertron while threatening to lay waste to the rest of the galaxy. Rodimus Prime and the Autobots desperately coordinated with the [[Quintesson]]s to use a timeslip device and travel back in time, preventing Shockwave from ever getting his hand on Zel Quartz. Unfortunately, Galvatron and the remaining Decepticons learned of the mission, and intercepted the Autobots on the way through the timeslip. Crashing in 2003 on Zel Samine, Rodimus was separated from his full team. Rodimus, Kup and Arcee joined up with Jazz and the present day Autobots to search for the Zel Quartz before the Decepticons could find it.

Wheeljack searched the planet for any records or power signatures that might be Zel Quartz. After three false leads, they finally located Zel Quartz at the [[Enormous Laser Transmission Array]]. After fighting through numerous Decepticon lieutenants, and facing the might of Megatron and Galvatron united, Jazz and the Autobots secured the Zel Quartz and ultimately disposed of it so that it could do no further harm. {{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

===''Kreon Chaos''===
Jazz specialized in demolition. He could lay down mines to destroy obstacles, which came in handy in the Autobots' mission to infiltrate the Decepticons' base to retrieve the Optimus Prime Kre-O kit parts held within. The Autobots eventually succeeded in their mission, and assembled the kit parts into a colossal Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Kreon Chaos}}
{{charstubgame|"Earth" and "Moon" stages}}

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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
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Jazz participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Jazz was amongst the Autobots who fought back against the Decepticon Seekers when they went on a worldwide rampage. {{storylink|Robots in the Sky}} Jazz assembled a handpicked squad of Autobots for a mission to deliver energon to a hidden Autobot base. Unfortunately their plan was foiled by the interference of [[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]], [[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] and [[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]]. {{storylink|Road to Ruin}} Jazz was among the Autobots to coat themselves in [[Electrum]] after finding a Golden Lagoon. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon (Legends)|The Golden Lagoon}}

Jazz was still fighting the good fight when the Aerialbots were sent back in time and helped Orion Pax and Ariel become Optimus Prime and Elita-One respectively. {{storylink|Golden Age (Legends)|Golden Age}} After getting a new sound system, Jazz spent a night out with Bumblebee and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] testing it, only to return to base and find that the other Autobots had been turned evil thanks to Megatron's sabotage of the [[recharging chamber]]. While Sparkplug worked on an antidote, Bumblebee and Jazz went to halt the Autobot attack on [[Rutter U.S. Military Base|Rutter Military Base]]. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots (Legends)|Attack of the Autobots}}

When [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] was reprogrammed to aid the Decepticons and stole the [[World Energy Chip]] from Autobot HQ, Jazz was among the Autobots who pursued her into the desert and successfully retrieved both her and the chip. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird (Legends)|Enter the Nightbird}}

Jazz took part in the defense of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] during a Decepticon assault, but was unable to prevent their advance. {{storylink|One Shall Fall...}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Jazz appears as one of the first unlockable characters. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:BattleTacticsJazz.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Jazz-(G2).jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
Jazz participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He appeared in multiple bodies:
*''Jazz'' — This Rare character could be recruited by collecting 130 units of Cybermetal, 75 units of Transmetal, and 45 soldier cores.
*''Jazz (G2)'' — This Epic character was available as a reward to ''10'' leagues (just ''100'' players!) in the G2-themed "Divide and Conquer" Medium event. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
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===''Transformers Online'' (2017)===
[[File:Jazz_TFO.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Fire at will!"]]
{{bigquote|Have your own style of doing things or have none at all.}}

Before every battle, Jazz would decorate himself with [[tattoo]]s to remind himself that no matter where he is, he's always a Cybertronian. However, Jazz does have an obsession with Earth's entertainment culture(s), such as break dance and ballet. His knowledge of Earth's environment and culture designated him as Optimus Prime's assistant. Even when given the most dangerous task to do, Jazz is able to complete the objective with an impeccable attitude and his own sense of swagger.

In battle, Jazz wielded a pair of "[[Static Shock Tonfas]]" and the "[[Arc Blaster]]". His active skill was "Gravitational Black Hole":
*'''Gravitational Black Hole''' — Jazz summons a black hole in a selected area. This black hole eradicates enemy shields, and all nearby enemies will be drawn into it for 1.5 seconds. {{storylink|Transformers Online (2017 video game)|Transformers Online}} <ref>[http://tfol.qq.com/act/a20160726data/hero8.shtml Jazz on the Transformers Online website]</ref>
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Jazz-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|[Insert obligatory music joke here]]]

Jazz came to earth around the time the battle for the Codex key came to take place. With his special ability, Jazz destroyed many key targets, as did [[Mixmaster (G1)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Mixmaster]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Jazz uses his signature "sound amplifier" [[grenade launcher]]. It doesn't do anything special, but it does create noise upon impact.
*'''Ability: Orbital strike''': Call in an orbital strike dealing massive damage to a massive area.
**Cost: 9 ability points +3 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:autobot-jazz Autobot Jazz at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:ForgedToFight-Jazz.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Hope you like hearing the same one-second guitar riff 20 times in a single battle.]]
Jazz was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around!
As a Scout, Jazz Confuses opponents, useful for baiting out their debuffed Special Attacks or Stunning themselves from Exhaustion. He can also take advantage of the combo meter and boost his Critical rate.
{{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
[[File:BBOJazz.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left]]
Jazz took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. 1400 Armor, 1400 Blaster Strength, Score x36, Coins x5, Blaster Speed: Slow {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:1986 Comm Jazz and Thundercracker Party.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Not cosplay—cos'''work'''.]]
[[File:PretenderJazzModel.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Dag! My visor's all outta whack!]]
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Jazz has appeared in numerous [[Commercial|television commercials]] over the years. Commercials featuring original footage of Jazz include the following:
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] attacked a power plant; Jazz, [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] drove out from their headquarters to counterattack. When Megatron joined the battle, the three Autobots flew away. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#The Transformers #1|''The Transformers'' #1 commercial}}
*Jazz was briefly seen fighting alongside Optimus Prime in Earth's ubiquitous rocky deserts. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Decepticon jets & Autobot cars|Decepticon jets & Autobot cars commercial}}
*Jazz, Sideswipe and Prowl charged into battle alongside Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Optimus Prime and Megatron|Optimus Prime and Megatron commercial}}
*Prowl, Jazz and Sideswipe were once more seen together, this time storming the Decepticon base. But unknown to them, the inconspicuous micro-cassette recorder lying nearby was the Decepticon communications officer, Soundwave! As soon as the Autobots stepped past him, Soundwave transformed and sic'ed Laserbeak on them. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Soundwave|Soundwave commercial}}
*Jazz fought alongside Optimus when the Autobot leader summoned [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], and [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] to aid in defeating Megatron. Megatron responded by calling down [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Thrust and Dirge|Autobot cars plus Thrust and Dirge commercial}}
*When [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] led an assault on the Autobots' launch base, Jazz followed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] in a counter-attack. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Ultra Magnus|Ultra Magnus commercial}}
*Jazz was being carried down a highway by Ultra Magnus when Galvatron and his troops came upon them. He, Tracks, Red Alert, and Smokescreen dealt with Starscream and Skywarp while their commander faced off against Galvatron. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Ultra Magnus and Galvatron|Ultra Magnus and Galvatron commercial}}
*Jazz was part of a troop of Autobots who interrupted a Decepticon Energon-gathering mission. Megatron ordered [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] and [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] to deal with the meddlers. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Battlechargers|Battlechargers commercial}}
*When some humans approached an Autobot base, Jazz ordered Cosmos to shine their headlights on them, to reveal their allegiance. Jazz then declared that it was okay, since the humans were wearing Transformers [[Iron-on patch|reflective patches!]] {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Reflective patches|Prizes in Disguise contest/reflective patches commercial}}
{{note|One of the contest prizes was a party with "life-size" Transformers! Among the "life-size" Transformers shown were Jazz and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. If you actually did party with Jazz and Thundercracker, please let us know.}}
*Jazz was reunited with Optimus, emerging from his shell alongside Bumblebee and running up to help him fight Starscream in a darkened city. Prime gave them both a hug. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Classic Pretenders|Classic Pretenders commercial}}
{{note|This marked a rare use of his Pretender Classics animation model; for his Pretender appearances in the Marvel Comics, Jazz's original design was used.}}
*Jazz and Bumblebee managed to capture two of the Decepticons' Micromaster vehicles. They pulled the two vehicles into an Autobot base to show them to Optimus, only for a group of Micromaster Decepticons to transform them, and use the mini-bases to launch an attack! {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Micromaster micro bases|Micromaster micro bases commercial}}
*When Prime challenged a group of Autobots to give up their transforming powers to become "faster stronger more alive", Jazz was the first to volunteer. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Action Masters|Action Masters commercial}}
*Jazz showed off the [[Hot Rod Patrol]] to Optimus Prime, telling him to check them out. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Hot Rod and Construction Patrol|Hot Rod and Construction Patrol commercial}}
{{note|For both the Action Masters and Hot Rod Patrol commercials, Jazz was voiced by a sound-alike doing a passable Scatman Crothers imitation.}}
*Jazz was seen driving down a ramp in a city and transforming, using his "robot ripping rocket launcher" to launch an attack against Ramjet and Starscream. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 2#Jets and cars|Generation 2 jets and cars commercial}}

He also appeared in later promotional videos online:
*Jazz planned on attending [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
*For the [[Power of the Primes]] subline, Jazz appears driving across Cybertron to find a Prime Master before [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] can. [[Micronus]] links to Jazz's Prime Armor to help him fight the Decepticon.

==Toys==
{{main|Jazz (G1)/toys}}

==Notes==
*Jazz's preliminary name was '''Jazzz'''.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071230210811/http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=41003 Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2007/12/25 (via the Internet Archive)]</ref>
*In recent years, toys sporting the name "Jazz" require an additional prefix to make it easier to defend as a [[trademark]]. The most common prefix is "Autobot", hence making the toys' official name "'''Autobot Jazz'''". Other variants, most of them used for [[Jazz (disambiguation)|different-universe counterparts]] of Jazz, include "Final Battle Jazz", "Battle Jazz", "Stealth Ninja Jazz", "Freeway Jazz" and "Special Ops Jazz". For his ''Alternators'' toy, meanwhile, Hasbro used his traditional Japanese name, "Meister", which is the German word for "master" (used mostly in the "someone who excels in his field" sense). Ironically, [[Bob Budiansky]]'s original version of the character's name had it spelled "Jazz'''z'''", with three "z"s, which might or might not have made it easier to defend as a trademark in recent years.
*Early in development, Bob Budiansky's original profiles for the Transformers characters also included nicknames by which they were known; Jazz went by "'''Coolsville'''". These nicknames were removed from the profiles when they were published as Marvel's ''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' series, but some of them saw publication in ''[[The Transformers Comics Magazine]]''.
*An actor in a Jazz costume was among "live" Transformers one could meet at the 1985 [[The Transformers Universal Studios Tour|Universal Studios Tour]].
*Jazz is in the unusual position of appearing a few times in season three of ''The Transformers'' without having a toy on the shelves at the time (the only other such characters were the iconic Optimus Prime, and a handful of [[Windcharger (G1)|probable]] [[Brawn (G1)|animation]] [[Huffer (G1)|errors]].) He had no spoken lines, however; fans often claim that he was planned to have a larger role in the season which was cut following the death of his voice actor [[Scatman Crothers]], but no real evidence exists to support this notion. Jazz is given speaking lines and more on-screen time, however, in the Japanese-exclusive ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Headmasters]]'', a cartoon far less concerned than ''The Transformers'' about what toys were on the shelves.
*Scatman Crothers (as Jazz) is often credited as having coined the term "ginormous" (a portmanteau of "gigantic" and "enormous") when using it to describe [[Unicron]] in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', a term which was officially added by the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary in 2007;<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/newwords07.htm Merriam-Webster adding the word "ginormous"]</ref> however, the term has actually been around for much longer, being listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as a "British informal" word that has existed since at least the mid-20th century.<ref>[http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ginormous Oxford dictionary entry for "ginormous"]</ref>
[[File:UnicronTrilogy jazz.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Fire, Heart, Wind and Rock n'Roll]]
*Like a lot of other Generation 1 characters, Jazz's character model was subject to a few re-uses in the [[Unicron Trilogy]], first appearing as a hapless victim of Unicron who had been absorbed into the chaos-bringer's body in the ''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]'' episode, "[[Portent]]". Later, in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' episode, "[[Balance]]", Jazz turned up in a less-generic capacity, as one of the [[ancient]]s who began the [[space bridge]] program—although he seemed a little like the odd 'bot out in the group, given that the others were Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime. Curiously, neither appearance adheres strictly to his original character model—"Portent" gives him individual eyes, rather than a visor, and "Balance" outfits him with [[Show-accuracy|toy-accurate]] shoulder-doors.
*Jazz's original form is the basis for the non-toy character [[Kawasaki Prime]].
*Jazz's original Japanese name also works as a subtle play on words, as is common in Japan; "Meister" is a word describing a highly skilled person, and it also sounds similar to "Maestro"; a term often used to describe conductors of music.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Meister''' (マイスター ''Maisutā''), '''Jazz''' (ジャズ ''Jazu'')
*''English:'' '''Marshall''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''French:'' '''Saxo''' (Canada)
*''Hebrew:'' '''Jazz''' (ג'אז, "Jazz")
*''Italian:'' '''Tigre''' ("Tiger"), '''Folgore''' (Set Commandos four-pack), '''Bionic''' (Action Master)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Juéshì''' (爵士, "Jazz" or "{{w|Order of the British Empire|Sir}}")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Lero-Lero''' (Brazil comics)
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Dzhaz''' (Джаз, "Jazz")

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Bumblebee (G1)

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:''Bumblebee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:BumblebeeRIC.jpg|upright=1.55|thumb|Ahoy-hoy!]]
'''Bumblebee''' is one of the smallest and physically weakest Autobots. While his stature allows him to do his job better than most Autobots could manage, he is self-conscious about his size. Maybe this is why he makes fast friends among the humans. He looks up (so to speak) to the other Autobots, especially [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], but what he doesn't realize is that ''they'' look up to ''him''. He may be small, but he's brave, and he's one of the most well-liked Autobots around. Bumblebee already has the respect he craves.

As '''Goldbug''' (or '''Goldfire''')—his [[Renaming|rebuilt]] and "matured" form—Bumblebee retains most of his earlier strengths and weaknesses, but without his crippling need for approval. (This is true of some "matured" versions of Bumblebee without new names or bodies, as well, but is quite markedly associated with the change to Goldbug).

His nicknames are '''Bee''' and '''Beeper'''.<ref>According to [[Jim Sorenson]], Bumblebee had Bee and Beeper listed as his nicknames in [[Bob Budiansky]]'s personal Transformers comic bible. Nicknames for other characters could be found in early ''[[The Transformers Universe|Universe]]''-style profiles published in [[The Transformers Comics Magazine]]. In the Marvel Comics, Blackrock referred to him as Bum.</ref>

{{quote|Some of my best friends are humans.|Bumblebee, on his kid-friendly nature|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:Bumblebeeplight.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|This iteration's not too fond of freelance peacekeeping agents.]]
{{Main|Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}
Bumblebee was one of the several [[Autobot]]s who were carving a path through space for their planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when the [[Decepticon]]s attacked their spacecraft, the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], forcing them to crash-land on [[Earth]] 4 million years ago. When Bumblebee and the others were awoken in 1984, Bumblebee quickly befriended the [[human]] teenager [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]].

A few years later, Bumblebee was destroyed either by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] or [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]] and rebuilt into a more formidable form, Goldbug. In this form he joined [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and the [[Throttlebot]]s and exiled the Autobots while they were under the rule of [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]. After being destroyed by [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] and the [[Underbase]], Goldbug was rebuilt by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] into a [[Pretender]] form and was restored as Bumblebee. He participated in the [[Matrix Quest]] and survived their race's united battle against the Chaos Bringer, [[Unicron]].
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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:PlagueOfInsecticons Bumblebee and Spike hide.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|I wonder if he wanted a job as a mechanic?]]
{{main|Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}

Bumblebee was one of the several [[Autobot]]s who were searching for energy when the [[Decepticon]]s attacked their [[Ark (G1)|spacecraft]], forcing them to crash-land on [[Earth]] 4 million years ago. When Bumblebee and the others were awoken in 1984, Bumblebee quickly befriended the [[human]] teenager [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]].

Bumblebee and Spike would remain friends up through Spike's adulthood, and were stationed on one of Cybertron's moons in 2005 after the Decepticons conquered Cybertron. Bumblebee survived [[Unicron]]'s attack on Cybertron, and remained in action during the leadership of [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]].

When Bumblebee was damaged badly during the [[Hate Plague]] outbreak in 2006, he had to be rebuilt into a new form, Goldbug. Goldbug would live to see the next Cybertronian Golden Age.
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===Kid Stuff Talking Story Books===
Bumblebee spied on Megatron and Soundwave in [[Mato Grosso (state)|Mato Grosso]], [[Brazil]]. He overheard the two Decepticons talking about their latest scheme; they were planning to use an enormous diamond-lens attached to a satellite to melt the [[Rocky Mountains|Rockies]] and use the oil that would gush forth to destroy the Autobots and conquer the galaxy. With this information, he reported back to Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Satellite of Doom}}

Bumblebee was sent out to stop the Decepticons’ deforestation operation in Mato Grosso. When Skyfire managed to pinpoint Megatron's location, Bumblebee accompanied him and Optimus in forcing the Decepticons into retreating once again. {{storylink|Storms of Destruction}}

Bumblebee was sent out on a patrol mission in the southwest pacific. During the mission, he was captured by the Insecticons, and made into a mindless slave. He was presumably rescued after Optimus, Prowl and the Dinobots defeated the Insecticons controlling the island of [[Buru]]. {{storylink|Slaves of the Insecticons}}
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===Sticker Adventures books===
While continuing their ongoing repairs on the Autobots’ ship, Bumblebee commented how odd it was that the Decepticons had not attack for an extended period of time. Taking advantage of the situation, Optimus left on a trip. After his leader had left, Bumblebee and Gears discovered to their horror that the Autobots’ entire fuel supply had been stolen.Thankfully, Optimus returned just in time with a new shipment of fuel.Re-energized, the Autobots forced the Decepticons to flee once again. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons}}

After Optimus had been knocked unconscious during a Decepticon attack, Bumblebee stood by his bedise in the Autobots’ medi-bay. He was relieved to see his commander reawaken after the Autobots repaired him. {{storylink|Return to Cybertron}}
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===Deadly Paradise===
[[File:Novasuspensionbridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right]]
Sideswipe was convicted of destroying the [[Nova Suspension Bridge]] and deactivated, despite his pleas of innoncence, in order to ease the strain on human/Autobot relations. Prowl became suspicious of the Decepticons being somehow involved, and sent Bumblebee to investigate the crime scene. There, Bumblebee found a suspicious piece of jagged metal and return to base with it. After being scanned, the piece of metal was found to be made out of a very rare ore, only found on one island on the planet. Bumblebee accompanied Prowl, Windcharger, Brawn, Hound and Ratchet and headed to [[Carob Island]]. Upon landfall, Prowl discovered a cave from where suspicious sounds were coming from. Leaving Bumblebee and Hound behind to guard the entrance, Prowl, Windcharger, Brawn and Ratchet went inside. While they were standing guard, Bumblebee and Hound were somehow captured and deactivated by Madame [[Cee]] and her army of pig-robots. They were eventually reactivated inside Madame Cee's workshop, where they learned that the Decepticons were forcing her to help build Autobot duplicates. After learning of the location of Megatron's temporary base on the island, Bumblebee and the rest of the group entered it, finding themselves wandering in a vast, underground labyrinth. They finally came upon an open area, only to be captured in force cages by the Decepticons. Prowl managed to free the rest of the group, and Bumblebee helped them defeat Starscream and Skywarp while Prowl dealt with Megatron. The Autobots managed to escape Megatron's megamaze when it turned out that Ratchet's lubricant container had earlier been damaged, and left them a trail to find their way out of the maze. The Autobots returned to their headquarters where they were able to clear Sideswipes name, and presumably reactivated him. {{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}
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===Marvel storybooks continuity===
[[File:Autobothuddle-ASW.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.0|left]]
Bumblebee was one of the thirty-five active Autobots on Earth. When Megatron put into motion his latest plot to take over the planet, Bumblebee joined in on the battles that ensued. Once the Autobots had emerged victorious, he drove back to Autobot base alongside Optimus and the other Autobots. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

Bumblebee was present when [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] conveyed a message to Optimus from Megatron. The Autobots learned that Megatron had taken [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] captive, and was demanding the Autobots to surrender. Though the Autobots sent out a rescue party, it failed to liberate their comrade. Bumblebee and the other Autobots became frightened as the situation appeared hopeless, but thanks to an inspirational speech courtesy of [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], they regained their courage. Bumblebee then helped the Autobots build a statue of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] to act as a [[w:Trojan Horse|Trojan Horse]] of sorts. The statue was wheeled up before the Decepticons' base, and the Autobots burst forth from it at the exact right moment to take the Decepticons by surprise. The Autobots emerged victorious from the battle that ensued. {{storylink|The Autobots' Secret Weapon}}
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===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:SearchForTreasure Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|I've heard of toy-accuracy, but this is overdoing it a bit.]]
Bumblebee overheard the Decepticons plotting to raid sunken ships and warned the Autobots. The Autobots headed out in a ship built by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], and Bumblebee was sent on an underwater scouting mission. Unfortunately he ran into [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], who took him prisoner. The Autobots prevailed anyway. {{storylink|Search for Treasure Under the Sea}} On another occasion, Bumblebee was the only Autobot to escape being captured and put in a [[special Autobot prison]]. With [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]]'s help, he created a diversion for the Decepticons in the form of a [[giant fake Autobot]] so he could rescue the others. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue!}}

[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]] sent Bumblebee and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] out scouting, and they spotted [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] mistaking a factory for an Autobot production plant. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}} After rescuing Sparkplug and [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] from the Decepticons, Bumblebee and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] were sent scouting and spotted the Decepticons attacking [[Hoover Dam]]. The pair went and alerted the other Autobots, and the dam was eventually saved. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}} When the Decepticons started draining gasoline using their [[molecular transfer device]], Bumblebee was one of the Autobots who broke into the Decepticon stronghold. He turned the weapon on the Decepticons, disabling them. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

Bumblebee was left guarding the base one day when he had to respond to a call from a rescue mission soon to arrive on Earth, leaving the base unguarded. He discovered too late that it was a diversion so the Decepticons could conquer the Ark and had to get the other Autobots to help him retake the base. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}} Bumblebee and the other Autobots were on vacation in the forest when they stumbled on the Decepticons wrecking the place. After a short battle, including Bumblebee causing [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to plunge off a cliff, the Decepticons retreated and the Autobots started cleaning up the forest. {{storylink|Forest Rescue Mission}}

Upset at being dismissed by the other Autobots, Bumblebee drove into the nearby mountains. There, he spotted some incoming Decepticons who were using jet engine silencers, and rushed back to warn the others. Though [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] ignored his worries, Optimus Prime paid attention and the Decepticon attack was routed. {{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}} {{storylink|The Invasion of the Decepticon Camp}}}}

Some Autobots, including Bumblebee and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]], were out driving when they stopped for a break and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] told a story about a lost shipment of [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Hot Rod's Escape}}}}

===Big Looker storybooks===
[[File:Battle For Cybertron SCALE.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|I'm definitely the right size for humans, why do you ask?]]
When [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] called for volunteers to help save their endangered world of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Bumblebee was the first to speak up. Their ship was attacked by [[Decepticon]]s and crashed on [[Earth]], where the [[Transformer]]s lay dormant for four million years. When they were finally repaired by the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], Bumblebee ventured outside and ran into [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and persuaded them to help repair the rest of the [[Autobot]]s. When the Autobots subsequently had to go into battle, the two humans were left in Bumblebee's care. The trio were able to warn the other Autobots when the Decepticons tried to flank them. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

[[File:GreatCarRally Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|By Primus, I can see all my merchandise!]]
When the Autobots entered the [[Big Car Rally]], Bumblebee and Optimus waited at the finish line. Bumblebee spotted the fact that [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] was interfering with [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], enabling the Autobot leader to lend a hand. {{storylink|The Great Car Rally}} Bumblebee was one of the Autobots who responded when the Decepticons tried to hi-jack a truck, and drove the confused drivers back to the city. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}

Bumblebee saw some Decepticons driving through a mountain pass, but waited until the next day when he, Optimus and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] were sitting under a tree to mention it. When [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] was captured by the Decepticons, Bumnblebee was among the Autobots who attacked the Decepticon base. Afterwards he joked that the Decepticons must have worse headaches than Grapple. {{storylink|Insecticon Attack!}} Bumblebee and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] took part in building work on [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] stumbled on a Decepticon plan, Bumblebee and the other Autobots entered a car show and turned the tables on their foe. {{storylink|Car Show Blow Up}}

===Ladybird Books continuity===
[[File:AutobotsFightBack Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|[[Thrust (Armada)|How would he like to called flathead?]]]]
Assigned a scouting mission by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]], Bumblebee sneaked into the Decepticon mountain stronghold and spied on them discussing plans to test their ion drive. Though he was spotted, he eluded [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] by blinding the cat in his headlights and returned to base to report to Prime. Bumblebee's subsequent scouting mission revealed that the Decepticons had already relocated to a testing site. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}

After a Decepticon attack on [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], Bumblebee and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] tailed [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] as he carried away his wounded comrades. While spying on the Decepticons, Bumblebee had to evade [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] by hiding in his Volkswagen form. While hiding, he was so deep in thought that he was almost picked up by a magnet, but Spike managed to save him and he reported back to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}

===Listen 'n Fun audiobooks continuity===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] ordered Bumblebee and [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] to plant false information indicating that the Autobots had located a new source of energy in order to mislead the Decepticons. Unfortunately the Autobots were still left with the problem that they actually needed to locate a new source of energy. {{storylink|Sun Raid (Listen 'n Fun)}}

===The Battle for Planet Earth===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
When the Autobots discovered that the Decepticons were kidnapping humans, Bumblebee volunteered to be the one to scout the enemy base. After sneaking inside thanks to the carelessness of [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], he spotted the missing humans being used for slave labor, and also managed to steal the [[global crystal]] from the Decepticons' computer. He managed to escape the Decepticon base and hid at the bottom of a lake while the Decepticons searched fruitlessly. Bumblebee's report and the stolen global crystal allowed [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to force the Decepticons to free their prisoners. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}}

Bumblebee, along with [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] maintained a 24-hour watch on the Decepticon base in shifts. {{storylink|Menace at the Dam}} He didn't like the very idea of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defecting to the Autobots. Bumblebee spied on the Decepticon base until he saw Megatron's forces leaving on the wild goose chase which Optimus and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] had tricked Starscream into sending them on. The Autobots were then able to destroy the Decepticon base. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
[[File:DinobotsStrikeBackBumbleandSkidsinSub.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"What's the plan?"
"Track him. Find him. Kill him."]]
In a path where Mirage used a hologram of Optimus Prime to lure the four [[cerebro-shell]]-controlled [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] over the edge of [[Bandit's Bluff]] and into the ocean, Bumblebee was one of the Autobots crewing [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]]'s that helped haul the unconscious quartet aboard for safe transport back to the Ark.

In an alternate path, Optimus Prime assigned [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and Bumblebee to investigate suspicious activity in [[Dolphin's Bay]] using [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s [[star mini-submarine|new mini-sub]]. [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], considering himself the best water-fighter, also wanted in on the mission, but Optimus could tell that Bumblebee and Skids didn't want him along.

If Optimus sent the pair without Sludge, they faced the option of detouring down a suspicious trail through the woods. If they did, a trap landed them in a cell in a supermodern lab, where [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] and [[Gravedigger]] disassembled them and used their remains as the first components of the [[Autobot Memorial Power Plant]].

If they continued to Dolphin's Bay and the sub, they traced electromagnetic waves back to some [[black coral]]. Bumblebee exited the hatch to break a piece off, triggering an explosion which trapped him in a canyon beneath broken columns of crimson coral. Without underwater gear, Skids's only options were to use the computer to translate some nearby [[dolphin]]s' language and ask them for help, or go back to the channel where he could radio Seaspray. If he went back for help, Seaspray used his laser to free Bumblebee, but then [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] blew all three of them up with a cluster bomb. If Skids tried translating the dolphins' language, he succeeded in five minutes, talking the three largest dolphins into moving the broken coral. Bumblebee brought the black coral and his report back to Optimus Prime, ensuring an Autobot victory.

If Prime ''did'' include Sludge on Bumblebee and Skids's mission, Bumblebee used an underwater cave to infiltrate [[Mount Lomas]], where he heard [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] making a speech about Operation Black Coral vanquishing the Autobots in less than a day. He radioed the info to Skids, but [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] intercepted the transmission. Bumblebee dove back into the water, only to be paralyzed by the sonic attack of [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. From that point, there are four possible endings, all of which include an Autobot victory and Bumblebee's rescue. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}

====Battle Drive====
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Bumblebee was on a scouting mission, looking for signs of Decepticon activity. Just before Bumblebee decided to head back to base, several vehicles sped past him, being chased by the Decepticon planes Blitzwing and Starscream. As the two flying Decepticons wreaked havoc on the farmland, Bumblebee had to decide whether he would fight them or hide.
If Bumblebee decided to take on the Decepticons by himself, he managed to sucker-punch Blitzwing, causing him to fall out of the sky and crash. Bumblebee then managed to overpower Starscream, but not before Starscream called for reinforcements. With Bombshell arriving on-scene to backup Starscream, Bumblebee was forced to flee. If Bumblebee decided to make a dash through a nearby cornfield, he was stunned by Starscream's null rays and is left to the Decepticon's mercy. If he decided to double back to a nearby town and hide in a used-car parking lot instead, he managed to evade the Decepticons' fire long enough to successfully conceal himself. With Bumblebee hiding in plain sight, he overheard Starscream talking to Megatron over the radio; the Decepticons planned to destroy the humans' food supply by destroying their farmlands. As soon as the coast was clear, Bumblebee decided to return to Autobot headquarters, only to run into Prowl, Hound and Swoop. The Autobots debated whether it would be smarter to return to Autobot headquarters and inform Optimus of the situation, or to take on the Decepticons immediately before they caused more damage.

If they decided to report back to Optimus, they became stranded in the middle of nowhere due to a sudden storm, unable to deliver their message. Because of this, humans were doomed to either slavery or starvation at the Decepticons' hands.

If the small troop of Autobots instead decided to take on the Decepticons on their own, they are spied upon by Soundwave, who warns Megatron of their approach. Before they encountered any Decepticons, however, Bumblebee and company ran into Buster Witwicky. Buster informed them that the Decepticons were after his father, who had discovered of a fatal flaw in Decepticon circuitry. With this new information presented to them, Bumblebee and the Autobots had to make yet another decision; stick to their original plan, or rescue Sparkplug immediately.

If Bumblebee decided that the Decepticons destroying farmland was a more important matter to attend to, they are ambushed by the Decepticons almost immediately, and are subsequently destroyed.

If Bumblebee and company went after Sparkplug instead, they soon found him hiding in the hills, trapped in a cave surrounded by Decepticons. In one sequence of events, Bumblebee's team manages to rescue Sparkplug mainly due to Swoop's heroic actions. In another version of the events that followed, Swoop led as many Decepticons as he could away from the cave, leaving Bumblebee, Prowl and Hound to defend the humans in the cave from the remaining evil robots.

If the remaining team decided to stick together, they had to fend off over a dozen Decepticons, including Megatron, on their own. The ensuing battle lasted for two days before Sparkplug noticed a light coming from the rear of the cave. If the Autobots decided to attempt to escape the cave by driving towards this light however, they doomed themselves by tumbling down a pit concealed by the cave's darkness. If Bumblebee and company held out a little longer instead, their reinforcements finally arrived, and drove away the Decepticons. Unfortunately, Sparkplug's blueprints were destroyed in battle, leading to Bumblebee to bemoan that the whole ordeal they suffered through was for nothing. If Bumblebee had earlier decided to send out Prowl with Sparkplug to reach the rest of the Autobots, the whole adventure turned out to be nothing but a dream...

If Bumblebee's initially had decided to pretend to be a damaged car on the side of the road instead of fighting Blitzwing and Starscream, the two Decepticons transform to overlook their handiwork, and discuss between each-other their plan to starve the humans by burning their farmland, within earshot of Bumblebee. With this newly acquired knowledge, Bumblebee returned to Autobot headquarters and reported back to Optimus. Although Optimus initially wished to leave Bumblebee behind as he redeployed Autobots to stop the Decepticons, Bumblebee's insistence on coming along convinced the Autobot leader to allow Bumblebee to join them. Unfortunately, Blitzwing and Starscream's discussion turned out to be a ruse; the Decepticons' true ploy was to goad the Autobots into open farmland, where they would be easy targets for the airborne Decepticons. Any attempt [[you]] made in helping the Autobots only yielded their doom, and so Bumblebee and the Autobots had to take on the Decepticons by themselves if they were to have a chance at success. Left to their own devices, the Autobots soon found themselves in a vulnerable position as the Decepticon jets approached them. If Optimus decided to keep his forces together, Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots made a break for a nearby bridge, only for them to be blasted before they reached it. If however, Optimus decided to split his forces, Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots managed to live to fight another day. {{storylink|Battle Drive}}
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====Attack of the Insecticons====
Bumblebee was present while [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] was testing a new device of Sparkplug's invention, the Sun-Pak. When the Decepticons subsequently ambushed the Autubots' underground testing facility to steal the Sun-Pak, Bumble found a tunnel and possible escape route for the Autobots to use. He informed Optimus Prime of this passage, and awaited his leader's decision on whether to use the escape route, or continue to fight the Decepticons, despite the Autobots' waning power levels.

If the Optimus decides to not only fight the Decepticons, but have all the Autobots concentrate their fire upon Starscream, refusing the Decepticon's surrender even once the odds have turned against the leader of the Decepticons' raiding party, the Decepticons manage to kidnap Sparkplug. Bumblebee, alongside Blaster and Buster, are sent on a rescue mission while the rest of the Autobots return to base to recharge. Tracking Starscream's location to a museum in the suburbs, Bumblebee is forced to wait outside, in the museum's parking lot, while Buster and a disguised Blaster investigate. If Blaster and Buster later return to Bumblebee for assistance, informing the little yellow Autobot that Starscream and Bombshell are alone in the museum with their captive, and intend to use a Cerebro-Shell to mind-control Sparkplug, Bumblebee formulates a plan. Using Bumblebee's speed and Blaster's Electro-Scramblers, the Autobots spoil Bombshell's aim and have him hit Starscream with his Cerebro-Shell in-lieu of Sparkplug. The easily manipulated Seeker is then tricked by the Autobots to release Sparkplug and forestall Bombshell, as Bumblebee, Blaster, Buster and Sparkplug make their way to Autobot base, laughing all the way at the Decepticons' misfortune.

If Optimus decides to have his Autobots follow Bumblebee into the tunnel the little yellow Autobot discovered at any point during their initial encounter with the Decepticon forces, Bumblebee encounters a fork in the tunnel that he admits was not there when he first discovered the tunnel. Not knowing which leads to the surface, the Autobots are once again forced to make a choice. And though one tunnel does indeed lead to the surface, the other leads to the Insecticons' nest!

In the event that the Autobots choose the tunnel leading to the surface, the Autobots lose possession of the Sun-Pak to the Insecticons nonetheless. If Optimus decides to have the Autobots return to base to refuel in light of these events, Bumblebee is the one to discover the booby-trapped Sun-Pak in Decepticon territory once the Autobots have ventured there in an attempt to diplomatically retrieve the device from the Decepticons. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

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====Desert Flight====
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Bumblebee was part of a group of the Autobots’ best scouts, led by Optimus on a fuel-finding mission. When the convoy heard a large explosion in the distance, Optimus sent Cosmos to investigate the noise.

If Cosmos radioed his findings to Optimus immediately, Optimus's convoy moved in to investigate a nearby Decepticon base. En route, the Autobots passed near a human town, but began floating in mid-air before being able to reach it. Evidently, the phenomenon was caused by a Decepticon anti-gravity weapon.

If Optimus ordered his troops to come to the humans’ aid, they found themselves taking part in a struggle in futility, as the entire town was near-weightless, meaning they couldn't put the humans anywhere where they wouldn't float away once more. Then, the Autobots heard Decepticons approaching. Helpless in their current position, the Autobots were quickly eradicated by the Decepticons.

If Optimus ordered his troops to attack the Decepticon base, they soon reached an area free of the anti-gravity beam's influence, though not before Bumblebee took the time to goof off a bit in the gravity-deprived environment. They were then attacked by a small fleet of Decepticons. The Decepticons were quickly forced to break off their attack and retreated. But with the battle over, the Autobots noticed a small human boy at their feet. The Autobots then headed for the Decepticon base, with their stowaway. Megatron delivered an ultimatum; if the Autobots did not surrender Optimus Prime to the Decepticons immediately, he would use his gravity beam to have the nearby humans float off into space.

If the Autobots decided to continue with their initial plan to simply attack the Decepticon base, their advance was halted by a force field. Megatron then fired his beam in all directions, causing a ripple effect that sent everything not fastened down to the Earth's surface to float helplessly out into space.

Alternatively, the Autobots could concoct a plan where Optimus would pretend to allow himself to be taken prisoner, per Buddy's suggestion. In actuality, Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots were hidden away inside Optimus's trailer. The Autobots then led a surprise attack on their unsuspecting foes.

In the event that Buddy tampered with the gravity gun in the ensuing battle, the Autobots would emerge victorious.

In the event that Buddy instead entered a space-time anomaly created throughout the course of the battle, the Autobots would lose their fight against the Decepticons, and Bumblebee wound up either injured or dead.

If Optimus destroyed the duplicate Cosmos, the real one would inform the Autobots of the Decepticons’ schemes, and the convoy would roll out to take on their adversaries. They were soon met by a squad of flying Decepticons, but were at a strict disadvantage against their adversaries as their [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]s possessed no weapons. The Autobots nonetheless managed to fight their way to the Decepticons’ base, one way or another, and defeated the Decepticons by using their own gravity weapon against them. {{storylink|Desert Flight}}

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====Decepticon Poison====
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Bumblebee was amongst the Autobots about to be topped up with their latest batch of fuel when Red Alert burst into Autobot headquarters, warning everyone about Ramjet being spotted nearby. Red Alert's warning came in just in time, as the Autobots’ fuel had been poisoned, and Bumblebee would have been left unable to transform had he ingested any of it.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Bumblebee was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ "carcasses." Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Bumblebee and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In yet another possible scenario, Optimus opted to use the tainted fuel as a weapon against an encroaching Decepticon squadron. Bumblebee was impressed by Grapple powerful crane, as the later lifted the vat of liquid and carried it outside Autobot headquarters. The plan was carried out successfully, and the Autobots celebrated another victory over the Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off on their mission. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Mirage returned with the beaker and news; he had heard Ramjet and Starscream talking about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves. Bumblebee suggested that the Autobots return to base and cure the allies in order to combat the Decepticons’ newest ploy.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Bumblebee was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Happening upon the Decepticons hauling barrels of poison out of their base, the Autobots devised a couple of possible plans to take them out.

One such plan had Windcharger, Prowl, Jazz and Warpath work together to ignite the poison over the Decepticons, forcing them to retreat back within their base before destroying the lab. Bumblebee was giddy watching his fellow Autobots perform their tasks. The Autobots then drove back to base victoriously.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Bumblebee stuffing a rock in Starscream's mouth in order to keep him quiet. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of going into the Decepticons’ poison lab together, the Autobots sent Bumblebee to go in alone, the little Autobot snuck by Laserbeak, sleeping at his post, before finding the antidote to the poison coursing through the Autobots’ fuel lines. Though he attempted to escape the laboratory without incident, Laserbeak awoke before he could leave, and the cruel Decepticon ordered Bumblebee to surrender.

If Bumblebee made a break for it, he narrowly escaped the Decepticons’ lab and rejoined Optimus and the others. Together, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission.

If Bumblebee heeded Laserbeak's commands, the cruel Decepticon retrieved the antidote before beginning his torture of the little Autobot, in order to make him talk. Bumblebee refused to break, thinking only of his hero, Optimus Prime, as Laserbeak presumably did unspeakable things to the little Autobot. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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While out on patrol, Bumblebee spotted Astrotrain hovering about in a valley near Autobot headquarters. Assuming it was nothing more than Astrotrain acting as a transport for his fellow Decepticons, he paid the sighting no heed.

The next day, Bumblebee was watching a game of baseball on television when the broadcast was highjacked by the Decepticons. He informed the Autobots’ commander, Ultra Magnus of this development immediately. Though the Autobots learned that in addition to the crisis in Earth orbit, the Decepticons had also attacked a nearby research base, Bumblebee still considered the attack on Earth's satellites to be a more urgent matter.

If Ultra Magnus decided to prioritize the Decepticons satellite hijacking plot, Bumblebee caught sight of Hot Rod in a nearby corner, sulking over not being picked for the mission. As Bumblebee had not been picked for the mission either, he informed Hot Rod on what he had seen the previous night, and suggested the two of them go on their own clandestine mission to investigate Astrotrain's activities. Hot Rod gladly obliged. They brought along a supply of "laser-ignited explosives" and went on their way. Soon happening upon the Decepticons’ control centre, the pair set out to sabotage the Decepticons’ operation. While Bumblebee wanted to sabotage the Decepticons’ communication centre on Earth, Hot Rod was in favour of sneaking aboard Astrotrain before he launched, and sabotage the Decepticons out in space.

If Hot Rod convinced Bumblebee to go along with his plan, the pair snuck aboard Astrotrain by concealing themselves within a trailer filled with bombs. As Astrotrain launched, Hot Rod drew Bumblebee's attention to a room filled with Decepticon space gear. The two Autobots donned the suits in order to disguise themselves. The disguises proved effective as Thrust and Starscream walked past the pair, none the wiser. Bumblebee was nonetheless unwilling to push their luck too much, and suggested that they find a hiding spot and use the weapons they brought along as soon as possible. Just then, Hot Rod spotted the Autobots’ shuttle heading into a Decepticon trap through one of Astrotrain's windows.

If Hot Rod decided to try and commandeer Astrotrain's military control station, Bumblebee nervously followed him, advising the young Autobot to act like he knows what he's doing in order to fool the guards. The pair bypassed the guards easily, but were not able to fool Scourge, who happened upon them soon after. Bumblebee alerted Hot Rod of Scourge's approach, and urged him to fire Astrotrain's weapons as soon as possible. Hot Rod succeeded in firing Astrotrain's weapons at Cyclonus, warning the Autobot shuttle of the Decepticons, but both he and Bumblebee were quickly overpowered by Scourge. They were then flung out into the blackness of space by Scourge, stranded in zero-gravity, waiting for a rescue that might never come.

If instead Hot Rod and Bumblebee decided to find themselves a hiding spot, the pair snuck into a room labelled "Dirty Tricks Department" in order to dodge the incoming Laserbeak. After Hot Rod successfully shot down Cyclonus from their hiding spot, Hot Rod and Bumblebee hid out for the rest of the mission inside the Dirty Tricks department room, finding a way to escape later when it docked.

If instead of boarding Astrotrain, Hot Rod and Bumblebee decided to infiltrate the Decepticons’ command centre on Earth, the two used Astrotrain's take-off as cover for sneaking into the facility. The pair soon found themselves overhearing Galvatron's latest pirate broadcast. As the nearby Decepticons troops were busy bowing the their leader's image, Bumblebee and Hot Rod managed to find the Decepticons’ main computer room. Now in a position to thoroughly sabotage the Decepticons’ operation, Bumblebee strained to remember a code he had learned in Advanced Espionage which would, when input, scramble the Decepticons’ computer program. Hot Rod was more in favour of pressing a button labelled "TOP SECURITY/DESTRUCT SYSTEM!"

If Bumblebee insisted on them using his code, the Decepticons’ plan fell into disarray, and Bumblebee and Hot Rod made their way back to the Autobots’ base safely as the command centre blew itself apart behind them.

If Hot Rod went ahead and pressed the button, he and Bumblebee soon discovered that it was a Decepticon trap, as sirens began blaring across the Decepticon base and iron bars prevented them from escaping. Galvatron's image appeared on a nearby monitor, explaining that both Hot Rod and Bumblebee would be used as hostages in order to secure a Decepticon victory.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus decided to prioritize the theft of the coded message, Bumblebee was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. Bumblebee took off towards the Autobots’ desert research centre along with a number of other Autobots. Once there, they learned from Springer that the Cybertite sphere containing the formula was discovered by humans during the 16th century. If the Decepticons had decoded Springer's message, they would be searching off the coast of [[California]], where the ship containing the sphere had sunk. If they hadn't decoded the message, the Decepticons would still be digging in the nearby crater.

If Ultra Magnus decided to assume that the Decepticons had already decrypted the message, he ordered his forces to split up to more efficiently address the situation. Bumblebee was part of the main group of Autobots led to the coast by Ultra Magnus. Ultra Magnus's troops were informed by Powerglide (who had flown ahead of the land-bound group) that he had discovered the location of the sunken ship containing the cybertite sphere. Simultaneously, Blurr caught up with the group to inform them that the Decepticons were quickly approaching. The Autobots then needed to decide whether they would raise the ship themselves, or try and ambush the Decepticons after they had done so.

In one of the possible plans concocted by Ultra Magnus, Bumblebee was to work with Grapple and Hot Rod to retrieve the sphere. Bumblebee rode down the boom at the end of Grapple's crane, and fastened it to the sunken ship. He then signalled Grapple to un-submerge the ship, only to find himself and the ship remain immobile. Grapple's crane had suffered a mechanical breakdown, and though the Autobots managed to fix it, valuable time was lost. The Autobots were unable to retrieve the sphere before the Decepticons arrived, and Bumblebee and his friends found themselves being pummelled by superior Decepticon fire raining down upon them. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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====Project Brain Drain====
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In one possible scenario, Bumblebee ran into Sparkplug on the way to Metroplex city. Sparkplug informed Bumblebee that he had learned of a Decepticon plot to use a [[Brain Drain device]] to rob a crowd of concertgoers of their intelligence, and the two of them rushed to inform Ultra Magnus of this development.

If Ultra Magnus decided to head for the rock concert and deal with the Decepticons there, Bumblebee brought Sparkplug along to the concert location. Once there, he was ordered to blend in with the various cars parked around the concert, and lie in wait for the Decepticons to show themselves.

Once the Decepticons appeared, Ultra Magnus ordered his troops to transform in unison and open fire on their enemies. But Galvatron had planned to light afire the parking lot in which the Autobots were standing in order to trap the humans. Being drenched from above by Decepticon jets dumping gasoline upon them, Ultra Magnus needed to decide whether the Autobots needed to retreat, or to keep on fighting and hope that they could defeat the Decepticons before the fire consumed them.

If Ultra Magnus decided on a retreat, Bumblebee rushed out of the blazing inferno and moved in closer to the humans in order to protect them. As the other Autobots battled the Decepticon jets swooping down towards them, Bumblebee noticed Galvatron beyond the wall of flame preparing to activate the Brain Drain device. Despite the fire between them, Bumblebee transformed into vehicle mode and darted towards Galvatron in order to stop him. Knowing that none of the weapons on him would harm Galvatron, Bumblebee devised two possible plans of attack, even as the fire around him began to break him down. He could either ram into Galvatron, hoping to make him drop the Brain Drain device, shattering the delicate instrument, or he could transform at the last moment and throw a flaming car towards the device to destroy it while in Galvatron's grasp.

If Bumblebee decided to crash directly into Galvatron, his initial assault fails, with Galvatron managing to regain his balance before he drops the device. However, having been reduced to a burning heap by the inferno, Bumblebee exploded after his gas tank catches fire, destroying the device in the process. Bumblebee sacrificed himself, but the Decepticons’ plot has been stopped.

If Bumblebee decided to launch a truck at Galvatron instead, the oil tanker he grabbed hold of exploded before Bumblebee had a chance to launch it, reducing the little Autobot to nothing more than a smouldering windshield whipper.

In another possible scenario wherein the Autobots remained in the parking lot to battle the Decepticons at close-quarters, both Bumblebee and Hot Rod saw Soundwave pass the Brain Drain device to Galvatron after the latter had flung Ultra Magnus away.

If Bumblebee attempted to stop Galvatron, the Decepticon leader laughed at Bumblebee's efforts, and effortlessly crushed him underfoot before he had a chance to stop them.

If Hot Rod attempted to stop Galvatron, the Autobots were eventually successfully in destroying the device, and Bumblebee and the other Autobots received a standing ovation as the Decepticons retreated. {{storylink|Project Brain Drain}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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At the death of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], Bumblebee was part of an Autobot unit defending [[Altihex]] from the Decepticons, but it was ultimately declared a lost cause. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] had to pull him aboard the shuttle once they realized there was nothing left to do. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] ordered him, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], and others to the ruins of [[Praxus]], where Grimlock declared that if the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] was unable to lead successfully, they would take control of the war's leadership... and take out the Prime. Bumblebee was among the group that was present for the Matrix transfer ceremony, where Optronix became [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. When a Decepticon assassination squad arrived and Optimus kicked some exhaust port, Bumblebee declared that he was "awesome". However, Prime then ordered the Autobots to prepare an evacuation of Cybertron. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}} When Prime went underground looking for Megatron, Bumblebee was surprised he'd gone alone, but the Autobots suddenly had bigger problems, as [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] attacked [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] with a host of Decepticons. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} During the attack, Bumblebee manned a turret in the [[Decagon]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} Eventually, Prowl ordered the Autobots to take them on individually, and Bumblebee went out carrying a cannon that was as [[Scale|big]] as him. At this time, Optimus also beheld a vision of a possible future, in which Bumblebee helped defend a hydro-electric dam on Earth against the forces of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} Back in reality, Bumblebee survived the destruction of Iacon, and escaped to its outskirts. Prime then met with his troops, and reversed his order of evacuation. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}} During the Dark Ages and the disappearance of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee remained with Prowl's faction of Autobots, huddled in the ruins of Iacon. He was present in the [[Autobase]] when [[The Fallen]] broke in to abduct [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], then being held within one of the Autobots' cells. Though Bumblebee attempted to contain the villain with a forcefield, The Fallen proved to be more than the base's systems could handle. Feedback shot back through its computers struck Bumblebee as The Fallen made his escape with his prize in-hand. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} Though left relatively unharmed, Bumblebee did not head back into the field afterwards, when The Fallen's base of operations was uncovered and a cross-faction army rushed it. Instead, he stayed behind at the Autobase to coordinate the troops. At Jetfire's prompting, Bumblebee erected a forcefield around The Fallen once more, this time trapping him atop of the [[Seal of Primus]]. Primus's essence was then able to reach out and smite The Fallen, putting an end to his scheme. {{storylink|Conflagration}}

Bumblebee would later aid [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] in his struggle to re-unite Cybertron under the Autobot banner. The unification of their race nearly succeeded... only for Megatron to return. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}}

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Bumblebee was one of the Ark crew that crashed on Earth and awoke in 1984. During that time, he met Spike Witwicky, becoming close friends with the human. In 1999, the Autobots and humans allied and managed to capture the Decepticons, taking them in the ''[[Ark II]]'' back to Cybertron, along with [[Magnificent Seven|seven humans]], including [[Sparkplug Witwicky]], Spike's father. However, the ''Ark II'' was sabotaged by rogue elements of the United States military (apparently as part of a plan by Shockwave). {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}} The humans were all killed, but a number of Transformers, including Bumblebee, survived, but in [[stasis lock]]. Bumblebee's body was recovered by [[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] and [[Lazarus|Adam Rook]], but Rook stole Bumblebee and a number of other Transformers, intent on selling them to various terrorists to feed his greed. As part of a demonstration to prospective buyers, Rook had Bumblebee join an assault against the Smitco Oil Refinery alongside half a dozen Transformers. Soon after this exercise in carnage, Megatron wrestled his mind free from Lazarus's control, and brought ruin onto the human's organization. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Once they had been freed from Lazarus's control as well, the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]], to satisfy their sadism, disassembled and played with Bumblebee's various components. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}}

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Optimus Prime's team later rescued Bumblebee and the remaining Autobots. Bumblebee was reassembled while the bulk of the Autobot forces travelled to [[San Francisco]] to stop a large-scale Decepticon assault on the city. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} All Autobots left behind at Lazarus's base were put to work in combating Megatron's latest doomsday weapon, a techno-virus rapidly enveloping the globe. Using devices designed by Wheeljack, Bumblebee and the others began pushing back the virus, at the expense of their own energy supplies. Unfortunately, the [[Canada|Canadian]] military, skittish over the recent Transformer violence, attacked the Autobots as they worked. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} Despite this, Bumblebee tried to save as many of the soldiers as he could before the virus could kill them. The virus was ultimately neutralized, though Wheeljack had to put himself in a deep state of stasis lock to accomplish the task. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''In the following weeks, the Autobots tried their best to re-establish good relations with the people of Earth, but had little luck. After Optimus Prime, Megatron, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] vanished from the streets of Tokyo with roughly 200 human civilians, the public was understandably critical of the Transformers and their war. Bumblebee didn't help any when [[Chris Killah]], a reporter for MNT, interviewed him on the scene while he and Prowl were looking for clues to the disappearance. Bumblebee's knowledge of Earth idioms and slang normally worked to the Autobots' benefit, but he got "stage fright" in front of the TV cameras and referred to the massive property damage and loss of human life as a "bummer". Duuuuude...no. ''

''With both sides effectively leaderless at first, Bumblebee and Prowl did their best to contain the fallout of Megatron and Prime's disappearance. Acting on a tip, they tracked [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] to an airport in [[Mesa Verde]], [[Mexico]], where he was running guns with some human terrorists. The battle was memorable, but brief, thanks largely to the arrival of the renegade Autobot known as Grimlock. Having heard the Starscream had taken over the human city of [[Las Vegas]], Grimlock had commissioned a human black ops army and invited Bumblebee and Prowl to join him in assaulting the Decepticon position. Already frustrated at the [[United Nations]]' orders to stay out of Vegas, for fear of civilian casualties, Bumblebee and Prowl accepted the offer. After fighting their way through [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] and the other [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] on the outskirts of town, the Autobots managed to make it to the center of the Strip to confront Soundwave. Fortunately, the Autobots had long since developed internal jammers to prevent Soundwave from reading their thoughts during a battle, but that didn't make things easy. Fighting their way around the casinos, Bumblebee finally collapsed a massive neon sign on top of Soundwave, temporarily ending the fight. Bumblebee and Prowl's luck turned sour, though, with the arrival of Starscream and the mighty Devastator. The sudden appearance of a spatial gateway depositing Optimus and the other lost Transformers, along with their captors the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]], was just one set of complications on top of another. {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}''

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Sometime later, as they were entrenched against the Decepticons on the Alsakan shore, the Autobots received visitors from Cybertron. Representing a united Cybertronian government of both Autobots and Decepticons, they claimed the Transformers on Earth were a throwback to darker days, and wanted to take them into custody to prevent their "anachronistic" feud from upsetting Cybertron's populace. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], leader of the united Cybertronians, unleashed his triple-changing troops to take in both Optimus and Megatron's followers by force, and though the Decepticons were taken in, the Autobots escaped. {{storylink|New World Order}} The Autobots under Optimus Prime split into two groups, with Bumblebee and several others joining their leader in surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (another member of the United Cybertron force), while Jazz led a small group away from the Ark to continue monitoring activities on Earth. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once they arrived on Cybertron, it became clear that there was a rotten core to the new government, namely Shockwave. Thankfully, there were dissidents in Shockwave's government, and Bumblebee, Optimus, Prowl, and Gears were freed from their holding cell by Sandstorm and Broadside. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} The liberated Autobots were then ferried away to meet with the leaders of Cybertron's underground resistance. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} They then helped overthrow Shockwave's reign, reinstating Autobot rule over Cybertron. {{storylink|War and Peace}}

[[File:Bumblebeebattlemask.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|25 years before someone realized his toy has no face.]]
After Cybertron settled down, Bumblebee commanded the Autobot Shuttle ''[[Orion]]'' and a small crew, traveling back to Earth with supplies for Jazz's team at the Ark. Starscream and the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] were in the midst of an attack on the Ark when the ''Orion'' arrived. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} The little ship managed to damage [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] significantly before the super-powerful zealot [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] shorted out its engines and it crashed. Bumblebee and his crew walked away from their rough landing unharmed however, and Sunstorm flew off in pursuit of Starscream. Bumblebee set about returning his ship to operational status, and a few hours later, the ''Orion'' was once more in working order. Bumblebee was ready to lie back and recharge... only for Starscream to return to the scene, now accompanied by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} The Autobots were forced into an uneasy alliance with Starscream to combat Sunstorm's greater threat. Pooling their knowledge with Jetfire's, the Autobots were able to concoct a plan that had a chance of disabling their powerful foe. But all throughout their preparations, Bumblebee had to put up with his crew's doubts towards his capabilities. Bumblebee retorted that though he was "no Prime," none of them were, and that they'd have to pull through nonetheless. Deciding that he would once and for all prove to the others that he "had what it took," Bumblebee led the assault against Sunstorm when he inevitably returned. His shuttle was downed again by Sunstorm's radiation, but thanks to Jetfire distracting the clone at a pivotal moment, Bumblebee was able to attach an energy-siphon onto the super-clone, forcing him to flee as his power began to drain. But Jetfire warned Bumblebee that so long as Sunstorm was on the loose, he was a potential source of trouble. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}} Bumblebee and the others returned to the ''Orion'', finding all of its remaining crew disabled by Starscream, who had himself fled. While the Autobots were tending to the injured, they heard a distant explosion, signifying that their last ace-in-the-hole, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], had tracked down and engaged Sunstorm. {{storylink|The Omega Effect}}

Unfortunately, Omega Supreme did not emerge victorious from this confrontation. Bumblebee and the others found him unconscious, with the energy-siphon they had attached to Sunstorm nearby, broken and disabled. Omega Supreme rebooted, and began recovering, but Bumblebee still felt guilty about not leading the Autobots towards more favorable results. He accompanied Jetfire in tracking down Sunstorm, and Bumblebee admitted he had begun to feel disillusioned in his role as the two flew off. They then came upon Starscream opening an ancient Cybertronian bunker, and swooped down to stop whatever machinations he was partaking in. Despite Sunstorm's interference, the two Autobots managed to follow Starscream underground. Jetfire managed to subdue Starscream once more, but Bumblebee received a disabling dose of radiation from Sunstorm. Before he briefly slipped into unconsciousness, Bumblebee witnessed Starscream defeat both his clone and Jetfire. {{storylink|Original Sin}}

Opening his optics, Bumblebee found himself staring down Starscream's gun-barrel. Starscream mocked the young Autobot, telling him how utterly clueless he was about the events unfolding around him. In the midst of his rant, Sunstorm re-emerged, the energies within him now erupting more violently than ever. Tired of his "brother's" constant betrayals, Sunstorm denounced Starscream, and instead claimed that ''Bumblebee'' had divine purpose to him. As Sunstorm readied to strike Bumblebee for apparently having usurped his divine mission, an explosion tore through the clone's arm.. from within! Jetfire recovered, and both he and Bumblebee tried to pin down Sunstorm to no avail. Jetfire was forced to grab Sunstorm and push him up into orbit to prevent his inevitable melt-down from causing further harm to the Earth. Starscream, out of begrudging gratitude towards his former friend, returned Bumblebee to the surface. Bumblebee then begged Starscream to take him up so they could both help Jetfire escape as Sunstorm went critical. But Starscream refused, stating that he wasn't looking to help anyone beyond himself. Bumblebee was forced to watch helplessly as Jetfire was blown to oblivion. Thoroughly distraught over what had transpired, Bumblebee deserted the Autobot army. {{storylink|Atonement}} He headed to Spike's house, but Spike, resentful of the death of Sparkplug, lashed out at him. {{storylink|Extermination}} Afterward, Spike finally realized he was being harsh on his old friend, and the two went for a night on the town, where they stopped a mugging. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}

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Some time in the future, he was augmented with the Pretender technology. Jazz wrote in Bumblebee's profile that even though Bumblebee had become stronger, the latter would eventually realise that there are always someone tougher out there, and that the important thing is that Bumblebee always had heart regardless of his physical strength. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye#Issue #7|Pretender Bumblebee's ''More Than Meets The Eye'' profile}}

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Bumblebee was upgraded once again, becoming the Throttlebot Goldbug. While still fun-loving and supportive, he finally matured and stopped trying to prove his worth to others. His hero worship of the other Autobots also turned into serious respect for them. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye#Issue #2|Goldbug's ''More Than Meets The Eye'' profile}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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Bumblebee was aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed on Earth millions of years in the past, leaving its passengers deactivated. Along with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], he was sealed off from the rest of the crew in the crash, and therefore avoided capture when [[Cobra]] broke into the ship and stole the dormant Transformers therein. Bumblebee and Wheeljack were eventually revived by [[Teletraan I|Teletran-One]], only to find their friends missing. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}}

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Attempting to find the missing Transformers, Bumblebee disguised himself as a Volkswagen Beetle, an altmode that really got on his nerves after months of fruitless searching. Eventually, Wheeljack came up with some leads on Cobra's next target, while Bumblebee just grumbled that Wheeljack got all the good [[Hologram|holographic]] drivers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} When Cobra attacked the [[SPS Research Facility]], the Autobots were waiting for them, and Bumblebee punched out a brainwashed [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] before helping [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'s [[Laser Squad]] get out of some rubble. Unfortunately, the humans didn't quite trust the giant robots, and [[Cover Girl]] fired a missile at 'Bee, who ''grabbed the projectile in mid-air'' and threw it at Rumble instead. He and Wheeljack eventually convinced G.I. Joe they were good guys, and the humans provided them with the information needed to undo Cobra's reprogramming of the other Transformers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}}

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As G.I. Joe prepared to attack [[Cobra Island]], Bumblebee and Wheeljack came with them. However, the United States government preferred to [[Nuclear weapon|nuke]] the island and dissect the two aliens at [[Area 51]], and Bumblebee was struck with a magnetic pulse and incapacitated. Luckily, Wheeljack convinced [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] that a nuclear strike on Cobra's [[energon]] stockpile would lead to worldwide devastation, so G.I. Joe broke orders and took the Autobots with them to attack Cobra Island anyway. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} Upon arrival, Bumblebee watched as the [[SPS Satellite]]'s energy beam struck an energy-gathering dish on the island, then helped G.I. Joe take down [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] after the giant Decepticon killed [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

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It soon transpired that the United States government were sending the nukes regardless of G.I. Joe's presence on the island, so the Autobots and humans made their way to the SPS Satellite's controls, where Bumblebee found a cowering [[Doctor Mindbender]]. While Mindbender was forced to calibrate the satellite's beams to shoot down the approaching nuclear warheads, the facility came under attack by [[Storm Shadow]], [[Firefly]] and various Cobra troopers. During the battle, Bumblebee defeated Storm Shadow and his heavily damaged [[S.N.A.K.E.]] suit. He then cheered as [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] defeated Megatron and shot down the SPS Satellite, and he later returned to Cybertron aboard a new ''Ark''. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}

Two years later, Bumblebee was sent back through time to [[1970]]'s [[San Francisco]] by a malfunctioning [[Teletran 3]], and was left dormant in the form of a Ford Pinto. He was found and reactivated by several G.I. Joes and Cobra members sent to get him back to the future, but both Bumblebee and [[Zartan]] were disappointed with his altmode compared to the much fancier car his fellow time-lost Autobot [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] turned into. After hunting down [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] in the same era, the team returned to their own time. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} Back on present-day Cybertron, Bumblebee and the others had no choice but to wait inside [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s force field until the three other teams returned with more lost Transformers. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}} When the whole affair was over, Bumblebee curiously inspected Teletran 3. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}

[[File:GIJoevsTFArtofwar3 BumblebeeDeath.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Crossovers are not kind to Bumblebee.]]
An agreement was made between the Autobots and G.I. Joe to decommission any Cybertronian technology left on Earth, and Bumblebee was sent back to Earth along with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], the last of whom he was very flirty with. When [[Area 52 (G1)|Area 52]] came under attack from Cobra, Bumblebee noticed that [[Cobra Commander]] was using the attack as a diversion to infiltrate the facility's lower levels. He pursued the Commander, but was rendered unconscious when Zartan planted an electromagnetic scrambler on him. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} [[File:JoeTF ArtofWar5 BumblebeeMemorial.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Here Lies 'Bee / Only Time He Had A Girl In Any Continui-ty]] Just when Cobra Commander was about to smash the robot's face in with a lead pipe, the other Autobots and G.I. Joes arrived and saved him. While Arcee was worried about his low energy levels, Bumblebee assured her that seeing her was all the recharge he needed. However, it was soon revealed what Cobra Commander had come for: [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]], a biotechnological weapon created from Megatron's remains. He was also just as power-hungry as Megatron, and took control of [[G.I. Joe battle mech|G.I. Joe's battle suits]] and pitted them against the four Autobots to distract them while he warped to Cybertron. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}

Along with a group of Joes, the Autobots followed Serpent O.R. to their home planet, and ended up getting attacked by [[cannibalizer]]s in a junkyard. As they retreated to avoid human casualties, Bumblebee tried to extort a kiss from Arcee if he could outrace her, but she upped the bet by offering to rotate his tires if he could pull it off. Bumblebee accelerated in anticipation... and drove straight into [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], who stomped him unconscious. Serpent O.R., who had recruited Predaking alongside various other Decepticons, complimented the little Autobot's courage and resilience, noting that he could probably survive with the proper medical attention. Then he crushed Bumblebee to death with his tentacles. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} Following the defeat of Serpent O.R., a funeral was held for Bumblebee and a statue was built in his honor. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

Bumblebee's death had a large impact on Optimus Prime, who blamed himself for his friend's death. Unwilling to send anyone else to their death, he went on a dangerous mission on Earth all by himself. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 1}}

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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
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After laying dormant among the [[Fera Islands]] for three million years, Bumblebee and his friends were reactivated in [[1939]] when [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] attacked [[Cobra]]'s headquarters in the archipelago. He was reformatted into a [[World War II]]-era motorcycle, complete with sidecar, and thought Optimus Prime was a bit pessimistic when he worried that [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] might no longer exist. {{storylink|Transformed}} The Autobots subsequently joined G.I. Joe on their mission to eliminate Cobra and their Decepticon allies. Bumblebee overheard [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] and [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] discussing that [[Snake-Eyes]] had vanished, and tried to reassure [[Scarlett]] that the missing Joe would show up eventually. Before long, the group came under attack from Cobra paratroopers, but the bullets merely bounced off Bumblebee, who happily suggested that the Autobots should try out their new bodies in action. {{storylink|Trial by Fire}}

Upon entering combat, the Autobots were faced with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], who was easily taking out the larger tank Autobots with his earthquakes. While Bumblebee was busy explaining who Rumble was, Scarlett commandeered him (noting how "sweet" it was that he had never been driven before) and drove into action, jumping above the Decepticon and destroying him with a grenade. Bumblebee felt that he and Scarlett made a nice team, and sheepishly told her that she could drive him anytime. How cheeky! {{storylink|Wolves}} When they reached Cobra's fortress, the [[Terrordrome]], the Autobots were attacked by a raging [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], whom Bumblebee noted that he had never seen before. In the end, the [[Matrix of Leadership]] had to be destroyed in order to stop Bruticus, which killed Bumblebee and all the other Transformers in the process. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
Bumblebee participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons. He watched on in horror as [[Beast (G1)|The Beast]] rampaged across the battlefield, killing Autobots and Decepticons alike. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}

Bumblebee later rode in Optimus Prime's trailer as the Autobots attempted to outrun The Beast. Thankfully, Jetfire showed up just in time to rescue Prime's passengers, save Skids, who was crushed moments before Jetfire's arrival. {{storylink|The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences}}
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===''Universe'' comic===
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During the [[Universe War]], [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] built a device to counteract [[Unicron]]'s attempts to abduct Transformers from across the multiverse. Two such attempts were only partially successful, sending the would-be abductees to a barren, icy planetoid and necessitating the deployment of a rescue team. As a side effect, the device also sucked in the Autobot stellar freighter ''[[OTFCC (ship)|OTFCC]]'', carrying Bumblebee, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], and [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] from the past. The past Autobots worked together with the present-day rescue team and the victims to fight off Unicron's Decepticons, and the past Autobots were returned to their own time. {{storylink|Voice Actor Drama}}

===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
In a reality where the Dinobots consisted of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]], [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], and [[Paddles (G1)|Paddles]], Bumblebee gained the latter's friendship and trust. {{storylink|Paddles (story)|Paddles}}

Bumblebee dropped Spike off at school and waited around in the carpark, where he was stolen by two car thieves, [[Jack (thief)|Jack]] and [[Rick (thief)|Rick]]. The Autobot let them have some fun for a while before taking control and giving them the ride of their lives. After letting them out, Bumblebee went back to pick up Spike, who wondered why the seat was wet. {{storylink|Joyride (story)|Joyride}}

===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===Descent into Evil===
[[File:Timelines-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|You know you want me, baby.]]
Having been on the trail of the Decepticon agent [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] for a long, long time, now-[[espionage director]] Bumblebee made his move, interrupting a supposedly-secure secret communication between Flamewar and the [[Tripredacus Council]]. He revealed that his agent, [[Ricochet (Timelines)|Ricochet]] had installed a degenerating virus into [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]'s [[Virulent Clone|clone army]]. Oh, and that since the Autobots now ''knew'' Flamewar's whereabouts and who she was working for, the Tripredacus Council would certainly consider her a liability. Which they did. So they blew [[Flamewar's ship|her ship]] up. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

That's cold, Bee. Real cold.

{{note|Bumblebee appears in his unreleased [[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]] body.}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{note|For information pertaining to Goldbug, a separate individual in the IDW continuity, see [[Goldbug (IDW)]].}}
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Having been part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]]'s team during the latter days of the Decepticon uprising and [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]]'s reign, millions of years later, Bumblebee was a member of [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]]'s tactical response unit, stationed on Earth, and aided [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] in tracking down the original Decepticon [[infiltration protocol|infiltration bunker]], while noting that the doctor's human friends were ultimately "acceptable losses" if it came to it.

After the Decepticon [[Surge (event)|Surge]] and their subsequent retreat from Earth, Optimus Prime gave himself up to [[Skywatch]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hot Rod]] took a splinter group with the aim of getting off the planet by any means necessary, Bumblebee was elected leader by the remaining Autobots. What followed was a leadership in a constant state of crisis, as few respected his authority, with many continuing to defer to the returned Optimus Prime. After the Chaos War, Bumblebee found himself in nominal charge of the reborn Cybertron as Optimus Prime once again departed, this time in the face of a hostile [[NAIL|civilian population]], and the renamed "Rodimus" again took a splinter group of Autobots elsewhere, this time on a quixotic quest for the [[Knights of Cybertron]]. Played by all, an uprising led by [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] proved the final straw for the civilian "NAILs" with both factions, and with [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] renouncing his faction and grasping the opportunity, both Bumblebee's Autobots and the Decepticons were exiled to the Cybertronian wilderness.

Shortly afterward, in the "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]" crisis, Bumblebee was killed by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]. Oddly enough, the Transformer most bothered by this was Megatron. However Bumblebee ''did'' survive, in a sense, his consciousness ending up in [[Infraspace]], where he would bug Starscream as a ghost, before eventually restored after briefly joining with [[Pyra Magna]]. In the aftermath of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]'s apocalyptic attack, Prowl turned Megatron over to the [[Galactic Council]] for a trial, the act allowing the Cybertronians a chance to finally join the organization, Bumblebee acting as their representative, accompanied by the ghost of Starscream.
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===''Hearts of Steel''===
[[File:Beeawakens-HOS1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|The upstairs neighbors are at it again...]]
In an alternate universe, the Transformers landed on Earth before the Ice Age, taking on the forms of dinosaurs and giant insects; Bumblebee took on the form of a ''{{w|Gastonia (dinosaur)|Gastonia}}''-like dinosaur. When the climate became too cold for [[Ice Age Wars|the war]] to continue, Bumblebee and the other Autobots entered into [[stasis lock]] to prevent further damage. Thousands of years later, Bumblebee awoke to the age of humans from the noise of John Henry's hammering. Bumblebee was impressed by the humans' industriousness, and disguised himself as a small steam locomotive with no control cab, and a built in steam-hammer for driving spikes. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}} Initially, 'Bee directly competed with steel-driving legend [[John Henry]]. After Bumblebee revealed himself in robot form to Henry, Henry set aside his mistrust of automation after realizing that Bumblebee was a living being (not just a machine) who wanted to put in a fair day's work. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}

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Bumblebee woke several of his fellow Autobots, who soon discovered that the Decepticons were also active in this era. After taking on locomotive alt modes themselves, {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}} Bumblebee, the Autobots, and their new human friends worked together to prevent the Decepticons' mighty [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] from reaching [[New York City]]. With the Decepticons defeated, Bumblebee and the Autobots returned to their slumber. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 4|Hearts of Steel #4}}

Years later when the Autobots learned of the rise of an [[Elder God]], they realized they needed the power of Optimus Prime, but didn't have enough energy to awaken him from stasis lock. Disguising himself in a new streetcar mode, Bumblebee made contact with [[Tobias Muldoon]], an inventor he had befriended during his earlier adventure, and requested his help in gathering electricity. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1|Infestation 2: The Transformers #1}}

The Autobots continued to stand guard over humanity until the modern day, when Ratchet was captured by the human organization [[Skylogic Systems]], prompting Bumblebee and Optimus Prime to investigate. Their search led them to the [[Lone Gunmen]], three humans who revealed that they were out to stop Skylogic from producing a virus made partially from Ratchet's DNA. Joining forces, the Autobots and Gunmen captured and interrogated Skylogic scientist [[David Simmons]], learning the location of where Ratchet was being held. Being the smaller of the Autobots, Bumblebee took the form of a military vehicle (to his chagrin) and infiltrated the facility with the Gunmen, hitting it off particularly well with his "ninja buddy" [[Richard Langly]]. While freeing Ratchet he was paralyzed by a Skylogic weapon, and though he urged the others to run, Langly turned back and destroyed the weapon, allowing him to escape. The Autobots then said goodbye to their new allies and took off elsewhere in an attempt to lure away Skylogic pursuers. {{storylink|The X-Files: Conspiracy: The Transformers}}

{{note|Events identical to those of ''Hearts of Steel'' and ''Infestation 2'' occurred in the [[2005 IDW continuity]]; however, they happened to [[Maximal]] explorers brainwashed by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] into believing they were the Autobots and Decepticons of the Great War. Bumblebee's identity was taken by the Maximal named [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]].}}

===''Mini Mayhem!''===
On a shopping trip, Bumblebee became frustrated over the fact that he was never able to find the toys he wanted on store shelves.

Later, a vending machine caught his eye, and he wound up spending all his money on "her." Bumblebee asked Ultra Magnus to borrow him some money, only for Magnus to claim the vending machine was just using him. Bumblebee denied this, claiming that what they had was true love.

Later still, some jerk in a [[Spider-Man]] outfit led a legion of [[Clone trooper]]s to smash Bumblebee and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s [[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] [[Transformers: Crossovers]] toys. Bumblebee's pleas for him to stop were left unheeded. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''TransTech''===
{{voiceactor|[[Dan Gilvezan]] (English)}}
A Bumblebee with a Cybertronian alternate-mode was among the many off-worlders being processed when [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]], [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], and [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]] arrived in Axiom Nexus. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 1}}

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[[Andromeda (TransTech)|Andromeda]] reported that a Bumblebee on the last stellar cycle's Starlogged was a [[Pretender]]. {{storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter}}

===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===Titan Magazines===
After a hard day of fighting the most despiscable enemies the universe has to offer,
[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Transformers (2007)|Slumblebee]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Transformers (2007)|Softimus Prime]]
like nothing more than to hit the couch and hug their favorite humans. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Slumber Party}}

===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkei bumblebee pack in.jpg|left|thumb]]

When [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Megatron]] and the Decepticons attacked Earth in the 21st century, Bumblebee and the Autobots were there to stop them. During a battle in Tokyo, Bumblebee got the drop on [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Starscream]], dousing him with a fire engine's hose and leaving him open for a thrashing from [[Grimlock (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Grimlock]]. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}}

Later, Bumblebee helped shield human bystanders from injury when [[Astrotrain (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Astrotrain]] went on a rampage, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and cheered when they were joined in their fight by [[Hot Rod (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Rodimus]]. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Bumblebee was last seen helping to once more protect humans when the Decepticons attacked a power plant with their newest member, the reluctant [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Skyfire]]. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 4}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei chpt 01 first meeting.jpg|thumb|During Autobot gymnastics tryouts for the 2012 Olympics: DISQUALIFIED.]]

Bumblebee was part of a small Autobot team led by Optimus Prime who left Cybertron to pursue the [[Energon cube#Henkei! Henkei! Comic Bun Bun pack-in manga|Energon Cube]] through space. When the giant energy source crashed on Earth, in the Japanese town of [[Hoshinochō]], it shattered into fragments that were scattered far and wide. Bumblebee and the other Autobots set up a subterranean base below the Cube's impact crater, and began their search for the shards, taking the forms of local vehicles to hide their activities. Despite their attempts at remaining unseen, glimpses of the Autobots only magnified the reputation the crash of the Cube (believed by humans to be a meteor) had given Hoshinochō: that of a hotbed of rumored alien and UFO activity, Japan's answer to [[United States of America|America]]'s [[Roswell]].

[[File:Henkei bumblebee and wataru.jpg|left|thumb|20 years later, Wataru still has this hanging on his wall.]]

Eleven years later, the driverless [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] Bumblebee was spotted by a schoolchild in the vicinity of the [[Star Dome]], a building since constructed over the Cube crater. Hearing the story from this witness, fame-seeking schoolboy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]] ditched school to investigate the Star Dome, only for coincidence to lead him to step right in front of the speeding Bumblebee! Bumblebee was forced to transform and vault over the boy to prevent injuring him, but was able to make his escape before Wataru got a good look at him. Bumblebee hastily continued on his way to the Star Dome, and arrived to find it under attack by [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Starscream]] and [[Ramjet (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Ramjet]]. Wataru, too, had made it to the Dome, and Bumblebee saved him from Starscream before realizing with surprise that he was the same boy from earlier. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The other Autobots soon arrived to join the fight, and Bumblebee tried to protect Wataru from injury by scooping him up and tossing him to the relative safety of the stands. For his trouble, the small Autobot was pinned by Starscream, but Wataru returned the favor by blinding the Decepticon with a fire extinguisher. The battle was then joined by the Decepticon leader [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Megatron]], who attempted to make an example of Bumblebee and Wataru by blasting them with his fusion cannon, but at the last second, Optimus Prime was apparently able to deflect Megatron's shot with one of his own. Megatron covered the Decepticons' subsequent retreat by collapsing a part of the Star Dome, but Bumblebee protected Wataru from the rubble by shielding him with his own body. The pair then properly introduced themselves to one another, and Wataru was invited into the Autobots' base for an explanation. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}}

[[File:Henkei bumblebee medical treatment.jpg|thumb|Who knew alien-robots could be {{w|Trypanophobia|trypanophobic}}?]]

Bumblebee and Prime showed Wataru through their base on their way to the medical bay, where Bumblebee was to be treated for repairs. Bumblebee did not relish Optimus's medical ministrations, and the two Autobots were so busy trying to get through the process that they did not notice Wataru touching the large shard of the Energon Cube that they had recovered in their time on Earth. A bizarre energy discharge resulted that not only showed the Autobots images of [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2|another time and place]], but also healed all of Bumblebee's wounds. Prime pulled Wataru away from the shard and things returned to normal, leaving Bumblebee and the boy to marvel over what had occurred, and Prime to ponder what it might mean. Bumblebee then took Wataru back to school, but when he nearly blabbed everything that had happened to him to the assembled teachers, students and police, Bumblebee was forced to bump into him from behind shut him up. Unfortunately for 'Bee, he then had to beat a hast retreat as the police came chasing after him for his "hit and run" offense! {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

Bumblebee was next called into action when Starscream attacked a hydro-electric power plant with the help of his brainwashed comrade, [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Skyfire]]. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} Once again, Bumblebee tried to save Wataru from the Decepticons and was blasted as a result. This time, however, the pair were both saved by Skyfire, who was struggling against the mind-controlling influence of the helmet Starscream had placed on his head. All the combatants were shocked when a surge of familiar surge of energy erupted from Wataru's body; again, Bumblebee's wounds were healed, and Skyfire was empowered to overcome the helmet. Skyfire helped fend the Decepticons off and joined the Autobots, returning with them to their base where Prime explained to Bumblebee what he had come to understand about Wataru: he was a being known as a "[[Booster]]", born with the ability to control the energies of the Energon Cube. Both Bumblebee and Wataru were very excited at the idea that Wataru would now be able to help the Autobots in their fight. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Optimus Prime's Secret}} {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}} {{storylink|Creation! The New Emperor of Destruction!!}} {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}}}
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:FfE Bumblebee.JPG|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Is he Schwarzebee... or Bumblenegger?]]
Bumblebee was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}

Bumblebee and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] were out for a drive when they discovered [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] mining fuel near an abandoned [[Rock-It Fuel|gas station]]. Bumblebee wanted to rush in but Optimus Prime suggested they create a diversion. They caused an explosion which distracted Cyclonus. Bumblebee attacked and kept him busy while Optimus Prime snuck up and hit him over the head with his [[energon-axe]]. Megatron chose to blow up the mining operation and retreat with Cyclonus. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee drove off leaving the flaming wreckage of the mining operation behind. {{storylink|Fight for Energon}}
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===Robot Heroes===
Bumblebee was one of Optimus Prime's many Autobot friends who joined him on a journey to Earth. After hiding their ship, the Autobots helped defend the planet from the Decepticons; Bumblebee took on Blitzwing. The evil robots were defeated, but the Autobots knew they would come back one day, and swore to continue their vigil over the Earth. {{storylink|I Am Optimus Prime (Robot Heroes)|I Am Optimus Prime}}
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===''United''===
Millions of years ago, Megatron thought Optimus Prime to be forever vanquished. He was proven wrong when the Autobot leader rushed into battle alongside Bumblebee and his other compatriots against him in a surprise attack. {{storylink|A New Battle!}}

Bumblebee was amongst the victims of a deadly nano-virus. Thankfully, a team of Autobots were successfully in retrieving a cure for the disease from the planet [[Nebulos|Nebulon]]. Fully recovered, Bumblebee attended the ceremony that commended the Autobots responsible for saving his life. {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}

===''Unit:E'' comic===
Upon approaching the planet [[Earth]], the artificial intelligence [[Synergy]] presented footage of the Autobots to her crew-mate, the young [[Microman|Acroyear]], so that he could learn about his potential allies and enemies on the alien world. Bumblebee could be seen being ordered forward by Optimus Prime on one of Synergy's view-screens. {{storylink|Unit:E (issue)|Unit:E}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
{{voiceactor|[[Yuka Hoshi]] (Japanese)}}
'''Yellow Sports Car''' (黄色のスポーツカー ''Kiiro no Supōtsu Kā'') was a confident racer who liked adventure. {{storylink|The Self-Introduction Chapter}} Among others, he was caught in a traffic jam, but [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Trailer]] made them all transform into robot modes so that they could walk past the jam. {{storylink|The Story of the Surprising and Big Traffic Jam!}} Yellow Sports Car was again stuck with others because of a hole in the road. When Trailer used his body to fill the hole, Yellow Sports Car became starry-eyed, and wanted to try out being nice. However, Trailer sped off, leaving Yellow Sports Car in the hole. {{storylink|The Story of Mister Trailer's Big Success!}}

While exploring a forest, Yellow Sports Car became lost. He found [[Powerglide (G1)|Red Jet]], who was also lost, and the two agreed to find a means to escape the forest together. {{storylink|The Story of the Lost Plane!}} Yellow Sports Car was later part of the ''Quiz! BeCool'' show, where he was on a team with [[Jazz (G1)|Green Sports Car]]. Despite answering the first question correctly, their team ended up losing. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} Interacting with [[you]], Yellow Sports Car explained his ''BeCool'' marks, which he thought were cool. He soon spotted Trailer sleeping, with the appropriate "Zzz..." mark showing. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}}

Yellow Sports Car was driving through the city when he inadvertently slipped on a [[banana]] peel left by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Garbage Truck]]. Spinning out of control, he passed a red light, leading [[Prowl (G1)|Patrol Car]] and [[Barricade (Movie)|American Patrol Car]] to admonish him for not following traffic laws. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}} Yellow Sports Car later played part in a movie being directed by [[Megatron (G1)|Tank Lorry]]. However, his cries for "help" atop a fake burning building were misinterpreted by the local fire brigade and he was "rescued". {{storylink|The Story of the Fire Brigade Dispatch!}}

===''Transformers: All Spark''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Another Episode, Part 1}} {{storylink|Another Episode, Part 2}} {{storylink|The Fated Rival, Once Again...}} {{storylink|To Earth}} {{storylink|Reunion and Parting}} {{storylink|Plans of the Emperor of Destruction}} {{storylink|Revenge (All Spark)|Revenge}} {{storylink|The False Power}} {{storylink|Ray of Hope}} {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} {{storylink|Conclusion}}}}

===''Construct-Bots'' cartoon===
[[File:Construct-Bots short Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Bumblebee told [[you]] about Construct-bots, and took showed off his jet mode. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] tried to shoot him down, but [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] came to his rescue! {{storylink|Toys & App TV Commercial}}

Optimus and Bumblebee snuck into the [[Decepticon]]s' base, and found their enemies upgrading themselves with [[Autobot]] parts. The pair took offense to this, and Bumblebee set about sabotaging the process. Thanks to his mucking about with the Decepticons' computer, Megatron wound up getting a gumball machine strapped to his chest. Enraged, he tossed the candy dispenser to the ground, and wound up tripping on the gumballs that spilled all over the floor. Megatron wound up tripping on the gumballs and had his parts come off his chassis when he fell to the ground. Optimus and Bumblebee congratulated each other on a prank well done! {{storylink|Intro!}}

Bumblebee was out and about with [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] when they came upon [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] preening in front of a full-length mirror. The narcissistic Decepticon was then attacked by [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], who scattered his pieces. As Starscream put himself back together, Bumblebee swapped out his wings for some wheels. When Starscream tried to take off, he predictably enough fell to a nasty drop. Bumblebee then attached the wings to himself and took off skywards. {{storylink|Take Flight!}}

Bumblebee tussled with Megatron. Throughout the fight, both 'bots' parts got rearranged in bizarre ways. At the end of the struggle, Bumblebee stood properly assembled, while Megatron found his chassis stripped of its parts! Humiliated, Megatron took off. {{storylink|Switcheroo!}}

Optimus later helped Bumblebee put his parts back on his bare chassis. During the dress-up, Bumblebee managed to accidentally swallow his Autobot badge. Choking, he coughed up a bird and a bike horn before the badge came back out. With his airway now clear, he sang a little bit. When he noted that Optimus didn't think much of the tune, he asked if the other Autobot wanted "piece of him". {{storylink|Bumblebee Speaks!}}

On another occasion, Optimus got a little carried away with strapping new parts onto Bumblebee. Bumblebee tried to protest Optimus attaching a rocket to his shoulder, but the booster activated and sent Bumblebee wheeling through the air. Bumblebee eventually came crashing back down, and gave a "thumbs up" to show he was okay. {{storylink|Strength!}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
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Starscream pursued Bumblebee through space, determined to use him to lure [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] out of hiding. During the chase, Bumblebee's [[Autobot Resistance Karrier|A.R.K.]] took severe damage, forcing him to set it down on planet [[Earth]]. He landed near a [[Cobra]] base under assault by the [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]s. Entering the site, Bumblebee hid among a collection of cars by adopting a similar form. When [[Snake-Eyes|Snake Eyes]] came about and engaged Starscream in combat, Bumblebee broke cover to help the ninja escape. Starscream then managed to grab a hold of Bumblebee and pulled him up into the air. The following battle between the Joes and Cobra resulted in a huge explosion of [[G.I.Rocket|Creeper]] vines, which tore into Bumblebee's body. Starscream grabbed hold of Bumblebee's head, leaving the Autobot's body in the Joes' possession.

Starscream then brought Bumblebee's head to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] as a gift. {{storylink|The Golden Boys}} Megatron attached it to a chain and wore it around his neck as a trophy. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}} Back on Earth, Bumblebee's body was rebuilt into a transforming "Bumblecycle", which [[General Flagg]] used to defend the [[USS Flagg|U.S.S. ''Flagg'']] from a "Decepticobra" attack. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} After being allowed use of the Bumblecycle in his arcane experiments, [[Doctor Venom]] turned it into a robot suit through which he was able to [[binary bonding|binary-bond]] with [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s body. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

[[File:PaxMegatronus-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

Optimus Prime was furious to hear of Bumblebee's death, and traveled to Earth to confront G.I. Joe and retrieve his friend's remains. {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}} Doctor Venom attacked him with his Bumblebee/Soundwave patchwork robot, but Prime tore its head off and returned with the Bumblebee suit to Cybertron. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Meanwhile, Bumblebee's head was placed within [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], where [[Doctor B]] claimed it was a robotics project based on a cartoon as part of the city's [[Springfield (G.I. Joe)|Springfield]] facade. After [[Scarlett]] was able to take control of Scorponok, she returned Bumblebee's head to Optimus Prime who finally reunited it with its body. {{storylink|Headmasters (issue)|Headmasters}} Bumblebee became whole once more, and gained the ability to fly! But celebrations were to be short-lived; Optimus met Megatron in a duel, which ended with the Decepticons dog-pilling both Optimus and Bumblebee. Though Bumblebee managed to break free of the Decepticon holding him down, he was too late to save Optimus from getting a hole blown through his chest. {{storylink|Pax Megatronus}}

When the Jotobot alliance prepared to march on Trypticon, Bumblebee took part in rousing Metroplex's fighting spirit. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} The following battle saw [[Primus]] wrap Earth's star in a dyson sphere as he feasted on its energy, before [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] heralded the return of Optimus Prime. After some weird and trippy events, a game of "hot potato" began for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], Bumblebee claiming it from some Cobra mooks before delivering it back to Optimus. Unfortunately, not even the words of the Prime could tame Primus' hunger, the deity having to be stopped by [[Atlas (G1)|Atlas]], the robot mode of Earth. As peace settled among both humans and Cybertronians, Bumblebee joined the crew of the [[Ark II|''Ark 2'']], confirming their heading towards [[Quadrant X]] on their hunt for the [[Quintesson|Makers]]. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}

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===''Transformers × Evangelion''===
Bumblebee was among the Autobots who traveled to Earth to investigate strange energy readings and found a [[Tokyo-3]] under attack by [[Angel]]s. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 1}} They bore witness to the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] possessing one of the Angels, becoming "Angel"-scream. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 2}} During the battle with the monster, Bumblebee used his size to his advantage and drove circles around "Angel"-scream, who stumbled in his attempts to catch the little Autobot. {{storylink|Mode "Eva" chapter 4}}

===''Angry Birds'' comic===
[[File:ABTF 1 BumblebeegetsAllSpark.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.7|right]]
When Decepticons attacked the Autobot shuttle carrying the [[AllSpark]], Bumblebee was charged by Optimus Prime with taking the relic and running away. He was chased down and cornered by Starscream, but the Decepticon's attack missed and shattered a window, causing the AllSpark to be sucked into space and a [[Unspace|quantum tunnel]]. Bumblebee wasn't discouraged, though, promising they'd keep looking for it as he captured Starscream. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers issue 1|Angry Birds Transformers #1}} Turns out they didn't have to, as the AllSpark later came crashing back through another window while the Autobots were discussing where to look next. {{storylink|Hard Boiled}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
On Earth in the 1980s, Bumblebee led a team of Minibots against the Decepticons when they attacked the [[British Museum]] shielding [[Noah Acton|Noah]] and [[Leah Acton]] from falling debris. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

[[Eject (G1)|Eject]] lamented that all the great and famous Cybertronians, including Bumblebee, were long gone by the time that Cybertron was controlled by the [[Builder Assembly]]. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

===''Of Masters and Mayhem''===
[[File:Of Masters and Mayhem flashback.jpeg|thumb|right|250px]]
In one universe, Bumblebee fought alongside his fellow Autobots against Megatron's Decepticons until the Cybertronian civil war led to the creation of the monstrous combiner, [[Thunder Mayhem]]. Thunder Mayhem turned on his masters, ultimately leading to him rampaging across Cybertron. Bumblebee presumably perished during the reckoning of his homeworld. {{storylink|History}}

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===''Aw Yeah Revolution!''===
[[File:AwYeah1-earthquake.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
Along with Arcee and Optimus Prime, Bumblebee was fighting the Decepticons on Earth before seismic activity forced everyone away. As the Autobots rolled out, Optimus was teleported away by [[Baron Karza]]. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} Optimus returned soon enough, rallying a force of Autobots that counted Bumblebee among them. {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}
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===When Worlds Collide===
When trying to retrieve the stolen [[Matrix of Leadership]], Bumblebee and the Autobots joined forces with a variety of humans and other beings in their fight against Megatron and Cobra Commander's forces. Though the combined forces of good were ready for their ultimate battle, the showdown was delayed when the two kids imagining the scenario were called away to dinner. {{storylink|When Worlds Collide}}

===''Bumblebee'' graphic novels===
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Bumblebee joined Optimus Prime as he and his Autobot team battled [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] for control of a recently landed [[cybertonium]] meteorite. As the other Autobots swung into action, however, Bumblebee found himself unable to meaningfully contribute to the skirmish between the Autobots and the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s, and as [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] reported that that the volatile cocktail of exotic materials in the meteorite made it liable to erupt in a devastating explosion, Prime sent Bumblebee to rescue some human scientists who had come under attack from [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]—the Autobot leader counted on Bumblebee's ability to make new friends to help the humans out of the situation safely.

Even though Bumblebee quickly got the humans to safety, their comments about his nonthreatening appearance got under his skin and led him to drop off the humans at a safe distance before racing back to the crash site. As the meteor went critical, Starscream prepared to abscond with a fragment of the cybertonium... until Bumblebee vaulted himself off a nearby ramp to tackle the flying Decepticon head-on. As the pair struggled in mid-air, the fragment exploded; although Starscream and the Constructicons retreated empty-handed, the stunt left Bumblebee badly injured. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Go For the Gold|Go for the Gold}}

[[File:WinIfYouDare-Bumblebeealtmode.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

After [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] helped to rebuild the little Autobot, Optimus put Bumblebee on standby until he had completed his road tests. While mulling over his perceived uselessness while driving through [[Yosemite National Park]], Bumblebee intervened in a dangerous street race and wound up rescuing the human [[Mateo Cruz]] after his aggressive competitor ran him off the road. Bumblebee towed Mateo's Jeep back to his country home and the pair became friends along the way, with the human explaining the nature of his prosthetic limbs to the Autobot. Mateo offered to repair Bumblebee, and the next morning the two headed into town to confront the owner of the mystery Jeep racer and began their search at the garage where [[Nicole]] worked. In spite of Mateo's romantic awkwardness around the flirty mechanic, 'Bee tried to get his friend to confess his feelings and invite her to the school dance that night, but to no avail.

Nicole's information then sent the pair then headed to [[Herman's Military Surplus and Museum|a run-down airfield]] on the outskirts of town; when Mateo went poking inside the building, however, he stumbled upon a scheme to steal the top-secret [[B-2 stealth bomber]] that [[Angela Cruz|Mateo's mother]] had been working on—a plan headed by the mystery street racer... the Decepticon [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]! The pair chased Swindle as he made a break for it, but were unable to stop him from swerving behind a passing train and making good his escape. With no way to capture Swindle, and Mateo's prosthetic leg destroyed in the chase, Bumblebee persuaded his friend to spend his night at the school dance, using the upgraded mechanical limb he and his mother had built. After a quick pep-talk from Bumblebee, the Autobot revealed that he had wired Mateo's legs with a two-way signal, allowing him to remotely control Mateo's limbs from afar—and using that connection to help Mateo wow Nicole on the dance floor. This elation was short lived, however; when 'Bee spied a helicopter buzzing overhead, he quickly realized it to be the Combaticon [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]], who jammed his communications and moved in for the kill.

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With an angry Vortex on his tail, Bumblebee headed to the local [[Sierra Station|military base]] to get whatever reinforcements he could find while Mateo and Nicole pursued Bumblebee in her own car. Mateo's mother,having escaped from Combaticon custody by commandeering an abandoned plane, confirmed that the local military was woefully underprepared to take on the Decepticons... especially after they combined into [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Though he briefly lost his composure in the face of the rampaging combiner, Mateo pulled up just in time to spur him into action by using Bumblebee's own advice: by showing them who he ''really'' was, and relying on ''his'' strengths, he could win by doing what he did best—and for Bumblebee, that strength was the power of teamwork. While Bumblebee distracted Bruticus long enough for the human soldiers to hammer Bruticus with artillery fire until he split up, he and his three new friends headed to a nearby hangar, where Angela and Mateo piloted the stealth bomber right over the disoriented Combaticons, with Bumblebee delivering the final coup de grâce by paralyzing them with an EMP bomb.

The next morning, Optimus and the other Autobots arrive to take the Combaticons into custody, while Optimus apologized to Bumblebee for underestimating him in the field. Before Bumblebee returned home, however, he had time for one more race with his new friends, and promptly drove off into the sunrise. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Win If You Dare|Win If You Dare}}

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===''Star Trek vs. Transformers''===
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Four million years ago, Bumblebee was among the Autobots who left Cybertron aboard the ''Ark'' to clear a path through an [[asteroid belt]]. Though they succeeded in this task, Megatron's Decepticons attacked, boarded the ''Ark'', and sent the ship crashing towards Earth. In the year [[1984]], a volcanic eruption reawoke the ship's complement and a secret war began for the Earth's energon supply. During the conflict, Bumblebee developed a reputation for getting along well with humans, but when humanity found itself embroiled in the vicious [[Eugenics Wars]] and the later [[World War III]], the Autobots felt that they could no longer trust humans and fled the planet aboard [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. After decades in space, the Autobots picked up an energon signal on the planet [[Cygnus Seven]] only to be attacked by [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], whose attack once again sent the Autobot ship hurtling down towards a primitive planet and locking all aboard in emergency stasis. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}}

In the 23rd century, the [[Federation]] established a mining outpost on Cygnus Seven, and while excavating a mineshaft a team of Federation miners stumbled onto the buried ship and accidentally tripped Maximus's autonomous repair systems. As it had on Earth, these emergency protocols reactivated the Decepticons first, then Optimus Prime, who promptly rushed out to defend the mine while the rest of the Autobots came online. The group promptly came face to face with [[James T. Kirk|Captain Kirk]]'s away team from the from the [[USS Enterprise|USS ''Enterprise'']], with Jazz demanding to know what they'd done with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part One}}

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Believing that the humans had killed Optimus Prime, the two factions briefly clashed; Bumblebee subdued [[M'Ress]] before Captain [[James T. Kirk]] convinced the Autobots of their good intentions. Once cooler heads began to prevail, Jazz had Bumblebee recount how the Autobots had wound up on Cygnus Seven before a Decepticon attack collapsed the mineshaft, sealing the group underground. Undaunted, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] said that they'd have to reactivate Fortress Maximus. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}} After the doctor had set up a [[Binary bonding|binary bond]] between the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] and the human captain, the former extracted the blueprints of the USS ''Enterprise'' to reformat and heal himself, leading the Autobots out onto the surface, only for the ground force to be caught in Trypticon's [[fire-breath]]. When Maximus transformed to robot mode, Bumblebee noted that, unlike M'Ress, he did such things every day. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Three}}

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As the two Titans duelled, Bumblebee stood up for Kirk's ability to reign in Maximus's desire for revenge before he and Jazz engaged Megatron as he turned on his [[Klingon]] allies. Soon enough however, Starscream doublecrossed Megatron, prompting the tyrant to withdraw his forces so that he could pursue his traitorous second. As the Autobot/[[Starfleet]] alliance prepared to pursue, they first travelled to the original, and disabled, ''Enterprise'' where Bumblebee, along with his fellow Autobots, was beamed aboard the human ship so that Cybertronian knowledge could accelerate its repairs. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Four}}

The two ships set out for [[Kronos]], capital of the [[Klingon Empire]], constructing [[Crewbot]]s so that the organics could fight on a Cybertronian footing. Though the Autobots and Starfleet, joined by the Klingons, held the numerical advantage, Soundwave incapacitated everyone with his audio disruptor waves. Fortunately, the Klingons were deaf to the frequency that the communication chief used allowing them to summon a [[Warbird (Star Trek)|warbird]] fleet that defeated the invaders. In the aftermath, the Autobots were allowed to go free. Though Kirk asked them if they would return to Earth, Optimus politely refused the offer, instead choosing to lead the Autobots elsewhere in the universe. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Five}}

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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part One|''Transformers'' issue #1]]}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPartTwo-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Wow, Bumblebee, when I get older, can I run over Soundwave too?"]]

Bumblebee was forged during the reign of [[Nominus Prime]], and emerged from the [[Forge Pyramid]] in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] with great fanfare. Within the first few minutes of his life, he had already befriended [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], and been introduced to his mentor, [[Shutter]], who helped him get accustomed to life on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 2}} In time, Bumblebee would choose an alternate mode for himself and join [[Security Operations]] alongside Windblade, {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} where he worked as a recon scout. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}} Bumblebee soon became a very popular bot, making friends far and wide, and his fame was such that the [[Probat (species)|inhabitants]] of the Cybertronian colony world [[Probat (planet)|Probat]] would come to worship him as their savior after he helped set up an energon refinery on their homeworld. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 1}} However, this period in his life would end disastrously; under unrevealed circumstances, Bumblebee would be expelled from Security Operations. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}} Eventually, Bumblebee joined Cybertron's search and rescue division; {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} ''how'' exactly this came about is unknown, but Bumblebee would later note that he was in "debt" to Senator [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]]. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}}

With Cybertron's ability to forge new [[protoform]]s limited by the terms of the [[Nominus Edict]], Bumblebee was overjoyed when he learned that he had been selected to mentor one such new Transformer, and introduce them to every facet of life on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}} Bumblebee first met his new charge, a little 'bot named [[Rubble]], at the customary forging ceremony that marked Rubble's proper introduction to the world. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Four}} {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}} Under Bumblebee's tutelage, Rubble learned more and more about life on Cybertron and the many potential careers available to him; however, this era of Cybertronian society was also a volatile one, with [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s [[Decepticon|Ascenticon]] rallies inflaming an already fraught political situation. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} Bumblebee remained disinterested in politics, however, and chose not to affiliate with the Autobots, Ascenticons, or any of the minor political parties represented in the Cybertronian Senate. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}}

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One evening, on Rubble's forty-first cycle of existence, Bumblebee took his young ward to the badlands that lay beyond Iacon so as to introduce him to [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], who worked at a nearby [[energon transmission station]]. After meeting a [[Voin]] scavenger and Windblade, the three made it to the station... only to learn that Brainstorm had been murdered, {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} in a way that seemingly incriminated the violent Ascenticon splinter group known as "[[The Rise]]." Wanting to shield Rubble from this unpleasant business, and uninterested in dealing with [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]'s [[Security Operations]] taskforce, Bumblebee instead shuttled Rubble to the next leg of their journey, the massive space elevator known as the [[Tether]], which connected Cybertron to the [[Winged Moon]]. Bumblebee introduced Rubble to [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], and left him for the day so that Rubble could experience life as part of Wheeljack's engineering corps... but not before warning him to keep quiet regarding Brainstorm's death. That evening, Bumblebee returned to pick up Rubble, and the pair watched as the Winged Moon began its nightly harvest while Bumblebee filled in his protégé on Cybertron's political situation. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}}

Later, Bumblebee tried teaching Rubble about [[alternate mode]]s, even using the passing shape of [[Leviathan (G1)|Leviathan]] as an object lesson, though Rubble was more interested in the moon. Bumblebee promised that they would visit the Winged Moon one day; however, he was called away by the [[Senate]] before he could finish the lesson. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}} Bumblebee spoke with Orion Pax, worried that a botched attack at Megatron's latest Ascenticon rally had been suspiciously incompetent, requested that Bumblebee join the recently founded [[Ascenticon Guard]] in order to keep an eye on Megatron's operations. Though initially hesitant, Bumblebeee's debt to Orion compelled him to agree; {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}} over the coming days, Bumblebee attended a forging celebration with Rubble, and intervened in a scuffle between an Autobot and an Ascenticon sympathizer, before leaving Rubble again to attend Brainstorm's funeral. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Four}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPartFive-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Bumblebee would never trust dating sites again.]]

Some time afterwards, Bumblebee would finally contact the Ascenticons and request permission to join the Guard, leaving Rubble to walk home by himself after another shift on the Tether. While he expected to deal with his friend [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], he instead found himself confronted by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], who planted an [[electromagnetic damper]] to ensure that their conversation wold not be monitored. Revealing that he had once been expelled from Security Operations, Bumblebee confessed that he found the Ascenticons and their message of stability resonated with him... and that, more than anything, he wanted to ensure that Rubble would enjoy a safe future. Tragically, the electromagnetic damper meant that Bumblebee was unaware that Rubble was calling him for help—his young friend had encountered the unstable Ascenticon [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], and was swiftly beaten to death by the Ascenticon berserker. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Five}}

Learning of Rubble's fate, but not his killer, Bumblebee fell into a deep, guilt-ridden depression, despite the best efforts of both Windblade and Orion. Finally galvanized to avenge Rubble by ensuring that nobody else would have to experience what he experienced, Bumblebee met with Elita-1 at [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|Ascenticon Headquarters]] and announced his intentions to join the Guard. Despite the mockery of fellow recruits [[Flywheels|Skytread]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Refraktor]], Bumblebee was able to best them both in physical combat before Elita separated them. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}} Bumblebee's attitude impressed Elita, who wished that her fellow Guard members possessed his professionalism. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}} Another ex-security 'bot, [[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]], quickly joined the Guard, far more easily than 'Bee had, which caused the yellow Autobot to suspect something was amiss. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}}

[[File:TheChangeInYourNaturePt1 BumblebeeBeatsSkytread.jpg|thumb|left|250px|How Krillin wins most of his fights too.]]

Shortly before [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]'s return to Cybertron, Bumblebee and Elita were assigned to guard Megatron himself as he made his way to the Senate, and stood guard outside. However, an anti-Ascenticon protest quickly became a mob, and the pair were pushed into using physical force to get them to disperse. In the aftermath, Bumblebee and Elita both wondered if their actions felt right. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Four}} Bumblebee later spoke with Pax, who offered to let him leave the Guard in light of Rubble's demise, only for Bumblebee to double down on the mission. When the Ascenticons prepared for an attack that evening, Bumblebee followed the shifty looking Barricade, coming to blows with [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] and his cell of [[The Rise|Risers]] only to be electrocuted by Skytread. That night, Bumblebee was part of the group shot as Megatron rebranded the Ascenticons. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}}

After receiving the new insignia, Bumblebee went to confront Skytread, contemptuously decking the [[Duocon]], before Elita pulled him away for a scolding. Far from being intimidated, Bumblebee pointed out the suspicious nature of Barricade's abduction and later tried to hack into Soundwave's files to discover the truth. When Elita found out, she decided to humor him, finding that both Barricade and Quake's profiles had been deleted, the latter on the same cycle that Rubble had died, by Soundwave himself. The communications chief then arrived and told them both to come with him to the [[Cybertronian Mountains]]. Elita warned Bumblebee that they'd gotten extremely lucky this time. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

When the trio arrived, Soundwave waved [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] aside and went off to negotiate with the Risers holed up within the immersant [[Titan (group)|Titan]]. As Elita questioned Soundwave's choice of words, Bumblebee jumped in after the Senator overhearing some of the negotiation. When Soundwave made to leave, Bumblebee scampered back to the surface, noting to Elita that the [[electromagnetic suppressor]] had been left behind, before Soundwave arrived with a falsified account of events. Off to the side, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] questioned his spy, [[Reflector (G1)|Refraktor]] on when Bumblebee had joined the Guard before the Titan's corpse exploded. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

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Shortly afterwards, Bumblebee made his way to Orion and Chromia and reported his findings to them. After the two confirmed his information, Orion revealed the mounting evidence that Quake had killed Rubble. Though initially angry at this deception, Bumblebee soon accepted Pax's reasoning for concealing this information. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Three}} In one of their discussions, Starscream revealed to Megatron some information of Bumblebee's expulsion from Security Operations and planted the seeds of doubt in the former gladiator's mind regarding the yellow 'bot, enough that he consulted Elita-1, who had nothing but good things to say about her friend. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Four}}

After the Tether fell, Megatron decided that both Elita and Bumblebee had served their purposes, arranging for [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] and [[Catgut]] to assassinate the ex-Security Operative. Delegated by Skytread, now the head of the Guard, to search for survivors in the wreckage, Bumblebee, suspecting a trap, called Chromia for backup. After finding a mangled corpse, Bumblebee was assaulted by Catgut but managed to quickly shake him off only to be pounced on by Treadshot. Though managing to hold both off, Bumblebee was left near death before Chromia arrived and scared the two off. After Chromia confirmed that the Guard had abandoned him, she relieved Bumblebee of his mission and praised him for a job well done. Despondently, Bumblebee disagreed noting that he hadn't changed anything and that Rubble was still dead. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}}

His cover now exposed, Bumblebee was put under witness protection by Security and hidden in a safe house. Guarded by [[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]], he chafed at being inactive while those he held responsible for Rubble's murder still ran free. Windblade paid him a welcome visit, but they were interrupted by a massive hologram of Megatron that appeared over Iacon to decry the Autobots. Windblade departed after that, leaving Bumblebee to continuing stewing in his perceived helplessness. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}}

[[File:Prisoners BumblebeeQuake.jpg|thumb|left|250px|He wants to get at Barricade as well... looks like Bee's been taking notes from [[Bumblebee (Movie)|his Movie self]].]]

After Quake was finally apprehended, [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] made a spectacle of his capture, having the murderer paraded through the streets. Bumblebee watched the procession from his safe house with Stakeout, worryingly noting how many Ascenticon supporters were in the crowds, When a riot erupted and the bound Quake managed to make a break for it, Bumblebee immediately left the house, determined to prevent the killer's escape. He caught up with Quake in an alley, with the vicious Ascenticon having just fended off an attack by the Voin, who were also seeking retribution upon him. Freed of his bonds and gravely wounded, Quake slowly began to shift into his tank mode for a getaway. Fearing Quake would escape justice again, Bumblebee seized one of the Voin's fallen swords and leaped onto Quake's back while he was transforming. He stabbed Quake straight through the back of the neck, then wrenched the brute's entire [[spark]] chamber and head clean out of his body, killing him. Stakeout and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] caught up to the scene to find Bumblebee kneeling next to Quake's corpse and had no choice but to place him under arrest. Smokescreen tried to tell the Bumblebee that it was over, but the spy grimly noted that Barricade was still out there, unpunished. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Prisoners|Prisoners}}

Imprisoned, Bumblebee was paid a visit by Starscream, who told him that things were going to drastically change on Cybertron ''very'' shortly and proposed an alliance. Starscream promised his protection when the spy's recent covert actions were brought to light, but Bumblebee remained silent and unmoved by the offer. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: We Have Deceived You|We Have Deceived You}} Bumblebee was then broken free from prison by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] and reluctantly joined his group, though Bumblebee only cared about getting revenge on Barricade. After arriving at Swindle's hidden bunker beneath [[Swindle's|his casino]], Bumblebee was surprised to see numerous [[Simultronic|multiworld simulation]] couches and the long-missing [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] sealed in one. {{storylink|War World: Hunt|Hunt}}

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During his time working for Swindle, his boss passed on an anonymous tip that Elita-1 was set to be moved to a Decepticon prison facility that night. Realizing that he had a debt to pay, Bumblebee joined forces with Swindle's hitmen [[Charger]] and [[Fire Beast]] to interrupt the transfer and ran into Barricade by accident. Bumblebee was initially prepared to kill Barricade for his role in Rubble's murder, but changed his mind upon remembering his time with Orion Pax before Rubble's forging ceremony and decided to be a better 'bot. Upon returning to Swindle's, and learning that his boss had somehow obtained information relating to the lost [[Enigma of Combination]], Bumblebee suggested getting in contact with the Autobots to pass this information on. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}}

When a small team of Autobots infiltrated Iacon to rescue [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] from Decepticon captivity, the Decepticons retaliated by launching an attack on Swindle's bar. Bumblebee and Elita-1 joined the battle on the side of the Autobots and joined them when they used a hidden network of subterranean tunnels to retreat back to [[Crystal City]]. On the way back, Bumblebee gladly reunited with his friend Windblade. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}}

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The group returned to Crystal City in time to fend off the Decepticon assault, but Bumblebee first met with the newly-minted Optimus Prime, who'd become the leader of the Autobots after he inherited the Matrix from his predecessor. Although Prime apologized for having led his friend down this dark path, Bumblebee told Prime that he'd already forgiven him and would be joining the other Autobots in battle. Soon, however, the Decepticon advance forced the Autobots into a retreat until the Titan [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]] arrived to shift the tide. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}} Although the arrival of reinforcements and the threat of a resurgent [[Exarchon]] prompted Optimus and Megatron to agree on a temporary truce, the battle left Crystal City in ruins and prompted the Autobots as they set out for [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. While on the way, however, [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] and his soldiers took advantage of a swarm of onrushing [[rust worm]]s to box in the Autobots with an artillery barrage and leave them easy prey for the monsteres. {{storylink|Radical Time}} As the Autobots struggled to keep the worms at bay, Prime's ally [[Termagax]] successfully reprogrammed the [[Insecticon clone|Insecticlone]]s, who promptly began devouring the worms. As the Autobots trekked through the liquid rust that the worms left behind, they came under attack from an [[imploder]]-wielding [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and the other Decepticons. {{storylink|End of Time}}

{{spoiler|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|July 29 2022}}

Thanks to some Autobot intervention, Prime and the others successfully made it to Darkmount to begin the final phase of their evacuation. As the Decepticons laid siege to the city to prevent them from leaving the planet, Optimus entreated Bumblebee not to lose himself to anger and become someone Rubble wouldn't recognize, and Bumblebee promised he wouldn't. When [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] made a last stand to cover the Autobots' escape, Bumblebee helped usher a hesitant Optimus away, and they boarded the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' to leave the planet. [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]], Sky Lynx, and the ''Ark'' headed toward the ruins of the Winged Moon, and as Optimus Prime gave a speech to the assembled Autobots on approach, a somber Bumblebee was reminded of Rubble's amazement at seeing the Moon for the first time. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}

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====Alternate future====
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In an alternate future where Exarchon had conquered Cybertron, Bumblebee led a small group of Cybertronian rebels—[[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]], [[Swift (G1)|Swift]], and [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]]—against the Threefold Spark, and had been forced to subsist on [[Nucleon (substance)|nucleon]] for so long that they'd lost the ability to transform. The group rescued a time-tossed [[Jumpstream]] from Thraal mercenaries and tried to get to safety before [[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] and [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] ambushed and slaughtered his team. With time running out, Bumblebee donated his last reserves of nucleon to Jumpstream so that she could recharge her teleport harness and return home, moments before Bumblebee made his final stand against the next wave of Exarchon's warriors. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II|Test Flight II}}

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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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Bumblebee joined Optimus and the other Autobots as they battled the Decepticons near a [[space bridge]], until a bizarre space-time warp pulled them into the Japan of an alternate universe. On arriving, Prime and his men encountered the recently defeated [[Baron Ashura]]; the evil cyborg misled the heroes into supporting the nefarious [[Doctor Hell]] and his [[Iron Mask Army]] in their campaign against [[Kōji Kabuto]]'s [[Mazinger Z]]. Not realizing the nature of the deception, Prime and the other Autobots obligingly supported their new ally when Ashura and the [[Mechanical Beast]]s made a second run on the [[Photonic Power Laboratory]], but found themselves outmatched by the human-built super robots. Amidst the mayhem, Mazinger Z grabbed Bumblebee; Optimus's concern for the smallest Autobot prompted him to call off the attack so that they could free their comrade, and Optimus's concern for his soldier spurred a realization from Kōji: these new robots talked, unlike the Mechanical Beasts he fought. Realizing that they'd been on the wrong side all along, the Autobots teamed up with Mazinger Z and [[Boss Borot]], drove the villains off, then formally introduced themselves to each other.

As the Autobots got to know their new friends, Bumblebee, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] faced off against Kōji in a game of [[Mecha-soccer|soccer]] until a combined Mechanical Beast-Decepticon alliance launched another attack on the Photonic Power Laboratory. Bumblebee joined Grimlock and Boss Borot as they faced off against the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s; the arrival of the [[Jet Scrander]] turned the tide in favor of the Autobots until Starscream arrived, now sporting a gigantic Mazinger body! Autobots, Decepticons, Mazinger, and Mechanical Beasts alike teamed up to try and bring down the out-of-control "Mazinscream", but the dramatic battle ended with the photonic power fatally overloading his body, creating a rift that sucked the other Cybertronians back to their own dimension to continue their war. {{storylink|Mazinger Z versus Transformers}}

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===''Transformers/Ghostbusters''===
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Bumblebee was among the Autobots who fled Cybertron at the end of the Great War, being spared the destruction of Cybertron and the near-extinction of the Cybertronian race at the hands of [[Gozer]]. A thousand or so years later, Cliffjumper and Bumblebee's attention was seized by [[Ectotron|Ectronymous Diamatron]]'s eager shout. Running the two minibots were shocked to see that a Cybertronian signal had been picked up from the nearby Earth, Bumblebee dragging Ectronymous to inform Optimus Prime of these findings while reminding the scientist of the importance of addressing people by their proper titles that they'd worked so hard to attain. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 1}}

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===''Transformers vs. The Terminator''===
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Before the war, Bumblebee was a member of Cybertron's search and rescue division, but later became a scout for the Autobots. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}} When the eruption of [[Mount St. Hilary]] reactivated the Cybertronians aboard the ''Ark'', Megatron killed Optimus Prime and went on to conquer the Earth. Though Bumblebee survived their first attack on the starship, he died at some point before the creation of [[Skynet]], and by the year [[2029]] his corpse was part of a mass Cybertronian grave in the ruins of downtown [[Los Angeles]]. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part One}} {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}

In an attempt to negate this timeline, a lone [[T-800]] travelled back in time to when the ''Ark'' was reactivated in 1984. The unit's unwilling companion, a waitress named [[Sarah Connor]] managed to direct the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s repair beam on Bumblebee, his reactivation proving incentive enough for the Decepticons to fall back for the time being. As Bumblebee helped Prime up, the T-800 attacked again before Sarah called for calm. Though thoroughly unmoved by the robot's origin story, Bumblebee agreed to work with it after Optimus proposed an alliance. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Two}}

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After [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] had been healed, Bumblebee bonded with Sarah before being assigned to take her home. After a stopover at [[Stockton]] so Sarah could make a change of clothes, the two found the Decepticons attacking a [[Cyberdyne Systems]] facility. After calling for backup, Bumblebee was found by Skywarp. Though failing to have Skywarp crash into Megatron, Bumblebee was saved by the arrival of the other Autobots. Shielding Sarah from the blasts, he instructed her to flee and contact the ''Ark'' for reinforcements. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}

Though Arcee had managed to slay [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]], the Autobots were still outnumbered and boxed in. A chance came when Starscream turned on the Decepticons and shot Soundwave in the back. Taking advantage of the distraction, Arcee downed the other two Seekers while Bumblebee and Velocity maneuvered the other two Insecticons into disabling each other. Sarah then called out to Bumblebee, informing him that the ''Ark'' hadn't answered, and requesting his help in assisting the now bisected T-800. Bumblebee tossed the android to Velocity who tossed him to Arcee who lobbed him into Megatron's open wound, killing the warlord. In the aftermath, Bumblebee comforted Sarah but she turned down his offer to come with him. Arriving back to the ''Ark'', the Autobots and Decepticons found it destroyed by the duplicitous T-800 before Optimus Prime proposed a truce, one that was quickly agreed to. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Four}}

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===Precursor World===
A [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] resembling a blue Bumblebee was a member of the [[Blue Order]] of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. He and his comrades followed their commander [[Blue Big Convoy]] into battle when a duel between [[G1 World|dimension-tossed]] future warriors [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (1)|Ultra Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] threatened the [[Blue Planet (GS)|Blue Planet]] and [[Beast People|its people]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 2}}

In short order the battle went sideways when the traitorous [[Straxus (G1)#Precursor World|Straxus twins]] unleashed a rage virus to destroy the corps from within, and the Warrior was slain in the ensuing free-for-all. Vanguard supreme leader [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] later loaded his lingering [[spark]] into his [[Golden Noah]] in an attempt to ferry his soul to the [[G1 World|next world]]. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}} Unfortunately, this did not work. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Part 2|Finale 2}}

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===''War For Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Joe Zieja]] (English), [[Ryōhei Kimura]] (Japanese)|[[Daniele Raffaeli]] (Italian), [[Gil Mesquita]] (Portuguese), [[Guillaume Bourboulon]] (French), [[Boris Tessmann]] (German), [[Fernando Cabrera]] (Castilian Spanish), [[José Antonio Macías]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Mohak Ninad]] (Hindi)}}

[[File:SiegeEp1-BumblebeeWheeljack.jpg|thumb|left|300px|It's like Sunbow, but with more sandblasting.]]

Bumblebee used to go racing on [[Velocitron]], traveling via Cybertronian [[space bridge]]s, until they were destroyed by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Siege episode 1}} Much later into the civil war, Bumblebee remained a neutral energon scavenger who wanted no part in the raging Autobot-Decepticon conflict, and frequently traded with the unaligned mercenary [[Soundblaster (G1)|Soundblaster]]. {{storylink|Siege episode 5}} At one point, the Autobots hired him for an energon procurement mission along with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]. The pair discovered a disused space bridge along with a cache of energon, but despite Wheeljack's enthusiasm Bumblebee bluntly reminded him that he had no interest in helping the Autobots beyond what they paid him for—but the subsequent arrival of both Optimus ''and'' Megatron forced Bumblebee's hand, and the yellow 'bot made the decision to retreat with the Autobots back to their base aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. Though Bumblebee accepted medical aid from [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], he again refused to assist the Autobots in their mission and left. {{storylink|Siege episode 1}} Later, Bumblebee stole a cache of Energon that had been deliberately planted by the Decepticons as bait for the Autobot forces. {{storylink|Siege episode 2}}

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Bumblebee tried to return to his old life, but while accepting payment for the stolen shipment he suddenly found himself overwhelmed by a surge of energy—one that contained the ancient [[Alpha Trion Protocols]] that [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] had carried and was activated due to his recent death. Realizing that he had been pulled into something greater against his will, Bumblebee tried to return to the ''Ark'' to seek out Prime's assistance but instead found himself pulled into his own mind where he confronted a simulacrum of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] himself; Bumblebee learned that he had been chosen to carry this information to support Optimus Prime in his efforts to escape, information that included a map to the [[AllSpark]] itself. {{storylink|Siege episode 4}}

While Prime led a team to secure the AllSpark in anticipation of their final evacuation effort, Bumblebee, Arcee, and [[Cog (G1)|Cog]] traveled to Soundblaster's fortress to try and gain control of the mercenary's large supply of energon, but found themselves outmatched and outgunned by the mercenary and his guards. {{storylink|Siege episode 5}} Before the guards could finish them off, however, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s computer virus attacked the base, which caused a power outage and knocked Bumblebee unconscious; by the time he awoke in the ''Ark''{{'}}s medical bay, he discovered that the virus had attacked his mind and erased the Alpha Trion Protocols from his systems. Undaunted, Bumblebee nevertheless took up arms and help repel the Decepticon invasion force. Bumblebee then took part in the final battle on the site of the reactivated spacebridge and bought time for Optimus to throw the AllSpark through the portal and put it beyond Megatron's grasp, with the assistance of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. Bumblebee then joined the Autobots as they boarded the ''Ark'' and lifted off. {{storylink|Siege episode 6}}

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The trip through the space bridge knocked everyone aboard the ''Ark'' offline. Bumblebee was the first to recover; upon encountering his doppelganger [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and discovered that a crew of [[Mercenary|Mercenaries]] led by [[Doubledealer]] had boarded their ship and were in the process of towing it to the planet [[Chaar]] to meet with their employer [[Deseeus]]. The insane [[Quintesson]] planned to kill the Cybertronian captives, but despite Bumblebee's desire to strike first the Mercenaries turned on the Quintessons and gave the Autobots a chance to escape amidst the confusion. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 2}}

At some point afterwards, Bumblebee decided to officially join the Autobots and marked the occasion by painting their insignia on his chest. While discussing his change of heart with Optimus, the Autobot leader admitted he'd been wrong to jettison the AllSpark and that they needed to find the artifact before their planet died. Upon arriving at the nearby [[Nebulos]] system to use a spacebridge, the Autobots found the bridge blocked by the derelict [[Nebulon Station]]. Optimus and Bumblebee travelled into the station to plant explosive charges, and found the other side of the bridge led to a lush world of ruined cities. After arming their bombs, the pair received a distress signal from Wheeljack and arrived to find their teammates under attack from [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. Despite momentarily seeing off Scorpoonk, Megatron's group of Decepticons finally caught up with the Autobots. Bumblebee took part in the ensuing battle against Starscream and Soundwave until a wounded Megatron and Optimus arrived. When Scorponok returned, Bumblebee deduced that Scorponok's head was his weak point and ordered everyone to aim for the head. While the Decepticons were distracted, Bumblebee and the others escaped. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 4}}

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After a trip through the [[Dead Universe]], {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}} both the ''Ark'' and the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' materialized over prehistoric [[Earth]], where they came under attack from Deseeus, who'd hijacked both the Mercenaries and their starship. In the chaotic three-way battle, the Autobots and Decepticons first teamed up to take the Quintesson out of the fight before the Decepticons boarded the ''Ark''. As Megatron overpowered Prime and stole the Matrix from his chest, Bumblebee managed to intervene just in time and caused the Decepticon leader to retreat with his prize. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

Following the crash, Bumblebee observed some native creatures behaving oddly using the ship's sensors. When these creatures attacked, they were revealed to be the [[Maximal]]s, time-travelling Cybertronians from a dystopian future in which the AllSpark never returned to Cybertron. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} After agreeing to help the Maximals recover the AllSpark, Bumblebee stayed behind aboard the ''Ark'' with Wheeljack, Ratchet, and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] to help get their ship spaceworthy again. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 2}} When it seemed that Prime might not survive the battle, the Autobot leader contacted Bumblebee and told him that if he didn't make it back then Bumblebee would lead the Autobots in his place. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 3}}

[[File:KingdomEp5-GoldenDisk.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey, this thing plays Chuck Berry!"]]

By the time that Optimus had recovered the AllSpark and the Matrix, Wheeljack and his team had repaired the ''Ark'', but weren't able to achieve liftoff. As the Autobots and Maximals boarded the ''Ark'' ahead of a full-scale Decepticon-[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] invasion, Bumblebee received a panicked transmission from Starscream, who had used the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] to divine the future, and had come to the disturbing conclusion that the entire war had been orchestrated by some malevolent architect. Admitting that he didn't have the strength to do what was needed, he passed the Disk to Bumblebee, who promptly shattered it before advising Starscream to confront the future with courage. As the ''Nemesis'' hammered the Autobot starship with firepower, Optimus ordered a full-scale evacuation... only for the ''Ark'' itself to assume a towering robot mode and take out the Decepticon starship once and for all. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}}

Once they'd taken the remaining Decepticons and Predacons captive, the Autobots jumped home to Cybertron using the space bridge network, but after crash-landing on the planet discovered that Cybertron was now a dead, frozen world without the AllSpark. Optimus Prime commanded Bumblebee to salvage what was left of Iacon with the others, though he instead ran off to follow Optimus. As Bumblebee did his best to console Optimus upon discovering the frozen corpse of Elita-1, the time-travelling [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] attacked. While Prime held off his evil doppelganger, Bumblebee was able to make his escape and brought the AllSpark to the [[Temple of the Allspark]] nearby. After being recognized as the keeper of the Alpha Trion Protocols, Bumblebee was able to return the artifact to its rightful place, which brought countless Cybertronian spirits back to the material world to mark the rebirth of their homeworld. With the planet restored, Bumblebee and the other Autobots and Maximals came together with the Decepticons and Predacons to mark a tentative end to the Great War. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}}
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====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Bumblebee-art.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
Closer than ever to reaching the [[AllSpark]], the Autobots awakened after crash-landing on pre-Ice Age Earth. While battling the Decepticons, both sides were joined by the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s, their epic battle changing their combined destinies.

Bumblebee's function was keeper of the [[Alpha Trion Protocols]], and he [[trans-scan]]ed into an Earth car. The Alpha Trion Protocols and his [[Stinger (weapon)|sting blaster]] were his powers and weapons, and his core traits were his candid attitude, steadfastness, and passion. Bumblebee's message from the future was that not all orders should be followed. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

After obtaining the Allspark, Bumblebee escaped through a [[space bridge]] to protect it from the Decepticons. Arriving in an alternate universe, he faced new beast threats including [[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]] and [[Brisko]], [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], and [[Nemesis Primal]]. {{storylink|Source:Buzzworthy Bumblebee Worlds Collide|Worlds Collide}}

In a possible destiny recorded on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|''Voyager'' Golden Disk]], Bumblebee bore witness to Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] leading Cybertron to a new golden age. {{storylink|Source:Golden Disk destinies|''Kingdom'' Golden Disk cards}}
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===''My Little Pony/Transformers''===
[[File:Finale-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

While battling for control of a malfunctioning [[Space bridge|spacebridge]], Bumblebee was among the many Cybertronians [[magic]]ally transported to [[Equestria]] by [[Queen Chrysalis]]. As he and Optimus fell victim to the planet's gravity field, they were saved by [[Twilight Sparkle]]. After being informed that the ponies had never seen Cybertronians, Bumblebee displayed his vehicle mode as an idea of blending in only to be informed that the ponies weren't a judgmental species and would likely accept their robot modes. {{storylink|Transformation Is Magic}}

Bumblebee, Optimus, and Twilight traveled across Equestria gathering allies in anticipation of a final showdown against Megatron's forces, arrived at the [[Crystal Empire]] just in time to prevent the Decepticon-changeling alliance from conquering the city. Bumblebee complimented [[Princess Cadance]]'s taste in decorations, then stood by as several [[unicorn]]s blasted [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] with their combined magic power. Once the villains had been vanquished and the Decepticons banished back to Cybertron, he and the other Autobots took part in their goodbye party before traveling back to Cybertron and severing the link between their two worlds. {{storylink|Finale (Friendship in Disguise!)|Finale}}

During [[King Sombra]]'s invasion of Cybertron, Bumblebee took part in the final battle against Sombra and his minions. He struggled against a brainwashed [[Pinkie Pie]] and [[Fluttershy]] before [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] attacked, and later came under attack from [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] before [[Spike (MLP)|Spike]] helped him return his friends to normal. After the day was saved, he saw the ponies off at the spacebridge. {{storylink|Finale (The Magic of Cybertron)|Finale}}

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===''Transformers/Back to the Future''===

[[File:BTTFTF1-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

In the year [[1985]], Bumblebee was scouting [[Hill Valley]] where he found [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] in the [[Lyon Estates]] neighborhood, clashing with them as he updated Optimus Prime. When the humans [[Doc Brown]] and [[Marty McFly]] stumbled on the battle, everyone reverted to alternate mode, Bumblebee taking the chance to kill Ravage by crushing him under his tire. After Rumble had fled, Bumblebee bore witness to Brown using a modified Delorean to [[time travel]] before he set out for the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 1|Transformers/Back to the Future #1}}

In an altered timeline where [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] had reactivated [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] early and allowed for a complete Decepticon takeover of Earth, Bumblebee and [[Gigawatt]] had joined [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]'s Autobot resistance by the year [[2015]]. After Gigawatt had brought [[Marty McFly]] and [[Skilz]] to join the resistance, {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 2|Transformers/Back to the Future #2}} the group received a distress signal from Hill Valley. Discovering that Marty's parents and Doc Brown were to be executed, the Autobots were forced to run in after Marty, with Bumblebee facing off against [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]. Once the Decepticons had been defeated, however, the Hill Valley courthouse revealed itself as the Decepticon [[Watchtower]]. {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 3|Transformers/Back to the Future #3}} Pitted against the enormous Decepticon Bumblebee, Rodimus, and Skilz did what they could to buy time for Marty and Gigawatt to make their escape back to the past, but Bumblebee soon fell to the giant's heavy artillery.

When Marty and Gigawatt travelled back to 1984, they awoke the Autobots ahead of schedule and prevented Rumble from reactivating Megatron and the other Decepticons. With the help of [[Biff Tannen]], the Autobots became secret protectors of Earth and maintained their position for thirty years until 2015, when a time-travelling Marty caught up with them to return the original DeLorean time machine to its owner. {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 4|Transformers/Back to the Future #4}}

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===''Transformers Fan Book''===
When [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and Bumblebee detected some energon at an arcade, they decide to play one of the games, hoping that they would get it as a prize. {{storylink|Transformers Fan Book 2021}}

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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:PunchClonescommercial-Goldbug.jpg|left|thumb|300px|They finally remembered to draw his model sheet's latissimus dorsi trapezoid!]]
[[File:Micromasterbasescommercial.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Also I've brought in this little blue microcassette recorder, Prime!"]]
*Goldbug looked on as [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] handed their agent [[Punch (G1)|Punch]] an important device to carry. Punch assured the Autobots that they could trust him, and he sped off... to meet with the Decepticons! {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Punch and Clones|Punch/Counterpunch and Clones commercial}}
*Bumblebee was reunited with Optimus, emerging from his shell alongside Jazz and running up to help him fight Starscream in a darkened city. Prime gave them both a hug. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Classic Pretenders|Classic Pretenders commercial}}
*Bumblebee and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] managed to capture two of the Decepticons' Micromaster vehicles, and hauled them within an Autobot base to show [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]]. The Autobots were sent scrambling when a team of Decepticon Micromasters sprung up, and transformed the vehicles into mini-bases, using them to attack Bumblebee and company! {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Micromaster micro bases|Micromaster micro bases commercial}}
*"Bot Shots" Bumblebee burst through a display of the Bot Shots toyline, and exclaimed "BOT SHOTS!" before lunging forwards with his fist. {{storylink|Commercial#Bot Shots|Bot Shots toy commercial}}
*"Hero Mashers" Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Grimlock took on Megatron in the middle of a busy city. After Optimus started swapping pieces with everyone, Bumblebee and Grimlock took a break from the fight to arm wrestle. They were interrupted by Optimus crashing between them, and the Autobots scrambled their pieces into one another to take down Megatron for good. The trio then returned to their normal configurations (though it took them more than one try to do so!) {{storylink|Commercial#Hero Mashers|Hero Mashers commercial}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
Bumblebee was amongst the Autobots abducted and held captive by the Decepticons, prompting Optimus Prime to enter the Decepticons' maze-like base in a rescue operation. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===The Transformers (1985)===
Bumblebee was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}

===The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth===
[[File:C64Bumblebee.gif|thumb|upright=1.4]]

Along with his fellow Autobots, Bumblebee protected Earth from the menace of the Decepticons. He was ostensibly under the command of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth}}
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===Transformers: Mystery of Convoy===
Bumblebee could come to Ultra Magnus's (or Rodimus Prime's) aid under special circumstances at certain points during the mission to uncover Optimus Prime's whereabouts. Upon destroying a red, white and orange seeker, Ultra Magnus/Rodimus Prime would be escorted by Bumblebee to another location, allowing to bypass entire areas that the Autobot would have to otherwise battled their way through. The first possible instance of this occurring is in the [[Temple Ruins]], with Bumblebee leading the Autobot warrior to the [[Subspace Zone]]. Bumblebee could come to the Autobot's aid once more in the [[Glacier Zone]], leading them directly to the [[Underground Machine City]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Mystery of Convoy}}
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===3D Battle-Card Game===
Bumblebee was one of [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in a fight against [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s Decepticon army. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}

===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{voiceactor|[[Jack Merluzzi]]}}

Bumblebee was one of the Autobots present on [[Zel Samine]] during the Decepticon attacks. He joined up with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s party after they secured the wind power plant from the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

===''Transformers Battle Circuit''===
Bumblebee, one of the "greatest Transformers of all time," was part of an Autobot team that participated in a tournament on Cybertron. He faced off against a team of Decepticons in a series of one-on-one matches. If he managed to defeat Menasor, Trypticon, Astrotrain, Starscream and Megatron, Bumblebee was declared to be the tournament's champion! {{storylink|Transformers Battle Circuit}}

===''Sector Seven'' game===
Footage of "NBE A684" was captured within a parking garage by a security camera, where it transformed out of its Volkswagen Beetle mode and stomped on another nearby vehicle. This footage was later leaked onto the internet. {{storylink|Sector Seven (game)}}

===''Transformers G1: Awakening''===
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Bumblebee was among the Autobots who left Cybertron in the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], and spent four million years in stasis after the ship crashed on Earth thanks to a Decepticon attack. When he woke up, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] gave him the news that most of the other Autobots were damaged and needed [[energon]] to wake them up. Bumblebee was soon put to work gathering energy from nearby power plants. He was soon overjoyed when Optimus Prime was recovered enough to lead them again. After discovering the Decepticon [[space bridge]], the Autobots used it to return to Cybertron, only to find that [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had conquered it. Stripped of their weapons, they were imprisoned, but Bumblebee and Ratchet soon escaped and freed their fellows, leading to an escape back to Earth.

Following more adventures on Earth, including helping [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and repelling an assault on the Ark, Bumblebee and the other Autobots returned to Cybertron, intending to free their enslaved fellows there. Bumblebee scouted the fortress, allowing them to take out the defenses by taking out the power generators. After fighting their way through more Decepticons, Optimus and Bumblebee found themselves confronting Shockwave himself. Though Prime ordered Bumblebee to go free as many Autobots as possible, Bumblebee staunchly stood by his leader, and they soon defeated Shockwave with Grimlock's help. {{storylink|Transformers G1: Awakening}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
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Bumblebee participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}

===Transformers Legends===
In the early days of the war, Bumblebee and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] battled [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] and [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]], who were under orders to breach Iacon's defences. The Autobots emerged victorious when [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] awakened and joined the fray. {{storylink|Assault on Iacon}} On their way back to Iacon after an energon scavenging mission, Bumblebee and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] were forced to evade a Decepticon team headed by [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye (Legends)|More than Meets the Eye}}

Bumblebee, having received impressive new upgrades making him capable of "incredible feats of bravery and heroism", recruited Gears, Huffer, and Beachcomber to form the [[Bee Team (G1)|Bee Team]], a secret strike force. The Deluxe [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], led by [[Venom (G1)|Venom]], managed to stop them attacking Decepticon bases. {{storylink|The Bee Team}} Bumblebee took part in the defense of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] during a Decepticon assault, but was unable to prevent their advance. {{storylink|One Shall Fall...}} Bumblebee led a team including [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to hunt down the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] before they could do too much damage to the Autobot forces. {{storylink|Call of the Primitives (Legends)|Call of the Primitives}} Bumblebee and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] spent a night out testing [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]'s new sound system, only to return to base and find that the other Autobots had been turned evil thanks to Megatron's sabotage of the [[recharging chamber]]. While Sparkplug worked on an antidote, Bumblebee and Jazz went to halt the Autobot attack on [[Rutter U.S. Military Base|Rutter Military Base]]. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots (Legends)|Attack of the Autobots}}

When [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and his minions set their sights on the secrets of [[Gravitronic Energy]], Bumblebee and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] had to save the human scientists and their research. {{storylink|Box Trap}}

Bumblebee was among the Transformers who attempted to make contact with the [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]], and subsequently had to battle it. {{storylink|Revelation (Legends)|Revalation}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Chuck (AB)#As Bumblebee}}
Bumblebee appears as the second unlockable character. He is portrayed by Chuck. He also appears as [[Chuck (AB)#As Energon Bumblebee|Energon]], [[Chuck (AB)#As High-Octane Bumblebee|High-Octane]] and [[Chuck (AB)#As Classic Bumblebee|Classic]] versions. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
Bumblebee participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He appeared in four different bodies:
*''Bumblebee'' — This Common character could be recruited by collecting 12 units of cybermetal.
*''Bumblebee (Gen)'' — This Uncommon character could be recruited by collecting 45 units of cybermetal and 20 units of transmetal.
*''Goldfire'' — This Uncommon character could be recruited by collecting 135 units of cybermetal and 64 units of transmetal.
*''Bumblebee (G2)'' — This Super Rare character first appeared in the "Generation 2 Episode 1 " event, and could be recruited by collecting 250 units of cybermetal, 75 units of transmetal, 35 event cores, and 10 cores of this character.
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===''Transformers: Devastation''===
{{voiceactor|[[Dan Gilvezan]]}}
Bumblebee accompanied Optimus Prime in his mission to stop Megatron. He used his small size and agility to great effect against the Decepticons, dodging or even sliding between the legs of larger opponents to score back-shots against them. When things got tough, he would deploy a barrage of grenades to clear out opponents. While exploring the ''[[Proudstar]]'', Bumblebee was told his future by [[Teletraan Alpha]], who revealed he will one day be known as "The World's Bridge", "Goldbug", "Race-Welder", and "Goldfire".

{{Note|A Goldfire costume for Bumblebee appears as downloadable content.}} {{storylink|Transformers: Devastation}}
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===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
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===''Transformers Operation Omega''===
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===

[[file:BumblebeeEarthWars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75| HEY!!!! No touchy! Nooo touchy! No touch!]]

Bumblebee arrived on Earth in time for the fight for the Codex Key. The Autobots retrieve it with Bumblebee's help. {{storylink| Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars - The Codex Showdown Campaign}}

*'''Class:''' Special
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 2 star
*'''Weapons:''' Bumblebee uses a Stun Gun to stun defenses, but it doesn't deal much damage. And he can also somersault to dodge Auto Cannon and Mortar shots.
*'''Ability: EMP Bomb''' - Throw an EMP Bomb that explodes stunning nearby targets for several seconds and deals 33% attack damage every second.
**'''Cost''': 2 ability points +2 for reuses.

[[File:Goldfire_Earth_Wars.jpg|thumb|left|''All things bright and glittery, and of course i look fantastiiiiiic'']]

As Rodimus Unicronus started to collect the Prime cores forcibly, Bumblebee tried to defend the Vector Prime core from Rodimus Unicronus, but in a last ditch attempt to keep the core out of Rodimus' hands, Bumblebee shot the Prime core, blasting him and the core into the past!

Later, he woke up to find himself in 1987, with Harmony Keen keeping watch over him. He learns that Harmony is Melody's mom, and finds out Ramjet is heading into the facility! Bumblebee asked for Harmony to use the developmenta tech to transfer his spark over into their new "Goldfire" prototype body. When he was beaten down into submission, "Goldfire" told Harmony to activate the tech again, transferring his spark back into his old body. He zapped Ramjet into submission, but once Harmony was threatened, Bumblebee reluctantly gave up the Vector Prime Core. Once she was out of the picture though, Bumblebee knocked Ramjet out.
He gave Harmony a hailing frequency telling her to call it, and used the Vector Prime Core to teleport himself and Ramjet back into the present.

Returning to the present in his new body, He noted to Cliffjumper and Mirage that he was the same bot, before telling Melody to pick up her phone once it rang, wishing her a Merry Christmas, before heading out. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Warrior
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 stars
*'''Weapons''': Goldfire uses his specially modified blasters to shoot down targets. Once he does, he walks up and smashes them with his hands.
*'''Ability''': Blazing Charge - Rush into combat setting buildings on fire and dealing damage to each of them over time. The effect will spread if the building is destroyed during this time.
**'''Cost''': 3 (+3 for reuses.)

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:Bumblebee Bumblebee on Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:Goldfire Goldfire on Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]

===''Transformers Online'' (2017 video game)===
[[File:Bumblebee TFO.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
{{bigquote|Best take caution and anticipate anything.}}

Before the [[AllSpark]] went into hibernation, Bumblebee was one of the last Transformers created. By natural selection, he was appointed to be Optimus Prime's scout. In his limited capacity, Bumblebee would look up to model authority such as Optimus Prime. He desired to be recognized, which forced him to try to seize the opportunity to display his courage. Thus, Bumblebee would perform some seemingly foolhardy and risky tasks in an attempt to impress his teammates. In secrecy, though, he is a competent scout like no other.

In battle, Bumblebee wielded the "[[Laser Blade]]" and the "[[Skullbuster]]" shotgun. His active skill was "Lightning Laceration":
*'''Lightning Laceration''' — Bumblebee vanishes into thin air, enabling him to dish out 300 points of damage to his opponent 5 times in succession. {{storylink|Transformers Online (2017 video game)|Transformers Online}} <ref>[http://tfol.qq.com/act/a20160726data/hero2.shtml Bumblebee on the Transformers Online website]</ref>
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:ForgedToFight-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Tiny but Mighty!"]]
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
[[File:BBOBumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left]]
[[File:BBOStealthBumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Bumblebee took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. Sometimes, he would change from his regular form to a stronger one known as Stealth Bumblebee. 300 Armor, 300 Blaster Strength, Score x1, Coins x1, Blaster Speed: Very Fast (stats for Normal Bumblebee)
Stealth Bumblebee took part in a series of multiple attacks against Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. 1300 Armor, 1300 Blaster Strength, Score x12, Coins x4, Blaster Speed: Fast
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===''World of Warships: Transformers''===
[[Image:WoW Bumblebee camo 1.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
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===''Transformers: Heavy Metal''===
[[File:TFHeavyMetal Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|220px]]
When the Decepticons invaded Earth in search of Energon, Bumblebee and Hound set up the [[Guardian Program]], teaming humans up with Autobots to combat the invaders. While inducting [[You|one human]] into the program, Bumblebee successfully fought off Starscream. Aiming to defeat Starscream once again, Bumblebee did his best to track down the different types of Decepticon and master fighting him. [[Shadow Striker (G1)|Shadow Striker]] had a particular dislike for him which he wasn't sure about the root cause of. {{storylink|Transformers: Heavy Metal}}

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==Toys==
{{main|Bumblebee (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise}}

==Notes==
*The original Bumblebee toy was taken from the Japanese ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' line, where it was available in yellow, red, and blue versions.
*Bumblebee appeared in one of five [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1]] [[public service announcement]]s, informing children that they shouldn't run away from home because it's "mean". This from the guy who ditched the Autobots for no real reason.
[[File:PretenderBumblebeeModel.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Bumblebee's rarely-seen Classic Pretenders character model. (Optimus Prime wants Goldbug back.)]]
*A 1986 [[Panini]] stickerbook sold in Belgium and the Netherlands gave Bumblebee the alternate French language name "Bonnebille". Whether this name was used in any other media made for French-speaking regions is unknown. No such thing in Quebec for sure.
*When Bumblebee reappeared in the Marvel Comics as a [[Classic Pretender]], he returned to his original toy's [[character model]], rather than one based on his new form. A new character model did appear in various toy commercials, however. These included one which introduced him and the other Classic Pretenders, and one where he and Jazz stupidly drag [[Micromaster]] bases into Autobot headquarters, causing everyone to flee when they transform and attack.
*According to [[Battle for Cybertron]], Bumblebee is a code-name.
*Bumblebee/Goldbug was clearly a "top-tier" character in the first decade of ''Transformers'': he was the only 1984 Autobot still shipping in 1986; he received more toys during Generation 1 than any other character; he had a toy shipping during seven of Generation 1's eight-year run. However, [[Hasbro]] lost the right to use "Bumblebee" as a toy [[trademark]] during the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' years, when Generation 1 names were in disuse. That's right, the name "Bumblebee" was lost during the years everyone turned into animals. Hence why [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Unicron Trilogy Hot Shot]] could not be named Bumblebee despite the obvious yellow kid-appeal tradition.
*The ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Mini-Con]], [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] is pretty clearly an [[homage]] to Bumblebee, from the coloration, placement of car-parts in [[robot mode]], segmented-pipe biceps and even the head design.
*A robot using Bumblebee's character model is shown in a still-shot flashback as a member of the [[Rodimus's crew|Autobot group]] led by [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]]. Whether this robot is an alternate-universe incarnation of Bumblebee or simply a similar-looking robot is—like all [[Unicron Trilogy]] character-model cameos—left to conjecture.
*Goldbug was actually a preliminary name for Bumblebee during early treatments for the Marvel Comics!<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2010-bob-budiansky-panel-coverage-170041/ Bob Budiansky BotCon Panel Coverage]</ref>
*A vehicle resembling Bumblebee's [[alternate mode]] appears at the end of ''[[Transformers: The Ride – 3D]]''.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Bumble''' (バンブル ''Banburu''), '''Goldback''' (Goldbug, ゴールドバック ''Gōrudobakku''), '''Bumblebee''' (バンブルビー ''Banburubī''), '''Goldbug''' (ゴールドバグ ''Gōrudobagu''), '''Goldfire''' (ゴールドファイア ''Gōrudofaia'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Daai Wong Fung''' (大黃蜂, "Hornet")
*''Czech:'' '''Čmelák''' ("Bumblebee")
*''French:'' '''Bourdon''' (Canada, "Bumblebee"), '''Coccinelle''' (Canada, "Ladybug" or "Beetle"),<ref>The Volkswagen Beetle was called "Coccinelle" in French areas, which is the French word for ladybug.</ref> '''Balbee''' (European French cartoon dub)
*''Hebrew:'' '''Dabúr''' (דבור, "Hornet")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Űrdongó''' ("Space-bumblebee"), '''Dongó''' (''The Movie'', "Bumblebee"), '''Aranybogár''' ("Goldbug")
*''Italian:'' '''Maggiolino''' ("Beetle"), '''Wagenbot''' (Goldbug), '''Saetta''' ("Set Commandos" four-pack), '''Defensor''' (Action Master)
*''Korean:'' '''Bumblebee''' (범블비 ''Beombeulbi'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Tà-huáng-fēng''' (Taiwan, 大黃蜂, "Bumblebee" or "Hornet"), '''Chīn Chiǎ-ch'óng''' (Taiwan Goldbug, 金甲蟲, "Golden Beetle"), '''Dàhuángfēng''' (China, 大黄蜂, "Bumblebee" or "Hornet")
*''Polish:'' '''Trzmiel''' ("Bumblebee")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Moscardo''' (Portugal comics, "Hornet"), '''Furão''' (Brazil comics, "Ferret"), '''Volks''' (Brazil toys)
*''Russian:'' '''Shershen'''' (dub, Шершень, "Hornet")
*''South American:'' '''Volks'''
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Dzhmil'''' (ICTV, Джміль, "Bumblebee")

==See also==
{{OtherVersions
|charname=Bumblebee
|disambig=Bumblebee (disambiguation)
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*[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], the voiceless yellow one-man franchise from the [[live-action film series]].
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], the hothead yellow kid-appeal character from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]].''
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], the yellow kid-appeal character turned leader from the [[Aligned continuity family]].
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]], the amnesiac yellow kid-appeal character from ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Transformers: Cyberverse]].''}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/mini_frame.php?art=whitemexbee White Mexican Bumblebee gallery at TF-1.com]

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2026

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{{yearofthe|2026}}
The year '''2026''' (MMXXVI) will be the 42nd year of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]].

{{see|Transformers timeline}}

==Events==

2026

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{{yearofthe|2026}}
The year '''2026''' (MMXXVI) will be the 42nd year of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]].

{{see|Transformers timeline}}

==Events==

World War III

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[[File:STvsTF2-WWIII.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Bumblebee is just as horrified as you are by their doofy uniforms.]]

'''World War III''' is a global conflict on [[Earth]]. It has either happened or is being threatened, depending on the universe.

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
After [[Chumley|Lord Chumley]] covertly stole a secret experimental [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] stealth fighter, the Soviet Union blamed the [[United States of America|United States]] for the theft and threatened to heighten the [[Cold War (history)|already occurring conflict]]. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

===''Shattered Glass''===
World War III was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s. One attack in [[1988]] destroyed the Western Seaboard of the United States. {{Storylink|Eye in the Sky}}

===''Star Trek vs. Transformers''===
The start of World War III resulted in the [[Autobot]]s leaving [[Earth]] aboard the [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], pursued by the [[Decepticon]]s aboard [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{Storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}}

==External links==
*{{w|World War III}} on Wikipedia
*[[memoryalpha:World War III|World War III]] on Memory Alpha

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Stiletto (Prime)

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{{disambig3|Stiletto}}
:''Stiletto was to have been an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Universe (Jagex)|Transformers Universe]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Stiletto-leaked portrait.jpg|thumb|300px|]]

'''Stiletto''' is an Autobot.

==Notes==
*Stiletto was not formally released before the game's demise but was uncovered by data-mining fans.

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Star system

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Indridcold13:

{{disambigr|Solar system|the actual Solar-related system|Solar System}}
[[File:CybertronBW Transwarp.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|To get to "another galaxy", you've got to go past a few hundred billion of these.]]
A '''star system''' (also referred to as '''planetary system''', '''solar system''', or '''stellar system''') is a grouping of one or more stars, commonly orbited by one or more planets and various other cosmic detritus.

Transformers typically travel to different star systems in the course of their adventures. As star systems are generally several light years apart, this requires some sort of faster-than-light propulsion, or an instantaneous gateway system of some kind, such as a [[space bridge]].

==Fiction==
Notable star systems in Transformers fiction include:
*The [[Solar System]], dominated by the [[Sun]], appears in almost every Transformers story.

===Generation 1===
*The [[Alpha Centauri]] system was the home system of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in [[Marvel Comics continuity]], before it was knocked out of orbit.
*The [[Ardurian System]], home to [[Arduria]].
*The [[Hadean System|Cybertronian System]], home to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in the[[2005 IDW continuity]].
*The [[Eigerson-48 System]], home to [[Mumu-Obscura]].
*The [[Elba System]], home to [[Elba]] and the location of the infamous [[Garrus-9]].
*[[Epsilon Ariadne]], where [[Dirk Manus]] hails from.
*The [[Hunfi system]], home to [[Hydrus Four]], at least in the [[universal stream]] [[Primax 1291.0 Zeta]].
*The [[MQ System]], home to several planets.
*The [[Nalva System]], home to [[Arcadroid]]s.
*The [[Klovian System]], home to [[Nebulos]].
*The [[Kol System]], home to [[Varas Centralus]], [[Varas Extrinsecus]] and [[Clemency]].
*The [[Lenocinium Velnero System]], home to [[LV-117]] and [[LV-118]].
*The [[Paradius system]], which is named after its one star [[Paradius]]. It is home to various populated planets, the only one which name is known being [[Zel Samine]].
*The [[Rigel|Rigel System]], home to [[Rigel III]], [[Rigel IV]], [[Rigel 6]] and [[Rigel VII]].
*The [[Salvvatan System]], home to [[Salvvatan VI]] and [[Salvvatan VIII]].
*The [[Styrakon System]], home to Hydrus Four when it's not in the Hunfi system.

====Beast Era====
[[File:CybertronBW SolarSystem.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb]]
*An unnamed system containing the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Cybertron's irregular orbit, seen in "[[The Agenda (Part 1)]]", indicates that it may have been moved into this star system artificially.
*The clustered planetary system [[Georgian]].
*The [[Vurau System]].
*The [[Yurina System]], home to [[Solid]].

===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*The [[Charii system]].

===''Animated''===
*The [[Archa system]], home to [[Archa Seven]].
*The [[Gpii System]], where one can find [[Trobulum]].
*The [[Hadean System]], home to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].
*The [[Quartex system]], home to [[Quartex (planet)|Quartex]].

===''Prime''===
*The [[Dromedon System]].
*[[Theta Scorpii]], a hazardous system where [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] hid the [[AllSpark]].

===''Cyberverse''===
*Apparently, [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] caused a supernova that annihilated seven civilizations and countless star systems. The names of the destroyed star systems are unknown.

==Those poor, confused writers==
===Galaxy ≠ star system===
A star system should not be confused with a ''galaxy'', which is a massive grouping of millions of star systems. A single galaxy is unfathomably huge, with our own [[Milky Way]] Galaxy containing several hundred ''billion'' stars. The distances between galaxies are several orders of magnitude greater than the distances between the star systems they contain.

Unfortunately, in Transformers fiction, "galaxy" is frequently used in places where "star system" makes a lot more sense, or at least is not as jarring. (Note that this is [[tvtropes:Main/SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale|hardly a phenomenon limited to ''Transformers'' writers]].) Given that all interstellar travel is based on fictional technologies, it's not ''inconceivable'' that characters might actually come from or travel to other galaxies. But the notion seems an unnecessary complication at best ([[Star Wars (franchise)|a single galaxy is a more-than-ample playground for fictional adventures]]) and often outright contradicts information given elsewhere. Cartoon animation, for example, almost ''never'' supports the idea that characters actually leave the Milky Way galaxy.

Notable examples of galaxy/star system confusion include:

*[[Countdown (G1)|Generation 1 Countdown]]'s [[bio]], which says his [[Rocket Base|rocket base]] can use gravity to "slingshot across entire galaxies in seconds".
*"[[The Test (issue)|The Test]]", wherein [[Megatron (RID)|Galvatron]] is delighted to find [[energon]] "just inside our galaxy", as if that meant it was nearby.
*"[[Primal Fear!]]", in which the [[Decepticon]] [[Warworld]] is said to be operating in "another galaxy".
*The ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' episode "[[The Return of Demolishor]]" features [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] narrating, "We warped into another galaxy on the outer reaches of the Solar System." The dialogue is less confused in the original ''Superlink'' version, and may be more of a dubbing artifact than pure authorial error ("''from'' the outer reaches of the Solar System", or switching the two terms around, would both make a lot more sense.)
*[[Movie Prequel issue 2|''Movie Prequel'' #2]], as [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] describes searching "countless solar spans, through myriad galaxies, nebulae and systems".
*''[[Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings]]'': In a voiceover monologue not taken from the [[Movie Prequel issue 2|comic version]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] announces his arrival in the [[Milky Way]] galaxy, despite [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime's]] opening narration for the [[Transformers (film)|movie]], where he stated that the [[Autobot]]s "scattered across the galaxy", thus implying that [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] is located ''within'' the Milky Way galaxy.
*[[The Reign of Starscream issue 1|''The Reign of Starscream'' #1]]: Despite Optimus Prime's aforementioned opening narration for the movie, [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] claims in this issue that the [[AllSpark]]'s journey ends "galaxies away" when it arrives on [[Earth]]. ([[The Reign of Starscream issue 5|Issue #5]] later corrects this.)

[[File:G1 Cybertron's galaxy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|[http://lyricwiki.org/Monty_Python:Galaxy_Song Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, revolving at nine hundred miles an hour...]]]
Remarkably, the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon series]] seems to portray Cybertron consistently as being originally located outside our galaxy. The episode "[[Roll for It]]" shows Cybertron outside of a spiral galaxy (though it is also shown against a field of stars, instead of the empty black void that should be there if it's located in inter-galactic space). The episode later shows a rather confusing visual of the space bridge energy beam emanating from an empty point in space alongside a galaxy, but not going into the galaxy. Later, in "The Ultimate Doom", Optimus Prime comments that the pylons of the Decepticons' Cybertron-centered space bridge "form a pyramid, with the apex beyond this galaxy."

===Galaxy ≠ universe===
On more rare occasions, "universe" is used in place of "galaxy" or even "solar system", to even more ridiculous effect. Since the universe includes ''billions of galaxies'', each containing ''billions of stars'', the following usages of "universe" seem painfully misworded:

*In "[[Changing Gears]]", it's stated that the exploding [[Sun]] could destroy the universe. Suns have exploded on a pretty regular basis for billions of years, and so far, the universe is still ticking away.
*In "[[The Return of Demolishor]]", [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] says that by using the [[energon grid]], they "run the risk of destroying the entire universe". Though the characters ''are'' in [[Alpha Q's universe|a new, fledgling universe]] where this might make some slight amount of sense, the line is in fact a dubbing error.
*Various Decepticons have made the claim that they plan to rule not merely the galaxy but rather the universe, such as [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] in "[[The Revenge of Bruticus]]"—"I ''will'' rule the universe, even if I am the only one ''left'' in the universe!" That's a ''lot'' of conquering to do there, buddy!

==Notes==
*In [http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=705 an interview], [[Simon Furman]] claimed that the [[2005 IDW continuity]] version of Cybertron orbited the "star" {{w|Lambda Scorpii|Shaula}}. This piece of information has not made it into any media, and the system is only referred to as the "Cybertronian System" in "[[Syndromica (1)]]".

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Talk:World War III

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* Unless I missed it, I don’t believe the comic gave a date for WW3 so listing one here seems odd. I would’ve simply edited it out but there is a whole article for [[2026]] based purely on this fact. [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 10:13, 14 May 2022 (EDT)-