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2024-12-25T09:06:29Z

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[[File:Armoredconvoyboxart.jpg|upright=2.6|thumb|Alive! Alive! Alive!]]
Transformers who use [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] as a fuel source lose their [[transformation]] ability due to the fact that their figure alteration [[system]]s get converted into energy storage reactors. However, through this process, '''Action Masters''' become harder, better, faster, stronger and more alive. They have equipped themselves with transformable [[Action Master partner|partners]] and [[:Category:Action Master vehicles|vehicles]] to aid them in battle.

A few Action Masters managed to retain (or possibly regain) the ability to transform; they are known as [[Action Master Elite]]s.

Action Masters are among the few Transformers to feature [[Power Plans]] on the [[packaging]], in addition to the more traditional [[Tech Spec]] and [[bio]].

{{quote|Alt-modes are for '''wimps'''!|[[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]]'s in denial|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #1]]}}

==Fiction==
===Toy packaging blurb===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] went searching for new energy sources and, within the heart of a [[black hole]] discovered Nucleon: a miracle fuel that made Transformers stronger, faster, and more alive, but cost them the ability to transform. Soon the Decepticons stole the technology and created Action Masters of their own, with [[Magmatrynon]] alloy being used for the construction of [[Action Master Exo-suit|exo-suits]].

{{note|This story was later referenced with the Japanese release of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Nucleon Quest Super Convoy]], a black repaint of Powermaster Optimus Prime who was given the backstory of being Prime specially outfitted for this trip into the black hole.}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] heard about a risky new miracle fuel on the planet [[Hydrus Four]]. Against orders he stole the non-functioning bodies of his fellow [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] and headed there to find out. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} What he discovered was a ruined world filled with [[Nucleon guardian|creepy, obsessive, rotting zombie-like beings]] warning him that it was all because of Nucleon. Being Grimlock, he then went ahead and used the fuel anyway, first on himself and then to revive his fallen teammates. {{storylink|The Pri¢e of Life!}}

Grimlock soon found parts of his body inexplicably seizing up, and began to fear that he should have listened to the creepy dying robots after all. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} After returning to the Ark Grimlock used the Nucleon to repair all the damaged Autobots in the ship's medical bay (as well as [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], whom he didn't know was there). {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Following the Transformers' battle with [[Unicron]], Grimlock froze up entirely. It was then that [[Hi-Q]] (in the process of merging with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]) saw with "[[Powermaster]] eyes" that Grimlock wasn't malfunctioning, but changing. He used his Powermaster abilities to speed up the process and Grimlock burst forth in his new, more-powerful Action Master form. {{storylink|Still Life!}}

Meanwhile, Hi-Q's own mental merger with Prime was also accelerated by his contact with Nucleon. Soon afterward, the [[Last Autobot]] re-created Hi-Q as Optimus Prime in a new body. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

=====Another Time & Place=====
As time progressed more and more Autobots, including Prime, [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], also succumbed to mode-lock. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and Slag were among the few that could still transform, but they had doubts that this would remain much longer. Hearing rumours of further developments on Hydrus Four, Grimlock led the Dinobots there to see if a cure could be found. Amidst a Decepticon ambush, he discovered a new version of Nucleon that lacked the side effects of the original and restored the ability to transform. {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
The Decepticons on Earth had a team of Action Masters. These sinister types had the power to combine into ground stations, super-heavy vehicles and air units! {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 16|Transforming Robots in Action: The Case of Optimus Prime}}

====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] was still an Action Master.

===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
Optimus and Megatron's pre-G2 bodies share a striking similarity to their Action Master toys. Likewise Optimus Prime has been documented as searching out a New Energy source called Nucleon that's located within a black hole. Finally, Optimus Prime's Action Master was sold with New Years Convoy, and described as the intermediate form between Prime's various G2 Bodies. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{main|Monoformer}}
In the [[2005 IDW continuity]], nucleon does not appear to affect ability to transform. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution|The Permanent Revolution}} However, some Cybertronians had their [[transformation cog]]s removed for medical, political or religious reasons, and were known as [[monoformer]]s. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
After the starship ''[[Iron Hope (G1)|Iron Hope]]'' crash-landed far from Cybertron, the surviving crew—who would come to be known as the "''Iron Hope'' Hundred"—were forced to subsist on nucleon, rendering them permanently [[mode lock]]ed. Survivors of the disaster included [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]], who was locked in robot mode, and [[Catgut]], who was locked in a quadrupedal form. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} As well as [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}} and [[Charger]], although his partner [[Fire Beast|Fire Beast's]] ability to combine might exclude him. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}} Members of the Hundred found themselves victims of discrimination, especially on alt-mode oriented colonies like [[Velocitron]]. A number of these mode-locked bots made use of [[Exo-suit (Action Masters)|exo-suits]] or [[Off-Road Cycle|personal vehicles]] as essentially mobility aids, able to provide them additional speed and power in lieu of alternate modes. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}}

Upon learning that her teleport rig used nucleon as a fuel source, Jumpstream noted that the substance was notorious for causing mode-locking. Perceptor pointed out to her that it took sustained amounts of nucleon abuse over a long period of time to affect one's physiology. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}}

====Alternate future====
In an alternate future where [[Exarchon]] had triumphed, he began beaming Cybertron's energon supply into space, forcing the resistance to use nucleon, depriving them all of their [[alternate mode]]s. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II|Test Flight II}}

==Reception and legacy==
{{quote|I DEFINITELY like my transformers to transform. Down with the action masters.|Josh Freeman Frankel, 25 February 1994|[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/4ed4b0a1a761bcd7 alt.toys.transformers]}}

The Action Master toyline, depicting the obvious oxymoron of "Transformers who don't transform," generated initial ire ("BLASPHEMY!") from some fans. This was magnified as Action Masters were released in the final year of the original Transformers toy line in the US. When Transformers was summarily canceled in North America, some fans blamed the gimmick for the [[Ruined FOREVER|death of the franchise]] (despite the wide variety of other factors that doubtlessly were involved).

One aspect Action Masters is notable for, however, is the mass reintroduction of "classic" characters. New toys for old characters was not a theme the original toy line visited very often–in fact, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee's]] re-imaged [[Throttlebot]] form [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Goldbug]] released in 1987, 1988's [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Classic Pretender]]s from 1989 were the only notable exceptions. In other words, to have a single sub-line with so many recurring favorites was, at the time, a novelty. In addition, the classic characters were designed to [[show-accuracy|resemble their cartoon counterparts more closely]]. For much of the Season 1 and 2 cast, the original figures having been designed years before they were stylized and simplified for the cartoon, these Action Masters were the closest likenesses of their fiction representations until the advent of the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line, in which screen accuracy is one of its primary selling points. Notably the first television commercial for the Action Masters featured a segment where the animated character models dissolved into film of the actual toys, suggesting that "show accuracy" was Hasbro's intended marketing strategy for the line.

As with many other changes to the Transformers brand, initial hostility towards Action Masters from the fandom eventually became less intense and diversified into a broad range of opinion, with many of the original characters introduced getting cult followings and prominent appearances in later fiction (likely helped by how the toys weren't restricted by the somewhat samey designs that predominately made up the later years of the toyline). Some of the most in-demand vintage (and therefore expensive) ''Transformers'' toys are Action Masters, and new characters from this subgroup continue to appear in newer toy lines. For example:
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* [[Double Punch]] started the trend with a new [[exclusive]] toy at [[BotCon Japan 1998]]. Another toy of Double Punch was produced for [[BotCon 2010]].
* [[Axer (G1)|Axer]] showed up in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' toyline]]. Another toy of Axer (as [[Axor]]) would be released in the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' 2010]] toyline. This toy would, in turn, be redecoed to homage [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] as [[Circuit (Movie)|a movie-universe character]] in the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]] in 2013.
* Action Master Optimus Prime was [[Generation 1 reissues|reissued]] in [[Japan]] in [[2002]] as part of the "[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|New Years Convoy]]" [[giftset]].
* ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]] has design elements based on [[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]] (with his [[Mini-Con]] companion actually ''named'' [[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout]]).
* ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Smokescreen (Cybertron)|Smokescreen]]'s colors are a partial homage to [[Rad (G1)|Rad]].
* [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2009]]. Another Banzai-Tron (as [[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]]) would be released in the ''Transformers'' 2010 toyline. Yet another would be part of the ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' line in 2012. Banzai-Tron and his partner [[Razor-Sharp]] also got new, still-nontransforming toys in [[Super7]]'s ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line.
* [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] was homaged with [[Sparkcrusher]] in 2009.
* [[Slicer (G1)|Slicer]] (partially renamed into "Decepticon Slice") was an exclusive at BotCon 2010. Slicer was also homaged in the shared exclusive [[Dark Energon]] version of [[Wheeljack (Prime)#DarkEnergon|Wheeljack]] in ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'', and with [[Wheeljack (SG)|''Shattered Glass'' Wheeljack]].
* [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2012]].
* Soundwave's partner, [[Wingthing (G1)|Wingthing]], received new toys in the Japanese ''[[Transformers Encore]]'' line in 2012, and again as a ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' figure in 2017, and then in ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]'' in 2020.
* [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] was ported to ''[[Jackpot (Animated)|Animated]]'' as part of the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]], and was later given a new [[Jackpot (G1)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|G1-styled figure]] as part of the Amazon-exclusive "Golden Disk Collection" of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]''.
* [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] received a new figure as part of the Figure Subscription Service series 2.0 in 2014.
* [[Krok (G1)|Krok]] was featured in the Transformers Figure Subscription Service series 3.0 in 2015, and then received an additional new toy in ''[[Titans Return (franchise)|Titans Return]]'' in 2017.
* The Collection Pack version of [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#G2BruticusSet|Shockwave]] in ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' bore the same color scheme as the Action Master.
* Rad's partner, [[Lionizer (G1)|Lionizer]], received a new [[Battle Master]] mold in ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' and was redecoed in more accurate colors in a ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Battle 3-Pack as "Captive Lionizer". A few other Action Master partners, namely [[Needler (G1)|Needler]], [[Vanguard]], [[Turbo Board]], and Sights, were also given Battle Master status by the ''Siege'' themed fourth wave of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]''. Turbo Board, who was previously of questionable sentience, was even given a proper robot mode as a result of this!
* [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] got a new toy in the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' line and a more accurate redeco in the [[Dramatic Capture Series]].
* The Action Master designs for [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] and his partner Needler received new toys in the ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line - once again as non-transforming figures. ''ULTIMATES!'' [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] also comes with his partner [[Basher]] despite otherwise being based on his animation model.

In 2013, [[James Roberts]] could even say he'd have liked to see ''more'' Action Masters and they were "cool".<ref>[http://www.fullmetalhero.com/t14540/ Moonbase2's second interview with James Roberts - 58:20]</ref>

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{Note|In addition to the original line-up of Action Master product released worldwide in 1990, several additional assortments were introduced in European markets for 1991.}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Grimlock]] with [[Anti-tank cannon]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Jazz]] with [[Turbo Board]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rad (G1)#Toys|Rad]] with [[Lionizer (G1)#Toys|Lionizer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rollout (G1)#Toys|Rollout]] with [[Glitch (G1)#Toys|Glitch]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Soundwave]] with [[Wingthing (G1)#Toys|Wingthing]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Treadshot (G1)#Toys|Treadshot]] with [[Catgut#Toys|Catgut]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Bumblebee]] with [[Heli-pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Blaster (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Blaster]] with [[Flight-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Devastator]] with [[Scorpulator#Toys|Scorpulator]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jackpot (G1)#Toys|Jackpot]] with [[Sights (G1)#Toys|Sights]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Krok (G1)#Toys|Krok]] with [[Gatoraider#Toys|Gatoraider]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Mainframe (G1)#Toys|Mainframe]] with [[Push-Button#Toys|Push-Button]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Banzai-Tron (G1)#Toys|Banzai-Tron]] with [[Razor-Sharp#Toys|Razor-Sharp]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Inferno]] with [[Hydro-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Kick-Off (G1)#Toys|Kick-Off]] with [[Turbo-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Shockwave]] with [[Fistfight (G1)#Toys|Fistfight]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Skyfall (G1)#Toys|Skyfall]] with [[Top-Heavy#Toys|Top-Heavy]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#AM|Snarl]] with [[Tyrannitron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 4 (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#ActionMaster|Bombshell]] with [[Needler (G1)#Toys|Needler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Charger#Toys|Charger]] with [[Fire Beast]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerflash#Toys|Powerflash]] with [[Road Rocket (G1)#Toys|Road Rocket]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Sideswipe]] with [[Vanguard]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Take-Off#Toys|Take-Off]] with [[Screech (Action Master)#Toys|Screech]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Tracks]] with [[Basher]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1-toy Blaster AM.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Blaster with Flight-Pack]][[File:G1Axer toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Axer with Off-Road Cycle]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Action Blasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Copter]] with [[Over-Run (G1)#Toys|Over-Run]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Off-Road Cycle]] with [[Axer (G1)#Toys|Axer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Cycle (G1)|Turbo Cycle]] with [[Prowl (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Turbo Jet]] with [[Starscream (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Starscream]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Action Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Cruiser]] with [[Sprocket (G1)#Toys|Sprocket]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Racer]] with [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Wheeljack]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Decepticon Attack Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Stratotronic Jet]] with [[Gutcruncher (G1)#Toys|Gutcruncher]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Neutro-Fusion Tank]] with [[Megatron (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Megatron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Armored Convoy'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Armored Convoy]] with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#AM|Optimus Prime]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Action Master Exo-suit|Exo-Suit]] Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Circuit (G1)#Toys|Circuit]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Thundercracker]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorized Exo-Suit Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Rumbler (G1)#Toys|Rumbler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Slicer (G1)#Toys|Slicer]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Elites (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Double Punch#Toys|Double Punch]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Omega Supreme (G1)#omegaspreem|Omega Spreem]]{{sic}}}}
{{bp-d1|[[Turbo Master#Toys|Turbo Master]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windmill (G1)#Toys|Windmill]]}}
|}
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==Notes==
*It appears that the name "Action Masters" for this segment of the toy line was a late decision: Hasbro's Spring 1990 "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog,<ref name="vendor">[https://web.archive.org/web/20230128185129/https://botriot.jemmagic.com/transformershasbro1990s.html Spring 1990 Hasbro "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog at Botriot] (archived)</ref> published in mid-to-late 1989, consistently refers to the toys simply as "Action Figures", with no mention of the term "Action Master". It also makes mention of a different back story wherein the Transformers give up the ability to transform to transfer these powers to their weapons and vehicles. The "Action Master" name was evidently decided on sometime between the "Pre-Toy Fair" vendor event and the Toy Fair of February 1990, as the finalized term appears in Hasbro's standard 1990 catalog.
*In an interview with [[Transformers Collectors' Club]], Simon Furman said that had the comic not ended at issue #80, Optimus Prime's return would not have come when it did.<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 2|Club magazine #2]]</ref> Additionally, Furman said that he hated the idea of using Action Master Prime at the time, and hoped that by the time Prime came back, this Action Master plot would be [[Furmanism|over—finished]]!<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 1|Club magazine #1]]</ref> Conclusion—the use of Optimus Prime in his Action Master version may very well have not occurred had the comic not ended when it did.
*Bob Budiansky's treatment for the Action Masters was printed in the [[Titan Books]] trade ''[[Transformers: Last Stand]]''. Bob can't remember writing it.<ref>[http://www.metalmachine.net/blog/2009/11/21/todds-take-with-bob-budiansky-the-architect-of-the-transformers/ Bob Budiansky interview]</ref>
*In a case of "too little, too late", the fourth (and final, only being released in Europe) assortment of Action Master figures made some minor course corrections in terms of figure design and accessories. The fourth assortment figures no longer have blocks sculpted into the hips that forced the legs to move in 90° increments or awkward side angles. Additionally, in keeping with other late Action Masters such as the Elites, there are minor uses of the then-new technique of textured plastic, as well as having sculpts that were mildly bulkier than previous waves. Lastly, in lieu of animal weapon partners or action feature backpacks, fourth assortment figures all had partner machines that unfolded into helmets and backpacks, strictly split between beasts for Decepticons and artillery units for Autobots.
*The Action Masters' weapon-handle pegs, being 3 mm wide, are compatible with the "[[c joint]]" weapon mounting system used on many modern toys, such as the 2011 version of ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]''.
*Excluding the Action Master Elite, regular Action Masters utilized elastic-and-hook joints (similar to many ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' toys and the [[Laser Rod]]s) in their hips. This gave them their relatively wide range of motion, but it also made them somewhat floppy, and the elastic could harden and become brittle with age. Legless Action Masters are sadly common on the aftermarket.
[[File:Unproduced_AM_Animatron.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|[[Serpentor|Totally new character]].
[https://www.yojoe.com/action/86/serpentor.shtml Yup]. (We were robbed!)]]
*Over the decades, an inordinate amount of Action Master concept art <ref>[https://www.allspark.com/2015/02/the-spacebridge-shares-unproduced-action-master-artwork/ A small partial spread of unproduced Action Masters, originally from the Generations Deluxe book.]</ref> along with resin models of both figures ''and'' vehicles of multiple <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMExoTankSuitProtoUnprod.html A resin model of an unproduced Action Master tank Exo Suit.]</ref> sizes <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMHalfTrackTankHardcopy.html A resin model of an unproduced motorized Action Master half-track vehicle.]</ref> have come to light, suggesting very strongly that Hasbro was betting big on the line. While the idea was probably fueled by [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] being in one of its stronger sales periods <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-07-8904100699-story.html "G.I. Joe: 25 and $2 Billion In The Till", Chicago Tribune, May 7 1989.]</ref> despite leaning slightly more into sci-fi at the time, the Action Master line ultimately fizzled in the United States.
*Early plans for [[BotCon]] [[BotCon#BotCon 2017|2017]] would have seen Action Masters as the focus of the convention, with a box set "Action on Hydrus Four" featuring [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]], [[Skyfall (G1)|Skyfall]], [[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] in Action-Master inspired decos using [[Titans Return (toyline)|''Titans Return'']] figures.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-of-concepts-and-customized-figures-from-fun-pub-at-petes-robot-convention-2017/39073/]</ref>
*The Action Master name was brought back in 2020 by Takara Tomy for their release of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)#Cyberverse (TakaraTomy)|Deluxe Class figures]]. Ironically, one of the big selling points for these figures is featuring far more involved transformations than the rest of the ''Cyberverse'' line!
*Action Masters were extensively used as proof-of-concept mock ups for the [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] subline ''Armor-Tech''.<ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 9, p59</ref><ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 10, p54</ref> Additionally, silhouettes of Action Master card art were used to represent ''Armor-Tech'' figures in the 1993 figure catalogue before said figures were finalized.

===Foreign names===
*''Italy'': '''Super Azione''' ("Super Action")

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Action Masters| ]]
[[Category:Generation 1 subgroups]]
[[Category:Gimmicks]]

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[[File:Logo-ActionMastersAlt.png||350px|center]]
[[File:Armoredconvoypackageart.jpg|upright=2.6|thumb|Alive! Alive! Alive!]]
Transformers who use [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] as a fuel source lose their [[transformation]] ability due to the fact that their figure alteration [[system]]s get converted into energy storage reactors. However, through this process, '''Action Masters''' become harder, better, faster, stronger and more alive. They have equipped themselves with transformable [[Action Master partner|partners]] and [[:Category:Action Master vehicles|vehicles]] to aid them in battle.

A few Action Masters managed to retain (or possibly regain) the ability to transform; they are known as [[Action Master Elite]]s.

Action Masters are among the few Transformers to feature [[Power Plans]] on the [[packaging]], in addition to the more traditional [[Tech Spec]] and [[bio]].

{{quote|Alt-modes are for '''wimps'''!|[[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]]'s in denial|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #1]]}}

==Fiction==
===Toy packaging blurb===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] went searching for new energy sources and, within the heart of a [[black hole]] discovered Nucleon: a miracle fuel that made Transformers stronger, faster, and more alive, but cost them the ability to transform. Soon the Decepticons stole the technology and created Action Masters of their own, with [[Magmatrynon]] alloy being used for the construction of [[Action Master Exo-suit|exo-suits]].

{{note|This story was later referenced with the Japanese release of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Nucleon Quest Super Convoy]], a black repaint of Powermaster Optimus Prime who was given the backstory of being Prime specially outfitted for this trip into the black hole.}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] heard about a risky new miracle fuel on the planet [[Hydrus Four]]. Against orders he stole the non-functioning bodies of his fellow [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] and headed there to find out. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} What he discovered was a ruined world filled with [[Nucleon guardian|creepy, obsessive, rotting zombie-like beings]] warning him that it was all because of Nucleon. Being Grimlock, he then went ahead and used the fuel anyway, first on himself and then to revive his fallen teammates. {{storylink|The Pri¢e of Life!}}

Grimlock soon found parts of his body inexplicably seizing up, and began to fear that he should have listened to the creepy dying robots after all. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} After returning to the Ark Grimlock used the Nucleon to repair all the damaged Autobots in the ship's medical bay (as well as [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], whom he didn't know was there). {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Following the Transformers' battle with [[Unicron]], Grimlock froze up entirely. It was then that [[Hi-Q]] (in the process of merging with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]) saw with "[[Powermaster]] eyes" that Grimlock wasn't malfunctioning, but changing. He used his Powermaster abilities to speed up the process and Grimlock burst forth in his new, more-powerful Action Master form. {{storylink|Still Life!}}

Meanwhile, Hi-Q's own mental merger with Prime was also accelerated by his contact with Nucleon. Soon afterward, the [[Last Autobot]] re-created Hi-Q as Optimus Prime in a new body. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

=====Another Time & Place=====
As time progressed more and more Autobots, including Prime, [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], also succumbed to mode-lock. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and Slag were among the few that could still transform, but they had doubts that this would remain much longer. Hearing rumours of further developments on Hydrus Four, Grimlock led the Dinobots there to see if a cure could be found. Amidst a Decepticon ambush, he discovered a new version of Nucleon that lacked the side effects of the original and restored the ability to transform. {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
The Decepticons on Earth had a team of Action Masters. These sinister types had the power to combine into ground stations, super-heavy vehicles and air units! {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 16|Transforming Robots in Action: The Case of Optimus Prime}}

====''Classics''====
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[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] was still an Action Master.

===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
Optimus and Megatron's pre-G2 bodies share a striking similarity to their Action Master toys. Likewise Optimus Prime has been documented as searching out a New Energy source called Nucleon that's located within a black hole. Finally, Optimus Prime's Action Master was sold with New Years Convoy, and described as the intermediate form between Prime's various G2 Bodies. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{main|Monoformer}}
In the [[2005 IDW continuity]], nucleon does not appear to affect ability to transform. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution|The Permanent Revolution}} However, some Cybertronians had their [[transformation cog]]s removed for medical, political or religious reasons, and were known as [[monoformer]]s. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
After the starship ''[[Iron Hope (G1)|Iron Hope]]'' crash-landed far from Cybertron, the surviving crew—who would come to be known as the "''Iron Hope'' Hundred"—were forced to subsist on nucleon, rendering them permanently [[mode lock]]ed. Survivors of the disaster included [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]], who was locked in robot mode, and [[Catgut]], who was locked in a quadrupedal form. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} As well as [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}} and [[Charger]], although his partner [[Fire Beast|Fire Beast's]] ability to combine might exclude him. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}} Members of the Hundred found themselves victims of discrimination, especially on alt-mode oriented colonies like [[Velocitron]]. A number of these mode-locked bots made use of [[Exo-suit (Action Masters)|exo-suits]] or [[Off-Road Cycle|personal vehicles]] as essentially mobility aids, able to provide them additional speed and power in lieu of alternate modes. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}}

Upon learning that her teleport rig used nucleon as a fuel source, Jumpstream noted that the substance was notorious for causing mode-locking. Perceptor pointed out to her that it took sustained amounts of nucleon abuse over a long period of time to affect one's physiology. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}}

====Alternate future====
In an alternate future where [[Exarchon]] had triumphed, he began beaming Cybertron's energon supply into space, forcing the resistance to use nucleon, depriving them all of their [[alternate mode]]s. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II|Test Flight II}}

==Reception and legacy==
{{quote|I DEFINITELY like my transformers to transform. Down with the action masters.|Josh Freeman Frankel, 25 February 1994|[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/4ed4b0a1a761bcd7 alt.toys.transformers]}}

The Action Master toyline, depicting the obvious oxymoron of "Transformers who don't transform," generated initial ire ("BLASPHEMY!") from some fans. This was magnified as Action Masters were released in the final year of the original Transformers toy line in the US. When Transformers was summarily canceled in North America, some fans blamed the gimmick for the [[Ruined FOREVER|death of the franchise]] (despite the wide variety of other factors that doubtlessly were involved).

One aspect Action Masters is notable for, however, is the mass reintroduction of "classic" characters. New toys for old characters was not a theme the original toy line visited very often–in fact, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee's]] re-imaged [[Throttlebot]] form [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Goldbug]] released in 1987, 1988's [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Classic Pretender]]s from 1989 were the only notable exceptions. In other words, to have a single sub-line with so many recurring favorites was, at the time, a novelty. In addition, the classic characters were designed to [[show-accuracy|resemble their cartoon counterparts more closely]]. For much of the Season 1 and 2 cast, the original figures having been designed years before they were stylized and simplified for the cartoon, these Action Masters were the closest likenesses of their fiction representations until the advent of the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line, in which screen accuracy is one of its primary selling points. Notably the first television commercial for the Action Masters featured a segment where the animated character models dissolved into film of the actual toys, suggesting that "show accuracy" was Hasbro's intended marketing strategy for the line.

As with many other changes to the Transformers brand, initial hostility towards Action Masters from the fandom eventually became less intense and diversified into a broad range of opinion, with many of the original characters introduced getting cult followings and prominent appearances in later fiction (likely helped by how the toys weren't restricted by the somewhat samey designs that predominately made up the later years of the toyline). Some of the most in-demand vintage (and therefore expensive) ''Transformers'' toys are Action Masters, and new characters from this subgroup continue to appear in newer toy lines. For example:
[[File:Timelinestoy-BC2010DoublePunch.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0]]
* [[Double Punch]] started the trend with a new [[exclusive]] toy at [[BotCon Japan 1998]]. Another toy of Double Punch was produced for [[BotCon 2010]].
* [[Axer (G1)|Axer]] showed up in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' toyline]]. Another toy of Axer (as [[Axor]]) would be released in the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' 2010]] toyline. This toy would, in turn, be redecoed to homage [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] as [[Circuit (Movie)|a movie-universe character]] in the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]] in 2013.
* Action Master Optimus Prime was [[Generation 1 reissues|reissued]] in [[Japan]] in [[2002]] as part of the "[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|New Years Convoy]]" [[giftset]].
* ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]] has design elements based on [[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]] (with his [[Mini-Con]] companion actually ''named'' [[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout]]).
* ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Smokescreen (Cybertron)|Smokescreen]]'s colors are a partial homage to [[Rad (G1)|Rad]].
* [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2009]]. Another Banzai-Tron (as [[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]]) would be released in the ''Transformers'' 2010 toyline. Yet another would be part of the ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' line in 2012. Banzai-Tron and his partner [[Razor-Sharp]] also got new, still-nontransforming toys in [[Super7]]'s ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line.
* [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] was homaged with [[Sparkcrusher]] in 2009.
* [[Slicer (G1)|Slicer]] (partially renamed into "Decepticon Slice") was an exclusive at BotCon 2010. Slicer was also homaged in the shared exclusive [[Dark Energon]] version of [[Wheeljack (Prime)#DarkEnergon|Wheeljack]] in ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'', and with [[Wheeljack (SG)|''Shattered Glass'' Wheeljack]].
* [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2012]].
* Soundwave's partner, [[Wingthing (G1)|Wingthing]], received new toys in the Japanese ''[[Transformers Encore]]'' line in 2012, and again as a ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' figure in 2017, and then in ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]'' in 2020.
* [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] was ported to ''[[Jackpot (Animated)|Animated]]'' as part of the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]], and was later given a new [[Jackpot (G1)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|G1-styled figure]] as part of the Amazon-exclusive "Golden Disk Collection" of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]''.
* [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] received a new figure as part of the Figure Subscription Service series 2.0 in 2014.
* [[Krok (G1)|Krok]] was featured in the Transformers Figure Subscription Service series 3.0 in 2015, and then received an additional new toy in ''[[Titans Return (franchise)|Titans Return]]'' in 2017.
* The Collection Pack version of [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#G2BruticusSet|Shockwave]] in ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' bore the same color scheme as the Action Master.
* Rad's partner, [[Lionizer (G1)|Lionizer]], received a new [[Battle Master]] mold in ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' and was redecoed in more accurate colors in a ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Battle 3-Pack as "Captive Lionizer". A few other Action Master partners, namely [[Needler (G1)|Needler]], [[Vanguard]], [[Turbo Board]], and Sights, were also given Battle Master status by the ''Siege'' themed fourth wave of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]''. Turbo Board, who was previously of questionable sentience, was even given a proper robot mode as a result of this!
* [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] got a new toy in the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' line and a more accurate redeco in the [[Dramatic Capture Series]].
* The Action Master designs for [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] and his partner Needler received new toys in the ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line - once again as non-transforming figures. ''ULTIMATES!'' [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] also comes with his partner [[Basher]] despite otherwise being based on his animation model.

In 2013, [[James Roberts]] could even say he'd have liked to see ''more'' Action Masters and they were "cool".<ref>[http://www.fullmetalhero.com/t14540/ Moonbase2's second interview with James Roberts - 58:20]</ref>

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{Note|In addition to the original line-up of Action Master product released worldwide in 1990, several additional assortments were introduced in European markets for 1991.}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Grimlock]] with [[Anti-tank cannon]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Jazz]] with [[Turbo Board]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rad (G1)#Toys|Rad]] with [[Lionizer (G1)#Toys|Lionizer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rollout (G1)#Toys|Rollout]] with [[Glitch (G1)#Toys|Glitch]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Soundwave]] with [[Wingthing (G1)#Toys|Wingthing]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Treadshot (G1)#Toys|Treadshot]] with [[Catgut#Toys|Catgut]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Bumblebee]] with [[Heli-pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Blaster (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Blaster]] with [[Flight-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Devastator]] with [[Scorpulator#Toys|Scorpulator]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jackpot (G1)#Toys|Jackpot]] with [[Sights (G1)#Toys|Sights]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Krok (G1)#Toys|Krok]] with [[Gatoraider#Toys|Gatoraider]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Mainframe (G1)#Toys|Mainframe]] with [[Push-Button#Toys|Push-Button]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Banzai-Tron (G1)#Toys|Banzai-Tron]] with [[Razor-Sharp#Toys|Razor-Sharp]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Inferno]] with [[Hydro-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Kick-Off (G1)#Toys|Kick-Off]] with [[Turbo-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Shockwave]] with [[Fistfight (G1)#Toys|Fistfight]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Skyfall (G1)#Toys|Skyfall]] with [[Top-Heavy#Toys|Top-Heavy]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#AM|Snarl]] with [[Tyrannitron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 4 (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#ActionMaster|Bombshell]] with [[Needler (G1)#Toys|Needler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Charger#Toys|Charger]] with [[Fire Beast]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerflash#Toys|Powerflash]] with [[Road Rocket (G1)#Toys|Road Rocket]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Sideswipe]] with [[Vanguard]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Take-Off#Toys|Take-Off]] with [[Screech (Action Master)#Toys|Screech]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Tracks]] with [[Basher]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1-toy Blaster AM.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Blaster with Flight-Pack]][[File:G1Axer toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Axer with Off-Road Cycle]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Action Blasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Copter]] with [[Over-Run (G1)#Toys|Over-Run]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Off-Road Cycle]] with [[Axer (G1)#Toys|Axer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Cycle (G1)|Turbo Cycle]] with [[Prowl (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Turbo Jet]] with [[Starscream (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Starscream]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Action Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Cruiser]] with [[Sprocket (G1)#Toys|Sprocket]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Racer]] with [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Wheeljack]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Decepticon Attack Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Stratotronic Jet]] with [[Gutcruncher (G1)#Toys|Gutcruncher]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Neutro-Fusion Tank]] with [[Megatron (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Megatron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Armored Convoy'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Armored Convoy]] with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#AM|Optimus Prime]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Action Master Exo-suit|Exo-Suit]] Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Circuit (G1)#Toys|Circuit]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Thundercracker]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorized Exo-Suit Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Rumbler (G1)#Toys|Rumbler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Slicer (G1)#Toys|Slicer]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Elites (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Double Punch#Toys|Double Punch]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Omega Supreme (G1)#omegaspreem|Omega Spreem]]{{sic}}}}
{{bp-d1|[[Turbo Master#Toys|Turbo Master]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windmill (G1)#Toys|Windmill]]}}
|}
{{--}}

==Notes==
*It appears that the name "Action Masters" for this segment of the toy line was a late decision: Hasbro's Spring 1990 "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog,<ref name="vendor">[https://web.archive.org/web/20230128185129/https://botriot.jemmagic.com/transformershasbro1990s.html Spring 1990 Hasbro "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog at Botriot] (archived)</ref> published in mid-to-late 1989, consistently refers to the toys simply as "Action Figures", with no mention of the term "Action Master". It also makes mention of a different back story wherein the Transformers give up the ability to transform to transfer these powers to their weapons and vehicles. The "Action Master" name was evidently decided on sometime between the "Pre-Toy Fair" vendor event and the Toy Fair of February 1990, as the finalized term appears in Hasbro's standard 1990 catalog.
*In an interview with [[Transformers Collectors' Club]], Simon Furman said that had the comic not ended at issue #80, Optimus Prime's return would not have come when it did.<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 2|Club magazine #2]]</ref> Additionally, Furman said that he hated the idea of using Action Master Prime at the time, and hoped that by the time Prime came back, this Action Master plot would be [[Furmanism|over—finished]]!<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 1|Club magazine #1]]</ref> Conclusion—the use of Optimus Prime in his Action Master version may very well have not occurred had the comic not ended when it did.
*Bob Budiansky's treatment for the Action Masters was printed in the [[Titan Books]] trade ''[[Transformers: Last Stand]]''. Bob can't remember writing it.<ref>[http://www.metalmachine.net/blog/2009/11/21/todds-take-with-bob-budiansky-the-architect-of-the-transformers/ Bob Budiansky interview]</ref>
*In a case of "too little, too late", the fourth (and final, only being released in Europe) assortment of Action Master figures made some minor course corrections in terms of figure design and accessories. The fourth assortment figures no longer have blocks sculpted into the hips that forced the legs to move in 90° increments or awkward side angles. Additionally, in keeping with other late Action Masters such as the Elites, there are minor uses of the then-new technique of textured plastic, as well as having sculpts that were mildly bulkier than previous waves. Lastly, in lieu of animal weapon partners or action feature backpacks, fourth assortment figures all had partner machines that unfolded into helmets and backpacks, strictly split between beasts for Decepticons and artillery units for Autobots.
*The Action Masters' weapon-handle pegs, being 3 mm wide, are compatible with the "[[c joint]]" weapon mounting system used on many modern toys, such as the 2011 version of ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]''.
*Excluding the Action Master Elite, regular Action Masters utilized elastic-and-hook joints (similar to many ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' toys and the [[Laser Rod]]s) in their hips. This gave them their relatively wide range of motion, but it also made them somewhat floppy, and the elastic could harden and become brittle with age. Legless Action Masters are sadly common on the aftermarket.
[[File:Unproduced_AM_Animatron.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|[[Serpentor|Totally new character]].
[https://www.yojoe.com/action/86/serpentor.shtml Yup]. (We were robbed!)]]
*Over the decades, an inordinate amount of Action Master concept art <ref>[https://www.allspark.com/2015/02/the-spacebridge-shares-unproduced-action-master-artwork/ A small partial spread of unproduced Action Masters, originally from the Generations Deluxe book.]</ref> along with resin models of both figures ''and'' vehicles of multiple <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMExoTankSuitProtoUnprod.html A resin model of an unproduced Action Master tank Exo Suit.]</ref> sizes <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMHalfTrackTankHardcopy.html A resin model of an unproduced motorized Action Master half-track vehicle.]</ref> have come to light, suggesting very strongly that Hasbro was betting big on the line. While the idea was probably fueled by [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] being in one of its stronger sales periods <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-07-8904100699-story.html "G.I. Joe: 25 and $2 Billion In The Till", Chicago Tribune, May 7 1989.]</ref> despite leaning slightly more into sci-fi at the time, the Action Master line ultimately fizzled in the United States.
*Early plans for [[BotCon]] [[BotCon#BotCon 2017|2017]] would have seen Action Masters as the focus of the convention, with a box set "Action on Hydrus Four" featuring [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]], [[Skyfall (G1)|Skyfall]], [[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] in Action-Master inspired decos using [[Titans Return (toyline)|''Titans Return'']] figures.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-of-concepts-and-customized-figures-from-fun-pub-at-petes-robot-convention-2017/39073/]</ref>
*The Action Master name was brought back in 2020 by Takara Tomy for their release of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)#Cyberverse (TakaraTomy)|Deluxe Class figures]]. Ironically, one of the big selling points for these figures is featuring far more involved transformations than the rest of the ''Cyberverse'' line!
*Action Masters were extensively used as proof-of-concept mock ups for the [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] subline ''Armor-Tech''.<ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 9, p59</ref><ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 10, p54</ref> Additionally, silhouettes of Action Master card art were used to represent ''Armor-Tech'' figures in the 1993 figure catalogue before said figures were finalized.

===Foreign names===
*''Italy'': '''Super Azione''' ("Super Action")

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Generation 1 subgroups]]
[[Category:Gimmicks]]

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[[File:G1 boxart Jetfire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Birdman Squadron Jetman.]]

If there is a large, flying [[Autobot]] toy that's not an [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]], it's probably one of '''Jetfire'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s.

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:Jetfireg1toy.jpg|upright=1.77|thumb|Don't expect Takara to reissue this toy any time soon.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Autobot Air Guardian, [[1985]])
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile Launcher", rifle mounting pod, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg guards (left & right), 2 arm guards, 2 fenders
{{toydesigner|[[Shōji Kawamori]] ([[Takatoku Toys]])}}

: Released in the second year of the [[Hasbro]] ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Transformers]]'' toyline, Jetfire is a [[redeco]] of the [[Takatoku Toys]] ''Macross'' VF-1S Super Valkyrie. Jetfire features three modes: robot, jet, and an "alternate transformation" (called the "Gerwalk" form in ''Macross'', and the "Guardian" form in ''Robotech'') that deploys his arms and legs in [[alternate mode|jet mode]]. Additionally, Jetfire comes with several red pieces of armor and a rocket booster backpack that can snap onto his arms, legs, and back in any mode. He has noticeably more articulation than the other ''Transformers'' in the line at the time.

: The shoulder assembly where the jet mode folds in half for [[robot mode]] is one of the more commonly broken parts in the early ''Transformers'' toy line. Additionally, the thin, rigid plastic used on the armor pieces puts their attachment clips at high risk of breaking off; anyone actually transforming a Jetfire in this day and age would be better off ''gently'' pulling the peg-and-socket-construction armor pieces apart and then reuniting them around his arms and legs without relying on the clips. And finally, the small black clip-piece that attaches Jetfire's rifle to his jet mode is possibly one of the most commonly missing accessories on secondhand Jetfires, if not secondhand Transformers all around. The fact that the instructions don't tell you what to do with it doesn't help. The piece is used to hold Jetfire's rifle via the clip attached to the arm, as well as under the jetmode as a belly gun. It is very difficult to find a complete Jetfire toy, let alone an undamaged one. The figure's white coloration is also heavily succeptible to [[photodegradation|yellowing]], even if properly stored.

: [[Variant|Early specimens]] of Jetfire featured the ''Macross'' [[United Nations|U.N.]] Spacy logo on the wings; the very earliest had this painted on, while a mid-stage release used a [[sticker]]. These "Macross" Jetfires also have an extra black stripe across the jet canopy, and the robot head guns have more complex sculpting with thinner plastic at their bases.

: For what should be ''screamingly obvious reasons'', Jetfire was not released in the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'' toyline.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Jetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Generation 2''===
[[File:Jetfire-G2toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm not a traitor!]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Cyberjet, [[1995]])
**''Takara ID number:'' '''TRF-16'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 armor-piercing missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Jetfire was released in the Hasbro ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' line as part of the second [[wave]] of [[Cyberjet]]s. He is a redeco of the Decepticon [[Hooligan (G2)#Toys|Hooligan]], transforming into a proposed swing-wing naval variant of the F-22 Raptor. He is armed with a pressure-launched missile fired from his right arm, which also forms a weapon in fighter mode. He can also store his extra missile on his forearm/jet undercarriage via simple friction-tabs.

: This toy was released in the Takara ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)#Takara G-2 line|G-2]]'' line, missing the factory-applied stickers on his vertical stabilizers, but otherwise identical to the Hasbro toy. It also came with an [[:File:Jetfire-JG2decal.jpg|extra decal sheet]] featuring white tiger markings, extra ''Generation 2'' Autobot symbols, and "battle damage" markings.

: Apparently, the decision to market the redecos as separate characters was a last-minute change of plans that was only put into use in America and Japan; in Europe, Hasbro supposedly stuck to the original idea for said assortment (here named "Mini-Jets"), with the redecos being sold as [[variant#Running changes|running change color variants]] of their wave 1 mold-mates instead, in unchanged packaging featuring [[package art]] in the original deco and the original character's name. Thus, Hooligan was available in Jetfire's colors but still marketed as Hooligan himself. This practice is only confirmed for the versions available in multilingual French/Dutch/German packaging; thus far, no specimens in English/Spanish/Portuguese packaging or in Italian [[GiG]] packaging have surfaced. This would also explain why the "Jetfire" release of the figure has Decepticon [[Insignia|faction symbol]] stickers, despite being released as an Autobot.

: This sculpt was also used to make ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' [[R-Blade#Toys|R-Blade]], ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Wind Sheer (Universe)#Toys|Wind Sheer]], and [[BotCon 2005]] [[Ricochet (Timelines)#Toys|Ricochet]]. R-Blade's expanded bio in the ''Robotmasters'' sourcebook specifically mentions Jetfire as the leader of the Autobot Cyberjets, even though no mention of this is made in Jetfire's ''Generation 2'' bio, in the U.S. ''or'' Japan.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1995/Autobot/Jetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Cyberjet Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Jetfiretitaniumwarwithin.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Unfortunate landing gear placement.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (6-inch Cybertron Heroes, [[2006]])
**''Accessories:'' 2 cannons, display stand with removable nameplate

:''[[Titanium Series]]'' Jetfire is based on [[Don Figueroa]]'s design as seen in [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''The War Within'' miniseries, which in turn was based on Figueroa's [[Customizing|scratch-build custom]] Transformer, [http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/kitbashes/Don_Figueroa/Kitbash_Retrospective/?dgallery_show=./strikefire_2.jpg Strikefire]. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter plane with armor add-ons.

:As with all ''Titanium Series'' figures, Jetfire's toy is constructed of both die-cast metal and molded plastic, and it comes with a plastic display stand featuring his name and his faction logo. In jet mode, landing gear can be deployed from underneath the fuselage and both legs. In robot mode, the two wing cannons can be removed to be held by the robot either separately or combined together into a single weapon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/TitJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Titanium'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Classics''===
[[File:Jetfireclassicsvoyager.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|We're getting almost as many Jetfires as we are Optimus Primes.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Voyager Class, [[2006]])
**''Accessories:'' Rocket Booster pack, two-piece rifle, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, helmet
{{toydesigner|[[Eric Siebenaler]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

:''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Jetfire's design is an amalgam of the original cartoon/comic model for Jetfire/Skyfire and the original toy. It not only features removable armor like the original toy, but the toy-inspired head can be removed like a helmet to reveal a cartoon/comic-inspired head. The jet mode is primarily based on the {{w|F-14 Tomcat}} (itself the inspiration for the ''Macross'' {{w|VF-1 Valkyrie}} design), but with various visual elements taken from Skyfire's [[character model]], most notably the squared-off nosecone. The toy's add-on booster packs have flip-out reveal cannons, and it also features arm-mounted spring-loaded missile launchers.

:An unexpected level of detail can be found on the black non-firing rifle; when it is assembled, the halves of the gun's "sight" come together in a way that would be functional on a full-size weapon.

:The toy's design was first featured on the solicited cover to [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'' #1. Contrary to popular belief, it was not designed by [[Don Figueroa]].

:A "ghost" [[redeco]] of this toy, with black plastic and silvery electric paint deco, was shown by [[Hasbro]] in a news broadcast about their attempts to cheer up a Rhode Island orphan. Sadly, this version was never released.

:This mold was [[retool]]ed to make the [[BotCon 2007]] version of [[Dreadwind (G1)#Timelines|Dreadwind]], and [[redeco]]ed to make the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' version of [[Tread Bolt#Universe (2008)|Tread Bolt]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/ClassicsJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Classics'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Jetfireclassicslegends.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Faith Is For The Larger Toys.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Legends Class, 2006)
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (deco artist)}}

:This toy is a [[redeco]] of [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends of Cybertron]]-class [[Thundercracker (Armada)#LOC|Thundercracker]], transforming into an Su-37 fighter jet. His cannon, while movable, is permanently attached to his left arm.

:This mold was later redecoed into ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|Starscream]], and then ''Universe'' [[Silverbolt (G1)#Universe (2008)|Silverbolt]] from the Target-[[exclusive]] "Special Team Leaders" Legends-class figure pack.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/ClassicsLegendsJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Classics'' Legends Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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*'''Jetfire and Grimlock Twin Pack''' (Two-pack, 2007)
**''Accessories:'' Rocket Booster pack, two-piece rifle, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, helmet

:In Asian markets such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, Voyager Class Jetfire was also made available as part of a special two-pack with Deluxe Class [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Classics|Grimlock]] in late 2007. Aside from the unique packaging, the toys are identical to their single releases.
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===''Henkei! Henkei!''===
[[File:Henkei Jetfire toy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Comes packaged in a block of ice for "show-accuracy".]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skyfire''' (Voyager, [[2008]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-06'''
:*''Release date'': [[July 17]], 2008
:*''Accessories'': "Hydrogen-fuel Turbo Thruster Pack", two-piece rifle, 2 photon missile launchers, 2 infrared homing missiles, helmet

: ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skyfire is a redeco of ''Classics'' Voyager Class Jetfire. The primary changes to his deco are mainly for better resemblance to Skyfire's Generation 1 cartoon model's appearance (in particular painting most of the canopy to make it appear smaller), rather than the Jetfire/''Macross'' design. Of amusement is the fact the fighter's airbrake has been painted blue to be a faux secondary canopy. As with all ''Henkei'' toys, he lacks the heat-sensitive rubsign seen on the ''Classics'' release, but instead has some [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metallized]] parts (his jetpack's exhaust nozzles).

: It also includes a [[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (pack-in manga)|mini-manga]] detailing the events that lead to Skyfire's appearance in the ''Henkei! Henkei!'' universe (mini-manga universe, that is).

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[[File:gentei-darkskyfire-toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|You bet your smoking [[Anatomic euphemism#Afterburner|afterburners]] I was destined to be repurposed!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Dark Skyfire''' (Voyager, [[2010]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-06'''
:*''Release date'': [[March 18]], 2010
:*''Accessories'': "Hydrogen-fuel Turbo Thruster Pack", two-piece rifle, 2 photon missile launchers, 2 infrared homing missiles, helmet

: Part of the ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)#Gentei! Gentei!|Gentei! Gentei!]]'' subline of ''Henkei!'', "Dark Skyfire" is a [[TakaraTomy Mall|Toy Hobby Market]]-[[exclusive]] [[black redeco]] and [[retool]] of ''Classics'' Voyager Class Jetfire. The primary changes to his deco are mainly for making him, uh, darker. Specifically, he's cast in glossy black and purple plastic, with painted purple details and new thin white stripes on his wings. The tips of his backpack cannons have been significantly remolded to make the barrels and stalks on which they are mounted a single, newly-jointed piece, with the result being that the cannons' bodies stick out ever so slightly from their housing. This change is likely to make the barrels more durable under the constant spring-loaded strain of being hidden, as well as allow one to pivot and deploy the cannons without sliding back the panels that are keeping them hidden, due to the fact that deploying the cannons this way with the previous tooling often resulted in the (detachable) tips of the cannons to pop out and send them flying. As with all ''Henkei'' toys, he lacks the heat-sensitive rubsign seen on the ''Classics'' release, but instead has some vacuum-metallized parts (his jetpack's exhaust nozzles).

: The extent of Dark Skyfire's 'Dark' originally varied from image to image: early pre-production mockup images showed a dark matte grey similar to e-Hobby [[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#Collector.27s_Edition|Astrotrain]], whilst later images appeared gloss black with high-contrast silver details, leading to speculation that this redeco is the previously unreleased 'ghost' ''Classics'' Jetfire. Some possible hints of this remain, such as the Hasbro ''Classics''-styled open cockpit instead of ''Henkei's ''half-painted version, as well as some entirely new paint operations, such as the added stripes on the sides of the intakes just behind his shoulders.

: Pre-orders for Dark Skyfire opened up on [[November 12]]th and closed on [[December 11]]th [[2009]], with the toys finally shipping in March of 2010.

: This figure was [[Repurposing|repurpos]]ed as ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (toyline)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Jetfire (SG)|Jetfire]] and ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'' [[Zardak]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Destron/DarkSkyfire/darkskyfire.htm More information on Dark Skyfire at TFU.info]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (Voyager, [[2013]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[August 15]], 2013
:*''Accessories:'' "Hydrogen-fuel Turbo Thruster Pack", two-piece rifle, 2 photon missile launchers, 2 infrared homing missiles, helmet

: Exclusive to [[Cybertron Con 2013]], Jetfire features a similar deco to the regular ''Henkei! Henkei!'' Skyfire but with more white, the red being metallic paint, and most notably Decepticon insignias on the wings. Uncharacteristically for a ''Henkei! Henkei!'' figure, he lacks vacuum-metallized parts. Additionally his box (in monochrome blue) features a lot of English text including the Hasbro market name and [[bio]], even though the box is otherwise following the original ''Henkei! Henkei'' packaging design, down to the line's Japanese title logo.
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===''Bot Shots''===
[[File:Bot Shots Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Jetfire''' ([[2012]])
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''B010'''
***''Fist strength'': '''780'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''480'''
***''Sword strength'': '''360'''

:Part of the third wave of ''[[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots]]'', Jetfire is a teeny little jet with a spring-loaded automatic transformation to robot mode triggered when his nosecone is pressed. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels. The colors and sculpted detail are greatly influenced by ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[#Classics|Jetfire]].

:This mold would also have been used to make the unreleased ''Bot Shots'' [[Blast Off (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Blast Off]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/BSJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Bot Shots'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BotShots 3pack Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skyquake / Jetfire / Powerglide''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''BP007'''
***''Fist strength'': '''215'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''595'''
***''Sword strength'': '''810'''

:This version of Jetfire was only available in a three-pack with [[Skyquake (Prime)#BotShot3Pack|Skyquake]] and [[Powerglide (G1)#BotShot3Pack|Powerglide]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/BS3pkJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on three-pack Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BotShots PolarAssault Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Max Jenius Jetfire]]
*'''Polar Assault Team''' (Multi-pack, [[2013]])
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''T005'''
***''Fist strength'': '''220'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''895'''
***''Sword strength'': '''505'''
:A redeco of the original Jetfire Bot Shots mode with pretty much the same color layout of the three-pack Jetfire, only with blue instead of red. This version of Jetfire was available in a five pack with new redecoes of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#BotShotPolarAssaultTeam|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#BotShotPolarAssaultTeam|Bumblebee]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#BotShotPolarAssaultTeam|Mirage]], and [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#BotShotPolarAssaultTeam|Ironhide]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/BSPAJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Polar Assault Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''BeCool''===
[[File:BotShots BeCool WhiteJetJetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''White Jet (Jetfire)''' (2012)
**''ID number'': '''B11'''

:''[[Bot Shots (toyline)#BeCool|BeCool]]'' "White Jet" is practically identical to the first ''Bot Shots'' Jetfire toy, the only difference being that his stickers don't depict power levels but instead drawings of his vehicle mode in flight, a passenger's bag and the word "Fight!" in English and Japanese.
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Gen-toy Jetfire Leader.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|"Not even lawsuits can stop me now!"]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Leader Class, [[2014]])
**''Series / Number:'' '''02 / 001'''
**'''21 OF 30'''
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile Launcher", 1 missile, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg mounted cannon/guards (left & right), 2 arm mounted cannons/guards, removable battle mask
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] and [[John Warden]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]] [[Thrilling 30]]'' Jetfire's design is an amalgam of the original cartoon/comic model for Jetfire/Skyfire and the original toy. It features removable armor like the original toy, but the toy-inspired head can be removed like a mask to reveal a more proportioned cartoon/comic-inspired head. The jet mode is again based on a navalized {{w|F-22 Raptor}} with {{w|F-14 Tomcat}}-like variable geometry wings (The F-14 itself being the inspiration for the ''Macross'' {{w|VF-1 Valkyrie}} design), but with a faux cockpit reminiscent of his Skyfire's [[character model]] underneath the jet's fuselage, most notably the faux squared-off nosecone in his robot mode. The toy's add-on booster pack which can be rotated 360 degrees, arm and leg mounted cannons are [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metallized]] bright metallic red. Jetfire also carries a [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metallized]] spring-loaded "photon" missile launcher/rifle. All five weapons can combine into a larger weapon, and the removable face armor can be stowed by plugging into the rifle while both arm cannons can also be attached to the peg hole located on both sides of his Turbo Thruster pack. This toy first appeared as Jetfire's new body in the "[[Dawn of the Autobots]]" arc of ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''.

:All versions of this mold have a design flaw in the strut that connects the pelvis to the chest. The very small, very thin plastic on either side of where the strut pins in between the legs has a tendency to eventually break, especially after repeated transformations. The primary cause appears to be when the friction pin starts to work its way into both the inner and outer pieces. Checking the clearance between the pieces and the position of the pin can help prevent untimely damage. Some units also have an ''insanely'' tight pin hole here, where it requires less force to ''ratchet the pieces apart'' than to rotate properly. Removing the pin and opening the hole on the inner piece of the joint can also lengthen the effective lifespan of the figure.

:This mold was also retooled into ''Generations [[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Thundercracker]], [[Starscream (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Starscream]], and [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Skywarp]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Generations'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:TF-Generations-Silver-Jetfire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Eh, is it ''' ''Yacht''fire'''? ''' ''Bus''fire'''? or ''' ''Moto''fire'''?"]]
*'''Silver Jetfire''' (Contest prize, 2014)
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile Launcher", 1 missile, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg mounted cannon/guards (left & right), 2 arm mounted cannons/guards, removable battle mask

:Limited to only 3 pieces, Silver Jetfire is a redeco of the Leader Class toy above, featuring silver paint on both his paintable and ''unpaintable'' white parts. The toy was released as a contest prize in AEON Malaysia, which ran from 15 September to 15 October 2014. To enter the competition, participants needed to collect the contest flyer first, purchase the regular Leader Class Jetfire toy, and then answer one simple question regarding Jetfire's alternate mode. Hilariously, while the actual answer is Jet, there are 3 additional answers: ''Yacht'', ''Bus'', and ''Motorcycle''.
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy Jetwash.jpg|thumb|upright=1.88|Add jetwax for $3.00.]]
*'''Jetwash''' (Micro-Changer, 2014)
**''Bag number'': '''40551 53'''
**''Accessories'': 2 buildable rifles

:''[[Kre-O]]'' '''Jetwash''' can be rebuilt from robot mode into a jet. He sports [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Prowl]]'s helmet and the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Starscream]] wing-backpack. He also comes with 2 buildable guns, which are formed from his jet tail fins and pistols. He uses a chest [[tampograph]] based on the [[#Generation 1|original Jetfire toy]], but the leg deco is based on the [[:File:TFU Jetfire.jpg|"Skyfire" cartoon model]].

:Although the stock photos show the guns being nudged completely into the red parts, there isn't enough space to do so. Several samples of Jetwash had balance problems with the legs's ball-joint holes, causing the figure to fall over if not placed on a display brick. However, a few samples had perfectly balanced leg parts. Good luck finding them.

:He was available in the fifth assortment of [[blindpacking|blind-bagged]] [[Kreon]] [[Micro-Changer]]s, available only at [[Toys"R"Us]] stores in the US and Canada.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/Kre-OJetwash/jetwash.htm More information on Micro-Changer Jetwash at TFU.info]''

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*'''Skyfire''' (Gacha Micro-Changer, 2015)
**''Accessories'': 2 buildable rifles

:The Jetwash Micro Changer Kreon was also released as a "TF Kreon Microchangers" Gacha toy by Takara Tomy, under the name '''Skyfire'''.

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*'''Kreon Class of '85''' (Kreon figure set, 2015)
**''Set number'' '''B5152'''
**''Voted'': The Brain
**''Accessories'': Bazooka

:Back to his original name, [[Kreon Class of '85]] Jetfire is heavily original-toy-based, down to the Veritech-inspired visor-and-mask helmet and red "scramjet" backpack.

:He was only available in a 30-Kreon set, originally made for sale at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015. The leftovers were then made available on [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Autobot/SDCCKre-OJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Class of 1985 Jetfire at TFU.info]''

===''Hero Mashers''===
[[File:HM-toy Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Action Figure, 2014)
**''Pieces: '''9'''
**''Accessories'': Wing-pack

:Part of the second wave of ''Transformers [[Hero Mashers]]'' basic Action Figures, Jetfire is a non-transforming action figure with ratchet-joints, about six inches tall. He has multiple peg-holes all over that can be used to mount any ''Hero Mashers'' accessory.

:He is designed with a removable head, forearms, thighs, and lower legs, all of which use the same clip-peg/hole joint. This means his pieces can be swapped around in any order, as well as swapped with any other ''Hero Mashers'' figure... which includes figures from [[Marvel Comics]], ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'', and ''[[Jurassic Park|Jurassic World]]'', meaning you can make some pretty freaky combinations.

:Rather than coming with a (nominally) hand-held weapon accessory, Jetfire comes with a [[redeco]] of [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Hero Mashers|Starscream]]'s wing-backpack, with parts painted red to resemble the original toy's back-mounted jet thrusters. Of course, being a ''Hero Mashers'' piece, it can be attached anywhere, including being hand-held, and since it's got multiple gun barrels on the wings, hey, have at it.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/HMJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Hero Mashers'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Takara-transformers-legends-jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|right|From the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Quadwal]] stream.]]
*'''Jetfire''' ([[December 27]], [[2014]])
**''ID number:'' '''LG07'''
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile Launcher", 1 missile, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg mounted cannon/guards (left & right), 2 arm mounted cannons/guards, removable battle mask

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Jetfire is a redeco of ''Generations'' Leader Class Jetfire, featuring de-chromed weapons and a few changes of the deco. He comes with mini-comic [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 7|''Legends'' Bonus Edition Vol. 7]].
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===''Q-Transformers''===
[[File:QTransformers Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Jetfire''' ([[January 30]], [[2016]])
**''ID number:'' '''QTF-08'''

:A retool of ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Starscream]], Jetfire transforms from a [[super deformed]] jet to a cute chubby little robot.

:This mold was also retooled into ''Q-Transformers'' [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Thundercracker]].
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===''Cyber Series''===
[[File:TF-Cyber-Battalion-Jetfire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Cyber Battalion, [[2017]])
**''Accessories'': 2 Guns

:Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#PrimeWarsTrilogyAsian|Generations: Cyber Series]]'' Cyber Battlion class figures, Jetfire is a retool of the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Cyber Series|Starscream]] figure from the previous wave. He changes from jet to robot in a few easy steps and includes two guns which can be held in his hands, pegged onto his arms, or mounted underneath his vehicle mode wings. Unlike the base mold, his wings can swing in and out like his original G1 figure. However, there are two pegs on each wing that are used to lock them in position (either full sweep or high-maneuverability), and a lack of clearance requires the wing assembly to be opened to move them in addition to unpegging them from the back of the arms. [[Stock photography]] (shown to the right) has unpainted, red hips, yet final product has them painted over in white.
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===''Revolution''===
[[File:SDCC-2017-Revolution-Leader-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|What am I doing here? I wasn't even in your dang crossover!]]
*'''Revolution Set''' (Multi-pack, [[July 20]], 2017)
**''Accessories'': "Photon Missile Launcher", 1 missile, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg mounted cannon/guards (left & right), 2 arm mounted cannons/guards, removable battle mask

:Released as part of a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2017 exclusive set, this Jetfire is basically a re-release of the ''Legends'' figure. He was packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], [[Leoric]] of ''[[Visionaries]]'', [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', [[Rom]] and a [[Dire Wraith]], and 9 ''[[Micronauts]]'' mini-figurines.

:This Jetfire uses a thicker tab that was previously used for the Seeker retools, causing a slight gap in the jet mode.
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:WFC-Siege-WFCS28-Commander-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Avoiding fate since 1985.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Commander Class, [[2019]], [[2022]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-S28'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SG-26'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': [[July 27]], 2019
**''Hidden message code'': '''SKYFIRE'''
**''Accessories'': Left & right "JF-25 HS Photon Missile Sky Launcher" rifles, 2 "HS [[Photon missile|Photon Missiles]]," 2 two-part "JF-15 HP Jetboost [[Particle beam cannon|Particle Beam Cannons]]," 2 "SF-M2 Radiograph Booster" two-part double-cannons, "Skyshield Aerial Armor," "Skyshield Battle Mask," computer core, 2 three-part "[[Fire Blast effect]]" pieces
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro), [[Shogo Hasui]]<ref name="Gen2020">[https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-generations-2020-book-shogo-hasui-interview-translation-part-1-2.1215115/ Translated interview] with [[Shogo Hasui]] from ''[[Transformers Generations 2020]]'' book</ref> (TakaraTomy)}}

:The first of the large "Commander Class" toys, this iteration of Jetfire is based ''heavily'' on his 1984 [[Jetfire (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon continuity|cartoon]] and [[Jetfire (G1)#Marvel Comics continuity|comic]] [[character model]], transforming into a Cybertronian superjet with a massive, brick-like top-mounted "Turbo Thruster Booster Pack". He is one of the few toys in the ''Siege'' line ''not'' sporting battle damage paint applications, though he does have a very light 'reentry fade' on his lower legs and nosecone.

:In robot mode, the faction symbol on his chest can flip around to be either Autobot or Decepticon, a reference to the original ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' cartoon episode "[[Fire in the Sky]]" and to recreate his faction swap in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''Siege'']] cartoon (alternately, you can pretend he's performing the [[Rite of the Autobrand]] as seen in the original Marvel comic). The [[5 mm post]]-hole rings in his hands are designed to recess into his palms when his fingers are extended forward so he looks less awkward in an open-handed pose. Adding the Skyshield Aerial Armor and Skyshield Battle Mask gives his robot mode a ''slightly'' more original-toy appearance. Some copies may have difficulty attaching his chest armor properly due to the small flip-out panels not lining up perfectly: pulling the chest panels open and then putting them back once the armor is attached can help, or it can be attached by a single panel instead of both. While Jetfire does have ankle tilts, there are small but fairly strong clips that lock them in, so a bit of force may be required to unlock them.

:In jet mode, along with deployable landing gear with rolling wheels, he features four pop-out handles on his underside that allow other ''Siege'' figures (or any toy or accessory with a 5 mm grip) to hang underneath him, letting him air-drop his comrades into battle. He can also carry up to three [[Titan Master#Toys|Titan Master]]s or [[Prime Master#Toys|Prime Master]]s in jet mode: removing the filler computer core inside his cockpit (by folding down the nosecone) reveals space for one Master, while the back end of the Turbo Thruster Booster Pack lifts up to reveal space for two more Masters. Oddly, this feature is not shown in his instructions. The core also has a 5 mm hole in it so um... there's that. There is a 5 mm hexagonal port on his underside that appears to be for heavier-duty flight stands, since it is recessed too far to peg in any of his own weapons. Some transformation joints on his wings can also simulate working air flaps. During development, the jet was originally designed as a different "Cybetronian" jet akin to the rest of ''Siege'', but Shogo Hasui pushed for it to more closely match his cartoon appearance instead, just like the robot mode.<ref name="Gen2020"/>

:In either mode, his many many [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]] weapons can be mounted on him in a variety of ways. His two "JF-25 HS Photon Missile Sky Launcher" rifles can be combined into a single double-barreled gun vaguely similar to the original animation model's double-barreled cannon. In this configuration, they form the core of a massive pile of weapons and armor that goes on top of his jet mode (as if he wasn't anti-aerodynamic ''enough''). In ''another'' undocumented feature, his "JF-15 HP Jetboost Particle Beam Cannons" and "SF-M2 Radiograph Booster" double-cannons are two-part weapons that can be pulled apart for even more versatility. He also has a large number of 3 mm "blast effect" hardpoints all over his body and on the tips of his weapons. His two multi-part blast effects have 5 mm posts with 3 mm holes in the middle on each part, making them very versatile in simulating his jet thrusters or outgoing or incoming weapons fire. Jetfire was also intended to interact with the [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System|Weaponizer]] [[Six-Gun#War for Cybertron: Siege|Sixgun]] in jet mode, though this was, ''once again'', never advertised.<ref>[https://twitter.com/tf__tf/status/1205868925067513857 Siege Jetfire and Sixgun combination] from ''[[Transformers Generations 2020]]'' book</ref>

:For those curious, the computer core accessory appears to be a reference to the episode "[[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain]]", where a close-up of ''Skyfire''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s cockpit interior is shown as he is being defrosted by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzq3C4hkfNE&t=373 "Fire on the Mountain" episode timestamp 6:13] - on [[Hasbro Pulse]]'s official YouTube channel.</ref>

:Unfortunately, Jetfire is among one of a long list of figures to suffer from [[photodegradation]] in his [[unpaintable plastic]] parts, as a result of unknown causes.

:Bizarrely, many [[Walmart]] stores in the US put him on instant clearance, causing him to ring up at $40 rather than the actual $80 he's supposed to cost. This made some people very happy.

:This figure saw reissues in late-2022 and mid-2024 and was also redecoed into ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Shattered Glass Collection|Shattered Glass Collection]]'' [[Jetfire (SG)#Shattered_Glass_Collection|Jetfire]].
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===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:Transformers-Masterpiece-MP-57-Skyfire.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|Huge and probably breaking copyrights, and yet somehow he's still outpriced by the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP44|truck]].]]
*'''Skyfire''' ([[2023]])
**''ID Number'': '''MP-57'''
**''Accessories'': 3 faces, 2 [[Fire Blast effect|blast effects]], 3 faction plates, "Photon Missile Launcher", 2-piece [[Flight stand|stand base]], stand arm, stand cradle, 3 mini-figures ([[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP57|Convoy]], [[Jazz (G1)/toys#MP57|Meister]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#MP57|Wheeljack]])
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Yuki Ohshima]] (concept artist)}}

:''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' <s>Jetfire</s> "Skyfire" is an absolutely humongous figure, nearly 14 inches tall in [[robot mode]], about 2 inches taller than the ''Siege'' Commander-class toy above. Inspired by the Generation 1 cartoon in design, he transforms into a space jet.

:Skyfire comes with a multitude of accessories. For vehicle mode, there is a display stand, and three small, articulated figurines ("Convoy", "Meister", and "Wheeljack") that scale with the vehicle mode and can ride inside of it. Skyfire features several opening hatches for this purpose. As for robot mode, Skyfire comes with three robot faces, including one based on the original masked ''Macross'' design (no antennae though). He also has three interchangeable chest plates displaying an Autobot insignia, a Decepticon insignia, and one that is blank, to replicate the scene in "[[Fire in the Sky]]" where he removes his Decepticon badge and changes allegiances to the Autobots. Also inspired by that same episode, Skyfire's helmet opens up to reveal a brainwave monitor. Lastly, he has his iconic "Photon Missile Launcher", which can be used in robot mode or clipped onto his vehicle mode.

:And yes, he is able to turn into a gerwalk mode. Awesome.

:Confirmed in an interview seen in the 278th issue of ''[[Figure Ō]]'' magazine, Skyfire was officially revealed on [[June 2]], [[2022]]. In [[Japan]] this figure was [[exclusive]] to [[TakaraTomy Mall]].

:On many specimens, the large strong springs inside Skyfire's ankles shove too firmly against the pins holding his heel extensions in place, preventing the feet from opening fully flat and thus interfering with some standing poses.
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==Merchandise==
===First 4 Figures===
*'''Jetfire''' (<s>2006/2007</s> unreleased)

:Intended for release in [[First 4 Figures]]' "Generation One" series, this would have been a full body resin statue of Jetfire. When his digital sculpt was shown to ASM website staff at New York [[Toy Fair]] in February 2006, they noted that Jetfire was depicted holding the [[:File:Jetfireg1dw.jpg|helmet]] he had in [[Dreamwave Productions]]' [[Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave)|comics]].<ref name=ASM>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070806062058/http://toyfair06.asmzine.com/first4figures/report.html "First4Figures Limited Transformers Statues and Busts Info!"] at ASMzine.com (archived)</ref> First 4 Figures allowed [[BigBadToyStore]] to solicit him for sale the same month.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/update-from-bigbadtoystorecom-transformers-and-gij/6539/ "Update from BigBadToyStore.com: Transformers and G.I.Joe Statues and Busts!!!"] on Seibertron.com</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070426030454/http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=527&company=130 BigBadToyStore's listings for First 4 Figures' statues] (archived)</ref>

:Unfortunately, Jetfire and the rest of the "Generation One" series were casualties of the general discontinuation of First 4 Figures' ''Transformers'' output, which was attributed to a challenging market and a lack of retailer support.
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===''Attacktix''===
[[File:Jetfire-atx.jpg|thumb|Faith is for the Transforming People.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Booster, <s>2007</s>)

:''[[Attacktix]]'' Jetfire was heavily based on his ''Titanium Series'' toy, and would've featured an oversized gun from which he fired a single missile. He was displayed at various conventions, but was ultimately canceled alongside the entire ''Attacktix'' line.

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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium cancelled figure checklist.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Jetfire''' (unreleased)
:*''Accessories:'' Autobot stand?
:The final ''[[Titanium Series]]'' catalogue listed a number of "Micro Figures" intended for release, though many of them never saw the light of day. Among those listed was a 3" Robot Masters figurine of Jetfire. It is uncertain as to whether he would be depicted in a classic ''Generation 1'' design or his ''[[War Within (comic)|War Within]]'' form, the latter of which had already been included in the [[#Titanium Series|six inch range]]. He may have even been [[Jetfire (Armada)|another Jetfire entirely]]! We'll never know. And neither will ''you''.

:Whatever the case, he would probably have included a stand in the shape of an Autobot badge.
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===Transformers - Mini Bust===
*'''Jetfire''' (2009)

[[File:DiamondSelect G1Jetfirebust.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|How ironic. Two more days and I would have completed my helmet.]]
:Released by [[Diamond Select Toys]] in 2009, Jetfire was sculpted by [[Mark Wong]] of [[Art Asylum]] and limited to 1000 pieces. He is wielding his photon missile launcher but it uses the double-barreled cartoon design instead of the single-barreled version that came with the toy. The rest of the character design is a mixture of his cartoon and comic bodies.
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[[File:AFX ArmoredJetfire bust.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Uh-oh, move along, nothing to see here...]]
*'''Battle Armor Jetfire Bust''' (2009)

:An exclusive to AFX, this version of the Jetfire bust features an interchangeable ''Macross''-inspired head design based upon his original Generation 1 toy, two booster packs on his back and a "battle damaged" sculpt.
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===''Transformers Gum''===
[[File:Kabaya-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skyfire''' (2009)
:Released in the second wave of the revived ''Transformers Gum'' series in 2009, this transforming model kit of Skyfire is made of white and blue plastic, with lots of stickers for detail. Based on the ''Henkei'' Skyfire figure, the back of the head features the face of the larger toy's helmet.
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===''G.I. Joe and the Transformers''===
[[File:SDCC2013Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Justice Rocket Backpack Rocket Rocket fire!]]
*'''''The Epic Conclusion!'' box set''' ([[July 18]], 2013)
**''Accessories:'' Booster engines, four AIM-9 short-range missiles, four AIM-7 medium-range missiles, two AIM-54 long-range missiles, TARPS pod

:An [[exclusive]] release for [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2013, "Autobot Jetfire" is a [[redeco]] the same 2011 [[mold]] ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[Skystriker (vehicle)|Sky Striker]] that had previously been used for [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Starscream]]. New to this set is a large accessory designed after Jetfire's characteristic booster engines; this pack can mount on top of Jetfire using the slots that would otherwise be used for his vertical tail fins, which can instead attach to the engines as horizontal fins. Jetfire features an opening cockpit that can seat a figure. The set also comes with a redecoed [[VAMP]] representing [[Hound (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Hound]], a new [[Snake-Eyes#G.I. Joe and the Transformers 2|Snake-Eyes]] figure bearing an Autobot symbol, a [[Baroness#G.I. Joe and the Transformers 2|Baroness]] figure with [[Ravage (G1)/toys#Baroness|Ravage]] on a leash, a [[Bludgeon (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Bludgeon]] figure, and a [[Blaster (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Blaster]] boombox with cassette pieces representing [[Steeljaw (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Steeljaw]], [[Ramhorn (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Ramhorn]], and [[Eject (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Eject]].

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

:On [[July 22]], [[2013]], Harmony Gold, owner of the rights to the ''Robotech'' franchise and U.S. claimant to the ''Macross'' rights, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131014085251/http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/23/Transformers.pdf filed a copyright infringement suit against Hasbro]. In the filing, Harmony Gold argued that the release somehow infringed upon the intellectual property of the Veritech, but noted that "damages are difficult to ascertain". They demanded that Hasbro recall all Jetfires that had been sold, that all Jetfires (including the recalled ones) be either destroyed or handed over to Harmony Gold, and that Hasbro turn over all profits relating to the sales; this was to happen in addition to payment for all actual damages to Harmony Gold (despite Harmony Gold itself not knowing how much the actual damages were) and all punitive assessments assigned against Hasbro.

:Subsequently, an order was filed on September 23rd, 2013, to [http://generalsjoes.com/2013/10/10/hasbro-and-harmony-gold-reportedly-settle-lawsuit-over-sdcc-exclusive-jetfire/ dismiss the case with prejudice], implying that Harmony Gold and Hasbro have reached a settlement. Although confirmation of a settlement, much less details thereof, has not been revealed, the fact that the case was dismissed ''with prejudice'' means that Harmony Gold cannot sue over the Jetfire issue again. By early October the set was made available on [[Hasbro Toy Shop]], where it quickly sold out.

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::*''[https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/13/autobotjetfire/ More information on Autobot Jetfire at YoJoe.com]''
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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Jetfire, Air Guardian''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''UT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T24/T40'''
**''Stars: ''10
:'''Jetfire, Air Guardian''' is one of forty double-sided character cards available in Wave 1 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]].

:The artwork for the card is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile card game, and is based on the ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Jetfire toy.

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[[File:W4CaptainJetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Captain Jetfire, Engineering-Air Guardian''' (2019)
**'''Wave 4: War for Cybertron: Siege II'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T03/T52'''
**''Stars: ''16

:Raider Spinister, Infantry-Aerial Assault is one of 52 character cards released in Wave 4 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege II.

:The card's artwork is based on the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Jetfire toy, with the Bot Mode artwork being reused from the toy's packaging art.
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===ReAction===
[[File:ReActionSkyfire.jpeg|upright=1|thumb|Flashback, flash frozen.]]
*'''Skyfire''' (2020)
**''Accessories'': Cannon

:Released in the second wave of [[Super7]]'s line of multi-property 3.75-inch "retro" action figures, ''[[ReAction]]'' Skyfire is a non-converting 3 3/4-inch action figure based on his appearance in the original cartoon, with 5 points of articulation (swivel neck, shoulders, hips) and holes in his feet for use with some variety of stand. Unlike the first-wave figures, both of his hands are open and can grip his included cannon accessory.

:As with all releases in the ''ReAction'' toyline, Skyfire comes packaged on a small cardback that emulates the nostalgic packaging style of [[Kenner]]'s ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' action figures from the late 1970s to early '80s.
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===''Pop!''===
[[File:Funko Pop Jetfire G1.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
*'''Jetfire''' (2021)
**''ID number:'' '''35'''

:Released as part of the ''Pop! Retro Toys'' segment and exclusive to Funko Shop, [[Funko Pop!|Funko]]'s ''Pop!'' Jetfire is a super deformed vinyl figure based on his original Generation 1 toy.

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*'''Jetfire''' ([[Funko Pop!#Digital Pop! NFTs|Digital ''Pop!'']], 2022)
**''Rarity:''
***''Monochrome:'' '''Common'''
***''Static:'' '''Common'''
***''Glowing:'' '''Uncommon'''
***''Chrome:'' '''Uncommon'''
***''Original:'' '''Epic'''
:{{W|Non-fungible token|NFT}}s depicting Jetfire in the Funko style.
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TRANSFORMERS UNCOMMON JETFIRE GLOW.gif
TRANSFORMERS UNCOMMON JETFIRE REDCHROME.gif|[[Hate Plague|Be glad you can't touch this one.]]
TRANSFORMERS EPIC JETFIRE ORIGINAL.gif
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===Jada Toys===
*'''Sideswipe / <s>Jazz</s> Hot Rod / Jetfire''' (1.65" Die Cast Vehicle 3-pack, <s>2020, 2022</s>)
:Produced by [[Jada Toys]], ''Nano Hollywood Rides'' Jetfire is a small non-transforming die-cast jet (based on his cartoon appearance, albeit on wheels) measuring approximately 1.65 inches long.

:He was originally announced in 2020 as part of a 3-pack alongside [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Nano Hollywood Rides|Jazz]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Nano Hollywood Rides|Sideswipe]], but the pack got delayed and by 2022 Jazz got replaced by [[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Nano Hollywood Rides|Hot Rod]]. As of 2023, however, it's unclear if the pack will ever get to see an official release in any form.
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===''Magic: The Gathering''===
[[File:MTG-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist / Jetfire, Air Guardian''' (2022)
**''ID number:'' '''003/015'''
**''Set code:'' '''BOT'''
**''Color identity:'' '''Blue'''
**''Casting cost:'' '''{4}{U}''' (front), '''{3}{U}''' (back)

:"Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist" is part of the 2022 ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' ''[[wikia:mtg:Universes Beyond|Universes Beyond]]'' ''[[wikia:mtg:Transformers|Transformers]]'' card set, found in Set Booster and Collector Booster packs of ''Magic''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> ''[[wikia:mtg:The Brothers' War|The Brothers' War]]'' set. It can be reversed to become "Jetfire, Air Guardian", representing Jetfire in vehicle mode.
:A variant of this card was available solely in Collector Booster packs, depicting [[Jetfire (SG)#Magic: The Gathering|''Shattered Glass'' Jetfire]].
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==Notes==
[[File:TakatokuSuperValkyrie.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|C'mon, Hasbro. You '''know''' you want to make a "Skull Squadron" version of ''some'' [[Jetfire (disambiguation)|Jetfire]]. What's [[Bandai]] going to do?]]
*As mentioned above, unlike most of the early ''Transformers'' range, the Jetfire toy was designed by [[Takatoku Toys]], being a [[redeco]] (with minor retools to blunt the nosecone and add two tabs to keep the wings from their forward-most position) of their 1/55 [https://web.archive.org/web/20180120173238/http://1501bc.com:80/pretf/macross.html ''Macross'' VF-1S Super Valkyrie]. Naturally, because he was not designed by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]], Jetfire was not released in Japan, since the toy (or, at least, a dozen variations of it) was released by one of Takara's rival toy companies.
*Jetfire's [[#Generation 2|''Generation 2'' colour scheme]] nearly inspired the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' multi-pack incarnation of the Mini-Con [[Terradive (Armada)#Notes|Terradive]], but this did not come to fruition.

==References==
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[[Category:Bot Shots Autobots]]
[[Category:Classics Autobots]]
[[Category:Exclusives]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 2 Autobots]]

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[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
[[Category:Hero Mashers Autobots]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Legends Autobots]]
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Jetfire (G1)/toys

2024-11-10T15:13:44Z

JunoDeguzman2024: It was no longer released.

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[[File:G1 boxart Jetfire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Birdman Squadron Jetman.]]

If there is a large, flying [[Autobot]] toy that's not an [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]], it's probably one of '''Jetfire'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s.

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:Jetfireg1toy.jpg|upright=1.77|thumb|Don't expect Takara to reissue this toy any time soon.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Autobot Air Guardian, [[1985]])
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile Launcher", rifle mounting pod, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg guards (left & right), 2 arm guards, 2 fenders
{{toydesigner|[[Shōji Kawamori]] ([[Takatoku Toys]])}}

: Released in the second year of the [[Hasbro]] ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Transformers]]'' toyline, Jetfire is a [[redeco]] of the [[Takatoku Toys]] ''Macross'' VF-1S Super Valkyrie. Jetfire features three modes: robot, jet, and an "alternate transformation" (called the "Gerwalk" form in ''Macross'', and the "Guardian" form in ''Robotech'') that deploys his arms and legs in [[alternate mode|jet mode]]. Additionally, Jetfire comes with several red pieces of armor and a rocket booster backpack that can snap onto his arms, legs, and back in any mode. He has noticeably more articulation than the other ''Transformers'' in the line at the time.

: The shoulder assembly where the jet mode folds in half for [[robot mode]] is one of the more commonly broken parts in the early ''Transformers'' toy line. Additionally, the thin, rigid plastic used on the armor pieces puts their attachment clips at high risk of breaking off; anyone actually transforming a Jetfire in this day and age would be better off ''gently'' pulling the peg-and-socket-construction armor pieces apart and then reuniting them around his arms and legs without relying on the clips. And finally, the small black clip-piece that attaches Jetfire's rifle to his jet mode is possibly one of the most commonly missing accessories on secondhand Jetfires, if not secondhand Transformers all around. The fact that the instructions don't tell you what to do with it doesn't help. The piece is used to hold Jetfire's rifle via the clip attached to the arm, as well as under the jetmode as a belly gun. It is very difficult to find a complete Jetfire toy, let alone an undamaged one. The figure's white coloration is also heavily succeptible to [[photodegradation|yellowing]], even if properly stored.

: [[Variant|Early specimens]] of Jetfire featured the ''Macross'' [[United Nations|U.N.]] Spacy logo on the wings; the very earliest had this painted on, while a mid-stage release used a [[sticker]]. These "Macross" Jetfires also have an extra black stripe across the jet canopy, and the robot head guns have more complex sculpting with thinner plastic at their bases.

: For what should be ''screamingly obvious reasons'', Jetfire was not released in the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'' toyline.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Jetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Generation 2''===
[[File:Jetfire-G2toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm not a traitor!]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Cyberjet, [[1995]])
**''Takara ID number:'' '''TRF-16'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 armor-piercing missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: Jetfire was released in the Hasbro ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' line as part of the second [[wave]] of [[Cyberjet]]s. He is a redeco of the Decepticon [[Hooligan (G2)#Toys|Hooligan]], transforming into a proposed swing-wing naval variant of the F-22 Raptor. He is armed with a pressure-launched missile fired from his right arm, which also forms a weapon in fighter mode. He can also store his extra missile on his forearm/jet undercarriage via simple friction-tabs.

: This toy was released in the Takara ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)#Takara G-2 line|G-2]]'' line, missing the factory-applied stickers on his vertical stabilizers, but otherwise identical to the Hasbro toy. It also came with an [[:File:Jetfire-JG2decal.jpg|extra decal sheet]] featuring white tiger markings, extra ''Generation 2'' Autobot symbols, and "battle damage" markings.

: Apparently, the decision to market the redecos as separate characters was a last-minute change of plans that was only put into use in America and Japan; in Europe, Hasbro supposedly stuck to the original idea for said assortment (here named "Mini-Jets"), with the redecos being sold as [[variant#Running changes|running change color variants]] of their wave 1 mold-mates instead, in unchanged packaging featuring [[package art]] in the original deco and the original character's name. Thus, Hooligan was available in Jetfire's colors but still marketed as Hooligan himself. This practice is only confirmed for the versions available in multilingual French/Dutch/German packaging; thus far, no specimens in English/Spanish/Portuguese packaging or in Italian [[GiG]] packaging have surfaced. This would also explain why the "Jetfire" release of the figure has Decepticon [[Insignia|faction symbol]] stickers, despite being released as an Autobot.

: This sculpt was also used to make ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' [[R-Blade#Toys|R-Blade]], ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Wind Sheer (Universe)#Toys|Wind Sheer]], and [[BotCon 2005]] [[Ricochet (Timelines)#Toys|Ricochet]]. R-Blade's expanded bio in the ''Robotmasters'' sourcebook specifically mentions Jetfire as the leader of the Autobot Cyberjets, even though no mention of this is made in Jetfire's ''Generation 2'' bio, in the U.S. ''or'' Japan.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1995/Autobot/Jetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Cyberjet Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Jetfiretitaniumwarwithin.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Unfortunate landing gear placement.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (6-inch Cybertron Heroes, [[2006]])
**''Accessories:'' 2 cannons, display stand with removable nameplate

:''[[Titanium Series]]'' Jetfire is based on [[Don Figueroa]]'s design as seen in [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''The War Within'' miniseries, which in turn was based on Figueroa's [[Customizing|scratch-build custom]] Transformer, [http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/kitbashes/Don_Figueroa/Kitbash_Retrospective/?dgallery_show=./strikefire_2.jpg Strikefire]. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter plane with armor add-ons.

:As with all ''Titanium Series'' figures, Jetfire's toy is constructed of both die-cast metal and molded plastic, and it comes with a plastic display stand featuring his name and his faction logo. In jet mode, landing gear can be deployed from underneath the fuselage and both legs. In robot mode, the two wing cannons can be removed to be held by the robot either separately or combined together into a single weapon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/TitJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Titanium'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Classics''===
[[File:Jetfireclassicsvoyager.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|We're getting almost as many Jetfires as we are Optimus Primes.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Voyager Class, [[2006]])
**''Accessories:'' Rocket Booster pack, two-piece rifle, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, helmet
{{toydesigner|[[Eric Siebenaler]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

:''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Jetfire's design is an amalgam of the original cartoon/comic model for Jetfire/Skyfire and the original toy. It not only features removable armor like the original toy, but the toy-inspired head can be removed like a helmet to reveal a cartoon/comic-inspired head. The jet mode is primarily based on the {{w|F-14 Tomcat}} (itself the inspiration for the ''Macross'' {{w|VF-1 Valkyrie}} design), but with various visual elements taken from Skyfire's [[character model]], most notably the squared-off nosecone. The toy's add-on booster packs have flip-out reveal cannons, and it also features arm-mounted spring-loaded missile launchers.

:An unexpected level of detail can be found on the black non-firing rifle; when it is assembled, the halves of the gun's "sight" come together in a way that would be functional on a full-size weapon.

:The toy's design was first featured on the solicited cover to [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'' #1. Contrary to popular belief, it was not designed by [[Don Figueroa]].

:A "ghost" [[redeco]] of this toy, with black plastic and silvery electric paint deco, was shown by [[Hasbro]] in a news broadcast about their attempts to cheer up a Rhode Island orphan. Sadly, this version was never released.

:This mold was [[retool]]ed to make the [[BotCon 2007]] version of [[Dreadwind (G1)#Timelines|Dreadwind]], and [[redeco]]ed to make the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' version of [[Tread Bolt#Universe (2008)|Tread Bolt]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/ClassicsJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Classics'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Jetfireclassicslegends.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Faith Is For The Larger Toys.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Legends Class, 2006)
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (deco artist)}}

:This toy is a [[redeco]] of [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends of Cybertron]]-class [[Thundercracker (Armada)#LOC|Thundercracker]], transforming into an Su-37 fighter jet. His cannon, while movable, is permanently attached to his left arm.

:This mold was later redecoed into ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|Starscream]], and then ''Universe'' [[Silverbolt (G1)#Universe (2008)|Silverbolt]] from the Target-[[exclusive]] "Special Team Leaders" Legends-class figure pack.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/ClassicsLegendsJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Classics'' Legends Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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*'''Jetfire and Grimlock Twin Pack''' (Two-pack, 2007)
**''Accessories:'' Rocket Booster pack, two-piece rifle, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, helmet

:In Asian markets such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, Voyager Class Jetfire was also made available as part of a special two-pack with Deluxe Class [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Classics|Grimlock]] in late 2007. Aside from the unique packaging, the toys are identical to their single releases.
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===''Henkei! Henkei!''===
[[File:Henkei Jetfire toy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Comes packaged in a block of ice for "show-accuracy".]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Skyfire''' (Voyager, [[2008]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-06'''
:*''Release date'': [[July 17]], 2008
:*''Accessories'': "Hydrogen-fuel Turbo Thruster Pack", two-piece rifle, 2 photon missile launchers, 2 infrared homing missiles, helmet

: ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skyfire is a redeco of ''Classics'' Voyager Class Jetfire. The primary changes to his deco are mainly for better resemblance to Skyfire's Generation 1 cartoon model's appearance (in particular painting most of the canopy to make it appear smaller), rather than the Jetfire/''Macross'' design. Of amusement is the fact the fighter's airbrake has been painted blue to be a faux secondary canopy. As with all ''Henkei'' toys, he lacks the heat-sensitive rubsign seen on the ''Classics'' release, but instead has some [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metallized]] parts (his jetpack's exhaust nozzles).

: It also includes a [[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (pack-in manga)|mini-manga]] detailing the events that lead to Skyfire's appearance in the ''Henkei! Henkei!'' universe (mini-manga universe, that is).

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[[File:gentei-darkskyfire-toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|You bet your smoking [[Anatomic euphemism#Afterburner|afterburners]] I was destined to be repurposed!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Dark Skyfire''' (Voyager, [[2010]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-06'''
:*''Release date'': [[March 18]], 2010
:*''Accessories'': "Hydrogen-fuel Turbo Thruster Pack", two-piece rifle, 2 photon missile launchers, 2 infrared homing missiles, helmet

: Part of the ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)#Gentei! Gentei!|Gentei! Gentei!]]'' subline of ''Henkei!'', "Dark Skyfire" is a [[TakaraTomy Mall|Toy Hobby Market]]-[[exclusive]] [[black redeco]] and [[retool]] of ''Classics'' Voyager Class Jetfire. The primary changes to his deco are mainly for making him, uh, darker. Specifically, he's cast in glossy black and purple plastic, with painted purple details and new thin white stripes on his wings. The tips of his backpack cannons have been significantly remolded to make the barrels and stalks on which they are mounted a single, newly-jointed piece, with the result being that the cannons' bodies stick out ever so slightly from their housing. This change is likely to make the barrels more durable under the constant spring-loaded strain of being hidden, as well as allow one to pivot and deploy the cannons without sliding back the panels that are keeping them hidden, due to the fact that deploying the cannons this way with the previous tooling often resulted in the (detachable) tips of the cannons to pop out and send them flying. As with all ''Henkei'' toys, he lacks the heat-sensitive rubsign seen on the ''Classics'' release, but instead has some vacuum-metallized parts (his jetpack's exhaust nozzles).

: The extent of Dark Skyfire's 'Dark' originally varied from image to image: early pre-production mockup images showed a dark matte grey similar to e-Hobby [[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#Collector.27s_Edition|Astrotrain]], whilst later images appeared gloss black with high-contrast silver details, leading to speculation that this redeco is the previously unreleased 'ghost' ''Classics'' Jetfire. Some possible hints of this remain, such as the Hasbro ''Classics''-styled open cockpit instead of ''Henkei's ''half-painted version, as well as some entirely new paint operations, such as the added stripes on the sides of the intakes just behind his shoulders.

: Pre-orders for Dark Skyfire opened up on [[November 12]]th and closed on [[December 11]]th [[2009]], with the toys finally shipping in March of 2010.

: This figure was [[Repurposing|repurpos]]ed as ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (toyline)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Jetfire (SG)|Jetfire]] and ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'' [[Zardak]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Destron/DarkSkyfire/darkskyfire.htm More information on Dark Skyfire at TFU.info]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (Voyager, [[2013]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[August 15]], 2013
:*''Accessories:'' "Hydrogen-fuel Turbo Thruster Pack", two-piece rifle, 2 photon missile launchers, 2 infrared homing missiles, helmet

: Exclusive to [[Cybertron Con 2013]], Jetfire features a similar deco to the regular ''Henkei! Henkei!'' Skyfire but with more white, the red being metallic paint, and most notably Decepticon insignias on the wings. Uncharacteristically for a ''Henkei! Henkei!'' figure, he lacks vacuum-metallized parts. Additionally his box (in monochrome blue) features a lot of English text including the Hasbro market name and [[bio]], even though the box is otherwise following the original ''Henkei! Henkei'' packaging design, down to the line's Japanese title logo.
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===''Bot Shots''===
[[File:Bot Shots Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Jetfire''' ([[2012]])
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''B010'''
***''Fist strength'': '''780'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''480'''
***''Sword strength'': '''360'''

:Part of the third wave of ''[[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots]]'', Jetfire is a teeny little jet with a spring-loaded automatic transformation to robot mode triggered when his nosecone is pressed. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels. The colors and sculpted detail are greatly influenced by ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[#Classics|Jetfire]].

:This mold would also have been used to make the unreleased ''Bot Shots'' [[Blast Off (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Blast Off]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/BSJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Bot Shots'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BotShots 3pack Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skyquake / Jetfire / Powerglide''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''BP007'''
***''Fist strength'': '''215'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''595'''
***''Sword strength'': '''810'''

:This version of Jetfire was only available in a three-pack with [[Skyquake (Prime)#BotShot3Pack|Skyquake]] and [[Powerglide (G1)#BotShot3Pack|Powerglide]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/BS3pkJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on three-pack Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BotShots PolarAssault Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Max Jenius Jetfire]]
*'''Polar Assault Team''' (Multi-pack, [[2013]])
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''T005'''
***''Fist strength'': '''220'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''895'''
***''Sword strength'': '''505'''
:A redeco of the original Jetfire Bot Shots mode with pretty much the same color layout of the three-pack Jetfire, only with blue instead of red. This version of Jetfire was available in a five pack with new redecoes of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#BotShotPolarAssaultTeam|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#BotShotPolarAssaultTeam|Bumblebee]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#BotShotPolarAssaultTeam|Mirage]], and [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#BotShotPolarAssaultTeam|Ironhide]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/BSPAJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Polar Assault Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''BeCool''===
[[File:BotShots BeCool WhiteJetJetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''White Jet (Jetfire)''' (2012)
**''ID number'': '''B11'''

:''[[Bot Shots (toyline)#BeCool|BeCool]]'' "White Jet" is practically identical to the first ''Bot Shots'' Jetfire toy, the only difference being that his stickers don't depict power levels but instead drawings of his vehicle mode in flight, a passenger's bag and the word "Fight!" in English and Japanese.
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Gen-toy Jetfire Leader.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|"Not even lawsuits can stop me now!"]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Leader Class, [[2014]])
**''Series / Number:'' '''02 / 001'''
**'''21 OF 30'''
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile Launcher", 1 missile, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg mounted cannon/guards (left & right), 2 arm mounted cannons/guards, removable battle mask
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] and [[John Warden]] (Hasbro), [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]] [[Thrilling 30]]'' Jetfire's design is an amalgam of the original cartoon/comic model for Jetfire/Skyfire and the original toy. It features removable armor like the original toy, but the toy-inspired head can be removed like a mask to reveal a more proportioned cartoon/comic-inspired head. The jet mode is again based on a navalized {{w|F-22 Raptor}} with {{w|F-14 Tomcat}}-like variable geometry wings (The F-14 itself being the inspiration for the ''Macross'' {{w|VF-1 Valkyrie}} design), but with a faux cockpit reminiscent of his Skyfire's [[character model]] underneath the jet's fuselage, most notably the faux squared-off nosecone in his robot mode. The toy's add-on booster pack which can be rotated 360 degrees, arm and leg mounted cannons are [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metallized]] bright metallic red. Jetfire also carries a [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metallized]] spring-loaded "photon" missile launcher/rifle. All five weapons can combine into a larger weapon, and the removable face armor can be stowed by plugging into the rifle while both arm cannons can also be attached to the peg hole located on both sides of his Turbo Thruster pack. This toy first appeared as Jetfire's new body in the "[[Dawn of the Autobots]]" arc of ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''.

:All versions of this mold have a design flaw in the strut that connects the pelvis to the chest. The very small, very thin plastic on either side of where the strut pins in between the legs has a tendency to eventually break, especially after repeated transformations. The primary cause appears to be when the friction pin starts to work its way into both the inner and outer pieces. Checking the clearance between the pieces and the position of the pin can help prevent untimely damage. Some units also have an ''insanely'' tight pin hole here, where it requires less force to ''ratchet the pieces apart'' than to rotate properly. Removing the pin and opening the hole on the inner piece of the joint can also lengthen the effective lifespan of the figure.

:This mold was also retooled into ''Generations [[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Thundercracker]], [[Starscream (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Starscream]], and [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Skywarp]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Generations'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:TF-Generations-Silver-Jetfire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Eh, is it ''' ''Yacht''fire'''? ''' ''Bus''fire'''? or ''' ''Moto''fire'''?"]]
*'''Silver Jetfire''' (Contest prize, 2014)
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile Launcher", 1 missile, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg mounted cannon/guards (left & right), 2 arm mounted cannons/guards, removable battle mask

:Limited to only 3 pieces, Silver Jetfire is a redeco of the Leader Class toy above, featuring silver paint on both his paintable and ''unpaintable'' white parts. The toy was released as a contest prize in AEON Malaysia, which ran from 15 September to 15 October 2014. To enter the competition, participants needed to collect the contest flyer first, purchase the regular Leader Class Jetfire toy, and then answer one simple question regarding Jetfire's alternate mode. Hilariously, while the actual answer is Jet, there are 3 additional answers: ''Yacht'', ''Bus'', and ''Motorcycle''.
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy Jetwash.jpg|thumb|upright=1.88|Add jetwax for $3.00.]]
*'''Jetwash''' (Micro-Changer, 2014)
**''Bag number'': '''40551 53'''
**''Accessories'': 2 buildable rifles

:''[[Kre-O]]'' '''Jetwash''' can be rebuilt from robot mode into a jet. He sports [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Prowl]]'s helmet and the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Starscream]] wing-backpack. He also comes with 2 buildable guns, which are formed from his jet tail fins and pistols. He uses a chest [[tampograph]] based on the [[#Generation 1|original Jetfire toy]], but the leg deco is based on the [[:File:TFU Jetfire.jpg|"Skyfire" cartoon model]].

:Although the stock photos show the guns being nudged completely into the red parts, there isn't enough space to do so. Several samples of Jetwash had balance problems with the legs's ball-joint holes, causing the figure to fall over if not placed on a display brick. However, a few samples had perfectly balanced leg parts. Good luck finding them.

:He was available in the fifth assortment of [[blindpacking|blind-bagged]] [[Kreon]] [[Micro-Changer]]s, available only at [[Toys"R"Us]] stores in the US and Canada.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/Kre-OJetwash/jetwash.htm More information on Micro-Changer Jetwash at TFU.info]''

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*'''Skyfire''' (Gacha Micro-Changer, 2015)
**''Accessories'': 2 buildable rifles

:The Jetwash Micro Changer Kreon was also released as a "TF Kreon Microchangers" Gacha toy by Takara Tomy, under the name '''Skyfire'''.

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*'''Kreon Class of '85''' (Kreon figure set, 2015)
**''Set number'' '''B5152'''
**''Voted'': The Brain
**''Accessories'': Bazooka

:Back to his original name, [[Kreon Class of '85]] Jetfire is heavily original-toy-based, down to the Veritech-inspired visor-and-mask helmet and red "scramjet" backpack.

:He was only available in a 30-Kreon set, originally made for sale at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015. The leftovers were then made available on [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Autobot/SDCCKre-OJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Class of 1985 Jetfire at TFU.info]''

===''Hero Mashers''===
[[File:HM-toy Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Action Figure, 2014)
**''Pieces: '''9'''
**''Accessories'': Wing-pack

:Part of the second wave of ''Transformers [[Hero Mashers]]'' basic Action Figures, Jetfire is a non-transforming action figure with ratchet-joints, about six inches tall. He has multiple peg-holes all over that can be used to mount any ''Hero Mashers'' accessory.

:He is designed with a removable head, forearms, thighs, and lower legs, all of which use the same clip-peg/hole joint. This means his pieces can be swapped around in any order, as well as swapped with any other ''Hero Mashers'' figure... which includes figures from [[Marvel Comics]], ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'', and ''[[Jurassic Park|Jurassic World]]'', meaning you can make some pretty freaky combinations.

:Rather than coming with a (nominally) hand-held weapon accessory, Jetfire comes with a [[redeco]] of [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Hero Mashers|Starscream]]'s wing-backpack, with parts painted red to resemble the original toy's back-mounted jet thrusters. Of course, being a ''Hero Mashers'' piece, it can be attached anywhere, including being hand-held, and since it's got multiple gun barrels on the wings, hey, have at it.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/HMJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on ''Hero Mashers'' Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Takara-transformers-legends-jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|right|From the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Quadwal]] stream.]]
*'''Jetfire''' ([[December 27]], [[2014]])
**''ID number:'' '''LG07'''
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile Launcher", 1 missile, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg mounted cannon/guards (left & right), 2 arm mounted cannons/guards, removable battle mask

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Jetfire is a redeco of ''Generations'' Leader Class Jetfire, featuring de-chromed weapons and a few changes of the deco. He comes with mini-comic [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 7|''Legends'' Bonus Edition Vol. 7]].
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===''Q-Transformers''===
[[File:QTransformers Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Jetfire''' ([[January 30]], [[2016]])
**''ID number:'' '''QTF-08'''

:A retool of ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Starscream]], Jetfire transforms from a [[super deformed]] jet to a cute chubby little robot.

:This mold was also retooled into ''Q-Transformers'' [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Thundercracker]].
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===''Cyber Series''===
[[File:TF-Cyber-Battalion-Jetfire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Cyber Battalion, [[2017]])
**''Accessories'': 2 Guns

:Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#PrimeWarsTrilogyAsian|Generations: Cyber Series]]'' Cyber Battlion class figures, Jetfire is a retool of the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Cyber Series|Starscream]] figure from the previous wave. He changes from jet to robot in a few easy steps and includes two guns which can be held in his hands, pegged onto his arms, or mounted underneath his vehicle mode wings. Unlike the base mold, his wings can swing in and out like his original G1 figure. However, there are two pegs on each wing that are used to lock them in position (either full sweep or high-maneuverability), and a lack of clearance requires the wing assembly to be opened to move them in addition to unpegging them from the back of the arms. [[Stock photography]] (shown to the right) has unpainted, red hips, yet final product has them painted over in white.
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===''Revolution''===
[[File:SDCC-2017-Revolution-Leader-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|What am I doing here? I wasn't even in your dang crossover!]]
*'''Revolution Set''' (Multi-pack, [[July 20]], 2017)
**''Accessories'': "Photon Missile Launcher", 1 missile, "Turbo Thruster" booster pack, 2 leg mounted cannon/guards (left & right), 2 arm mounted cannons/guards, removable battle mask

:Released as part of a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2017 exclusive set, this Jetfire is basically a re-release of the ''Legends'' figure. He was packed with several other [[Hasbro Universe]] action figures: [[Matt Trakker]] of ''[[M.A.S.K.]]'', [[Ian Noble|Action Man]], [[Leoric]] of ''[[Visionaries]]'', [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', [[Rom]] and a [[Dire Wraith]], and 9 ''[[Micronauts]]'' mini-figurines.

:This Jetfire uses a thicker tab that was previously used for the Seeker retools, causing a slight gap in the jet mode.
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:WFC-Siege-WFCS28-Commander-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Avoiding fate since 1985.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Commander Class, [[2019]], [[2022]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-S28'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SG-26'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': [[July 27]], 2019
**''Hidden message code'': '''SKYFIRE'''
**''Accessories'': Left & right "JF-25 HS Photon Missile Sky Launcher" rifles, 2 "HS [[Photon missile|Photon Missiles]]," 2 two-part "JF-15 HP Jetboost [[Particle beam cannon|Particle Beam Cannons]]," 2 "SF-M2 Radiograph Booster" two-part double-cannons, "Skyshield Aerial Armor," "Skyshield Battle Mask," computer core, 2 three-part "[[Fire Blast effect]]" pieces
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro), [[Shogo Hasui]]<ref name="Gen2020">[https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-generations-2020-book-shogo-hasui-interview-translation-part-1-2.1215115/ Translated interview] with [[Shogo Hasui]] from ''[[Transformers Generations 2020]]'' book</ref> (TakaraTomy)}}

:The first of the large "Commander Class" toys, this iteration of Jetfire is based ''heavily'' on his 1984 [[Jetfire (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon continuity|cartoon]] and [[Jetfire (G1)#Marvel Comics continuity|comic]] [[character model]], transforming into a Cybertronian superjet with a massive, brick-like top-mounted "Turbo Thruster Booster Pack". He is one of the few toys in the ''Siege'' line ''not'' sporting battle damage paint applications, though he does have a very light 'reentry fade' on his lower legs and nosecone.

:In robot mode, the faction symbol on his chest can flip around to be either Autobot or Decepticon, a reference to the original ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' cartoon episode "[[Fire in the Sky]]" and to recreate his faction swap in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''Siege'']] cartoon (alternately, you can pretend he's performing the [[Rite of the Autobrand]] as seen in the original Marvel comic). The [[5 mm post]]-hole rings in his hands are designed to recess into his palms when his fingers are extended forward so he looks less awkward in an open-handed pose. Adding the Skyshield Aerial Armor and Skyshield Battle Mask gives his robot mode a ''slightly'' more original-toy appearance. Some copies may have difficulty attaching his chest armor properly due to the small flip-out panels not lining up perfectly: pulling the chest panels open and then putting them back once the armor is attached can help, or it can be attached by a single panel instead of both. While Jetfire does have ankle tilts, there are small but fairly strong clips that lock them in, so a bit of force may be required to unlock them.

:In jet mode, along with deployable landing gear with rolling wheels, he features four pop-out handles on his underside that allow other ''Siege'' figures (or any toy or accessory with a 5 mm grip) to hang underneath him, letting him air-drop his comrades into battle. He can also carry up to three [[Titan Master#Toys|Titan Master]]s or [[Prime Master#Toys|Prime Master]]s in jet mode: removing the filler computer core inside his cockpit (by folding down the nosecone) reveals space for one Master, while the back end of the Turbo Thruster Booster Pack lifts up to reveal space for two more Masters. Oddly, this feature is not shown in his instructions. The core also has a 5 mm hole in it so um... there's that. There is a 5 mm hexagonal port on his underside that appears to be for heavier-duty flight stands, since it is recessed too far to peg in any of his own weapons. Some transformation joints on his wings can also simulate working air flaps. During development, the jet was originally designed as a different "Cybetronian" jet akin to the rest of ''Siege'', but Shogo Hasui pushed for it to more closely match his cartoon appearance instead, just like the robot mode.<ref name="Gen2020"/>

:In either mode, his many many [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]] weapons can be mounted on him in a variety of ways. His two "JF-25 HS Photon Missile Sky Launcher" rifles can be combined into a single double-barreled gun vaguely similar to the original animation model's double-barreled cannon. In this configuration, they form the core of a massive pile of weapons and armor that goes on top of his jet mode (as if he wasn't anti-aerodynamic ''enough''). In ''another'' undocumented feature, his "JF-15 HP Jetboost Particle Beam Cannons" and "SF-M2 Radiograph Booster" double-cannons are two-part weapons that can be pulled apart for even more versatility. He also has a large number of 3 mm "blast effect" hardpoints all over his body and on the tips of his weapons. His two multi-part blast effects have 5 mm posts with 3 mm holes in the middle on each part, making them very versatile in simulating his jet thrusters or outgoing or incoming weapons fire. Jetfire was also intended to interact with the [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System|Weaponizer]] [[Six-Gun#War for Cybertron: Siege|Sixgun]] in jet mode, though this was, ''once again'', never advertised.<ref>[https://twitter.com/tf__tf/status/1205868925067513857 Siege Jetfire and Sixgun combination] from ''[[Transformers Generations 2020]]'' book</ref>

:For those curious, the computer core accessory appears to be a reference to the episode "[[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain]]", where a close-up of ''Skyfire''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s cockpit interior is shown as he is being defrosted by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzq3C4hkfNE&t=373 "Fire on the Mountain" episode timestamp 6:13] - on [[Hasbro Pulse]]'s official YouTube channel.</ref>

:Unfortunately, Jetfire is among one of a long list of figures to suffer from [[photodegradation]] in his [[unpaintable plastic]] parts, as a result of unknown causes.

:Bizarrely, many [[Walmart]] stores in the US put him on instant clearance, causing him to ring up at $40 rather than the actual $80 he's supposed to cost. This made some people very happy.

:This figure saw reissues in late-2022 and mid-2024 and was also redecoed into ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Shattered Glass Collection|Shattered Glass Collection]]'' [[Jetfire (SG)#Shattered_Glass_Collection|Jetfire]].
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===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:Transformers-Masterpiece-MP-57-Skyfire.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|Huge and probably breaking copyrights, and yet somehow he's still outpriced by the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP44|truck]].]]
*'''Skyfire''' ([[2023]])
**''ID Number'': '''MP-57'''
**''Accessories'': 3 faces, 2 [[Fire Blast effect|blast effects]], 3 faction plates, "Photon Missile Launcher", 2-piece [[Flight stand|stand base]], stand arm, stand cradle, 3 mini-figures ([[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP57|Convoy]], [[Jazz (G1)/toys#MP57|Meister]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#MP57|Wheeljack]])
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Yuki Ohshima]] (concept artist)}}

:''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' <s>Jetfire</s> "Skyfire" is an absolutely humongous figure, nearly 14 inches tall in [[robot mode]], about 2 inches taller than the ''Siege'' Commander-class toy above. Inspired by the Generation 1 cartoon in design, he transforms into a space jet.

:Skyfire comes with a multitude of accessories. For vehicle mode, there is a display stand, and three small, articulated figurines ("Convoy", "Meister", and "Wheeljack") that scale with the vehicle mode and can ride inside of it. Skyfire features several opening hatches for this purpose. As for robot mode, Skyfire comes with three robot faces, including one based on the original masked ''Macross'' design (no antennae though). He also has three interchangeable chest plates displaying an Autobot insignia, a Decepticon insignia, and one that is blank, to replicate the scene in "[[Fire in the Sky]]" where he removes his Decepticon badge and changes allegiances to the Autobots. Also inspired by that same episode, Skyfire's helmet opens up to reveal a brainwave monitor. Lastly, he has his iconic "Photon Missile Launcher", which can be used in robot mode or clipped onto his vehicle mode.

:And yes, he is able to turn into a gerwalk mode. Awesome.

:Confirmed in an interview seen in the 278th issue of ''[[Figure Ō]]'' magazine, Skyfire was officially revealed on [[June 2]], [[2022]]. In [[Japan]] this figure was [[exclusive]] to [[TakaraTomy Mall]].

:On many specimens, the large strong springs inside Skyfire's ankles shove too firmly against the pins holding his heel extensions in place, preventing the feet from opening fully flat and thus interfering with some standing poses.
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==Merchandise==
===First 4 Figures===
*'''Jetfire''' (<s>2006/2007</s> unreleased)

:Intended for release in [[First 4 Figures]]' "Generation One" series, this would have been a full body resin statue of Jetfire. When his digital sculpt was shown to ASM website staff at New York [[Toy Fair]] in February 2006, they noted that Jetfire was depicted holding the [[:File:Jetfireg1dw.jpg|helmet]] he had in [[Dreamwave Productions]]' [[Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave)|comics]].<ref name=ASM>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070806062058/http://toyfair06.asmzine.com/first4figures/report.html "First4Figures Limited Transformers Statues and Busts Info!"] at ASMzine.com (archived)</ref> First 4 Figures allowed [[BigBadToyStore]] to solicit him for sale the same month.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/update-from-bigbadtoystorecom-transformers-and-gij/6539/ "Update from BigBadToyStore.com: Transformers and G.I.Joe Statues and Busts!!!"] on Seibertron.com</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070426030454/http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=527&company=130 BigBadToyStore's listings for First 4 Figures' statues] (archived)</ref>

:Unfortunately, Jetfire and the rest of the "Generation One" series were casualties of the general discontinuation of First 4 Figures' ''Transformers'' output, which was attributed to a challenging market and a lack of retailer support.
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===''Attacktix''===
[[File:Jetfire-atx.jpg|thumb|Faith is for the Transforming People.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Booster, <s>2007</s>)

:''[[Attacktix]]'' Jetfire was heavily based on his ''Titanium Series'' toy, and would've featured an oversized gun from which he fired a single missile. He was displayed at various conventions, but was ultimately canceled alongside the entire ''Attacktix'' line.

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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium cancelled figure checklist.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Jetfire''' (unreleased)
:*''Accessories:'' Autobot stand?
:The final ''[[Titanium Series]]'' catalogue listed a number of "Micro Figures" intended for release, though many of them never saw the light of day. Among those listed was a 3" Robot Masters figurine of Jetfire. It is uncertain as to whether he would be depicted in a classic ''Generation 1'' design or his ''[[War Within (comic)|War Within]]'' form, the latter of which had already been included in the [[#Titanium Series|six inch range]]. He may have even been [[Jetfire (Armada)|another Jetfire entirely]]! We'll never know. And neither will ''you''.

:Whatever the case, he would probably have included a stand in the shape of an Autobot badge.
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===Transformers - Mini Bust===
*'''Jetfire''' (2009)

[[File:DiamondSelect G1Jetfirebust.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|How ironic. Two more days and I would have completed my helmet.]]
:Released by [[Diamond Select Toys]] in 2009, Jetfire was sculpted by [[Mark Wong]] of [[Art Asylum]] and limited to 1000 pieces. He is wielding his photon missile launcher but it uses the double-barreled cartoon design instead of the single-barreled version that came with the toy. The rest of the character design is a mixture of his cartoon and comic bodies.
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[[File:AFX ArmoredJetfire bust.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Uh-oh, move along, nothing to see here...]]
*'''Battle Armor Jetfire Bust''' (2009)

:An exclusive to AFX, this version of the Jetfire bust features an interchangeable ''Macross''-inspired head design based upon his original Generation 1 toy, two booster packs on his back and a "battle damaged" sculpt.
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===''Transformers Gum''===
[[File:Kabaya-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skyfire''' (2009)
:Released in the second wave of the revived ''Transformers Gum'' series in 2009, this transforming model kit of Skyfire is made of white and blue plastic, with lots of stickers for detail. Based on the ''Henkei'' Skyfire figure, the back of the head features the face of the larger toy's helmet.
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===''G.I. Joe and the Transformers''===
[[File:SDCC2013Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Justice Rocket Backpack Rocket Rocket fire!]]
*'''''The Epic Conclusion!'' box set''' ([[July 18]], 2013)
**''Accessories:'' Booster engines, four AIM-9 short-range missiles, four AIM-7 medium-range missiles, two AIM-54 long-range missiles, TARPS pod

:An [[exclusive]] release for [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2013, "Autobot Jetfire" is a [[redeco]] the same 2011 [[mold]] ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[Skystriker (vehicle)|Sky Striker]] that had previously been used for [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Starscream]]. New to this set is a large accessory designed after Jetfire's characteristic booster engines; this pack can mount on top of Jetfire using the slots that would otherwise be used for his vertical tail fins, which can instead attach to the engines as horizontal fins. Jetfire features an opening cockpit that can seat a figure. The set also comes with a redecoed [[VAMP]] representing [[Hound (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Hound]], a new [[Snake-Eyes#G.I. Joe and the Transformers 2|Snake-Eyes]] figure bearing an Autobot symbol, a [[Baroness#G.I. Joe and the Transformers 2|Baroness]] figure with [[Ravage (G1)/toys#Baroness|Ravage]] on a leash, a [[Bludgeon (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Bludgeon]] figure, and a [[Blaster (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Blaster]] boombox with cassette pieces representing [[Steeljaw (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Steeljaw]], [[Ramhorn (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Ramhorn]], and [[Eject (G1)#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Eject]].

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

:On [[July 22]], [[2013]], Harmony Gold, owner of the rights to the ''Robotech'' franchise and U.S. claimant to the ''Macross'' rights, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131014085251/http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/23/Transformers.pdf filed a copyright infringement suit against Hasbro]. In the filing, Harmony Gold argued that the release somehow infringed upon the intellectual property of the Veritech, but noted that "damages are difficult to ascertain". They demanded that Hasbro recall all Jetfires that had been sold, that all Jetfires (including the recalled ones) be either destroyed or handed over to Harmony Gold, and that Hasbro turn over all profits relating to the sales; this was to happen in addition to payment for all actual damages to Harmony Gold (despite Harmony Gold itself not knowing how much the actual damages were) and all punitive assessments assigned against Hasbro.

:Subsequently, an order was filed on September 23rd, 2013, to [http://generalsjoes.com/2013/10/10/hasbro-and-harmony-gold-reportedly-settle-lawsuit-over-sdcc-exclusive-jetfire/ dismiss the case with prejudice], implying that Harmony Gold and Hasbro have reached a settlement. Although confirmation of a settlement, much less details thereof, has not been revealed, the fact that the case was dismissed ''with prejudice'' means that Harmony Gold cannot sue over the Jetfire issue again. By early October the set was made available on [[Hasbro Toy Shop]], where it quickly sold out.

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::*''[https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/13/autobotjetfire/ More information on Autobot Jetfire at YoJoe.com]''
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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Jetfire, Air Guardian''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''UT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T24/T40'''
**''Stars: ''10
:'''Jetfire, Air Guardian''' is one of forty double-sided character cards available in Wave 1 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]].

:The artwork for the card is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile card game, and is based on the ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Jetfire toy.

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[[File:W4CaptainJetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Captain Jetfire, Engineering-Air Guardian''' (2019)
**'''Wave 4: War for Cybertron: Siege II'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T03/T52'''
**''Stars: ''16

:Raider Spinister, Infantry-Aerial Assault is one of 52 character cards released in Wave 4 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege II.

:The card's artwork is based on the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Jetfire toy, with the Bot Mode artwork being reused from the toy's packaging art.
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===ReAction===
[[File:ReActionSkyfire.jpeg|upright=1|thumb|Flashback, flash frozen.]]
*'''Skyfire''' (2020)
**''Accessories'': Cannon

:Released in the second wave of [[Super7]]'s line of multi-property 3.75-inch "retro" action figures, ''[[ReAction]]'' Skyfire is a non-converting 3 3/4-inch action figure based on his appearance in the original cartoon, with 5 points of articulation (swivel neck, shoulders, hips) and holes in his feet for use with some variety of stand. Unlike the first-wave figures, both of his hands are open and can grip his included cannon accessory.

:As with all releases in the ''ReAction'' toyline, Skyfire comes packaged on a small cardback that emulates the nostalgic packaging style of [[Kenner]]'s ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' action figures from the late 1970s to early '80s.
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===''Pop!''===
[[File:Funko Pop Jetfire G1.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
*'''Jetfire''' (2021)
**''ID number:'' '''35'''

:Released as part of the ''Pop! Retro Toys'' segment and exclusive to Funko Shop, [[Funko Pop!|Funko]]'s ''Pop!'' Jetfire is a super deformed vinyl figure based on his original Generation 1 toy.

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*'''Jetfire''' ([[Funko Pop!#Digital Pop! NFTs|Digital ''Pop!'']], 2022)
**''Rarity:''
***''Monochrome:'' '''Common'''
***''Static:'' '''Common'''
***''Glowing:'' '''Uncommon'''
***''Chrome:'' '''Uncommon'''
***''Original:'' '''Epic'''
:{{W|Non-fungible token|NFT}}s depicting Jetfire in the Funko style.
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===Jada Toys===
*'''Sideswipe / <s>Jazz</s> Hot Rod / Jetfire''' (1.65" Die Cast Vehicle 3-pack, <s>2020, 2022</s>)
:Produced by [[Jada Toys]], ''Nano Hollywood Rides'' Jetfire is a small non-transforming die-cast jet (based on his cartoon appearance, albeit on wheels) measuring approximately 1.65 inches long.

:He was originally announced in 2020 as part of a 3-pack alongside [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Nano Hollywood Rides|Jazz]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Nano Hollywood Rides|Sideswipe]], but the pack got delayed and by 2022 Jazz got replaced by [[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Nano Hollywood Rides|Hot Rod]]. As of 2023, however, it's unclear if the pack will ever get to see an official release in any form.
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===''Magic: The Gathering''===
[[File:MTG-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist / Jetfire, Air Guardian''' (2022)
**''ID number:'' '''003/015'''
**''Set code:'' '''BOT'''
**''Color identity:'' '''Blue'''
**''Casting cost:'' '''{4}{U}''' (front), '''{3}{U}''' (back)

:"Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist" is part of the 2022 ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' ''[[wikia:mtg:Universes Beyond|Universes Beyond]]'' ''[[wikia:mtg:Transformers|Transformers]]'' card set, found in Set Booster and Collector Booster packs of ''Magic''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> ''[[wikia:mtg:The Brothers' War|The Brothers' War]]'' set. It can be reversed to become "Jetfire, Air Guardian", representing Jetfire in vehicle mode.
:A variant of this card was available solely in Collector Booster packs, depicting [[Jetfire (SG)#Magic: The Gathering|''Shattered Glass'' Jetfire]].
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==Notes==
[[File:TakatokuSuperValkyrie.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|C'mon, Hasbro. You '''know''' you want to make a "Skull Squadron" version of ''some'' [[Jetfire (disambiguation)|Jetfire]]. What's [[Bandai]] going to do?]]
*As mentioned above, unlike most of the early ''Transformers'' range, the Jetfire toy was designed by [[Takatoku Toys]], being a [[redeco]] (with minor retools to blunt the nosecone and add two tabs to keep the wings from their forward-most position) of their 1/55 [https://web.archive.org/web/20180120173238/http://1501bc.com:80/pretf/macross.html ''Macross'' VF-1S Super Valkyrie]. Naturally, because he was not designed by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]], Jetfire was not released in Japan, since the toy (or, at least, a dozen variations of it) was released by one of Takara's rival toy companies.
*Jetfire's [[#Generation 2|''Generation 2'' colour scheme]] nearly inspired the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' multi-pack incarnation of the Mini-Con [[Terradive (Armada)#Notes|Terradive]], but this did not come to fruition.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Attacktix]]
[[Category:Bot Shots Autobots]]
[[Category:Classics Autobots]]
[[Category:Exclusives]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 2 Autobots]]

[[Category:Generations]]
[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
[[Category:Hero Mashers Autobots]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Legends Autobots]]
[[Category:TakaraTomy Mall exclusives]]
[[Category:Titanium Series]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Siege Autobots]]

File:AlphaBaseRobot.jpg

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JunoDeguzman2024: fixed

Closeup of the Alpha Base Robot, manufactured by Academy of Korea. It uses [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]]'s head and shoulders on [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]'s body.
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Action Master

2024-10-24T07:47:13Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

[[File:Logo-ActionMastersAlt.png||350px|center]]
[[File:Neutro-fusiontank.jpg|upright=2.6|thumb|Alive! Alive! Alive!]]
[[File:Armoredconvoyboxart.jpg|upright=2.6|thumb|Alive! Alive! Alive!]]
Transformers who use [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] as a fuel source lose their [[transformation]] ability due to the fact that their figure alteration [[system]]s get converted into energy storage reactors. However, through this process, '''Action Masters''' become harder, better, faster, stronger and more alive. They have equipped themselves with transformable [[Action Master partner|partners]] and [[:Category:Action Master vehicles|vehicles]] to aid them in battle.

A few Action Masters managed to retain (or possibly regain) the ability to transform; they are known as [[Action Master Elite]]s.

Action Masters are among the few Transformers to feature [[Power Plans]] on the [[packaging]], in addition to the more traditional [[Tech Spec]] and [[bio]].

{{quote|Alt-modes are for '''wimps'''!|[[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]]'s in denial|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #1]]}}

==Fiction==
===Toy packaging blurb===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] went searching for new energy sources and, within the heart of a [[black hole]] discovered Nucleon: a miracle fuel that made Transformers stronger, faster, and more alive, but cost them the ability to transform. Soon the Decepticons stole the technology and created Action Masters of their own, with [[Magmatrynon]] alloy being used for the construction of [[Action Master Exo-suit|exo-suits]].

{{note|This story was later referenced with the Japanese release of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Nucleon Quest Super Convoy]], a black repaint of Powermaster Optimus Prime who was given the backstory of being Prime specially outfitted for this trip into the black hole.}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] heard about a risky new miracle fuel on the planet [[Hydrus Four]]. Against orders he stole the non-functioning bodies of his fellow [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] and headed there to find out. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} What he discovered was a ruined world filled with [[Nucleon guardian|creepy, obsessive, rotting zombie-like beings]] warning him that it was all because of Nucleon. Being Grimlock, he then went ahead and used the fuel anyway, first on himself and then to revive his fallen teammates. {{storylink|The Pri¢e of Life!}}

Grimlock soon found parts of his body inexplicably seizing up, and began to fear that he should have listened to the creepy dying robots after all. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} After returning to the Ark Grimlock used the Nucleon to repair all the damaged Autobots in the ship's medical bay (as well as [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], whom he didn't know was there). {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Following the Transformers' battle with [[Unicron]], Grimlock froze up entirely. It was then that [[Hi-Q]] (in the process of merging with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]) saw with "[[Powermaster]] eyes" that Grimlock wasn't malfunctioning, but changing. He used his Powermaster abilities to speed up the process and Grimlock burst forth in his new, more-powerful Action Master form. {{storylink|Still Life!}}

Meanwhile, Hi-Q's own mental merger with Prime was also accelerated by his contact with Nucleon. Soon afterward, the [[Last Autobot]] re-created Hi-Q as Optimus Prime in a new body. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

=====Another Time & Place=====
As time progressed more and more Autobots, including Prime, [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], also succumbed to mode-lock. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and Slag were among the few that could still transform, but they had doubts that this would remain much longer. Hearing rumours of further developments on Hydrus Four, Grimlock led the Dinobots there to see if a cure could be found. Amidst a Decepticon ambush, he discovered a new version of Nucleon that lacked the side effects of the original and restored the ability to transform. {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
The Decepticons on Earth had a team of Action Masters. These sinister types had the power to combine into ground stations, super-heavy vehicles and air units! {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 16|Transforming Robots in Action: The Case of Optimus Prime}}

====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] was still an Action Master.

===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
Optimus and Megatron's pre-G2 bodies share a striking similarity to their Action Master toys. Likewise Optimus Prime has been documented as searching out a New Energy source called Nucleon that's located within a black hole. Finally, Optimus Prime's Action Master was sold with New Years Convoy, and described as the intermediate form between Prime's various G2 Bodies. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{main|Monoformer}}
In the [[2005 IDW continuity]], nucleon does not appear to affect ability to transform. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution|The Permanent Revolution}} However, some Cybertronians had their [[transformation cog]]s removed for medical, political or religious reasons, and were known as [[monoformer]]s. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
After the starship ''[[Iron Hope (G1)|Iron Hope]]'' crash-landed far from Cybertron, the surviving crew—who would come to be known as the "''Iron Hope'' Hundred"—were forced to subsist on nucleon, rendering them permanently [[mode lock]]ed. Survivors of the disaster included [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]], who was locked in robot mode, and [[Catgut]], who was locked in a quadrupedal form. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} As well as [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}} and [[Charger]], although his partner [[Fire Beast|Fire Beast's]] ability to combine might exclude him. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}} Members of the Hundred found themselves victims of discrimination, especially on alt-mode oriented colonies like [[Velocitron]]. A number of these mode-locked bots made use of [[Exo-suit (Action Masters)|exo-suits]] or [[Off-Road Cycle|personal vehicles]] as essentially mobility aids, able to provide them additional speed and power in lieu of alternate modes. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}}

Upon learning that her teleport rig used nucleon as a fuel source, Jumpstream noted that the substance was notorious for causing mode-locking. Perceptor pointed out to her that it took sustained amounts of nucleon abuse over a long period of time to affect one's physiology. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}}

====Alternate future====
In an alternate future where [[Exarchon]] had triumphed, he began beaming Cybertron's energon supply into space, forcing the resistance to use nucleon, depriving them all of their [[alternate mode]]s. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II|Test Flight II}}

==Reception and legacy==
{{quote|I DEFINITELY like my transformers to transform. Down with the action masters.|Josh Freeman Frankel, 25 February 1994|[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/4ed4b0a1a761bcd7 alt.toys.transformers]}}

The Action Master toyline, depicting the obvious oxymoron of "Transformers who don't transform," generated initial ire ("BLASPHEMY!") from some fans. This was magnified as Action Masters were released in the final year of the original Transformers toy line in the US. When Transformers was summarily canceled in North America, some fans blamed the gimmick for the [[Ruined FOREVER|death of the franchise]] (despite the wide variety of other factors that doubtlessly were involved).

One aspect Action Masters is notable for, however, is the mass reintroduction of "classic" characters. New toys for old characters was not a theme the original toy line visited very often–in fact, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee's]] re-imaged [[Throttlebot]] form [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Goldbug]] released in 1987, 1988's [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Classic Pretender]]s from 1989 were the only notable exceptions. In other words, to have a single sub-line with so many recurring favorites was, at the time, a novelty. In addition, the classic characters were designed to [[show-accuracy|resemble their cartoon counterparts more closely]]. For much of the Season 1 and 2 cast, the original figures having been designed years before they were stylized and simplified for the cartoon, these Action Masters were the closest likenesses of their fiction representations until the advent of the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line, in which screen accuracy is one of its primary selling points. Notably the first television commercial for the Action Masters featured a segment where the animated character models dissolved into film of the actual toys, suggesting that "show accuracy" was Hasbro's intended marketing strategy for the line.

As with many other changes to the Transformers brand, initial hostility towards Action Masters from the fandom eventually became less intense and diversified into a broad range of opinion, with many of the original characters introduced getting cult followings and prominent appearances in later fiction (likely helped by how the toys weren't restricted by the somewhat samey designs that predominately made up the later years of the toyline). Some of the most in-demand vintage (and therefore expensive) ''Transformers'' toys are Action Masters, and new characters from this subgroup continue to appear in newer toy lines. For example:
[[File:Timelinestoy-BC2010DoublePunch.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0]]
* [[Double Punch]] started the trend with a new [[exclusive]] toy at [[BotCon Japan 1998]]. Another toy of Double Punch was produced for [[BotCon 2010]].
* [[Axer (G1)|Axer]] showed up in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' toyline]]. Another toy of Axer (as [[Axor]]) would be released in the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' 2010]] toyline. This toy would, in turn, be redecoed to homage [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] as [[Circuit (Movie)|a movie-universe character]] in the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]] in 2013.
* Action Master Optimus Prime was [[Generation 1 reissues|reissued]] in [[Japan]] in [[2002]] as part of the "[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|New Years Convoy]]" [[giftset]].
* ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]] has design elements based on [[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]] (with his [[Mini-Con]] companion actually ''named'' [[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout]]).
* ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Smokescreen (Cybertron)|Smokescreen]]'s colors are a partial homage to [[Rad (G1)|Rad]].
* [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2009]]. Another Banzai-Tron (as [[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]]) would be released in the ''Transformers'' 2010 toyline. Yet another would be part of the ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' line in 2012. Banzai-Tron and his partner [[Razor-Sharp]] also got new, still-nontransforming toys in [[Super7]]'s ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line.
* [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] was homaged with [[Sparkcrusher]] in 2009.
* [[Slicer (G1)|Slicer]] (partially renamed into "Decepticon Slice") was an exclusive at BotCon 2010. Slicer was also homaged in the shared exclusive [[Dark Energon]] version of [[Wheeljack (Prime)#DarkEnergon|Wheeljack]] in ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'', and with [[Wheeljack (SG)|''Shattered Glass'' Wheeljack]].
* [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2012]].
* Soundwave's partner, [[Wingthing (G1)|Wingthing]], received new toys in the Japanese ''[[Transformers Encore]]'' line in 2012, and again as a ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' figure in 2017, and then in ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]'' in 2020.
* [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] was ported to ''[[Jackpot (Animated)|Animated]]'' as part of the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]], and was later given a new [[Jackpot (G1)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|G1-styled figure]] as part of the Amazon-exclusive "Golden Disk Collection" of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]''.
* [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] received a new figure as part of the Figure Subscription Service series 2.0 in 2014.
* [[Krok (G1)|Krok]] was featured in the Transformers Figure Subscription Service series 3.0 in 2015, and then received an additional new toy in ''[[Titans Return (franchise)|Titans Return]]'' in 2017.
* The Collection Pack version of [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#G2BruticusSet|Shockwave]] in ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' bore the same color scheme as the Action Master.
* Rad's partner, [[Lionizer (G1)|Lionizer]], received a new [[Battle Master]] mold in ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' and was redecoed in more accurate colors in a ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Battle 3-Pack as "Captive Lionizer". A few other Action Master partners, namely [[Needler (G1)|Needler]], [[Vanguard]], [[Turbo Board]], and Sights, were also given Battle Master status by the ''Siege'' themed fourth wave of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]''. Turbo Board, who was previously of questionable sentience, was even given a proper robot mode as a result of this!
* [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] got a new toy in the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' line.
* The Action Master designs for [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] and his partner Needler received new toys in the ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line - once again as non-transforming figures. ''ULTIMATES!'' [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] also comes with his partner [[Basher]] despite otherwise being based on his animation model.

In 2013, [[James Roberts]] could even say he'd have liked to see ''more'' Action Masters and they were "cool".<ref>[http://www.fullmetalhero.com/t14540/ Moonbase2's second interview with James Roberts - 58:20]</ref>

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{Note|In addition to the original line-up of Action Master product released worldwide in 1990, several additional assortments were introduced in European markets for 1991.}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Grimlock]] with [[Anti-tank cannon]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Jazz]] with [[Turbo Board]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rad (G1)#Toys|Rad]] with [[Lionizer (G1)#Toys|Lionizer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rollout (G1)#Toys|Rollout]] with [[Glitch (G1)#Toys|Glitch]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Soundwave]] with [[Wingthing (G1)#Toys|Wingthing]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Treadshot (G1)#Toys|Treadshot]] with [[Catgut#Toys|Catgut]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Bumblebee]] with [[Heli-pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Blaster (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Blaster]] with [[Flight-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Devastator]] with [[Scorpulator#Toys|Scorpulator]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jackpot (G1)#Toys|Jackpot]] with [[Sights (G1)#Toys|Sights]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Krok (G1)#Toys|Krok]] with [[Gatoraider#Toys|Gatoraider]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Mainframe (G1)#Toys|Mainframe]] with [[Push-Button#Toys|Push-Button]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Banzai-Tron (G1)#Toys|Banzai-Tron]] with [[Razor-Sharp#Toys|Razor-Sharp]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Inferno]] with [[Hydro-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Kick-Off (G1)#Toys|Kick-Off]] with [[Turbo-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Shockwave]] with [[Fistfight (G1)#Toys|Fistfight]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Skyfall (G1)#Toys|Skyfall]] with [[Top-Heavy#Toys|Top-Heavy]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#AM|Snarl]] with [[Tyrannitron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 4 (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#ActionMaster|Bombshell]] with [[Needler (G1)#Toys|Needler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Charger#Toys|Charger]] with [[Fire Beast]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerflash#Toys|Powerflash]] with [[Road Rocket (G1)#Toys|Road Rocket]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Sideswipe]] with [[Vanguard]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Take-Off#Toys|Take-Off]] with [[Screech (Action Master)#Toys|Screech]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Tracks]] with [[Basher]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1-toy Blaster AM.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Blaster with Flight-Pack]][[File:G1Axer toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Axer with Off-Road Cycle]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Action Blasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Copter]] with [[Over-Run (G1)#Toys|Over-Run]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Off-Road Cycle]] with [[Axer (G1)#Toys|Axer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Cycle (G1)|Turbo Cycle]] with [[Prowl (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Turbo Jet]] with [[Starscream (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Starscream]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Action Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Cruiser]] with [[Sprocket (G1)#Toys|Sprocket]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Racer]] with [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Wheeljack]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Decepticon Attack Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Stratotronic Jet]] with [[Gutcruncher (G1)#Toys|Gutcruncher]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Neutro-Fusion Tank]] with [[Megatron (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Megatron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Armored Convoy'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Armored Convoy]] with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#AM|Optimus Prime]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Action Master Exo-suit|Exo-Suit]] Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Circuit (G1)#Toys|Circuit]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Thundercracker]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorized Exo-Suit Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Rumbler (G1)#Toys|Rumbler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Slicer (G1)#Toys|Slicer]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Elites (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Double Punch#Toys|Double Punch]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Omega Supreme (G1)#omegaspreem|Omega Spreem]]{{sic}}}}
{{bp-d1|[[Turbo Master#Toys|Turbo Master]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windmill (G1)#Toys|Windmill]]}}
|}
{{--}}

==Notes==
*It appears that the name "Action Masters" for this segment of the toy line was a late decision: Hasbro's Spring 1990 "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog,<ref name="vendor">[https://web.archive.org/web/20230128185129/https://botriot.jemmagic.com/transformershasbro1990s.html Spring 1990 Hasbro "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog at Botriot] (archived)</ref> published in mid-to-late 1989, consistently refers to the toys simply as "Action Figures", with no mention of the term "Action Master". It also makes mention of a different back story wherein the Transformers give up the ability to transform to transfer these powers to their weapons and vehicles. The "Action Master" name was evidently decided on sometime between the "Pre-Toy Fair" vendor event and the Toy Fair of February 1990, as the finalized term appears in Hasbro's standard 1990 catalog.
*In an interview with [[Transformers Collectors' Club]], Simon Furman said that had the comic not ended at issue #80, Optimus Prime's return would not have come when it did.<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 2|Club magazine #2]]</ref> Additionally, Furman said that he hated the idea of using Action Master Prime at the time, and hoped that by the time Prime came back, this Action Master plot would be [[Furmanism|over—finished]]!<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 1|Club magazine #1]]</ref> Conclusion—the use of Optimus Prime in his Action Master version may very well have not occurred had the comic not ended when it did.
*Bob Budiansky's treatment for the Action Masters was printed in the [[Titan Books]] trade ''[[Transformers: Last Stand]]''. Bob can't remember writing it.<ref>[http://www.metalmachine.net/blog/2009/11/21/todds-take-with-bob-budiansky-the-architect-of-the-transformers/ Bob Budiansky interview]</ref>
*In a case of "too little, too late", the fourth (and final, only being released in Europe) assortment of Action Master figures made some minor course corrections in terms of figure design and accessories. The fourth assortment figures no longer have blocks sculpted into the hips that forced the legs to move in 90° increments or awkward side angles. Additionally, in keeping with other late Action Masters such as the Elites, there are minor uses of the then-new technique of textured plastic, as well as having sculpts that were mildly bulkier than previous waves. Lastly, in lieu of animal weapon partners or action feature backpacks, fourth assortment figures all had partner machines that unfolded into helmets and backpacks, strictly split between beasts for Decepticons and artillery units for Autobots.
*The Action Masters' weapon-handle pegs, being 3mm wide, are compatible with the "[[c joint]]" weapon mounting system used on many modern toys, such as the 2011 version of ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]''.
*Excluding the Action Master Elite, regular Action Masters utilized elastic-and-hook joints (similar to many ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' toys and the [[Laser Rod]]s) in their hips. This gave them their relatively wide range of motion, but it also made them somewhat floppy, and the elastic could harden and become brittle with age. Legless Action Masters are sadly common on the aftermarket.
[[File:Unproduced_AM_Animatron.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|[[Serpentor|Totally new character]].
[https://www.yojoe.com/action/86/serpentor.shtml Yup]. (We were robbed!)]]
*Over the decades, an inordinate amount of Action Master concept art <ref>[https://www.allspark.com/2015/02/the-spacebridge-shares-unproduced-action-master-artwork/ A small partial spread of unproduced Action Masters, originally from the Generations Deluxe book.]</ref> along with resin models of both figures ''and'' vehicles of multiple <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMExoTankSuitProtoUnprod.html A resin model of an unproduced Action Master tank Exo Suit.]</ref> sizes <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMHalfTrackTankHardcopy.html A resin model of an unproduced motorized Action Master half-track vehicle.]</ref> have come to light, suggesting very strongly that Hasbro was betting big on the line. While the idea was probably fueled by [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] being in one of its stronger sales periods <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-07-8904100699-story.html "G.I. Joe: 25 and $2 Billion In The Till", Chicago Tribune, May 7 1989.]</ref> despite leaning slightly more into sci-fi at the time, the Action Master line ultimately fizzled in the United States.
*Early plans for [[BotCon]] [[BotCon#BotCon 2017|2017]] would have seen Action Masters as the focus of the convention, with a box set "Action on Hydrus Four" featuring [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]], [[Skyfall (G1)|Skyfall]], [[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] in Action-Master inspired decos using [[Titans Return (toyline)|''Titans Return'']] figures.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-of-concepts-and-customized-figures-from-fun-pub-at-petes-robot-convention-2017/39073/]</ref>
*The Action Master name was brought back in 2020 by Takara Tomy for their release of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)#Cyberverse (TakaraTomy)|Deluxe Class figures]]. Ironically, one of the big selling points for these figures is featuring far more involved transformations than the rest of the ''Cyberverse'' line!
*Action Masters were extensively used as proof-of-concept mock ups for the [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] subline ''Armor-Tech''.<ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 9, p59</ref><ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 10, p54</ref> Additionally, silhouettes of Action Master card art were used to represent ''Armor-Tech'' figures in the 1993 figure catalogue before said figures were finalized.

===Foreign names===
*''Italy'': '''Super Azione''' ("Super Action")

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Action Masters| ]]
[[Category:Generation 1 subgroups]]
[[Category:Gimmicks]]

Stranger Eons

2024-10-24T02:50:03Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Synopsis */

{{comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers: Unicron]]'' #2
|prev=Last Stand (Unicron)
|next=Our Finest
|image=TFUnicron2_cvrA.jpg
|caption="Evacuate the city. Engage all defenses."
|title="Stranger Eons"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[July 25]], [[2018]] [[September 12]], 2018 (second printing)
|coverdate=Late July, 2018
|written by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Alex Milne]]
|colors by=[[Sebastian Cheng]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[David Mariotte]]
|continuity=[[2005 IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[2005 IDW timeline|Current era]]
}}

'''Starscream orchestrates a Decepticon retaliation against Unicron, while Bumblebee goes to Omega Supreme for answers about the planet-eater's origins.'''

==Synopsis==
Disparaging all those leaders who have come before him, [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] explains to the assembled populace of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and the survivors of the destroyed colonies his plan to eliminate [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. Starscream has sent [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] out into the universe to round up the many scattered cells of surviving [[Decepticon]]s who never returned to Cybertron after the [[Great War (G1)|war]] ended. Between them, these Decepticons form a vast communications network that allows them to track down Unicron's location and intercept it. Now, this united "[[Decepticon Vengeance Division]]" surrounds the monster planet with a [[stasis web]] that prevents it from moving away...

Still dealing with the loss of [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], [[Aileron]] finds no comfort in [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]'s stoic assurance that they will be able to get through the threat of Unicron. Before the pair can argue their feelings out, [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] apologetically interrupts to question Arcee; the sight of the [[Guardian robot|Omega Sentinel]] they found inside Unicron clearly unnerved her, and he wants to know why. Aileron is ready to defend Arcee's honor, but Arcee confesses the secret reason: long ago, she fought alongside the Sentinels during the first disastrous attempts at Cybertronian expansion to other worlds. She assumes one of the Sentinels must have found Unicron, long ago, and suspects it could have been sent by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]. Since they obviously can't trust anything Shockwave would tell them, Bumblebee heads off to see the only other 'bot who might have the answer, but when Aileron tries to tag along, 'Bee is reluctant to let her. Aileron explains that she needs something to ''do'' in this time of crisis, an urge Bumblebee himself is very familiar with, and agrees to let her join him as he visits the hangar containing the comatose [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. Of course, since the giant [[Autobot]] has been offline for years, there's no way 'Bee can actually ''talk'' with Omega; he is just here to scope out the situation, hoping perhaps [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] can be called upon to read Omega's mind. That becomes unnecessary, however, when 'Bee rests his hand upon Omega's forehead, and a crackle of dark energy overcomes the little 'bot, darkening his eyes...

The [[Torchbearer]]s watch from afar as [[Pyra Magna]] silently looks out over the horizon, still clutching the deceased [[Mistress of Flame]]'s [[forgehammer]]. Pyra thinks the gift of the hammer was one last parting jab from the Mistress, to remind her of what the Mistress believed she should be; bitterly, Pyra stabs the hammer's shaft into the ground, and leaves it standing there as she walks away, angrily certain that she could never forget the Mistress, even if she wanted to.

Starscream joins [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the rest of the [[Council of Worlds]] in their war room, though he is far from welcomed by his old political partners. Starscream assures them he is not who he used to be, revealing Shockwave's plan to build a new Decepticon empire after letting Unicron eat Cybertron, and how he has no desire to go along with it. [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] proposes adding the rest of the Cybertronian fleet to the Decepticon armada for the attack on Unicron, but Starscream insists the Decepticons can do it alone, while Optimus remains confident in his belief that Starscream intends to betray them all. The argument is interrupted by a transmission from [[G Nebula 89]], which turns out to be from the starship ''[[Sabre]]'' captained by the long-absent [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], who was sent to search for [[Liege Maximo]] months ago. Maximo's reappearance on Cybertron had led all to assume the ''Sabre'' was lost, but it turns out they had a run-in with the [[Maximal]]s and sustained damage to their comms which has only just now been repaired. And none too soon, because the ''Sabre'' has just run across the Decepticon fleet as it begins its attack on Unicron!

Somehow merging minds with Omega Supreme, Bumblebee is granted a glimpse into the distant past, where Unicron's origins are hinted at. ''Long ago, on a distant, unknown world consumed by war, an alien scientist created a doomsday device that would end the conflict by ending all life. The energies released by this device tore across the cosmos, through space and time, destroying the world of [[Prysmos]]... using its magic to mutate the surviving aliens into the [[Dire Wraith]]s... and obliterating the war-torn world's star system, leaving only a black star, orbited by the now-lifeless world.''

[[File:StrangerEons-MaximalAttack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|WE WANT WAR!!!|right]]
Chromia and her crew watch in awe as the Decepticon fleet unleashes an unspeakable amount of firepower against Unicron, to no apparent avail. Bursting through the conflagration, the Maximal Army comes flying up from Unicron's surface, the sight of which is enough for Chromia to call retreat. But the crew of the ''Sabre'' are not the only ones departing the scene; Unicron too warps away, the stars once again winking out in its wake. As the Maximals close on the fleet, the Decepticons think they're in for a fight, but all is not as it seems; Bludgeon reveals that Unicron is his true master, and welcomes the Maximals aboard his ship! There, the [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukarian]]-looking Transformers shed their beast-skins to reveal their true forms—spiked devil-robots cast in the image of their progenitor Liege Maximo—as Bludgeon declares that they shall be the final evolution of the Decepticons!

His knowledge imparted, Omega Supreme dies, leaving Aileron to rouse Bumblebee from his trance. The pair race outside in response to the sounds of chaos, and stare into the sky to see that Unicron has arrived, and has transformed into a titanic robot form that now looms over Cybertron. But Bumblebee has learned what Unicron ''is''... and knows that the only way to stop it is for all the Transformers to ''die!''

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in visions. 
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
* [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (3)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] (6)
* [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] (12)
* [[Aileron]] (13)
* [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (14)
* [[Pyra Magna]] (15)
* [[Jumpstream]] (16)
* [[Stormclash]] (17)
* [[Skyburst (G1)|Skyburst]] (18)
* [[Rust Dust]] (19)
* [[Dust Up]] (20)
* [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (29)

|c2=
* [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] (2)
* [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] (4)
* [[Wideload (Classics)|Wideload]] (7)
* [[Broadside (Classics)|Broadside]] (8)
* [[Sledge (Classics)|Sledge]] (9)
* [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (10)

|h3=[[Maximal]]s
|c3=
* [[Megatron (BW)|Beast Megatron]] (34)
* [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (35)
* [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (36)

|h4=Other Cybertronians|c4=
* [[Fireshot]] (21)
* [[Vanquish]] (22)
* [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] (23)
* [[Knock Out (G1)|Knock Out]] (24)
* [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] (25)
* [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] (26)
* [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] (27)
* [[Greenlight]] (30)
* [[Lancer]] (31)

|h5=Others|c5=
* [[Rom]] (5)
* [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (11)
* [[Marissa Faireborn]] (28)
* ''[[Dire Wraith]]s'' (32)
* ''[[Prysmosian]]s'' (33)
}}

==Quotes==
"Starscream was '''right''' about me. I pretty much '''never''' know what I'm doing."
:—'''Bumblebee'''

"You didn't know when to stop talking about me, Mistress. You claimed I abandoned the '''Way of Flame'''... but I '''never''' relinquished my duty to Caminus '''or''' her people. I simply refused to serve the Primes' '''hypocrisy'''—or '''yours.''' Did you give me the '''forgehammer''' to remind me of what you thought I should be? To hammer my '''spark''' down a bit? Well, you didn't '''need''' to, Mistress. I will '''never''' forget you... not matter '''how''' hard I try."
:—'''Pyra Magna''' eulogizes the Mistress of Flame

''"The '''star system''' gone... the heart of the storm '''remained'''... the ghosts '''fled'''... no... not ghosts... '''Wraiths'''... spread '''far away'''... power '''coalesced'''... a '''lone planet'''... orbiting a '''black star'''... lifeless... alone... Unicron."''
:—'''Bumblebee''' has a vision

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Windblade still believes Bludgeon is dead following the events of ''[[The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation]]'', but we learned he was still alive back in [[The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|''Optimus Prime'' #13]]. Starscream must have sent him off into space sometime between [[The Dead Come Home, Part 2 (of 2)|issue #14]] and his subsequent loss of power in the [[The Chosen One|2017 ''Till All Are One'' annual]].
* The idea that a veritable Decepticon army still existed in space was first established in [[Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|''More than Meets the Eye'' #26]].
* Wideload sarcastically refers to Bludgeon's battle talk as fitting the era of "[[First Cybertronian Civil War|the first civil war]]".
* Arcee's history with the Omega Sentinels as part of Cybertron's attempted expansion was detailed in [[The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|''Optimus Prime'' #18]].
* As we noted last issue, Omega Supreme has been offline since sustaining severe injuries in [[The End of the Beginning of the World|''Robots in Disguise'' #11]].
* This is the first time that the Mistress of Flame's hammer-shaped badge of office has been given a name: the [[Forgehammer]].
* Chromia left Cybertron to pursue Liege Maximo in [[Heavy|''Till All Are One'' #9]]. Her fate, and that of her team, has been a hanging question until now, what with Liege's reappearance in [[The Falling, Chapter 1: Surfeit of Primes|''Optimus Prime'' #15]], and Windblade's own inquiry about what happened to them in [[The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|#16]] going unanswered. Turns out they were okay, folks.
* Though it's not entirely clear from the visuals, the energies released by the alien doomsday weapon were responsible for the destruction of Prysmos, an event which, per [[Schismatic|''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' #1]], the former inhabitants of the planet believe was caused by the de-alignment of its three suns. The destruction of Prysmos has been established to be a recent event that happened within the Visionaries' lifetimes, which would indicate that the doomsday device's powers reached across space ''and time'' to cause it (as implied by Omega's narration, which says the machine reached not just "across worlds," but "across reality").
* Compounding the unclear visuals, the narration ("giving rise to new magicks, new wars...") could be read as implying that the magic of Prysmos was ''created'' by Unicron's birth, but rather, it is intended to establish that the Dire Wraiths and their dark "magicks" were created ''from'' the "magic" of Prysmos. The Wraiths were established to hail from the [[Dark Nebula]] in [[Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!|''More than Meets the Eye: Revolution'']], and though the presence of a "black star," left by the activation of the alien device, might make it seem that this region of space ''is'' the Nebula, [[Shining Armor issue 1|''Rom vs. Transformers'' #1]] established that the [[Space Knight]]s destroyed what was considered to be the [[Dire Wraith homeworld]] centuries ago. The Wraiths didn't contest this ([[Long Roads to Ruin, Part 4|''ROM'' #14]] revealed they infiltrated Earth specifically to transform it into a new home), but this new development indicates that the world the Knights destroyed must have merely the planet to which the Wraiths migrated following their creation.
* The visual of a "dead world" orbiting a "black star" has been a component of the Onyx Prime/Unicron mytharc since 2015's [[Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|''The Transformers'' vol. 2 #47]]. We still don't have the full picture, but Unicron was shown orbiting a black hole in his debut in [[First Strike issue 6|''First Strike'' #6]], and the [[Ghost Stories|2017 ''Transformers'' annual]] would show that the planet [[Antilla]], home of Shockwave/Onyx Prime following the end of the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]], did the same...
* Bludgeon spoke of the approach of a "master" back in issue #14; the most logical choice at the time was that he was referring to the impending arrival of Onyx Prime (especially since Onyx later turned out to be Shockwave, who actually used to ''be'' Bludgeon's master), but it turns out that, like we speculated, he was indeed referring to Unicron!
* The Maximals reveal that they are wearing [[Pretender]]-like outer carapaces, and their true inner forms look aesthetically similar to Liege Maximo. Not only does this speak to Onyx Prime and Liege Maximo's long-running alliance, but it also connects some dots regarding Bludgeon and his own obsession with attaining [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s bio-carapace technology from way back in ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]''.

===Transformers references===
* The three Decepticons we see Bludgeon recruit are the [[Demolition Team]], a squad of [[Mini-Con]]s released as part of the 2006 ''[[Transformers: Classics]]'' toyline. Unsurprisingly, they're not Mini-Cons here!
* In addition to the [[Worldsweeper]]s, which should be familiar to any longtime IDW readers, other types of ship seen in the Decepticon Vengeance Division fleet include [[Warworld]]s (originally from the [[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic]], but which have also shown up in IDW continuity), and multiple ships cast in the image of the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]], and the [[Revenge (G1)|''Revenge'']] from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', their class was named in [[Earthfall Part 5: I Dream of Wires|''Robots in Disguise'' #32]] as the "[[Worldburner]]s".
* Bumblebee and Aileron walk past ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Scorponok (WFC)|Scorponok]] on page 6.
* Chromia's ship is named the ''[[Sabre]]'', after the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]] spacecraft from the Marvel ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Generation 2]]'' comic.
* G Nebula 89 is a region of space featured in the [[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|''Super-God Masterforce'']] and [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|''Victory'']] cartoons.
* The panels illustrating Unicron's transformation are "shot"-for-shot matches to elements of his transformation sequence from the 1986 movie.

===Other franchise references===
* The airships seen above Prysmos are scaled-up and redesigned versions of the ''Visionaries'' [http://www.thevisionaries.net/characters/sky-claw/sky-claw/18 Sky Claw] chariot.

===Real-world references===
* The title of this issue, "Stranger Eons", is a reference to a quote from the [[H. P. Lovecraft]] horror story ''{{w|The Nameless City}}'': "That is not dead which can eternal lie/And with strange aeons, even death may die." The concept of "death dying" goes hand-in-hand with Bludgeon's line that, in killing Unicron, the Decepticons "will kill death."

===Errors===
* On page 2, Sledge calls Wideload "Sledge". This is corrected in the trade.
* It's not ''strictly'' an error, since he was last seen heavily damaged and in need of repairs, but Bludgeon has returned to his original [[Pretender]] shell design from ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'', rather than the new one he sported in ''Salvation'' and ''Optimus Prime'' following exposure to [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s corrupted [[energon]].
* On page 13, Elita One is titled as the "Carcerian delegate" while her actual position is the Carcerian First, her appointed delegates being [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika (BM)|Strika]].
* [[Marissa Faireborn]] is shown on Cybertron, coordinating with the Council. While this wasn't an error at the time of publication, she would proceed to later appear in the concurrently set, though delayed, [[Unstopped and Unstoppable|''Optimus Prime'' #22]] on Earth and the following [[Time Will Rust|two]] [[A Sunrise Dark|issues]] of that series and vanish from this one. So it's a retroactive error.

===Deathlist===
* Omega Supreme; finally succumbs to his injuries after mind-melding with Bumblebee

===Other trivia===
* This issue also includes a four-page ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' back-up strip, "[[Last Stand (G.I. Joe)|Last Stand]]," a short coda for the unfinished ''[[Scarlett's Strike Force]]''. Since we covered that series on this wiki, it's got its own article here.
* When information about the ''Unicron'' back-ups was originally solicited, issue #2 was going to have a ''[[Micronauts (franchise)|Micronauts]]'' strip, rather than a ''G.I. Joe'' one.<ref>https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/05/07/rom-and-micronauts-join-transformers-unicron1-and-2/</ref> [[Transition|That story]] ultimately wound up being published in [[Road's End|''Unicron'' #4]].
* Other backmatter includes the second installment in a series of interviews with creators from IDW's past. This issue, it's the IDW's second-ever writer ''Transformers'' [[Nick Roche]] and ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' scribe [[Shane McCarthy]].
* Despite appearing on the cover of this issue, Firestar doesn't appear in the issue itself; it's possible that she was added to have a representative of [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], since the [[Windblade (G1)|previous]] [[Mistress of Flame|delegates]] for Caminus are otherwise occupied.

===Covers (5)===
* '''Cover A:''' Starscream and the council by [[Alex Milne]] and [[Josh Perez]]
* '''Cover B:''' Bumblebee, Starscream, Bludgeon, Chromia, Elita One, [[Virulina]], and [[Matt Trakker]] by [[James Raiz]] and [[David García Cruz]]; connects to Raiz's other covers for the series to form [[:File:Unicron-Bcovers-JamesRaiz.jpg|a larger image]]
* '''Retailer incentive Cover A:''' Optimus, Bumblebee, and Windblade, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[John-Paul Bove]]
* '''Retailer incentive Cover B:''' Bumblebee by [[Francesco Francavilla]]; connects to Francavilla's other covers for the series to form a larger image
* '''Second printing:''' Cover A art with only the council members colored.

<gallery>
File:TFUnicron2_cvrA.jpg|Off the chart sassiness.
File:TFUnicron2_cvrB.jpg|Game over, man!
File:TFUnicron2_cvrRIA.jpg|Heroes about to fall?
File:TFUnicron2_cvrRIB.jpg|The killer of the IDW franchise... and Unicron.
File:TFUnicron2_cvrReissue.jpg|IDW's color cartridges are failing.
</gallery>

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===Reprints===
Other than [[Transformers: Unicron#Collections|reprints of the full series]]
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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[[Category:Unicron issues]]

Landfill (episode)

2024-10-23T12:59:05Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Synopsis */

{{disambig3|Landfill}}
{{episode|
|series=RiD
|ep=21
|title="Landfill"
|japanese=四体合体! ビルドキング
|romaji=Yontai Gattai! Build King
|translation=Quadruple Merge! Build King
|image=Landfill Sideburncrash.jpg
|caption=Side Burn's last visit to San Andreas went to hell on day one.
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]], [[Studio Gallop]]
|airdate=[[August 23|23 August]] [[2000]] (Japanese) [[June 22]], [[2002]] (UK) (English) [[July 28]], 2002 (US, [[BotCon 2002]]) (English)
|director=[[Yoshiaki Tsutsui]]
|animation studio=Studio Gallop
|written by=[[Yukiyoshi Ōhashi]] (Japanese) [[Richard Epcar]] (English)
|continuity=
}}

'''The Space Bridge screws up!''' 
'''The Build Team suspect foul play''' 
'''and [[Devastator (G1)|merge for the kill]]!'''

==Synopsis==
[[X-Brawn]] is tearing down a deserted forest road at night, with the Decepticon [[Commando (RID)|Commandos]] in hot pursuit. With [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] and [[Armorhide (RID)|Armorhide]] closing in, the rugged SUV looks trapped...until he is able to take a quick detour into a nearby Global Space Bridge warp tunnel, leaving the Decepticons cursing both their luck and the Autobots' ever-pesky teleportation technology. The 'Cons quickly realise that the space bridge is proving too key an advantage to the Autobots to be left as it is; the ever-belligerent Armorhide is all in favour of blasting it to pieces, but Scourge takes more interest in [[Mega-Octane]]'s suggestion of turning the technology against its creators...

[[File:Landfill Grimlockcomputer.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|The other terminals contain Wedge's porn collection.]]
Back in the city, the Autobot [[Build Team (RID)|Build Team]] is busy doing what they do best. Finishing up work on the space bridge's Arctic tunnel link, they radio in to [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] to report that they're ahead of schedule, before [[Wedge (RID)|Wedge]] suggests that they unwind with a little battle practice. Wedge and teammates [[Heavy Load (RID)|Heavy Load]] and [[Hightower (RID)|Hightower]] head off for the Battle Zone, leaving [[Grimlock (RID 2001)|Grimlock]] to finish up by uploading the Arctic link data into the space bridge's computer network; little does he realise, however, that he is being trailed by [[Ro-Tor (RID)|Ro-Tor]], and is inadvertently leading Scourge and his team right to the network's access terminal. The Decepticons bust into the terminal bunker after Grimlock has finished his routine programming chore, allowing Scourge to tamper with the space bridge's tracking and location systems before dispatching the Commandos for the next phase of his scheme.

[[File:Landfill Rapidrunballgame.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|So, who do I give this to get an autograph?]]
With the Decepticon sabotage successful, [[Movor]] arrives in the city centre and begins causing mayhem. Responding to the disturbance, [[T-AI]] dispatches [[Team Bullet Train]] to the combat zone; however, thanks to Scourge's tamperings, the space bridge instead deposits the confused Autobots onto a busy freeway. Extremely peeved, Team Bullet Train return to Autobot headquarters, where [[Rapid Run (RID)|Rapid Run]] and Wedge get into a heated argument over who's to blame for the malfunction. While Prime dispatches Build Team in a fruitless attempt to track down the cause of the error, the Commandos continue to wreak havoc in the urban centre, leading to Team Bullet Train being sent into the warp tunnels once more, along with the [[Autobot Brothers]]; Mega-Octane's continued interference, however, sees the Autobots dumped in a variety of undesirable locations and situations, including a pool of cement, a busy mall, and the middle of a baseball match attended by [[Koji Onishi|Koji]].

[[File:Landfill Midnight Express trapped.jpg|right|upright=1.11|thumb|I believe i can- oh.]]
This disruption, of course, is all part of Scourge's plan, as he explains as he arrives at the Autobot's North energy research facility with a delighted [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]]; with the Autobots trapped by their own space bridge, the Predacon leader will be free to plunder all the energy he needs. T-AI, however, is on the case; running a diagnostic on the computer systems, she discovers that the computer link at the main terminal building has been tampered with, and Build Team rush to the location to repair the damage. Seeing off the Commandos en route with a little help from Optimus, the construction bots are able to restore the network systems, and, once they learn of the Predacon attack on the energy facility, use the newly space bridge to track down the scattered Autobots for a final counter-attack against the Predacons at the energy facility.

[[File:Landfill Megslandfill.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Wanna snow cone?]]
Though initially shocked at the speed of the Autobots' response to their sabotage, Megatron and Scourge refuse to go down without a fight, with Megatron finding a vantage point atop a treacherous sheet of ice. Team Bullet Train prepares to combine to finish the fight...until Wedge intercedes on the behalf of Build Team, claiming that the Predacon sabotage of "their" space bridge has made this a matter of personal honour, as well as citing the builders' superiority on ice. Optimus accedes to Build Team's request, and the four construction bots respond by assuming their combined form, the imposing [[Landfill (RID)|Landfill]]. Utilising their superior traction and impressive repertoire of (largely shoulder-based) attacks, Landfill is quickly able to overcome Megatron and Scourge, sending them into retreat once again.

With the threat of Megatron averted once again, the Autobots clear the air and apologise to each other over the flared tempers and misunderstandings caused by the malfunctioning warp tunnels. Optimus declares the incident a great teamwork exercise, and the reconciled Autobots use the recalibrated space bridge to head harmoniously for home.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[X-Brawn]] (1)
*[[Heavy Load (RID)|Heavy Load]] (7)
*[[Grimlock (RID 2001)|Grimlock]] (8)
*[[Wedge (RID)|Wedge]] (9)
*[[Hightower (RID)|Hightower]] (10)
*[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] (11)
*[[T-AI]] (12)
*[[Railspike (RID)|Railspike]] (14)
*[[Rapid Run (RID)|Rapid Run]] (15)
*[[Midnight Express (RID)|Midnight Express]] (16)
*[[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]] (17)
*[[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]] (18)
*[[Landfill (RID)|Landfill]] (22)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]
|c2=
*[[Rollbar (RID)|Rollbar]] (2)
*[[Ro-Tor (RID)|Ro-Tor]] (3)
*[[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] (4)
*[[Armorhide (RID)|Armorhide]] (5)
*[[Mega-Octane]] (6)
*[[Movor]] (13)
*[[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] (21)

|c3=
*[[Koji Onishi]] (19)
*[[Kelly (RID)|Kelly]] (20)
}}

==Quotes==

"I'll tell you what we ''should'' do: we should go in there and blast that place into tiny little pieces!" 
"I've got a great idea: why don't we just hack into their system? Then we could find out where their tunnels lead." 
"Hacking, schmacking. I say we go in there and blow the whole place to oblivion! Then we don't have to care where the tunnels lead, am I right?" 
"Half-track mind..."
:—'''Armorhide''' and '''Rollbar''' talk tactics outside the space bridge terminal bunker. Well, Rollbar does, anyway.

"Well, that's one way to get in. I myself woulda used the door."
:—'''Rollbar''' on Scourge smashing through the wall

"Now, ''Scourge'' has the right idea! See what I mean? You gotta break down some walls, blow up some buildings, destroy these computers—" 
"Can't you clamp your voice-boxes?!" 
"Uh...yeah, sorry, sir."
:—'''Armorhide''' likes the cut of '''Scourge''''s jib; Scourge just doesn't like anyone.

"OOH! Aww, no, he caught it, and that was the last out of the innings! And what is Rapid Run doing on the field anyway?"
:—'''Koji''', always quick on the uptake.

"That...couldn't be the new subway line, could it?"
:—'''Kelly''' attempts to rationalise the sudden appearance of Railspike in the middle of a crowded mall. Nice try.

''Prowl and Side Burn try to run on the ice, falling down as Optimus nonchalantly slides past them.'' 
"Heh... it's easy once you get the hang of it!"
:— '''Optimus Prime''', current Autobot commander and future Olympic ice skater.

"''Leave Megatron alone!!''"
:—'''Scourge''' channels his inner {{w|Chris Crocker (Internet celebrity)|Chris Crocker}}.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Car Robots''===
"Landfill" was one of three ''Robots in Disguise'' episodes, along with "[[Attack from Outer Space]]" and "[[Sky-Byte Saves the Day]]", that never aired in the U.S. due to post-{{w|September 11 attacks|9/11}} sensitivity over its scenes of urban destruction. It does not appear to have undergone any attempted editing to remove these elements: all such scenes of exploding buildings and terrified civilians are intact in the English version, but it does contain a significant amount of minute video timing edits and a noticeably large amount of "flavour" dialogue where the original was silent or perfunctory.
[[File:Landfill deleted spacebridge shots.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*In the opening scene, ''Robots in Disguise'' repeats the footage of Ro-Tor firing on X-Brawn, and X-Brawn swerving to avoid the blasts, to extend the action a little.
*This episode introduces a new design for the Global Space Bridge, an unusual white-on-black "wireframe" look, which first appears when X-Brawn ducks into the bridge to escape the Decepticons. ''Robots in Disguise'' replaces both wide shots in this scene with footage of X-Brawn driving through the normal CGI version of the bridge taken from other episodes (pictured, right). All the other wireframe-bridge scenes throughout the episode are kept, though in the final act, ''Car Robots'' itself also suddenly switches to using the CGI version instead.
*In ''Robots in Disguise'', Rollbar talks about the advantage the space bridge gives the Autobots and Armorhide wants to destroy it, but in ''Car Robots'', Armorhide is grumbling about being tired, and Rollbar is teasing him about being fat, making him mad. Similarly, in ''Car Robots'' Mega-Octane simply grouses about how the Autobots keep getting away and the need for a "countermeasure", while in ''Robots in Disguise'', he specifically proposes first trying to take control of the bridge, then disabling it.
*''Robot in Disguise'' makes repeated reference to the bridge's "Arctic Link", while ''Car Robots'' uses the much vague location name of, er, "Snow Country".
*''Robots in Disguise'' continues to have Armorhide rant and rage about destroying the bridge all through the scene of the team following Grimlock to the terminal, but ''Car Robots'' is very different. First, he mistakenly claims they're going to "jack" the terminal, but when Rollbar corrects him and tells him they're going to "hack" it, and that you can "do anything if you're a hacker", he mis-hears "hacker" as the Japanese word ''hakka'', meaning "peppermint", and then goes off on a ramble about how he prefers ''nikki'' (cinnamon) flavored candies because peppermint burns his nostrils. Then, when Scourge smashes the wall in, Rollbar remarks that they're not being stealthy like hackers at all, and Armorhide doesn't understand how they could have gotten to the computers otherwise.
*As usual, ''Robots in Disguise'' replaces Team Bullet Train's [[List of Japanese ID numbers|Japanese ID numbers]] on the member select screen with their English names.
*In ''Car Robots'', Team Bullet Train are simply getting amped up for action as they talk to each other on their journey through the bridge; ''Robots in Disguise'' changes it so they suspect something is wrong with the bridge direction.
*''Car Robots'' uses one of its occasional symbol-wipe scene transitions between Team Bullet Train's mishap and their return to base; ''Robots in Disguise'' replaces it with its usual CGI affairs.
*''Robots in Disguise'' adds some extra footage of T-AI giving orders between the scenes of the Autobot Brothers and Team Bullet Train being called to action.
*In ''Robots in Disguise'', Midnight Express is worried about their second trip through the bridge, but in ''Car Robots'', he's just remarking on how much is going on today.
*When X-Brawn is left on top of a tall building by the bridge, ''Robots in Disguise'' just has him talk about the system malfunctioning. In ''Car Robots'', in-keeping with the daredevil aspect of the character that ''Robots in Disguise'' mostly erases, he is initially thrilled to be up so high, before realizing it probably isn't the best time to get so excited.
*''Car Robots'' goes to commercial after Prowl falls into the concrete; ''Robots in Disguise'' doesn't, so it adds a dissolve between that scene and the next.
*When the Build Team learn of the malfunctions, in ''Car Robots'', it's Heavy Load who informs Wedge that computer tampering is the root cause, while in ''Robots in Disguise'', he simply restates that their construction work is fine, and it's Wedge who realizes the computer is the problem.
*In ''Robots in Disguise'', Optimus talks as if the energy lab Megatron and Scourge raid is actually an Autobot facility.
*In general, ''Car Robots'' sees Wedge take more of a personal responsibility for the problems with the bridge; as the Autobots travel to the final battle, he is apologetic to the rest of the team for the trouble they've endured, and when he requests that the Build Team be allowed to battle Megatron, it's less about payback, and more about making amends to his comrades. In ''Robots in Disguise'', this only really comes up in his final monologue after the battle, though even here he's more apologetic in ''Car Robots'', where he feels his actions haven't been enough to fully atone.
*Side Burn and Rapid Run are excited at the prospect of the Build Team merging in ''Robots in Disguise'', but in ''Car Robots'', neither of them knew that the team even ''could'' combine, and Rapid Run is a bit put out at the fact there's four 'bots on the Build Team, meaning their combiner form will be more powerful than Team Bullet Train's three-bot [[Rail Racer (RID)|Rail Racer]].
*''Car Robots'' specifically points out that Landfill has better traction on the ice because he has tires for feet.
*During Wedge and Rapid Run's "moral of the episode" exchange, ''Car Robots'' plays things more reservedly, as the pair sort of brush their argument aside and focus on the fact they've regained control of the space bridge, which Wedge promises to take better care of. In ''Robots in Disguise'', on the other hand, the discussion is shifted to be more about the two offering full and proper apologies to one another for their angry words. Afterward, Optimus gets to throw in a line about how great teamwork is in ''Robots in Disguise'', while in ''Car Robots'', he's just suggesting they all head home "on the bridge Wedge and the others built for us".
*When Side Burn and Rapid Run share the final dialogue exchange of the episode, ''Robots in Disguise'' has them marveling at just how incredible the space bridge is, but in ''Car Robots'', they're specifically singing the praises of its creators, the Build Team.
*Shots extended in length for ''Robots in Disguise'' include:
**Rollbar and Armorhide's headshots as they talk about the space bridge
**Mega Octane proposing the Decepticons exploit the space bridge
**Wedge directing Hightower around the building site
**Optimus requesting T-AI put the Build Team on-screen
**Optimus congratulating the team on completing their job
**Wedge signing off before the screens turn off
**Grimlock telling Wedge he'll take care of uploading the data
**Scourge producing the Decepticon computer chip
**Prime ordering T-AI to bring up the member select.
**Rapid Run asking if Team Bullet Train are going in the right direction
**Prime talking about the bridge malfunction.
**Prime ordering the Autobot Brothers being called into action.
**Prime asking where the computer tampering has taken place (this show really loves to extend close-up shots of Prime's head - it's easy, because there's no moving mouth!)
**Wedge agreeing with Heavy Load's suggestion to use the Arctic Link
**Rapid Run and Side Burn's episode-ending exchange

===Animation or technical errors===
*When the Autobots are being flung out of the space bridge to random undesirable locations, the member of Team Bullet Train shown careering down a hill resembles Rapid Run, but speaks with Railspike's voice.
*When Heavy Load restrains Wedge, his [[chin]] is yellow instead of grey.
*When Rapid Run transforms at the baseball stadium and catches the ball, his mouthplate is colored gold like the rest of his head instead of silver.
*Hightower is the one who removes the Decepticon disc from the computer to reinstall the correct one... but then he is immediately seen standing beside Wedge.
*When Megatron says "Alright! Let's go in and take the energy!" to Scourge, his mouth isn't moving.
*When Prime changes to "Battle Protocol" in the frozen north, an extended version of the first shot of his battle mode stock footage plays, ending on a shot of him with a miscolored super-mode head, done in the colors of his regular robot mode.

===Continuity errors===
*Koji's fellow spectators at the baseball game seem to change dramatically in appearance from shot to shot.
*After sabotaging the space bridge, Scourge announces the Decepticons should move out, but later on we cut back to Scourge and Mega-Octane still in the terminal bunker.

===Continuity notes===
*In this episode, the Build Team completes the construction of, and later makes use of, a section of the Global Space Bridge called the "Arctic Link", which was first mentioned in the [[Wedge's Short Fuse|previous episode]]. But as that episode saw the Build Team instead constructing a route to the ''Ant''arctic, their completion of the ''Arctic'' Link in this episode suggests that it was a preexisting project the Build Team was already assigned to, and which they put on hold, during the previous episode.
*After completing the Arctic Link, Heavy Load alludes to the Build Team's next project as a "south route" for the Space Bridge, which the [[Sky-Byte Saves the Day|next episode]] will have them complete and name it as the "South Ocean Underpass".

===Real-world references===
*The sign Movor destroys has an image of Ronald McDonald on it.
*When the Autobots arrive to fight Megatron and Scourge, Rapid Run asks if they were expecting the {{w|Yeti|Abominable Snowman}}.

===Transformers references===
*X-Brawn moans "They're on me like [[The Insecticon Syndrome|an Insecticon in a power core]]."

===Trivia===
*[[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] and [[Slapper (RID)|the]] [[Gas Skunk|Predacon]] [[Dark Scream|Trio]] are absent from this episode, marking the first time in the series that their unique services have not been called upon (although Sky-Byte didn't appear in [[Battle Protocol!|episode 1]]). Maybe Megatron is finally learning his lesson... [[Sky-Byte Saves the Day|or not]].
*Just for variation, Optimus announces "Battle Protocol" when he goes into super mode the second time.

===Foreign localization===
'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Il sabotaggio del ponte spaziale'''" ("The sabotage of the space bridge")

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''A Equipe de Construção: Um Quarteto de Transformers da Pesada'''" ("The Build Team: A Foursome of Tough Transformers")
::* "Da pesada" is a vulgar Brazilian expression that can mean that someone is either tough, dangerous, troublemaker or just really funny.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2000 — ''Transformers: Car Robots'' — Vol. 6 ([[Pony Canyon]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' — Three-Disc Box Set: Part 2 of 2 ([[Maximum Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' — Season Two (Maximum Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' — Ultimate Collection (Maximum Entertainment)

[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2001) episodes]]

A.I.R. Lock System

2024-10-23T12:42:08Z

JunoDeguzman2024: Black Rorutchi is a Deception

[[File:EarthriseAirlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Click....]]The '''Adaptable Interconnection Retrofitter Lock System''', or the '''A.I.R. Lock System''' for short, is a type of modular platforms, ramps, and more that can be connected together to form bases and battle scenes. The system is used by the [[Transformer]]s during their search for the [[AllSpark|Allspark]] on Earth to create bases for themselves.

Exemplified by the system are '''Modulators'''—sentient Cybertronians who form bases for their comrades.

==Toys==
===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
The A.I.R. Lock System made its debut unannounced during ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' with connectors appearing on two of the toys in that line.

====Leader Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|WFC-S51 [[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#Siege|Astrotrain]] (Ramps)}}
</ul>

====Titan Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S29 [[Omega Supreme (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Omega Supreme]] (Tracks)}}
</ul>

===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
[[File:TF-WFC-E-Deluxe-Airwave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Deluxe Modulator Airwave]]
Figures under the ''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'' A.I.R. Lock System have multiple points that allow the creation of bases and battlefields, in both official and unofficial ways. There are various ways the A.I.R. Lock System is incorporated into the figures such as [[Battle Master]]s transforming into platforms, alt modes allowing the connection of ramps, and figures that come with bases. Battle Masters also come with "Fire Blast" effect parts, returning from the ''Siege'' toyline, used to simulate various effects such as "impact shots". Deluxe Weaponizers make a return with a new name: Modulators, transforming into various bases for [[Micromaster]]s to stay in instead of weapons for various Transformers.

====Battle Master====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-E1 [[Soundbarrier#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Soundbarrier]]}}
{{Bp-qu2|WFC-E13 [[Slitherfang#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Slitherfang]]}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-E39 [[Doublecrosser (Earthrise)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Doublecrosser]]}}
</ul>

====Deluxe Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-E5 [[Hoist (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Hoist]] (Ramp)}}
{{Bp-a1|WFC-E8 [[Ironworks (facility)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Ironworks]] (Modulator)}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-E18 [[Airwave (facility)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Airwave]] (Modulator)}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-E35 [[Fasttrack (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Fasttrack]] (Modulator)}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-GS12 [[Greasepit (facility)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Greasepit]] (''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]'' Modulator)}}
{{Bp-a1|WFC-GS15 [[Hot House (facility)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Hot House]] (''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]'' Modulator)}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-GS22 [[Black Roritchi]] (''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]'' Modulator)}}
{{Bp-a1|Botropolis Rescue Mission [[Ironworks (facility)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Ironworks]] and [[Overair (facility)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Overair]] (Modulators)}}
</ul>

====Voyager Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-E10 [[Grapple (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Grapple]] (Claw)}}
{{Bp-qu2|WFC-E22 [[Quintesson#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Quintesson Judge]] (Ramps)}}
</ul>

====Leader Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-E11 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Optimus Prime]] (Ramp/Shield)}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-E12 [[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Astrotrain]] (unchanged re-release of ''Siege'' Astrotrain)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|WFC-E23 [[Doubledealer#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Doubledealer]] (Ramp)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#AUOP|Alternate Universe Optimus Prime]] (Ramp/Shield)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis_Prime_(G1)#War_for_Cybertron_Trilogy|Nemesis Prime]] (Ramp/Shield)}}
</ul>

====Commander Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-E24 [[Sky Lynx (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Sky Lynx]] (Ramps)}}
</ul>

====Titan Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|WFC-E25 [[Scorponok (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Scorponok]] (Ramps)}}
</ul>

===''War for Cybertron: Kingdom''===

====Commander Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-K29 [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Rodimus Prime]] (Ramp)}}
</ul>

===''Legacy''===

====Deluxe Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)#Generations Selects|Lift-Ticket]] (Ramp)}}
</ul>

====Voyager Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Hauler#Legacy|Road Hauler]] (Claw)}}
</ul>

====Leader Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Galaxy Shuttle#Legacy|Galaxy Shuttle]] (Ramps)}}
</ul>

====Titan Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Metroplex (Cybertron)#Legacy|Metroplex]] (Ramps)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Scorponok (G1)#Generations Selects|Black Zarak]] (Ramps)}}
</ul>

===''Legacy Evolution''===

====Titan Class====
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Guardian Robot#Generations Selects|Guardian Robot]] (Tracks)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis_(G1)#Legacy_2|Nemesis]] (Ramps)}}
</ul>

===''Shattered Glass''===
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-sd|[[Exo-Suit_(SG)#Shattered_Glass_Collection|Exo-Suit]] (Modulator)}}
</ul>

===''Others''===
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus_Prime_(G1)/Generations_toys#Holiday_Optimus_Prime|Holiday Optimus Prime]] (Ramp)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus_Prime_(G1)/Generations_toys#Target_Optimus_Prime|Target Optimus Prime]] (Ramp)}}
</ul>

==Notes==
* The A.I.R. Lock System is incompatible with previous systems of linking base modes such as [[Micromaster#Toys|Generation 1 Micromasters]] or ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]''.
** However, ''Siege'' [[Omega Supreme (G1)#Generations|Omega Supreme]] and his redeco ''Generations Selects'' [[Guardian Robot#Generations Selects|Guardian Robot]] have both ''Titans Return'' and A.I.R. Lock-compatible connectors, enabling them to bridge the toylines. Distinctly, they are the only figures with this characteristic.

==See also==
*[[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]]
*[[F.O.S.S.I.L. Technology]]
*[[Armorizer]]
*[[MechTech]]
*[[Energon weapon]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Air System}}
[[Category:Gimmicks]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Earthrise]]
[[Category:Legacy]]

TakaraTomy

2024-10-23T12:34:59Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Tomy before the merger */

{{disambigr|Takara|the Generation 1 manga character|Takara (G1)}}
[[File:Takara_Logo.svg|thumb|160px|Takara!]]
[[File:Tomy.svg|thumb|160px|Tomy!]]
[[File:Takaratomy.jpg|thumb|160px|Superlink!]]
'''TakaraTomy''' (タカラトミー) is a Japanese toy company. They are the producer of ''Transformers'' in Japan, and design much of the engineering for [[Toy|Transformers toys]]. Originally, Takara created the ''[[Diaclone]]'' and ''[[Micro Change]]'' toy lines, which were later imported to the US by [[Hasbro]] and turned into the ''Transformers''. Since then, Hasbro and Takara have been business partners. They swim in your money every time a new franchise is made. Some other notable toylines produced by TakaraTomy include ''Pokémon'', ''[[Beyblade]]'', and ''B-Daman''.

==History==
===Takara before the merger===
Takara (タカラ) was originally founded by [[Yasuta Satō]] in [[1955]] as '''Sato Vinyl'''.

In 1960 they changed their name to '''Takara Vinyl'''. Their name would be shortened to simply '''Takara''' in 1966. One of their major successes was "Licca-chan (リカちゃん)", a fashion doll similar to Barbie but only 8 1/2 inches tall, launched in 1967.

In [[1970]], Takara secured the license for releasing Hasbro's ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' line on the Japanese market. Dubbed ''NEW GI Joe (ニューＧＩジョー)'', the line would soon get a spin-off named ''Henshin Cyborg'' (''henshin'' being the Japanese word for "transform"), which in turn would later lead to the original ''[[Microman]]'' toyline which started in [[1974]].

The ''Microman'' line was relaunched as ''New Microman'' in [[1981]] and would lead to spin-offs such as ''[[Diaclone]]'' and ''[[Micro Change]]''. Hasbro would later acquire the license for releasing toys from both lines on the North American market. The result, dubbed ''Transformers'' by Hasbro, would turn out to be a huge success.

After a first test release of the Hasbro toys to a small test market in Japan apparently turned out to be successful, Takara decided to cancel ''Microman'' and ''Diaclone'' and henceforth started to release ''Transformers'' in Japan as well.

This incredibly convoluted chain of licensing, evolving, and re-licensing toy franchises can be used to make the heads of evil robots explode.

[[Nobuyuki Okude]], one of the original ''Diaclone'' designers who oversaw the production of the modified toys for Hasbro's ''Transformers'' line, would later rise to become Takara's vice president and for a brief time even held the position of the company's president.

===Tomy before the merger===
Tomy (トミー) was founded by Eiichiro Tomiyama in 1924 as '''Tomiyama Toy Factory'''. In 1963 they changed their name to '''Tomy'''. Their American branch opened in 1973, with branches following in Canada in 1981 and the UK in 1982.

Two pre-merger Transformers designed by Tomy were [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], patterned after their ''[[Plarail]]'' and ''[[Zoids]]'' toylines, respectively, by designer Junichi Ishikawa (石川順一).

===The merger===
After a series of commercial failures, May [[2005]] saw the public announcement that Takara would merge with rival toymaker Tomy. As of April [[2006]], both companies ceased to exist and made way for the new company, TakaraTomy. Fortunately, Tomy had established a healthy working relationship with Hasbro since [[1999]], long before their merger with Takara—which is why the merger didn't have any major effects on the established Hasbro/Takara cooperation (including the [[toy]] development process).

Oddly, "TakaraTomy" is only the merged company's official name in Japan. For the international, English-speaking world, the merged company is officially simply named "Tomy", for pragmatic reasons (as most of Takara's internationally renowned brands are distributed through other companies, such as Hasbro, outside Japan). Indeed, Tomy is mentioned as the licensor on all ''Transformers'' toy product released by Hasbro after the merger.

Despite this, the packaging for Hasbro's ''Transformers'' toys released under the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' banner following the "brand unification" introduced in 2018, which thus far includes the ''[[Studio Series]]'' and the ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' including ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'', ''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'' and ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'', features a very prominent "TakaraTomy" logo on the front side of every packaging along with a "Hasbro" logo of equal size.

On [[February 6]], [[2024]], it was announced that Chairman and CEO Kantaro Tomiyama will be stepping down to the position of Honorary Chairman of TakaraTomy on [[June 26]], 2024, his son Akio Tomiyama taking over as President and COO (Akio currently as Executive Vice President) and Kazuhiro Kojima will take over as Chairman of the Board and CEO of the company as part of the company's restructuring for the fiscal year of 2024. <ref>{{citesocial|link=https://gamebiz.jp/news/381407|site=gamebiz|title=【人事】タカラトミー、取締役副社長の富山彰夫氏が6月26日付で代表取締役社長COOに就任へ　現社長COOの小島一洋氏は代表取締役会長CEOに就任|year=2024|month=02|day=06}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-12/takara-tomy-announces-new-president-akio-tomiyama/.207462|name=Anita Tai|site=Anime News Network|title=Takara Tomy Announces New President Akio Tomiyama|year=2024|month=02|day=12}}</ref>

==Employees==
===Executives===
* Kantaro Tomiyama, Representative Director, Chairman & CEO

===''Transformers'' brand===
* [[Hideaki Yoke]], Lead Designer
* [[Tomoya Miyake]], Designer
* [[Takashi Kikuchihara]], Designer
* [[Takashi Nakase]], Designer
* [[Yutaka Tajima]], Designer
* [[Daigo Shiraishi]], Designer
* [[Hironori Kobayashi]], Designer Domestic Product Team
* [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]], Freelance designer/artist/writer

===Known current ''Transformers'' team members===
* [[Yūya Ōnishi]], Design Team Leader
* [[Kōjin Ōno]], Lead Designer, [[The Transformers: Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'']]
* [[Takashi Kunihiro]], Designer
* [[Hisashi Yuki]], Designer
* [[Shogo Hasui]], Designer
* [[Takio Ejima]], Designer
* [[Ittoku Kuwazu]], Designer
* [[Koki Yamada|Kōki Yamada]], Designer
* [[Shuhei Umezu]], Designer
* [[Tomoki Tatsumi]], Designer
{{creatorstub|Cross-reference with [[:Category:TakaraTomy designers]]}}

==Tomy Direct==
Tomy has its own label, "Tomy Direct", for releasing imported Hasbro products (such as [[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] toys) in Hasbro packaging in Japan, similar to Takara's [[USA Edition]]s. The huge difference is that USA Editions might still sport differences with their Hasbro counterparts, whereas Tomy Direct releases are ''really'' just the Hasbro toys.

Since Tomy's merger with Takara, the Tomy division of TakaraTomy has also released various Transformers-related toys under the Tomy Direct label, usually toys which were developed without any input from Takara's design team and/or figures from multi-brand lines such as the ''[[Titanium Series]]'' (which originally started out as a ''Star Wars'' sub-line) and the "Heroes" mini-figure franchise (which includes the ''Transformers''-based ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'', but also the ''Star Wars''-derived ''Galactic Heroes'', the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]-based ''Superhero Squad'' and various others).

Those include:
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars Transformers]]'', which are officially a ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' property that just "borrows" the name "Transformers"
*Their successor, ''[[Transformers: Crossovers]]'', which include the ''Star Wars Transformers'' and the new ''Marvel Transformers''
*Several 6" ''[[Titanium Series]]'' figures
*Various [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|2007 ''Transformers'' movie]] toys that were developed without Takara's input (such as [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Ultimate Bumblebee]], the various role play accessories, the [[Robot Replicas]], [[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]] and the [[Cyber Stompin' Robots]])
*The same for the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|''Revenge of the Fallen'' toyline]] (Ultimate Bumblebee Battle Charged, Robot Replicas, the role play accessories, [[Power Bots]] and the RPM vehicles)

==Home video==
{{factions/body|||vhs|laserdisc|japan}}
As well as licensing to third party companies such as [[Sohbi Kikaku]], Takara produced some of their own [[home video]] releases in the [[1980]]s and [[1990|'90s]]. The two ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform'' Laserdisc sets and the ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: 2010'' Laserdisc set were later repackaged and released by [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]] when they acquired the license in [[1998]].

===Releases===
;VHS
*'''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Scramble City: Mobilization''''' ([[April]], [[1986]])
:Contains "[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]".
*'''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Heroic Legend Chapter''''' ([[1988]])
:Contains "[[Heroic Legend: Optimus Prime vs Megatron!!]]", "[[Heroic Legend: 2010 Wars]]" and "[[Heroic Legend: Head On, Master Warriors!]]".
<center><gallery>
File:Scramble City VHS.jpg|'''Scramble City: Mobilization'''
File:Heroic Legend VHS.jpg|'''Heroic Legend Chapter'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

{{note|The following four releases were part of Takara's ''Video Collection'' series that ran from 1988 to 1990. The gaps in the tape numbering are due to other releases in the series being based on different properties, such as ''Mashin Hero Wataru'', ''Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers'' and ''[[Godzilla|Toho's kaiju movies]]''.}}
*V-01 — '''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Transformers: The World''''' (1988)
:Contains the 20-minute recap special "[[Transformers: The World]]" plus a [[S.T.A.R.S.]] official members badge and 25 character profile cards.
*V-04 — '''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Fight! Super Ginrai!!''''' (1988)
:Contains the 10-minute recap special "[[Fight!! Super Ginrai]]". (Yes, even Takara confused it with "[[Fight! Super Ginrai!!]]")
*V-10 — '''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Big Book of Masterforce''''' ([[1989]])
:Contains "[[You Too Use the Masterforce to Transform]]" and "[[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]".
*V-15 — '''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Fight! Star Saber''''' (1989)
:Contains the 30-minute recap special "[[Fight! Star Saber: The Big Book of Victory]]".
<center><gallery>
File:Takara V-01 VHS.jpg|'''V-01'''
File:Takara V-04 VHS.jpg|'''V-04'''
File:Takara V-10 VHS.jpg|'''V-10'''
File:Takara V-15 VHS.jpg|'''V-15'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''''The Transformers: The Movie - Apocalypse: Be Eternal, Matrix''''' (1989)
:Contains ''[[The Transformers: The Movie - Apocalypse: Be Eternal, Matrix]]'' plus a "Special Data Book".
*TAK-006 — '''''The Transformers: The Movie'' (English language, Japanese subtitles)''' ([[November 10]], 1989)
*TAK-007 — '''''The Transformers: The Movie'' (Japanese dubbed)''' (November 10, 1989)
<center><gallery>
File:MatrixForever-cover.jpg|'''Apocalypse: Be Eternal, Matrix'''
File:Takara TFTM VHS.jpg|'''TAK-006'''
File:Takara TFTM JapaneseDub VHS.jpg|'''TAK-007'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}
;Laserdisc
*C-376 — '''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Set''' ([[March 5]], [[1994]])
:Nine-disc set containing episodes 1-35.
:Packaged with the ''[[Planet of Cybertron Guide|Planet of Cybertron Guide 1]]'' instruction booklet and the ''[[Convoy Set Special CD]]''.
*D-342 — '''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set''' (Release date unknown, [[1995]])
:Nine-disc set containing episodes 36-63, plus the bonus episodes "[[Attack of the Autobots (episode)|Attack of the Autobots]]" and "[[Day of the Machines]]" (both with optional English audio), the "[[Exciting Transformer!]]" TV special, the "Scramble City: Mobilization" OVA and a hell of a lot of [[commercial]]s and trailers.
:Packaged with the ''[[Planet of Cybertron Guide|Planet of Cybertron Guide 2]]'' instruction booklet and the ''[[Megatron Set Special CD]]''.
*VSL-1 — '''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: 2010'' Set''' (Release date unknown)
:Nine-disc set containing all 30 episodes, plus ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' as a bonus.

*VSL-2 — '''''Transformers: The Headmasters'' Set''' ([[September 30]], [[1996]])
:Ten-disc set containing all 38 episodes, plus "[[The Rebirth]]" and a bunch of Western TV commercials.
<center><gallery>
File:Takara Convoy Set Laserdisc Box.jpg|'''C-376'''
File:Takara Megatron Set Laserdisc Box.jpg|'''D-342'''
File:Takara 2010 Laserdisc Box.jpg|'''VSL-1'''
File:Takara Headmasters Laserdisc Box.jpg|'''VSL-2'''
</gallery></center>
{{stub}}

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:AHM1 NYCToyCompanies1.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb]]
Separate "Takara" and "Tomy" signs adorned [[Times Square]]. {{Storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}}

===Sector Seven ARG===
To control the previous year's leaks about the Transformers to the public, on [[March 15]], 1983, [[Sector Seven|S7 Industries]] contracted with Takara to make a film about the [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|NBEs]] the organization was tracking in order to cover up their presence on Earth. This operation was codenamed [[Hungry Dragon]]. {{storylink|Sector Seven (game)|Sector Seven ARG}}

==Controversy==

There's no real nice way to say this, but for much of Takara's history the company mascot was a racist blackface doll named Dakko-chan, until pressure from Japanese civil rights group {{w|The Association to Stop Racism Against Blacks|The Association to Stop Racism Against Black People}} (黒人差別をなくす会 ''Kokujin Sabetsu wo Nakusu Kai'') motivated a branding change in [[1990]]. As such, a blackface logo can unfortunately be found on Japanese ''Transformers'' products up through [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)#Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory|''Transformers: Victory'']], as well as on various [[pre-Transformer]] toylines and as a hidden collectible in ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]''. (And in one baffling case, printed on [[Dimicron Prime|a character created ''well'' after the 90s]].)

==Notes==
*The company uses '''TOMY COMPANY, LTD''' as its English name.
*TakaraTomy's CEO, Kantaro Tomiyama, is currently also the chairman of Toycard, the joint venture operation behind [[Toy's Dream Project]].
*In [[1985]], 20 years before the merger with Takara, Tomy's US branch registered the name "Scrapper" as a [[trademark]] in the "toys" field. That same year, [[Hasbro]] released a [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]] of [[Scrapper (G1)|the same name]]. Since the market situation back then was still very different from what it is like today, this presumably didn't result in any repercussions for Hasbro.
*According to Hasbro [[Australia]] representatives and designer [[Eric Siebenaler]], all of the Transformers toys jointly developed between Hasbro and Takara/TakaraTomy are manufactured at factories contracted to the Japanese toy company. This means Takara is indirectly responsible for whatever [[quality control]] problems you have encountered with your toys, so you can stop complaining about it being entirely Hasbro's fault.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
===English===
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A Rage in Heaven!

2024-10-23T08:46:01Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Book Four: Creation */

{{disambig2|the final issue of the ''Generation 2'' comic book series|the Titan Books collection|Transformers: Rage in Heaven}}
{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Transformers: Generation 2]]'' #12
|prev=Dark Shadows!
|next=Alignment
|title="A Rage in Heaven!"
|image=MarvelUSG2-12.jpg
|caption=Prime seriously needs to switch to a different brand of deodorant.
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=August [[1994]]
|coverdate=October 1994
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|artist=[[Geoff Senior]] (Book Two & Book Four)
|penciler=[[Manny Galan]] (Book One & Book Three)
|inker=[[Jim Amash]] (Book One & Book Three)
|colorist=[[Sarra Mossoff]]
|letterers=[[Richard Starkings]] with [[Comicraft]]
|editor=[[Rob Tokar]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''The Autobot-Decepticon alliance makes its final stand against the Swarm.'''

==Synopsis==
===Book One: Judgment===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] recalls the racial history that has brought the [[Transformer]]s to this moment. The [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]]-possessed ''[[Warworld]]'', the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]] warships, and the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] all face off above [[Earth]]. Aboard the ''Warworld'', Starscream confesses that he's feeling an irrational urge to fight the Swarm, to protect and do good, against all his native instincts. Prime explains that it's the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]'s influence, altering him to suit its preferences. Starscream, terrified at the thought of being a hero, and especially a ''dead'' one, pleads for help, saying he'll do anything.

On the ''Twilight'', [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s troops are baffled by the Swarm, but he dismisses it as some last-ditch trick by the [[Autobot]]s, and gives the order to attack, figuring that if the substance has mass, it can be destroyed.

Back on the ''Warworld'', Megatron is confused by Starscream's apparent change of heart, thinking it's some trick, but it's merely his treacherous lieutenant wanting to give up the Matrix before it alters his personality further. Starscream prepares to give up the Matrix to Optimus Prime; before doing so, he alerts Prime and [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] to the Cybertronians' attack, which is likely to provoke the Swarm out of its momentary hesitation. The Swarm easily devours the Cybertronians' [[X-S warship|finest warships]], leaving tens of thousands of troopers dead. With some final reluctance, Starscream returns the Matrix to Prime, making Prime whole again and leaving himself back in his original body.

Jhiaxus orders a full assault on the Swarm, crushing the head of a trooper who suggests they cannot fight it. As Optimus Prime approaches the ''[[Twilight (G2)|Twilight]]'' on a [[sky-sled]], Jhiaxus gives orders to ''"Let him come!"''

===Book Two: Twilight===
[[File:Starscream uscomics.png|left|upright=0.85|thumb|"Death is too good for you, Starscream! I'm going to put you to work ''loading cargo!''"]]
In the ''Warworld'', Megatron drags a protesting Starscream along, as the seeker tries to beg off whatever it is Megs wants him for. After all, hasn't he done enough? The Decepticon leader stops and tells him the only reason Megatron isn't tearing him apart with his teeth for what Starscream's done over the last few hours is because he's still of some use, but if he starts being an impediment, Megatron might just decide some repayment is overdue. Starscream wisely declares himself Megatron's, then asks what they're going to do about the Swarm, given it just made mincemeat of Jhiaxus' ships. But Megatron has no intention of ''defeating'' the Swarm, just surviving. And part one of that plan involves the [[rheanimum]] gas the Decepticons plundered from Tychos. Part two is Starscream loading that gas onto a shuttle.

Optimus Prime makes his way through the chaos of the ''Twilight'', where frantic troopers are scrambling to escape. The chaos gives him an easy path to the bridge, where he hopes to reach Jhiaxus and use the Cybertronian connection to the Swarm to make a rapport with the entity —but when he finds Jhiaxus, the enraged Cybertronian attacks him furiously, blaming Prime for his world coming apart. His first blow takes out Optimus's vocal chords, but he figures Jhiaxus is unreachable anyway, whatever veneer of sanity there was has been stripped from him. Jhiaxus is seconds away from crushing Prime's head, when the Swarm bursts through the ship's shields. Jhiaxus challenges it, and it responds, mimicking his shape, then consuming him. An explosion destroys the ''Twilight''. Prime is blasted free, but the Swarm pursues him.

Megatron observes the ship's demise and reflects that he can no longer help Optimus Prime. Regardless, his responsibility is to the Transformers below, on the planet's surface. He's coated himself with the rheanimum, and hopes that the gas will protect him. To make planetfall, he's going to have to test it the hard way, as the Swarm has surrounded Earth.

===Book Three: Siege===
On Earth, a group of Autobots and [[Decepticon]]s under [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s command prepares to make a final stand, fortifying their position, though Kup and Perceptor point out it was never meant to serve as a place for a last stand. The Swarm moves in on them, and they trigger their defenses. As they do, [[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]] ignores [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]'s orders in favor of Grimlock's, prompting Razorclaw to reach breaking point with the new recruit, and brand him a traitor. As he pounces to carry out his death sentence, however, [[Leadfoot (G2)|Leadfoot]] (a Decepticon to this point) chops off Razorclaw's head—''Autobots'' have to stick together, after all. The Swarm breaks down the group's force shields, and they prepare for their final stand.

In space, Optimus Prime wakes to find that he's alive and aboard the ''Warworld'', saved by Starscream. Starscream offers him a shot of rheanimum as the Swarm approaches, but Prime refuses. In his brief contact with the Swarm, Prime realized that the mass is alive, but empty and searching—and he may have the answer to what it wants.

[[File:Dirge DeathSwarm.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Dirge really wishes his [[Furmanism|famous last words]] hadn't been used by Megatron ''just last issue.'']]
Grimlock's troops try all manner of weapons, but nothing stops the Swarm. Casualties mount, but at last Megatron arrives. Both he and the rheanimum canisters survived the Swarm's touch, but his shuttle did not. The Transformers quickly distribute the rheanimum to protect themselves.

Starscream prepares to leave the ''Warworld'', but tosses a canister to Optimus Prime just in case he changes his mind, as the Matrix's aftereffects still linger within him. Prime resists the temptation—for his plan to work, he must die.

===Book Four: Creation===
[[File:Swarmoptimus.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Ow! Ow! OW!]]
[[File:DamagedG2Optimus.jpeg|left|upright=2.2|thumb|AAAAAAA]]
The Swarm devours Optimus Prime, consuming him molecule by molecule. Prime's initial panic gives way to calm acceptance as he's devoured. But when it breaks through to the Matrix chamber, light and life burst forth. In an instant, Prime and the Swarm become one, the Matrix momentarily sustaining Optimus beyond his physical death, before Prime takes all the goodness of [[Primus]] and gives it to the Swarm. As the stunned Autobots and Decepticons watch, a light grows, changing the Swarm. Amid the light, which soothes any thoughts of violence from the assembled armies they witness the miracle of creation... as Optimus Prime steps forth, reconstituted as a parting gift from the reborn Swarm. The survivors gather and rally around their newfound unity, but even as the assembled Autobots and Decepticon cheer for peace, Optimus is troubled, recalling the names Jhiaxus dropped in his last moments, and deep down Optimus knows the truth; ''it never ends''.

Sure enough, far away, in a region of space known as the [[Hub (G2)|Hub]], [[Rook (G2)|Rook]] reports to the titanic entity known as the [[Liege Maximo]]. The Liege notes that Megatron does indeed live; he would feel the death of one of his descendants. He is unconcerned by the loss of Jhiaxus and his battalions; they are but a fraction of his empire, and the Autobot-Decepticon Alliance is fragile. The day of reckoning will come!

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==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.) 
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
{{collist|2|
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] (5)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (10)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (14)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] (16)
*[[Slag (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Slag]] (20)
*[[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]] (21)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (23)
*[[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] (24)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] (27)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (31)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (32)
*[[Volt]] (34)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] (37)
*''[[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]]'' (38)
*''[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]'' (39)
}}
|c2=
{{collist|2|
*[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (2)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (3)
*[[Ransack (G2)|Ransack]] (9)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (11)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (12)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (13)
*[[Powerdive]] (15)
*[[Skywarp (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Skywarp]] (17)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (18)
*[[Jolt (G2)|Jolt]] (19)
*[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (22)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (25)
*[[Electro]] (26)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (28)
*[[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]] (29)
*[[Leadfoot (G2)|Leadfoot]] (30)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (33)
*[[Sizzle (G2)|Sizzle]] (35)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (36)
}}
|h3=[[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronians]]|c3=
*[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] (4)
*''Assorted Cybertronian soldiers'' (7)
*[[Crushable Cybertronian soldier]] (8)
*[[Rook (G2)|Rook]] (40)
*[[Liege Maximo]] (41)

|c4=
*[[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] (6)
}}

==Quotes==
"'''Prime''', what is it? What does it '''want?'''" 
"For lack of a better term, it's '''the Swarm'''. And simply put...'''it wants us!'''"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"All my innate survival instincts seem to have been buried under an insane urge to save lives! '''What's happening''' to me?"
:—'''Starscream''' doesn't like being a good guy.

"Prime? '''Are you-?'''" 
"'''Oh yes!''' And now, Megatron...'''it's time to go to work!'''"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"'''Wonderful!''' One thing at least, it can't get any..." 
"'''Grimlock!'''" 
"Me and my ''big mouth''."
:—'''Grimlock''''s sense of despair is made worse by '''Hot Rod'''.

"In my heart of hearts I '''know'''...it '''never ends!'''"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' says farewell. For now.

==Notes==
===Production===
*Furman and Starkings both wrote memorials for the series.
*The demise of the comic is blamed on market forces: the summer of 1994 was most of a year into [[w:Direct market#1990s|the notorious direct market crash]], caused when speculators abandoned an overheated comic market after realising five holo-foil copies of ''[[Robot-Master (comic)|Robot-Master Extreme Force]]'' #1 wasn't actually going to be worth much. Furman says it was launched at the "wrong time", and would later reveal Jhiaxus' very name was an in-joke about how successful he thought G2 might be ("gee, axe us").
*In Furman's afterword, we learned colorist Sarra Mossoff apparently wasn't ''supposed'' to colour all the fiddly little idents in the word balloons to match the speakers but this was instead her personal "attention to detail".
*The afterword wraps up with some pinup art. The cancellation of the series meant that several pieces of art all got squeezed onto the very last page, including a Decepticon pinup by [[Chia-Chi Wang]].<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cwmodels/art/Decepticon-Pinup-86279184 Chia-Chi Wang's DeviantArt page]: "This artwork was produced for Marvel Comics' TF G2 series. I did when I just started freelancing for Marvel, and my inking skill was pretty poor at the time. It was originally going to be printed as a full page pinup art. But due to the cancellation of the comic, all remaining artwork had to be used in the last issue. So this piece was printed with only half of its intended size."</ref>

===Artwork and technical errors===
*Manny Galan neglects to draw the third nose-horn on Slag's triceratops mode while he's being attacked by the Swarm.
*Liege Maximo is spelled both "Leige Maximo" and "Liege Maximo" in the very same speech bubble.

===Continuity errors===
*In the US continuity, Dirge was [[Ashes, Ashes...|killed years ago]] by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. However, he's far from the first character to be resurrected and then killed again.

===Continuity notes===
[[File:Liegemaximo.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Evil, like my belly, is infinite.]]
*Leadfoot and Manta Ray's turn, and Razorclaw's distrust of the latter, started two issues ago, though their going to the side of the goody-goods isn't much of a surprise given the two were sold as Autobots in the toyline.
*This is the ''third'' time [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|Optimus Prime has died]] in the Marvel US continuity, and the second time he has sacrificed himself specifically by unleashing the light of the Matrix into a devouring evil.
*Prime's new form is based on his [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Combat Hero toy]], which was then his most recent toy incarnation.
*During Prime's victory speech, Megatron is visible standing at his feet. One would normally expect him to be standing ''beside'' Prime as co-leader of the Alliance... but he did seem ''really'' impressed by Prime's resurrection...
*The Liege Maximo's speech on the last page states that the he was created as an "evil" balance to the first "good" Prime, and that all Decepticons and Autobots are descendants of the Liege and the first Prime, respectively. The notion that Autobots being good and the Decepticons being evil is down to genetics was raised back in "[[Still Life!]]" by Grimlock, but at the time there wasn't really anything to suggest Grimlock wasn't just talking out his aft. This is contradicted by the occasional examples of Transformers changing sides, including the example of Leadfoot and Manta Ray in this very issue. It also removes free will from the equation, and has thus been met with resistance from fans who prefer the war to be ideological, and not mandated by heredity.
*This is nominally the end of the Marvel US continuity, one of the [[Marvel Comics continuity|core continuities]] of the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1 franchise]]. (Yes, after ninety-plus issues, it ends on a cliffhanger.)
**However, the plot continues in the non-[[canon]] story "[[Alignment]]". Also, potential subsequent events involving the Liege and Prime are hinted at in "[[Covenant (story)|Covenant]]".
*Starscream refers to the swarm as [[Scraplet]]s.

===Real-life references===
*The title is possibly taken from the 1941 psychological thriller ''[[w:Rage in Heaven|Rage in Heaven]]''.

===Transformers references===
* The header on the cover states "It's the ''End Of The Road''". This is not the [[End of the Road! (US)|first]] time this [[End of the Road! (UK)|phrase]] has been used by Simon Furman to mark the end of a series.

===Furminated===
*The Cybertronians continue to be slaughtered. The Swarm eats a ship with 16,000 of them aboard. Jhiaxus crushes the head of one of them in a fit of rage. Most if not all of the crew of ''Twilight'' are devoured by the Swarm.
*Jhiaxus is consumed and sort of exploded by the Swarm.
*Razorclaw gets his lion head sliced off by Leadfoot.
*Ramjet, Slag and Slingshot are all consumed by the Swarm.
*Frenzy is vaporized by his own amplified sonic powers.
*Nightbeat and Dirge self-destruct to avoid being eaten by the Swarm.
*Optimus Prime is slowly and painfully devoured by the Swarm... only to come back to life three pages later.
*Confirmed survivors include Optimus, Megatron, Grimlock, Hot Rod, Kup, and possibly Blaster. Numerous other 'bots appear in the final two pages, post-Swarm, but almost none are identifiable.
*The comic only explicitly shows the Swarm attacking Transformers and says nothing about what (if anything) it's doing to the people of Earth. [[Larry DiTillio]] [[Personal canon|personally envisioned]] this issue as depicting ''the extinction of humanity'' at the Swarm's hands, with its purification via the Matrix causing it to eventually evolve into the [[Vok]] and try to make amends for the destruction. This is questionable and inconsistent with [[Swarm (issue)|issue 9]], which shows the Swarm ignoring organic life altogether. Still, since none of this has ever been mentioned in canon material, it remains firmly in the realms of [[Pseudocanon]] and [[Authorial intent]]; but, if one takes it as true, then the entire human race got Furminated and this issue has the single biggest death toll of any TF comic ever. Way to go out on a high note!

===Cover===
<gallery>
File:MarvelUSG2-12.jpg|Optimus Prime is consumed by the Swarm, by [[Derek Yaniger]].
</gallery>

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===Reprints===
*'''''[[Transformers: Rage in Heaven]]'' TPB:''' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]], [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] and half of the [[Liege Maximo]], by [[Andrew Wildman|Andy Wildman]].
*'''''Transformers: Rage in Heaven'' HC:''' [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]], [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], by [[Phil Jimenez]], [[Andy Lanning]], and [[Chris Blythe]].
* '''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 91: Generation 2 Part 2''''' [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], by [[Dreamwave Productions]] and [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] smashing [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], by [[Geoff Senior]].

<gallery>
File:Rage in heaven tpb cover.jpg|'''''Rage in Heaven'' TPB''' (Titan Books, 2002)
File:Rage in heaven hardcover.jpg|'''''Rage in Heaven'' HC''' (Titan Books, 2003)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v91.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 91: Generation 2 Part 2''''' (Hachette Partworks, 2020)
</gallery>

==References==
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A Rage in Heaven!

2024-10-23T08:42:23Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Book Four: Creation */

{{disambig2|the final issue of the ''Generation 2'' comic book series|the Titan Books collection|Transformers: Rage in Heaven}}
{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Transformers: Generation 2]]'' #12
|prev=Dark Shadows!
|next=Alignment
|title="A Rage in Heaven!"
|image=MarvelUSG2-12.jpg
|caption=Prime seriously needs to switch to a different brand of deodorant.
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=August [[1994]]
|coverdate=October 1994
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|artist=[[Geoff Senior]] (Book Two & Book Four)
|penciler=[[Manny Galan]] (Book One & Book Three)
|inker=[[Jim Amash]] (Book One & Book Three)
|colorist=[[Sarra Mossoff]]
|letterers=[[Richard Starkings]] with [[Comicraft]]
|editor=[[Rob Tokar]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''The Autobot-Decepticon alliance makes its final stand against the Swarm.'''

==Synopsis==
===Book One: Judgment===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] recalls the racial history that has brought the [[Transformer]]s to this moment. The [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]]-possessed ''[[Warworld]]'', the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]] warships, and the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] all face off above [[Earth]]. Aboard the ''Warworld'', Starscream confesses that he's feeling an irrational urge to fight the Swarm, to protect and do good, against all his native instincts. Prime explains that it's the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]'s influence, altering him to suit its preferences. Starscream, terrified at the thought of being a hero, and especially a ''dead'' one, pleads for help, saying he'll do anything.

On the ''Twilight'', [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s troops are baffled by the Swarm, but he dismisses it as some last-ditch trick by the [[Autobot]]s, and gives the order to attack, figuring that if the substance has mass, it can be destroyed.

Back on the ''Warworld'', Megatron is confused by Starscream's apparent change of heart, thinking it's some trick, but it's merely his treacherous lieutenant wanting to give up the Matrix before it alters his personality further. Starscream prepares to give up the Matrix to Optimus Prime; before doing so, he alerts Prime and [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] to the Cybertronians' attack, which is likely to provoke the Swarm out of its momentary hesitation. The Swarm easily devours the Cybertronians' [[X-S warship|finest warships]], leaving tens of thousands of troopers dead. With some final reluctance, Starscream returns the Matrix to Prime, making Prime whole again and leaving himself back in his original body.

Jhiaxus orders a full assault on the Swarm, crushing the head of a trooper who suggests they cannot fight it. As Optimus Prime approaches the ''[[Twilight (G2)|Twilight]]'' on a [[sky-sled]], Jhiaxus gives orders to ''"Let him come!"''

===Book Two: Twilight===
[[File:Starscream uscomics.png|left|upright=0.85|thumb|"Death is too good for you, Starscream! I'm going to put you to work ''loading cargo!''"]]
In the ''Warworld'', Megatron drags a protesting Starscream along, as the seeker tries to beg off whatever it is Megs wants him for. After all, hasn't he done enough? The Decepticon leader stops and tells him the only reason Megatron isn't tearing him apart with his teeth for what Starscream's done over the last few hours is because he's still of some use, but if he starts being an impediment, Megatron might just decide some repayment is overdue. Starscream wisely declares himself Megatron's, then asks what they're going to do about the Swarm, given it just made mincemeat of Jhiaxus' ships. But Megatron has no intention of ''defeating'' the Swarm, just surviving. And part one of that plan involves the [[rheanimum]] gas the Decepticons plundered from Tychos. Part two is Starscream loading that gas onto a shuttle.

Optimus Prime makes his way through the chaos of the ''Twilight'', where frantic troopers are scrambling to escape. The chaos gives him an easy path to the bridge, where he hopes to reach Jhiaxus and use the Cybertronian connection to the Swarm to make a rapport with the entity —but when he finds Jhiaxus, the enraged Cybertronian attacks him furiously, blaming Prime for his world coming apart. His first blow takes out Optimus's vocal chords, but he figures Jhiaxus is unreachable anyway, whatever veneer of sanity there was has been stripped from him. Jhiaxus is seconds away from crushing Prime's head, when the Swarm bursts through the ship's shields. Jhiaxus challenges it, and it responds, mimicking his shape, then consuming him. An explosion destroys the ''Twilight''. Prime is blasted free, but the Swarm pursues him.

Megatron observes the ship's demise and reflects that he can no longer help Optimus Prime. Regardless, his responsibility is to the Transformers below, on the planet's surface. He's coated himself with the rheanimum, and hopes that the gas will protect him. To make planetfall, he's going to have to test it the hard way, as the Swarm has surrounded Earth.

===Book Three: Siege===
On Earth, a group of Autobots and [[Decepticon]]s under [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s command prepares to make a final stand, fortifying their position, though Kup and Perceptor point out it was never meant to serve as a place for a last stand. The Swarm moves in on them, and they trigger their defenses. As they do, [[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]] ignores [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]'s orders in favor of Grimlock's, prompting Razorclaw to reach breaking point with the new recruit, and brand him a traitor. As he pounces to carry out his death sentence, however, [[Leadfoot (G2)|Leadfoot]] (a Decepticon to this point) chops off Razorclaw's head—''Autobots'' have to stick together, after all. The Swarm breaks down the group's force shields, and they prepare for their final stand.

In space, Optimus Prime wakes to find that he's alive and aboard the ''Warworld'', saved by Starscream. Starscream offers him a shot of rheanimum as the Swarm approaches, but Prime refuses. In his brief contact with the Swarm, Prime realized that the mass is alive, but empty and searching—and he may have the answer to what it wants.

[[File:Dirge DeathSwarm.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Dirge really wishes his [[Furmanism|famous last words]] hadn't been used by Megatron ''just last issue.'']]
Grimlock's troops try all manner of weapons, but nothing stops the Swarm. Casualties mount, but at last Megatron arrives. Both he and the rheanimum canisters survived the Swarm's touch, but his shuttle did not. The Transformers quickly distribute the rheanimum to protect themselves.

Starscream prepares to leave the ''Warworld'', but tosses a canister to Optimus Prime just in case he changes his mind, as the Matrix's aftereffects still linger within him. Prime resists the temptation—for his plan to work, he must die.

===Book Four: Creation===
[[File:Swarmoptimus.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Ow! Ow! OW!]]
[[File: DamagedG2Optimus.png|left|upright=2.2|thumb|AAAAAAA]]
The Swarm devours Optimus Prime, consuming him molecule by molecule. Prime's initial panic gives way to calm acceptance as he's devoured. But when it breaks through to the Matrix chamber, light and life burst forth. In an instant, Prime and the Swarm become one, the Matrix momentarily sustaining Optimus beyond his physical death, before Prime takes all the goodness of [[Primus]] and gives it to the Swarm. As the stunned Autobots and Decepticons watch, a light grows, changing the Swarm. Amid the light, which soothes any thoughts of violence from the assembled armies they witness the miracle of creation... as Optimus Prime steps forth, reconstituted as a parting gift from the reborn Swarm. The survivors gather and rally around their newfound unity, but even as the assembled Autobots and Decepticon cheer for peace, Optimus is troubled, recalling the names Jhiaxus dropped in his last moments, and deep down Optimus knows the truth; ''it never ends''.

Sure enough, far away, in a region of space known as the [[Hub (G2)|Hub]], [[Rook (G2)|Rook]] reports to the titanic entity known as the [[Liege Maximo]]. The Liege notes that Megatron does indeed live; he would feel the death of one of his descendants. He is unconcerned by the loss of Jhiaxus and his battalions; they are but a fraction of his empire, and the Autobot-Decepticon Alliance is fragile. The day of reckoning will come!

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==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.) 
{{featuredcharacters
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{{collist|2|
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] (5)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (10)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (14)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] (16)
*[[Slag (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Slag]] (20)
*[[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]] (21)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (23)
*[[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] (24)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] (27)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (31)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (32)
*[[Volt]] (34)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] (37)
*''[[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]]'' (38)
*''[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]'' (39)
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*[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (2)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (3)
*[[Ransack (G2)|Ransack]] (9)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (11)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (12)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (13)
*[[Powerdive]] (15)
*[[Skywarp (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Skywarp]] (17)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (18)
*[[Jolt (G2)|Jolt]] (19)
*[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (22)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (25)
*[[Electro]] (26)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (28)
*[[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]] (29)
*[[Leadfoot (G2)|Leadfoot]] (30)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (33)
*[[Sizzle (G2)|Sizzle]] (35)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (36)
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*[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] (4)
*''Assorted Cybertronian soldiers'' (7)
*[[Crushable Cybertronian soldier]] (8)
*[[Rook (G2)|Rook]] (40)
*[[Liege Maximo]] (41)

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*[[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] (6)
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==Quotes==
"'''Prime''', what is it? What does it '''want?'''" 
"For lack of a better term, it's '''the Swarm'''. And simply put...'''it wants us!'''"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"All my innate survival instincts seem to have been buried under an insane urge to save lives! '''What's happening''' to me?"
:—'''Starscream''' doesn't like being a good guy.

"Prime? '''Are you-?'''" 
"'''Oh yes!''' And now, Megatron...'''it's time to go to work!'''"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

"'''Wonderful!''' One thing at least, it can't get any..." 
"'''Grimlock!'''" 
"Me and my ''big mouth''."
:—'''Grimlock''''s sense of despair is made worse by '''Hot Rod'''.

"In my heart of hearts I '''know'''...it '''never ends!'''"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' says farewell. For now.

==Notes==
===Production===
*Furman and Starkings both wrote memorials for the series.
*The demise of the comic is blamed on market forces: the summer of 1994 was most of a year into [[w:Direct market#1990s|the notorious direct market crash]], caused when speculators abandoned an overheated comic market after realising five holo-foil copies of ''[[Robot-Master (comic)|Robot-Master Extreme Force]]'' #1 wasn't actually going to be worth much. Furman says it was launched at the "wrong time", and would later reveal Jhiaxus' very name was an in-joke about how successful he thought G2 might be ("gee, axe us").
*In Furman's afterword, we learned colorist Sarra Mossoff apparently wasn't ''supposed'' to colour all the fiddly little idents in the word balloons to match the speakers but this was instead her personal "attention to detail".
*The afterword wraps up with some pinup art. The cancellation of the series meant that several pieces of art all got squeezed onto the very last page, including a Decepticon pinup by [[Chia-Chi Wang]].<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cwmodels/art/Decepticon-Pinup-86279184 Chia-Chi Wang's DeviantArt page]: "This artwork was produced for Marvel Comics' TF G2 series. I did when I just started freelancing for Marvel, and my inking skill was pretty poor at the time. It was originally going to be printed as a full page pinup art. But due to the cancellation of the comic, all remaining artwork had to be used in the last issue. So this piece was printed with only half of its intended size."</ref>

===Artwork and technical errors===
*Manny Galan neglects to draw the third nose-horn on Slag's triceratops mode while he's being attacked by the Swarm.
*Liege Maximo is spelled both "Leige Maximo" and "Liege Maximo" in the very same speech bubble.

===Continuity errors===
*In the US continuity, Dirge was [[Ashes, Ashes...|killed years ago]] by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. However, he's far from the first character to be resurrected and then killed again.

===Continuity notes===
[[File:Liegemaximo.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Evil, like my belly, is infinite.]]
*Leadfoot and Manta Ray's turn, and Razorclaw's distrust of the latter, started two issues ago, though their going to the side of the goody-goods isn't much of a surprise given the two were sold as Autobots in the toyline.
*This is the ''third'' time [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|Optimus Prime has died]] in the Marvel US continuity, and the second time he has sacrificed himself specifically by unleashing the light of the Matrix into a devouring evil.
*Prime's new form is based on his [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Combat Hero toy]], which was then his most recent toy incarnation.
*During Prime's victory speech, Megatron is visible standing at his feet. One would normally expect him to be standing ''beside'' Prime as co-leader of the Alliance... but he did seem ''really'' impressed by Prime's resurrection...
*The Liege Maximo's speech on the last page states that the he was created as an "evil" balance to the first "good" Prime, and that all Decepticons and Autobots are descendants of the Liege and the first Prime, respectively. The notion that Autobots being good and the Decepticons being evil is down to genetics was raised back in "[[Still Life!]]" by Grimlock, but at the time there wasn't really anything to suggest Grimlock wasn't just talking out his aft. This is contradicted by the occasional examples of Transformers changing sides, including the example of Leadfoot and Manta Ray in this very issue. It also removes free will from the equation, and has thus been met with resistance from fans who prefer the war to be ideological, and not mandated by heredity.
*This is nominally the end of the Marvel US continuity, one of the [[Marvel Comics continuity|core continuities]] of the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1 franchise]]. (Yes, after ninety-plus issues, it ends on a cliffhanger.)
**However, the plot continues in the non-[[canon]] story "[[Alignment]]". Also, potential subsequent events involving the Liege and Prime are hinted at in "[[Covenant (story)|Covenant]]".
*Starscream refers to the swarm as [[Scraplet]]s.

===Real-life references===
*The title is possibly taken from the 1941 psychological thriller ''[[w:Rage in Heaven|Rage in Heaven]]''.

===Transformers references===
* The header on the cover states "It's the ''End Of The Road''". This is not the [[End of the Road! (US)|first]] time this [[End of the Road! (UK)|phrase]] has been used by Simon Furman to mark the end of a series.

===Furminated===
*The Cybertronians continue to be slaughtered. The Swarm eats a ship with 16,000 of them aboard. Jhiaxus crushes the head of one of them in a fit of rage. Most if not all of the crew of ''Twilight'' are devoured by the Swarm.
*Jhiaxus is consumed and sort of exploded by the Swarm.
*Razorclaw gets his lion head sliced off by Leadfoot.
*Ramjet, Slag and Slingshot are all consumed by the Swarm.
*Frenzy is vaporized by his own amplified sonic powers.
*Nightbeat and Dirge self-destruct to avoid being eaten by the Swarm.
*Optimus Prime is slowly and painfully devoured by the Swarm... only to come back to life three pages later.
*Confirmed survivors include Optimus, Megatron, Grimlock, Hot Rod, Kup, and possibly Blaster. Numerous other 'bots appear in the final two pages, post-Swarm, but almost none are identifiable.
*The comic only explicitly shows the Swarm attacking Transformers and says nothing about what (if anything) it's doing to the people of Earth. [[Larry DiTillio]] [[Personal canon|personally envisioned]] this issue as depicting ''the extinction of humanity'' at the Swarm's hands, with its purification via the Matrix causing it to eventually evolve into the [[Vok]] and try to make amends for the destruction. This is questionable and inconsistent with [[Swarm (issue)|issue 9]], which shows the Swarm ignoring organic life altogether. Still, since none of this has ever been mentioned in canon material, it remains firmly in the realms of [[Pseudocanon]] and [[Authorial intent]]; but, if one takes it as true, then the entire human race got Furminated and this issue has the single biggest death toll of any TF comic ever. Way to go out on a high note!

===Cover===
<gallery>
File:MarvelUSG2-12.jpg|Optimus Prime is consumed by the Swarm, by [[Derek Yaniger]].
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
*None yet identified.

===Reprints===
*'''''[[Transformers: Rage in Heaven]]'' TPB:''' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]], [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] and half of the [[Liege Maximo]], by [[Andrew Wildman|Andy Wildman]].
*'''''Transformers: Rage in Heaven'' HC:''' [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]], [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], by [[Phil Jimenez]], [[Andy Lanning]], and [[Chris Blythe]].
* '''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 91: Generation 2 Part 2''''' [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], by [[Dreamwave Productions]] and [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] smashing [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]], by [[Geoff Senior]].

<gallery>
File:Rage in heaven tpb cover.jpg|'''''Rage in Heaven'' TPB''' (Titan Books, 2002)
File:Rage in heaven hardcover.jpg|'''''Rage in Heaven'' HC''' (Titan Books, 2003)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v91.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 91: Generation 2 Part 2''''' (Hachette Partworks, 2020)
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==References==
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Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 1)

2024-10-23T08:25:15Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Synopsis */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers Go! Go!]]'' web issue 36
|prev=Protect Freedom! Optimus!
|next=Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 2)
|seriesissue2=[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!|''Shushupopo!!'']] part 1
|caption=
|image=Go!Go! ep36.jpg
|title=Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!
|japanese=トランスフォーマーごー！ごー！しゅしゅぽぽ！！
|romaji=
|publisher=[[Kodansha]]
|published in=''[[TV Magazine]]''
|date=[[March 30]], [[2024]]
|manga=[[Haruka Oda]]
|editor=[[Minoko]]
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'''The Trainbots pull into ''Go! Go!'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:GoGoTrainbots.jpg|thumb|right|[[Shouki (G1)]] and the gang comin'.|400px]]
{{issuestub}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Shouki]] (1)
*[[Suiken]] (2)
*[[Getsuei]] (3)
*[[Seizan]] (4)
*[[Kaen]] (5)
*[[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]] (6)
|c3=
*Conductor (7)
}}

==Notes==
*This story marks the beginning of ''Go! Go!'''s first "event" with a fancy new logo and everything. Namely, it is part 1 of the [[Trainbot]]-centric ''[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!]]'' (トランスフォーマーごー！ごー！しゅしゅぽぽ！！"Transformers Go! Go! Chuggachuggachoochoo!!") commemorating the completion of the team as the first project in the ''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'' toyline.
*The issue was double-shipped as the second issue for the month of March 2024 and advertised the ''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'' figures of [[Shouki#MPG|Shouki]], [[Getsuei#MPG|Getsuei]], [[Yukikaze (G1)#MPG|Yukikaze]], [[Suiken#MPG|Suiken]], [[Seizan#MPG|Seizan]], and [[Kaen#MPG|Kaen]], as well as the [[Transformers Go! Go!#Collections|first collected edition of ''Go! Go!'']].

===Transformers references===
*This issue naturally marks the debut of all six Trainbots. As is Oda's style the group is depicted in character models based on the toys being advertised, which in this case mean the hinges, panels, and scribed details aplenty of the group's ''MPG'' toys.
*For rather understandable reasons she omits the comic's usual transformation splash page for want of regaling children with six different kinds of expert-level panel origami.
*As this is pretty much the first spotlight on five of the six Trainbots in the team's entire 37 year history, Getsuei, Yukikaze, Suiken, Seizan and Kaen's characterizations here are all pulled from their original ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#Headmasters|Headmasters]]'' toy bios.

===Real-world references===
{{issuestub|Train stuff, Japanese landmarks, etc etc}}

==External links==
*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/IXdbR ''Shushupopo!!'' part 1] at ''TV Magazine''
*[https://comic-days.com/episode/2550689798371747676 ''Shushupopo!!'' part 1] on Comic-Days
[[Category:Go! Go! issues]]

Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 1)

2024-10-23T08:24:44Z

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'''The Trainbots pull into ''Go! Go!'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:GoGoTrainbots.jpg|thumb|right|[[Shouki (G1)]] looks like this https://shinkalion.fandom.com/wiki/Shinkalion_0| guy.|400px]]
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*[[Suiken]] (2)
*[[Getsuei]] (3)
*[[Seizan]] (4)
*[[Kaen]] (5)
*[[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]] (6)
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*Conductor (7)
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==Notes==
*This story marks the beginning of ''Go! Go!'''s first "event" with a fancy new logo and everything. Namely, it is part 1 of the [[Trainbot]]-centric ''[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!]]'' (トランスフォーマーごー！ごー！しゅしゅぽぽ！！"Transformers Go! Go! Chuggachuggachoochoo!!") commemorating the completion of the team as the first project in the ''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'' toyline.
*The issue was double-shipped as the second issue for the month of March 2024 and advertised the ''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'' figures of [[Shouki#MPG|Shouki]], [[Getsuei#MPG|Getsuei]], [[Yukikaze (G1)#MPG|Yukikaze]], [[Suiken#MPG|Suiken]], [[Seizan#MPG|Seizan]], and [[Kaen#MPG|Kaen]], as well as the [[Transformers Go! Go!#Collections|first collected edition of ''Go! Go!'']].

===Transformers references===
*This issue naturally marks the debut of all six Trainbots. As is Oda's style the group is depicted in character models based on the toys being advertised, which in this case mean the hinges, panels, and scribed details aplenty of the group's ''MPG'' toys.
*For rather understandable reasons she omits the comic's usual transformation splash page for want of regaling children with six different kinds of expert-level panel origami.
*As this is pretty much the first spotlight on five of the six Trainbots in the team's entire 37 year history, Getsuei, Yukikaze, Suiken, Seizan and Kaen's characterizations here are all pulled from their original ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#Headmasters|Headmasters]]'' toy bios.

===Real-world references===
{{issuestub|Train stuff, Japanese landmarks, etc etc}}

==External links==
*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/IXdbR ''Shushupopo!!'' part 1] at ''TV Magazine''
*[https://comic-days.com/episode/2550689798371747676 ''Shushupopo!!'' part 1] on Comic-Days
[[Category:Go! Go! issues]]

Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 1)

2024-10-23T08:23:35Z

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|prev=Protect Freedom! Optimus!
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'''The Trainbots pull into ''Go! Go!'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:GoGoTrainbots.jpg|thumb|right|[[Shouki (G1)]] looks like [[https://shinkalion.fandom.com/wiki/Shinkalion_0|this guy.]]|400px]]
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*[[Shouki]] (1)
*[[Suiken]] (2)
*[[Getsuei]] (3)
*[[Seizan]] (4)
*[[Kaen]] (5)
*[[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]] (6)
|c3=
*Conductor (7)
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==Notes==
*This story marks the beginning of ''Go! Go!'''s first "event" with a fancy new logo and everything. Namely, it is part 1 of the [[Trainbot]]-centric ''[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!]]'' (トランスフォーマーごー！ごー！しゅしゅぽぽ！！"Transformers Go! Go! Chuggachuggachoochoo!!") commemorating the completion of the team as the first project in the ''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'' toyline.
*The issue was double-shipped as the second issue for the month of March 2024 and advertised the ''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'' figures of [[Shouki#MPG|Shouki]], [[Getsuei#MPG|Getsuei]], [[Yukikaze (G1)#MPG|Yukikaze]], [[Suiken#MPG|Suiken]], [[Seizan#MPG|Seizan]], and [[Kaen#MPG|Kaen]], as well as the [[Transformers Go! Go!#Collections|first collected edition of ''Go! Go!'']].

===Transformers references===
*This issue naturally marks the debut of all six Trainbots. As is Oda's style the group is depicted in character models based on the toys being advertised, which in this case mean the hinges, panels, and scribed details aplenty of the group's ''MPG'' toys.
*For rather understandable reasons she omits the comic's usual transformation splash page for want of regaling children with six different kinds of expert-level panel origami.
*As this is pretty much the first spotlight on five of the six Trainbots in the team's entire 37 year history, Getsuei, Yukikaze, Suiken, Seizan and Kaen's characterizations here are all pulled from their original ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#Headmasters|Headmasters]]'' toy bios.

===Real-world references===
{{issuestub|Train stuff, Japanese landmarks, etc etc}}

==External links==
*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/IXdbR ''Shushupopo!!'' part 1] at ''TV Magazine''
*[https://comic-days.com/episode/2550689798371747676 ''Shushupopo!!'' part 1] on Comic-Days
[[Category:Go! Go! issues]]

Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 1)

2024-10-23T08:23:04Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Synopsis */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers Go! Go!]]'' web issue 36
|prev=Protect Freedom! Optimus!
|next=Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 2)
|seriesissue2=[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!|''Shushupopo!!'']] part 1
|caption=
|image=Go!Go! ep36.jpg
|title=Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!
|japanese=トランスフォーマーごー！ごー！しゅしゅぽぽ！！
|romaji=
|publisher=[[Kodansha]]
|published in=''[[TV Magazine]]''
|date=[[March 30]], [[2024]]
|manga=[[Haruka Oda]]
|editor=[[Minoko]]
}}

'''The Trainbots pull into ''Go! Go!'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:GoGoTrainbots.jpg|thumb|right|[[Shouki (G1) looks like [[https://shinkalion.fandom.com/wiki/Shinkalion_0|this guy.]]|400px]]
{{issuestub}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Shouki]] (1)
*[[Suiken]] (2)
*[[Getsuei]] (3)
*[[Seizan]] (4)
*[[Kaen]] (5)
*[[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]] (6)
|c3=
*Conductor (7)
}}

==Notes==
*This story marks the beginning of ''Go! Go!'''s first "event" with a fancy new logo and everything. Namely, it is part 1 of the [[Trainbot]]-centric ''[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!]]'' (トランスフォーマーごー！ごー！しゅしゅぽぽ！！"Transformers Go! Go! Chuggachuggachoochoo!!") commemorating the completion of the team as the first project in the ''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'' toyline.
*The issue was double-shipped as the second issue for the month of March 2024 and advertised the ''[[The Transformers: MPG|MPG]]'' figures of [[Shouki#MPG|Shouki]], [[Getsuei#MPG|Getsuei]], [[Yukikaze (G1)#MPG|Yukikaze]], [[Suiken#MPG|Suiken]], [[Seizan#MPG|Seizan]], and [[Kaen#MPG|Kaen]], as well as the [[Transformers Go! Go!#Collections|first collected edition of ''Go! Go!'']].

===Transformers references===
*This issue naturally marks the debut of all six Trainbots. As is Oda's style the group is depicted in character models based on the toys being advertised, which in this case mean the hinges, panels, and scribed details aplenty of the group's ''MPG'' toys.
*For rather understandable reasons she omits the comic's usual transformation splash page for want of regaling children with six different kinds of expert-level panel origami.
*As this is pretty much the first spotlight on five of the six Trainbots in the team's entire 37 year history, Getsuei, Yukikaze, Suiken, Seizan and Kaen's characterizations here are all pulled from their original ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#Headmasters|Headmasters]]'' toy bios.

===Real-world references===
{{issuestub|Train stuff, Japanese landmarks, etc etc}}

==External links==
*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/IXdbR ''Shushupopo!!'' part 1] at ''TV Magazine''
*[https://comic-days.com/episode/2550689798371747676 ''Shushupopo!!'' part 1] on Comic-Days
[[Category:Go! Go! issues]]

Train Wars 2

2024-10-23T08:01:38Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Synopsis */

{{comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers Generations (series)|Transformers Generations]]'' manga
|seriesissue2=[[Transformers: Generations (Japan)#Fiction|''Wars'']] manga
|prev=Controverse
|prev2=Train Wars
|next2=Train Wars: Shouki & Daniel Chapter
|next=Rodimus Wars
|title="Train Wars 2"
|japanese=電車大戦2
|romaji=Densha Taisen 2
|image=TrainWars TheFallen.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[Hero-X|Million Publishing]]
|date=[[August 25]], [[2014]]
|published in=''[[Transformers Generations 2014 Volume 2|Transformers Generations 2014 Vol. 2]]''
|story & art by=[[Yuki Ohshima]]
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
|chronology=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon timeline#2035–2036|Circa 2035]]
}}

'''Goshooter, Shūta, Shouki, and Daniel find themselves against what might be the greatest threat to face Cybertron.'''

==Synopsis==
The team of [[Goshooter]] and [[Shūta Gō]] go right into the fire of battle, dispatching the evil [[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen]] with their "Side Kick Burst" attack. But the two don't have time to catch their breath as [[The Fallen]] strikes with his energy spikes, impaling Goshooter in the leg! Laughing at how the assembled Autobots are powerless against his might, The Fallen prepares to assimilate [[Primus#Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Vector Sigma]] with his tendrils. Shūta and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] try to stop the mad demigod from taking the [[Transformer]]s' creator, but get caught up in The Fallen's tendrils. [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] and Goshooter can only watch on as [[Shouki]]'s mind escapes into a flashback of [[Raiden]] and the other [[Trainbot]]s falling in battle. Regretting how useless he was in protecting his friends, he breaks free from his restraints and is calmed down by Goshooter, who makes him realize the importance of trust in one's partners.

In response to Shūta's query, The Fallen explains that he seeks to absorb Vector Sigma and become the next [[Primus]] and that he also plans to absorb information on organic life from Shūta. Daniel attempts to save his comrade, but The Fallen is unfazed and banishes Daniel to the [[unspace|space between dimensions]]. The villain soon finds himself under attack from a mightier foe: [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]! And he's brought all of the train Transformers! Shouki is reunited with his Trainbot teammates and Daniel ends up for the better, having been saved by the presumably lost [[Overdrive]]. The [[Omnibot (G1)|Omnibot]] explains that he was able to use the [[human]] as a homing signal to escape.

[[File:All Trainbots assemble.jpg|thumb|right|TRAINBOTS ASSEMBLE!|400px]]
Using Daniel's crossbow mode, Shouki is able to cut Shūta's restraints, allowing Goshooter to speed in and save his partner. With his soccer skills, Goshooter kicks Vector Sigma right into The Fallen's face, and the demigod is soon restrained by the "[[Trainbot Omni-Car Joint]]". With Vector Sigma safely in his possession, Alpha Trion uses his function as the key to the supercomputer to give Shouki a new mode: the train bazooka "Raiden"! Aimed by Goshooter and with Metroplex's energies, the bazooka blasts The Fallen, ending his threat. In the aftermath, the Omnibots promise to bring everybody to their right place and time, and Daniel reminds Shouki of the importance of trusting his partners.

==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.) 
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
{{{!}}border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent"
{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Goshooter]] (1)
*[[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (7)
*[[Camshaft (G1)|Camshaft]] (8)
*[[Downshift (G1)|Downshift]] (9)
*[[Cordon]] (10)
*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] (14)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (20)
*[[Overdrive]] (34)
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] (35)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
'''[[Trainbot]]s'''
*[[Shouki]] (11)
*''[[Raiden]]'' (15)
*[[Getsuei]] (16)
*[[Seizan]] (17)
*[[Suiken]] (31)
*[[Kaen]] (32)
*[[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]] (33)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
'''[[Sixliner|Liner Team]]'''
*[[Joe (G1)|Joe]] (18)
*[[Spark (G1)|Spark]] (19)
*[[Night]] (21)
*[[Alan (G1)|Alan]] (22)
*[[Leaf]] (24)
*[[D-Go]] (27)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
'''[[Sixtrain|Train Team]]'''
*[[Atlan]] (23)
*[[Windy (G1)|Windy]] (25)
*[[Raise]] (26)
*[[Converter]] (28)
*[[Desire]] (29)
*[[San D-Go]] (30)

{{!}}}

|c2=
*[[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen]] (3)

|c3=
*[[Shūta Gō]] (2)
*[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] (13)

|c4=

*[[The Fallen]] (4)
*[[Primus#Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Vector Sigma]] (12)
'''[[Maximal]]s'''
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] (6)

}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Daniel remarks on being a "cold sleeper", accounting for his relatively youthful looks in this story and a reference to the explanation provided by ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]'' that Daniel was put into cryogenic sleep between the events of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]'', and ''Transformers 2010'', which take place five years apart in Japanese continuity and yet both feature Daniel at apparently the same age.

===Other notes===
*Shūta will not shut up about soccer.

==External links==
*[https://imgur.com/a/gLFQg Translation of "Train Wars, Part Two"]

[[Category:Generations book series comics]]
[[Category:Wars chapters]]

File:AnimatedHistoryVidOmegaSentinels.jpg

2024-10-20T03:21:32Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

{{TFAcap|Scene from a history vid featuring the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]].|Transform and Roll Out|85}}

File:AnimatedHistoryVidOmegaSentinels.jpg

2024-10-20T03:21:16Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

{{TFAcap|Scene from a history vid featuring the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]].|Transform and Roll Out|1985}}

File:AnimatedHistoryVidOmegaSentinels.jpg

2024-10-20T03:17:37Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

{{TFAcap|Scene from a history vid featuring the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]].|Transform and Roll Out|7}}

File:AnimatedHistoryVidOmegaSentinels.jpg

2024-10-20T03:17:19Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

{{TFAcap|Scene from a history vid featuring the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]].|Transform and Roll Out|666}}

File:AnimatedHistoryVidOmegaSentinels.jpg

2024-10-20T03:16:55Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

{{TFAcap|Scene from a history vid featuring the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]].|Transform and Roll Out}}

Package art/gallery

2024-10-20T02:42:58Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Action Masters */

{{suite}}

This page collects the package art used in various pages on {{SITENAME}}.

==''The Transformers''==
<center>[[File:G1 OptimusPrime boxart.jpg|none|215px|thumb|Transformers Commandment #1: Thou shall not joke about [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]]]

<gallery>
File:Autoceptor-boxart.jpg|[[Autoceptor]]
File:Battletrapboxart.jpg|[[Battletrap (G1)|Battletrap]]
File:G1 packagingart Blaster.jpg|[[Blaster (G1)/toys|Blaster]]
File:G1 Bluestreak boxart.jpg|[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys|Bluestreak]]
File:G1 boxart Brawn.jpg|[[Brawn (G1)/toys|Brawn]]
File:Camshaft-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Camshaft (G1)|Camshaft]]
File:Cindersaur cardart.jpg|[[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]]
File:G1boxart-Cliffjumper.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys|Cliffjumper]]
File:G1 boxart Cyclonus.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)/toys|Cyclonus]]
File:Deceptor-boxart.jpg|[[Deceptor]]
File:G1 boxart Dirge.jpg|[[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]]
File:Dogfight-boxart.jpg|[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]]
File:Downshift-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Downshift (G1)|Downshift]]
File:G1 - Fastlane & Cloudraker - Boxart.jpg|[[Fastlane]] & [[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]]
File:Flamefeather cardart.jpg|[[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]]
File:Flywheelsboxart.jpg|[[Flywheels]]
File:Galvatron-Box-Art.jpg|[[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]
File:G1 Grimlock boxart.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys|Grimlock]]
File:G1 boxart Hoist.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)/toys|Hoist]]
File:G1-HotRod-boxart.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys|Hot Rod]]
File:G1 packageart Hound.jpg|[[Hound (G1)/toys|Hound]]
File:G1 boxart Inferno.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)/toys|Inferno]]
File:G1 packagingart Jazz.jpg|[[Jazz (G1)/toys|Jazz]]
File:G1 boxart Jetfire.jpg|[[Jetfire (G1)/toys|Jetfire]]
File:G1 boxart Kup.jpg|[[Kup (G1)/toys|Kup]]
File:G1 megatron boxart.jpeg|[[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]]
File:Mirage g1boxart.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)/toys|Mirage]]
File:Overdrive-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Overdrive]]
File:G1Override cardart.jpg|[[Override (G1)|Override]]
File:G1 boxart Perceptor.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)/toys|Perceptor]]
File:Pounce-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Pounce]]
File:G1 boxart Powerglide.jpg|[[Powerglide (G1)/toys|Powerglide]]
File:G1 boxart Prowl.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:G1 boxart Ramjet.jpg|[[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]]
File:G1 boxart RedAlert.jpg|[[Red Alert (G1)/toys|Red Alert]]
File:G1Repugnus boxart.jpg|[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]]
File:G1 boxart Scourge.jpg|[[Scourge (G1)/toys|Scourge]]
File:G1 boxart Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys|Shockwave]]
File:G1boxart-Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys|Sideswipe]]
File:G1Sizzle(sparkabot) cardart.jpg|[[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]]
File:Sky lynx.jpg|[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]
File:G1 Slag boxart.jpg|[[Slag (G1)/toys|Slag]]
File:G1 boxart Smokescreen.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:G1 Snarl boxart.jpg|[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]
File:G1 boxart Soundwave.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]]
File:Sparkstalker cardart.jpg|[[Sparkstalker]]
File:G1boxart-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys|Sunstreaker]]
File:Swerve.toy.boxart.jpg|[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
File:G1 boxart Swoop.jpg|[[Swoop (G1)/toys|Swoop]]
File:G1 boxart Thrust.jpg|[[Thrust (G1)/toys|Thrust]]
File:G1boxart-Topspin.jpg|[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]]
File:G1 boxart Trailbreaker.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys|Trailbreaker]]
File:G1-TwinTwist-boxart.jpg|[[Twin Twist]]
File:G1Venom boxart.jpg|[[Venom (G1)|Venom]]
File:G1 boxart Warpath.jpg|[[Warpath (G1)#Toys|Warpath]]
File:G1 packagingart Wheeljack.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys|Wheeljack]]
File:Windcharger G1 boxart.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
File:G1Whirl boxart.jpg|[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===Mini-Cassettes===
<center><gallery>
File:Beastbox g1.jpg|[[Beastbox (G1)|Beastbox]]
File:G1 boxart Buzzsaw.jpg|[[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys|Buzzsaw]]
File:G1 boxart Frenzy.jpg|[[Frenzy (G1)/toys|Frenzy]]
File:G1 Ratbat Packaging Art.jpg|[[Ratbat (G1)/toys|Ratbat]]
File:Ravageboxart.jpg|[[Ravage (G1)/toys|Ravage]]
File:G1 boxart Rumble.jpg|[[Rumble (G1)/toys|Rumble]]
File:Slugfest-cardart.jpg|[[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]]
File:Squawktalk cardart.jpg|[[Squawktalk (G1)|Squawktalk]]
File:Steeljawboxart.jpg|[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]]
</gallery></center>

===Triple Changers===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 boxart Astrotrain.jpg|[[Astrotrain (G1)/toys|Astrotrain]]
File:G1 boxart Blitzwing.jpg|[[Blitzwing (G1)/toys|Blitzwing]]
File:Octane boxart.jpg|[[Octane]]
File:G1AutobotSandstorm boxart.jpg|[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]]
File:G1 boxart Springer.jpg|[[Springer (G1)/toys|Springer]]
</gallery></center>

===Combiners===
<center><gallery>
File:Air Raid G1 boxart.jpg|[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]
File:Blast Off G1 boxart.jpg|[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]
File:G1Blot boxart.jpg|[[Blot (G1)|Blot]]
File:Bonecrusher G1 boxart.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Brawl G1 boxart.jpg|[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]
File:G1 Cutthroat boxart.jpg|[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]]
File:G1-Divebomb-boxart.jpg|[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]]
File:Fireflight G1 boxart.jpg|[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]
File:Long Haul G1 boxart.jpg|[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
File:Mixmaster G1 boxart.jpg|[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]
File:Onslaught G1 boxart.jpg|[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]
File:G1 Rippersnapper boxart.jpg|[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]]
File:Headstrong boxart.jpg|[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]]
File:Hook G1 boxart.jpg|[[Hook (G1)|Hook]]
File:ScavengerG1.jpg|[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]
File:Scrapper G1 boxart.jpg|[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
File:Silverbolt G1 boxart.jpg|[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]
File:G1-Sinnertwin-boxart.jpg|[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]]
File:Skydive G1 boxart.jpg|[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]
File:Slingshot G1 boxart.jpg|[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]
File:Streetwise g1 boxart.jpg|[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
File:Swindle G1 boxart.jpg|[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]
File:Tantrum boxart.jpg|[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]]
File:Vortex G1 boxart.jpg|[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]
</gallery></center>

===Throttlebots===
<center><gallery>
File:Chase g1 boxart.jpg|[[Chase (G1)|Chase]]
File:G1Freeway cardart.jpg|[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]]
File:Rollbar g1 boxart.jpg|[[Rollbar (G1)|Rollbar]]
File:Searchlight g1 boxart.jpg|[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]]
File:G1Wideload cardart.jpg|[[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]]
</gallery></center>

===Six Changers===
<center><gallery>
File:SixshotBoxArt.jpg|[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]
File:Quickswitch boxart.jpg|[[Quickswitch]]
</gallery></center>

===Headmasters===
<center><gallery>
File:G1Mindwipe boxart.jpg|[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]
File:G1 Skullcruncher boxart.jpg|[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]]
File:Weirdwolf boxart.jpg|[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]]
File:G1 Apeface boxart.jpg|[[Apeface]]
File:G1Snapdragon boxart.jpg|[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]]
File:Hosehead boxart.jpg|[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]]
File:G1 boxart Scorponok.jpg|[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]
File:G1 Siren boxart.jpg|[[Siren (G1)|Siren]]
File:Squeezeplay boxart.jpg|[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]]
</gallery></center>

===Targetmasters===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 Crosshairs boxart.jpg|[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]]
File:G1 Pointblank boxart.jpg|[[Pointblank]]
File:G1 Sureshot boxart.jpg|[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]
File:G1Misfire boxart.jpg|[[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]]
File:Slugslingerg1.jpg|[[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]]
File:G1Triggerhappy boxart.jpg|[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]]
File:Landfill g1 boxart.jpg|[[Landfill (G1)|Landfill]]
File:G1Quickmix cardart.jpg|[[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]]
File:Scoop g1 boxart.jpg|[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]]
File:Needlenose-boxart.jpg|[[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]
File:Quake cardart.jpg|[[Quake (G1)|Quake]]
File:Spinister-boxart.jpg|[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]]
</gallery></center>

===Pretenders===
<center><gallery>
File:Cloudburst.jpg|[[Cloudburst]]
File:Groundbreaker.jpg|[[Groundbreaker]]
File:Sky high(Pretender) boxart.jpg|[[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]]
File:Splashdown.jpg|[[Splashdown]]
File:Waverider boxart.jpg|[[Waverider]]
File:Buglyboxart.jpg|[[Bugly (G1)|Bugly]]
File:G1Finback boxart.jpg|[[Finback]]
File:Iguanus.jpg|[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]]
File:G1 Skullgrin boxart.jpg|[[Skullgrin]]
File:G1Submarauder boxart.jpg|[[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]
File:Pincher boxart.jpg|[[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]]
File:Octopunch.jpg|[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]
File:G1Stranglehold boxart.jpg|[[Stranglehold]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Beasts
<center><gallery>
File:Catillaboxart.jpg|[[Catilla (G1)|Catilla]]
File:Chainclaw.jpg|[[Chainclaw (G1)|Chainclaw]]
File:G1snarler boxart.jpg|[[Snarler]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Vehicles
<center><gallery>
File:Gunrunner.jpg|[[Gunrunner (G1)|Gunrunner]]
File:Roadgrabber.jpg|[[Roadgrabber]]
</gallery></center>

;Classic Pretenders

;Mega Pretenders
<center><gallery>
File:Crossblades-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]]
File:Vroom boxart.jpg|[[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]]
File:Thunderwingboxart.jpg|[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]
</gallery></center>

;Ultra Pretenders
<center><gallery>
File:G1Skyhammer boxartsm.jpg|[[Skyhammer (G1)|Skyhammer]]
File:Roadblock-boxart.jpg|[[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Monsters
<center><gallery>
File:G1-Bristleback1.jpg|[[Bristleback]]
</gallery></center>

===Powermasters===
<center><gallery>
File:Darkwing boxart.jpg|[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]]
File:Doubledealer boxart.jpg|[[Doubledealer]]
File:G1Getaway boxart.jpg|[[Getaway]]
File:Joyride boxart.jpg|[[Joyride (G1)|Joyride]]
File:Powermaster Optimus Prime (G1) Box Art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
File:Slapdash boxart.jpg|[[Slapdash (G1)|Slapdash]]
</gallery></center>

===Micromasters===
<center><gallery>
File:Micromaster Air patrol.jpg|[[Air Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Air strike patrol.jpg|[[Air Strike Patrol]]
File:Airwave-packageart.jpg|[[Airwave (Micromaster)|Airwave]]
File:G1anti-aircraft base boxart.jpg|[[Anti-Aircraft Base]]
File:Micromaster Astro squad.jpg|[[Astro Squad]]
File:G1BarricadeBoxart.jpg|[[Barricade (G1)|Barricade]]
File:Micromaster Battle patrol.jpg|[[Battle Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Battle squad.jpg|[[Battle Squad]]
File:Big daddy boxart.jpg|[[Big Daddy (G1)|Big Daddy]]
File:Blackjack-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]]
File:BlazeMasterBoxart.jpg|[[Blaze Master]]
File:Micromaster Construction patrol.jpg|[[Construction Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Constructor squad.jpg|[[Constructor Squad]]
File:CementHeadBoxart.jpg|[[Cement-Head]]
File:Constructionstation-backofthebox.jpg|[[Ironworks (facility)|Construction Station]]
File:Detour-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Detour (G1)|Detour]]
File:DirectHitBoxart.jpg|[[Direct-Hit]]
File:EagleEyeBoxart.jpg|[[Eagle Eye (G1)|Eagle Eye]]
File:Excavator-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Excavator (G1)|Excavator]]
File:FireshotBoxart.jpg|[[Fireshot]]
File:Flattop boxart.jpg|[[Flattop (G1)|Flattop]]
File:Grit-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Grit]]
File:GroundHogBoxart.jpg|[[Ground Hog]]
File:GusherBoxart.jpg|[[Gusher]]
File:HalftrackBoxart.jpg|[[Half-Track (G1)|Half-Track]]
File:Hammer-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Hammer (G1)|Hammer]]
File:Heavy tread boxart.jpg|[[Heavy Tread]]
File:Micromaster Hot rod patrol.jpg|[[Hot Rod Patrol]]
File:Hydraulic boxart.jpg|[[Hydraulic]]
File:HyperdriveBoxart.jpg|[[Hyperdrive (Micromaster)|Hyperdrive]]
File:Knockout-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Knockout (G1)|Knockout]]
File:MeltdownBoxart.jpg|[[Meltdown (G1)|Meltdown]]
File:Micromaster Metro squad.jpg|[[Metro Squad]]
File:Micromaster Military patrol.jpg|[[Military Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Monster truck patrol.jpg|[[Monster Trucks Patrol]]
File:MotorheadBoxart.jpg|[[Motorhead (G1)|Motorhead]]
File:Micromasters Off road patrol.jpg|[[Off Road Patrol]]
File:OverflowBoxart.jpg|[[Overflow]]
File:PipelineBoxart.jpg|[[Pipeline]]
File:PowerPunchBoxart.jpg|[[Power Punch]]
File:Micromaster Race track patrol.jpg|[[Race Track Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Rescue patrol.jpg|[[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]]
File:RetroBoxart.jpg|[[Retro]]
File:RoadHuggerBoxart.jpg|[[Road Hugger (G1)|Road Hugger]]
File:RollerForceBoxart.jpg|[[Roller Force]]
File:Sidetrack-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Sidetrack (G1)|Sidetrack]]
File:SkyHighBoxart.jpg|[[Sky High (Micromaster)|Sky High]]
File:SkyhopperBoxart.jpg|[[Skyhopper]]
File:Sledge-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Sledge (G1)|Sledge]]
File:Stonecruncher-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Stonecruncher (G1)|Stonecruncher]]
File:SurgeBoxart.jpg|[[Surge (G1)|Surge]]
File:Swindler boxart.jpg|[[Swindler]]
File:Terror-TreadBoxart.jpg|[[Terror-Tread]]
File:TreadBoltBoxart.jpg|[[Tread Bolt]]
File:VanquishBoxart.jpg|[[Vanquish]]
</gallery></center>

===Action Masters===
<center><gallery>
File:Armoredconvoyboxart.jpg|[[Armored Convoy]]
File:ChargerActionMasterArt1.jpg|[[Charger]]
File:Neutro-fusiontank.jpg|[[Neutro-Fusion Tank]]
File:G1Rad boxart.jpg|[[Rad (G1)|Rad]]
File:G1Treadshot boxart.jpg|[[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]]
</gallery></center>

===European-original characters===
<center><gallery>
File:Deftwing boxart.jpg|[[Deftwing]]
File:Lightspeed(Motorvator) boxart.jpg|[[Lightspeed (Motorvator)|Lightspeed]]
File:Rescue force.jpg|[[Rescue Force]]
</gallery></center>
;Turbomasters
<center><gallery>
File:G1thunder clash boxart.jpg|[[Thunder Clash]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:G1Rotorstorm boxart.jpg|[[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]]
File:FlashG1-card.jpg|[[Flash (G1)|Flash]]
File:G1hurricane cardart.jpg|[[Hurricane]]
File:Scorch cardart.jpg|[[Scorch (G1)|Scorch]]
</gallery></center>
;Predators
<center><gallery>
File:Skyquake.jpg|[[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]]
File:G1Stalker boxart.jpg|[[Stalker (G1)|Stalker]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:G1Falcon Predator card.jpg|[[Falcon (G1)|Falcon]]
File:Predator Skydive cardart.jpg|[[Skydive (Predator)|Skydive]]
File:G1Snare cardart.jpg|[[Snare]]
File:G1 Talon cardart.jpg|[[Talon (G1)|Talon]]
</gallery></center>

===South American-original characters===
<center><gallery>
File:RobocarSedanBoxart.jpg|[[Sedan (Robocar)]]
File:Saltmanz boxart.jpg|[[Salt-Man Z]]
</gallery></center>

==''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''==
===''The Headmasters''===
<center><gallery>
File:FortMax1.jpg|[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
</gallery>
<gallery>
File:G1 Dial boxart.jpg|[[Dile]]
File:G1 Zaur boxart.jpg|[[Zaur (G1)|Zaur]]
File:G1 Graphy boxart.jpg|[[Graphy]]
File:G1 Noise boxart.jpg|[[Noise]]
File:Getsuei-card.jpg|[[Getsuei]]
File:G1 - Kaen - Boxart.jpg|[[Kaen]]
File:G1 - Seizan - Boxart.jpg|[[Seizan]]
File:G1 - Shouki - Boxart.jpg|[[Shouki]]
File:G1 - Suiken - Boxart.jpg|[[Suiken]]
File:G1 - Yukikaze - Boxart.jpg|[[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]]
File:Raiden boxart.jpg|[[Raiden]]
File:Artfire.jpg|[[Artfire]]
</gallery></center>
===''Super-God Masterforce''===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 - Doubleclouder - Boxart.jpg|[[Clouder|Doubleclouder]]
File:Godbomber boxart.jpg|[[Godbomber]]
File:Hotspark-box.jpg|[[Hotspark]]
File:Masterbrace toy.jpg|[[Master-Brace]]
File:Overlord.jpg|[[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]
File:Sixknight boxart.jpg|[[Sixknight]]
File:G1Turtler boxart.jpg|[[Turtler]]
File:G1Wildspark boxart.jpg|[[Wildspark]]
</gallery></center>

===''Victory''===
;Brainmasters
<center><gallery>
File:G1 Star Saber art variant.jpg|[[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]]
File:Road caesar.jpg|[[Road Caesar]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Blacker.jpg|[[Blacker]]
File:Laster.jpg|[[Laster]]
File:Braver.jpg|[[Braver]]
</gallery></center>
;Breastforce
<center><gallery>
File:Deathsaurus1.jpg|[[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]
File:Liokaiser.jpg|[[Liokaiser]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Leozack boxart.jpg|[[Leozack]]
File:Guyhawk.jpg|[[Guyhawk]]
File:Hellbat.jpg|[[Hellbat (G1)|Hellbat]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Jargua.jpg|[[Jallguar]]
File:Killbison.jpg|[[Killbison]]
File:Drillhorn.jpg|[[Drillhorn (G1)|Drillhorn]]
</gallery></center>
;Crossformers
<center><gallery>
File:G1 BlackShadow boxart.jpg|[[Black Shadow (G1)|Black Shadow]]
File:G1 BlueBacchus boxart.jpg|[[Blue Bacchus]]
</gallery></center>
;Miscellaneous
<center><gallery>
File:G1Galaxy Shuttle boxart.jpg|[[Galaxy Shuttle]]
File:G1greatshot boxart.jpg|[[Greatshot]]
File:Victory leo.jpg|[[Ginrai (robot)|Victory Leo]]
File:Victory saber.jpg|[[Star Saber (G1)|Victory Saber]]
</gallery></center>

===''Zone''===
<center><gallery>
File:DaiAtlas1.jpg|[[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]]
File:G1Sonicbomber art.jpg|[[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]]
File:G1 - Deadwheeler - Boxart.jpg|[[Deadwheeler]]
File:Metrotitan.jpg|[[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]
File:ZoneNightflight boxart.jpg|[[Nightflight (Zone)|Nightflight]]
File:Rocketbase-packageart.jpg|[[Rocket Base]]
File:ZoneWhisper boxart.jpg|[[Whisper (Zone)|Whisper]]
File:G1Windrim boxart.jpg|[[Windrim]]
</gallery></center>

===''Return of Convoy''===
<center><gallery>
File:Grandus boxart.jpg|[[Grandus (G1)|Grandus]]
File:StarConvoyBoxArt1.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]]
</gallery></center>

===''Operation Combination''===
<center><gallery>
File:Battlegaea-box.jpg|[[Battle Gaia]]
File:G1 - Sixbuilder - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixbuilder]]
File:G1 - Sixturbo - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixturbo]]
File:G1 - Sixtrain - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixtrain]]
</gallery></center>

===''Micromaster''===
<center><gallery>
File:Alan-packageart.jpg|[[Alan (G1)|Alan]]
File:Diego-packageart.jpg|[[D-Go]]
File:Joe-packageart.jpg|[[Joe (G1)|Joe]]
File:Leaf-packageart.jpg|[[Leaf]]
File:Night-packageart.jpg|[[Night]]
File:Spark-packageart.jpg|[[Spark (G1)|Spark]]
</gallery></center>

==''Generation 2''==
<center><gallery>
File:ArchforceArt.jpg|[[Archforce]]
File:G2-art Aquafend.jpg|[[Aquafend]]
File:G2BlazeOrSizzleCardArt.jpg|[[Fizzle|Blaze]]
File:G2-Clench-boxart.jpg|[[Clench (G1)|Clench]]
File:G2 Deluge Decepticon cardart.jpg|[[Deluge (G2)|Deluge]]
File:G2 Ironfist boxart.jpg|[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]]
Laser optimus boxart.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Laser Optimus Prime]]
File:LegacyNightracerart.jpg|[[Nightracer (G2)|Nightracer]]
File:G2StarscreamPackageArt.jpg|[[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]
File:G1ZapWindbreaker boxart.jpg|[[Windbreaker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Wars''==
<center><gallery>
File:McD-Beetle-packageart.jpg|[[Beetle]]
File:BWBlackarachniaCardArt.jpg|[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
File:Bonecrusher-bw-packageart1a.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (BW)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Drillbit-packageart.jpg|[[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]]
File:McD-MantaRay-packageart.jpg|[[Manta Ray]]
File:Manterror-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Manterror]]
File:Packratbw.jpg|[[Packrat]]
File:Powerpinch-packageart.jpg|[[Powerpinch]]
File:BWRazorclaw CardArt.jpg|[[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]]
File:Bwrazorclaw.jpg|Razorclaw (video pack)
File:Retrax-packageart1.jpg|[[Retrax]]
File:McD-Rhino-packageart.jpg|[[Rhino (BW)|Rhino]]
File:Spittor-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]]
File:Tarantulasbw.jpg|[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (Japan)
File:Wolfang-packageart.jpg|[[Wolfang (Maximal)|Wolfang]]
</gallery></center>

===Fuzors===
<center><gallery>
File:Bantor-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Bantor (BW)|Bantor]]
File:Buzzclaw-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]]
File:Injector tech spec.jpg|[[Injector (BW)|Injector]]
File:BW-SkyShadow-packageart.jpg|[[Sky Shadow (BW)|Sky Shadow]]
File:Terragator-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Terragator]]
</gallery></center>

===Transmetal===
<center><gallery>
File:BWscavenger.jpg|[[Scavenger (BW)|Scavenger]]
</gallery></center>

===Transmetal 2===
<center><gallery>
File:TM blackarachnia packaging art.jpg|[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
File:Optimusminor-packageart.jpg|[[Optimus Minor]]
File:Prowl2-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (TM2)|Prowl II]]
File:Scarem-packageart.jpg|[[Scarem]]
File:Scourge-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Scourge (BW)|Scourge]]
File:Sonar-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]]
</gallery></center>

===Mutants===
<center><gallery>
File:Soundwavemutantcardart.jpg|[[Soundwave (BW)|Soundwave]]
</gallery></center>

===BotCon exclusives===
<center><gallery>
File:BW Antagony boxart.jpg|[[Antagony (BW)|Antagony]]
File:Onyxprimal.jpg|[[Onyx Primal]]
File:Sandstorm bw.jpg|[[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]]
File:Windrazor bw.jpg|[[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]]
</gallery></center>

===''10th Anniversary''===
<center><gallery>
File:Cheetorbw.jpg|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
File:Dinobotbwx.jpg|[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]
File:MegatronBW-BWXart.jpg|[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
File:Rhinoxbw.jpg|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]
File:Tarantulas-BW10th.jpg|[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]
File:Transmutate.jpg|[[Transmutate (BW)|Trans-Mutate]]
File:Waspinatorbw.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Wars'' (Japan)==
===''Beast Wars II''===
<center><gallery>
File:Autocrusher-card.jpg|[[Autocrusher]]
File:Autojetter-card.jpg|[[Autojetter]]
File:Autolauncher-card.jpg|[[Autolauncher]]
File:Autostinger-card.jpg|[[Autostinger]]
File:BWII Dirge card.jpg|[[Dirge (BW)|Dirge]]
</gallery></center>

===''Beast Wars Neo''===
<center><gallery>
File:BWNeo Bump card1.jpg|[[Bump]]
File:BW Crazybolt card.jpg|[[Crazybolt (BW)|Crazybolt]]
File:BWNeo Hardhead card.jpg|[[Hardhead (BW)|Hardhead]]
File:BWN Hydra card.jpg|[[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]]
File:Survivebwn.jpg|[[Survive]]
</gallery></center>

==''Machine Wars''==
<center><gallery>
File:MW Hubcap cardart.jpg|[[Hubcap (MW)|Hubcap]]
File:MegaplexArt1.jpg|[[Megaplex]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Prowl.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Soundwave.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Thundercracker.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys|Thundercracker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Machines''==
<center><gallery>
File:TWrecksdinobotspackaging art.jpg|[[T-Wrecks]]
</gallery></center>

==''Car Robots''==
<center><gallery>
File:RID EagleKiller REV biocard.jpg|[[R.E.V.|Eagle Killer]]
File:RID Ox Ironhide biocard.jpg|[[Ironhide (RID)|Ox]]
File:RID WARS biocard.jpg|[[W.A.R.S.]]
File:RID XCar Crosswise biocard.jpg|[[Crosswise (RID)|X-Car]]
File:RID TowlineWreckerhook biocard.jpg|[[Tow-Line (RID)|Wrecker Hook]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robots in Disguise'' (2001)==
<center><gallery>
File:Bludgeon-RiDcard.jpg|[[Bludgeon (RID 2001)|Bludgeon]]
File:Cryotek Techspec.jpg|[[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]
</gallery></center>

=="Unicron Trilogy"==
===''Armada''===
<center><gallery>
File:OptimusPrimeUT-Armada.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
File:Payload-packageart.jpg|[[Payload (Armada)|Payload]] ([[Space Mini-Con Team]])
File:GHC Red Alert Patrol.jpg|[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]
File:ArmadaSkywarpCardArt.jpg|[[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]]
File:ArmadaThundercracker.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]]
File:Waterlog-packageart.jpg|[[Waterlog (Armada)|Waterlog]] ([[Sea Mini-Con Team]])
</gallery></center>

===''Energon''===
<center><gallery>
File:Energon Barricade card.jpg|[[Barricade (Energon)|Barricade]]
File:EnBeachcomberCardart.jpg|[[Beachcomber (Energon)|Beachcomber]]
File:Checkpoint-boxart.jpg|[[Checkpoint (Energon)|Checkpoint]]
File:EnerDownshiftCard.jpg|[[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]]
File:E-Dreadwing-box.jpg|[[Dreadwing (Energon)|Dreadwing]]
File:Energon Inferno CardArt.jpg|[[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]]
File:EnerLandmineBruteMode.jpg|[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]]
File:MirageEnergon-card.jpg|[[Mirage (Energon)|Mirage]]
File:OmegaSent-Ecard.jpg|[[Omega Sentinel (Energon)|Omega Sentinel]]
File:Energon Perceptor cardart.jpg|[[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]
File:Roadblock-energon-packageart.jpg|[[Roadblock (Energon)|Roadblock]]
File:ESharkticonCardfront.jpg|[[Sharkticon (Energon)|Sharkticon]]
File:Shockblast energon.jpg|[[Shockblast]]
File:Slugslinger-energon-tradingcard.jpg|[[Slugslinger (Energon)|Slugslinger]]
File:Steamhammer-boxart.jpg|[[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]]
File:Towline-energon-packageart.jpg|[[Tow-Line (Energon)|Towline]]
File:EnTreadboltCardart.jpg|[[Treadbolt]]
File:En-UMagnus-card.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (Energon)|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

===''Cybertron''===
<center><gallery>
File:Armorhide-UTA.jpg|[[Armorhide (Cybertron)|Armorhide]]
File:CYB brakedown boxart.JPG|[[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]]
File:Brimstone-card.jpg|[[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]]
File:CYB buzzsaw boxart.jpg|[[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]]
File:Cannonball UT.jpg|[[Cannonball (Cybertron)|Cannonball]]
File:CYB clocker boxart.jpg|[[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]]
File:Crumplezone.jpg|[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]]
File:CYB dirtboss boxart.jpg|[[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]]
File:GiantMiniCons-card.jpg|[[Giant Planet Mini-Con Team]]
File:Hardtop-card.jpg|[[Hardtop (Cybertron)|Hardtop]]
File:CYB longrack boxart.JPG|[[Longrack (Cybertron)|Longrack]]
File:Lugnutz-card.jpg|[[Lugnutz]]
File:CYB overridegts boxart.jpg|[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]]
File:Cyb-Ransack-card.jpg|[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]]
File:ReconTeam-card.jpg|[[Recon Mini-Con Team]]
File:Repugnus-CybCard.jpg|[[Repugnus (Cybertron)|Repugnus]]
File:Scrapmetal-card.jpg|[[Scrapmetal (Cybertron individual)|Scrapmetal]]
File:Shortround-card.jpg|[[Shortround (Cybertron)|Shortround]]
File:CYB snarl boxart.jpg|[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]]
File:Swerve-CybCard.jpg|[[Swerve (Cybertron)|Swerve]]
File:SwindleUTDec-card.jpg|[[Swindle (Cybertron)|Swindle]]
File:Thunderblast-card.jpeg|[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]]
File:Wreckloose-card.jpg|[[Wreckloose (Cybertron)|Wreckloose]]
</gallery></center>

=="Micron Trilogy"==
===''Super Link''===
<center><gallery>
File:Prowl energonCG.jpg|[[Prowl (Energon)|Red Alert]]
</gallery></center>

==''Universe'' (2003)==
<center><gallery>
File:BonecrusherT-TFUart.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Universe Ultra)|Bonecrusher]]
File:CrystalWidow.jpg|[[Crystal Widow]]
File:DevastatorUnivDeluxe BoxPic.jpg|[[Devastator (Universe Ultra)|Devastator]]
File:Fireflight-TFUart.jpg|[[Fireflight (Universe Deluxe)|Fireflight]]
File:Frostbite-TFUart.jpg|[[Frostbite (Universe)|Frostbite]]
File:HightowerUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Hightower (Universe Ultra)|Hightower]]
File:Inferno-tfu.jpg|[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]]
File:Ironhide-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]]
File:KingAtlas-card.jpg|[[King Atlas]]
File:LongHaulUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Long Haul (Universe Ultra)|Long Haul]]
File:MagnaStampede-TFUart.jpg|[[Magna Stampede]]
File:OilSlick.jpg|[[Oil Slick (Universe)|Oil Slick]]
File:Optimus Prime-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Overbite (Universe) box art.jpg|[[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]]
File:Perceptor-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]
File:Prowl-large-Universe-OTFCC-2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]]
File:Prowl-Spychanger-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|Prowl (Spy Changer)
File:Ratchettfu.jpg|[[Ratchet (Universe)|Ratchet]]
File:Razorclawtfu.jpg|[[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]
File:Repugnus-TFUart.jpg|[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]]
File:ScavengerUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Scavenger (Universe Ultra)|Scavenger]]
File:Skydive-universe-packageart.jpg|[[Skydive (BM)|Skydive]]
File:Stockade-TFUart.jpg|[[Stockade (Universe 2003)|Stockade]]
File:Sunstorm-Universe-OTFCC-2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Sunstorm (Universe)|Sunstorm]]
File:Swerve-TFUcard.jpg|[[Swerve (Universe)|Swerve]]
File:Ultra Magnus-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]]
File:Whirl-TFUart.jpg|[[Whirl (Universe)|Whirl]]
File:WindSheer-TFUcard.jpg|[[Wind Sheer (Universe)|Wind Sheer]]
</gallery></center>

;BotCon/OTFCC exclusives
<center><gallery>
File:Megazaraktfu.jpg|[[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]]
File:Roulette.jpg|[[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]]
File:Universe2003BoxArt-Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
File:Shadow Striker art.jpg|[[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]]
File:Universe2003packageart-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Masterpiece''==
<center><gallery>
File:MP Magnus book cover art.jpg|MP-2 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]
File:MP Starscream book cover art.jpg|MP-3 [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]
File:Loudpedal-card.jpg|MP-25L [[Loudpedal]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robotmasters''==
<center><gallery>
File:Wingstun-Boxart.jpg|[[Wingstun]]
File:RM-packart AirHunter.jpg|[[Air Hunter]]
File:RM-packart WreckerHook.jpg|[[Tow-Line (RID)|Wrecker Hook]]
</gallery></center>

==''Alternators''==
<center><gallery>
File:Swindleart.jpg|[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]
File:AltNemesisPrimeArt.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]
</gallery></center>

=="Generation 1" reissues==
<center><gallery>
File:G1Inferno collectionbox1.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
File:Smokescreeng1.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:Tracksg1.jpg|[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
</gallery>
<gallery>
File:Commemorativeseriesdirge.jpg|[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]
File:G1 Hound reissueart1.jpg|[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
File:LongHaulG1.jpg|[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
File:NightstickReissue BoxArt.jpg|[[Nebulon (Headmasters)|Nebulon]]
File:G1 Perceptor reissueart.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
File:Ultramagnusg1.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

==''Heroes of Cybertron''==
<center><gallery>
File:Gigatron hoc art.jpg|[[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]
File:AirWarrior BioPic.jpg|[[Air Warrior]]
</gallery></center>

==e-HOBBY exclusives==
<center><gallery>
File:ClampDown-card.jpg|[[Clampdown (G1)|Clampdown]]
File:Crosscut-Auto-Card.jpg|[[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]
File:DeepCover-card.jpg|[[Deep Cover]]
File:Detritus-card.jpg|[[Detritus (G1)|Detritus]]
File:FlipSides-card.jpg|[[Flip Sides (G1)|Flip Sides]]
File:Garboil-card.jpg|[[Garboil (G1)|Garboil]]
File:Howlback-card.jpg|[[Howlback (G1)|Howlback]]
File:Overcharge-card.jpg|[[Overcharge (G1)|Overcharge]]
File:LoadHauler-Card.jpg|[[Hauler|RoadHauler]]
File:Salvo-card.jpg|[[Salvo (G1)|Salvo]]
File:Shothole-card.jpg|[[Shothole]]
File:Tigertrack-card.jpg|[[Tigertrack]]
File:Zaptrap-card.jpg|[[Zaptrap]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robot Heroes''==
===Generation 1 Series===
<center><gallery>
File:Bumblebee&Soundwave RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] & [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
File:Grimlock&Shockwave RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] & [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
File:Jazz&Thundercracker RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] & [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Mirage&Starscream RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] & [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
File:OptimusPrime&Ravage RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] & [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
File:OptimusPrime&Unicron RobotHeroes.jpg|Optimus Prime & [[Unicron]]
</gallery></center>

===Movie Series===
<center><gallery>
File:Bumblebee&Barricade RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] & [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:ArmorBumblebee&Starscream RobotHeroes.jpg|"Armor" Bumblebee & [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:Ironhide&Bonecrusher RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] & [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Ironhide&dispensor RobotHeroes.jpg|Ironhide & [[Dispensor]]
File:Jazz&Frenzy RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] & [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]
File:ProtoformJazz&Brawl RobotHeroes.jpg|"Protoform" Jazz & [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:OptimusPrime&Blackout RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] & [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:OptimusPrime&Scorponok RobotHeroes.jpg|Optimus Prime & [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
File:Ratchet&Megatron RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] & [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
</gallery></center>

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
<center><gallery>
File:Movie-Arcee-art.jpg|[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]
File:Movie-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:Movie-Recon-Barricade-art.jpg|"Recon" Barricade
File:BigDaddyMovie BoxArt.jpg|[[Big Daddy (Movie)|Big Daddy]]
File:Blackout-packageart.jpg|[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:Movie-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Movie-Jungle-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|"Jungle" Bonecrusher
File:Movie-Brawl-art.jpg|[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:Movie-Deep-Desert-Brawl-art.jpg|"Deep Desert" Brawl
File:Movie-Breakaway-art.jpg|[[Breakaway (Movie)|Breakaway]]
File:Movie-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:BumblebeemovieBattlemask.jpg|"Stealth" Bumblebee
File:Movie-Camshaft-Portrait.jpg|[[Camshaft (Movie)|Camshaft]]
File:Cliffjumpermoviepackagingart.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]]
File:Movie-Crankcase-art.jpg|[[Crankcase (Movie)|Crankcase]]
File:DivebombMovie-Card.jpg|[[Divebomb (Movie)|Divebomb]]
File:Movie-Dreadwing-art.jpg|[[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]]
File:DropkickWipers.jpg|[[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]]
File:Movie-Evac-Portrait.jpg|[[Evac (Movie)|Evac]]
File:MovieFractureBoxart.jpg|[[Fracture (Movie)|Fracture]]
File:Movie-Grindcore-art.jpg|[[Grindcore (Movie)|Grindcore]]
File:Movie-Incinerator-art.jpg|[[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]
File:Movie-Inferno-art.jpg|[[Inferno (Movie)|Inferno]]
File:Movie-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
File:MovieJazzpackagingart.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]
File:Movie-Jazz-G1-colors-art.jpg|Jazz (G1 redeco)
File:Movie-Jetstorm-art.jpg|[[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]]
File:Movielandminebox.jpg|[[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]]
File:MovieLongarmboxart.jpg|[[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]]
File:Movie-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
File:MovieMudflapArt.jpg|[[Mudflap (Movie)|Mudflap]]
File:Movie-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Movie-Overcast-Portrait.jpg|[[Overcast (Movie)|Overcast]]
File:Movie-Salvage-art.jpg|[[Salvage (Movie)|Salvage]]
File:Movie-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
File:Movie-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:MovieStarscreamtransitionform.jpg|"Transition Form" Starscream
File:Movie-Stockade-art.jpg|[[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]]
File:Movie-Wingblade-art.jpg|[[Wingblade]]
</gallery></center>

;Cyber Slammers
<center><gallery>
File:Cyber-Slammer-Barricade-art.jpg|Barricade
File:Brawl-cyber-slammer-boxart.jpg|Brawl
File:Cyber-Slammer-Bumblebee-74-Camaro-art.jpg|Bumblebee (1974 Camaro)
File:Cyber-Slammer-Bumblebee-08-Camaro-art.jpg|Bumblebee (2008 Camaro)
File:Cyber-Slammer-Cliffjumper-art.jpg|Cliffjumper
File:Cyber-Slammer-Jazz-art.jpg|Jazz
File:Cyber-Slammer-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]
</gallery></center>

;Fast Action Battlers
<center><gallery>
File:FAB-Brawl-art.jpg|"Double Missile" Brawl
File:FAB-Bumblebee-art.jpg|"PLasma Punch" Bumblebee
File:FAB-Frenzy-art.jpg|"Disk Blast" [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]
File:PulseCannonIronhideart.jpg|"Pulse Cannon" Ironhide
File:FAB-Jazz-art.jpg|"Ion Blast" Jazz
File:FAB-Megatron-art.jpg|"Fusion Blast" Megatron
File:FireBlastOptimusart.jpg|"Fire Blast" Optimus Prime
File:FAB-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Power Hook" Optimus Prime
File:FAB-Ramjet-art.jpg|"Claw Slash" [[Ramjet (Movie)|Ramjet]]
File:RescueTorchRatchetart.jpg|"Rescue Torch" Ratchet
File:FAB-Smokescreen-art.jpg|"Sonic Shock" [[Smokescreen (Movie)|Smokescreen]]
File:FAB-Starscream-art.jpg|"Battle Blade" Starscream
</gallery></center>

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
<center><gallery>
File:ROTF-Armorhide-art.jpg|[[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]]
File:Blazemaster rotf.jpg|[[Blazemaster]]
File:ROTFBlowpipe headdesign.JPG|[[Blowpipe (ROTF)|Blowpipe]]
File:ROTFBludgeonTRUArt.jpg|[[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] (Deluxe)
File:Bludgeon v2 - ROTF package art.jpeg|Bludgeon (Voyager)
File:ROTF-Brawn-art.jpg|[[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]]
File:ROTF BruticusMaximus boxart.jpg|[[Bruticus Maximus (ROTF)|Bruticus Maximus]]
File:ROTFChromiaCardArt.jpg|[[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]]
File:Demolishor-packageart.jpg|[[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]]
File:Dirge rotf.jpg|[[Dirge (Movie)|Dirge]]
File:ROTF AutobotGears Head.JPG|[[Gears (ROTF)|Gears]]
File:LockdownROTFheadshot.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:Mindwipeindigo rotf.jpg|[[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]]
File:ROTF Rollbar RPM cardart.jpg|[[Rollbar (RPM)|Rollbar]]
File:ROTF Superion boxart.jpg|[[Superion (ROTF)|Superion]]
File:Swerve rotf.jpg|[[Swerve (Movie)|Swerve]]
File:Thrust rotf.jpg|[[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]]
File:ROTFWhirlTRUArt.jpg|[[Whirl (ROTF)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===''Dark of the Moon''===
<center><gallery>
File:DarkSteelPackagePic.jpg|[[Darksteel (DOTM)|Darksteel]]
File:RoadbusterDOTM-card.jpg|[[Roadbuster (DOTM)|Roadbuster]]
File:Sergeantdetourpackagingart.jpg|[[Sergeant Detour]]
File:SergeantReconPAckagingArt.jpg|[[Sergeant Recon]]
File:ShockwaveBoxartFace.jpg|[[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]
File:DOTM-Space-Case-art.jpg|[[Space Case (DOTM)|Space Case]]
File:DOTM Thundercracker packaging art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]]
File:DOTM-VortexArt.jpg|[[Vortex (Movie)|Vortex]]
</gallery></center>

===''Age of Extinction''===
<center><gallery>
File:AOE-Bumblebee-art.jpeg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:AOE-Crosshairs-art.jpeg|[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]]
File:AOE-Drift-art.jpeg|[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]]
File:AOE-Galvatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Galvatron]]
File:AOE-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:AOEHotShotart.jpg|[[Hot Shot (AOE)|Hot Shot]]
File:TF4Hound.jpg|[[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]
File:AOE-Junkheap-art.jpeg|[[Junkheap (AOE)|Junkheap]]
File:AOE-Lockdown-art.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:Transformers-AOE-Optimus Prime-promo-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:TfAGEOFEXTINCTION Optimus Prime Robot mode Hasbro Art Swordrun.jpeg|Optimus Prime (alternate)
File:Evasion-Mode-Optimus-Prime-art.jpeg|"Evasion Mode" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-G1-Optimus-Prime-art.jpeg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)
File:AOERollbarOneStepPackageArt.jpg|[[Rollbar (AOE)|Rollbar]] (One-Step Changer)
File:ScornAOE-wallpaper.jpg|[[Scorn]]
File:AOE-Slash-art.jpeg|[[Slash (AOE)|Slash]]
File:Movie slog card.jpg|[[Slog (AOE)|Slog]]
File:AOE-Slug-art.jpg|[[Slug (AOE)|Slug]]
File:AOE-Steeljaw-art.jpg|[[Steeljaw (AOE)|Steeljaw]]
File:AOE-Stinger-art.jpg|[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]]
File:AOE-Strafe-art.jpg|[[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]]
File:DinobotSnarlAOE.jpg|[[Snarl (AOE)|Snarl]]
File:AOEVehiconart.jpg|[[Vehicon (AOE)|Vehicon]]
</gallery></center>

;''Movie Advanced Series''
<center><gallery>
File:AOE-Battle-Blade-Bumblebee-art.jpg|"Battle Blade" Bumblebee
File:AOE-Devastator-art.jpg|[[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]]
File:AOE-Dino-art.jpg|[[Dino]]
File:AOE-Dispensor-art.jpg|[[Dispensor]]
File:AOE-Jolt-art.jpg|[[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:AOE-Protoform-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Protoform" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-Revenge-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Revenge" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]
File:AOE-Rollbar-art.jpg|Rollbar (Deluxe)
File:AOE-Sideswipe-art.jpg|[[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]]
File:AOE-Darkside-Soundwave-art.jpg|"Darkside" [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]]
File:AOE-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:AOE-Wheeljack-art.jpg|[[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''The Last Knight''===
<center><gallery>
File:TLK-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:TLK-Barricade-art2.jpg|Barricade
File:Berserker Promo Art.jpg|[[Berserker]]
File:TLKBerserkerArt.jpg|Berserker
File:TLK-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:TLK-Bumblebee-art2.jpg|Bumblebee
File:TLK-Cogman-art.jpg|[[Cogman]]
File:TLKCrosshairsRenderPackageArt.jpg|[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]]
File:TLK-Dragonstorm-art.jpg|[[Dragonstorm]]
File:TLK-Dragonstorm-art2.jpg|Dragonstorm
File:TLK-Drift-art.jpg|[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]]
File:TLK-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:TLK-Hot-Rod-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]]
TLK-HotRodPromoArt.jpg|Hot Rod
File:TLKHoundRenderPackageArt.jpg|[[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]
File:TLK-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
File:TLK-Megatron-art2.jpg|Megatron
File:TLKart-Nitro.jpg|[[Nitro Zeus|Nitro]]
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art2.jpg|Optimus Prime
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art3.jpg|Optimus Prime
File:TLK-Scorn-art.jpg|[[Scorn]]
File:TLKSqweeksPackageArt.jpg|[[Sqweeks]]
File:TLK-Sqweeks-art.jpg|Sqweeks
File:TLK-Sqweeks-art2.jpg|Sqweeks
File:TLK Steelbane PackageArt.jpg|[[Steelbane]]
</gallery></center>

==''Henkei! Henkei!''==
<center><gallery>
File:Henkei C-08 Prowl box art.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
</gallery></center>

==''Universe'' (2008)==
<center><gallery>
File:Blaster-U08-boxart.jpg|[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
File:HeavyLoadU08-boxart.jpg|[[Heavy Load (Universe)|Heavy Load]]
File:Prowl-universe2008-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
File:NemesisPrimebox.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]
File:Skyfallart.jpg|[[Skyjack (G2)|Skyfall]]
File:LeoPrimeUniverse.jpg|[[Lio Convoy|Leo Prime]]
File:Ask Vector Prime Facebook.jpg|[[Vector Prime]]
</gallery></center>

==''Animated''==
<center><gallery>
File:Arceeanmatedpackageart.jpg|[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]
File:Animatedpatrolbumblebeepackageart.jpg|"Patrol" [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]
File:Animateddirgeboxart.jpg|[[Dirge (Animated)|Dirge]]
File:Animated-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]]
File:Jetfireanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]]
File:Jetstormanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]]
File:Blazinglockdownpackageart.jpg|"Blazing" [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]
File:TFAni-OilSlickArt.jpg|[[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]]
File:Prowl-animated-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]
File:Ratchet-animated-packageart.jpg|[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]
File:Animated-Rodimus-Minor-art.jpg|[[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Minor]]
File:Safeguardanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]]
</gallery></center>

==''Shattered Glass''==
<center><gallery>
File:TFSS Bluestreak CardArt.jpg|[[Bluestreak (SG)|Bluestreak]]
File:Blurr (SG).jpg|[[Blurr (SG)|Blurr]]
File:Divebomb (SG).jpg|[[Divebomb (SG)|Divebomb]]
File:DriftSG-art.jpg|[[Drift (SG)|Drift]]
File:SG-Jazz-bioart.jpg|[[Jazz (SG)|Jazz]]
File:JunkheapSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Junkheap (SG)|Junkheap]]
File:Megatronshatteredglassprofile.jpg|[[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]]
File:Rampage shattered glass.jpg|[[Rampage (SG)|Rampage]]
File:Sgrazorclaw.jpg|[[Razorclaw (SG)|Razorclaw]]
File:SG-Ricochet-bio.jpg|[[Ricochet (SG)|Ricochet]]
File:Rodimusshatteredglasscard.jpg|[[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus]]
File:ScrapIronSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Scrap Iron (SG)|Scrap Iron]]
File:ScourgeSG.jpg|[[Scourge (SG)|Scourge]]
File:SGStarscream.jpg|[[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]]
File:Shattered Glass boxart.jpg|''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''
File:BotCon2015 Stepper CardArt.jpg|[[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]]
File:SGThundercrackerProfileArt.jpg|[[Thundercracker (SG)|Thundercracker]]
File:BotCon2012 InvasionArt Treadshot.jpg|[[Treadshot (SG)|Treadshot]]
File:BotCon2012 UltraMagnus CardArt.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]]
File:WreckGarSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Wreck-Gar (SG)|Wreck-Gar]]
</gallery></center>

==''Crossovers''==
===''Marvel''===
<center><gallery>
File:Carnage.jpg|[[Carnage]]
File:CrossoversHulkArt.jpg|[[Hulk]]
File:CrossoversHumanTorchArt.jpg|[[Human Torch]]
File:Thor PackageArt Mech.jpg|[[Thor]]
File:CrossoversVenomArt.jpg|[[Venom (Marvel)|Venom]]
File:CrossoversWarMachineArt.jpg|[[War Machine]]
</gallery></center>

===''Star Wars''===
<center><gallery>
File:Ahsoka Tano Card Art.jpg|[[Ahsoka Tano]]
File:Crossovers BobaFett cardart.jpg|[[Boba Fett]]
File:SW Cad Bane cardart.jpg|[[Cad Bane]]
File:Crossovers CloneGunship cardart.jpg|[[Clone pilot]] (Republic Gunship)
File:SWTF DarthMaul cardart.jpg|[[Darth Maul]]
File:DarthVader-SWTF-Art.jpg|[[Darth Vader]]
File:Palpatinetf.gif|[[Emperor Palpatine]]
File:Generalgrievous-packageart1.jpg|[[General Grievous]]
File:JangoFett cardart.jpg|[[Jango Fett]]
File:Star Wars TF Kit Fisto Card Art.jpg|[[Kit Fisto]]
File:Obi-WanKenobiart.jpg|[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]]
</gallery></center>

==''Transformers'' (2010)==
===''Hunt for the Decepticons''===
<center><gallery>
File:Backfirepackageart2010.jpg|[[Backfire (TF 2010)|Backfire]]
File:TF2010 Banzaitron boxart.jpg|[[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]]
File:TF2010-Brimstone-art.jpg|[[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]]
File:TF2010-Crankstart-art.jpg|[[Crankstart]]
File:Elita-1 2010 packageart.jpg|[[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-1]]
File:TF2010-The-Fallen-art.jpg|[[The Fallen]]
File:Hailstorm TF2010 boxart.jpg|[[Hailstorm (TF 2010)|Hailstorm]]
File:Highbrow TF2010 boxart.jpg|[[Highbrow (TF 2010)|Highbrow]]
File:TF2010-Hubcap-art.jpg|[[Hubcap (TF 2010)|Hubcap]]
File:Insecticon-ROTFpackageart.jpeg|[[Insecticon (Movie)|Insecticon]]
File:Jetblade 2010 packageart.jpg|[[Jetblade]]
File:TF2010-Electrostatic-Jolt-art.jpg|"Electrostatic" [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:TF2010-Oil-Pan-art.jpg|[[Oil Pan]]
File:TF2010-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Payloadpackageart2010.jpg|[[Payload (Movie)|Payload]]
File:Sea Spray.jpg|[[Sea Spray (TF 2010)|Sea Spray]]
File:TF2010-Sidearm-Sideswipe-art.jpg|"Sidearm" [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]]
File:TF2010-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:TF2010-Sunspot-art.jpg|[[Sunspot]]
File:TF2010 Tomahawk boxart.jpg|[[Tomahawk (TF 2010)|Tomahawk]]
</gallery></center>

===''Reveal the Shield''===
<center><gallery>
File:TF2010-G1-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
File:TF2010-Cyclonus-art.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
File:TF2010 Deep Dive boxart.jpg|[[Deep Dive]]
File:FallbackRTSCardback.jpg|[[Fallback (TF 2010)|Fallback]]
File:TF2010 SolarStormGrappel boxart.jpg|"Solar Storm" [[Grapple (G1)|Grappel]]
File:TF2010-Special-Ops-Jazz-art.jpg|"Special Ops" [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]
File:Reveal-the-Shield-Lugnut.jpg|[[Lugnut (TF 2010)|Lugnut]]
File:TF2010 Mindset boxart.jpg|[[Mindset (TF 2010)|Mindset]]
File:TF2010 Perceptor boxart.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
File:TF2010-Rodimus-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]]
File:TF2010-StrafeArt.jpg|[[Strafe (TF 2010)|Strafe]]
File:TF2010-Turbo-Tracks-art.jpg|"Turbo" [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
File:TF2010-Windcharger-art.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
File:TF2010-Wreck-Gar-art.jpg|[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]
</gallery></center>

===Miscellaneous===
<center><gallery>
File:Backstoptf2010boxart.jpg|[[Backstop (TF 2010)|Backstop]]
File:Transformers2010art-Undermine.jpg|[[Undermine (TF 2010)|Undermine]]
File:Wreckloosetf2010boxart.jpg|[[Wreckloose (TF 2010)|Wreckloose]]
</gallery></center>

=="Aligned"==
===''Prime''===
<center><gallery>
File:BHPR-AbominusArt.jpg|[[Abominus (Prime)|Abominus]]
File:Arcee Prime stockimage.jpg|[[Arcee (WFC)/toys|Arcee]] (''First Edition'')
File:Bulkhead-Prime-stock render.jpg|[[Bulkhead (Prime)/toys|Bulkhead]] (''Robots in Disguise'')
File:PrimeBee.jpg|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys|Bumblebee]] (''First Edition'')
File:Prime-DeadEndCardArt.jpg|[[Dead End (WFC)|Dead End]]
File:Prime-FallbackCardArt.jpg|[[Fallback (Prime)|Fallback]]
File:Prime-FlamewarCardArt.jpg|[[Flamewar (Prime)|Flamewar]]
File:Prime-HotShotCardArt.jpg|[[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]]
File:KupPrime-cardart.jpg|[[Kup (WFC)|Kup]]
File:Megatron-Prime-stock-render.jpg|[[Megatron (WFC)/toys|Megatron]] (''First Edition'')
File:Prime-MirageCardArt.jpg|[[Mirage (Prime)|Mirage]]
File:RumblePrime-cardart.jpg|[[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]]
File:Shockwave CGI Packaging 1.jpg|[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]
File:Prime-TailgateCardArt.jpg|[[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]
File:Thundertronpackagingart.jpg|[[Thundertron]]
File:BH Optimus Prime Package art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys|Optimus Prime]] (''Beast Hunters'')
File:AM wildrider packageart.jpg|[[Wildrider (Prime)|Wildrider]]
</gallery></center>

===''Rescue Bots''===
<center><gallery>
File:RBpackageart-Blurr.jpg|[[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]]
File:RescueBots-Brushfire-PackageArt.jpg|[[Brushfire (RB)|Brushfire]]
File:RBHoist-packageart.jpg|[[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]]
File:RB-art Medix-cardart.jpg|[[Medix (RB)|Medix]]
File:Sawyer Storm card art.jpg|[[Sawyer Storm]]
</gallery></center>

===''Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
<center><gallery>
File:RID2015art Blastwave.jpg|[[Blastwave]]
File:RIDart-Bludgeon.jpg|[[Bludgeon (Prime)|Bludgeon]]
File:RID-Blurr-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]]
File:Crazybolt RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Crazybolt (RID)|Crazybolt]]
File:RID15-boxart Cyberwarp.jpg|[[Cyberwarp]]
File:RID15-boxart Cyclonus.jpg|[[Cyclonus (WFC)|Cyclonus]]
File:RID2015-Drift.jpg|[[Drift (RID)|Drift]]
File:Fixit-Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-Animated-Series.jpg|[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]]
File:RID2015Fracturepromorender.jpg|[[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]]
File:RID15-boxart Galvatronus.jpg|[[Galvatronus (RID)|Galvatronus]]
File:RIDart Heatseeker.jpg|[[Heatseeker]]
File:RID2015-jazzpromorender.jpg|[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]]
File:RID2015 Overload BoxArt.jpg|[[Overload (RID)|Overload]]
File:RIDart-Paralon.jpg|[[Paralon (RID)|Paralon]]
File:RID15-boxart Riotgear.jpg|[[Riotgear]]
File:RIDart-Scatterspike.jpg|[[Scatterspike (RID)|Scatterspike]]
File:RID15-boxart Shockdrive.jpg|[[Shockdrive]]
File:RID15-boxart Skyjack.jpg|[[Skyjack (RID)|Skyjack]]
File:RIDart StormhammerSkysledge.jpg|[[Skysledge]] and [[Stormhammer]]
File:RIDart Skywarp.jpg|[[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]]
File:Steeljawaligned.jpg|[[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]]
File:RID2015art Stormshot.jpg|[[Stormshot]]
File:RIDart-Thermidor.jpg|[[Thermidor]]
File:Thunderhoof.jpg|[[Thunderhoof (RID)|Thunderhoof]]
File:RID15-boxart Treadshock.jpg|[[Treadshock]]
File:RIDart-Twinferno.jpg|[[Twinferno]]
File:Underbite.jpg|[[Underbite]]
File:RID15-boxart Warnado.jpg|[[Warnado]]
File:Windblade-RID.jpg|[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]]
</gallery></center>

;Mini-Cons
<center><gallery>
File:RIDart Aerobolt.jpg|[[Aerobolt]]
File:Anvil RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]]
File:Beastbox RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Beastbox (RID)|Beastbox]]
File:RIDart-Forth.JPG|[[Back]]/Forth
File:RIDart-Backtrack.jpg|[[Backtrack (RID)|Backtrack]]
File:RIDart-Bashbreaker.jpg|[[Bashbreaker]]
File:Bludgeon RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Bludgeon (RID 2015)|Bludgeon]]
File:Dragonus.jpg|[[Dragonus]]
File:RIDart Great Byte.jpg|[[Great Byte]]
File:Hammer RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]]
File:RiDart Hi-Test.jpg|[[Hi-Test (RID)|Hi-Test (Front)]]
File:RIDart-Hi-Test.jpg|Hi-Test (Side)
File:RIDart-Lancelon.jpg|[[Lancelon]]
File:RIDart-LordDoomitron.jpg|[[Lord Doomitron]]
File:RIDart-Ransack.JPG|[[Ransack (RID Mini-Con)|Ransack]]
File:RID2015 Ratbat BoxArt.jpg|[[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]]
File:Sandsting package art.jpg|[[Sandsting]]
File:Sawback package art.jpg|[[Sawback]]
File:RIDart-Stuntwing.jpg|[[Stuntwing]]
File:Swelter RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Swelter]]
File:RIDart-Tricerashot.jpg|[[Tricerashot]]
File:RIDart-Trickout.jpg|[[Trickout]]
File:Undertone RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Undertone]]
File:Velocirazor package art.jpg|[[Velocirazor]]
File:RIDart-Windstrike.jpg|[[Windstrike]]
</gallery></center>

;Crash Combiners
<center><gallery>
File:RIDart Beeside.jpg|[[Beeside]]
File:Buzzworthy Bumblegrim cardart.jpg|[[Bumblegrim]] (''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'')
File:TF-RID2015-Primelock.jpg|[[Primelock]]
File:RIDart Primestrong.jpg|[[Primestrong]]
File:RID2015 Saberclaw package art.jpg|[[Saberclaw]]
File:RIDart Skyhammer.jpg|[[Skyhammer (RID)|Skyhammer]]
File:RIDart-Shocknado.jpg|[[Shocknado]]
</gallery></center>

===''Adventure''===
<center><gallery>
File:Prime of Micron Barithunder package art.jpg|[[Barithunder]]
File:Adventureart-BlackShadow.jpg|[[Black Shadow (RID)|Black Shadow]]
File:Adventureart-Bombshell.jpg|[[Bombshell (RID)|Bombshell]]
File:Adventure Cosmos package art.jpg|[[Cosmos (RID)|Cosmos]]
File:Prime of Micron Gravity package art.jpg|[[Gravity]]
File:Adventure Greejeeber Package art.jpg|[[Greejeeber]]
File:Prime of Micron Ironjam package art.jpg|[[Ironjam]]
File:Adventure Junkion Packageart.jpg|[[Junkion (RID)|Junkion]]
File:Adventure Lockdown Package Art.jpg|[[Lockdown (RID)|Lockdown]]
File:Adventure NemesisPrime packageart.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (RID)|Nemesis Prime]]
File:Adventure Override package art.jpg|[[Override (RID)|Override]]
File:Adventureart-Phantomjaw.jpg|[[Phantomjaw]]
File:Adventure Powerglide package art.jpg|[[Powerglide (RID)|Powerglide]]
File:Prime of Micron Psychobat package art.jpg|[[Psychobat (RID)|Psychobat]]
File:Adventure Roadblock Package art.jpg|[[Roadblock (RID)|Roadblock]]
File:Adventure Runabout package art.jpg|[[Runabout (RID)|Runabout]]
File:Adventure Sawtooth package art.jpg|[[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]]
File:Adventure Shrapnel package art.jpg|[[Shrapnel (RID)|Shrapnel]]
File:Adventureart-Slug.jpg|[[Slug (FOC)|Slug]]
File:Prime of Micron Volcano package art.jpg|[[Volcano (RID)|Volcano]]
File:Prime of Micron Windra package art.jpg|[[Windra]]
</gallery></center>

===''Rescue Bots Academy''===
<center><gallery>
File:RBA Bumblebee.jpg|[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]
File:RBA Chase.jpg|[[Chase (RB)|Chase]]
File:RBA Hoist.jpg|[[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]]
File:RBA Hotshot.jpg|[[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]]
File:RBA Medix.jpg|[[Medix (RB)|Medix]]
File:RBA Optimus-Prime.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]
File:RBA Wedge.jpg|[[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]]
File:RBA Whirl.jpg|[[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

==''Generations''==
===''Thrilling 30''===
<center><gallery>
File:Generations boxart Blitzwing.jpg|[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]
File:Spotlight Bumblebee cvrRI.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
File:RID25 subcvr.jpg|[[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]
File:RID17 cvrRI.jpg|[[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]]
File:RID18 cvrRI.jpg|Goldfire
File:Spotlight Hoist cvrRI.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
File:MTMTE27 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]
File:Spotlight OrionPax cvrRI.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]]
File:Spotlight Megatron cvrRI.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
File:MTMTE24 subcvr.jpg|[[Mini-Con Assault Team]] ([[Centuritron]])
File:RID26 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
File:RID24 subcvr.jpg|[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]
File:MTMTE23 cvrRI.jpg|[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] w/ [[Holepunch (G1)|Holepunch]] & [[Tracer (Targetmaster)|Caliburst]]
File:MTMTE22 cvrRI.jpg|[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
File:RID23 cvrRI.jpg|[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
File:DarkCybertron cvrRIA.jpg|[[Starscream (Armada)|''Armada'' Starscream]]
File:MTMTE25 subcvr.jpg|[[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]
File:Spotlight Thundercracker cvrRI.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Spotlight Trailcutter cvrRI.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]]
File:RID19 cvrRI.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
File:MTMTE26 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]
</gallery></center>

===''Fall of Cybertron''===
<center><gallery>
File:Fall of Cybertron Generations Air Raid package art.jpg|[[Fireflight (FOC)|Air Raid]]
File:GenerationsArt-Eject.jpg|[[Eject (FOC)|Eject]]
File:FrenzyWFCboxart.jpg|[[Frenzy (WFC)|Frenzy]]
File:FOC-Impactorcardart.jpg|[[Impactor (Prime)|Impactor]]
File:GenerationsArt-Ramhorn.jpg|[[Ramhorn (FOC)|Ramhorn]]
File:RatbatFOCcardart.jpg|[[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]]
File:GenerationsArt-Rewind.jpg|[[Rewind (FOC)|Rewind]]
File:FOC-Roadbustercardart.jpg|[[Roadbuster (Prime)|Roadbuster]]
File:RuinationFOC-packagingart.jpg|[[Ruination (FOC)|Ruination]]
File:GenerationsArt-Steeljaw.jpg|[[Steeljaw (FOC)|Steeljaw]]
File:Buzzsaw-FOCboxart.jpg|[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundblaster]] & [[Buzzsaw (FOC)|Buzzsaw]]
File:GenerationsArt-Sunder.jpg|[[Sunder (FOC)|Sunder]]
File:FOC-Topspincardart.jpg|[[Topspin (FOC)|Topspin]]
File:FOC-Twintwistcardart.jpg|[[Twintwist]]
File:FOC-Whirlcardart.jpg|[[Whirl (FOC)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===''Combiner Wars''===
<center><gallery>
File:CWart-Betatron.jpg|[[Betatron (CW)|Betatron]]
File:CW Blades cvr.jpg|[[Blades (G1)|Blades]]
File:CW First Aid.jpg|[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
File:CW Ironhide cvr.jpg|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys|Ironhide]]
File:TF40 cvrRI.jpg|[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]
File:CW Mirage cvr.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)/toys|Mirage]]
File:Windbladev2-3-cvrRI.jpg|[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]
File:CW Prowl cvr.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:CW Rook cvr.jpg|[[Rook (CW)|Rook]]
File:Rook-comiccover.jpg|[[Rook (CW)|Rook]] (cropped)
File:CW Smokescreen cvr.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)/toys|Smokescreen]]
File:TFSS SGStarscream CardArt.jpg|''Shattered Glass'' [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]]
File:CW Streetwise cvr.jpg|[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
File:CW Sunstreaker cvr.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys|Sunstreaker]]
File:Windbladev2 2 cvrRI.jpg|[[Superion (G1)|Superion]]
File:CW Trailbreaker cvr.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys|Trailbreaker]]
File:Ultra Prime artwork SDCC 2014.jpg|[[Ultra Prime]]
File:Victorion-packagingart.jpg|[[Victorion]]
File:CW Wheeljack comic.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''Titans Return''===
<center><gallery>
File:TitansReturn Brainstorm CardArt.jpg|[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]
File:HasbroPulse FortressMaximus.jpg|[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
</gallery></center>

===''Power of the Primes''===
<center><gallery>
File:POTPBattleslashArtwork.jpg|[[Battleslash]]
File:POTP-Beachcomber-art-transparent.jpg|[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconBlot-CardArt.jpg|[[Blot (G1)|Blot]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-BludgeonQuintusPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Bomb-BurstMegatronus-CardArt.jpg|[[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconCutthroat-CardArt.jpg|[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Elita-1-CardArt.jpg|[[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]]
File:Elita-Infin1te.jpg|[[Elita-Infin1te]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotGrimlock-CardArt.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconHun-Gurrr-CardArt.jpg|[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurrr]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-InfernoCombiner-Art.jpg|[[Inferno Combiner]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-LandmineAlphaTrion-CardArt.jpg|[[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-MetalhawkVectorPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Metalhawk (G1)|Metalhawk]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Moonracer-CardArt.jpg|[[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Novastar-CardArt.jpg|[[Firestar (G1)|Novastar]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-OctopunchSolusPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconRippersnapper-CardArt.jpg|[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]]
File:POTPRoadtrapArtwork.jpg|[[Roadtrap (POTP)|Roadtrap]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-EvolutionRodimusUnicronus-CardArt.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Unicronus]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconSinnertwin-CardArt.jpg|[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Skrapnel-CardArt.jpg|[[Shrapnel (G1)|Skrapnel]]
File:POTPSlashArtwork.jpg|[[Slash (POTP)|Slash]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSludge-CardArt.jpg|[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSlug-CardArt.jpg|[[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSnarl-CardArt.jpg|[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-StarscreamCombiner-Art.jpg|[[Starscream Combiner]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-SubmarauderAlchemistPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSwoop-CardArt.jpg|[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Windcharger-CardArt.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
</gallery></center>

===''Studio Series''===
<center><gallery>
File:ROTB-Airazorzoo.jpg|[[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]] (front)
File:Arcee-SS86packagingart.jpg|[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
File:MovieBarricade render1.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] (front)
File:MovieBarricade.jpg|Barricade (side)
File:WFCBarricade.jpg|[[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:ROTB-Battletrap-Render.jpg|[[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]]
File:StudioSeries-Blackout-art.jpg|[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:StudioSeries-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Studio-Series-Blitzwing-package-render.jpeg|[[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]]
File:StudioSeries-Brawl-art.jpg|[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:BB Brawn.jpg|[[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]]
File:StudioSeries-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] (2007 movie figure)
File:StudioSeries-Bumblebee-WWII-art.jpg|"WWII" Bumblebee
File:Chromia SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]]
File:SS BB Cliffjumper.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]]
File:StudioSeries-Crowbar-art.jpg|[[Crowbar]]
File:ROTF Devastator promo.jpg|[[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]]
File:StudioSeries-Dropkick-art.jpg|[[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] (SuperCobra mode figure)
File:StudioSeries-Dropkick-Car-art.jpg|Dropkick (Javelin mode figure)
File:ROTB Freezer Render.jpg|[[Freezer]]
File:StudioSeries-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:Hightower SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Hightower (ROTF)|Hightower]]
File:StudioSeries-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
File:MovieJazz promorender.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] (front)
File:StudioSeries-Jazz-art.jpg|Jazz (side)
File:ROTF Jetfire.jpg|[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]
File:Studio Series Jolt packaging image.jpg|[[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:StudioSeries-KSI-Boss-art.jpg|[[KSI Boss]]
File:StudioSeries-KSI-Sentry.jpg|[[KSI Sentry]]
File:StudioSeries-Lockdown-art.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:StudioSeries-Long-Haul-art.jpg|[[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]]
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Revenge-art2.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure; front)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Revenge-art.jpg|Megatron (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure; side)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Battle-Damaged-art2.jpg|"Battle Damaged" Megatron (front)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Battle-Damaged-art.jpg|"Battle Damaged" Megatron (side)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Dark-art.jpg|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'' figure) & [[Igor]]
File:Bumblebee-movie-Megatron-ss-concept.jpg|Megatron (''Bumblebee'' concept art figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] (2007 movie figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Revenge-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Dark-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Dark of the Moon'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Bumblebee-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Bumblebee'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Rampage-art.jpg|[[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]]
File:StudioSeries-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] (2007 movie deco)
File:Movie Scorponok Procterrender1.jpg|[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] (Blackout pack-in figure)
File:Scourge Render.jpg|[[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]]
File:Scrapmetal SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Scrapmetal (ROTF)|Scrapmetal]]
File:StudioSeries-Sentinel-Prime-art.jpg|[[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]
File:StudioSeries-Shadow-Raider-art.jpg|[[Shadow Raider]]
File:StudioSeries-Shatter-art.jpg|[[Shatter]] (Plymouth mode figure)
File:StudioSeries-Sideswipe-art.jpg|[[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] (front)
File:Revenge of the Fallen Sideswipe.jpg|Sideswipe (side)
File:WFC Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:Skipjack SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Skipjack (ROTF)|Skipjack]]
File:Slug-SS86packagingart.jpg|[[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
File:StudioSeries-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] (2007 movie deco)
File:StudioSeries-Starscream-Revenge-art.jpg|Starscream (''Revenge of the Fallen'' deco; front)
File:RevengeOfTheFallenStarscream.jpg|Starscream (''Revenge of the Fallen'' deco; side)
File:StarscreamBumblebeeMovieRender.jpg|Starscream (''Bumblebee'' figure)
File:WFC Starscream.jpg|[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:Stinger.jpg|[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]]
File:Ss-111-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (ROTF)|Sunstreaker]]
File:StudioSeries-The-Fallen-art.jpg|[[The Fallen]]
File:FURY-Studio-Series-Thrust.jpg|[[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]]
File:StudioSeries-Thundercracker-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]]
</gallery></center>

===''Collaborative''===
<center><gallery>
File:Ectotron boxart.jpg|[[Ectotron]]
File:Transformers-XMen-Ultimate-XSpanse-Character-Art.jpg|[[Ultimate X-Spanse]]
File:Collaborative Sabretooth boxart.jpeg|[[Sabretooth]] (Ultimate X-Spanse pack-in figure)
File:CobraCon-Fusion.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Collaborative|Megatron]] ([[H.I.S.S. tank]])
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
<center><gallery>
File:Siege-Apeface-art.jpg|[[Apeface]]
File:Siege-Astrotrain-art.jpg|[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]
File:Siege-Autobot-Alphastrike-Counterforce-box-art.jpg|[[Firestormer|Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce]] ([[Sideswipe (G2)|Covert Clone Sideswipe]], [[Slamdance (G1)|Slamdance]] and [[Trenchfoot]])
File:Siege-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]]
File:Siege-Brunt-art.jpg|[[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]]
File:Siege-Chromia-art.jpg|[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]
File:Siege-Cog-art.jpg|[[Cog (G1)|Cog]]
File:Siege-Crosshairs-art.jpg|[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]]
File:Siege-Decepticon-Phantomstrike-Squadron-box-art.jpg|[[Phantomstrike Squadron|Decepticon Phantomstrike Squadron]] ([[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], [[Fracas]], [[Hairsplitter|Shrute]] and [[Terror-Daxtyl]])
File:WarForCybertronSiege-Firedrive-CardArt.jpg|[[Firebolt (G1)|Firedrive]]
File:Siege-Greenlight-art.jpg|[[Greenlight]]
File:Siege-Hound-art.jpg|[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
File:Siege-Impactor-art.jpg|[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]]
File:Siege-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
File:Siege-Jetfire-art.jpg|[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]
File:Siege-Mirage-art.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
File:Siege-Omega-Supreme-art.jpg|[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]
File:Siege-OptimusPrime-CardArt.jpeg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Siege-Prowl-art.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
File:SiegeArt-Pteraxadon.jpg|[[Pteraxadon]]
File:Siege-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
File:Siege-Red-Alert-art.jpg|[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]
File:Siege-Refraktor-art.jpg|[[Reflector (G1)|Refraktor]]
File:WFC-Siege-Poster-ArkLaunchAutobots.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]''
File:Siege-Shockwave-art.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
File:Siege-Sideswipe-CardArt.jpeg|[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
File:Siege-Sixgun-art.jpg|[[Six-Gun|Sixgun]]
File:Siege-Skytread-art.jpg|[[Flywheels|Skytread]]
File:WFC-Siege-Smashdown-Card-Art.jpg|[[Smashdown]]
File:Siege-Soundwave-art.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
File:Siege-Spinister-art.jpg|[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]]
File:Siege-Springer-art.jpg|[[Springer (G1)|Springer]]
File:Siege-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
File:Siege-Thundercracker-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Siege-Ultra-Magnus-art.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
<center><gallery>
File:Earthrise-Airwave-art.jpg|[[Airwave (facility)|Airwave]]
File:Earthrise-Allicon-art.jpg|[[Allicon]]
File:Earthrise-Arcee-art.jpg|[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
File:Earthrise-Cliffjumper-art.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Doublecrosser-Card-Art.jpg|[[Doublecrosser (Earthrise)|Doublecrosser]]
File:Earthrise-Doubledealer-art.jpg|[[Doubledealer]]
File:Earthrise-Fasttrack-art.jpg|[[Fasttrack (G1)|Fasttrack]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-main-artwork.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]''
File:Earthrise-Grapple-art.jpg|[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]]
File:Earthrise-Hoist-art.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
File:Earthrise-Ironworks-art.jpg|[[Ironworks (facility)|Ironworks]]
File:Earthrise-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
File:Earthrise-Judge-art.jpg|[[Quintesson Judge]]
File:Earthrise-Runamuck-art.jpg|[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]]
File:Earthrise-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]
File:Earthrise-Sky-Lynx-art.jpg|[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Slitherfang-Card-Art.jpg|[[Slitherfang]]
File:Earthrise-Smokescreen-art.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:Earthrise-Snapdragon-art.jpg|[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Soundbarrier-Card-Art.jpg|[[Soundbarrier]]
File:Earthrise-Sunstreaker-art.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
File:Earthrise-Trailbreaker-art.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]
File:Earthrise-Wheeljack-art.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
<center><gallery>
File:WFC-Kingdom-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'')
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Megatron returns to pits.jpg|Spoiler Pack ([[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]])
File:WFC-Kingdom-Nemesis-Prime-art.jpg|Spoiler Pack ([[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]])
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Kingdom''===
<center><gallery>
File:WFC-Kingdom-Airazor-art.jpg|[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Ark becomes giant woman.jpg|[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Battle-Across-Time-Collection-artwork.jpg|"Battle Across Time Collection"
File:WFC-Kingdom-Cheetor-art.jpg|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Cyclonus-art.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Dracodon-art.jpg|[[Dracodon]]
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Megatron becomes Galvatron.jpg|[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Huffer-art.jpg|[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Inferno-art.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-main-artwork.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]''
File:WFC-Kingdom-Megatron-Beast-art.jpg|[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron (Beast)]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Optimus-Primal-art.jpg |[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Pipes-art.jpg |[[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]]
File:Kingdom Ractonite boxart.jpg|[[Ractonite]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Rattrap-art.jpg|[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Rhinox.jpg|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]
File:WFCKingdom-Paleotrexart.jpg|[[Paleotrex]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Shadow-Panther-art.jpg|[[Shadow Panther]]
File:Kingdom-Slammer-art.jpg|[[Slammer]]
File:Kingdom T-Wrecks-package-art.jpg|[[T-Wrecks]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tigatron-art.jpg|[[Tigatron]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tracks-art.jpg|[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tricranius-art.jpg|[[Tricranius]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Vertebreak-art.jpg|[[Vertebreak (Kingdom)|Vertebreak]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Warpath-art.jpg|[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Waspinator-art.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
File:Kingdom Wingfinger boxart.jpg|[[Wingfinger]]
</gallery></center>

===''Legacy''===
<center><gallery>
File:Legacy boxart Axlegrease.jpeg|[[Axlegrease]]
File:LegacyUnited-BouldercrashArt.jpg|[[Bouldercrash]]
File:Crashbar-packagingart.jpg|[[Crashbar]]
File:TF-Legacy-United-Core-Geocron PackagingArt.jpg|[[Geocron]]
File:TF-Legacy-Core-Class-Iguanus-Package-Art-Full.jpg|[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]]
File:Kaskade-packagingart.jpg|[[Kaskade]]
File:Legacy-Laser-Prime-Package-Art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|G2 Universe Laser Optimus Prime]]
File:Paradiseparakeet-packagingart.jpg|[[Paradise Parakeet]]
File:Magneous-packagingart.jpg|[[Magneous]]
File:MalleusMinotaurus-art.jpg|[[Malleus Minotaurus]]
File:Legacy-art Masterdominus.jpg|[[Masterdominus]]
File:Legacy Medix BoxArt.jpeg|[[Medix (G1)|Medix]]
File:Scraphook-packagingart.jpg|[[Scraphook]]
File:Scarr-legacypackagingart.jpg|[[Skar (IDW)|Scarr]]
File:Shadowstrip-packagingart.jpg|[[Shadowstrip]]
File:TF-Legacy-United-Deluxe-Shard-art.jpg|[[Shard]]
File:Legacy-art Spindle.jpg|[[Spindle]]
File:Trashmaster-packagingart.jpg|[[Trashmaster]]
</gallery></center>

==''Cyberverse'' (2018)==
<center><gallery>
File:AcidStormCyberversePromo.jpeg|[[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]]
File:CyberverseBlurr.jpg|[[Blurr (Cyberverse)|Blurr]]
File:Cyberverse-Bumblebee-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Bumbleswoop.jpg|[[Bumbleswoop]]
File:Cheetor-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]]
File:Clobber-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]]
File:Dead End-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]]
File:Cyberverse-packagingart-Gnaw.jpg|[[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]]
File:Cyberverse-Grimlock-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]]
File:Hot-Rod-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]
File:Transformers Cyberverse One-Step Jazz.jpg|[[Jazz (Cyberverse)|Jazz]]
File:Jetfire-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]]
File:Megatron-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]]
File:Optimus-Prime-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]
File:ProwlCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Prowl (Cyberverse)|Prowl]]
File:Ratchet-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]]
File:Shadow-Striker-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]
File:Shockwave-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]]
File:SkyByte-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpeg|[[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]]
File:SlipstreamCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Slugtron.jpg|[[Slugtron]]
File:SoundwaveCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]]
File:Starscream-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]
File:Thundercracker-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]]
File:Thunderhowl-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Wheelgrim.jpg|[[Wheelgrim]]
File:CyberverseWheeljack.jpg|[[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]]
File:Whirl-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.JPG|[[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]]
File:Cyberverse-Ultimate-Volcanicus-package-art.jpg|[[Volcanicus (Cyberverse)|Volcanicus]]
</gallery></center>

==''EarthSpark''==
<center><gallery>
File:Elita1-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]]
File:Hashtag-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] (Tacticon figure)
File:Optimusprime-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] (Tacticon figure)
File:Shockwave-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]]
File:Skywarp-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Skywarp (ES)|Skywarp]]
File:Starscream-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Starscream (ES)|Starscream]]
File:Wheeljack-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

==Miscellaneous==
<center><gallery>
File:PepsiConvoy.jpg|[[Pepsi Convoy]]
File:G1 boxart at botcon.jpg|''The Transformers'' Boxart
File:Ride-Evac-art.jpg|''[[Transformers: Universal Studios]]'' [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]]
</gallery></center>

[[Category:Media]]

Package art/gallery

2024-10-20T02:42:22Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Action Masters */

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This page collects the package art used in various pages on {{SITENAME}}.

==''The Transformers''==
<center>[[File:G1 OptimusPrime boxart.jpg|none|215px|thumb|Transformers Commandment #1: Thou shall not joke about [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]]]

<gallery>
File:Autoceptor-boxart.jpg|[[Autoceptor]]
File:Battletrapboxart.jpg|[[Battletrap (G1)|Battletrap]]
File:G1 packagingart Blaster.jpg|[[Blaster (G1)/toys|Blaster]]
File:G1 Bluestreak boxart.jpg|[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys|Bluestreak]]
File:G1 boxart Brawn.jpg|[[Brawn (G1)/toys|Brawn]]
File:Camshaft-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Camshaft (G1)|Camshaft]]
File:Cindersaur cardart.jpg|[[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]]
File:G1boxart-Cliffjumper.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys|Cliffjumper]]
File:G1 boxart Cyclonus.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)/toys|Cyclonus]]
File:Deceptor-boxart.jpg|[[Deceptor]]
File:G1 boxart Dirge.jpg|[[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]]
File:Dogfight-boxart.jpg|[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]]
File:Downshift-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Downshift (G1)|Downshift]]
File:G1 - Fastlane & Cloudraker - Boxart.jpg|[[Fastlane]] & [[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]]
File:Flamefeather cardart.jpg|[[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]]
File:Flywheelsboxart.jpg|[[Flywheels]]
File:Galvatron-Box-Art.jpg|[[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]
File:G1 Grimlock boxart.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys|Grimlock]]
File:G1 boxart Hoist.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)/toys|Hoist]]
File:G1-HotRod-boxart.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys|Hot Rod]]
File:G1 packageart Hound.jpg|[[Hound (G1)/toys|Hound]]
File:G1 boxart Inferno.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)/toys|Inferno]]
File:G1 packagingart Jazz.jpg|[[Jazz (G1)/toys|Jazz]]
File:G1 boxart Jetfire.jpg|[[Jetfire (G1)/toys|Jetfire]]
File:G1 boxart Kup.jpg|[[Kup (G1)/toys|Kup]]
File:G1 megatron boxart.jpeg|[[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]]
File:Mirage g1boxart.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)/toys|Mirage]]
File:Overdrive-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Overdrive]]
File:G1Override cardart.jpg|[[Override (G1)|Override]]
File:G1 boxart Perceptor.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)/toys|Perceptor]]
File:Pounce-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Pounce]]
File:G1 boxart Powerglide.jpg|[[Powerglide (G1)/toys|Powerglide]]
File:G1 boxart Prowl.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:G1 boxart Ramjet.jpg|[[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]]
File:G1 boxart RedAlert.jpg|[[Red Alert (G1)/toys|Red Alert]]
File:G1Repugnus boxart.jpg|[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]]
File:G1 boxart Scourge.jpg|[[Scourge (G1)/toys|Scourge]]
File:G1 boxart Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys|Shockwave]]
File:G1boxart-Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys|Sideswipe]]
File:G1Sizzle(sparkabot) cardart.jpg|[[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]]
File:Sky lynx.jpg|[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]
File:G1 Slag boxart.jpg|[[Slag (G1)/toys|Slag]]
File:G1 boxart Smokescreen.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:G1 Snarl boxart.jpg|[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]
File:G1 boxart Soundwave.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]]
File:Sparkstalker cardart.jpg|[[Sparkstalker]]
File:G1boxart-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys|Sunstreaker]]
File:Swerve.toy.boxart.jpg|[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
File:G1 boxart Swoop.jpg|[[Swoop (G1)/toys|Swoop]]
File:G1 boxart Thrust.jpg|[[Thrust (G1)/toys|Thrust]]
File:G1boxart-Topspin.jpg|[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]]
File:G1 boxart Trailbreaker.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys|Trailbreaker]]
File:G1-TwinTwist-boxart.jpg|[[Twin Twist]]
File:G1Venom boxart.jpg|[[Venom (G1)|Venom]]
File:G1 boxart Warpath.jpg|[[Warpath (G1)#Toys|Warpath]]
File:G1 packagingart Wheeljack.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys|Wheeljack]]
File:Windcharger G1 boxart.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
File:G1Whirl boxart.jpg|[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===Mini-Cassettes===
<center><gallery>
File:Beastbox g1.jpg|[[Beastbox (G1)|Beastbox]]
File:G1 boxart Buzzsaw.jpg|[[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys|Buzzsaw]]
File:G1 boxart Frenzy.jpg|[[Frenzy (G1)/toys|Frenzy]]
File:G1 Ratbat Packaging Art.jpg|[[Ratbat (G1)/toys|Ratbat]]
File:Ravageboxart.jpg|[[Ravage (G1)/toys|Ravage]]
File:G1 boxart Rumble.jpg|[[Rumble (G1)/toys|Rumble]]
File:Slugfest-cardart.jpg|[[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]]
File:Squawktalk cardart.jpg|[[Squawktalk (G1)|Squawktalk]]
File:Steeljawboxart.jpg|[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]]
</gallery></center>

===Triple Changers===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 boxart Astrotrain.jpg|[[Astrotrain (G1)/toys|Astrotrain]]
File:G1 boxart Blitzwing.jpg|[[Blitzwing (G1)/toys|Blitzwing]]
File:Octane boxart.jpg|[[Octane]]
File:G1AutobotSandstorm boxart.jpg|[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]]
File:G1 boxart Springer.jpg|[[Springer (G1)/toys|Springer]]
</gallery></center>

===Combiners===
<center><gallery>
File:Air Raid G1 boxart.jpg|[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]
File:Blast Off G1 boxart.jpg|[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]
File:G1Blot boxart.jpg|[[Blot (G1)|Blot]]
File:Bonecrusher G1 boxart.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Brawl G1 boxart.jpg|[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]
File:G1 Cutthroat boxart.jpg|[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]]
File:G1-Divebomb-boxart.jpg|[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]]
File:Fireflight G1 boxart.jpg|[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]
File:Long Haul G1 boxart.jpg|[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
File:Mixmaster G1 boxart.jpg|[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]
File:Onslaught G1 boxart.jpg|[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]
File:G1 Rippersnapper boxart.jpg|[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]]
File:Headstrong boxart.jpg|[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]]
File:Hook G1 boxart.jpg|[[Hook (G1)|Hook]]
File:ScavengerG1.jpg|[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]
File:Scrapper G1 boxart.jpg|[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
File:Silverbolt G1 boxart.jpg|[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]
File:G1-Sinnertwin-boxart.jpg|[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]]
File:Skydive G1 boxart.jpg|[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]
File:Slingshot G1 boxart.jpg|[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]
File:Streetwise g1 boxart.jpg|[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
File:Swindle G1 boxart.jpg|[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]
File:Tantrum boxart.jpg|[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]]
File:Vortex G1 boxart.jpg|[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]
</gallery></center>

===Throttlebots===
<center><gallery>
File:Chase g1 boxart.jpg|[[Chase (G1)|Chase]]
File:G1Freeway cardart.jpg|[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]]
File:Rollbar g1 boxart.jpg|[[Rollbar (G1)|Rollbar]]
File:Searchlight g1 boxart.jpg|[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]]
File:G1Wideload cardart.jpg|[[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]]
</gallery></center>

===Six Changers===
<center><gallery>
File:SixshotBoxArt.jpg|[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]
File:Quickswitch boxart.jpg|[[Quickswitch]]
</gallery></center>

===Headmasters===
<center><gallery>
File:G1Mindwipe boxart.jpg|[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]
File:G1 Skullcruncher boxart.jpg|[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]]
File:Weirdwolf boxart.jpg|[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]]
File:G1 Apeface boxart.jpg|[[Apeface]]
File:G1Snapdragon boxart.jpg|[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]]
File:Hosehead boxart.jpg|[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]]
File:G1 boxart Scorponok.jpg|[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]
File:G1 Siren boxart.jpg|[[Siren (G1)|Siren]]
File:Squeezeplay boxart.jpg|[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]]
</gallery></center>

===Targetmasters===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 Crosshairs boxart.jpg|[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]]
File:G1 Pointblank boxart.jpg|[[Pointblank]]
File:G1 Sureshot boxart.jpg|[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]
File:G1Misfire boxart.jpg|[[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]]
File:Slugslingerg1.jpg|[[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]]
File:G1Triggerhappy boxart.jpg|[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]]
File:Landfill g1 boxart.jpg|[[Landfill (G1)|Landfill]]
File:G1Quickmix cardart.jpg|[[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]]
File:Scoop g1 boxart.jpg|[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]]
File:Needlenose-boxart.jpg|[[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]
File:Quake cardart.jpg|[[Quake (G1)|Quake]]
File:Spinister-boxart.jpg|[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]]
</gallery></center>

===Pretenders===
<center><gallery>
File:Cloudburst.jpg|[[Cloudburst]]
File:Groundbreaker.jpg|[[Groundbreaker]]
File:Sky high(Pretender) boxart.jpg|[[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]]
File:Splashdown.jpg|[[Splashdown]]
File:Waverider boxart.jpg|[[Waverider]]
File:Buglyboxart.jpg|[[Bugly (G1)|Bugly]]
File:G1Finback boxart.jpg|[[Finback]]
File:Iguanus.jpg|[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]]
File:G1 Skullgrin boxart.jpg|[[Skullgrin]]
File:G1Submarauder boxart.jpg|[[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]
File:Pincher boxart.jpg|[[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]]
File:Octopunch.jpg|[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]
File:G1Stranglehold boxart.jpg|[[Stranglehold]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Beasts
<center><gallery>
File:Catillaboxart.jpg|[[Catilla (G1)|Catilla]]
File:Chainclaw.jpg|[[Chainclaw (G1)|Chainclaw]]
File:G1snarler boxart.jpg|[[Snarler]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Vehicles
<center><gallery>
File:Gunrunner.jpg|[[Gunrunner (G1)|Gunrunner]]
File:Roadgrabber.jpg|[[Roadgrabber]]
</gallery></center>

;Classic Pretenders

;Mega Pretenders
<center><gallery>
File:Crossblades-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]]
File:Vroom boxart.jpg|[[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]]
File:Thunderwingboxart.jpg|[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]
</gallery></center>

;Ultra Pretenders
<center><gallery>
File:G1Skyhammer boxartsm.jpg|[[Skyhammer (G1)|Skyhammer]]
File:Roadblock-boxart.jpg|[[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Monsters
<center><gallery>
File:G1-Bristleback1.jpg|[[Bristleback]]
</gallery></center>

===Powermasters===
<center><gallery>
File:Darkwing boxart.jpg|[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]]
File:Doubledealer boxart.jpg|[[Doubledealer]]
File:G1Getaway boxart.jpg|[[Getaway]]
File:Joyride boxart.jpg|[[Joyride (G1)|Joyride]]
File:Powermaster Optimus Prime (G1) Box Art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
File:Slapdash boxart.jpg|[[Slapdash (G1)|Slapdash]]
</gallery></center>

===Micromasters===
<center><gallery>
File:Micromaster Air patrol.jpg|[[Air Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Air strike patrol.jpg|[[Air Strike Patrol]]
File:Airwave-packageart.jpg|[[Airwave (Micromaster)|Airwave]]
File:G1anti-aircraft base boxart.jpg|[[Anti-Aircraft Base]]
File:Micromaster Astro squad.jpg|[[Astro Squad]]
File:G1BarricadeBoxart.jpg|[[Barricade (G1)|Barricade]]
File:Micromaster Battle patrol.jpg|[[Battle Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Battle squad.jpg|[[Battle Squad]]
File:Big daddy boxart.jpg|[[Big Daddy (G1)|Big Daddy]]
File:Blackjack-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]]
File:BlazeMasterBoxart.jpg|[[Blaze Master]]
File:Micromaster Construction patrol.jpg|[[Construction Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Constructor squad.jpg|[[Constructor Squad]]
File:CementHeadBoxart.jpg|[[Cement-Head]]
File:Constructionstation-backofthebox.jpg|[[Ironworks (facility)|Construction Station]]
File:Detour-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Detour (G1)|Detour]]
File:DirectHitBoxart.jpg|[[Direct-Hit]]
File:EagleEyeBoxart.jpg|[[Eagle Eye (G1)|Eagle Eye]]
File:Excavator-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Excavator (G1)|Excavator]]
File:FireshotBoxart.jpg|[[Fireshot]]
File:Flattop boxart.jpg|[[Flattop (G1)|Flattop]]
File:Grit-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Grit]]
File:GroundHogBoxart.jpg|[[Ground Hog]]
File:GusherBoxart.jpg|[[Gusher]]
File:HalftrackBoxart.jpg|[[Half-Track (G1)|Half-Track]]
File:Hammer-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Hammer (G1)|Hammer]]
File:Heavy tread boxart.jpg|[[Heavy Tread]]
File:Micromaster Hot rod patrol.jpg|[[Hot Rod Patrol]]
File:Hydraulic boxart.jpg|[[Hydraulic]]
File:HyperdriveBoxart.jpg|[[Hyperdrive (Micromaster)|Hyperdrive]]
File:Knockout-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Knockout (G1)|Knockout]]
File:MeltdownBoxart.jpg|[[Meltdown (G1)|Meltdown]]
File:Micromaster Metro squad.jpg|[[Metro Squad]]
File:Micromaster Military patrol.jpg|[[Military Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Monster truck patrol.jpg|[[Monster Trucks Patrol]]
File:MotorheadBoxart.jpg|[[Motorhead (G1)|Motorhead]]
File:Micromasters Off road patrol.jpg|[[Off Road Patrol]]
File:OverflowBoxart.jpg|[[Overflow]]
File:PipelineBoxart.jpg|[[Pipeline]]
File:PowerPunchBoxart.jpg|[[Power Punch]]
File:Micromaster Race track patrol.jpg|[[Race Track Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Rescue patrol.jpg|[[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]]
File:RetroBoxart.jpg|[[Retro]]
File:RoadHuggerBoxart.jpg|[[Road Hugger (G1)|Road Hugger]]
File:RollerForceBoxart.jpg|[[Roller Force]]
File:Sidetrack-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Sidetrack (G1)|Sidetrack]]
File:SkyHighBoxart.jpg|[[Sky High (Micromaster)|Sky High]]
File:SkyhopperBoxart.jpg|[[Skyhopper]]
File:Sledge-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Sledge (G1)|Sledge]]
File:Stonecruncher-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Stonecruncher (G1)|Stonecruncher]]
File:SurgeBoxart.jpg|[[Surge (G1)|Surge]]
File:Swindler boxart.jpg|[[Swindler]]
File:Terror-TreadBoxart.jpg|[[Terror-Tread]]
File:TreadBoltBoxart.jpg|[[Tread Bolt]]
File:VanquishBoxart.jpg|[[Vanquish]]
</gallery></center>

===Action Masters===
<center><gallery>
File:ChargerActionMasterArt1.jpg|[[Charger]]
File:Neutro-fusiontank.jpg|[[Neutro-Fusion Tank]]
File:G1Rad boxart.jpg|[[Rad (G1)|Rad]]
File:G1Treadshot boxart.jpg|[[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]]
File:Armoredconvoyboxart.jpg|[[Armored Convoy]]
</gallery></center>

===European-original characters===
<center><gallery>
File:Deftwing boxart.jpg|[[Deftwing]]
File:Lightspeed(Motorvator) boxart.jpg|[[Lightspeed (Motorvator)|Lightspeed]]
File:Rescue force.jpg|[[Rescue Force]]
</gallery></center>
;Turbomasters
<center><gallery>
File:G1thunder clash boxart.jpg|[[Thunder Clash]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:G1Rotorstorm boxart.jpg|[[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]]
File:FlashG1-card.jpg|[[Flash (G1)|Flash]]
File:G1hurricane cardart.jpg|[[Hurricane]]
File:Scorch cardart.jpg|[[Scorch (G1)|Scorch]]
</gallery></center>
;Predators
<center><gallery>
File:Skyquake.jpg|[[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]]
File:G1Stalker boxart.jpg|[[Stalker (G1)|Stalker]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:G1Falcon Predator card.jpg|[[Falcon (G1)|Falcon]]
File:Predator Skydive cardart.jpg|[[Skydive (Predator)|Skydive]]
File:G1Snare cardart.jpg|[[Snare]]
File:G1 Talon cardart.jpg|[[Talon (G1)|Talon]]
</gallery></center>

===South American-original characters===
<center><gallery>
File:RobocarSedanBoxart.jpg|[[Sedan (Robocar)]]
File:Saltmanz boxart.jpg|[[Salt-Man Z]]
</gallery></center>

==''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''==
===''The Headmasters''===
<center><gallery>
File:FortMax1.jpg|[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
</gallery>
<gallery>
File:G1 Dial boxart.jpg|[[Dile]]
File:G1 Zaur boxart.jpg|[[Zaur (G1)|Zaur]]
File:G1 Graphy boxart.jpg|[[Graphy]]
File:G1 Noise boxart.jpg|[[Noise]]
File:Getsuei-card.jpg|[[Getsuei]]
File:G1 - Kaen - Boxart.jpg|[[Kaen]]
File:G1 - Seizan - Boxart.jpg|[[Seizan]]
File:G1 - Shouki - Boxart.jpg|[[Shouki]]
File:G1 - Suiken - Boxart.jpg|[[Suiken]]
File:G1 - Yukikaze - Boxart.jpg|[[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]]
File:Raiden boxart.jpg|[[Raiden]]
File:Artfire.jpg|[[Artfire]]
</gallery></center>
===''Super-God Masterforce''===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 - Doubleclouder - Boxart.jpg|[[Clouder|Doubleclouder]]
File:Godbomber boxart.jpg|[[Godbomber]]
File:Hotspark-box.jpg|[[Hotspark]]
File:Masterbrace toy.jpg|[[Master-Brace]]
File:Overlord.jpg|[[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]
File:Sixknight boxart.jpg|[[Sixknight]]
File:G1Turtler boxart.jpg|[[Turtler]]
File:G1Wildspark boxart.jpg|[[Wildspark]]
</gallery></center>

===''Victory''===
;Brainmasters
<center><gallery>
File:G1 Star Saber art variant.jpg|[[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]]
File:Road caesar.jpg|[[Road Caesar]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Blacker.jpg|[[Blacker]]
File:Laster.jpg|[[Laster]]
File:Braver.jpg|[[Braver]]
</gallery></center>
;Breastforce
<center><gallery>
File:Deathsaurus1.jpg|[[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]
File:Liokaiser.jpg|[[Liokaiser]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Leozack boxart.jpg|[[Leozack]]
File:Guyhawk.jpg|[[Guyhawk]]
File:Hellbat.jpg|[[Hellbat (G1)|Hellbat]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Jargua.jpg|[[Jallguar]]
File:Killbison.jpg|[[Killbison]]
File:Drillhorn.jpg|[[Drillhorn (G1)|Drillhorn]]
</gallery></center>
;Crossformers
<center><gallery>
File:G1 BlackShadow boxart.jpg|[[Black Shadow (G1)|Black Shadow]]
File:G1 BlueBacchus boxart.jpg|[[Blue Bacchus]]
</gallery></center>
;Miscellaneous
<center><gallery>
File:G1Galaxy Shuttle boxart.jpg|[[Galaxy Shuttle]]
File:G1greatshot boxart.jpg|[[Greatshot]]
File:Victory leo.jpg|[[Ginrai (robot)|Victory Leo]]
File:Victory saber.jpg|[[Star Saber (G1)|Victory Saber]]
</gallery></center>

===''Zone''===
<center><gallery>
File:DaiAtlas1.jpg|[[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]]
File:G1Sonicbomber art.jpg|[[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]]
File:G1 - Deadwheeler - Boxart.jpg|[[Deadwheeler]]
File:Metrotitan.jpg|[[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]
File:ZoneNightflight boxart.jpg|[[Nightflight (Zone)|Nightflight]]
File:Rocketbase-packageart.jpg|[[Rocket Base]]
File:ZoneWhisper boxart.jpg|[[Whisper (Zone)|Whisper]]
File:G1Windrim boxart.jpg|[[Windrim]]
</gallery></center>

===''Return of Convoy''===
<center><gallery>
File:Grandus boxart.jpg|[[Grandus (G1)|Grandus]]
File:StarConvoyBoxArt1.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]]
</gallery></center>

===''Operation Combination''===
<center><gallery>
File:Battlegaea-box.jpg|[[Battle Gaia]]
File:G1 - Sixbuilder - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixbuilder]]
File:G1 - Sixturbo - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixturbo]]
File:G1 - Sixtrain - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixtrain]]
</gallery></center>

===''Micromaster''===
<center><gallery>
File:Alan-packageart.jpg|[[Alan (G1)|Alan]]
File:Diego-packageart.jpg|[[D-Go]]
File:Joe-packageart.jpg|[[Joe (G1)|Joe]]
File:Leaf-packageart.jpg|[[Leaf]]
File:Night-packageart.jpg|[[Night]]
File:Spark-packageart.jpg|[[Spark (G1)|Spark]]
</gallery></center>

==''Generation 2''==
<center><gallery>
File:ArchforceArt.jpg|[[Archforce]]
File:G2-art Aquafend.jpg|[[Aquafend]]
File:G2BlazeOrSizzleCardArt.jpg|[[Fizzle|Blaze]]
File:G2-Clench-boxart.jpg|[[Clench (G1)|Clench]]
File:G2 Deluge Decepticon cardart.jpg|[[Deluge (G2)|Deluge]]
File:G2 Ironfist boxart.jpg|[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]]
Laser optimus boxart.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Laser Optimus Prime]]
File:LegacyNightracerart.jpg|[[Nightracer (G2)|Nightracer]]
File:G2StarscreamPackageArt.jpg|[[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]
File:G1ZapWindbreaker boxart.jpg|[[Windbreaker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Wars''==
<center><gallery>
File:McD-Beetle-packageart.jpg|[[Beetle]]
File:BWBlackarachniaCardArt.jpg|[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
File:Bonecrusher-bw-packageart1a.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (BW)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Drillbit-packageart.jpg|[[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]]
File:McD-MantaRay-packageart.jpg|[[Manta Ray]]
File:Manterror-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Manterror]]
File:Packratbw.jpg|[[Packrat]]
File:Powerpinch-packageart.jpg|[[Powerpinch]]
File:BWRazorclaw CardArt.jpg|[[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]]
File:Bwrazorclaw.jpg|Razorclaw (video pack)
File:Retrax-packageart1.jpg|[[Retrax]]
File:McD-Rhino-packageart.jpg|[[Rhino (BW)|Rhino]]
File:Spittor-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]]
File:Tarantulasbw.jpg|[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (Japan)
File:Wolfang-packageart.jpg|[[Wolfang (Maximal)|Wolfang]]
</gallery></center>

===Fuzors===
<center><gallery>
File:Bantor-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Bantor (BW)|Bantor]]
File:Buzzclaw-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]]
File:Injector tech spec.jpg|[[Injector (BW)|Injector]]
File:BW-SkyShadow-packageart.jpg|[[Sky Shadow (BW)|Sky Shadow]]
File:Terragator-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Terragator]]
</gallery></center>

===Transmetal===
<center><gallery>
File:BWscavenger.jpg|[[Scavenger (BW)|Scavenger]]
</gallery></center>

===Transmetal 2===
<center><gallery>
File:TM blackarachnia packaging art.jpg|[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
File:Optimusminor-packageart.jpg|[[Optimus Minor]]
File:Prowl2-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (TM2)|Prowl II]]
File:Scarem-packageart.jpg|[[Scarem]]
File:Scourge-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Scourge (BW)|Scourge]]
File:Sonar-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]]
</gallery></center>

===Mutants===
<center><gallery>
File:Soundwavemutantcardart.jpg|[[Soundwave (BW)|Soundwave]]
</gallery></center>

===BotCon exclusives===
<center><gallery>
File:BW Antagony boxart.jpg|[[Antagony (BW)|Antagony]]
File:Onyxprimal.jpg|[[Onyx Primal]]
File:Sandstorm bw.jpg|[[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]]
File:Windrazor bw.jpg|[[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]]
</gallery></center>

===''10th Anniversary''===
<center><gallery>
File:Cheetorbw.jpg|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
File:Dinobotbwx.jpg|[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]
File:MegatronBW-BWXart.jpg|[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
File:Rhinoxbw.jpg|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]
File:Tarantulas-BW10th.jpg|[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]
File:Transmutate.jpg|[[Transmutate (BW)|Trans-Mutate]]
File:Waspinatorbw.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Wars'' (Japan)==
===''Beast Wars II''===
<center><gallery>
File:Autocrusher-card.jpg|[[Autocrusher]]
File:Autojetter-card.jpg|[[Autojetter]]
File:Autolauncher-card.jpg|[[Autolauncher]]
File:Autostinger-card.jpg|[[Autostinger]]
File:BWII Dirge card.jpg|[[Dirge (BW)|Dirge]]
</gallery></center>

===''Beast Wars Neo''===
<center><gallery>
File:BWNeo Bump card1.jpg|[[Bump]]
File:BW Crazybolt card.jpg|[[Crazybolt (BW)|Crazybolt]]
File:BWNeo Hardhead card.jpg|[[Hardhead (BW)|Hardhead]]
File:BWN Hydra card.jpg|[[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]]
File:Survivebwn.jpg|[[Survive]]
</gallery></center>

==''Machine Wars''==
<center><gallery>
File:MW Hubcap cardart.jpg|[[Hubcap (MW)|Hubcap]]
File:MegaplexArt1.jpg|[[Megaplex]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Prowl.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Soundwave.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Thundercracker.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys|Thundercracker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Machines''==
<center><gallery>
File:TWrecksdinobotspackaging art.jpg|[[T-Wrecks]]
</gallery></center>

==''Car Robots''==
<center><gallery>
File:RID EagleKiller REV biocard.jpg|[[R.E.V.|Eagle Killer]]
File:RID Ox Ironhide biocard.jpg|[[Ironhide (RID)|Ox]]
File:RID WARS biocard.jpg|[[W.A.R.S.]]
File:RID XCar Crosswise biocard.jpg|[[Crosswise (RID)|X-Car]]
File:RID TowlineWreckerhook biocard.jpg|[[Tow-Line (RID)|Wrecker Hook]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robots in Disguise'' (2001)==
<center><gallery>
File:Bludgeon-RiDcard.jpg|[[Bludgeon (RID 2001)|Bludgeon]]
File:Cryotek Techspec.jpg|[[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]
</gallery></center>

=="Unicron Trilogy"==
===''Armada''===
<center><gallery>
File:OptimusPrimeUT-Armada.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
File:Payload-packageart.jpg|[[Payload (Armada)|Payload]] ([[Space Mini-Con Team]])
File:GHC Red Alert Patrol.jpg|[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]
File:ArmadaSkywarpCardArt.jpg|[[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]]
File:ArmadaThundercracker.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]]
File:Waterlog-packageart.jpg|[[Waterlog (Armada)|Waterlog]] ([[Sea Mini-Con Team]])
</gallery></center>

===''Energon''===
<center><gallery>
File:Energon Barricade card.jpg|[[Barricade (Energon)|Barricade]]
File:EnBeachcomberCardart.jpg|[[Beachcomber (Energon)|Beachcomber]]
File:Checkpoint-boxart.jpg|[[Checkpoint (Energon)|Checkpoint]]
File:EnerDownshiftCard.jpg|[[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]]
File:E-Dreadwing-box.jpg|[[Dreadwing (Energon)|Dreadwing]]
File:Energon Inferno CardArt.jpg|[[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]]
File:EnerLandmineBruteMode.jpg|[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]]
File:MirageEnergon-card.jpg|[[Mirage (Energon)|Mirage]]
File:OmegaSent-Ecard.jpg|[[Omega Sentinel (Energon)|Omega Sentinel]]
File:Energon Perceptor cardart.jpg|[[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]
File:Roadblock-energon-packageart.jpg|[[Roadblock (Energon)|Roadblock]]
File:ESharkticonCardfront.jpg|[[Sharkticon (Energon)|Sharkticon]]
File:Shockblast energon.jpg|[[Shockblast]]
File:Slugslinger-energon-tradingcard.jpg|[[Slugslinger (Energon)|Slugslinger]]
File:Steamhammer-boxart.jpg|[[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]]
File:Towline-energon-packageart.jpg|[[Tow-Line (Energon)|Towline]]
File:EnTreadboltCardart.jpg|[[Treadbolt]]
File:En-UMagnus-card.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (Energon)|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

===''Cybertron''===
<center><gallery>
File:Armorhide-UTA.jpg|[[Armorhide (Cybertron)|Armorhide]]
File:CYB brakedown boxart.JPG|[[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]]
File:Brimstone-card.jpg|[[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]]
File:CYB buzzsaw boxart.jpg|[[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]]
File:Cannonball UT.jpg|[[Cannonball (Cybertron)|Cannonball]]
File:CYB clocker boxart.jpg|[[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]]
File:Crumplezone.jpg|[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]]
File:CYB dirtboss boxart.jpg|[[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]]
File:GiantMiniCons-card.jpg|[[Giant Planet Mini-Con Team]]
File:Hardtop-card.jpg|[[Hardtop (Cybertron)|Hardtop]]
File:CYB longrack boxart.JPG|[[Longrack (Cybertron)|Longrack]]
File:Lugnutz-card.jpg|[[Lugnutz]]
File:CYB overridegts boxart.jpg|[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]]
File:Cyb-Ransack-card.jpg|[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]]
File:ReconTeam-card.jpg|[[Recon Mini-Con Team]]
File:Repugnus-CybCard.jpg|[[Repugnus (Cybertron)|Repugnus]]
File:Scrapmetal-card.jpg|[[Scrapmetal (Cybertron individual)|Scrapmetal]]
File:Shortround-card.jpg|[[Shortround (Cybertron)|Shortround]]
File:CYB snarl boxart.jpg|[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]]
File:Swerve-CybCard.jpg|[[Swerve (Cybertron)|Swerve]]
File:SwindleUTDec-card.jpg|[[Swindle (Cybertron)|Swindle]]
File:Thunderblast-card.jpeg|[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]]
File:Wreckloose-card.jpg|[[Wreckloose (Cybertron)|Wreckloose]]
</gallery></center>

=="Micron Trilogy"==
===''Super Link''===
<center><gallery>
File:Prowl energonCG.jpg|[[Prowl (Energon)|Red Alert]]
</gallery></center>

==''Universe'' (2003)==
<center><gallery>
File:BonecrusherT-TFUart.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Universe Ultra)|Bonecrusher]]
File:CrystalWidow.jpg|[[Crystal Widow]]
File:DevastatorUnivDeluxe BoxPic.jpg|[[Devastator (Universe Ultra)|Devastator]]
File:Fireflight-TFUart.jpg|[[Fireflight (Universe Deluxe)|Fireflight]]
File:Frostbite-TFUart.jpg|[[Frostbite (Universe)|Frostbite]]
File:HightowerUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Hightower (Universe Ultra)|Hightower]]
File:Inferno-tfu.jpg|[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]]
File:Ironhide-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]]
File:KingAtlas-card.jpg|[[King Atlas]]
File:LongHaulUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Long Haul (Universe Ultra)|Long Haul]]
File:MagnaStampede-TFUart.jpg|[[Magna Stampede]]
File:OilSlick.jpg|[[Oil Slick (Universe)|Oil Slick]]
File:Optimus Prime-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Overbite (Universe) box art.jpg|[[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]]
File:Perceptor-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]
File:Prowl-large-Universe-OTFCC-2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]]
File:Prowl-Spychanger-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|Prowl (Spy Changer)
File:Ratchettfu.jpg|[[Ratchet (Universe)|Ratchet]]
File:Razorclawtfu.jpg|[[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]
File:Repugnus-TFUart.jpg|[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]]
File:ScavengerUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Scavenger (Universe Ultra)|Scavenger]]
File:Skydive-universe-packageart.jpg|[[Skydive (BM)|Skydive]]
File:Stockade-TFUart.jpg|[[Stockade (Universe 2003)|Stockade]]
File:Sunstorm-Universe-OTFCC-2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Sunstorm (Universe)|Sunstorm]]
File:Swerve-TFUcard.jpg|[[Swerve (Universe)|Swerve]]
File:Ultra Magnus-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]]
File:Whirl-TFUart.jpg|[[Whirl (Universe)|Whirl]]
File:WindSheer-TFUcard.jpg|[[Wind Sheer (Universe)|Wind Sheer]]
</gallery></center>

;BotCon/OTFCC exclusives
<center><gallery>
File:Megazaraktfu.jpg|[[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]]
File:Roulette.jpg|[[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]]
File:Universe2003BoxArt-Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
File:Shadow Striker art.jpg|[[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]]
File:Universe2003packageart-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Masterpiece''==
<center><gallery>
File:MP Magnus book cover art.jpg|MP-2 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]
File:MP Starscream book cover art.jpg|MP-3 [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]
File:Loudpedal-card.jpg|MP-25L [[Loudpedal]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robotmasters''==
<center><gallery>
File:Wingstun-Boxart.jpg|[[Wingstun]]
File:RM-packart AirHunter.jpg|[[Air Hunter]]
File:RM-packart WreckerHook.jpg|[[Tow-Line (RID)|Wrecker Hook]]
</gallery></center>

==''Alternators''==
<center><gallery>
File:Swindleart.jpg|[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]
File:AltNemesisPrimeArt.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]
</gallery></center>

=="Generation 1" reissues==
<center><gallery>
File:G1Inferno collectionbox1.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
File:Smokescreeng1.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:Tracksg1.jpg|[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
</gallery>
<gallery>
File:Commemorativeseriesdirge.jpg|[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]
File:G1 Hound reissueart1.jpg|[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
File:LongHaulG1.jpg|[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
File:NightstickReissue BoxArt.jpg|[[Nebulon (Headmasters)|Nebulon]]
File:G1 Perceptor reissueart.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
File:Ultramagnusg1.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

==''Heroes of Cybertron''==
<center><gallery>
File:Gigatron hoc art.jpg|[[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]
File:AirWarrior BioPic.jpg|[[Air Warrior]]
</gallery></center>

==e-HOBBY exclusives==
<center><gallery>
File:ClampDown-card.jpg|[[Clampdown (G1)|Clampdown]]
File:Crosscut-Auto-Card.jpg|[[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]
File:DeepCover-card.jpg|[[Deep Cover]]
File:Detritus-card.jpg|[[Detritus (G1)|Detritus]]
File:FlipSides-card.jpg|[[Flip Sides (G1)|Flip Sides]]
File:Garboil-card.jpg|[[Garboil (G1)|Garboil]]
File:Howlback-card.jpg|[[Howlback (G1)|Howlback]]
File:Overcharge-card.jpg|[[Overcharge (G1)|Overcharge]]
File:LoadHauler-Card.jpg|[[Hauler|RoadHauler]]
File:Salvo-card.jpg|[[Salvo (G1)|Salvo]]
File:Shothole-card.jpg|[[Shothole]]
File:Tigertrack-card.jpg|[[Tigertrack]]
File:Zaptrap-card.jpg|[[Zaptrap]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robot Heroes''==
===Generation 1 Series===
<center><gallery>
File:Bumblebee&Soundwave RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] & [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
File:Grimlock&Shockwave RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] & [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
File:Jazz&Thundercracker RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] & [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Mirage&Starscream RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] & [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
File:OptimusPrime&Ravage RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] & [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
File:OptimusPrime&Unicron RobotHeroes.jpg|Optimus Prime & [[Unicron]]
</gallery></center>

===Movie Series===
<center><gallery>
File:Bumblebee&Barricade RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] & [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:ArmorBumblebee&Starscream RobotHeroes.jpg|"Armor" Bumblebee & [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:Ironhide&Bonecrusher RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] & [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Ironhide&dispensor RobotHeroes.jpg|Ironhide & [[Dispensor]]
File:Jazz&Frenzy RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] & [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]
File:ProtoformJazz&Brawl RobotHeroes.jpg|"Protoform" Jazz & [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:OptimusPrime&Blackout RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] & [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:OptimusPrime&Scorponok RobotHeroes.jpg|Optimus Prime & [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
File:Ratchet&Megatron RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] & [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
</gallery></center>

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
<center><gallery>
File:Movie-Arcee-art.jpg|[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]
File:Movie-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:Movie-Recon-Barricade-art.jpg|"Recon" Barricade
File:BigDaddyMovie BoxArt.jpg|[[Big Daddy (Movie)|Big Daddy]]
File:Blackout-packageart.jpg|[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:Movie-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Movie-Jungle-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|"Jungle" Bonecrusher
File:Movie-Brawl-art.jpg|[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:Movie-Deep-Desert-Brawl-art.jpg|"Deep Desert" Brawl
File:Movie-Breakaway-art.jpg|[[Breakaway (Movie)|Breakaway]]
File:Movie-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:BumblebeemovieBattlemask.jpg|"Stealth" Bumblebee
File:Movie-Camshaft-Portrait.jpg|[[Camshaft (Movie)|Camshaft]]
File:Cliffjumpermoviepackagingart.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]]
File:Movie-Crankcase-art.jpg|[[Crankcase (Movie)|Crankcase]]
File:DivebombMovie-Card.jpg|[[Divebomb (Movie)|Divebomb]]
File:Movie-Dreadwing-art.jpg|[[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]]
File:DropkickWipers.jpg|[[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]]
File:Movie-Evac-Portrait.jpg|[[Evac (Movie)|Evac]]
File:MovieFractureBoxart.jpg|[[Fracture (Movie)|Fracture]]
File:Movie-Grindcore-art.jpg|[[Grindcore (Movie)|Grindcore]]
File:Movie-Incinerator-art.jpg|[[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]
File:Movie-Inferno-art.jpg|[[Inferno (Movie)|Inferno]]
File:Movie-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
File:MovieJazzpackagingart.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]
File:Movie-Jazz-G1-colors-art.jpg|Jazz (G1 redeco)
File:Movie-Jetstorm-art.jpg|[[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]]
File:Movielandminebox.jpg|[[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]]
File:MovieLongarmboxart.jpg|[[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]]
File:Movie-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
File:MovieMudflapArt.jpg|[[Mudflap (Movie)|Mudflap]]
File:Movie-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Movie-Overcast-Portrait.jpg|[[Overcast (Movie)|Overcast]]
File:Movie-Salvage-art.jpg|[[Salvage (Movie)|Salvage]]
File:Movie-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
File:Movie-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:MovieStarscreamtransitionform.jpg|"Transition Form" Starscream
File:Movie-Stockade-art.jpg|[[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]]
File:Movie-Wingblade-art.jpg|[[Wingblade]]
</gallery></center>

;Cyber Slammers
<center><gallery>
File:Cyber-Slammer-Barricade-art.jpg|Barricade
File:Brawl-cyber-slammer-boxart.jpg|Brawl
File:Cyber-Slammer-Bumblebee-74-Camaro-art.jpg|Bumblebee (1974 Camaro)
File:Cyber-Slammer-Bumblebee-08-Camaro-art.jpg|Bumblebee (2008 Camaro)
File:Cyber-Slammer-Cliffjumper-art.jpg|Cliffjumper
File:Cyber-Slammer-Jazz-art.jpg|Jazz
File:Cyber-Slammer-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]
</gallery></center>

;Fast Action Battlers
<center><gallery>
File:FAB-Brawl-art.jpg|"Double Missile" Brawl
File:FAB-Bumblebee-art.jpg|"PLasma Punch" Bumblebee
File:FAB-Frenzy-art.jpg|"Disk Blast" [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]
File:PulseCannonIronhideart.jpg|"Pulse Cannon" Ironhide
File:FAB-Jazz-art.jpg|"Ion Blast" Jazz
File:FAB-Megatron-art.jpg|"Fusion Blast" Megatron
File:FireBlastOptimusart.jpg|"Fire Blast" Optimus Prime
File:FAB-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Power Hook" Optimus Prime
File:FAB-Ramjet-art.jpg|"Claw Slash" [[Ramjet (Movie)|Ramjet]]
File:RescueTorchRatchetart.jpg|"Rescue Torch" Ratchet
File:FAB-Smokescreen-art.jpg|"Sonic Shock" [[Smokescreen (Movie)|Smokescreen]]
File:FAB-Starscream-art.jpg|"Battle Blade" Starscream
</gallery></center>

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
<center><gallery>
File:ROTF-Armorhide-art.jpg|[[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]]
File:Blazemaster rotf.jpg|[[Blazemaster]]
File:ROTFBlowpipe headdesign.JPG|[[Blowpipe (ROTF)|Blowpipe]]
File:ROTFBludgeonTRUArt.jpg|[[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] (Deluxe)
File:Bludgeon v2 - ROTF package art.jpeg|Bludgeon (Voyager)
File:ROTF-Brawn-art.jpg|[[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]]
File:ROTF BruticusMaximus boxart.jpg|[[Bruticus Maximus (ROTF)|Bruticus Maximus]]
File:ROTFChromiaCardArt.jpg|[[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]]
File:Demolishor-packageart.jpg|[[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]]
File:Dirge rotf.jpg|[[Dirge (Movie)|Dirge]]
File:ROTF AutobotGears Head.JPG|[[Gears (ROTF)|Gears]]
File:LockdownROTFheadshot.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:Mindwipeindigo rotf.jpg|[[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]]
File:ROTF Rollbar RPM cardart.jpg|[[Rollbar (RPM)|Rollbar]]
File:ROTF Superion boxart.jpg|[[Superion (ROTF)|Superion]]
File:Swerve rotf.jpg|[[Swerve (Movie)|Swerve]]
File:Thrust rotf.jpg|[[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]]
File:ROTFWhirlTRUArt.jpg|[[Whirl (ROTF)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===''Dark of the Moon''===
<center><gallery>
File:DarkSteelPackagePic.jpg|[[Darksteel (DOTM)|Darksteel]]
File:RoadbusterDOTM-card.jpg|[[Roadbuster (DOTM)|Roadbuster]]
File:Sergeantdetourpackagingart.jpg|[[Sergeant Detour]]
File:SergeantReconPAckagingArt.jpg|[[Sergeant Recon]]
File:ShockwaveBoxartFace.jpg|[[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]
File:DOTM-Space-Case-art.jpg|[[Space Case (DOTM)|Space Case]]
File:DOTM Thundercracker packaging art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]]
File:DOTM-VortexArt.jpg|[[Vortex (Movie)|Vortex]]
</gallery></center>

===''Age of Extinction''===
<center><gallery>
File:AOE-Bumblebee-art.jpeg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:AOE-Crosshairs-art.jpeg|[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]]
File:AOE-Drift-art.jpeg|[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]]
File:AOE-Galvatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Galvatron]]
File:AOE-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:AOEHotShotart.jpg|[[Hot Shot (AOE)|Hot Shot]]
File:TF4Hound.jpg|[[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]
File:AOE-Junkheap-art.jpeg|[[Junkheap (AOE)|Junkheap]]
File:AOE-Lockdown-art.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:Transformers-AOE-Optimus Prime-promo-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:TfAGEOFEXTINCTION Optimus Prime Robot mode Hasbro Art Swordrun.jpeg|Optimus Prime (alternate)
File:Evasion-Mode-Optimus-Prime-art.jpeg|"Evasion Mode" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-G1-Optimus-Prime-art.jpeg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)
File:AOERollbarOneStepPackageArt.jpg|[[Rollbar (AOE)|Rollbar]] (One-Step Changer)
File:ScornAOE-wallpaper.jpg|[[Scorn]]
File:AOE-Slash-art.jpeg|[[Slash (AOE)|Slash]]
File:Movie slog card.jpg|[[Slog (AOE)|Slog]]
File:AOE-Slug-art.jpg|[[Slug (AOE)|Slug]]
File:AOE-Steeljaw-art.jpg|[[Steeljaw (AOE)|Steeljaw]]
File:AOE-Stinger-art.jpg|[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]]
File:AOE-Strafe-art.jpg|[[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]]
File:DinobotSnarlAOE.jpg|[[Snarl (AOE)|Snarl]]
File:AOEVehiconart.jpg|[[Vehicon (AOE)|Vehicon]]
</gallery></center>

;''Movie Advanced Series''
<center><gallery>
File:AOE-Battle-Blade-Bumblebee-art.jpg|"Battle Blade" Bumblebee
File:AOE-Devastator-art.jpg|[[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]]
File:AOE-Dino-art.jpg|[[Dino]]
File:AOE-Dispensor-art.jpg|[[Dispensor]]
File:AOE-Jolt-art.jpg|[[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:AOE-Protoform-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Protoform" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-Revenge-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Revenge" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]
File:AOE-Rollbar-art.jpg|Rollbar (Deluxe)
File:AOE-Sideswipe-art.jpg|[[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]]
File:AOE-Darkside-Soundwave-art.jpg|"Darkside" [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]]
File:AOE-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:AOE-Wheeljack-art.jpg|[[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''The Last Knight''===
<center><gallery>
File:TLK-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:TLK-Barricade-art2.jpg|Barricade
File:Berserker Promo Art.jpg|[[Berserker]]
File:TLKBerserkerArt.jpg|Berserker
File:TLK-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:TLK-Bumblebee-art2.jpg|Bumblebee
File:TLK-Cogman-art.jpg|[[Cogman]]
File:TLKCrosshairsRenderPackageArt.jpg|[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]]
File:TLK-Dragonstorm-art.jpg|[[Dragonstorm]]
File:TLK-Dragonstorm-art2.jpg|Dragonstorm
File:TLK-Drift-art.jpg|[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]]
File:TLK-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:TLK-Hot-Rod-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]]
TLK-HotRodPromoArt.jpg|Hot Rod
File:TLKHoundRenderPackageArt.jpg|[[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]
File:TLK-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
File:TLK-Megatron-art2.jpg|Megatron
File:TLKart-Nitro.jpg|[[Nitro Zeus|Nitro]]
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art2.jpg|Optimus Prime
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art3.jpg|Optimus Prime
File:TLK-Scorn-art.jpg|[[Scorn]]
File:TLKSqweeksPackageArt.jpg|[[Sqweeks]]
File:TLK-Sqweeks-art.jpg|Sqweeks
File:TLK-Sqweeks-art2.jpg|Sqweeks
File:TLK Steelbane PackageArt.jpg|[[Steelbane]]
</gallery></center>

==''Henkei! Henkei!''==
<center><gallery>
File:Henkei C-08 Prowl box art.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
</gallery></center>

==''Universe'' (2008)==
<center><gallery>
File:Blaster-U08-boxart.jpg|[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
File:HeavyLoadU08-boxart.jpg|[[Heavy Load (Universe)|Heavy Load]]
File:Prowl-universe2008-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
File:NemesisPrimebox.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]
File:Skyfallart.jpg|[[Skyjack (G2)|Skyfall]]
File:LeoPrimeUniverse.jpg|[[Lio Convoy|Leo Prime]]
File:Ask Vector Prime Facebook.jpg|[[Vector Prime]]
</gallery></center>

==''Animated''==
<center><gallery>
File:Arceeanmatedpackageart.jpg|[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]
File:Animatedpatrolbumblebeepackageart.jpg|"Patrol" [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]
File:Animateddirgeboxart.jpg|[[Dirge (Animated)|Dirge]]
File:Animated-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]]
File:Jetfireanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]]
File:Jetstormanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]]
File:Blazinglockdownpackageart.jpg|"Blazing" [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]
File:TFAni-OilSlickArt.jpg|[[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]]
File:Prowl-animated-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]
File:Ratchet-animated-packageart.jpg|[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]
File:Animated-Rodimus-Minor-art.jpg|[[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Minor]]
File:Safeguardanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]]
</gallery></center>

==''Shattered Glass''==
<center><gallery>
File:TFSS Bluestreak CardArt.jpg|[[Bluestreak (SG)|Bluestreak]]
File:Blurr (SG).jpg|[[Blurr (SG)|Blurr]]
File:Divebomb (SG).jpg|[[Divebomb (SG)|Divebomb]]
File:DriftSG-art.jpg|[[Drift (SG)|Drift]]
File:SG-Jazz-bioart.jpg|[[Jazz (SG)|Jazz]]
File:JunkheapSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Junkheap (SG)|Junkheap]]
File:Megatronshatteredglassprofile.jpg|[[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]]
File:Rampage shattered glass.jpg|[[Rampage (SG)|Rampage]]
File:Sgrazorclaw.jpg|[[Razorclaw (SG)|Razorclaw]]
File:SG-Ricochet-bio.jpg|[[Ricochet (SG)|Ricochet]]
File:Rodimusshatteredglasscard.jpg|[[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus]]
File:ScrapIronSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Scrap Iron (SG)|Scrap Iron]]
File:ScourgeSG.jpg|[[Scourge (SG)|Scourge]]
File:SGStarscream.jpg|[[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]]
File:Shattered Glass boxart.jpg|''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''
File:BotCon2015 Stepper CardArt.jpg|[[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]]
File:SGThundercrackerProfileArt.jpg|[[Thundercracker (SG)|Thundercracker]]
File:BotCon2012 InvasionArt Treadshot.jpg|[[Treadshot (SG)|Treadshot]]
File:BotCon2012 UltraMagnus CardArt.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]]
File:WreckGarSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Wreck-Gar (SG)|Wreck-Gar]]
</gallery></center>

==''Crossovers''==
===''Marvel''===
<center><gallery>
File:Carnage.jpg|[[Carnage]]
File:CrossoversHulkArt.jpg|[[Hulk]]
File:CrossoversHumanTorchArt.jpg|[[Human Torch]]
File:Thor PackageArt Mech.jpg|[[Thor]]
File:CrossoversVenomArt.jpg|[[Venom (Marvel)|Venom]]
File:CrossoversWarMachineArt.jpg|[[War Machine]]
</gallery></center>

===''Star Wars''===
<center><gallery>
File:Ahsoka Tano Card Art.jpg|[[Ahsoka Tano]]
File:Crossovers BobaFett cardart.jpg|[[Boba Fett]]
File:SW Cad Bane cardart.jpg|[[Cad Bane]]
File:Crossovers CloneGunship cardart.jpg|[[Clone pilot]] (Republic Gunship)
File:SWTF DarthMaul cardart.jpg|[[Darth Maul]]
File:DarthVader-SWTF-Art.jpg|[[Darth Vader]]
File:Palpatinetf.gif|[[Emperor Palpatine]]
File:Generalgrievous-packageart1.jpg|[[General Grievous]]
File:JangoFett cardart.jpg|[[Jango Fett]]
File:Star Wars TF Kit Fisto Card Art.jpg|[[Kit Fisto]]
File:Obi-WanKenobiart.jpg|[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]]
</gallery></center>

==''Transformers'' (2010)==
===''Hunt for the Decepticons''===
<center><gallery>
File:Backfirepackageart2010.jpg|[[Backfire (TF 2010)|Backfire]]
File:TF2010 Banzaitron boxart.jpg|[[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]]
File:TF2010-Brimstone-art.jpg|[[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]]
File:TF2010-Crankstart-art.jpg|[[Crankstart]]
File:Elita-1 2010 packageart.jpg|[[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-1]]
File:TF2010-The-Fallen-art.jpg|[[The Fallen]]
File:Hailstorm TF2010 boxart.jpg|[[Hailstorm (TF 2010)|Hailstorm]]
File:Highbrow TF2010 boxart.jpg|[[Highbrow (TF 2010)|Highbrow]]
File:TF2010-Hubcap-art.jpg|[[Hubcap (TF 2010)|Hubcap]]
File:Insecticon-ROTFpackageart.jpeg|[[Insecticon (Movie)|Insecticon]]
File:Jetblade 2010 packageart.jpg|[[Jetblade]]
File:TF2010-Electrostatic-Jolt-art.jpg|"Electrostatic" [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:TF2010-Oil-Pan-art.jpg|[[Oil Pan]]
File:TF2010-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Payloadpackageart2010.jpg|[[Payload (Movie)|Payload]]
File:Sea Spray.jpg|[[Sea Spray (TF 2010)|Sea Spray]]
File:TF2010-Sidearm-Sideswipe-art.jpg|"Sidearm" [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]]
File:TF2010-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:TF2010-Sunspot-art.jpg|[[Sunspot]]
File:TF2010 Tomahawk boxart.jpg|[[Tomahawk (TF 2010)|Tomahawk]]
</gallery></center>

===''Reveal the Shield''===
<center><gallery>
File:TF2010-G1-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
File:TF2010-Cyclonus-art.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
File:TF2010 Deep Dive boxart.jpg|[[Deep Dive]]
File:FallbackRTSCardback.jpg|[[Fallback (TF 2010)|Fallback]]
File:TF2010 SolarStormGrappel boxart.jpg|"Solar Storm" [[Grapple (G1)|Grappel]]
File:TF2010-Special-Ops-Jazz-art.jpg|"Special Ops" [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]
File:Reveal-the-Shield-Lugnut.jpg|[[Lugnut (TF 2010)|Lugnut]]
File:TF2010 Mindset boxart.jpg|[[Mindset (TF 2010)|Mindset]]
File:TF2010 Perceptor boxart.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
File:TF2010-Rodimus-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]]
File:TF2010-StrafeArt.jpg|[[Strafe (TF 2010)|Strafe]]
File:TF2010-Turbo-Tracks-art.jpg|"Turbo" [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
File:TF2010-Windcharger-art.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
File:TF2010-Wreck-Gar-art.jpg|[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]
</gallery></center>

===Miscellaneous===
<center><gallery>
File:Backstoptf2010boxart.jpg|[[Backstop (TF 2010)|Backstop]]
File:Transformers2010art-Undermine.jpg|[[Undermine (TF 2010)|Undermine]]
File:Wreckloosetf2010boxart.jpg|[[Wreckloose (TF 2010)|Wreckloose]]
</gallery></center>

=="Aligned"==
===''Prime''===
<center><gallery>
File:BHPR-AbominusArt.jpg|[[Abominus (Prime)|Abominus]]
File:Arcee Prime stockimage.jpg|[[Arcee (WFC)/toys|Arcee]] (''First Edition'')
File:Bulkhead-Prime-stock render.jpg|[[Bulkhead (Prime)/toys|Bulkhead]] (''Robots in Disguise'')
File:PrimeBee.jpg|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys|Bumblebee]] (''First Edition'')
File:Prime-DeadEndCardArt.jpg|[[Dead End (WFC)|Dead End]]
File:Prime-FallbackCardArt.jpg|[[Fallback (Prime)|Fallback]]
File:Prime-FlamewarCardArt.jpg|[[Flamewar (Prime)|Flamewar]]
File:Prime-HotShotCardArt.jpg|[[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]]
File:KupPrime-cardart.jpg|[[Kup (WFC)|Kup]]
File:Megatron-Prime-stock-render.jpg|[[Megatron (WFC)/toys|Megatron]] (''First Edition'')
File:Prime-MirageCardArt.jpg|[[Mirage (Prime)|Mirage]]
File:RumblePrime-cardart.jpg|[[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]]
File:Shockwave CGI Packaging 1.jpg|[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]
File:Prime-TailgateCardArt.jpg|[[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]
File:Thundertronpackagingart.jpg|[[Thundertron]]
File:BH Optimus Prime Package art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys|Optimus Prime]] (''Beast Hunters'')
File:AM wildrider packageart.jpg|[[Wildrider (Prime)|Wildrider]]
</gallery></center>

===''Rescue Bots''===
<center><gallery>
File:RBpackageart-Blurr.jpg|[[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]]
File:RescueBots-Brushfire-PackageArt.jpg|[[Brushfire (RB)|Brushfire]]
File:RBHoist-packageart.jpg|[[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]]
File:RB-art Medix-cardart.jpg|[[Medix (RB)|Medix]]
File:Sawyer Storm card art.jpg|[[Sawyer Storm]]
</gallery></center>

===''Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
<center><gallery>
File:RID2015art Blastwave.jpg|[[Blastwave]]
File:RIDart-Bludgeon.jpg|[[Bludgeon (Prime)|Bludgeon]]
File:RID-Blurr-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]]
File:Crazybolt RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Crazybolt (RID)|Crazybolt]]
File:RID15-boxart Cyberwarp.jpg|[[Cyberwarp]]
File:RID15-boxart Cyclonus.jpg|[[Cyclonus (WFC)|Cyclonus]]
File:RID2015-Drift.jpg|[[Drift (RID)|Drift]]
File:Fixit-Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-Animated-Series.jpg|[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]]
File:RID2015Fracturepromorender.jpg|[[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]]
File:RID15-boxart Galvatronus.jpg|[[Galvatronus (RID)|Galvatronus]]
File:RIDart Heatseeker.jpg|[[Heatseeker]]
File:RID2015-jazzpromorender.jpg|[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]]
File:RID2015 Overload BoxArt.jpg|[[Overload (RID)|Overload]]
File:RIDart-Paralon.jpg|[[Paralon (RID)|Paralon]]
File:RID15-boxart Riotgear.jpg|[[Riotgear]]
File:RIDart-Scatterspike.jpg|[[Scatterspike (RID)|Scatterspike]]
File:RID15-boxart Shockdrive.jpg|[[Shockdrive]]
File:RID15-boxart Skyjack.jpg|[[Skyjack (RID)|Skyjack]]
File:RIDart StormhammerSkysledge.jpg|[[Skysledge]] and [[Stormhammer]]
File:RIDart Skywarp.jpg|[[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]]
File:Steeljawaligned.jpg|[[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]]
File:RID2015art Stormshot.jpg|[[Stormshot]]
File:RIDart-Thermidor.jpg|[[Thermidor]]
File:Thunderhoof.jpg|[[Thunderhoof (RID)|Thunderhoof]]
File:RID15-boxart Treadshock.jpg|[[Treadshock]]
File:RIDart-Twinferno.jpg|[[Twinferno]]
File:Underbite.jpg|[[Underbite]]
File:RID15-boxart Warnado.jpg|[[Warnado]]
File:Windblade-RID.jpg|[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]]
</gallery></center>

;Mini-Cons
<center><gallery>
File:RIDart Aerobolt.jpg|[[Aerobolt]]
File:Anvil RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]]
File:Beastbox RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Beastbox (RID)|Beastbox]]
File:RIDart-Forth.JPG|[[Back]]/Forth
File:RIDart-Backtrack.jpg|[[Backtrack (RID)|Backtrack]]
File:RIDart-Bashbreaker.jpg|[[Bashbreaker]]
File:Bludgeon RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Bludgeon (RID 2015)|Bludgeon]]
File:Dragonus.jpg|[[Dragonus]]
File:RIDart Great Byte.jpg|[[Great Byte]]
File:Hammer RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]]
File:RiDart Hi-Test.jpg|[[Hi-Test (RID)|Hi-Test (Front)]]
File:RIDart-Hi-Test.jpg|Hi-Test (Side)
File:RIDart-Lancelon.jpg|[[Lancelon]]
File:RIDart-LordDoomitron.jpg|[[Lord Doomitron]]
File:RIDart-Ransack.JPG|[[Ransack (RID Mini-Con)|Ransack]]
File:RID2015 Ratbat BoxArt.jpg|[[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]]
File:Sandsting package art.jpg|[[Sandsting]]
File:Sawback package art.jpg|[[Sawback]]
File:RIDart-Stuntwing.jpg|[[Stuntwing]]
File:Swelter RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Swelter]]
File:RIDart-Tricerashot.jpg|[[Tricerashot]]
File:RIDart-Trickout.jpg|[[Trickout]]
File:Undertone RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Undertone]]
File:Velocirazor package art.jpg|[[Velocirazor]]
File:RIDart-Windstrike.jpg|[[Windstrike]]
</gallery></center>

;Crash Combiners
<center><gallery>
File:RIDart Beeside.jpg|[[Beeside]]
File:Buzzworthy Bumblegrim cardart.jpg|[[Bumblegrim]] (''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'')
File:TF-RID2015-Primelock.jpg|[[Primelock]]
File:RIDart Primestrong.jpg|[[Primestrong]]
File:RID2015 Saberclaw package art.jpg|[[Saberclaw]]
File:RIDart Skyhammer.jpg|[[Skyhammer (RID)|Skyhammer]]
File:RIDart-Shocknado.jpg|[[Shocknado]]
</gallery></center>

===''Adventure''===
<center><gallery>
File:Prime of Micron Barithunder package art.jpg|[[Barithunder]]
File:Adventureart-BlackShadow.jpg|[[Black Shadow (RID)|Black Shadow]]
File:Adventureart-Bombshell.jpg|[[Bombshell (RID)|Bombshell]]
File:Adventure Cosmos package art.jpg|[[Cosmos (RID)|Cosmos]]
File:Prime of Micron Gravity package art.jpg|[[Gravity]]
File:Adventure Greejeeber Package art.jpg|[[Greejeeber]]
File:Prime of Micron Ironjam package art.jpg|[[Ironjam]]
File:Adventure Junkion Packageart.jpg|[[Junkion (RID)|Junkion]]
File:Adventure Lockdown Package Art.jpg|[[Lockdown (RID)|Lockdown]]
File:Adventure NemesisPrime packageart.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (RID)|Nemesis Prime]]
File:Adventure Override package art.jpg|[[Override (RID)|Override]]
File:Adventureart-Phantomjaw.jpg|[[Phantomjaw]]
File:Adventure Powerglide package art.jpg|[[Powerglide (RID)|Powerglide]]
File:Prime of Micron Psychobat package art.jpg|[[Psychobat (RID)|Psychobat]]
File:Adventure Roadblock Package art.jpg|[[Roadblock (RID)|Roadblock]]
File:Adventure Runabout package art.jpg|[[Runabout (RID)|Runabout]]
File:Adventure Sawtooth package art.jpg|[[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]]
File:Adventure Shrapnel package art.jpg|[[Shrapnel (RID)|Shrapnel]]
File:Adventureart-Slug.jpg|[[Slug (FOC)|Slug]]
File:Prime of Micron Volcano package art.jpg|[[Volcano (RID)|Volcano]]
File:Prime of Micron Windra package art.jpg|[[Windra]]
</gallery></center>

===''Rescue Bots Academy''===
<center><gallery>
File:RBA Bumblebee.jpg|[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]
File:RBA Chase.jpg|[[Chase (RB)|Chase]]
File:RBA Hoist.jpg|[[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]]
File:RBA Hotshot.jpg|[[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]]
File:RBA Medix.jpg|[[Medix (RB)|Medix]]
File:RBA Optimus-Prime.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]
File:RBA Wedge.jpg|[[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]]
File:RBA Whirl.jpg|[[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

==''Generations''==
===''Thrilling 30''===
<center><gallery>
File:Generations boxart Blitzwing.jpg|[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]
File:Spotlight Bumblebee cvrRI.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
File:RID25 subcvr.jpg|[[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]
File:RID17 cvrRI.jpg|[[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]]
File:RID18 cvrRI.jpg|Goldfire
File:Spotlight Hoist cvrRI.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
File:MTMTE27 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]
File:Spotlight OrionPax cvrRI.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]]
File:Spotlight Megatron cvrRI.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
File:MTMTE24 subcvr.jpg|[[Mini-Con Assault Team]] ([[Centuritron]])
File:RID26 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
File:RID24 subcvr.jpg|[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]
File:MTMTE23 cvrRI.jpg|[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] w/ [[Holepunch (G1)|Holepunch]] & [[Tracer (Targetmaster)|Caliburst]]
File:MTMTE22 cvrRI.jpg|[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
File:RID23 cvrRI.jpg|[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
File:DarkCybertron cvrRIA.jpg|[[Starscream (Armada)|''Armada'' Starscream]]
File:MTMTE25 subcvr.jpg|[[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]
File:Spotlight Thundercracker cvrRI.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Spotlight Trailcutter cvrRI.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]]
File:RID19 cvrRI.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
File:MTMTE26 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]
</gallery></center>

===''Fall of Cybertron''===
<center><gallery>
File:Fall of Cybertron Generations Air Raid package art.jpg|[[Fireflight (FOC)|Air Raid]]
File:GenerationsArt-Eject.jpg|[[Eject (FOC)|Eject]]
File:FrenzyWFCboxart.jpg|[[Frenzy (WFC)|Frenzy]]
File:FOC-Impactorcardart.jpg|[[Impactor (Prime)|Impactor]]
File:GenerationsArt-Ramhorn.jpg|[[Ramhorn (FOC)|Ramhorn]]
File:RatbatFOCcardart.jpg|[[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]]
File:GenerationsArt-Rewind.jpg|[[Rewind (FOC)|Rewind]]
File:FOC-Roadbustercardart.jpg|[[Roadbuster (Prime)|Roadbuster]]
File:RuinationFOC-packagingart.jpg|[[Ruination (FOC)|Ruination]]
File:GenerationsArt-Steeljaw.jpg|[[Steeljaw (FOC)|Steeljaw]]
File:Buzzsaw-FOCboxart.jpg|[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundblaster]] & [[Buzzsaw (FOC)|Buzzsaw]]
File:GenerationsArt-Sunder.jpg|[[Sunder (FOC)|Sunder]]
File:FOC-Topspincardart.jpg|[[Topspin (FOC)|Topspin]]
File:FOC-Twintwistcardart.jpg|[[Twintwist]]
File:FOC-Whirlcardart.jpg|[[Whirl (FOC)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===''Combiner Wars''===
<center><gallery>
File:CWart-Betatron.jpg|[[Betatron (CW)|Betatron]]
File:CW Blades cvr.jpg|[[Blades (G1)|Blades]]
File:CW First Aid.jpg|[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
File:CW Ironhide cvr.jpg|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys|Ironhide]]
File:TF40 cvrRI.jpg|[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]
File:CW Mirage cvr.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)/toys|Mirage]]
File:Windbladev2-3-cvrRI.jpg|[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]
File:CW Prowl cvr.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:CW Rook cvr.jpg|[[Rook (CW)|Rook]]
File:Rook-comiccover.jpg|[[Rook (CW)|Rook]] (cropped)
File:CW Smokescreen cvr.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)/toys|Smokescreen]]
File:TFSS SGStarscream CardArt.jpg|''Shattered Glass'' [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]]
File:CW Streetwise cvr.jpg|[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
File:CW Sunstreaker cvr.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys|Sunstreaker]]
File:Windbladev2 2 cvrRI.jpg|[[Superion (G1)|Superion]]
File:CW Trailbreaker cvr.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys|Trailbreaker]]
File:Ultra Prime artwork SDCC 2014.jpg|[[Ultra Prime]]
File:Victorion-packagingart.jpg|[[Victorion]]
File:CW Wheeljack comic.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''Titans Return''===
<center><gallery>
File:TitansReturn Brainstorm CardArt.jpg|[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]
File:HasbroPulse FortressMaximus.jpg|[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
</gallery></center>

===''Power of the Primes''===
<center><gallery>
File:POTPBattleslashArtwork.jpg|[[Battleslash]]
File:POTP-Beachcomber-art-transparent.jpg|[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconBlot-CardArt.jpg|[[Blot (G1)|Blot]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-BludgeonQuintusPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Bomb-BurstMegatronus-CardArt.jpg|[[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconCutthroat-CardArt.jpg|[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Elita-1-CardArt.jpg|[[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]]
File:Elita-Infin1te.jpg|[[Elita-Infin1te]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotGrimlock-CardArt.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconHun-Gurrr-CardArt.jpg|[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurrr]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-InfernoCombiner-Art.jpg|[[Inferno Combiner]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-LandmineAlphaTrion-CardArt.jpg|[[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-MetalhawkVectorPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Metalhawk (G1)|Metalhawk]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Moonracer-CardArt.jpg|[[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Novastar-CardArt.jpg|[[Firestar (G1)|Novastar]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-OctopunchSolusPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconRippersnapper-CardArt.jpg|[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]]
File:POTPRoadtrapArtwork.jpg|[[Roadtrap (POTP)|Roadtrap]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-EvolutionRodimusUnicronus-CardArt.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Unicronus]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconSinnertwin-CardArt.jpg|[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Skrapnel-CardArt.jpg|[[Shrapnel (G1)|Skrapnel]]
File:POTPSlashArtwork.jpg|[[Slash (POTP)|Slash]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSludge-CardArt.jpg|[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSlug-CardArt.jpg|[[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSnarl-CardArt.jpg|[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-StarscreamCombiner-Art.jpg|[[Starscream Combiner]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-SubmarauderAlchemistPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSwoop-CardArt.jpg|[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Windcharger-CardArt.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
</gallery></center>

===''Studio Series''===
<center><gallery>
File:ROTB-Airazorzoo.jpg|[[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]] (front)
File:Arcee-SS86packagingart.jpg|[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
File:MovieBarricade render1.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] (front)
File:MovieBarricade.jpg|Barricade (side)
File:WFCBarricade.jpg|[[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:ROTB-Battletrap-Render.jpg|[[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]]
File:StudioSeries-Blackout-art.jpg|[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:StudioSeries-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Studio-Series-Blitzwing-package-render.jpeg|[[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]]
File:StudioSeries-Brawl-art.jpg|[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:BB Brawn.jpg|[[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]]
File:StudioSeries-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] (2007 movie figure)
File:StudioSeries-Bumblebee-WWII-art.jpg|"WWII" Bumblebee
File:Chromia SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]]
File:SS BB Cliffjumper.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]]
File:StudioSeries-Crowbar-art.jpg|[[Crowbar]]
File:ROTF Devastator promo.jpg|[[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]]
File:StudioSeries-Dropkick-art.jpg|[[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] (SuperCobra mode figure)
File:StudioSeries-Dropkick-Car-art.jpg|Dropkick (Javelin mode figure)
File:ROTB Freezer Render.jpg|[[Freezer]]
File:StudioSeries-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:Hightower SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Hightower (ROTF)|Hightower]]
File:StudioSeries-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
File:MovieJazz promorender.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] (front)
File:StudioSeries-Jazz-art.jpg|Jazz (side)
File:ROTF Jetfire.jpg|[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]
File:Studio Series Jolt packaging image.jpg|[[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:StudioSeries-KSI-Boss-art.jpg|[[KSI Boss]]
File:StudioSeries-KSI-Sentry.jpg|[[KSI Sentry]]
File:StudioSeries-Lockdown-art.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:StudioSeries-Long-Haul-art.jpg|[[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]]
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Revenge-art2.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure; front)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Revenge-art.jpg|Megatron (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure; side)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Battle-Damaged-art2.jpg|"Battle Damaged" Megatron (front)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Battle-Damaged-art.jpg|"Battle Damaged" Megatron (side)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Dark-art.jpg|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'' figure) & [[Igor]]
File:Bumblebee-movie-Megatron-ss-concept.jpg|Megatron (''Bumblebee'' concept art figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] (2007 movie figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Revenge-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Dark-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Dark of the Moon'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Bumblebee-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Bumblebee'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Rampage-art.jpg|[[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]]
File:StudioSeries-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] (2007 movie deco)
File:Movie Scorponok Procterrender1.jpg|[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] (Blackout pack-in figure)
File:Scourge Render.jpg|[[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]]
File:Scrapmetal SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Scrapmetal (ROTF)|Scrapmetal]]
File:StudioSeries-Sentinel-Prime-art.jpg|[[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]
File:StudioSeries-Shadow-Raider-art.jpg|[[Shadow Raider]]
File:StudioSeries-Shatter-art.jpg|[[Shatter]] (Plymouth mode figure)
File:StudioSeries-Sideswipe-art.jpg|[[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] (front)
File:Revenge of the Fallen Sideswipe.jpg|Sideswipe (side)
File:WFC Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:Skipjack SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Skipjack (ROTF)|Skipjack]]
File:Slug-SS86packagingart.jpg|[[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
File:StudioSeries-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] (2007 movie deco)
File:StudioSeries-Starscream-Revenge-art.jpg|Starscream (''Revenge of the Fallen'' deco; front)
File:RevengeOfTheFallenStarscream.jpg|Starscream (''Revenge of the Fallen'' deco; side)
File:StarscreamBumblebeeMovieRender.jpg|Starscream (''Bumblebee'' figure)
File:WFC Starscream.jpg|[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:Stinger.jpg|[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]]
File:Ss-111-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (ROTF)|Sunstreaker]]
File:StudioSeries-The-Fallen-art.jpg|[[The Fallen]]
File:FURY-Studio-Series-Thrust.jpg|[[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]]
File:StudioSeries-Thundercracker-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]]
</gallery></center>

===''Collaborative''===
<center><gallery>
File:Ectotron boxart.jpg|[[Ectotron]]
File:Transformers-XMen-Ultimate-XSpanse-Character-Art.jpg|[[Ultimate X-Spanse]]
File:Collaborative Sabretooth boxart.jpeg|[[Sabretooth]] (Ultimate X-Spanse pack-in figure)
File:CobraCon-Fusion.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Collaborative|Megatron]] ([[H.I.S.S. tank]])
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
<center><gallery>
File:Siege-Apeface-art.jpg|[[Apeface]]
File:Siege-Astrotrain-art.jpg|[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]
File:Siege-Autobot-Alphastrike-Counterforce-box-art.jpg|[[Firestormer|Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce]] ([[Sideswipe (G2)|Covert Clone Sideswipe]], [[Slamdance (G1)|Slamdance]] and [[Trenchfoot]])
File:Siege-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]]
File:Siege-Brunt-art.jpg|[[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]]
File:Siege-Chromia-art.jpg|[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]
File:Siege-Cog-art.jpg|[[Cog (G1)|Cog]]
File:Siege-Crosshairs-art.jpg|[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]]
File:Siege-Decepticon-Phantomstrike-Squadron-box-art.jpg|[[Phantomstrike Squadron|Decepticon Phantomstrike Squadron]] ([[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], [[Fracas]], [[Hairsplitter|Shrute]] and [[Terror-Daxtyl]])
File:WarForCybertronSiege-Firedrive-CardArt.jpg|[[Firebolt (G1)|Firedrive]]
File:Siege-Greenlight-art.jpg|[[Greenlight]]
File:Siege-Hound-art.jpg|[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
File:Siege-Impactor-art.jpg|[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]]
File:Siege-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
File:Siege-Jetfire-art.jpg|[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]
File:Siege-Mirage-art.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
File:Siege-Omega-Supreme-art.jpg|[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]
File:Siege-OptimusPrime-CardArt.jpeg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Siege-Prowl-art.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
File:SiegeArt-Pteraxadon.jpg|[[Pteraxadon]]
File:Siege-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
File:Siege-Red-Alert-art.jpg|[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]
File:Siege-Refraktor-art.jpg|[[Reflector (G1)|Refraktor]]
File:WFC-Siege-Poster-ArkLaunchAutobots.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]''
File:Siege-Shockwave-art.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
File:Siege-Sideswipe-CardArt.jpeg|[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
File:Siege-Sixgun-art.jpg|[[Six-Gun|Sixgun]]
File:Siege-Skytread-art.jpg|[[Flywheels|Skytread]]
File:WFC-Siege-Smashdown-Card-Art.jpg|[[Smashdown]]
File:Siege-Soundwave-art.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
File:Siege-Spinister-art.jpg|[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]]
File:Siege-Springer-art.jpg|[[Springer (G1)|Springer]]
File:Siege-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
File:Siege-Thundercracker-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Siege-Ultra-Magnus-art.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
<center><gallery>
File:Earthrise-Airwave-art.jpg|[[Airwave (facility)|Airwave]]
File:Earthrise-Allicon-art.jpg|[[Allicon]]
File:Earthrise-Arcee-art.jpg|[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
File:Earthrise-Cliffjumper-art.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Doublecrosser-Card-Art.jpg|[[Doublecrosser (Earthrise)|Doublecrosser]]
File:Earthrise-Doubledealer-art.jpg|[[Doubledealer]]
File:Earthrise-Fasttrack-art.jpg|[[Fasttrack (G1)|Fasttrack]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-main-artwork.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]''
File:Earthrise-Grapple-art.jpg|[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]]
File:Earthrise-Hoist-art.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
File:Earthrise-Ironworks-art.jpg|[[Ironworks (facility)|Ironworks]]
File:Earthrise-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
File:Earthrise-Judge-art.jpg|[[Quintesson Judge]]
File:Earthrise-Runamuck-art.jpg|[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]]
File:Earthrise-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]
File:Earthrise-Sky-Lynx-art.jpg|[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Slitherfang-Card-Art.jpg|[[Slitherfang]]
File:Earthrise-Smokescreen-art.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:Earthrise-Snapdragon-art.jpg|[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Soundbarrier-Card-Art.jpg|[[Soundbarrier]]
File:Earthrise-Sunstreaker-art.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
File:Earthrise-Trailbreaker-art.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]
File:Earthrise-Wheeljack-art.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
<center><gallery>
File:WFC-Kingdom-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'')
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Megatron returns to pits.jpg|Spoiler Pack ([[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]])
File:WFC-Kingdom-Nemesis-Prime-art.jpg|Spoiler Pack ([[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]])
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Kingdom''===
<center><gallery>
File:WFC-Kingdom-Airazor-art.jpg|[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Ark becomes giant woman.jpg|[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Battle-Across-Time-Collection-artwork.jpg|"Battle Across Time Collection"
File:WFC-Kingdom-Cheetor-art.jpg|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Cyclonus-art.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Dracodon-art.jpg|[[Dracodon]]
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Megatron becomes Galvatron.jpg|[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Huffer-art.jpg|[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Inferno-art.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-main-artwork.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]''
File:WFC-Kingdom-Megatron-Beast-art.jpg|[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron (Beast)]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Optimus-Primal-art.jpg |[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Pipes-art.jpg |[[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]]
File:Kingdom Ractonite boxart.jpg|[[Ractonite]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Rattrap-art.jpg|[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Rhinox.jpg|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]
File:WFCKingdom-Paleotrexart.jpg|[[Paleotrex]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Shadow-Panther-art.jpg|[[Shadow Panther]]
File:Kingdom-Slammer-art.jpg|[[Slammer]]
File:Kingdom T-Wrecks-package-art.jpg|[[T-Wrecks]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tigatron-art.jpg|[[Tigatron]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tracks-art.jpg|[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tricranius-art.jpg|[[Tricranius]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Vertebreak-art.jpg|[[Vertebreak (Kingdom)|Vertebreak]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Warpath-art.jpg|[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Waspinator-art.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
File:Kingdom Wingfinger boxart.jpg|[[Wingfinger]]
</gallery></center>

===''Legacy''===
<center><gallery>
File:Legacy boxart Axlegrease.jpeg|[[Axlegrease]]
File:LegacyUnited-BouldercrashArt.jpg|[[Bouldercrash]]
File:Crashbar-packagingart.jpg|[[Crashbar]]
File:TF-Legacy-United-Core-Geocron PackagingArt.jpg|[[Geocron]]
File:TF-Legacy-Core-Class-Iguanus-Package-Art-Full.jpg|[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]]
File:Kaskade-packagingart.jpg|[[Kaskade]]
File:Legacy-Laser-Prime-Package-Art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|G2 Universe Laser Optimus Prime]]
File:Paradiseparakeet-packagingart.jpg|[[Paradise Parakeet]]
File:Magneous-packagingart.jpg|[[Magneous]]
File:MalleusMinotaurus-art.jpg|[[Malleus Minotaurus]]
File:Legacy-art Masterdominus.jpg|[[Masterdominus]]
File:Legacy Medix BoxArt.jpeg|[[Medix (G1)|Medix]]
File:Scraphook-packagingart.jpg|[[Scraphook]]
File:Scarr-legacypackagingart.jpg|[[Skar (IDW)|Scarr]]
File:Shadowstrip-packagingart.jpg|[[Shadowstrip]]
File:TF-Legacy-United-Deluxe-Shard-art.jpg|[[Shard]]
File:Legacy-art Spindle.jpg|[[Spindle]]
File:Trashmaster-packagingart.jpg|[[Trashmaster]]
</gallery></center>

==''Cyberverse'' (2018)==
<center><gallery>
File:AcidStormCyberversePromo.jpeg|[[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]]
File:CyberverseBlurr.jpg|[[Blurr (Cyberverse)|Blurr]]
File:Cyberverse-Bumblebee-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Bumbleswoop.jpg|[[Bumbleswoop]]
File:Cheetor-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]]
File:Clobber-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]]
File:Dead End-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]]
File:Cyberverse-packagingart-Gnaw.jpg|[[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]]
File:Cyberverse-Grimlock-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]]
File:Hot-Rod-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]
File:Transformers Cyberverse One-Step Jazz.jpg|[[Jazz (Cyberverse)|Jazz]]
File:Jetfire-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]]
File:Megatron-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]]
File:Optimus-Prime-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]
File:ProwlCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Prowl (Cyberverse)|Prowl]]
File:Ratchet-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]]
File:Shadow-Striker-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]
File:Shockwave-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]]
File:SkyByte-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpeg|[[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]]
File:SlipstreamCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Slugtron.jpg|[[Slugtron]]
File:SoundwaveCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]]
File:Starscream-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]
File:Thundercracker-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]]
File:Thunderhowl-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Wheelgrim.jpg|[[Wheelgrim]]
File:CyberverseWheeljack.jpg|[[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]]
File:Whirl-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.JPG|[[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]]
File:Cyberverse-Ultimate-Volcanicus-package-art.jpg|[[Volcanicus (Cyberverse)|Volcanicus]]
</gallery></center>

==''EarthSpark''==
<center><gallery>
File:Elita1-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]]
File:Hashtag-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] (Tacticon figure)
File:Optimusprime-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] (Tacticon figure)
File:Shockwave-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]]
File:Skywarp-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Skywarp (ES)|Skywarp]]
File:Starscream-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Starscream (ES)|Starscream]]
File:Wheeljack-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

==Miscellaneous==
<center><gallery>
File:PepsiConvoy.jpg|[[Pepsi Convoy]]
File:G1 boxart at botcon.jpg|''The Transformers'' Boxart
File:Ride-Evac-art.jpg|''[[Transformers: Universal Studios]]'' [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]]
</gallery></center>

[[Category:Media]]

Package art/gallery

2024-10-20T02:41:44Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Action Masters */

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This page collects the package art used in various pages on {{SITENAME}}.

==''The Transformers''==
<center>[[File:G1 OptimusPrime boxart.jpg|none|215px|thumb|Transformers Commandment #1: Thou shall not joke about [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]]]

<gallery>
File:Autoceptor-boxart.jpg|[[Autoceptor]]
File:Battletrapboxart.jpg|[[Battletrap (G1)|Battletrap]]
File:G1 packagingart Blaster.jpg|[[Blaster (G1)/toys|Blaster]]
File:G1 Bluestreak boxart.jpg|[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys|Bluestreak]]
File:G1 boxart Brawn.jpg|[[Brawn (G1)/toys|Brawn]]
File:Camshaft-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Camshaft (G1)|Camshaft]]
File:Cindersaur cardart.jpg|[[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]]
File:G1boxart-Cliffjumper.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys|Cliffjumper]]
File:G1 boxart Cyclonus.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)/toys|Cyclonus]]
File:Deceptor-boxart.jpg|[[Deceptor]]
File:G1 boxart Dirge.jpg|[[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]]
File:Dogfight-boxart.jpg|[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]]
File:Downshift-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Downshift (G1)|Downshift]]
File:G1 - Fastlane & Cloudraker - Boxart.jpg|[[Fastlane]] & [[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]]
File:Flamefeather cardart.jpg|[[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]]
File:Flywheelsboxart.jpg|[[Flywheels]]
File:Galvatron-Box-Art.jpg|[[Galvatron (G1)/toys|Galvatron]]
File:G1 Grimlock boxart.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys|Grimlock]]
File:G1 boxart Hoist.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)/toys|Hoist]]
File:G1-HotRod-boxart.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys|Hot Rod]]
File:G1 packageart Hound.jpg|[[Hound (G1)/toys|Hound]]
File:G1 boxart Inferno.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)/toys|Inferno]]
File:G1 packagingart Jazz.jpg|[[Jazz (G1)/toys|Jazz]]
File:G1 boxart Jetfire.jpg|[[Jetfire (G1)/toys|Jetfire]]
File:G1 boxart Kup.jpg|[[Kup (G1)/toys|Kup]]
File:G1 megatron boxart.jpeg|[[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]]
File:Mirage g1boxart.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)/toys|Mirage]]
File:Overdrive-thebattleisfarfromover.jpg|[[Overdrive]]
File:G1Override cardart.jpg|[[Override (G1)|Override]]
File:G1 boxart Perceptor.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)/toys|Perceptor]]
File:Pounce-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Pounce]]
File:G1 boxart Powerglide.jpg|[[Powerglide (G1)/toys|Powerglide]]
File:G1 boxart Prowl.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:G1 boxart Ramjet.jpg|[[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]]
File:G1 boxart RedAlert.jpg|[[Red Alert (G1)/toys|Red Alert]]
File:G1Repugnus boxart.jpg|[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]]
File:G1 boxart Scourge.jpg|[[Scourge (G1)/toys|Scourge]]
File:G1 boxart Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys|Shockwave]]
File:G1boxart-Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys|Sideswipe]]
File:G1Sizzle(sparkabot) cardart.jpg|[[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]]
File:Sky lynx.jpg|[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]
File:G1 Slag boxart.jpg|[[Slag (G1)/toys|Slag]]
File:G1 boxart Smokescreen.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:G1 Snarl boxart.jpg|[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]
File:G1 boxart Soundwave.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]]
File:Sparkstalker cardart.jpg|[[Sparkstalker]]
File:G1boxart-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys|Sunstreaker]]
File:Swerve.toy.boxart.jpg|[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
File:G1 boxart Swoop.jpg|[[Swoop (G1)/toys|Swoop]]
File:G1 boxart Thrust.jpg|[[Thrust (G1)/toys|Thrust]]
File:G1boxart-Topspin.jpg|[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]]
File:G1 boxart Trailbreaker.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys|Trailbreaker]]
File:G1-TwinTwist-boxart.jpg|[[Twin Twist]]
File:G1Venom boxart.jpg|[[Venom (G1)|Venom]]
File:G1 boxart Warpath.jpg|[[Warpath (G1)#Toys|Warpath]]
File:G1 packagingart Wheeljack.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys|Wheeljack]]
File:Windcharger G1 boxart.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
File:G1Whirl boxart.jpg|[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===Mini-Cassettes===
<center><gallery>
File:Beastbox g1.jpg|[[Beastbox (G1)|Beastbox]]
File:G1 boxart Buzzsaw.jpg|[[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys|Buzzsaw]]
File:G1 boxart Frenzy.jpg|[[Frenzy (G1)/toys|Frenzy]]
File:G1 Ratbat Packaging Art.jpg|[[Ratbat (G1)/toys|Ratbat]]
File:Ravageboxart.jpg|[[Ravage (G1)/toys|Ravage]]
File:G1 boxart Rumble.jpg|[[Rumble (G1)/toys|Rumble]]
File:Slugfest-cardart.jpg|[[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]]
File:Squawktalk cardart.jpg|[[Squawktalk (G1)|Squawktalk]]
File:Steeljawboxart.jpg|[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]]
</gallery></center>

===Triple Changers===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 boxart Astrotrain.jpg|[[Astrotrain (G1)/toys|Astrotrain]]
File:G1 boxart Blitzwing.jpg|[[Blitzwing (G1)/toys|Blitzwing]]
File:Octane boxart.jpg|[[Octane]]
File:G1AutobotSandstorm boxart.jpg|[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]]
File:G1 boxart Springer.jpg|[[Springer (G1)/toys|Springer]]
</gallery></center>

===Combiners===
<center><gallery>
File:Air Raid G1 boxart.jpg|[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]
File:Blast Off G1 boxart.jpg|[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]
File:G1Blot boxart.jpg|[[Blot (G1)|Blot]]
File:Bonecrusher G1 boxart.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Brawl G1 boxart.jpg|[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]
File:G1 Cutthroat boxart.jpg|[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]]
File:G1-Divebomb-boxart.jpg|[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]]
File:Fireflight G1 boxart.jpg|[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]
File:Long Haul G1 boxart.jpg|[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
File:Mixmaster G1 boxart.jpg|[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]
File:Onslaught G1 boxart.jpg|[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]
File:G1 Rippersnapper boxart.jpg|[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]]
File:Headstrong boxart.jpg|[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]]
File:Hook G1 boxart.jpg|[[Hook (G1)|Hook]]
File:ScavengerG1.jpg|[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]
File:Scrapper G1 boxart.jpg|[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
File:Silverbolt G1 boxart.jpg|[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]
File:G1-Sinnertwin-boxart.jpg|[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]]
File:Skydive G1 boxart.jpg|[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]
File:Slingshot G1 boxart.jpg|[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]
File:Streetwise g1 boxart.jpg|[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
File:Swindle G1 boxart.jpg|[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]
File:Tantrum boxart.jpg|[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]]
File:Vortex G1 boxart.jpg|[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]
</gallery></center>

===Throttlebots===
<center><gallery>
File:Chase g1 boxart.jpg|[[Chase (G1)|Chase]]
File:G1Freeway cardart.jpg|[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]]
File:Rollbar g1 boxart.jpg|[[Rollbar (G1)|Rollbar]]
File:Searchlight g1 boxart.jpg|[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]]
File:G1Wideload cardart.jpg|[[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]]
</gallery></center>

===Six Changers===
<center><gallery>
File:SixshotBoxArt.jpg|[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]
File:Quickswitch boxart.jpg|[[Quickswitch]]
</gallery></center>

===Headmasters===
<center><gallery>
File:G1Mindwipe boxart.jpg|[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]
File:G1 Skullcruncher boxart.jpg|[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]]
File:Weirdwolf boxart.jpg|[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]]
File:G1 Apeface boxart.jpg|[[Apeface]]
File:G1Snapdragon boxart.jpg|[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]]
File:Hosehead boxart.jpg|[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]]
File:G1 boxart Scorponok.jpg|[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]
File:G1 Siren boxart.jpg|[[Siren (G1)|Siren]]
File:Squeezeplay boxart.jpg|[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]]
</gallery></center>

===Targetmasters===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 Crosshairs boxart.jpg|[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]]
File:G1 Pointblank boxart.jpg|[[Pointblank]]
File:G1 Sureshot boxart.jpg|[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]
File:G1Misfire boxart.jpg|[[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]]
File:Slugslingerg1.jpg|[[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]]
File:G1Triggerhappy boxart.jpg|[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]]
File:Landfill g1 boxart.jpg|[[Landfill (G1)|Landfill]]
File:G1Quickmix cardart.jpg|[[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]]
File:Scoop g1 boxart.jpg|[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]]
File:Needlenose-boxart.jpg|[[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]
File:Quake cardart.jpg|[[Quake (G1)|Quake]]
File:Spinister-boxart.jpg|[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]]
</gallery></center>

===Pretenders===
<center><gallery>
File:Cloudburst.jpg|[[Cloudburst]]
File:Groundbreaker.jpg|[[Groundbreaker]]
File:Sky high(Pretender) boxart.jpg|[[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]]
File:Splashdown.jpg|[[Splashdown]]
File:Waverider boxart.jpg|[[Waverider]]
File:Buglyboxart.jpg|[[Bugly (G1)|Bugly]]
File:G1Finback boxart.jpg|[[Finback]]
File:Iguanus.jpg|[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]]
File:G1 Skullgrin boxart.jpg|[[Skullgrin]]
File:G1Submarauder boxart.jpg|[[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]
File:Pincher boxart.jpg|[[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]]
File:Octopunch.jpg|[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]
File:G1Stranglehold boxart.jpg|[[Stranglehold]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Beasts
<center><gallery>
File:Catillaboxart.jpg|[[Catilla (G1)|Catilla]]
File:Chainclaw.jpg|[[Chainclaw (G1)|Chainclaw]]
File:G1snarler boxart.jpg|[[Snarler]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Vehicles
<center><gallery>
File:Gunrunner.jpg|[[Gunrunner (G1)|Gunrunner]]
File:Roadgrabber.jpg|[[Roadgrabber]]
</gallery></center>

;Classic Pretenders

;Mega Pretenders
<center><gallery>
File:Crossblades-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]]
File:Vroom boxart.jpg|[[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]]
File:Thunderwingboxart.jpg|[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]
</gallery></center>

;Ultra Pretenders
<center><gallery>
File:G1Skyhammer boxartsm.jpg|[[Skyhammer (G1)|Skyhammer]]
File:Roadblock-boxart.jpg|[[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]]
</gallery></center>

;Pretender Monsters
<center><gallery>
File:G1-Bristleback1.jpg|[[Bristleback]]
</gallery></center>

===Powermasters===
<center><gallery>
File:Darkwing boxart.jpg|[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]]
File:Doubledealer boxart.jpg|[[Doubledealer]]
File:G1Getaway boxart.jpg|[[Getaway]]
File:Joyride boxart.jpg|[[Joyride (G1)|Joyride]]
File:Powermaster Optimus Prime (G1) Box Art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
File:Slapdash boxart.jpg|[[Slapdash (G1)|Slapdash]]
</gallery></center>

===Micromasters===
<center><gallery>
File:Micromaster Air patrol.jpg|[[Air Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Air strike patrol.jpg|[[Air Strike Patrol]]
File:Airwave-packageart.jpg|[[Airwave (Micromaster)|Airwave]]
File:G1anti-aircraft base boxart.jpg|[[Anti-Aircraft Base]]
File:Micromaster Astro squad.jpg|[[Astro Squad]]
File:G1BarricadeBoxart.jpg|[[Barricade (G1)|Barricade]]
File:Micromaster Battle patrol.jpg|[[Battle Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Battle squad.jpg|[[Battle Squad]]
File:Big daddy boxart.jpg|[[Big Daddy (G1)|Big Daddy]]
File:Blackjack-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]]
File:BlazeMasterBoxart.jpg|[[Blaze Master]]
File:Micromaster Construction patrol.jpg|[[Construction Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Constructor squad.jpg|[[Constructor Squad]]
File:CementHeadBoxart.jpg|[[Cement-Head]]
File:Constructionstation-backofthebox.jpg|[[Ironworks (facility)|Construction Station]]
File:Detour-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Detour (G1)|Detour]]
File:DirectHitBoxart.jpg|[[Direct-Hit]]
File:EagleEyeBoxart.jpg|[[Eagle Eye (G1)|Eagle Eye]]
File:Excavator-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Excavator (G1)|Excavator]]
File:FireshotBoxart.jpg|[[Fireshot]]
File:Flattop boxart.jpg|[[Flattop (G1)|Flattop]]
File:Grit-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Grit]]
File:GroundHogBoxart.jpg|[[Ground Hog]]
File:GusherBoxart.jpg|[[Gusher]]
File:HalftrackBoxart.jpg|[[Half-Track (G1)|Half-Track]]
File:Hammer-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Hammer (G1)|Hammer]]
File:Heavy tread boxart.jpg|[[Heavy Tread]]
File:Micromaster Hot rod patrol.jpg|[[Hot Rod Patrol]]
File:Hydraulic boxart.jpg|[[Hydraulic]]
File:HyperdriveBoxart.jpg|[[Hyperdrive (Micromaster)|Hyperdrive]]
File:Knockout-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Knockout (G1)|Knockout]]
File:MeltdownBoxart.jpg|[[Meltdown (G1)|Meltdown]]
File:Micromaster Metro squad.jpg|[[Metro Squad]]
File:Micromaster Military patrol.jpg|[[Military Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Monster truck patrol.jpg|[[Monster Trucks Patrol]]
File:MotorheadBoxart.jpg|[[Motorhead (G1)|Motorhead]]
File:Micromasters Off road patrol.jpg|[[Off Road Patrol]]
File:OverflowBoxart.jpg|[[Overflow]]
File:PipelineBoxart.jpg|[[Pipeline]]
File:PowerPunchBoxart.jpg|[[Power Punch]]
File:Micromaster Race track patrol.jpg|[[Race Track Patrol]]
File:Micromaster Rescue patrol.jpg|[[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]]
File:RetroBoxart.jpg|[[Retro]]
File:RoadHuggerBoxart.jpg|[[Road Hugger (G1)|Road Hugger]]
File:RollerForceBoxart.jpg|[[Roller Force]]
File:Sidetrack-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Sidetrack (G1)|Sidetrack]]
File:SkyHighBoxart.jpg|[[Sky High (Micromaster)|Sky High]]
File:SkyhopperBoxart.jpg|[[Skyhopper]]
File:Sledge-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Sledge (G1)|Sledge]]
File:Stonecruncher-G1-Boxart.jpg|[[Stonecruncher (G1)|Stonecruncher]]
File:SurgeBoxart.jpg|[[Surge (G1)|Surge]]
File:Swindler boxart.jpg|[[Swindler]]
File:Terror-TreadBoxart.jpg|[[Terror-Tread]]
File:TreadBoltBoxart.jpg|[[Tread Bolt]]
File:VanquishBoxart.jpg|[[Vanquish]]
</gallery></center>

===Action Masters===
<center><gallery>
File:ChargerActionMasterArt1.jpg|[[Charger]]
File:Neutro-fusiontank.jpg|[[Neutro-Fusion Tank]]
File:G1Rad boxart.jpg|[[Rad (G1)|Rad]]
File:G1Treadshot boxart.jpg|[[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]]
File:Armoredconvoyboxart.jpg|[[Armoured Convoy]]
</gallery></center>

===European-original characters===
<center><gallery>
File:Deftwing boxart.jpg|[[Deftwing]]
File:Lightspeed(Motorvator) boxart.jpg|[[Lightspeed (Motorvator)|Lightspeed]]
File:Rescue force.jpg|[[Rescue Force]]
</gallery></center>
;Turbomasters
<center><gallery>
File:G1thunder clash boxart.jpg|[[Thunder Clash]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:G1Rotorstorm boxart.jpg|[[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]]
File:FlashG1-card.jpg|[[Flash (G1)|Flash]]
File:G1hurricane cardart.jpg|[[Hurricane]]
File:Scorch cardart.jpg|[[Scorch (G1)|Scorch]]
</gallery></center>
;Predators
<center><gallery>
File:Skyquake.jpg|[[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]]
File:G1Stalker boxart.jpg|[[Stalker (G1)|Stalker]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:G1Falcon Predator card.jpg|[[Falcon (G1)|Falcon]]
File:Predator Skydive cardart.jpg|[[Skydive (Predator)|Skydive]]
File:G1Snare cardart.jpg|[[Snare]]
File:G1 Talon cardart.jpg|[[Talon (G1)|Talon]]
</gallery></center>

===South American-original characters===
<center><gallery>
File:RobocarSedanBoxart.jpg|[[Sedan (Robocar)]]
File:Saltmanz boxart.jpg|[[Salt-Man Z]]
</gallery></center>

==''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''==
===''The Headmasters''===
<center><gallery>
File:FortMax1.jpg|[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
</gallery>
<gallery>
File:G1 Dial boxart.jpg|[[Dile]]
File:G1 Zaur boxart.jpg|[[Zaur (G1)|Zaur]]
File:G1 Graphy boxart.jpg|[[Graphy]]
File:G1 Noise boxart.jpg|[[Noise]]
File:Getsuei-card.jpg|[[Getsuei]]
File:G1 - Kaen - Boxart.jpg|[[Kaen]]
File:G1 - Seizan - Boxart.jpg|[[Seizan]]
File:G1 - Shouki - Boxart.jpg|[[Shouki]]
File:G1 - Suiken - Boxart.jpg|[[Suiken]]
File:G1 - Yukikaze - Boxart.jpg|[[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]]
File:Raiden boxart.jpg|[[Raiden]]
File:Artfire.jpg|[[Artfire]]
</gallery></center>
===''Super-God Masterforce''===
<center><gallery>
File:G1 - Doubleclouder - Boxart.jpg|[[Clouder|Doubleclouder]]
File:Godbomber boxart.jpg|[[Godbomber]]
File:Hotspark-box.jpg|[[Hotspark]]
File:Masterbrace toy.jpg|[[Master-Brace]]
File:Overlord.jpg|[[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]
File:Sixknight boxart.jpg|[[Sixknight]]
File:G1Turtler boxart.jpg|[[Turtler]]
File:G1Wildspark boxart.jpg|[[Wildspark]]
</gallery></center>

===''Victory''===
;Brainmasters
<center><gallery>
File:G1 Star Saber art variant.jpg|[[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]]
File:Road caesar.jpg|[[Road Caesar]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Blacker.jpg|[[Blacker]]
File:Laster.jpg|[[Laster]]
File:Braver.jpg|[[Braver]]
</gallery></center>
;Breastforce
<center><gallery>
File:Deathsaurus1.jpg|[[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]
File:Liokaiser.jpg|[[Liokaiser]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Leozack boxart.jpg|[[Leozack]]
File:Guyhawk.jpg|[[Guyhawk]]
File:Hellbat.jpg|[[Hellbat (G1)|Hellbat]]
</gallery></center>
<center><gallery>
File:Jargua.jpg|[[Jallguar]]
File:Killbison.jpg|[[Killbison]]
File:Drillhorn.jpg|[[Drillhorn (G1)|Drillhorn]]
</gallery></center>
;Crossformers
<center><gallery>
File:G1 BlackShadow boxart.jpg|[[Black Shadow (G1)|Black Shadow]]
File:G1 BlueBacchus boxart.jpg|[[Blue Bacchus]]
</gallery></center>
;Miscellaneous
<center><gallery>
File:G1Galaxy Shuttle boxart.jpg|[[Galaxy Shuttle]]
File:G1greatshot boxart.jpg|[[Greatshot]]
File:Victory leo.jpg|[[Ginrai (robot)|Victory Leo]]
File:Victory saber.jpg|[[Star Saber (G1)|Victory Saber]]
</gallery></center>

===''Zone''===
<center><gallery>
File:DaiAtlas1.jpg|[[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]]
File:G1Sonicbomber art.jpg|[[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]]
File:G1 - Deadwheeler - Boxart.jpg|[[Deadwheeler]]
File:Metrotitan.jpg|[[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]
File:ZoneNightflight boxart.jpg|[[Nightflight (Zone)|Nightflight]]
File:Rocketbase-packageart.jpg|[[Rocket Base]]
File:ZoneWhisper boxart.jpg|[[Whisper (Zone)|Whisper]]
File:G1Windrim boxart.jpg|[[Windrim]]
</gallery></center>

===''Return of Convoy''===
<center><gallery>
File:Grandus boxart.jpg|[[Grandus (G1)|Grandus]]
File:StarConvoyBoxArt1.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]]
</gallery></center>

===''Operation Combination''===
<center><gallery>
File:Battlegaea-box.jpg|[[Battle Gaia]]
File:G1 - Sixbuilder - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixbuilder]]
File:G1 - Sixturbo - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixturbo]]
File:G1 - Sixtrain - Boxart.jpg|[[Sixtrain]]
</gallery></center>

===''Micromaster''===
<center><gallery>
File:Alan-packageart.jpg|[[Alan (G1)|Alan]]
File:Diego-packageart.jpg|[[D-Go]]
File:Joe-packageart.jpg|[[Joe (G1)|Joe]]
File:Leaf-packageart.jpg|[[Leaf]]
File:Night-packageart.jpg|[[Night]]
File:Spark-packageart.jpg|[[Spark (G1)|Spark]]
</gallery></center>

==''Generation 2''==
<center><gallery>
File:ArchforceArt.jpg|[[Archforce]]
File:G2-art Aquafend.jpg|[[Aquafend]]
File:G2BlazeOrSizzleCardArt.jpg|[[Fizzle|Blaze]]
File:G2-Clench-boxart.jpg|[[Clench (G1)|Clench]]
File:G2 Deluge Decepticon cardart.jpg|[[Deluge (G2)|Deluge]]
File:G2 Ironfist boxart.jpg|[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]]
Laser optimus boxart.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Laser Optimus Prime]]
File:LegacyNightracerart.jpg|[[Nightracer (G2)|Nightracer]]
File:G2StarscreamPackageArt.jpg|[[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]
File:G1ZapWindbreaker boxart.jpg|[[Windbreaker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Wars''==
<center><gallery>
File:McD-Beetle-packageart.jpg|[[Beetle]]
File:BWBlackarachniaCardArt.jpg|[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
File:Bonecrusher-bw-packageart1a.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (BW)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Drillbit-packageart.jpg|[[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]]
File:McD-MantaRay-packageart.jpg|[[Manta Ray]]
File:Manterror-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Manterror]]
File:Packratbw.jpg|[[Packrat]]
File:Powerpinch-packageart.jpg|[[Powerpinch]]
File:BWRazorclaw CardArt.jpg|[[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]]
File:Bwrazorclaw.jpg|Razorclaw (video pack)
File:Retrax-packageart1.jpg|[[Retrax]]
File:McD-Rhino-packageart.jpg|[[Rhino (BW)|Rhino]]
File:Spittor-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]]
File:Tarantulasbw.jpg|[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (Japan)
File:Wolfang-packageart.jpg|[[Wolfang (Maximal)|Wolfang]]
</gallery></center>

===Fuzors===
<center><gallery>
File:Bantor-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Bantor (BW)|Bantor]]
File:Buzzclaw-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]]
File:Injector tech spec.jpg|[[Injector (BW)|Injector]]
File:BW-SkyShadow-packageart.jpg|[[Sky Shadow (BW)|Sky Shadow]]
File:Terragator-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Terragator]]
</gallery></center>

===Transmetal===
<center><gallery>
File:BWscavenger.jpg|[[Scavenger (BW)|Scavenger]]
</gallery></center>

===Transmetal 2===
<center><gallery>
File:TM blackarachnia packaging art.jpg|[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
File:Optimusminor-packageart.jpg|[[Optimus Minor]]
File:Prowl2-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (TM2)|Prowl II]]
File:Scarem-packageart.jpg|[[Scarem]]
File:Scourge-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Scourge (BW)|Scourge]]
File:Sonar-bw-packageart.jpg|[[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]]
</gallery></center>

===Mutants===
<center><gallery>
File:Soundwavemutantcardart.jpg|[[Soundwave (BW)|Soundwave]]
</gallery></center>

===BotCon exclusives===
<center><gallery>
File:BW Antagony boxart.jpg|[[Antagony (BW)|Antagony]]
File:Onyxprimal.jpg|[[Onyx Primal]]
File:Sandstorm bw.jpg|[[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]]
File:Windrazor bw.jpg|[[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]]
</gallery></center>

===''10th Anniversary''===
<center><gallery>
File:Cheetorbw.jpg|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
File:Dinobotbwx.jpg|[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]
File:MegatronBW-BWXart.jpg|[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
File:Rhinoxbw.jpg|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]
File:Tarantulas-BW10th.jpg|[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]
File:Transmutate.jpg|[[Transmutate (BW)|Trans-Mutate]]
File:Waspinatorbw.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Wars'' (Japan)==
===''Beast Wars II''===
<center><gallery>
File:Autocrusher-card.jpg|[[Autocrusher]]
File:Autojetter-card.jpg|[[Autojetter]]
File:Autolauncher-card.jpg|[[Autolauncher]]
File:Autostinger-card.jpg|[[Autostinger]]
File:BWII Dirge card.jpg|[[Dirge (BW)|Dirge]]
</gallery></center>

===''Beast Wars Neo''===
<center><gallery>
File:BWNeo Bump card1.jpg|[[Bump]]
File:BW Crazybolt card.jpg|[[Crazybolt (BW)|Crazybolt]]
File:BWNeo Hardhead card.jpg|[[Hardhead (BW)|Hardhead]]
File:BWN Hydra card.jpg|[[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]]
File:Survivebwn.jpg|[[Survive]]
</gallery></center>

==''Machine Wars''==
<center><gallery>
File:MW Hubcap cardart.jpg|[[Hubcap (MW)|Hubcap]]
File:MegaplexArt1.jpg|[[Megaplex]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Prowl.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Soundwave.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]]
File:MachineWars CardArt Thundercracker.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys|Thundercracker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Beast Machines''==
<center><gallery>
File:TWrecksdinobotspackaging art.jpg|[[T-Wrecks]]
</gallery></center>

==''Car Robots''==
<center><gallery>
File:RID EagleKiller REV biocard.jpg|[[R.E.V.|Eagle Killer]]
File:RID Ox Ironhide biocard.jpg|[[Ironhide (RID)|Ox]]
File:RID WARS biocard.jpg|[[W.A.R.S.]]
File:RID XCar Crosswise biocard.jpg|[[Crosswise (RID)|X-Car]]
File:RID TowlineWreckerhook biocard.jpg|[[Tow-Line (RID)|Wrecker Hook]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robots in Disguise'' (2001)==
<center><gallery>
File:Bludgeon-RiDcard.jpg|[[Bludgeon (RID 2001)|Bludgeon]]
File:Cryotek Techspec.jpg|[[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]
</gallery></center>

=="Unicron Trilogy"==
===''Armada''===
<center><gallery>
File:OptimusPrimeUT-Armada.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
File:Payload-packageart.jpg|[[Payload (Armada)|Payload]] ([[Space Mini-Con Team]])
File:GHC Red Alert Patrol.jpg|[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]
File:ArmadaSkywarpCardArt.jpg|[[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]]
File:ArmadaThundercracker.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]]
File:Waterlog-packageart.jpg|[[Waterlog (Armada)|Waterlog]] ([[Sea Mini-Con Team]])
</gallery></center>

===''Energon''===
<center><gallery>
File:Energon Barricade card.jpg|[[Barricade (Energon)|Barricade]]
File:EnBeachcomberCardart.jpg|[[Beachcomber (Energon)|Beachcomber]]
File:Checkpoint-boxart.jpg|[[Checkpoint (Energon)|Checkpoint]]
File:EnerDownshiftCard.jpg|[[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]]
File:E-Dreadwing-box.jpg|[[Dreadwing (Energon)|Dreadwing]]
File:Energon Inferno CardArt.jpg|[[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]]
File:EnerLandmineBruteMode.jpg|[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]]
File:MirageEnergon-card.jpg|[[Mirage (Energon)|Mirage]]
File:OmegaSent-Ecard.jpg|[[Omega Sentinel (Energon)|Omega Sentinel]]
File:Energon Perceptor cardart.jpg|[[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]
File:Roadblock-energon-packageart.jpg|[[Roadblock (Energon)|Roadblock]]
File:ESharkticonCardfront.jpg|[[Sharkticon (Energon)|Sharkticon]]
File:Shockblast energon.jpg|[[Shockblast]]
File:Slugslinger-energon-tradingcard.jpg|[[Slugslinger (Energon)|Slugslinger]]
File:Steamhammer-boxart.jpg|[[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]]
File:Towline-energon-packageart.jpg|[[Tow-Line (Energon)|Towline]]
File:EnTreadboltCardart.jpg|[[Treadbolt]]
File:En-UMagnus-card.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (Energon)|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

===''Cybertron''===
<center><gallery>
File:Armorhide-UTA.jpg|[[Armorhide (Cybertron)|Armorhide]]
File:CYB brakedown boxart.JPG|[[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]]
File:Brimstone-card.jpg|[[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]]
File:CYB buzzsaw boxart.jpg|[[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]]
File:Cannonball UT.jpg|[[Cannonball (Cybertron)|Cannonball]]
File:CYB clocker boxart.jpg|[[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]]
File:Crumplezone.jpg|[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]]
File:CYB dirtboss boxart.jpg|[[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]]
File:GiantMiniCons-card.jpg|[[Giant Planet Mini-Con Team]]
File:Hardtop-card.jpg|[[Hardtop (Cybertron)|Hardtop]]
File:CYB longrack boxart.JPG|[[Longrack (Cybertron)|Longrack]]
File:Lugnutz-card.jpg|[[Lugnutz]]
File:CYB overridegts boxart.jpg|[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]]
File:Cyb-Ransack-card.jpg|[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]]
File:ReconTeam-card.jpg|[[Recon Mini-Con Team]]
File:Repugnus-CybCard.jpg|[[Repugnus (Cybertron)|Repugnus]]
File:Scrapmetal-card.jpg|[[Scrapmetal (Cybertron individual)|Scrapmetal]]
File:Shortround-card.jpg|[[Shortround (Cybertron)|Shortround]]
File:CYB snarl boxart.jpg|[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]]
File:Swerve-CybCard.jpg|[[Swerve (Cybertron)|Swerve]]
File:SwindleUTDec-card.jpg|[[Swindle (Cybertron)|Swindle]]
File:Thunderblast-card.jpeg|[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]]
File:Wreckloose-card.jpg|[[Wreckloose (Cybertron)|Wreckloose]]
</gallery></center>

=="Micron Trilogy"==
===''Super Link''===
<center><gallery>
File:Prowl energonCG.jpg|[[Prowl (Energon)|Red Alert]]
</gallery></center>

==''Universe'' (2003)==
<center><gallery>
File:BonecrusherT-TFUart.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Universe Ultra)|Bonecrusher]]
File:CrystalWidow.jpg|[[Crystal Widow]]
File:DevastatorUnivDeluxe BoxPic.jpg|[[Devastator (Universe Ultra)|Devastator]]
File:Fireflight-TFUart.jpg|[[Fireflight (Universe Deluxe)|Fireflight]]
File:Frostbite-TFUart.jpg|[[Frostbite (Universe)|Frostbite]]
File:HightowerUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Hightower (Universe Ultra)|Hightower]]
File:Inferno-tfu.jpg|[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]]
File:Ironhide-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Ironhide (RID)|Ironhide]]
File:KingAtlas-card.jpg|[[King Atlas]]
File:LongHaulUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Long Haul (Universe Ultra)|Long Haul]]
File:MagnaStampede-TFUart.jpg|[[Magna Stampede]]
File:OilSlick.jpg|[[Oil Slick (Universe)|Oil Slick]]
File:Optimus Prime-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Overbite (Universe) box art.jpg|[[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]]
File:Perceptor-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]
File:Prowl-large-Universe-OTFCC-2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]]
File:Prowl-Spychanger-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|Prowl (Spy Changer)
File:Ratchettfu.jpg|[[Ratchet (Universe)|Ratchet]]
File:Razorclawtfu.jpg|[[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]
File:Repugnus-TFUart.jpg|[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]]
File:ScavengerUnivDeluxe BoxArt.jpg|[[Scavenger (Universe Ultra)|Scavenger]]
File:Skydive-universe-packageart.jpg|[[Skydive (BM)|Skydive]]
File:Stockade-TFUart.jpg|[[Stockade (Universe 2003)|Stockade]]
File:Sunstorm-Universe-OTFCC-2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Sunstorm (Universe)|Sunstorm]]
File:Swerve-TFUcard.jpg|[[Swerve (Universe)|Swerve]]
File:Ultra Magnus-Universe-OTFCC 2004-unpublished.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]]
File:Whirl-TFUart.jpg|[[Whirl (Universe)|Whirl]]
File:WindSheer-TFUcard.jpg|[[Wind Sheer (Universe)|Wind Sheer]]
</gallery></center>

;BotCon/OTFCC exclusives
<center><gallery>
File:Megazaraktfu.jpg|[[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak]]
File:Roulette.jpg|[[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]]
File:Universe2003BoxArt-Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
File:Shadow Striker art.jpg|[[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]]
File:Universe2003packageart-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
</gallery></center>

==''Masterpiece''==
<center><gallery>
File:MP Magnus book cover art.jpg|MP-2 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]
File:MP Starscream book cover art.jpg|MP-3 [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]
File:Loudpedal-card.jpg|MP-25L [[Loudpedal]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robotmasters''==
<center><gallery>
File:Wingstun-Boxart.jpg|[[Wingstun]]
File:RM-packart AirHunter.jpg|[[Air Hunter]]
File:RM-packart WreckerHook.jpg|[[Tow-Line (RID)|Wrecker Hook]]
</gallery></center>

==''Alternators''==
<center><gallery>
File:Swindleart.jpg|[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]
File:AltNemesisPrimeArt.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]
</gallery></center>

=="Generation 1" reissues==
<center><gallery>
File:G1Inferno collectionbox1.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
File:Smokescreeng1.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:Tracksg1.jpg|[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
</gallery>
<gallery>
File:Commemorativeseriesdirge.jpg|[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]
File:G1 Hound reissueart1.jpg|[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
File:LongHaulG1.jpg|[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
File:NightstickReissue BoxArt.jpg|[[Nebulon (Headmasters)|Nebulon]]
File:G1 Perceptor reissueart.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
File:Ultramagnusg1.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

==''Heroes of Cybertron''==
<center><gallery>
File:Gigatron hoc art.jpg|[[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]
File:AirWarrior BioPic.jpg|[[Air Warrior]]
</gallery></center>

==e-HOBBY exclusives==
<center><gallery>
File:ClampDown-card.jpg|[[Clampdown (G1)|Clampdown]]
File:Crosscut-Auto-Card.jpg|[[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]
File:DeepCover-card.jpg|[[Deep Cover]]
File:Detritus-card.jpg|[[Detritus (G1)|Detritus]]
File:FlipSides-card.jpg|[[Flip Sides (G1)|Flip Sides]]
File:Garboil-card.jpg|[[Garboil (G1)|Garboil]]
File:Howlback-card.jpg|[[Howlback (G1)|Howlback]]
File:Overcharge-card.jpg|[[Overcharge (G1)|Overcharge]]
File:LoadHauler-Card.jpg|[[Hauler|RoadHauler]]
File:Salvo-card.jpg|[[Salvo (G1)|Salvo]]
File:Shothole-card.jpg|[[Shothole]]
File:Tigertrack-card.jpg|[[Tigertrack]]
File:Zaptrap-card.jpg|[[Zaptrap]]
</gallery></center>

==''Robot Heroes''==
===Generation 1 Series===
<center><gallery>
File:Bumblebee&Soundwave RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] & [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
File:Grimlock&Shockwave RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] & [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
File:Jazz&Thundercracker RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] & [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Mirage&Starscream RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] & [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
File:OptimusPrime&Ravage RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] & [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
File:OptimusPrime&Unicron RobotHeroes.jpg|Optimus Prime & [[Unicron]]
</gallery></center>

===Movie Series===
<center><gallery>
File:Bumblebee&Barricade RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] & [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:ArmorBumblebee&Starscream RobotHeroes.jpg|"Armor" Bumblebee & [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:Ironhide&Bonecrusher RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] & [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Ironhide&dispensor RobotHeroes.jpg|Ironhide & [[Dispensor]]
File:Jazz&Frenzy RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] & [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]
File:ProtoformJazz&Brawl RobotHeroes.jpg|"Protoform" Jazz & [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:OptimusPrime&Blackout RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] & [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:OptimusPrime&Scorponok RobotHeroes.jpg|Optimus Prime & [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
File:Ratchet&Megatron RobotHeroes.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] & [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
</gallery></center>

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
<center><gallery>
File:Movie-Arcee-art.jpg|[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]
File:Movie-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:Movie-Recon-Barricade-art.jpg|"Recon" Barricade
File:BigDaddyMovie BoxArt.jpg|[[Big Daddy (Movie)|Big Daddy]]
File:Blackout-packageart.jpg|[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:Movie-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Movie-Jungle-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|"Jungle" Bonecrusher
File:Movie-Brawl-art.jpg|[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:Movie-Deep-Desert-Brawl-art.jpg|"Deep Desert" Brawl
File:Movie-Breakaway-art.jpg|[[Breakaway (Movie)|Breakaway]]
File:Movie-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:BumblebeemovieBattlemask.jpg|"Stealth" Bumblebee
File:Movie-Camshaft-Portrait.jpg|[[Camshaft (Movie)|Camshaft]]
File:Cliffjumpermoviepackagingart.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]]
File:Movie-Crankcase-art.jpg|[[Crankcase (Movie)|Crankcase]]
File:DivebombMovie-Card.jpg|[[Divebomb (Movie)|Divebomb]]
File:Movie-Dreadwing-art.jpg|[[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]]
File:DropkickWipers.jpg|[[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]]
File:Movie-Evac-Portrait.jpg|[[Evac (Movie)|Evac]]
File:MovieFractureBoxart.jpg|[[Fracture (Movie)|Fracture]]
File:Movie-Grindcore-art.jpg|[[Grindcore (Movie)|Grindcore]]
File:Movie-Incinerator-art.jpg|[[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]
File:Movie-Inferno-art.jpg|[[Inferno (Movie)|Inferno]]
File:Movie-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
File:MovieJazzpackagingart.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]
File:Movie-Jazz-G1-colors-art.jpg|Jazz (G1 redeco)
File:Movie-Jetstorm-art.jpg|[[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]]
File:Movielandminebox.jpg|[[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]]
File:MovieLongarmboxart.jpg|[[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]]
File:Movie-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
File:MovieMudflapArt.jpg|[[Mudflap (Movie)|Mudflap]]
File:Movie-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Movie-Overcast-Portrait.jpg|[[Overcast (Movie)|Overcast]]
File:Movie-Salvage-art.jpg|[[Salvage (Movie)|Salvage]]
File:Movie-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
File:Movie-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:MovieStarscreamtransitionform.jpg|"Transition Form" Starscream
File:Movie-Stockade-art.jpg|[[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]]
File:Movie-Wingblade-art.jpg|[[Wingblade]]
</gallery></center>

;Cyber Slammers
<center><gallery>
File:Cyber-Slammer-Barricade-art.jpg|Barricade
File:Brawl-cyber-slammer-boxart.jpg|Brawl
File:Cyber-Slammer-Bumblebee-74-Camaro-art.jpg|Bumblebee (1974 Camaro)
File:Cyber-Slammer-Bumblebee-08-Camaro-art.jpg|Bumblebee (2008 Camaro)
File:Cyber-Slammer-Cliffjumper-art.jpg|Cliffjumper
File:Cyber-Slammer-Jazz-art.jpg|Jazz
File:Cyber-Slammer-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]
</gallery></center>

;Fast Action Battlers
<center><gallery>
File:FAB-Brawl-art.jpg|"Double Missile" Brawl
File:FAB-Bumblebee-art.jpg|"PLasma Punch" Bumblebee
File:FAB-Frenzy-art.jpg|"Disk Blast" [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]
File:PulseCannonIronhideart.jpg|"Pulse Cannon" Ironhide
File:FAB-Jazz-art.jpg|"Ion Blast" Jazz
File:FAB-Megatron-art.jpg|"Fusion Blast" Megatron
File:FireBlastOptimusart.jpg|"Fire Blast" Optimus Prime
File:FAB-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Power Hook" Optimus Prime
File:FAB-Ramjet-art.jpg|"Claw Slash" [[Ramjet (Movie)|Ramjet]]
File:RescueTorchRatchetart.jpg|"Rescue Torch" Ratchet
File:FAB-Smokescreen-art.jpg|"Sonic Shock" [[Smokescreen (Movie)|Smokescreen]]
File:FAB-Starscream-art.jpg|"Battle Blade" Starscream
</gallery></center>

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
<center><gallery>
File:ROTF-Armorhide-art.jpg|[[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]]
File:Blazemaster rotf.jpg|[[Blazemaster]]
File:ROTFBlowpipe headdesign.JPG|[[Blowpipe (ROTF)|Blowpipe]]
File:ROTFBludgeonTRUArt.jpg|[[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] (Deluxe)
File:Bludgeon v2 - ROTF package art.jpeg|Bludgeon (Voyager)
File:ROTF-Brawn-art.jpg|[[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]]
File:ROTF BruticusMaximus boxart.jpg|[[Bruticus Maximus (ROTF)|Bruticus Maximus]]
File:ROTFChromiaCardArt.jpg|[[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]]
File:Demolishor-packageart.jpg|[[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]]
File:Dirge rotf.jpg|[[Dirge (Movie)|Dirge]]
File:ROTF AutobotGears Head.JPG|[[Gears (ROTF)|Gears]]
File:LockdownROTFheadshot.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:Mindwipeindigo rotf.jpg|[[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]]
File:ROTF Rollbar RPM cardart.jpg|[[Rollbar (RPM)|Rollbar]]
File:ROTF Superion boxart.jpg|[[Superion (ROTF)|Superion]]
File:Swerve rotf.jpg|[[Swerve (Movie)|Swerve]]
File:Thrust rotf.jpg|[[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]]
File:ROTFWhirlTRUArt.jpg|[[Whirl (ROTF)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===''Dark of the Moon''===
<center><gallery>
File:DarkSteelPackagePic.jpg|[[Darksteel (DOTM)|Darksteel]]
File:RoadbusterDOTM-card.jpg|[[Roadbuster (DOTM)|Roadbuster]]
File:Sergeantdetourpackagingart.jpg|[[Sergeant Detour]]
File:SergeantReconPAckagingArt.jpg|[[Sergeant Recon]]
File:ShockwaveBoxartFace.jpg|[[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]
File:DOTM-Space-Case-art.jpg|[[Space Case (DOTM)|Space Case]]
File:DOTM Thundercracker packaging art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]]
File:DOTM-VortexArt.jpg|[[Vortex (Movie)|Vortex]]
</gallery></center>

===''Age of Extinction''===
<center><gallery>
File:AOE-Bumblebee-art.jpeg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:AOE-Crosshairs-art.jpeg|[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]]
File:AOE-Drift-art.jpeg|[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]]
File:AOE-Galvatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Galvatron]]
File:AOE-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:AOEHotShotart.jpg|[[Hot Shot (AOE)|Hot Shot]]
File:TF4Hound.jpg|[[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]
File:AOE-Junkheap-art.jpeg|[[Junkheap (AOE)|Junkheap]]
File:AOE-Lockdown-art.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:Transformers-AOE-Optimus Prime-promo-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:TfAGEOFEXTINCTION Optimus Prime Robot mode Hasbro Art Swordrun.jpeg|Optimus Prime (alternate)
File:Evasion-Mode-Optimus-Prime-art.jpeg|"Evasion Mode" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-G1-Optimus-Prime-art.jpeg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)
File:AOERollbarOneStepPackageArt.jpg|[[Rollbar (AOE)|Rollbar]] (One-Step Changer)
File:ScornAOE-wallpaper.jpg|[[Scorn]]
File:AOE-Slash-art.jpeg|[[Slash (AOE)|Slash]]
File:Movie slog card.jpg|[[Slog (AOE)|Slog]]
File:AOE-Slug-art.jpg|[[Slug (AOE)|Slug]]
File:AOE-Steeljaw-art.jpg|[[Steeljaw (AOE)|Steeljaw]]
File:AOE-Stinger-art.jpg|[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]]
File:AOE-Strafe-art.jpg|[[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]]
File:DinobotSnarlAOE.jpg|[[Snarl (AOE)|Snarl]]
File:AOEVehiconart.jpg|[[Vehicon (AOE)|Vehicon]]
</gallery></center>

;''Movie Advanced Series''
<center><gallery>
File:AOE-Battle-Blade-Bumblebee-art.jpg|"Battle Blade" Bumblebee
File:AOE-Devastator-art.jpg|[[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]]
File:AOE-Dino-art.jpg|[[Dino]]
File:AOE-Dispensor-art.jpg|[[Dispensor]]
File:AOE-Jolt-art.jpg|[[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:AOE-Protoform-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Protoform" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-Revenge-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|"Revenge" Optimus Prime
File:AOE-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]
File:AOE-Rollbar-art.jpg|Rollbar (Deluxe)
File:AOE-Sideswipe-art.jpg|[[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]]
File:AOE-Darkside-Soundwave-art.jpg|"Darkside" [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]]
File:AOE-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:AOE-Wheeljack-art.jpg|[[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''The Last Knight''===
<center><gallery>
File:TLK-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
File:TLK-Barricade-art2.jpg|Barricade
File:Berserker Promo Art.jpg|[[Berserker]]
File:TLKBerserkerArt.jpg|Berserker
File:TLK-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
File:TLK-Bumblebee-art2.jpg|Bumblebee
File:TLK-Cogman-art.jpg|[[Cogman]]
File:TLKCrosshairsRenderPackageArt.jpg|[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]]
File:TLK-Dragonstorm-art.jpg|[[Dragonstorm]]
File:TLK-Dragonstorm-art2.jpg|Dragonstorm
File:TLK-Drift-art.jpg|[[Drift (AOE)|Drift]]
File:TLK-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:TLK-Hot-Rod-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]]
TLK-HotRodPromoArt.jpg|Hot Rod
File:TLKHoundRenderPackageArt.jpg|[[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]
File:TLK-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
File:TLK-Megatron-art2.jpg|Megatron
File:TLKart-Nitro.jpg|[[Nitro Zeus|Nitro]]
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art2.jpg|Optimus Prime
File:TLK-Optimus-Prime-art3.jpg|Optimus Prime
File:TLK-Scorn-art.jpg|[[Scorn]]
File:TLKSqweeksPackageArt.jpg|[[Sqweeks]]
File:TLK-Sqweeks-art.jpg|Sqweeks
File:TLK-Sqweeks-art2.jpg|Sqweeks
File:TLK Steelbane PackageArt.jpg|[[Steelbane]]
</gallery></center>

==''Henkei! Henkei!''==
<center><gallery>
File:Henkei C-08 Prowl box art.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
</gallery></center>

==''Universe'' (2008)==
<center><gallery>
File:Blaster-U08-boxart.jpg|[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
File:HeavyLoadU08-boxart.jpg|[[Heavy Load (Universe)|Heavy Load]]
File:Prowl-universe2008-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
File:NemesisPrimebox.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]
File:Skyfallart.jpg|[[Skyjack (G2)|Skyfall]]
File:LeoPrimeUniverse.jpg|[[Lio Convoy|Leo Prime]]
File:Ask Vector Prime Facebook.jpg|[[Vector Prime]]
</gallery></center>

==''Animated''==
<center><gallery>
File:Arceeanmatedpackageart.jpg|[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]
File:Animatedpatrolbumblebeepackageart.jpg|"Patrol" [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]
File:Animateddirgeboxart.jpg|[[Dirge (Animated)|Dirge]]
File:Animated-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]]
File:Jetfireanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]]
File:Jetstormanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]]
File:Blazinglockdownpackageart.jpg|"Blazing" [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]
File:TFAni-OilSlickArt.jpg|[[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]]
File:Prowl-animated-packageart.jpg|[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]
File:Ratchet-animated-packageart.jpg|[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]
File:Animated-Rodimus-Minor-art.jpg|[[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Minor]]
File:Safeguardanimatedboxart.jpg|[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]]
</gallery></center>

==''Shattered Glass''==
<center><gallery>
File:TFSS Bluestreak CardArt.jpg|[[Bluestreak (SG)|Bluestreak]]
File:Blurr (SG).jpg|[[Blurr (SG)|Blurr]]
File:Divebomb (SG).jpg|[[Divebomb (SG)|Divebomb]]
File:DriftSG-art.jpg|[[Drift (SG)|Drift]]
File:SG-Jazz-bioart.jpg|[[Jazz (SG)|Jazz]]
File:JunkheapSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Junkheap (SG)|Junkheap]]
File:Megatronshatteredglassprofile.jpg|[[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]]
File:Rampage shattered glass.jpg|[[Rampage (SG)|Rampage]]
File:Sgrazorclaw.jpg|[[Razorclaw (SG)|Razorclaw]]
File:SG-Ricochet-bio.jpg|[[Ricochet (SG)|Ricochet]]
File:Rodimusshatteredglasscard.jpg|[[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus]]
File:ScrapIronSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Scrap Iron (SG)|Scrap Iron]]
File:ScourgeSG.jpg|[[Scourge (SG)|Scourge]]
File:SGStarscream.jpg|[[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]]
File:Shattered Glass boxart.jpg|''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''
File:BotCon2015 Stepper CardArt.jpg|[[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]]
File:SGThundercrackerProfileArt.jpg|[[Thundercracker (SG)|Thundercracker]]
File:BotCon2012 InvasionArt Treadshot.jpg|[[Treadshot (SG)|Treadshot]]
File:BotCon2012 UltraMagnus CardArt.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]]
File:WreckGarSG-filecardart.jpg|[[Wreck-Gar (SG)|Wreck-Gar]]
</gallery></center>

==''Crossovers''==
===''Marvel''===
<center><gallery>
File:Carnage.jpg|[[Carnage]]
File:CrossoversHulkArt.jpg|[[Hulk]]
File:CrossoversHumanTorchArt.jpg|[[Human Torch]]
File:Thor PackageArt Mech.jpg|[[Thor]]
File:CrossoversVenomArt.jpg|[[Venom (Marvel)|Venom]]
File:CrossoversWarMachineArt.jpg|[[War Machine]]
</gallery></center>

===''Star Wars''===
<center><gallery>
File:Ahsoka Tano Card Art.jpg|[[Ahsoka Tano]]
File:Crossovers BobaFett cardart.jpg|[[Boba Fett]]
File:SW Cad Bane cardart.jpg|[[Cad Bane]]
File:Crossovers CloneGunship cardart.jpg|[[Clone pilot]] (Republic Gunship)
File:SWTF DarthMaul cardart.jpg|[[Darth Maul]]
File:DarthVader-SWTF-Art.jpg|[[Darth Vader]]
File:Palpatinetf.gif|[[Emperor Palpatine]]
File:Generalgrievous-packageart1.jpg|[[General Grievous]]
File:JangoFett cardart.jpg|[[Jango Fett]]
File:Star Wars TF Kit Fisto Card Art.jpg|[[Kit Fisto]]
File:Obi-WanKenobiart.jpg|[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]]
</gallery></center>

==''Transformers'' (2010)==
===''Hunt for the Decepticons''===
<center><gallery>
File:Backfirepackageart2010.jpg|[[Backfire (TF 2010)|Backfire]]
File:TF2010 Banzaitron boxart.jpg|[[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]]
File:TF2010-Brimstone-art.jpg|[[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]]
File:TF2010-Crankstart-art.jpg|[[Crankstart]]
File:Elita-1 2010 packageart.jpg|[[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-1]]
File:TF2010-The-Fallen-art.jpg|[[The Fallen]]
File:Hailstorm TF2010 boxart.jpg|[[Hailstorm (TF 2010)|Hailstorm]]
File:Highbrow TF2010 boxart.jpg|[[Highbrow (TF 2010)|Highbrow]]
File:TF2010-Hubcap-art.jpg|[[Hubcap (TF 2010)|Hubcap]]
File:Insecticon-ROTFpackageart.jpeg|[[Insecticon (Movie)|Insecticon]]
File:Jetblade 2010 packageart.jpg|[[Jetblade]]
File:TF2010-Electrostatic-Jolt-art.jpg|"Electrostatic" [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:TF2010-Oil-Pan-art.jpg|[[Oil Pan]]
File:TF2010-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Payloadpackageart2010.jpg|[[Payload (Movie)|Payload]]
File:Sea Spray.jpg|[[Sea Spray (TF 2010)|Sea Spray]]
File:TF2010-Sidearm-Sideswipe-art.jpg|"Sidearm" [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]]
File:TF2010-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
File:TF2010-Sunspot-art.jpg|[[Sunspot]]
File:TF2010 Tomahawk boxart.jpg|[[Tomahawk (TF 2010)|Tomahawk]]
</gallery></center>

===''Reveal the Shield''===
<center><gallery>
File:TF2010-G1-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
File:TF2010-Cyclonus-art.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
File:TF2010 Deep Dive boxart.jpg|[[Deep Dive]]
File:FallbackRTSCardback.jpg|[[Fallback (TF 2010)|Fallback]]
File:TF2010 SolarStormGrappel boxart.jpg|"Solar Storm" [[Grapple (G1)|Grappel]]
File:TF2010-Special-Ops-Jazz-art.jpg|"Special Ops" [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]
File:Reveal-the-Shield-Lugnut.jpg|[[Lugnut (TF 2010)|Lugnut]]
File:TF2010 Mindset boxart.jpg|[[Mindset (TF 2010)|Mindset]]
File:TF2010 Perceptor boxart.jpg|[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
File:TF2010-Rodimus-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]]
File:TF2010-StrafeArt.jpg|[[Strafe (TF 2010)|Strafe]]
File:TF2010-Turbo-Tracks-art.jpg|"Turbo" [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
File:TF2010-Windcharger-art.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
File:TF2010-Wreck-Gar-art.jpg|[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]
</gallery></center>

===Miscellaneous===
<center><gallery>
File:Backstoptf2010boxart.jpg|[[Backstop (TF 2010)|Backstop]]
File:Transformers2010art-Undermine.jpg|[[Undermine (TF 2010)|Undermine]]
File:Wreckloosetf2010boxart.jpg|[[Wreckloose (TF 2010)|Wreckloose]]
</gallery></center>

=="Aligned"==
===''Prime''===
<center><gallery>
File:BHPR-AbominusArt.jpg|[[Abominus (Prime)|Abominus]]
File:Arcee Prime stockimage.jpg|[[Arcee (WFC)/toys|Arcee]] (''First Edition'')
File:Bulkhead-Prime-stock render.jpg|[[Bulkhead (Prime)/toys|Bulkhead]] (''Robots in Disguise'')
File:PrimeBee.jpg|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys|Bumblebee]] (''First Edition'')
File:Prime-DeadEndCardArt.jpg|[[Dead End (WFC)|Dead End]]
File:Prime-FallbackCardArt.jpg|[[Fallback (Prime)|Fallback]]
File:Prime-FlamewarCardArt.jpg|[[Flamewar (Prime)|Flamewar]]
File:Prime-HotShotCardArt.jpg|[[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]]
File:KupPrime-cardart.jpg|[[Kup (WFC)|Kup]]
File:Megatron-Prime-stock-render.jpg|[[Megatron (WFC)/toys|Megatron]] (''First Edition'')
File:Prime-MirageCardArt.jpg|[[Mirage (Prime)|Mirage]]
File:RumblePrime-cardart.jpg|[[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]]
File:Shockwave CGI Packaging 1.jpg|[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]
File:Prime-TailgateCardArt.jpg|[[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]
File:Thundertronpackagingart.jpg|[[Thundertron]]
File:BH Optimus Prime Package art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys|Optimus Prime]] (''Beast Hunters'')
File:AM wildrider packageart.jpg|[[Wildrider (Prime)|Wildrider]]
</gallery></center>

===''Rescue Bots''===
<center><gallery>
File:RBpackageart-Blurr.jpg|[[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]]
File:RescueBots-Brushfire-PackageArt.jpg|[[Brushfire (RB)|Brushfire]]
File:RBHoist-packageart.jpg|[[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]]
File:RB-art Medix-cardart.jpg|[[Medix (RB)|Medix]]
File:Sawyer Storm card art.jpg|[[Sawyer Storm]]
</gallery></center>

===''Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
<center><gallery>
File:RID2015art Blastwave.jpg|[[Blastwave]]
File:RIDart-Bludgeon.jpg|[[Bludgeon (Prime)|Bludgeon]]
File:RID-Blurr-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]]
File:Crazybolt RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Crazybolt (RID)|Crazybolt]]
File:RID15-boxart Cyberwarp.jpg|[[Cyberwarp]]
File:RID15-boxart Cyclonus.jpg|[[Cyclonus (WFC)|Cyclonus]]
File:RID2015-Drift.jpg|[[Drift (RID)|Drift]]
File:Fixit-Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-Animated-Series.jpg|[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]]
File:RID2015Fracturepromorender.jpg|[[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]]
File:RID15-boxart Galvatronus.jpg|[[Galvatronus (RID)|Galvatronus]]
File:RIDart Heatseeker.jpg|[[Heatseeker]]
File:RID2015-jazzpromorender.jpg|[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]]
File:RID2015 Overload BoxArt.jpg|[[Overload (RID)|Overload]]
File:RIDart-Paralon.jpg|[[Paralon (RID)|Paralon]]
File:RID15-boxart Riotgear.jpg|[[Riotgear]]
File:RIDart-Scatterspike.jpg|[[Scatterspike (RID)|Scatterspike]]
File:RID15-boxart Shockdrive.jpg|[[Shockdrive]]
File:RID15-boxart Skyjack.jpg|[[Skyjack (RID)|Skyjack]]
File:RIDart StormhammerSkysledge.jpg|[[Skysledge]] and [[Stormhammer]]
File:RIDart Skywarp.jpg|[[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]]
File:Steeljawaligned.jpg|[[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]]
File:RID2015art Stormshot.jpg|[[Stormshot]]
File:RIDart-Thermidor.jpg|[[Thermidor]]
File:Thunderhoof.jpg|[[Thunderhoof (RID)|Thunderhoof]]
File:RID15-boxart Treadshock.jpg|[[Treadshock]]
File:RIDart-Twinferno.jpg|[[Twinferno]]
File:Underbite.jpg|[[Underbite]]
File:RID15-boxart Warnado.jpg|[[Warnado]]
File:Windblade-RID.jpg|[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]]
</gallery></center>

;Mini-Cons
<center><gallery>
File:RIDart Aerobolt.jpg|[[Aerobolt]]
File:Anvil RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]]
File:Beastbox RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Beastbox (RID)|Beastbox]]
File:RIDart-Forth.JPG|[[Back]]/Forth
File:RIDart-Backtrack.jpg|[[Backtrack (RID)|Backtrack]]
File:RIDart-Bashbreaker.jpg|[[Bashbreaker]]
File:Bludgeon RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Bludgeon (RID 2015)|Bludgeon]]
File:Dragonus.jpg|[[Dragonus]]
File:RIDart Great Byte.jpg|[[Great Byte]]
File:Hammer RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]]
File:RiDart Hi-Test.jpg|[[Hi-Test (RID)|Hi-Test (Front)]]
File:RIDart-Hi-Test.jpg|Hi-Test (Side)
File:RIDart-Lancelon.jpg|[[Lancelon]]
File:RIDart-LordDoomitron.jpg|[[Lord Doomitron]]
File:RIDart-Ransack.JPG|[[Ransack (RID Mini-Con)|Ransack]]
File:RID2015 Ratbat BoxArt.jpg|[[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]]
File:Sandsting package art.jpg|[[Sandsting]]
File:Sawback package art.jpg|[[Sawback]]
File:RIDart-Stuntwing.jpg|[[Stuntwing]]
File:Swelter RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Swelter]]
File:RIDart-Tricerashot.jpg|[[Tricerashot]]
File:RIDart-Trickout.jpg|[[Trickout]]
File:Undertone RID 2015 package art.jpg|[[Undertone]]
File:Velocirazor package art.jpg|[[Velocirazor]]
File:RIDart-Windstrike.jpg|[[Windstrike]]
</gallery></center>

;Crash Combiners
<center><gallery>
File:RIDart Beeside.jpg|[[Beeside]]
File:Buzzworthy Bumblegrim cardart.jpg|[[Bumblegrim]] (''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'')
File:TF-RID2015-Primelock.jpg|[[Primelock]]
File:RIDart Primestrong.jpg|[[Primestrong]]
File:RID2015 Saberclaw package art.jpg|[[Saberclaw]]
File:RIDart Skyhammer.jpg|[[Skyhammer (RID)|Skyhammer]]
File:RIDart-Shocknado.jpg|[[Shocknado]]
</gallery></center>

===''Adventure''===
<center><gallery>
File:Prime of Micron Barithunder package art.jpg|[[Barithunder]]
File:Adventureart-BlackShadow.jpg|[[Black Shadow (RID)|Black Shadow]]
File:Adventureart-Bombshell.jpg|[[Bombshell (RID)|Bombshell]]
File:Adventure Cosmos package art.jpg|[[Cosmos (RID)|Cosmos]]
File:Prime of Micron Gravity package art.jpg|[[Gravity]]
File:Adventure Greejeeber Package art.jpg|[[Greejeeber]]
File:Prime of Micron Ironjam package art.jpg|[[Ironjam]]
File:Adventure Junkion Packageart.jpg|[[Junkion (RID)|Junkion]]
File:Adventure Lockdown Package Art.jpg|[[Lockdown (RID)|Lockdown]]
File:Adventure NemesisPrime packageart.jpg|[[Nemesis Prime (RID)|Nemesis Prime]]
File:Adventure Override package art.jpg|[[Override (RID)|Override]]
File:Adventureart-Phantomjaw.jpg|[[Phantomjaw]]
File:Adventure Powerglide package art.jpg|[[Powerglide (RID)|Powerglide]]
File:Prime of Micron Psychobat package art.jpg|[[Psychobat (RID)|Psychobat]]
File:Adventure Roadblock Package art.jpg|[[Roadblock (RID)|Roadblock]]
File:Adventure Runabout package art.jpg|[[Runabout (RID)|Runabout]]
File:Adventure Sawtooth package art.jpg|[[Sawtooth (RID)|Sawtooth]]
File:Adventure Shrapnel package art.jpg|[[Shrapnel (RID)|Shrapnel]]
File:Adventureart-Slug.jpg|[[Slug (FOC)|Slug]]
File:Prime of Micron Volcano package art.jpg|[[Volcano (RID)|Volcano]]
File:Prime of Micron Windra package art.jpg|[[Windra]]
</gallery></center>

===''Rescue Bots Academy''===
<center><gallery>
File:RBA Bumblebee.jpg|[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]
File:RBA Chase.jpg|[[Chase (RB)|Chase]]
File:RBA Hoist.jpg|[[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]]
File:RBA Hotshot.jpg|[[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]]
File:RBA Medix.jpg|[[Medix (RB)|Medix]]
File:RBA Optimus-Prime.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]
File:RBA Wedge.jpg|[[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]]
File:RBA Whirl.jpg|[[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

==''Generations''==
===''Thrilling 30''===
<center><gallery>
File:Generations boxart Blitzwing.jpg|[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]
File:Spotlight Bumblebee cvrRI.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
File:RID25 subcvr.jpg|[[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]
File:RID17 cvrRI.jpg|[[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]]
File:RID18 cvrRI.jpg|Goldfire
File:Spotlight Hoist cvrRI.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
File:MTMTE27 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]
File:Spotlight OrionPax cvrRI.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]]
File:Spotlight Megatron cvrRI.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
File:MTMTE24 subcvr.jpg|[[Mini-Con Assault Team]] ([[Centuritron]])
File:RID26 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
File:RID24 subcvr.jpg|[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]
File:MTMTE23 cvrRI.jpg|[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] w/ [[Holepunch (G1)|Holepunch]] & [[Tracer (Targetmaster)|Caliburst]]
File:MTMTE22 cvrRI.jpg|[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
File:RID23 cvrRI.jpg|[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
File:DarkCybertron cvrRIA.jpg|[[Starscream (Armada)|''Armada'' Starscream]]
File:MTMTE25 subcvr.jpg|[[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]
File:Spotlight Thundercracker cvrRI.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Spotlight Trailcutter cvrRI.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]]
File:RID19 cvrRI.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
File:MTMTE26 cvrHAS.jpg|[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]
</gallery></center>

===''Fall of Cybertron''===
<center><gallery>
File:Fall of Cybertron Generations Air Raid package art.jpg|[[Fireflight (FOC)|Air Raid]]
File:GenerationsArt-Eject.jpg|[[Eject (FOC)|Eject]]
File:FrenzyWFCboxart.jpg|[[Frenzy (WFC)|Frenzy]]
File:FOC-Impactorcardart.jpg|[[Impactor (Prime)|Impactor]]
File:GenerationsArt-Ramhorn.jpg|[[Ramhorn (FOC)|Ramhorn]]
File:RatbatFOCcardart.jpg|[[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]]
File:GenerationsArt-Rewind.jpg|[[Rewind (FOC)|Rewind]]
File:FOC-Roadbustercardart.jpg|[[Roadbuster (Prime)|Roadbuster]]
File:RuinationFOC-packagingart.jpg|[[Ruination (FOC)|Ruination]]
File:GenerationsArt-Steeljaw.jpg|[[Steeljaw (FOC)|Steeljaw]]
File:Buzzsaw-FOCboxart.jpg|[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundblaster]] & [[Buzzsaw (FOC)|Buzzsaw]]
File:GenerationsArt-Sunder.jpg|[[Sunder (FOC)|Sunder]]
File:FOC-Topspincardart.jpg|[[Topspin (FOC)|Topspin]]
File:FOC-Twintwistcardart.jpg|[[Twintwist]]
File:FOC-Whirlcardart.jpg|[[Whirl (FOC)|Whirl]]
</gallery></center>

===''Combiner Wars''===
<center><gallery>
File:CWart-Betatron.jpg|[[Betatron (CW)|Betatron]]
File:CW Blades cvr.jpg|[[Blades (G1)|Blades]]
File:CW First Aid.jpg|[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
File:CW Ironhide cvr.jpg|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys|Ironhide]]
File:TF40 cvrRI.jpg|[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]
File:CW Mirage cvr.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)/toys|Mirage]]
File:Windbladev2-3-cvrRI.jpg|[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]
File:CW Prowl cvr.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]]
File:CW Rook cvr.jpg|[[Rook (CW)|Rook]]
File:Rook-comiccover.jpg|[[Rook (CW)|Rook]] (cropped)
File:CW Smokescreen cvr.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)/toys|Smokescreen]]
File:TFSS SGStarscream CardArt.jpg|''Shattered Glass'' [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]]
File:CW Streetwise cvr.jpg|[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
File:CW Sunstreaker cvr.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys|Sunstreaker]]
File:Windbladev2 2 cvrRI.jpg|[[Superion (G1)|Superion]]
File:CW Trailbreaker cvr.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys|Trailbreaker]]
File:Ultra Prime artwork SDCC 2014.jpg|[[Ultra Prime]]
File:Victorion-packagingart.jpg|[[Victorion]]
File:CW Wheeljack comic.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''Titans Return''===
<center><gallery>
File:TitansReturn Brainstorm CardArt.jpg|[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]
File:HasbroPulse FortressMaximus.jpg|[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
</gallery></center>

===''Power of the Primes''===
<center><gallery>
File:POTPBattleslashArtwork.jpg|[[Battleslash]]
File:POTP-Beachcomber-art-transparent.jpg|[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconBlot-CardArt.jpg|[[Blot (G1)|Blot]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-BludgeonQuintusPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Bomb-BurstMegatronus-CardArt.jpg|[[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconCutthroat-CardArt.jpg|[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Elita-1-CardArt.jpg|[[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]]
File:Elita-Infin1te.jpg|[[Elita-Infin1te]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotGrimlock-CardArt.jpg|[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconHun-Gurrr-CardArt.jpg|[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurrr]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-InfernoCombiner-Art.jpg|[[Inferno Combiner]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-LandmineAlphaTrion-CardArt.jpg|[[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-MetalhawkVectorPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Metalhawk (G1)|Metalhawk]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Moonracer-CardArt.jpg|[[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Novastar-CardArt.jpg|[[Firestar (G1)|Novastar]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-OctopunchSolusPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconRippersnapper-CardArt.jpg|[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]]
File:POTPRoadtrapArtwork.jpg|[[Roadtrap (POTP)|Roadtrap]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-EvolutionRodimusUnicronus-CardArt.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Unicronus]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-TerrorconSinnertwin-CardArt.jpg|[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Skrapnel-CardArt.jpg|[[Shrapnel (G1)|Skrapnel]]
File:POTPSlashArtwork.jpg|[[Slash (POTP)|Slash]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSludge-CardArt.jpg|[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSlug-CardArt.jpg|[[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSnarl-CardArt.jpg|[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-StarscreamCombiner-Art.jpg|[[Starscream Combiner]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-SubmarauderAlchemistPrime-CardArt.jpg|[[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-DinobotSwoop-CardArt.jpg|[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]
File:PowerOfThePrimes-Windcharger-CardArt.jpg|[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
</gallery></center>

===''Studio Series''===
<center><gallery>
File:ROTB-Airazorzoo.jpg|[[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]] (front)
File:Arcee-SS86packagingart.jpg|[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
File:MovieBarricade render1.jpg|[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] (front)
File:MovieBarricade.jpg|Barricade (side)
File:WFCBarricade.jpg|[[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:ROTB-Battletrap-Render.jpg|[[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]]
File:StudioSeries-Blackout-art.jpg|[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
File:StudioSeries-Bonecrusher-art.jpg|[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
File:Studio-Series-Blitzwing-package-render.jpeg|[[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]]
File:StudioSeries-Brawl-art.jpg|[[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]]
File:BB Brawn.jpg|[[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]]
File:StudioSeries-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] (2007 movie figure)
File:StudioSeries-Bumblebee-WWII-art.jpg|"WWII" Bumblebee
File:Chromia SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]]
File:SS BB Cliffjumper.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]]
File:StudioSeries-Crowbar-art.jpg|[[Crowbar]]
File:ROTF Devastator promo.jpg|[[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]]
File:StudioSeries-Dropkick-art.jpg|[[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] (SuperCobra mode figure)
File:StudioSeries-Dropkick-Car-art.jpg|Dropkick (Javelin mode figure)
File:ROTB Freezer Render.jpg|[[Freezer]]
File:StudioSeries-Grimlock-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
File:Hightower SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Hightower (ROTF)|Hightower]]
File:StudioSeries-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
File:MovieJazz promorender.jpg|[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] (front)
File:StudioSeries-Jazz-art.jpg|Jazz (side)
File:ROTF Jetfire.jpg|[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]
File:Studio Series Jolt packaging image.jpg|[[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]]
File:StudioSeries-KSI-Boss-art.jpg|[[KSI Boss]]
File:StudioSeries-KSI-Sentry.jpg|[[KSI Sentry]]
File:StudioSeries-Lockdown-art.jpg|[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]
File:StudioSeries-Long-Haul-art.jpg|[[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]]
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Revenge-art2.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure; front)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Revenge-art.jpg|Megatron (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure; side)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Battle-Damaged-art2.jpg|"Battle Damaged" Megatron (front)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Battle-Damaged-art.jpg|"Battle Damaged" Megatron (side)
File:StudioSeries-Megatron-Dark-art.jpg|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'' figure) & [[Igor]]
File:Bumblebee-movie-Megatron-ss-concept.jpg|Megatron (''Bumblebee'' concept art figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] (2007 movie figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Revenge-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Revenge of the Fallen'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Dark-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Dark of the Moon'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Optimus-Prime-Bumblebee-art.jpg|Optimus Prime (''Bumblebee'' figure)
File:StudioSeries-Rampage-art.jpg|[[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]]
File:StudioSeries-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] (2007 movie deco)
File:Movie Scorponok Procterrender1.jpg|[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] (Blackout pack-in figure)
File:Scourge Render.jpg|[[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]]
File:Scrapmetal SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Scrapmetal (ROTF)|Scrapmetal]]
File:StudioSeries-Sentinel-Prime-art.jpg|[[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]
File:StudioSeries-Shadow-Raider-art.jpg|[[Shadow Raider]]
File:StudioSeries-Shatter-art.jpg|[[Shatter]] (Plymouth mode figure)
File:StudioSeries-Sideswipe-art.jpg|[[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] (front)
File:Revenge of the Fallen Sideswipe.jpg|Sideswipe (side)
File:WFC Sideswipe.jpg|[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:Skipjack SS Packaging Art.jpg|[[Skipjack (ROTF)|Skipjack]]
File:Slug-SS86packagingart.jpg|[[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
File:StudioSeries-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] (2007 movie deco)
File:StudioSeries-Starscream-Revenge-art.jpg|Starscream (''Revenge of the Fallen'' deco; front)
File:RevengeOfTheFallenStarscream.jpg|Starscream (''Revenge of the Fallen'' deco; side)
File:StarscreamBumblebeeMovieRender.jpg|Starscream (''Bumblebee'' figure)
File:WFC Starscream.jpg|[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (''War for Cybertron'' ''Gamer Edition'' figure)
File:Stinger.jpg|[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]]
File:Ss-111-Sunstreaker.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (ROTF)|Sunstreaker]]
File:StudioSeries-The-Fallen-art.jpg|[[The Fallen]]
File:FURY-Studio-Series-Thrust.jpg|[[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]]
File:StudioSeries-Thundercracker-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]]
</gallery></center>

===''Collaborative''===
<center><gallery>
File:Ectotron boxart.jpg|[[Ectotron]]
File:Transformers-XMen-Ultimate-XSpanse-Character-Art.jpg|[[Ultimate X-Spanse]]
File:Collaborative Sabretooth boxart.jpeg|[[Sabretooth]] (Ultimate X-Spanse pack-in figure)
File:CobraCon-Fusion.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Collaborative|Megatron]] ([[H.I.S.S. tank]])
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
<center><gallery>
File:Siege-Apeface-art.jpg|[[Apeface]]
File:Siege-Astrotrain-art.jpg|[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]
File:Siege-Autobot-Alphastrike-Counterforce-box-art.jpg|[[Firestormer|Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce]] ([[Sideswipe (G2)|Covert Clone Sideswipe]], [[Slamdance (G1)|Slamdance]] and [[Trenchfoot]])
File:Siege-Barricade-art.jpg|[[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]]
File:Siege-Brunt-art.jpg|[[Brunt (G1)|Brunt]]
File:Siege-Chromia-art.jpg|[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]
File:Siege-Cog-art.jpg|[[Cog (G1)|Cog]]
File:Siege-Crosshairs-art.jpg|[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]]
File:Siege-Decepticon-Phantomstrike-Squadron-box-art.jpg|[[Phantomstrike Squadron|Decepticon Phantomstrike Squadron]] ([[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], [[Fracas]], [[Hairsplitter|Shrute]] and [[Terror-Daxtyl]])
File:WarForCybertronSiege-Firedrive-CardArt.jpg|[[Firebolt (G1)|Firedrive]]
File:Siege-Greenlight-art.jpg|[[Greenlight]]
File:Siege-Hound-art.jpg|[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
File:Siege-Impactor-art.jpg|[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]]
File:Siege-Ironhide-art.jpg|[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
File:Siege-Jetfire-art.jpg|[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]
File:Siege-Mirage-art.jpg|[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
File:Siege-Omega-Supreme-art.jpg|[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]
File:Siege-OptimusPrime-CardArt.jpeg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
File:Siege-Prowl-art.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
File:SiegeArt-Pteraxadon.jpg|[[Pteraxadon]]
File:Siege-Ratchet-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
File:Siege-Red-Alert-art.jpg|[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]
File:Siege-Refraktor-art.jpg|[[Reflector (G1)|Refraktor]]
File:WFC-Siege-Poster-ArkLaunchAutobots.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]''
File:Siege-Shockwave-art.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
File:Siege-Sideswipe-CardArt.jpeg|[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
File:Siege-Sixgun-art.jpg|[[Six-Gun|Sixgun]]
File:Siege-Skytread-art.jpg|[[Flywheels|Skytread]]
File:WFC-Siege-Smashdown-Card-Art.jpg|[[Smashdown]]
File:Siege-Soundwave-art.jpg|[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
File:Siege-Spinister-art.jpg|[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]]
File:Siege-Springer-art.jpg|[[Springer (G1)|Springer]]
File:Siege-Starscream-art.jpg|[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
File:Siege-Thundercracker-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
File:Siege-Ultra-Magnus-art.jpg|[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
<center><gallery>
File:Earthrise-Airwave-art.jpg|[[Airwave (facility)|Airwave]]
File:Earthrise-Allicon-art.jpg|[[Allicon]]
File:Earthrise-Arcee-art.jpg|[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
File:Earthrise-Cliffjumper-art.jpg|[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Doublecrosser-Card-Art.jpg|[[Doublecrosser (Earthrise)|Doublecrosser]]
File:Earthrise-Doubledealer-art.jpg|[[Doubledealer]]
File:Earthrise-Fasttrack-art.jpg|[[Fasttrack (G1)|Fasttrack]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-main-artwork.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]''
File:Earthrise-Grapple-art.jpg|[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]]
File:Earthrise-Hoist-art.jpg|[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
File:Earthrise-Ironworks-art.jpg|[[Ironworks (facility)|Ironworks]]
File:Earthrise-Megatron-art.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
File:Earthrise-Judge-art.jpg|[[Quintesson Judge]]
File:Earthrise-Runamuck-art.jpg|[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]]
File:Earthrise-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]
File:Earthrise-Sky-Lynx-art.jpg|[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Slitherfang-Card-Art.jpg|[[Slitherfang]]
File:Earthrise-Smokescreen-art.jpg|[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
File:Earthrise-Snapdragon-art.jpg|[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]]
File:WFC-Earthrise-Soundbarrier-Card-Art.jpg|[[Soundbarrier]]
File:Earthrise-Sunstreaker-art.jpg|[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
File:Earthrise-Trailbreaker-art.jpg|[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]
File:Earthrise-Wheeljack-art.jpg|[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
<center><gallery>
File:WFC-Kingdom-Bumblebee-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'')
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Megatron returns to pits.jpg|Spoiler Pack ([[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]])
File:WFC-Kingdom-Nemesis-Prime-art.jpg|Spoiler Pack ([[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]])
</gallery></center>

===''War for Cybertron: Kingdom''===
<center><gallery>
File:WFC-Kingdom-Airazor-art.jpg|[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Ark becomes giant woman.jpg|[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Battle-Across-Time-Collection-artwork.jpg|"Battle Across Time Collection"
File:WFC-Kingdom-Cheetor-art.jpg|[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Cyclonus-art.jpg|[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Dracodon-art.jpg|[[Dracodon]]
File:Kingdom Golden Disk Megatron becomes Galvatron.jpg|[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Huffer-art.jpg|[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Inferno-art.jpg|[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-main-artwork.jpg|''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]''
File:WFC-Kingdom-Megatron-Beast-art.jpg|[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron (Beast)]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Optimus-Primal-art.jpg |[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Pipes-art.jpg |[[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]]
File:Kingdom Ractonite boxart.jpg|[[Ractonite]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Rattrap-art.jpg|[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Rhinox.jpg|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]
File:WFCKingdom-Paleotrexart.jpg|[[Paleotrex]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Scorponok-art.jpg|[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Shadow-Panther-art.jpg|[[Shadow Panther]]
File:Kingdom-Slammer-art.jpg|[[Slammer]]
File:Kingdom T-Wrecks-package-art.jpg|[[T-Wrecks]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tigatron-art.jpg|[[Tigatron]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tracks-art.jpg|[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Tricranius-art.jpg|[[Tricranius]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Vertebreak-art.jpg|[[Vertebreak (Kingdom)|Vertebreak]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Warpath-art.jpg|[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]]
File:WFC-Kingdom-Waspinator-art.jpg|[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
File:Kingdom Wingfinger boxart.jpg|[[Wingfinger]]
</gallery></center>

===''Legacy''===
<center><gallery>
File:Legacy boxart Axlegrease.jpeg|[[Axlegrease]]
File:LegacyUnited-BouldercrashArt.jpg|[[Bouldercrash]]
File:Crashbar-packagingart.jpg|[[Crashbar]]
File:TF-Legacy-United-Core-Geocron PackagingArt.jpg|[[Geocron]]
File:TF-Legacy-Core-Class-Iguanus-Package-Art-Full.jpg|[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]]
File:Kaskade-packagingart.jpg|[[Kaskade]]
File:Legacy-Laser-Prime-Package-Art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|G2 Universe Laser Optimus Prime]]
File:Paradiseparakeet-packagingart.jpg|[[Paradise Parakeet]]
File:Magneous-packagingart.jpg|[[Magneous]]
File:MalleusMinotaurus-art.jpg|[[Malleus Minotaurus]]
File:Legacy-art Masterdominus.jpg|[[Masterdominus]]
File:Legacy Medix BoxArt.jpeg|[[Medix (G1)|Medix]]
File:Scraphook-packagingart.jpg|[[Scraphook]]
File:Scarr-legacypackagingart.jpg|[[Skar (IDW)|Scarr]]
File:Shadowstrip-packagingart.jpg|[[Shadowstrip]]
File:TF-Legacy-United-Deluxe-Shard-art.jpg|[[Shard]]
File:Legacy-art Spindle.jpg|[[Spindle]]
File:Trashmaster-packagingart.jpg|[[Trashmaster]]
</gallery></center>

==''Cyberverse'' (2018)==
<center><gallery>
File:AcidStormCyberversePromo.jpeg|[[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]]
File:CyberverseBlurr.jpg|[[Blurr (Cyberverse)|Blurr]]
File:Cyberverse-Bumblebee-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Bumbleswoop.jpg|[[Bumbleswoop]]
File:Cheetor-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]]
File:Clobber-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]]
File:Dead End-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]]
File:Cyberverse-packagingart-Gnaw.jpg|[[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]]
File:Cyberverse-Grimlock-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]]
File:Hot-Rod-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]
File:Transformers Cyberverse One-Step Jazz.jpg|[[Jazz (Cyberverse)|Jazz]]
File:Jetfire-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]]
File:Megatron-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]]
File:Optimus-Prime-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]
File:ProwlCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Prowl (Cyberverse)|Prowl]]
File:Ratchet-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]]
File:Shadow-Striker-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]
File:Shockwave-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]]
File:SkyByte-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpeg|[[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]]
File:SlipstreamCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Slugtron.jpg|[[Slugtron]]
File:SoundwaveCyberversePromo.jpg|[[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]]
File:Starscream-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]
File:Thundercracker-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]]
File:Thunderhowl-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.jpg|[[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]]
File:Cyberverse Package Art Wheelgrim.jpg|[[Wheelgrim]]
File:CyberverseWheeljack.jpg|[[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]]
File:Whirl-Cyberverse-Hasbro-art.JPG|[[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]]
File:Cyberverse-Ultimate-Volcanicus-package-art.jpg|[[Volcanicus (Cyberverse)|Volcanicus]]
</gallery></center>

==''EarthSpark''==
<center><gallery>
File:Elita1-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]]
File:Hashtag-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] (Tacticon figure)
File:Optimusprime-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] (Tacticon figure)
File:Shockwave-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]]
File:Skywarp-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Skywarp (ES)|Skywarp]]
File:Starscream-earthspark-stock.jpg|[[Starscream (ES)|Starscream]]
File:Wheeljack-Earthspark-Stock.jpg|[[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]]
</gallery></center>

==Miscellaneous==
<center><gallery>
File:PepsiConvoy.jpg|[[Pepsi Convoy]]
File:G1 boxart at botcon.jpg|''The Transformers'' Boxart
File:Ride-Evac-art.jpg|''[[Transformers: Universal Studios]]'' [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]]
</gallery></center>

[[Category:Media]]

Action Master

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[[File:Armoredconvoyboxart.jpg|upright=2.6|thumb|Alive! Alive! Alive!]]
[[File:Neutro-fusiontank.jpg|upright=2.6|thumb|HAHA AUTOBOTS! YOU LOST THE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM!]]
Transformers who use [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] as a fuel source lose their [[transformation]] ability due to the fact that their figure alteration [[system]]s get converted into energy storage reactors. However, through this process, '''Action Masters''' become harder, better, faster, stronger and more alive. They have equipped themselves with transformable [[Action Master partner|partners]] and [[:Category:Action Master vehicles|vehicles]] to aid them in battle.

A few Action Masters managed to retain (or possibly regain) the ability to transform; they are known as [[Action Master Elite]]s.

Action Masters are among the few Transformers to feature [[Power Plans]] on the [[packaging]], in addition to the more traditional [[Tech Spec]] and [[bio]].

{{quote|Alt-modes are for '''wimps'''!|[[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]]'s in denial|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #1]]}}

==Fiction==
===Toy packaging blurb===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] went searching for new energy sources and, within the heart of a [[black hole]] discovered Nucleon: a miracle fuel that made Transformers stronger, faster, and more alive, but cost them the ability to transform. Soon the Decepticons stole the technology and created Action Masters of their own, with [[Magmatrynon]] alloy being used for the construction of [[Action Master Exo-suit|exo-suits]].

{{note|This story was later referenced with the Japanese release of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Nucleon Quest Super Convoy]], a black repaint of Powermaster Optimus Prime who was given the backstory of being Prime specially outfitted for this trip into the black hole.}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] heard about a risky new miracle fuel on the planet [[Hydrus Four]]. Against orders he stole the non-functioning bodies of his fellow [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] and headed there to find out. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} What he discovered was a ruined world filled with [[Nucleon guardian|creepy, obsessive, rotting zombie-like beings]] warning him that it was all because of Nucleon. Being Grimlock, he then went ahead and used the fuel anyway, first on himself and then to revive his fallen teammates. {{storylink|The Pri¢e of Life!}}

Grimlock soon found parts of his body inexplicably seizing up, and began to fear that he should have listened to the creepy dying robots after all. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} After returning to the Ark Grimlock used the Nucleon to repair all the damaged Autobots in the ship's medical bay (as well as [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], whom he didn't know was there). {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Following the Transformers' battle with [[Unicron]], Grimlock froze up entirely. It was then that [[Hi-Q]] (in the process of merging with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]) saw with "[[Powermaster]] eyes" that Grimlock wasn't malfunctioning, but changing. He used his Powermaster abilities to speed up the process and Grimlock burst forth in his new, more-powerful Action Master form. {{storylink|Still Life!}}

Meanwhile, Hi-Q's own mental merger with Prime was also accelerated by his contact with Nucleon. Soon afterward, the [[Last Autobot]] re-created Hi-Q as Optimus Prime in a new body. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

=====Another Time & Place=====
As time progressed more and more Autobots, including Prime, [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], also succumbed to mode-lock. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and Slag were among the few that could still transform, but they had doubts that this would remain much longer. Hearing rumours of further developments on Hydrus Four, Grimlock led the Dinobots there to see if a cure could be found. Amidst a Decepticon ambush, he discovered a new version of Nucleon that lacked the side effects of the original and restored the ability to transform. {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
The Decepticons on Earth had a team of Action Masters. These sinister types had the power to combine into ground stations, super-heavy vehicles and air units! {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 16|Transforming Robots in Action: The Case of Optimus Prime}}

====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] was still an Action Master.

===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
Optimus and Megatron's pre-G2 bodies share a striking similarity to their Action Master toys. Likewise Optimus Prime has been documented as searching out a New Energy source called Nucleon that's located within a black hole. Finally, Optimus Prime's Action Master was sold with New Years Convoy, and described as the intermediate form between Prime's various G2 Bodies. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{main|Monoformer}}
In the [[2005 IDW continuity]], nucleon does not appear to affect ability to transform. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution|The Permanent Revolution}} However, some Cybertronians had their [[transformation cog]]s removed for medical, political or religious reasons, and were known as [[monoformer]]s. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
After the starship ''[[Iron Hope (G1)|Iron Hope]]'' crash-landed far from Cybertron, the surviving crew—who would come to be known as the "''Iron Hope'' Hundred"—were forced to subsist on nucleon, rendering them permanently [[mode lock]]ed. Survivors of the disaster included [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]], who was locked in robot mode, and [[Catgut]], who was locked in a quadrupedal form. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} As well as [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}} and [[Charger]], although his partner [[Fire Beast|Fire Beast's]] ability to combine might exclude him. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}} Members of the Hundred found themselves victims of discrimination, especially on alt-mode oriented colonies like [[Velocitron]]. A number of these mode-locked bots made use of [[Exo-suit (Action Masters)|exo-suits]] or [[Off-Road Cycle|personal vehicles]] as essentially mobility aids, able to provide them additional speed and power in lieu of alternate modes. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}}

Upon learning that her teleport rig used nucleon as a fuel source, Jumpstream noted that the substance was notorious for causing mode-locking. Perceptor pointed out to her that it took sustained amounts of nucleon abuse over a long period of time to affect one's physiology. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}}

====Alternate future====
In an alternate future where [[Exarchon]] had triumphed, he began beaming Cybertron's energon supply into space, forcing the resistance to use nucleon, depriving them all of their [[alternate mode]]s. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II|Test Flight II}}

==Reception and legacy==
{{quote|I DEFINITELY like my transformers to transform. Down with the action masters.|Josh Freeman Frankel, 25 February 1994|[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/4ed4b0a1a761bcd7 alt.toys.transformers]}}

The Action Master toyline, depicting the obvious oxymoron of "Transformers who don't transform," generated initial ire ("BLASPHEMY!") from some fans. This was magnified as Action Masters were released in the final year of the original Transformers toy line in the US. When Transformers was summarily canceled in North America, some fans blamed the gimmick for the [[Ruined FOREVER|death of the franchise]] (despite the wide variety of other factors that doubtlessly were involved).

One aspect Action Masters is notable for, however, is the mass reintroduction of "classic" characters. New toys for old characters was not a theme the original toy line visited very often–in fact, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee's]] re-imaged [[Throttlebot]] form [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Goldbug]] released in 1987, 1988's [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Classic Pretender]]s from 1989 were the only notable exceptions. In other words, to have a single sub-line with so many recurring favorites was, at the time, a novelty. In addition, the classic characters were designed to [[show-accuracy|resemble their cartoon counterparts more closely]]. For much of the Season 1 and 2 cast, the original figures having been designed years before they were stylized and simplified for the cartoon, these Action Masters were the closest likenesses of their fiction representations until the advent of the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line, in which screen accuracy is one of its primary selling points. Notably the first television commercial for the Action Masters featured a segment where the animated character models dissolved into film of the actual toys, suggesting that "show accuracy" was Hasbro's intended marketing strategy for the line.

As with many other changes to the Transformers brand, initial hostility towards Action Masters from the fandom eventually became less intense and diversified into a broad range of opinion, with many of the original characters introduced getting cult followings and prominent appearances in later fiction (likely helped by how the toys weren't restricted by the somewhat samey designs that predominately made up the later years of the toyline). Some of the most in-demand vintage (and therefore expensive) ''Transformers'' toys are Action Masters, and new characters from this subgroup continue to appear in newer toy lines. For example:
[[File:Timelinestoy-BC2010DoublePunch.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0]]
* [[Double Punch]] started the trend with a new [[exclusive]] toy at [[BotCon Japan 1998]]. Another toy of Double Punch was produced for [[BotCon 2010]].
* [[Axer (G1)|Axer]] showed up in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' toyline]]. Another toy of Axer (as [[Axor]]) would be released in the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' 2010]] toyline. This toy would, in turn, be redecoed to homage [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] as [[Circuit (Movie)|a movie-universe character]] in the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]] in 2013.
* Action Master Optimus Prime was [[Generation 1 reissues|reissued]] in [[Japan]] in [[2002]] as part of the "[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|New Years Convoy]]" [[giftset]].
* ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]] has design elements based on [[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]] (with his [[Mini-Con]] companion actually ''named'' [[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout]]).
* ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Smokescreen (Cybertron)|Smokescreen]]'s colors are a partial homage to [[Rad (G1)|Rad]].
* [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2009]]. Another Banzai-Tron (as [[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]]) would be released in the ''Transformers'' 2010 toyline. Yet another would be part of the ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' line in 2012. Banzai-Tron and his partner [[Razor-Sharp]] also got new, still-nontransforming toys in [[Super7]]'s ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line.
* [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] was homaged with [[Sparkcrusher]] in 2009.
* [[Slicer (G1)|Slicer]] (partially renamed into "Decepticon Slice") was an exclusive at BotCon 2010. Slicer was also homaged in the shared exclusive [[Dark Energon]] version of [[Wheeljack (Prime)#DarkEnergon|Wheeljack]] in ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'', and with [[Wheeljack (SG)|''Shattered Glass'' Wheeljack]].
* [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2012]].
* Soundwave's partner, [[Wingthing (G1)|Wingthing]], received new toys in the Japanese ''[[Transformers Encore]]'' line in 2012, and again as a ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' figure in 2017, and then in ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]'' in 2020.
* [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] was ported to ''[[Jackpot (Animated)|Animated]]'' as part of the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]], and was later given a new [[Jackpot (G1)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|G1-styled figure]] as part of the Amazon-exclusive "Golden Disk Collection" of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]''.
* [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] received a new figure as part of the Figure Subscription Service series 2.0 in 2014.
* [[Krok (G1)|Krok]] was featured in the Transformers Figure Subscription Service series 3.0 in 2015, and then received an additional new toy in ''[[Titans Return (franchise)|Titans Return]]'' in 2017.
* The Collection Pack version of [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#G2BruticusSet|Shockwave]] in ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' bore the same color scheme as the Action Master.
* Rad's partner, [[Lionizer (G1)|Lionizer]], received a new [[Battle Master]] mold in ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' and was redecoed in more accurate colors in a ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Battle 3-Pack as "Captive Lionizer". A few other Action Master partners, namely [[Needler (G1)|Needler]], [[Vanguard]], [[Turbo Board]], and Sights, were also given Battle Master status by the ''Siege'' themed fourth wave of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]''. Turbo Board, who was previously of questionable sentience, was even given a proper robot mode as a result of this!
* [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] got a new toy in the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' line.
* The Action Master designs for [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] and his partner Needler received new toys in the ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line - once again as non-transforming figures. ''ULTIMATES!'' [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] also comes with his partner [[Basher]] despite otherwise being based on his animation model.

In 2013, [[James Roberts]] could even say he'd have liked to see ''more'' Action Masters and they were "cool".<ref>[http://www.fullmetalhero.com/t14540/ Moonbase2's second interview with James Roberts - 58:20]</ref>

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{Note|In addition to the original line-up of Action Master product released worldwide in 1990, several additional assortments were introduced in European markets for 1991.}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Grimlock]] with [[Anti-tank cannon]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Jazz]] with [[Turbo Board]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rad (G1)#Toys|Rad]] with [[Lionizer (G1)#Toys|Lionizer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rollout (G1)#Toys|Rollout]] with [[Glitch (G1)#Toys|Glitch]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Soundwave]] with [[Wingthing (G1)#Toys|Wingthing]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Treadshot (G1)#Toys|Treadshot]] with [[Catgut#Toys|Catgut]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Bumblebee]] with [[Heli-pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Blaster (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Blaster]] with [[Flight-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Devastator]] with [[Scorpulator#Toys|Scorpulator]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jackpot (G1)#Toys|Jackpot]] with [[Sights (G1)#Toys|Sights]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Krok (G1)#Toys|Krok]] with [[Gatoraider#Toys|Gatoraider]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Mainframe (G1)#Toys|Mainframe]] with [[Push-Button#Toys|Push-Button]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Banzai-Tron (G1)#Toys|Banzai-Tron]] with [[Razor-Sharp#Toys|Razor-Sharp]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Inferno]] with [[Hydro-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Kick-Off (G1)#Toys|Kick-Off]] with [[Turbo-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Shockwave]] with [[Fistfight (G1)#Toys|Fistfight]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Skyfall (G1)#Toys|Skyfall]] with [[Top-Heavy#Toys|Top-Heavy]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#AM|Snarl]] with [[Tyrannitron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 4 (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#ActionMaster|Bombshell]] with [[Needler (G1)#Toys|Needler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Charger#Toys|Charger]] with [[Fire Beast]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerflash#Toys|Powerflash]] with [[Road Rocket (G1)#Toys|Road Rocket]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Sideswipe]] with [[Vanguard]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Take-Off#Toys|Take-Off]] with [[Screech (Action Master)#Toys|Screech]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Tracks]] with [[Basher]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1-toy Blaster AM.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Blaster with Flight-Pack]][[File:G1Axer toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Axer with Off-Road Cycle]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Action Blasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Copter]] with [[Over-Run (G1)#Toys|Over-Run]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Off-Road Cycle]] with [[Axer (G1)#Toys|Axer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Cycle (G1)|Turbo Cycle]] with [[Prowl (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Turbo Jet]] with [[Starscream (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Starscream]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Action Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Cruiser]] with [[Sprocket (G1)#Toys|Sprocket]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Racer]] with [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Wheeljack]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Decepticon Attack Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Stratotronic Jet]] with [[Gutcruncher (G1)#Toys|Gutcruncher]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Neutro-Fusion Tank]] with [[Megatron (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Megatron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Armored Convoy'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Armored Convoy]] with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#AM|Optimus Prime]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Action Master Exo-suit|Exo-Suit]] Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Circuit (G1)#Toys|Circuit]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Thundercracker]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorized Exo-Suit Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Rumbler (G1)#Toys|Rumbler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Slicer (G1)#Toys|Slicer]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Elites (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Double Punch#Toys|Double Punch]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Omega Supreme (G1)#omegaspreem|Omega Spreem]]{{sic}}}}
{{bp-d1|[[Turbo Master#Toys|Turbo Master]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windmill (G1)#Toys|Windmill]]}}
|}
{{--}}

==Notes==
*It appears that the name "Action Masters" for this segment of the toy line was a late decision: Hasbro's Spring 1990 "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog,<ref name="vendor">[https://web.archive.org/web/20230128185129/https://botriot.jemmagic.com/transformershasbro1990s.html Spring 1990 Hasbro "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog at Botriot] (archived)</ref> published in mid-to-late 1989, consistently refers to the toys simply as "Action Figures", with no mention of the term "Action Master". It also makes mention of a different back story wherein the Transformers give up the ability to transform to transfer these powers to their weapons and vehicles. The "Action Master" name was evidently decided on sometime between the "Pre-Toy Fair" vendor event and the Toy Fair of February 1990, as the finalized term appears in Hasbro's standard 1990 catalog.
*In an interview with [[Transformers Collectors' Club]], Simon Furman said that had the comic not ended at issue #80, Optimus Prime's return would not have come when it did.<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 2|Club magazine #2]]</ref> Additionally, Furman said that he hated the idea of using Action Master Prime at the time, and hoped that by the time Prime came back, this Action Master plot would be [[Furmanism|over—finished]]!<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 1|Club magazine #1]]</ref> Conclusion—the use of Optimus Prime in his Action Master version may very well have not occurred had the comic not ended when it did.
*Bob Budiansky's treatment for the Action Masters was printed in the [[Titan Books]] trade ''[[Transformers: Last Stand]]''. Bob can't remember writing it.<ref>[http://www.metalmachine.net/blog/2009/11/21/todds-take-with-bob-budiansky-the-architect-of-the-transformers/ Bob Budiansky interview]</ref>
*In a case of "too little, too late", the fourth (and final, only being released in Europe) assortment of Action Master figures made some minor course corrections in terms of figure design and accessories. The fourth assortment figures no longer have blocks sculpted into the hips that forced the legs to move in 90° increments or awkward side angles. Additionally, in keeping with other late Action Masters such as the Elites, there are minor uses of the then-new technique of textured plastic, as well as having sculpts that were mildly bulkier than previous waves. Lastly, in lieu of animal weapon partners or action feature backpacks, fourth assortment figures all had partner machines that unfolded into helmets and backpacks, strictly split between beasts for Decepticons and artillery units for Autobots.
*The Action Masters' weapon-handle pegs, being 3mm wide, are compatible with the "[[c joint]]" weapon mounting system used on many modern toys, such as the 2011 version of ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]''.
*Excluding the Action Master Elite, regular Action Masters utilized elastic-and-hook joints (similar to many ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' toys and the [[Laser Rod]]s) in their hips. This gave them their relatively wide range of motion, but it also made them somewhat floppy, and the elastic could harden and become brittle with age. Legless Action Masters are sadly common on the aftermarket.
[[File:Unproduced_AM_Animatron.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|[[Serpentor|Totally new character]].
[https://www.yojoe.com/action/86/serpentor.shtml Yup]. (We were robbed!)]]
*Over the decades, an inordinate amount of Action Master concept art <ref>[https://www.allspark.com/2015/02/the-spacebridge-shares-unproduced-action-master-artwork/ A small partial spread of unproduced Action Masters, originally from the Generations Deluxe book.]</ref> along with resin models of both figures ''and'' vehicles of multiple <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMExoTankSuitProtoUnprod.html A resin model of an unproduced Action Master tank Exo Suit.]</ref> sizes <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMHalfTrackTankHardcopy.html A resin model of an unproduced motorized Action Master half-track vehicle.]</ref> have come to light, suggesting very strongly that Hasbro was betting big on the line. While the idea was probably fueled by [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] being in one of its stronger sales periods <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-07-8904100699-story.html "G.I. Joe: 25 and $2 Billion In The Till", Chicago Tribune, May 7 1989.]</ref> despite leaning slightly more into sci-fi at the time, the Action Master line ultimately fizzled in the United States.
*Early plans for [[BotCon]] [[BotCon#BotCon 2017|2017]] would have seen Action Masters as the focus of the convention, with a box set "Action on Hydrus Four" featuring [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]], [[Skyfall (G1)|Skyfall]], [[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] in Action-Master inspired decos using [[Titans Return (toyline)|''Titans Return'']] figures.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-of-concepts-and-customized-figures-from-fun-pub-at-petes-robot-convention-2017/39073/]</ref>
*The Action Master name was brought back in 2020 by Takara Tomy for their release of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)#Cyberverse (TakaraTomy)|Deluxe Class figures]]. Ironically, one of the big selling points for these figures is featuring far more involved transformations than the rest of the ''Cyberverse'' line!
*Action Masters were extensively used as proof-of-concept mock ups for the [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] subline ''Armor-Tech''.<ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 9, p59</ref><ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 10, p54</ref> Additionally, silhouettes of Action Master card art were used to represent ''Armor-Tech'' figures in the 1993 figure catalogue before said figures were finalized.

===Foreign names===
*''Italy'': '''Super Azione''' ("Super Action")

==References==
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[[File:Logo-ActionMastersAlt.png||350px|center]]
[[File:Armoredconvoyboxart.jpg|upright=2.6|thumb|Alive! Alive! Alive!]]
Transformers who use [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] as a fuel source lose their [[transformation]] ability due to the fact that their figure alteration [[system]]s get converted into energy storage reactors. However, through this process, '''Action Masters''' become harder, better, faster, stronger and more alive. They have equipped themselves with transformable [[Action Master partner|partners]] and [[:Category:Action Master vehicles|vehicles]] to aid them in battle.

A few Action Masters managed to retain (or possibly regain) the ability to transform; they are known as [[Action Master Elite]]s.

Action Masters are among the few Transformers to feature [[Power Plans]] on the [[packaging]], in addition to the more traditional [[Tech Spec]] and [[bio]].

{{quote|Alt-modes are for '''wimps'''!|[[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]]'s in denial|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #1]]}}

==Fiction==
===Toy packaging blurb===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] went searching for new energy sources and, within the heart of a [[black hole]] discovered Nucleon: a miracle fuel that made Transformers stronger, faster, and more alive, but cost them the ability to transform. Soon the Decepticons stole the technology and created Action Masters of their own, with [[Magmatrynon]] alloy being used for the construction of [[Action Master Exo-suit|exo-suits]].

{{note|This story was later referenced with the Japanese release of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Nucleon Quest Super Convoy]], a black repaint of Powermaster Optimus Prime who was given the backstory of being Prime specially outfitted for this trip into the black hole.}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] heard about a risky new miracle fuel on the planet [[Hydrus Four]]. Against orders he stole the non-functioning bodies of his fellow [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] and headed there to find out. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} What he discovered was a ruined world filled with [[Nucleon guardian|creepy, obsessive, rotting zombie-like beings]] warning him that it was all because of Nucleon. Being Grimlock, he then went ahead and used the fuel anyway, first on himself and then to revive his fallen teammates. {{storylink|The Pri¢e of Life!}}

Grimlock soon found parts of his body inexplicably seizing up, and began to fear that he should have listened to the creepy dying robots after all. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} After returning to the Ark Grimlock used the Nucleon to repair all the damaged Autobots in the ship's medical bay (as well as [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], whom he didn't know was there). {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Following the Transformers' battle with [[Unicron]], Grimlock froze up entirely. It was then that [[Hi-Q]] (in the process of merging with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]) saw with "[[Powermaster]] eyes" that Grimlock wasn't malfunctioning, but changing. He used his Powermaster abilities to speed up the process and Grimlock burst forth in his new, more-powerful Action Master form. {{storylink|Still Life!}}

Meanwhile, Hi-Q's own mental merger with Prime was also accelerated by his contact with Nucleon. Soon afterward, the [[Last Autobot]] re-created Hi-Q as Optimus Prime in a new body. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

=====Another Time & Place=====
As time progressed more and more Autobots, including Prime, [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], also succumbed to mode-lock. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and Slag were among the few that could still transform, but they had doubts that this would remain much longer. Hearing rumours of further developments on Hydrus Four, Grimlock led the Dinobots there to see if a cure could be found. Amidst a Decepticon ambush, he discovered a new version of Nucleon that lacked the side effects of the original and restored the ability to transform. {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
The Decepticons on Earth had a team of Action Masters. These sinister types had the power to combine into ground stations, super-heavy vehicles and air units! {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 16|Transforming Robots in Action: The Case of Optimus Prime}}

====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] was still an Action Master.

===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
Optimus and Megatron's pre-G2 bodies share a striking similarity to their Action Master toys. Likewise Optimus Prime has been documented as searching out a New Energy source called Nucleon that's located within a black hole. Finally, Optimus Prime's Action Master was sold with New Years Convoy, and described as the intermediate form between Prime's various G2 Bodies. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{main|Monoformer}}
In the [[2005 IDW continuity]], nucleon does not appear to affect ability to transform. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution|The Permanent Revolution}} However, some Cybertronians had their [[transformation cog]]s removed for medical, political or religious reasons, and were known as [[monoformer]]s. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
After the starship ''[[Iron Hope (G1)|Iron Hope]]'' crash-landed far from Cybertron, the surviving crew—who would come to be known as the "''Iron Hope'' Hundred"—were forced to subsist on nucleon, rendering them permanently [[mode lock]]ed. Survivors of the disaster included [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]], who was locked in robot mode, and [[Catgut]], who was locked in a quadrupedal form. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} As well as [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}} and [[Charger]], although his partner [[Fire Beast|Fire Beast's]] ability to combine might exclude him. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}} Members of the Hundred found themselves victims of discrimination, especially on alt-mode oriented colonies like [[Velocitron]]. A number of these mode-locked bots made use of [[Exo-suit (Action Masters)|exo-suits]] or [[Off-Road Cycle|personal vehicles]] as essentially mobility aids, able to provide them additional speed and power in lieu of alternate modes. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}}

Upon learning that her teleport rig used nucleon as a fuel source, Jumpstream noted that the substance was notorious for causing mode-locking. Perceptor pointed out to her that it took sustained amounts of nucleon abuse over a long period of time to affect one's physiology. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I|Test Flight I}}

====Alternate future====
In an alternate future where [[Exarchon]] had triumphed, he began beaming Cybertron's energon supply into space, forcing the resistance to use nucleon, depriving them all of their [[alternate mode]]s. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II|Test Flight II}}

==Reception and legacy==
{{quote|I DEFINITELY like my transformers to transform. Down with the action masters.|Josh Freeman Frankel, 25 February 1994|[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/4ed4b0a1a761bcd7 alt.toys.transformers]}}

The Action Master toyline, depicting the obvious oxymoron of "Transformers who don't transform," generated initial ire ("BLASPHEMY!") from some fans. This was magnified as Action Masters were released in the final year of the original Transformers toy line in the US. When Transformers was summarily canceled in North America, some fans blamed the gimmick for the [[Ruined FOREVER|death of the franchise]] (despite the wide variety of other factors that doubtlessly were involved).

One aspect Action Masters is notable for, however, is the mass reintroduction of "classic" characters. New toys for old characters was not a theme the original toy line visited very often–in fact, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee's]] re-imaged [[Throttlebot]] form [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Goldbug]] released in 1987, 1988's [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Classic Pretender]]s from 1989 were the only notable exceptions. In other words, to have a single sub-line with so many recurring favorites was, at the time, a novelty. In addition, the classic characters were designed to [[show-accuracy|resemble their cartoon counterparts more closely]]. For much of the Season 1 and 2 cast, the original figures having been designed years before they were stylized and simplified for the cartoon, these Action Masters were the closest likenesses of their fiction representations until the advent of the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line, in which screen accuracy is one of its primary selling points. Notably the first television commercial for the Action Masters featured a segment where the animated character models dissolved into film of the actual toys, suggesting that "show accuracy" was Hasbro's intended marketing strategy for the line.

As with many other changes to the Transformers brand, initial hostility towards Action Masters from the fandom eventually became less intense and diversified into a broad range of opinion, with many of the original characters introduced getting cult followings and prominent appearances in later fiction (likely helped by how the toys weren't restricted by the somewhat samey designs that predominately made up the later years of the toyline). Some of the most in-demand vintage (and therefore expensive) ''Transformers'' toys are Action Masters, and new characters from this subgroup continue to appear in newer toy lines. For example:
[[File:Timelinestoy-BC2010DoublePunch.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0]]
* [[Double Punch]] started the trend with a new [[exclusive]] toy at [[BotCon Japan 1998]]. Another toy of Double Punch was produced for [[BotCon 2010]].
* [[Axer (G1)|Axer]] showed up in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' toyline]]. Another toy of Axer (as [[Axor]]) would be released in the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' 2010]] toyline. This toy would, in turn, be redecoed to homage [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] as [[Circuit (Movie)|a movie-universe character]] in the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]] in 2013.
* Action Master Optimus Prime was [[Generation 1 reissues|reissued]] in [[Japan]] in [[2002]] as part of the "[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|New Years Convoy]]" [[giftset]].
* ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]] has design elements based on [[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]] (with his [[Mini-Con]] companion actually ''named'' [[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout]]).
* ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Smokescreen (Cybertron)|Smokescreen]]'s colors are a partial homage to [[Rad (G1)|Rad]].
* [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2009]]. Another Banzai-Tron (as [[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]]) would be released in the ''Transformers'' 2010 toyline. Yet another would be part of the ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' line in 2012. Banzai-Tron and his partner [[Razor-Sharp]] also got new, still-nontransforming toys in [[Super7]]'s ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line.
* [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] was homaged with [[Sparkcrusher]] in 2009.
* [[Slicer (G1)|Slicer]] (partially renamed into "Decepticon Slice") was an exclusive at BotCon 2010. Slicer was also homaged in the shared exclusive [[Dark Energon]] version of [[Wheeljack (Prime)#DarkEnergon|Wheeljack]] in ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'', and with [[Wheeljack (SG)|''Shattered Glass'' Wheeljack]].
* [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2012]].
* Soundwave's partner, [[Wingthing (G1)|Wingthing]], received new toys in the Japanese ''[[Transformers Encore]]'' line in 2012, and again as a ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' figure in 2017, and then in ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Selects]]'' in 2020.
* [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] was ported to ''[[Jackpot (Animated)|Animated]]'' as part of the first [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service]], and was later given a new [[Jackpot (G1)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|G1-styled figure]] as part of the Amazon-exclusive "Golden Disk Collection" of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]''.
* [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]] received a new figure as part of the Figure Subscription Service series 2.0 in 2014.
* [[Krok (G1)|Krok]] was featured in the Transformers Figure Subscription Service series 3.0 in 2015, and then received an additional new toy in ''[[Titans Return (franchise)|Titans Return]]'' in 2017.
* The Collection Pack version of [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#G2BruticusSet|Shockwave]] in ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' bore the same color scheme as the Action Master.
* Rad's partner, [[Lionizer (G1)|Lionizer]], received a new [[Battle Master]] mold in ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' and was redecoed in more accurate colors in a ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' Battle 3-Pack as "Captive Lionizer". A few other Action Master partners, namely [[Needler (G1)|Needler]], [[Vanguard]], [[Turbo Board]], and Sights, were also given Battle Master status by the ''Siege'' themed fourth wave of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]''. Turbo Board, who was previously of questionable sentience, was even given a proper robot mode as a result of this!
* [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] got a new toy in the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' line.
* The Action Master designs for [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] and his partner Needler received new toys in the ''Transformers ULTIMATES!'' line - once again as non-transforming figures. ''ULTIMATES!'' [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] also comes with his partner [[Basher]] despite otherwise being based on his animation model.

In 2013, [[James Roberts]] could even say he'd have liked to see ''more'' Action Masters and they were "cool".<ref>[http://www.fullmetalhero.com/t14540/ Moonbase2's second interview with James Roberts - 58:20]</ref>

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{Note|In addition to the original line-up of Action Master product released worldwide in 1990, several additional assortments were introduced in European markets for 1991.}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Grimlock]] with [[Anti-tank cannon]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Jazz]] with [[Turbo Board]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rad (G1)#Toys|Rad]] with [[Lionizer (G1)#Toys|Lionizer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rollout (G1)#Toys|Rollout]] with [[Glitch (G1)#Toys|Glitch]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Soundwave]] with [[Wingthing (G1)#Toys|Wingthing]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Treadshot (G1)#Toys|Treadshot]] with [[Catgut#Toys|Catgut]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Bumblebee]] with [[Heli-pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Blaster (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Blaster]] with [[Flight-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Devastator]] with [[Scorpulator#Toys|Scorpulator]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jackpot (G1)#Toys|Jackpot]] with [[Sights (G1)#Toys|Sights]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Krok (G1)#Toys|Krok]] with [[Gatoraider#Toys|Gatoraider]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Mainframe (G1)#Toys|Mainframe]] with [[Push-Button#Toys|Push-Button]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Banzai-Tron (G1)#Toys|Banzai-Tron]] with [[Razor-Sharp#Toys|Razor-Sharp]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Inferno]] with [[Hydro-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Kick-Off (G1)#Toys|Kick-Off]] with [[Turbo-Pack]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Shockwave]] with [[Fistfight (G1)#Toys|Fistfight]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Skyfall (G1)#Toys|Skyfall]] with [[Top-Heavy#Toys|Top-Heavy]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#AM|Snarl]] with [[Tyrannitron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures Asst. 4 (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#ActionMaster|Bombshell]] with [[Needler (G1)#Toys|Needler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Charger#Toys|Charger]] with [[Fire Beast]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerflash#Toys|Powerflash]] with [[Road Rocket (G1)#Toys|Road Rocket]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Sideswipe]] with [[Vanguard]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Take-Off#Toys|Take-Off]] with [[Screech (Action Master)#Toys|Screech]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Tracks]] with [[Basher]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1-toy Blaster AM.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Blaster with Flight-Pack]][[File:G1Axer toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Axer with Off-Road Cycle]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Action Blasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Copter]] with [[Over-Run (G1)#Toys|Over-Run]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Off-Road Cycle]] with [[Axer (G1)#Toys|Axer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Cycle (G1)|Turbo Cycle]] with [[Prowl (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Turbo Jet]] with [[Starscream (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Starscream]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Action Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Attack Cruiser]] with [[Sprocket (G1)#Toys|Sprocket]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Turbo Racer]] with [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Wheeljack]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Decepticon Attack Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Stratotronic Jet]] with [[Gutcruncher (G1)#Toys|Gutcruncher]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Neutro-Fusion Tank]] with [[Megatron (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Megatron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Autobot Armored Convoy'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Armored Convoy]] with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#AM|Optimus Prime]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Action Master Exo-suit|Exo-Suit]] Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Circuit (G1)#Toys|Circuit]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Thundercracker]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorized Exo-Suit Action Masters (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Rumbler (G1)#Toys|Rumbler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Slicer (G1)#Toys|Slicer]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Elites (Europe)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Double Punch#Toys|Double Punch]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Omega Supreme (G1)#omegaspreem|Omega Spreem]]{{sic}}}}
{{bp-d1|[[Turbo Master#Toys|Turbo Master]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windmill (G1)#Toys|Windmill]]}}
|}
{{--}}

==Notes==
*It appears that the name "Action Masters" for this segment of the toy line was a late decision: Hasbro's Spring 1990 "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog,<ref name="vendor">[https://web.archive.org/web/20230128185129/https://botriot.jemmagic.com/transformershasbro1990s.html Spring 1990 Hasbro "Pre-Toy Fair" catalog at Botriot] (archived)</ref> published in mid-to-late 1989, consistently refers to the toys simply as "Action Figures", with no mention of the term "Action Master". It also makes mention of a different back story wherein the Transformers give up the ability to transform to transfer these powers to their weapons and vehicles. The "Action Master" name was evidently decided on sometime between the "Pre-Toy Fair" vendor event and the Toy Fair of February 1990, as the finalized term appears in Hasbro's standard 1990 catalog.
*In an interview with [[Transformers Collectors' Club]], Simon Furman said that had the comic not ended at issue #80, Optimus Prime's return would not have come when it did.<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 2|Club magazine #2]]</ref> Additionally, Furman said that he hated the idea of using Action Master Prime at the time, and hoped that by the time Prime came back, this Action Master plot would be [[Furmanism|over—finished]]!<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 1|Club magazine #1]]</ref> Conclusion—the use of Optimus Prime in his Action Master version may very well have not occurred had the comic not ended when it did.
*Bob Budiansky's treatment for the Action Masters was printed in the [[Titan Books]] trade ''[[Transformers: Last Stand]]''. Bob can't remember writing it.<ref>[http://www.metalmachine.net/blog/2009/11/21/todds-take-with-bob-budiansky-the-architect-of-the-transformers/ Bob Budiansky interview]</ref>
*In a case of "too little, too late", the fourth (and final, only being released in Europe) assortment of Action Master figures made some minor course corrections in terms of figure design and accessories. The fourth assortment figures no longer have blocks sculpted into the hips that forced the legs to move in 90° increments or awkward side angles. Additionally, in keeping with other late Action Masters such as the Elites, there are minor uses of the then-new technique of textured plastic, as well as having sculpts that were mildly bulkier than previous waves. Lastly, in lieu of animal weapon partners or action feature backpacks, fourth assortment figures all had partner machines that unfolded into helmets and backpacks, strictly split between beasts for Decepticons and artillery units for Autobots.
*The Action Masters' weapon-handle pegs, being 3mm wide, are compatible with the "[[c joint]]" weapon mounting system used on many modern toys, such as the 2011 version of ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]''.
*Excluding the Action Master Elite, regular Action Masters utilized elastic-and-hook joints (similar to many ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' toys and the [[Laser Rod]]s) in their hips. This gave them their relatively wide range of motion, but it also made them somewhat floppy, and the elastic could harden and become brittle with age. Legless Action Masters are sadly common on the aftermarket.
[[File:Unproduced_AM_Animatron.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|[[Serpentor|Totally new character]].
[https://www.yojoe.com/action/86/serpentor.shtml Yup]. (We were robbed!)]]
*Over the decades, an inordinate amount of Action Master concept art <ref>[https://www.allspark.com/2015/02/the-spacebridge-shares-unproduced-action-master-artwork/ A small partial spread of unproduced Action Masters, originally from the Generations Deluxe book.]</ref> along with resin models of both figures ''and'' vehicles of multiple <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMExoTankSuitProtoUnprod.html A resin model of an unproduced Action Master tank Exo Suit.]</ref> sizes <ref>[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/AMHalfTrackTankHardcopy.html A resin model of an unproduced motorized Action Master half-track vehicle.]</ref> have come to light, suggesting very strongly that Hasbro was betting big on the line. While the idea was probably fueled by [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] being in one of its stronger sales periods <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-07-8904100699-story.html "G.I. Joe: 25 and $2 Billion In The Till", Chicago Tribune, May 7 1989.]</ref> despite leaning slightly more into sci-fi at the time, the Action Master line ultimately fizzled in the United States.
*Early plans for [[BotCon]] [[BotCon#BotCon 2017|2017]] would have seen Action Masters as the focus of the convention, with a box set "Action on Hydrus Four" featuring [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]], [[Skyfall (G1)|Skyfall]], [[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] in Action-Master inspired decos using [[Titans Return (toyline)|''Titans Return'']] figures.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-of-concepts-and-customized-figures-from-fun-pub-at-petes-robot-convention-2017/39073/]</ref>
*The Action Master name was brought back in 2020 by Takara Tomy for their release of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)#Cyberverse (TakaraTomy)|Deluxe Class figures]]. Ironically, one of the big selling points for these figures is featuring far more involved transformations than the rest of the ''Cyberverse'' line!
*Action Masters were extensively used as proof-of-concept mock ups for the [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] subline ''Armor-Tech''.<ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 9, p59</ref><ref>''Creating G.I. Joe A Real American Hero'' volume 10, p54</ref> Additionally, silhouettes of Action Master card art were used to represent ''Armor-Tech'' figures in the 1993 figure catalogue before said figures were finalized.

===Foreign names===
*''Italy'': '''Super Azione''' ("Super Action")

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Action Masters| ]]
[[Category:Generation 1 subgroups]]
[[Category:Gimmicks]]

Oiler

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JunoDeguzman2024:

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

[[File:Oiler_cardart.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Don't call him Captain Planet... seriously.]]

'''Oiler''', leader of the [[Metro Squad]], is an oil addict—in reverse. Determined to preserve energy at all costs, he under-fuels himself to conserve energy, and thus runs dry in precarious situations. His squadmates think this is just the result of his ceaseless efforts to protect the innocent, though Oiler does use his above-average intelligence to hide the truth from them, rationalizing away as he does. However, his actions are beginning to take a toll on his functions.<ref>''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye]]'' #4</ref>

His [[combiner]] partner on the Metro Squad is [[Slide]]. In some universes, Oiler is [[Female Transformer|female]], but oddly enough ''not'' in the universes where Slide is also a lady.

Just you know, she is a mix of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|G1]] and the [[Optimus Prime (Live-action)| movie]] Optimus!
==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Return of Convoy'' toy bios====
Oiler was a member of the [[Fire Tanker W Team]] under the leadership of [[Wheel Blaze]]. {{storylink|#Return of Convoy|Fire Tanker W Team bio}}

====''Legends'' comic====
In [[2038]], Oiler was on [[Micro|Zone]] when it was invaded by the forces of [[Violengiguar]] and [[Dark Nova]]. Along with a number of fellow Micromasters, Oiler swarmed the possessed body of [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]], distracting the Decepticon spirit inside until heavier weaponry could be brought to the battlefield. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 4: LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One|LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|''Optimus Prime'' #1]]}}

[[File:TimeWillRust-OilerAndSlide.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4]]

Oiler and his [[twin]] sister Slide hailed from the colony world of [[Devisiun (planet)|Devisiun]], settled by [[Transformer]] colonists millions of years ago and subsequently evolving into a civilization of linked Transformers where each formed [[Micromaster Combiner|one half of a single alternate mode]]. Oiler and his sister were raised to believe that their pioneering forebears had "civilized" this once-verdant planet for its own good; they spent their early years playing with the [[Native Devisen|native creatures]], viewing them as backwards lifeforms whom the Transformers had "saved" from their own feral existence. {{storylink|Time Will Rust}}

[[File:ToWalkAmongTheChosen-OilerAndSlide.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|He's busy watching the Oilers on Metrotitan's sick 4K display.]]

Like the other [[Titan (group)|Titan]] colonies, the Devisiens were highly religious, and a common belief was that [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]s were holy figures, wise keepers of the ultimate truths. {{storylink|Primeless, Part 2}} Shortly after Devisiun joined the [[Council of Worlds]], the twins learned of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]], who eventually visited their planet in search of new recruits to help keep the peace on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Post}} Despite Slide's initial hesitance, Oiler was excited at the prospects of working alongside the Prime, following in the footsteps of their ancestors by saving [[human]]ity from itself. {{storylink|Time Will Rust}} and so both twins joined Prime on Earth at some point after the [[Ore-13]] crisis. Like the other recently arrived [[Colonist Soldiers]] they began wearing [[mouthplate]]s to emulate him. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|To Walk Among the Chosen}} At some point, Oiler and the other recruits traveled to [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]] with Optimus during this recruitment tour, picking up [[Gimlet]] and [[Bump]] as fellow rookies. {{storylink|Time Will Rust}}

The new recruits got their first taste of real action when they were sent to [[Mexico City]] with [[Aileron]] in the hopes of locating a cache of recovered Cybertronian technology. They discovered that an anti-Transformer mob had set up a protest that had quickly turned into a riot. When a human protester shot [[Midnight Express (RID)|Midnight Express]] with a weapon of Cybertronian origin, Optimus summoned reinforcements. While [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]], [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]], and [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]] saved the day, the new meat watched in awe. Back aboard [[Metrotitan (G1)|Autobot City]], the assembled colonists continued to laud the myriad deeds of Optimus; Oiler mentioned that he would follow Optimus no matter where the Prime traveled. Their combined hero-worship managed to annoy even Aileron. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|To Walk Among the Chosen}}

[[File:FutureGloriesLost-voiceoftheprime.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
After Optimus Prime made contact with the [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]]s, the colonist platoon badgered a recently returned Optimus with questions about the newcomers. Soundwave wasn't inclined to field their questions and told them to shut up, though Slide cracked wise partway through Soundwave's story about the [[Battle of Junkion]]. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 2: A Lonely Pillar on the Plain|A Lonely Pillar on the Plain}}

Oiler and the other colonists knelt as Optimus Prime returned to Earth from Cybertron, and later watched on as Optimus and Pyra Magna had a heated argument about Prime's use of the Matrix. The twins were present on the deck of Metrotitan when Optimus held a summit with several human governments... only to be interrupted when the Junkions unleashed a horde of ravenous [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]]. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 4: Dance Among the Shadows|Dance Among the Shadows}} The awed colonists watched as Optimus ordered Metrotitan to lay siege to the [[Quintesson Cruiser|Junkion mothership]], and Oiler and Slide fought to keep the Junkions off the [[Titan (group)|Titan]]'s deck. Though Oiler fought hard, it wasn't enough: a Junkion caught him by surprise and sliced his head in two. He was avenged by Slide, who blew his killer to bits. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 5: Future Glories Lost|Future Glories Lost}}

Oiler's body was subsequently laid to rest in the old [[Earth Defense Command|EDC]] base in the [[Marshall Islands|Bikini Atoll]]. This only infuriated Slide further, as it was now home to the same Junkions who had slain him. At his funeral, she lamented that, due to their linked Devisen physiology, she couldn't even transform anymore. {{storylink|The Next Day, and the Next}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
During the [[Grand Uprising]], Oiler was a squad commander in the [[74th Division]] under [[Erector (G1)|Erector]]'s leadership in contested [[Tesarus (polity)|Tesarus]]. Faced with the inevitable advance of the [[Resistance]]-allied [[Pack]], she ordered [[Strikedown]] and the rest of her squad to dig in and fortify their position before the Pack arrived. {{storylink|Derailment}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:G1-toy Oiler.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|He wants to oil on you!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Metro Squad''' (Micromaster Combiner Squad, [[1990]])}}</ul>

: Released in the seventh and final year of the [[The Transformers (toyline)|original Hasbro ''Transformers'' toyline]] in the US (sixth and non-final year in Europe), Oiler transforms into a trailer truck that is intended to be the front half of a blue and white tanker truck that he forms with his combiner partner [[Slide#Toys|Slide]]. He can, of course, combine with any other [[Micromaster Combiner]] to form a new vehicle, as well as connect to any [[Micromaster Combiner Transport]].

: Oiler was only available in a six-pack with his squadmates Slide, [[Power Run#Toys|Power Run]], [[Roadburner#Toys|Roadburner]], [[Strikedown#Toys|Strikedown]], and [[Wheel Blaze#Toys|Wheel Blaze]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1990/Autobot/Oiler/oiler.htm More information on Oiler at TFU.info]''

{{anchor|Return of Convoy}}
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Fire Tanker W Team''' (Micro Transformer W Team, [[1991]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-365'''
:*''Accessories'': Micro Trailer #5

: A year later, Oiler was released in the ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1991 (Return of Convoy)|Return of Convoy]]'' part of the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)|original Takara ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' toyline]], as part of the [[Fire Tanker W Team]].

: The other three toys in the set are [[Roadburner#Toys|Roadburner]], [[Wheel Blaze#Toys|Wheel Blaze]], and [[Slide#Toys|Slide]], all identical to their Hasbro-release versions. The set also comes with [[Micro Trailer#Toys|Micro Trailer]] #5, a storage/launching vehicle for Micromasters which can also attach to a Micromaster half-vehicle, plus a decal sheet with extra stickers to adorn your Micromasters with.

==Notes==
* For years, Oiler's only fictional "appearance" was in the pages of [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s 2003 ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' profile books, which established the character as male in its biographical information. In [[2016]], a ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' text story characterized Oiler as female (sans any Metro Squad colleagues), but in an odd coincidence, [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s ''[[Optimus Prime (comic)|Optimus Prime]]'' comic series introduced a male Oiler alongside a female Slide in the same month.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Oiler''' (オイラー ''Oirā'')
*''French:'' '''Aéro''' (Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Pluton'''

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Autobots]]
[[Category:Devisiun]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Autobots]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Transformers]]
[[Category:Legends Autobots]]
[[Category:Micromaster combiners]]
[[Category:Return of Convoy Autobots]]
[[Category:Variable gender characters]]

1991

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{{yearofthe|1991}}
The year '''1991''' (MCMXCI) is the eighth year of the [[Transformers brand]].

{{see|Transformers timeline}}

==Events==
===Non-fiction===
* [[Tonka]] and the [[Gobot|GoBot's]] name and characters were acquired by [[Hasbro]].
* The [[Soviet Union]] collapse into 15.
====Births====
* [[January 7]] — [[Michaela Jaé Rodriguez]]
* [[January 27]] — [[Cristo Fernández]]
* [[January 30]] — [[Emy Letertre]]
* [[February 23]] — [[Ursine Vulpine]]
* [[March 8]] — [[Yūichirō Umehara]]
* [[March 14]] — [[Thaís Dutra]]
* [[March 22]] — [[Dominique Fishback]]
* [[March 27]] — [[Mae Catt]]
* [[April 2]] — [[Quavo]]
* [[April 9]] — [[Amber Lee Connors]]
* [[April 17]] — [[Tiana Camacho]]
* [[May 5]] — [[Takaaki Torashima]]
* [[May 9]] — [[Z Infante]]
* [[May 22]] — [[Darko Bozovic]]
* [[June 11]] — [[Adriana Olmedo]]
* [[June 21]] — [[Sonal Kaushal]]
* [[June 24]] — [[Ryūnosuke Watanuki]]
* [[July 11]] — [[Gauthier Battoue]]
* [[July 17]] — [[Brieuc Lemaire]]
* [[July 23]] — [[Minttu Hynninen]]
* [[July 24]] — [[Jacob Banks]]
* [[August 23]] — [[Olin Garces]]
* [[August 26]] — [[Dylan O'Brien]]
* [[August 27]] — [[Allan Arnold]]
* [[September 27]] — [[Christopher Colgin]]
* [[September 30]] — [[Cachét Whitman]]
* [[October 4]] — [[Patrick Keller]]
* [[October 5]] — [[Daniele Di Matteo]]
* [[November 1]] — [[Anthony Ramos]], [[Rafael Schubert]]
* [[November 9]] — [[János Komzsik]]
* [[November 22]] — [[Gianandrea Muià]]
* [[November 28]] — [[Luis Fernando Orozco]]
* [[December 19]] — [[Sumire Uesaka]]

====Deaths====
* [[January 11]] — [[Olney Cazarré]]
* [[April 26]] — [[Lei Changxi]]
* [[June 3]] — [[Vince Colletta]]
* [[August 20]] — [[André Luiz Chapéu]]

==Media==
N/A

==Print==
=== Comics ===
==== Marvel Comics ====
* ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' (issues 76–80, ongoing, but cancelled)

==== Marvel UK ====
* ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' (issues 303–330, ongoing)
* ''[[Transformers Annual 1992]]''

==== TV Magazine ====
===== Manga =====
* ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (manga)|The Battlestars]]''

===== Story Pages =====
* ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Transformers: Zone]]'' (part 12, 12 parts)
* ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars]]'' (parts 1–11, 12 parts)

== Collections ==
=== Home Video ===
==== [[Family Home Entertainment|Avid Home Entertainment]] ====
'''VHS'''
* ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''

==== [[Entertainment UK]] ====
'''VHS'''
* ''Transformers'' — 1: The Revenge of Bruticus / 2: Dinobot Island (Parts 1 and 2)

==== [[Tempo Video|Abbey Video]] (UK) ====
'''VHS'''
*''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime / Cosmic Rust
*''Transformers'' — Starscream's Ghost / Fight or Flee
*''Transformers'' — Thief in the Night / Surprise Party

==== [[Video Gems]] ====
'''VHS'''
*''The Transformers'' — Arrival from Cybertron
*''The Transformers'' — The Key to Vector Sigma & War Dawn

=== Comics ===
==== Marvel UK [[Transformers Collected Comics|Collected Comics]] ====
* 18 — Holiday Special 1991
* 19 — Winter Special 1991

== Merchandise ==
*TBD

== Toys ==
===Japan===
====Cybertrons====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Cybertrons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|C-360 [[Sky Garry (G1)#Toys|Sky Garry]] (w/ [[Shotbomber]] & [[Micro Trailer]] #0)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-371 [[Grandus (G1)#Toys|Grandus]] (w/ [[Spinner]])}}
{{Bp-a1|C-372 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Return of Convoy|Star Convoy]] (w/ [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Return of Convoy|Hot Rodimus]] & Micro Trailer)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micro Transformer 6 Team'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|C-370 [[Sixliner#Toys|Sixliner]] ([[Alan (G1)#Toys|Alan]], [[D-Go#Toys|D-Go]], [[Joe (G1)#Toys|Joe]], [[Leaf#Toys|Leaf]], [[Night#Toys|Night]], [[Spark (G1)#Toys|Spark]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micro Transformer Teams'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|C-361 [[Monster Trucks Patrol#Toys|Big Truck Team]] ([[Big Hauler#Toys|Big Hauler]], [[Heavy Tread#Toys|Heavy Tread]], [[Hydraulic#Toys|Hydraulic]], [[Slow Poke#Toys|Slow Poke]], Micro Trailer #1)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-362 [[Hot Rod Patrol#Toys|Hot Rod Team]] ([[Big Daddy (G1)#Toys|Big Daddy]], [[Greaser#Toys|Greaser]], [[Hubs#Toys|Hubs]], [[Trip-Up#Toys|Trip-Up]], Micro Trailer #2)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-363 [[Military Team#Toys|Military Team]] ([[Bombshock (G1)|Bombshock]], [[Dropshot (G1)|Dropshot]], [[Growl (G1)|Growl]], [[Tracer (Micromaster)#Toys]], Micro Trailer #3)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|C-373 [[Rescue Patrol Team#Toys|Rescue Patrol Team]] ([[Boater#Toys|Boater]], [[Fire#Toys|Fire]], [[Holi#Toys|Holi]], [[Pīpō#Toys|Pīpō]],Micro Trailer #10)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-374 [[Battle Patrol Team#Toys|Battle Patrol Team]] ([[Gunlift#Toys|Gunlift]], [[Powerbomb#Toys|Powerbomb]], [[Sidetrack (Zone)#Toys|Sidetrack]], [[Sunrunner (Zone)#Toys|Sunrunner]], Micro Trailer #11)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-375 [[Super Car Patrol Team#Toys|Super Car Patrol Team]] ([[Black Heat#Toys|Black Heat]], [[Deadhour#Toys|Deadhour]], [[Gingham#Toys|Gingham]], [[Road Hugger (Zone)#Toys|Road Hugger]], Micro Trailer #12)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micro Transformer W Teams'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|C-364 [[Shuttle Rocket W Team]] ([[Blast Master#Toys|Blast Master]], [[Missile Master#Toys|Missile Master]], [[Moonrock#Toys|Moonrock]], [[Phaser (G1)#Toys|Phaser]], Micro Trailer #4)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-365 [[Fire Tanker W Team]] ([[Oiler#Toys|Oiler]], [[Roadburner#Toys|Roadburner]], [[Slide#Toys|Slide]], [[Wheel Blaze#Toys|Wheel Blaze]], Micro Trailer #5)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-366 [[Radar Hover W Team]] ([[Barrage (Micromaster)#Toys|Barrage]], [[Heave#Toys|Heave]], [[Power Run#Toys|Power Run]], [[Strikedown#Toys|Strikedown]], Micro Trailer #6)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|C-367 [[Dump Shovel W Team]] ([[Grit]], [[Hammer (G1)|Hammer]], [[Knockout (G1)|Knockout]], [[Sledge (G1)|Sledge]], Micro Trailer #7)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-368 [[Crane Cannon W Team]] ([[Direct-Hit]], [[Excavator (G1)|Excavator]], [[Power Punch]], [[Stonecruncher (G1)|Stonecruncher]], Micro Trailer #8)}}
{{Bp-a1|C-369 [[Jet Tank W Team]] ([[Fireshot]], [[Half-Track (G1)|Half-Track]], [[Meltdown (G1)|Meltdown]], [[Vanquish]], Micro Trailer #9)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}
{{-}}
<big>'''Mail-aways</big>'''
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Aerialbot (G1)|Airbots]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Air Raid (G1)/toys#Toys|Air Rider]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Fireflight (G1)/toys#Toys|Firebolt]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Silverbolt (G1)/toys#Toys|Silverbolt]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)/toys#Toys|Skydive]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Slingshot (G1)/toys#Toys|Sling]]}}
|}

===Europe===
{{note|These are toys which have been confirmed as being released in at least one country in Europe in 1991. For more details regarding releases in specific European countries, see [[The Transformers (European toyline)]].}}
====Autobots====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Action Master]] figures'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Powerflash#Toys|Powerflash]] with [[Road Rocket (G1)#Toys|Road Rocket]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Sideswipe]] with [[Vanguard]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Tracks]] with [[Basher]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Action Master Exo-suit|Exo-Suit]] Action Masters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Circuit (G1)#Toys|Circuit]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorized Exo-Suit Action Masters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Rumbler (G1)#Toys|Rumbler]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Elites'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Omega Supreme (G1)#omegaspreem|Omega Spreem]]{{sic}}}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windmill (G1)#Toys|Windmill]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=4|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Motorvator]]s'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Flame (Motorvator)#Toys|Flame]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Gripper (G1)#Toys|Gripper]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Lightspeed (Motorvator)#Toys|Lightspeed]]}}
|}

{{-}}
=====Classics=====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Throttlebots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Chase (G1)#Toys|Chase]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Freeway (G1)#Toys|Freeway]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Goldbug|Goldbug]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Rollbar (G1)#Toys|Rollbar]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Searchlight (G1)#Toys|Searchlight]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Wideload (G1)#Toys|Wideload]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Protectobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Blades (G1)#Toys|Blades]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[First Aid (G1)#Toys|First Aid]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Groove (G1)#Toys|Groove]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hot Spot (G1)#Toys|Hot Spot]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Streetwise (G1)#Toys|Streetwise]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Triple Changers'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Sandstorm (G1)#Toys|Sandstorm]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Springer (G1)/toys#Toys|Springer]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Dinobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Grimlock]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sludge (G1)#Toys|Sludge]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#Toys|Snarl]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Heroes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Toys|Sideswipe]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#Toys|Tracks]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Leader'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Combiner giftsets'''
{{bp-a1|[[Defensor (G1)#Toys|Defensor]]}}
|}
{{-}}

====Decepticons====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master figures'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#ActionMaster|Bombshell]] with [[Needler (G1)#Toys|Needler]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Charger#Toys|Charger]] with [[Fire Beast]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Take-Off#Toys|Take-Off]] with [[Screech (Action Master)#Toys|Screech]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Exo-Suit Action Masters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Thundercracker]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorized Exo-Suit Action Masters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Slicer (G1)#Toys|Slicer]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Elites'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Double Punch#Toys|Double Punch]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Turbo Master#Toys|Turbo Master]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=4|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Others'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Overlord (G1)#Toys|Overlord]]}}
|}
{{-}}

=====Classics=====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Combaticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Blast Off (G1)#Toys|Blast Off]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Brawl (G1)#Toys|Brawl]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Onslaught (G1)#Toys|Onslaught]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Swindle (G1)#Toys|Swindle]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Vortex (G1)#Toys|Vortex]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Triple Changers'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Astrotrain (G1)#Toys|Astrotrain]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Octane#Toys|Octane]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Combiner giftsets'''
{{bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#Toys|Devastator]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}
{{-}}

[[Category:Real-world events by year]]

Powermaster

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{{picsneeded|Commercial screengrab}}
{{disambig3|Powermaster}}
[[File:Powermaster.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Don't try this at home.]]
[[File:TransformersEarthWars Cliff and Liege Maximo.jpg|upright=1.55|thumb|GOD ON!!!!!]]
Like the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] and [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]], the '''Powermasters''' are [[binary bonding|binary bonded]] to a smaller partner, most often an organic [[Nebulan]], who serves as an external power supply. As a result, Cybertronians who undergo this procedure can survive in environments without access to [[energon]] for prolonged periods of time. However, serving as an organic battery means that their Powermaster partners possess unnaturally high metabolisms, and must eat huge quantities of food on a regular basis just to keep themselves from starving to death.<ref>"[[People Power!]]"</ref>

When normal fuel sources are available, a Powermaster partner can also function as a power booster or turbo accelerator, giving the Transformer he is bonded to a surge of additional power for increased strength or speed in dangerous situations. This benefit allows a Powermaster to be much faster or stronger than most normal Transformers for brief periods of time.

Over time, the bonding procedure for Powermasters seems to be similar to that of some [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]], in that there is a risk of both partners being absorbed into a single being with only one mind and identity.

A Powermaster can't [[transformation|transform]] from [[alternate mode]] into [[robot mode]] without their partner.<ref>"[[Prime Bomb!]]"</ref>

{{quote|They’ve got the power to surprise!|Commercial tagline.}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
After months of devastating war on their planet, the [[Nebulan]]s no longer cared whether the [[Autobot]]s or [[Decepticon]]s won, as long as the fighting stopped. When the forces under the command of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] left their planet for [[Earth]], {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}} the Nebulans took advantage of the opportunity to poison all of their fuel and energy sources, tainting it in order to render it unusable by any Transformer.

The scientist who had devised the toxin, [[Hi-Q]], soon had a falling out with his partner [[Hi-Test (G1)|Hi-Test]], who was jealous over Hi-Q's success. When a pair of Decepticons named [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] appeared to menace the planet, and were immobilized by the tainted fuel, Hi-Test saw an opportunity to act. Undergoing a binary bonding process with the inert Decepticons, Hi-Test changed himself and his ally [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]] into the first Powermasters. Using this new process, the Decepticons were able to function on the poisoned planet of [[Nebulos]] by using their Powermaster partners as living batteries.

A small team of Autobots arrived on Nebulos, hoping to construct a new body for their leader, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Seeing the Decepticons running rampant, they tried to stop their reign of terror, but soon began to run low on fuel. Hi-Q took action and used the same binary bonding process as his rival Hi-Test, bonding himself to the body of Optimus Prime. His fellow scientists, with one exception, followed suit in bonding themselves to fallen Autobots as well. The revitalized Autobots quickly defeated the two Decepticons. {{storylink|People Power!}}

Most of the Transformers known as "Powermasters" were the result of this initial bonding—the procedure is otherwise quite rare.

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
Powermaster is the highest rank a Transformer can receive, with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] and Optimus Prime as the Powermasters for their factions. Darkwing and Dreadwind possess Powermaster rank as well, but have not been seen taking the lead.

[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]], the Autobot commander on Cybertron, only has Headmaster rank and so is subordinate to Optimus.

{{note|The writers for [[Germany]]'s ''[[Transformers Comic-Magazin]]'' hadn't paid much attention.}}

===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
At some point after [[2006]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] became a Powermaster. {{Storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1#Season 5|Season 5: More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
An ancient Cybertronian known as [[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]] was responsible for the creation of the Powermaster process. It was designed as a way for them to survive on any world. By capturing hostile natives and reformatting them as biological power sources, they could greatly reduce their dependency on [[energon]]. The process was perfected on Nebulon. Organics who undergo the binary-bonding process are indistinguishable from their fellows when not wearing Powermaster armor, though they have enhanced strength, endurance, and mental abilities. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets The Eye #8}}

===''TransTech''===
After a bad experience with "colonists" from the [[Aurex]] Cluster, Nebulos made their atmosphere poisonous to Cybertronian life. In order to safely go undercover on this world, [[Vector Prime]] was binary bonded with [[Safeguard (TransTech)|Safeguard]], a friendly native, who became his Target/Powermaster. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/11/01}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
The Powermaster process was devised by Galvatron after the [[Scouring of Nebulos]]. Having gotten a taste for binary bonding with the Headmaster and Targetmaster process, he wanted more, and hit upon the idea of turning living beings into living ''batteries''. But Nebulos had been devastated, and couldn't be used to provide test subjects. Then he found willing allies in the Malignus of the planet Rebirth. It was Nucleon who perfected the process and, unwilling to subject anyone to something he was unwilling to try on himself, who became the first Powermaster. Almost immediately thereafter, Galvatron merged Powermaster technology with Headmaster and Targetmaster tech, creating the [[Triple-Threat Master]] process. Other Decepticons were also upgraded with the Powermaster process, before the Autobots arrived on Rebirth, now fully under Decepticon control and renamed "Master". The Autobots likewise managed to use the Powermaster tech for their own troops, and the infamous Decepticon Zarak made himself a Headmaster / Powermaster fusion. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}}

After [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] was severely injured during the [[Great Push]], [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]] underwent the Powermaster process to become Trypticon's T-cog. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
Powermaster technology was invented by the [[transtector]] factory computer in [[G Nebula 89]] as part of its mission to find ways of merging organic and mechanical life. Millennia ago, the constructed but unprogrammed Powermaster bodies were stolen by [[Devil Z]], who altered them into [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] transtectors by exposing them to both [[Zodiac]] and [[Angolmois Energy]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Grand Maximus)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] later adopted a Powermaster body, his partner being the [[Nebulan]] [[Hi-Q]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#NucleonQuest|Nucleon Quest Super Convoy bio}} {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Powermasters were "sentient engines" capable of regulating the metabolisms of their partners and increasing fuel efficiency thanks to an integrated matter-to-energon transference module. [[Hi-Q]] invented the Powermaster process, but the technology quickly became commonplace. {{storylink|The Enigma of Combination}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Powermasters''' (1988)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] / [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]]}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Doubledealer]] / [[Knok]] or [[Skar (G1)|Skar]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] / [[Hi-Test (G1)|Hi-Test]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-a1|[[Getaway]] / [[Rev]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Joyride (G1)|Joyride]] / [[Hotwire (G1)|Hotwire]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] / [[Hi-Q]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Slapdash (G1)|Slapdash]] / [[Lube]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:Dreadwindtoyg1.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|This is Dreadwind... not like it really matters, or like anybody cares.]][[File:G1 Slapdash toy.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|This is like, totally Slapdash, or something, I think, maybe. We forget.]]
|-
|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=5|
The Powermasters were sold boxed at various price points. They were one of two flagship gimmicks in the [[The Transformers (toyline)#1988|1988 line]], the other being the [[Pretender]]s. Most are fairly chunky and simple figures, considering their large size. Each toy features a small mini-figure (two in Doubledealer's case) which folds up into an "engine" block. Plugging the "engine" into a slot on the toy's [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] deploys a button which unlocks the joints required to transform the toy into [[robot mode]].
|}
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==Fiction-only Powermasters==
*[[Clio]] / [[Patra]] <ref>[[Source:Darn 'n' Blast#Issue 315|Darn 'n' Blast, issue 315]]</ref>
*[[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]] / two unidentified partners <ref>Gigatron's ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' toy bio.</ref><ref>[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|''More Than Meets The Eye'' #8]]</ref>

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Powermaster''' (パワーマスター ''Pawāmasutā'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Erőmester''' ("Powermaster")

==See also==
* [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]]

==References==
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[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising subgroups]]
[[Category:Generation 1 subgroups]]
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[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game technology]]

Headmaster (technology)

2024-10-19T12:51:05Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

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{{disambig3.5|the 1987 gimmick|the 2016 gimmick|Titan Master|Headmaster}}
[[File:Trialbyfire-headmaster-rollcall.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|This probably hurts.]]
[[File:TitansReturn workswith.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.25|Don't try this with old Headmaster Figures.]]
'''Headmasters''' are a type of symbiotic variation on the [[Transformer]] lifeform in which a smaller being, frequently but not exclusively organic, [[Transformation|transforms]] into the head of a larger robot. Headmaster bonding typically occurs between two sentient beings, but there have been cases in which the head or the body (such as the [[Transtector]]s or the [[Sunstreaker clone]]s created by the [[Machination]]) is a non-sentient construct controlled entirely by the other partner.

When it occurs between two sentient beings, the benefits of the Headmaster procedure are many: The partner gains control of a larger, more powerful body, and the Transformer gains an extra perspective on the battlefield, the psychic [[binary bonding]] involved allowing them to draw on both their own ideas, tactics, and instincts as well as those of their partner, as quickly as if they were coming from their own head (since they are). Agility, reaction speed, and targeting accuracy are often enhanced by the process.

The Headmaster process leaves its subject Transformers with one glaring disadvantage: when separated from their partners, they have no head. Most can continue to function as vehicles without their partners, but can do little in [[robot mode]] besides stand around.

In conversation, the term "Headmaster" can apply to both the small partner (the head) and the significant other (the body).

Sometimes a duo of Headmaster partners can jointly pilot a larger city-sized body. The resulting [[Titan (group)|Titan]] is known as a '''double-Headmaster'''.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel Comics continuity====
[[File:Fortmaxgiveshead.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Next step: Pez dispenser.]]
The Headmaster technology was primarily the invention of the [[Nebulan]] scientist [[Arcana]] and was designed originally to let Nebulans utilize the bodies of [[Autobot]]s to defend their world, something they did not trust the Autobots enough to let them do on their own.

The organic Nebulans of the Headmaster pairings were able to transform by use of a special suit of "intra-restruction armor" and a "cybernetic mindlink helmet" {{storylink|All or Nothing!}} that interfaced with bio-cybernetic augmentation in the surgically altered humanoid. As described by Arcana, the process as originally enacted allowed the Autobots (still separate, disembodied heads at that point) to radio control their old bodies, while the Nebulan partners observed and planned strategy. This joint cooperation of two minds allowed greatly increased agility and superior aim.

[[File:Brokenglass-autobotstorage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]
The technology was implemented under dire circumstances, as the Nebulan capital city of [[Koraja]] was under siege by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons, who sought the surrender of five Autobots held in Nebulan custody. Five volunteer Nebulans underwent radical reconstructive surgery to allow them to bond with the five Autobots, including [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]], [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]. Now under Nebulan control, the Headmaster Autobots easily repulsed the Decepticon attack, despite being outnumbered two to one. {{storylink|Broken Glass!}}

The Decepticons reluctantly accepted the possible benefits of this cooperation with organics, and six of them underwent the Headmaster process, with Scorponok bonding to the Nebulan Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]. Luring Fortress Maximus's team into an ambush, Scorponok and his fellow Headmasters [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]], [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]], [[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]], [[Apeface]] and [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] soon defeated their foes, blasting them unconscious, which caused their heads to disconnect and return to humanoid form. {{storylink|Love and Steel!}} The Autobot-allied Nebulans were taken captive and strung up in a suspended animation prison, while Scorponok's Headmasters rampaged across Nebulos, leaving Nebulan ruins and Autobot corpses in their wake. Realizing that his mind was being re-written by Scorponok, Zarak used the last shreds of his sanity to free the Autobot Headmasters. Fortress Maximus and his band soon left Nebulos for Earth, with the Decepticons in pursuit. {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}}

[[File:Trialbyfire-cerebros-headpitch.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|YOU CAN'T ''BUY'' ME, HOT DOG MAN!]]
En route to Earth, Fortress Maximus was rebuilt into a larger form, with ''two'' Headmaster components: a small robot that transformed into his head, and his partner Galen, who now became the small robot's head.

The two squads of Headmasters soon faced off again on Earth, in a battle inside the cave that had previously held the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. During the battle, Fortress Maximus and Scorponok both used their smaller Headmaster components to travel through an increasingly tight series of tunnels. Doing so, however, exposed Fortress Maximus's partner Galen to attack, and he died saving the Earthling, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]. With Galen killed while separated from Fortress Maximus, Spike demonstrated that it was possible for an organic to control/communicate with the larger robot's form with only the control helmet, as he took control of Fortress Maximus with nothing more than Galen's control helmet. Rejuvenated by their leader's attack, the Autobots soon drove off the Decepticon Headmasters. {{storylink|Trial by Fire!}}

The Headmasters largely stayed in the background during most of the Autobots' subsequent adventures, though Fortress Maximus remained a major player in the events leading up to the [[Underbase Saga|Underbase catastrophe]].

Later, a weakness of the ad hoc nature of the Headmaster partnership became apparent. As the partnerships continued, two minds could meld into one, or conflict on nearly every level. For example, Spike and Fortress Maximus were two separate minds sharing one body, with each dominant in his own form and able to converse with the other; while Lord Zarak and Scorponok seemed to reach some sort of fusion where he was both beings merged into one, with Scorponok to all intents and purposes becoming entirely subsumed by Zarak's personality (to the extent that, [[On the Edge of Extinction!|during the battle with Unicron]], "Scorponok"'s interior monologue identifies himself as being Zarak merely filling the role of Scorponok, implying that the original Scorponok psyche was essentially gone). A similar situation developed between Powermaster [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Hi-Q]], except in the reverse.
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=====''Classics''=====
{{noteclassics}}
The Headmaster process is reversible. {{storylink|Cheap Shots}}

=====Regeneration One=====
{{noteRG1}}
After the deaths of most of the Headmasters by Unicron, the original heads still on Nebulos were [[Project Lazarus|given new bodies]]. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2}} {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Two}} Chromedome and Stylor were able to have the process completely reversed. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 1}}

====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[File:Rebirth 1 Autobot heads.JPG||thumb|*gasp* I promise you! You shall be avenged!]]
In this continuity, the Headmaster process was the brainchild of [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], who had advocated that using an organic partner would be a good strategy in combat with the [[Decepticon]]s. It also seems much less invasive for the organic humanoid involved. No surgical alteration is apparently needed on their part, and the process seems to consist mainly of altering the Transformer's head to 1) have a control center for a partner to sit at inside and 2) transform around the partner into a fancy [[exosuit]]. While some who have undergone it have commented at feeling a closer bond with their respective partners, there is no reason to believe there is any true psychic connection between them as in the binary bonding of other continuities. Before detaching his head, the Transformer downloads his memory and personality into his auxiliary memory circuits in his chest. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}} Far from being automatically on the same page, at one point the "good" Nebulans disagreed with the Autobots on strategy so much that they abandoned them and ran off, forcibly stranding the Autobots in their vehicle modes.{{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}

=====''Wings Universe''=====
{{wingsnote}}
After [[Zarak (G1)|Mo Zarak]] died, his son [[Olin Zarak]] inherited [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], becoming Scorponok's Headmaster controller. [[Tornado]] claimed to have always said that there was something not right with Headmaster technology. {{storylink|Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur|Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur, 2014/06/03}}

=====Japanese cartoon continuity=====
Attempting to escape the wars on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], a group of diminutive Cybertronians (most of them only a little larger than human beings) fled the planet, only to have their ship crash on the hazardous, inhospitable planet [[Master (planet)|Master]]. The need for survival fostered several technological advances (helped in part by technology derived from a [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|time-traveling spaceship]] that crashed on the planet sometime later). Chief among them was the creation of "[[Transtector]]s": large, lifeless robot bodies which the smaller robots could connect to and control. The small Cybertronians had not yet actually mastered the art of [[transformation]], however, and had to undergo rigorous mental and physical training in order to become "Headmasters" (their name, obviously enough, derived from the planet itself).

The Headmasters subsequently migrated from Master and joined the Autobot and Decepticon forces on Cybertron and [[Earth]], leading to a lengthy conflict that ultimately resulted in both factions departing the Earth for a prolonged period of time. With easy access to Earth cut off, leaving its safety in doubt should it be attacked by Decepticons in the future, the Autobots on Master created [[Master-Brace]]s, technology that harnessed the mysterious [[Chōkon Power]] to transform humans and allow them to connect to Transtectors and become Headmasters themselves. A set of six Master-Braces and Transtectors were dispatched to Earth, but half the shipment was stolen by Decepticons, and both factions subsequently used the technology to turn three young human children into Headmasters in defense of Earth.

Cybertronian Headmasters possess numerous energy-manipulating superpowers. They are able to exchange Transtectors freely with their fellow Headmasters to increase their power levels and can link up with each other in the [[Head Formation]] for various destructive results. In contrast, human Headmasters do not possess any of these powers, but have their own natural physical strength and reflexes enhanced many times over by the energies filling their bodies. Their cellular structures undergo some form of ill-defined holistic transformation which allows them somehow to transform their actual, physical bodies into heads. However, unlike organic Headmasters in other continuities, they do not have to undergo any ''permanent'' alteration; they are capable of "turning off" their powers and becoming normal human beings with ease, the only drawback being that they are unable to remove the Master-Braces that give them their powers.

====3H comics====
[[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] commented that he preferred [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] when she had "[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|that kid]]" in her head. {{storylink|Betrayal}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
[[File:Headmaster mech DW mtmte.jpg|thumb|Did they include a bathroom in this thing?]]Headmaster technology was originally developed on Cybertron, to be used in conjunction with [[Micromaster]] technology. It would have allowed a normal-sized robot to transform its head into a small body to conserve [[Energon]]. The process was perfected on Nebulon to allow organic beings to act as the head of a Cybertronian body, using aspects of [[combiner]] technology.

The process was designed to put the Nebulon in control of the body, but the actual process as perfected by [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] and [[Arcana]] resulted in a mental bonding and partnership, with the robot generally maintaining control. Modified organic beings are able to contort during transformation, though appear normal when not wearing the Headmaster armor. Out of their armor, they are indistinguishable from unmodified beings, though they possess improved strength and endurance.

Profile art depicted the Headmaster heads as larger "mecha" that the human partners pilot. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye}}
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====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:TheMindBomb-cathead.jpg|thumb|left|250px|How would ''you'' like to have to give your head a flea bath every night?]]

In the years preceding the unification of the [[Thirteen#2005 IDW continuity|Thirteen]], [[The Fallen#2005 IDW continuity|Megatronus]] led his [[Darklands|Darklanders]] in the "[[War of the Headmasters]]," though what exactly this campaign entailed is unclear. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}}

The first known Headmasters were an ancient Cybertronian faction that fought in the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]] ten million years ago under the command of [[Nexus Prime#2005 IDW continuity|Nexus Prime]]. Their enemy, the Darklander [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]], saw the combination of "beastly" and "pure-born" Cybertronians as an abomination, implying all ancient Headmasters had animal-form heads. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}} Galvatron vanquished the Headmasters during the war, paving the way for the unification of the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Shockpoint}} Known ancient Headmasters include [[Myskrion]], killed by Galvatron, {{storylink|Earthfall Part 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}} and [[Thinkbox]], later retrieved by Galvatron from the ''[[Murkdipper]]'' on the planet [[Spindrift]]. {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 3|Heart of Darkness #3}} Another possible Headmaster was [[Scalp]], who was allegedly friends with [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} [[Titan Master#2005 IDW continuity|Titan Masters]] existed alongside these ancient Headmasters, though what, if any, connection they have to the Headmasters is unknown. {{storylink|White Heat}}

In the modern period, Headmaster technology was reinvented by the shadowy human organization known as the [[Machination]], using technology developed by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] on the planet [[Nebulos#2005 IDW continuity|Nebulos]]. Following a tip offered to him by [[Swindle (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|Swindle]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] found schematics for enhancing a biological entity with Cybertronian technology, in effect producing a "transformable man". Magnus was able to determine that Nebulan businessman [[Zarak (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|Mo Zarak]] had been subjected to this process shortly before Scorponok fled the premises. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ultra Magnus}}

[[File:Devastation2 SunstreakerHeadmaster.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Approximately 18 years later, the Machination captured [[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Sunstreaker]] and [[Hunter O'Nion]]. They dismantled Sunstreaker and subjected Hunter to an extensive regimen of surgery and implants. Subsequently, they attempted to brainwash him into one of their soldiers. {{storylink|The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation}} Hunter resisted and was able to contact Sunstreaker, allowing him to become a Headmaster to fight for the Autobots. {{storylink|The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation}}

Initially, all Headmasters created by the Machination were non-sentient, guided by their human pilots. As well, all of these models were [[Sunstreaker clone|replicas]] of Sunstreaker, wired into the Autobot's actual head to help coordinate their movements. However, the success of these initial forays into the technology allowed for the first true binary-bond, enabling [[Abraham Dante]] to combine with his Decepticon master Scorponok to facilitate his rebirth. {{storylink|The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation}} Scorponok was eventually defeated after his connection to his original head was severed. Following this, the remaining Headmasters were gathered up by Ultra Magnus, who purged the Machination of its technology. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5|Maximum Dinobots #5}}

====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
When the war spread to Nebulos, the Decepticons allied with the [[Hive (G1)|Hive Nations]] and began a series of horrific biomechanical experiments on their Autobot and [[World Watcher]] prisoners of war. The result was the game-changing binary-bonding process, a fusion of Decepticon and Nebulan technology. It wasn't long until the Autobots reverse-engineered the process and deployed Headmasters of their own, then improved on the process to create Targetmasters. The Decepticons upped the ante by introducing the colossal double-Headmaster [[Scorponok (G1)|MegaZarak]], forcing the Autobots to deploy the equally gargantuan [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. The result was the [[Scouring of Nebulos]]. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}} {{storylink|Head Games}}

When the [[Cyberdroid]]s of [[Master (planet)|Master]] got involved in the conflict years later, many of them chose to become Headmasters, replacing the ailing Nebulans. Both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] adopted Headmaster partners when they became [[Triple-Threat Master]]s. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}}

Three hundred years later, most Headmasters had died with their partners or were left bodiless. Some remained active, such as [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]], who had had his consciousness transferred into three Cyberdroid attendants who oversaw the maintenance of his old body. {{storylink|Head Games}}

===Unicron Trilogy continuity family===
[[File:Sidewaysheads.jpg|thumb|120px]]

====''Armada'' continuity====
[[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout's]] combination with [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]] utilizes Headmaster technology. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada}} {{storylink|Armada Fleer card series}}<ref>{{SITENAME}}'s entry for [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]].</ref>

[[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] is a double-Headmaster, combining with either [[Rook (Armada)|Rook]] or [[Crosswise (Armada)|Crosswise]]. {{storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter}}

====''Linkage''====
In order to save the dying Rollout and Overload, the Nebulan scientists Hi-Q and Arcana used an ancient technique they found in their archives known as the Headmaster process. The procedure worked in saving the two Cybertronians, but after a time it turned out their new form was unable to handle two Sparks in one body, and their identities began to blur together. The Nebulans called on the Autobot Rhinox for help, but he disappeared during the war with [[Unicron]]. It wasn't until after the war that Overload was able to rebuild himself in his original, pre-Headmaster form. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/18}}

====''Energon'' continuity====
[[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] and the other [[Omega Sentinel (Energon)|Omega Sentinels]] were Headmasters.

===''The Last Knight'' film===
[[Cogman]] was a sociopathic Headmaster, who was in service to the Burton family, including [[Edmund Burton]], who he deemed the coolest. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
The Headmaster process was invented by [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] and [[Arcana]] at some point after the Autobot-Decepticon war spilled over to the planet Nebulos. It didn't take long before the Decepticons, who had allied with the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]], stole and reverse-engineered the technology to create Headmasters of their own.

The Headmaster process is sometimes known as the “Titanmaster” process. Transformers who became Headmasters could unlock a wide variety of unusual abilities, including teleportation, invisibility, or super-speed. {{storylink|The Enigma of Combination}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1-toy Brainstorm.jpg|thumb|Brainstorm]]
*'''Autobot Headmasters''' ([[1987]])
**[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] with [[Arcana]]
**[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] with [[Stylor]]
**[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] with [[Duros]]
**[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] with [[Gort]]
:The four large Autobot Headmasters were sold boxed. They transform into futuristic/Cybertronian vehicles. Each has a [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] compartment that the smaller Nebulan figure can ride in. Plugging in the transformed Nebulan in [[robot mode]] activates tumblers in the robot's chest, displaying three Tech Spec readouts.
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[[File:G1FortressMaximus toy.jpg|thumb|Fortress Maximus, the [[Metroplex (G1)#Generations|once]] and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)#Titans Return|future]] king.]]
*'''Headmaster Autobot Base''' (1987)
**[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] with [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]
:He's big. Yeah yeah yeah.
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[[File:G1-toy Skullcruncher.jpg|thumb|right|Skullcruncher]]
*'''Decepticon Headmasters''' (1987)
**[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] with [[Grax]]
**[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] with [[Vorath]]
**[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] with [[Monzo]]
:The three Decepticon Headmasters were sold boxed, and transform into mechanical creatures. Each has a [[beast mode]] compartment that the Nebulan can ride in. Like their Autobot counterparts, their chests contain tumblers activated by plugging in a head mode Nebulan, which reveal three Tech Spec graph readouts.
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[[File:G1 Apeface toy.jpg|thumb|right|Apeface]]
*'''Headmaster Horrorcons''' (1987)
**[[Apeface]] with [[Spasma]]
**[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] with [[Krunk]]
{{main|Horrorcon (G1)#Toys}}
:The Horrorcons change from jets to beasts to robots. The Nebulan partners become the head of both the robot and beast modes.

*'''Headmaster Decepticon Base''' (1987)
**[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] with [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]
:He's not small. No no no.
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[[File:Headmasterteens.jpg|thumb|The Autobot Master Warriors]]
*'''Autobot Master Warrior''' (1987)
**[[Kirk]]
**[[Rodney]]
**[[Loafer]]
**[[Lione]]
**[[Toraizer]]
**[[Shuffler]]
:These exclusive [[Autobot Master Warrior]]s represent Japanese-style Headmasters who have yet to receive Transtectors, though they are compatible with any of the other 1987 Headmasters' toys. They are extremely rare.
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[[File:G1Nightbeat toy.jpg|thumb|The DRIVER of the car becomes the HEAD of the robot! ...well, a reasonably substantial portion thereof, anyway. (picture: Nightbeat)]]
*'''Autobot Headmasters''' ([[1988]])
**[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]] with [[Lug (G1)|Lug]]
**[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] with [[Muzzle]]
**[[Siren (G1)|Siren]] with [[Quig]]
:The three 1988 Autobot Headmasters transform into Earthly land vehicles. Siren and Hosehead share a fire rescue theme, occasionally causing inattentive fans to mistake Nightbeat for a police car, though he at least gets sweet flames to tenuously keep the theme running. The Nebulan companions are considerably smaller and simpler than those of the 1987 Headmasters, although they are backwards compatible with the previous year's figures. In fact, when plugged into 1987 Headmaster bodies, the 1988 Nebulan figures display the Tech Spec readouts for their 1988 robot counterparts, suggesting the simplification of the tumbler system on the Tech Spec readouts into a simple fixed display to have been a late design decision. Each comes with a "helmet" to complete the robot's head; the helmet doubles as a vehicle mode "seat" for the figure to sit in. Two small pistols attach to the "helmet" in robot mode to complete the head. In the instructions, the head guns for all three are always pointed forward, but the box art aims them up and treats them as antennae. Media followed suit.
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[[File:G1 fangry toy.jpg|thumb|Fangry]]
*'''Decepticon Headmasters''' (1988)
**[[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]] with [[Brisko]]
**[[Horri-Bull]] with [[Kreb]]
**[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]] with [[Lokos]]
:The three small Decepticon Headmasters transform into fictional monsters. Like their Autobot counterparts, they feature smaller and simpler Nebulan figures than their 1987 predecessors, and are similarly backwards compatible with their larger forerunners, despite their smaller size. Unlike the Autobots, they do not sport additional "helmets" and pistols/antennae. While Squeezeplay and Horri-Bull both have with a tail weapon in addition to their regular gun, Fangry does not even though his [[Tech Spec]]s [[bio]] mentions one, suggesting that it was planned but dropped before final production.
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*'''Headmaster Juniors''' (1988)
**[[Cab (human)|Cab]]
**[[Shūta Gō|Goshooter]]
**[[Minerva (human)|Minerva]]
**[[Bullhorn (G1)|Bullhorn]]
**[[Cancer (G1)|Cancer]]
**[[Wilder (G1)|Wilder]]
:The 1988 Headmaster molds were released in Japan as the [[Headmaster Junior]]s, representing totally different characters though only Goshooter and Minerva were significantly [[redeco]]ed from the US versions.
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*'''Headmaster Autobot Base''' (1988)
**[[Grand Maximus]] with Grand and Gran
:A redeco of Fortress Maximus with an additional [[Pretender]] shell. This Japanese exclusive represented Fortress Maximus's younger brother in ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]''.
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[[File:Blackzarak toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Black Zarak - meaner, and ''uglier''.]]
*'''Headmaster Decepticon Base''' (1988)
**BlackZarak with Scorponok Headmaster Unit
:A redeco and [[retool]] of the Scorponok mold, this was another Japanese exclusive representing the same character, but ''meaner''.
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:BotCon2014-Scorponok.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
*'''Pirates vs Knights''' ([[2014]])
**Scorponok with Olin Zarak
:A retool of [[Scorponok (Energon)#Toys|''Energon'' Scorponok]], the new tooling that his head with a new mechanism for his Headmaster head to plug into. The Headmaster figure itself is a retooled ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] figure with a new face based on Scorponok's original model sheet head.
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Generations 30 voyager Brainstorm.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Guess who's back...back again...]]
*'''Brainstorm''' ([[2014]])
:Part of the eighth wave of 2012-onwards ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' Voyager Class toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' [[Brainstorm (G1)#Generations|Brainstorm]] transforms into a turquoise Cybertronian aircraft, and is notable for being the first Headmaster-style figure in the ''Generations'' line. He comes with two pistols which can attach via [[5 mm post]] to his hands and the nosecone of the jet. [[Arcana#Generations|His head]] transforms into an unnamed robot that is most certainly Arcana, and can be inserted inside the cockpit to be used as a pilot. Putting the head robot into the neck socket will reveal Tech Specs like the G1 toy. The Tech Specs are based off the original figure, not the Tech Specs on the box.

:Be warned, the head robot suffers a [[design flaw]], wherein it is possible for it to get stuck in the main robot's socket, and too much force could separate its own head from its body.
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===''Titans Return''===
[[File:TF-Generations-Titans-Return-Deluxe-Perceptor.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
{{See also|Titan Master#Toys}}
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===''Legends''===
[[File:TF-Legends-LG32-Chromedome.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
:The Takara ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Headmaster figures are redecos or retools of Hasbro's ''Titans Return'' figures, which like all Takara products prior to the brand merger, were changed to match the source material. Some figures were even new molds created specifically for the line. Brainstorm's ''Thrilling 30'' Voyager figure also saw release.
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:WFC-Siege-Voyager-Apeface.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Apeface''' ([[2019]])
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===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
[[File:TF-Generations-WFC-E-Voyager-Snapdragon.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Snapdragon''' ([[2020]])
*'''Scorponok''' (2020)
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===''The Last Knight''===
[[File:TLK-DeluxeCogman.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
*'''Premier Edition''' (2017)
**Cogman (Deluxe Class)
:Cogman's head is capable of transforming into his diminutive "true" robot mode.
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===''Studio Series''===
*'''Cogman''' (2019)
:A redeco of the ''Premier Edition'' figure.

==Merchandise==
===Super-God Masterforce===
*'''Headmaster-Braces—Goshooter''' (1988)

:Japanese exclusive [[roleplay toy]]s that represent the [[Master-Brace]]s used by the [[Headmaster Junior]] [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]]. They are packaged with a role-play communications device.

==Fiction-only Headmasters==
*'''Autobots'''
**[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]/[[Galen|Galen Kord]] {{storylink|Broken Glass!}}
**[[Playback]] {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}
**[[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Sunstreaker]]/[[Hunter O'Nion]] {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}}
*'''Decepticons'''
**[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]/[[Abraham Dante]] {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}
*'''Others'''
**[[Sunstreaker clone]]s/[[Machination]] humans, like [[Reese]] {{storylink|Devastation issue 2|Devastation #2}}
**[[Myskrion]] {{storylink|Earthfall Part 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}}
**[[Thinkbox]] {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 3|Heart of Darkness #3}}

==Notes==
*Generation 1 [[TakaraTomy]] designer [[Kōjin Ōno]] cites the Japanese super robot franchise ''{{w|Steel Jeeg}}'' as his original inspiration for the Headmaster gimmick.<ref>Interview in ''Diaclone Combat Chronicle Vol. 2''</ref>
* Early promotional materials, including [[catalog]]s and toy [[commercial]]s, advertised the Decepticon Nebulan partners as "trainers" for their beastly companions, rather than equal partners. One [[commercial]] took this so far as to have the "trainers" holding whips and ordering Weirdwolf, et al. to jump through hoops of fire.
===Homages===
*The [[Unicron Trilogy]] featured a few examples of smaller robots ([[Mini-Con]]s) becoming the heads of larger ones.
**''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] had two Mini-Con drivers, [[Rook (Armada)|Rook]] and [[Crosswise (Armada)|Crosswise]], for his motorcycle form that could become individual heads, or combine into a [[Mirror|larger robot/driver]]. This functionality was retained for his ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' redeco [[Rapid Run (Energon)|Rapid Run]] and his drivers [[Nightscream (Energon)|Nightscream]] and [[Nightcruz (Energon)|Nightcruz]] (and their combined form [[Nightcreeper]]).
**''Armada'' [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]]'s Mini-Con partner [[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout]] became the head (and part of the chest) of the larger robot, who could in turn become armor for [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]].
**''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]] ''[[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] also had a Headmaster partner, Omega, which combined with two vehicles to form a large robot.
*The ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' series features a supervillain named [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] who can use [[Headmaster unit|a flying robotic head]] that aggressively removes another robot's head and replaces it with itself. The head itself can also transform into a small [[robot mode]].
*[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots']] [[High Tide]] can combine with his Rescue Rig as the head of a larger robot, in an apparent Headmaster homage.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Headmaster''' (ヘッドマスター ''Heddomasutā'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Fejmester''' ("Headmaster")
*''Italian:'' '''Leaderbot'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Tóulǐng Zhànshì''' (头领战士, "Headman Fighter")
*''Russian:'' '''Vlastogolov''' (Властоголов, "Headpower")
*''Finnish:'' '''Päällikkö'''

==See also==

*[[Titan Master]]
*[[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]
*[[Powermaster]]
*[[Headmaster Junior]]
*[[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]]
*[[Triple-Threat Master]]

==References==
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Headmaster (technology)

2024-10-19T12:46:20Z

JunoDeguzman2024: added more

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{{disambig3.5|the 1987 gimmick|the 2016 gimmick|Titan Master|Headmaster}}
[[File:Trialbyfire-headmaster-rollcall.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|This probably hurts.]]
[[File:TitansReturn workswith.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.25|Don't try this at restricted places.]]
'''Headmasters''' are a type of symbiotic variation on the [[Transformer]] lifeform in which a smaller being, frequently but not exclusively organic, [[Transformation|transforms]] into the head of a larger robot. Headmaster bonding typically occurs between two sentient beings, but there have been cases in which the head or the body (such as the [[Transtector]]s or the [[Sunstreaker clone]]s created by the [[Machination]]) is a non-sentient construct controlled entirely by the other partner.

When it occurs between two sentient beings, the benefits of the Headmaster procedure are many: The partner gains control of a larger, more powerful body, and the Transformer gains an extra perspective on the battlefield, the psychic [[binary bonding]] involved allowing them to draw on both their own ideas, tactics, and instincts as well as those of their partner, as quickly as if they were coming from their own head (since they are). Agility, reaction speed, and targeting accuracy are often enhanced by the process.

The Headmaster process leaves its subject Transformers with one glaring disadvantage: when separated from their partners, they have no head. Most can continue to function as vehicles without their partners, but can do little in [[robot mode]] besides stand around.

In conversation, the term "Headmaster" can apply to both the small partner (the head) and the significant other (the body).

Sometimes a duo of Headmaster partners can jointly pilot a larger city-sized body. The resulting [[Titan (group)|Titan]] is known as a '''double-Headmaster'''.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel Comics continuity====
[[File:Fortmaxgiveshead.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Next step: Pez dispenser.]]
The Headmaster technology was primarily the invention of the [[Nebulan]] scientist [[Arcana]] and was designed originally to let Nebulans utilize the bodies of [[Autobot]]s to defend their world, something they did not trust the Autobots enough to let them do on their own.

The organic Nebulans of the Headmaster pairings were able to transform by use of a special suit of "intra-restruction armor" and a "cybernetic mindlink helmet" {{storylink|All or Nothing!}} that interfaced with bio-cybernetic augmentation in the surgically altered humanoid. As described by Arcana, the process as originally enacted allowed the Autobots (still separate, disembodied heads at that point) to radio control their old bodies, while the Nebulan partners observed and planned strategy. This joint cooperation of two minds allowed greatly increased agility and superior aim.

[[File:Brokenglass-autobotstorage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]
The technology was implemented under dire circumstances, as the Nebulan capital city of [[Koraja]] was under siege by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons, who sought the surrender of five Autobots held in Nebulan custody. Five volunteer Nebulans underwent radical reconstructive surgery to allow them to bond with the five Autobots, including [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]], [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]. Now under Nebulan control, the Headmaster Autobots easily repulsed the Decepticon attack, despite being outnumbered two to one. {{storylink|Broken Glass!}}

The Decepticons reluctantly accepted the possible benefits of this cooperation with organics, and six of them underwent the Headmaster process, with Scorponok bonding to the Nebulan Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]. Luring Fortress Maximus's team into an ambush, Scorponok and his fellow Headmasters [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]], [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]], [[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]], [[Apeface]] and [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] soon defeated their foes, blasting them unconscious, which caused their heads to disconnect and return to humanoid form. {{storylink|Love and Steel!}} The Autobot-allied Nebulans were taken captive and strung up in a suspended animation prison, while Scorponok's Headmasters rampaged across Nebulos, leaving Nebulan ruins and Autobot corpses in their wake. Realizing that his mind was being re-written by Scorponok, Zarak used the last shreds of his sanity to free the Autobot Headmasters. Fortress Maximus and his band soon left Nebulos for Earth, with the Decepticons in pursuit. {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}}

[[File:Trialbyfire-cerebros-headpitch.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|YOU CAN'T ''BUY'' ME, HOT DOG MAN!]]
En route to Earth, Fortress Maximus was rebuilt into a larger form, with ''two'' Headmaster components: a small robot that transformed into his head, and his partner Galen, who now became the small robot's head.

The two squads of Headmasters soon faced off again on Earth, in a battle inside the cave that had previously held the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. During the battle, Fortress Maximus and Scorponok both used their smaller Headmaster components to travel through an increasingly tight series of tunnels. Doing so, however, exposed Fortress Maximus's partner Galen to attack, and he died saving the Earthling, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]. With Galen killed while separated from Fortress Maximus, Spike demonstrated that it was possible for an organic to control/communicate with the larger robot's form with only the control helmet, as he took control of Fortress Maximus with nothing more than Galen's control helmet. Rejuvenated by their leader's attack, the Autobots soon drove off the Decepticon Headmasters. {{storylink|Trial by Fire!}}

The Headmasters largely stayed in the background during most of the Autobots' subsequent adventures, though Fortress Maximus remained a major player in the events leading up to the [[Underbase Saga|Underbase catastrophe]].

Later, a weakness of the ad hoc nature of the Headmaster partnership became apparent. As the partnerships continued, two minds could meld into one, or conflict on nearly every level. For example, Spike and Fortress Maximus were two separate minds sharing one body, with each dominant in his own form and able to converse with the other; while Lord Zarak and Scorponok seemed to reach some sort of fusion where he was both beings merged into one, with Scorponok to all intents and purposes becoming entirely subsumed by Zarak's personality (to the extent that, [[On the Edge of Extinction!|during the battle with Unicron]], "Scorponok"'s interior monologue identifies himself as being Zarak merely filling the role of Scorponok, implying that the original Scorponok psyche was essentially gone). A similar situation developed between Powermaster [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Hi-Q]], except in the reverse.
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=====''Classics''=====
{{noteclassics}}
The Headmaster process is reversible. {{storylink|Cheap Shots}}

=====Regeneration One=====
{{noteRG1}}
After the deaths of most of the Headmasters by Unicron, the original heads still on Nebulos were [[Project Lazarus|given new bodies]]. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2}} {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Two}} Chromedome and Stylor were able to have the process completely reversed. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 1}}

====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[File:Rebirth 1 Autobot heads.JPG||thumb|*gasp* I promise you! You shall be avenged!]]
In this continuity, the Headmaster process was the brainchild of [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], who had advocated that using an organic partner would be a good strategy in combat with the [[Decepticon]]s. It also seems much less invasive for the organic humanoid involved. No surgical alteration is apparently needed on their part, and the process seems to consist mainly of altering the Transformer's head to 1) have a control center for a partner to sit at inside and 2) transform around the partner into a fancy [[exosuit]]. While some who have undergone it have commented at feeling a closer bond with their respective partners, there is no reason to believe there is any true psychic connection between them as in the binary bonding of other continuities. Before detaching his head, the Transformer downloads his memory and personality into his auxiliary memory circuits in his chest. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}} Far from being automatically on the same page, at one point the "good" Nebulans disagreed with the Autobots on strategy so much that they abandoned them and ran off, forcibly stranding the Autobots in their vehicle modes.{{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}

=====''Wings Universe''=====
{{wingsnote}}
After [[Zarak (G1)|Mo Zarak]] died, his son [[Olin Zarak]] inherited [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], becoming Scorponok's Headmaster controller. [[Tornado]] claimed to have always said that there was something not right with Headmaster technology. {{storylink|Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur|Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur, 2014/06/03}}

=====Japanese cartoon continuity=====
Attempting to escape the wars on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], a group of diminutive Cybertronians (most of them only a little larger than human beings) fled the planet, only to have their ship crash on the hazardous, inhospitable planet [[Master (planet)|Master]]. The need for survival fostered several technological advances (helped in part by technology derived from a [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|time-traveling spaceship]] that crashed on the planet sometime later). Chief among them was the creation of "[[Transtector]]s": large, lifeless robot bodies which the smaller robots could connect to and control. The small Cybertronians had not yet actually mastered the art of [[transformation]], however, and had to undergo rigorous mental and physical training in order to become "Headmasters" (their name, obviously enough, derived from the planet itself).

The Headmasters subsequently migrated from Master and joined the Autobot and Decepticon forces on Cybertron and [[Earth]], leading to a lengthy conflict that ultimately resulted in both factions departing the Earth for a prolonged period of time. With easy access to Earth cut off, leaving its safety in doubt should it be attacked by Decepticons in the future, the Autobots on Master created [[Master-Brace]]s, technology that harnessed the mysterious [[Chōkon Power]] to transform humans and allow them to connect to Transtectors and become Headmasters themselves. A set of six Master-Braces and Transtectors were dispatched to Earth, but half the shipment was stolen by Decepticons, and both factions subsequently used the technology to turn three young human children into Headmasters in defense of Earth.

Cybertronian Headmasters possess numerous energy-manipulating superpowers. They are able to exchange Transtectors freely with their fellow Headmasters to increase their power levels and can link up with each other in the [[Head Formation]] for various destructive results. In contrast, human Headmasters do not possess any of these powers, but have their own natural physical strength and reflexes enhanced many times over by the energies filling their bodies. Their cellular structures undergo some form of ill-defined holistic transformation which allows them somehow to transform their actual, physical bodies into heads. However, unlike organic Headmasters in other continuities, they do not have to undergo any ''permanent'' alteration; they are capable of "turning off" their powers and becoming normal human beings with ease, the only drawback being that they are unable to remove the Master-Braces that give them their powers.

====3H comics====
[[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] commented that he preferred [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] when she had "[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|that kid]]" in her head. {{storylink|Betrayal}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
[[File:Headmaster mech DW mtmte.jpg|thumb|Did they include a bathroom in this thing?]]Headmaster technology was originally developed on Cybertron, to be used in conjunction with [[Micromaster]] technology. It would have allowed a normal-sized robot to transform its head into a small body to conserve [[Energon]]. The process was perfected on Nebulon to allow organic beings to act as the head of a Cybertronian body, using aspects of [[combiner]] technology.

The process was designed to put the Nebulon in control of the body, but the actual process as perfected by [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] and [[Arcana]] resulted in a mental bonding and partnership, with the robot generally maintaining control. Modified organic beings are able to contort during transformation, though appear normal when not wearing the Headmaster armor. Out of their armor, they are indistinguishable from unmodified beings, though they possess improved strength and endurance.

Profile art depicted the Headmaster heads as larger "mecha" that the human partners pilot. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye}}
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====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:TheMindBomb-cathead.jpg|thumb|left|250px|How would ''you'' like to have to give your head a flea bath every night?]]

In the years preceding the unification of the [[Thirteen#2005 IDW continuity|Thirteen]], [[The Fallen#2005 IDW continuity|Megatronus]] led his [[Darklands|Darklanders]] in the "[[War of the Headmasters]]," though what exactly this campaign entailed is unclear. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}}

The first known Headmasters were an ancient Cybertronian faction that fought in the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]] ten million years ago under the command of [[Nexus Prime#2005 IDW continuity|Nexus Prime]]. Their enemy, the Darklander [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]], saw the combination of "beastly" and "pure-born" Cybertronians as an abomination, implying all ancient Headmasters had animal-form heads. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}} Galvatron vanquished the Headmasters during the war, paving the way for the unification of the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Shockpoint}} Known ancient Headmasters include [[Myskrion]], killed by Galvatron, {{storylink|Earthfall Part 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}} and [[Thinkbox]], later retrieved by Galvatron from the ''[[Murkdipper]]'' on the planet [[Spindrift]]. {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 3|Heart of Darkness #3}} Another possible Headmaster was [[Scalp]], who was allegedly friends with [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} [[Titan Master#2005 IDW continuity|Titan Masters]] existed alongside these ancient Headmasters, though what, if any, connection they have to the Headmasters is unknown. {{storylink|White Heat}}

In the modern period, Headmaster technology was reinvented by the shadowy human organization known as the [[Machination]], using technology developed by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] on the planet [[Nebulos#2005 IDW continuity|Nebulos]]. Following a tip offered to him by [[Swindle (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|Swindle]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] found schematics for enhancing a biological entity with Cybertronian technology, in effect producing a "transformable man". Magnus was able to determine that Nebulan businessman [[Zarak (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|Mo Zarak]] had been subjected to this process shortly before Scorponok fled the premises. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ultra Magnus}}

[[File:Devastation2 SunstreakerHeadmaster.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Approximately 18 years later, the Machination captured [[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Sunstreaker]] and [[Hunter O'Nion]]. They dismantled Sunstreaker and subjected Hunter to an extensive regimen of surgery and implants. Subsequently, they attempted to brainwash him into one of their soldiers. {{storylink|The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation}} Hunter resisted and was able to contact Sunstreaker, allowing him to become a Headmaster to fight for the Autobots. {{storylink|The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation}}

Initially, all Headmasters created by the Machination were non-sentient, guided by their human pilots. As well, all of these models were [[Sunstreaker clone|replicas]] of Sunstreaker, wired into the Autobot's actual head to help coordinate their movements. However, the success of these initial forays into the technology allowed for the first true binary-bond, enabling [[Abraham Dante]] to combine with his Decepticon master Scorponok to facilitate his rebirth. {{storylink|The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation}} Scorponok was eventually defeated after his connection to his original head was severed. Following this, the remaining Headmasters were gathered up by Ultra Magnus, who purged the Machination of its technology. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5|Maximum Dinobots #5}}

====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
When the war spread to Nebulos, the Decepticons allied with the [[Hive (G1)|Hive Nations]] and began a series of horrific biomechanical experiments on their Autobot and [[World Watcher]] prisoners of war. The result was the game-changing binary-bonding process, a fusion of Decepticon and Nebulan technology. It wasn't long until the Autobots reverse-engineered the process and deployed Headmasters of their own, then improved on the process to create Targetmasters. The Decepticons upped the ante by introducing the colossal double-Headmaster [[Scorponok (G1)|MegaZarak]], forcing the Autobots to deploy the equally gargantuan [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. The result was the [[Scouring of Nebulos]]. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}} {{storylink|Head Games}}

When the [[Cyberdroid]]s of [[Master (planet)|Master]] got involved in the conflict years later, many of them chose to become Headmasters, replacing the ailing Nebulans. Both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] adopted Headmaster partners when they became [[Triple-Threat Master]]s. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}}

Three hundred years later, most Headmasters had died with their partners or were left bodiless. Some remained active, such as [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]], who had had his consciousness transferred into three Cyberdroid attendants who oversaw the maintenance of his old body. {{storylink|Head Games}}

===Unicron Trilogy continuity family===
[[File:Sidewaysheads.jpg|thumb|120px]]

====''Armada'' continuity====
[[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout's]] combination with [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]] utilizes Headmaster technology. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada}} {{storylink|Armada Fleer card series}}<ref>{{SITENAME}}'s entry for [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]].</ref>

[[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] is a double-Headmaster, combining with either [[Rook (Armada)|Rook]] or [[Crosswise (Armada)|Crosswise]]. {{storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter}}

====''Linkage''====
In order to save the dying Rollout and Overload, the Nebulan scientists Hi-Q and Arcana used an ancient technique they found in their archives known as the Headmaster process. The procedure worked in saving the two Cybertronians, but after a time it turned out their new form was unable to handle two Sparks in one body, and their identities began to blur together. The Nebulans called on the Autobot Rhinox for help, but he disappeared during the war with [[Unicron]]. It wasn't until after the war that Overload was able to rebuild himself in his original, pre-Headmaster form. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/18}}

====''Energon'' continuity====
[[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] and the other [[Omega Sentinel (Energon)|Omega Sentinels]] were Headmasters.

===''The Last Knight'' film===
[[Cogman]] was a sociopathic Headmaster, who was in service to the Burton family, including [[Edmund Burton]], who he deemed the coolest. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
The Headmaster process was invented by [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] and [[Arcana]] at some point after the Autobot-Decepticon war spilled over to the planet Nebulos. It didn't take long before the Decepticons, who had allied with the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]], stole and reverse-engineered the technology to create Headmasters of their own.

The Headmaster process is sometimes known as the “Titanmaster” process. Transformers who became Headmasters could unlock a wide variety of unusual abilities, including teleportation, invisibility, or super-speed. {{storylink|The Enigma of Combination}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1-toy Brainstorm.jpg|thumb|Brainstorm]]
*'''Autobot Headmasters''' ([[1987]])
**[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] with [[Arcana]]
**[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] with [[Stylor]]
**[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] with [[Duros]]
**[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] with [[Gort]]
:The four large Autobot Headmasters were sold boxed. They transform into futuristic/Cybertronian vehicles. Each has a [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] compartment that the smaller Nebulan figure can ride in. Plugging in the transformed Nebulan in [[robot mode]] activates tumblers in the robot's chest, displaying three Tech Spec readouts.
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[[File:G1FortressMaximus toy.jpg|thumb|Fortress Maximus, the [[Metroplex (G1)#Generations|once]] and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)#Titans Return|future]] king.]]
*'''Headmaster Autobot Base''' (1987)
**[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] with [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]
:He's big. Yeah yeah yeah.
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[[File:G1-toy Skullcruncher.jpg|thumb|right|Skullcruncher]]
*'''Decepticon Headmasters''' (1987)
**[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] with [[Grax]]
**[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] with [[Vorath]]
**[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] with [[Monzo]]
:The three Decepticon Headmasters were sold boxed, and transform into mechanical creatures. Each has a [[beast mode]] compartment that the Nebulan can ride in. Like their Autobot counterparts, their chests contain tumblers activated by plugging in a head mode Nebulan, which reveal three Tech Spec graph readouts.
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[[File:G1 Apeface toy.jpg|thumb|right|Apeface]]
*'''Headmaster Horrorcons''' (1987)
**[[Apeface]] with [[Spasma]]
**[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] with [[Krunk]]
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:The Horrorcons change from jets to beasts to robots. The Nebulan partners become the head of both the robot and beast modes.

*'''Headmaster Decepticon Base''' (1987)
**[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] with [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]
:He's not small. No no no.
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[[File:Headmasterteens.jpg|thumb|The Autobot Master Warriors]]
*'''Autobot Master Warrior''' (1987)
**[[Kirk]]
**[[Rodney]]
**[[Loafer]]
**[[Lione]]
**[[Toraizer]]
**[[Shuffler]]
:These exclusive [[Autobot Master Warrior]]s represent Japanese-style Headmasters who have yet to receive Transtectors, though they are compatible with any of the other 1987 Headmasters' toys. They are extremely rare.
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[[File:G1Nightbeat toy.jpg|thumb|The DRIVER of the car becomes the HEAD of the robot! ...well, a reasonably substantial portion thereof, anyway. (picture: Nightbeat)]]
*'''Autobot Headmasters''' ([[1988]])
**[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]] with [[Lug (G1)|Lug]]
**[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] with [[Muzzle]]
**[[Siren (G1)|Siren]] with [[Quig]]
:The three 1988 Autobot Headmasters transform into Earthly land vehicles. Siren and Hosehead share a fire rescue theme, occasionally causing inattentive fans to mistake Nightbeat for a police car, though he at least gets sweet flames to tenuously keep the theme running. The Nebulan companions are considerably smaller and simpler than those of the 1987 Headmasters, although they are backwards compatible with the previous year's figures. In fact, when plugged into 1987 Headmaster bodies, the 1988 Nebulan figures display the Tech Spec readouts for their 1988 robot counterparts, suggesting the simplification of the tumbler system on the Tech Spec readouts into a simple fixed display to have been a late design decision. Each comes with a "helmet" to complete the robot's head; the helmet doubles as a vehicle mode "seat" for the figure to sit in. Two small pistols attach to the "helmet" in robot mode to complete the head. In the instructions, the head guns for all three are always pointed forward, but the box art aims them up and treats them as antennae. Media followed suit.
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[[File:G1 fangry toy.jpg|thumb|Fangry]]
*'''Decepticon Headmasters''' (1988)
**[[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]] with [[Brisko]]
**[[Horri-Bull]] with [[Kreb]]
**[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]] with [[Lokos]]
:The three small Decepticon Headmasters transform into fictional monsters. Like their Autobot counterparts, they feature smaller and simpler Nebulan figures than their 1987 predecessors, and are similarly backwards compatible with their larger forerunners, despite their smaller size. Unlike the Autobots, they do not sport additional "helmets" and pistols/antennae. While Squeezeplay and Horri-Bull both have with a tail weapon in addition to their regular gun, Fangry does not even though his [[Tech Spec]]s [[bio]] mentions one, suggesting that it was planned but dropped before final production.
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*'''Headmaster Juniors''' (1988)
**[[Cab (human)|Cab]]
**[[Shūta Gō|Goshooter]]
**[[Minerva (human)|Minerva]]
**[[Bullhorn (G1)|Bullhorn]]
**[[Cancer (G1)|Cancer]]
**[[Wilder (G1)|Wilder]]
:The 1988 Headmaster molds were released in Japan as the [[Headmaster Junior]]s, representing totally different characters though only Goshooter and Minerva were significantly [[redeco]]ed from the US versions.
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*'''Headmaster Autobot Base''' (1988)
**[[Grand Maximus]] with Grand and Gran
:A redeco of Fortress Maximus with an additional [[Pretender]] shell. This Japanese exclusive represented Fortress Maximus's younger brother in ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]''.
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[[File:Blackzarak toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Black Zarak - meaner, and ''uglier''.]]
*'''Headmaster Decepticon Base''' (1988)
**BlackZarak with Scorponok Headmaster Unit
:A redeco and [[retool]] of the Scorponok mold, this was another Japanese exclusive representing the same character, but ''meaner''.
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:BotCon2014-Scorponok.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
*'''Pirates vs Knights''' ([[2014]])
**Scorponok with Olin Zarak
:A retool of [[Scorponok (Energon)#Toys|''Energon'' Scorponok]], the new tooling that his head with a new mechanism for his Headmaster head to plug into. The Headmaster figure itself is a retooled ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] figure with a new face based on Scorponok's original model sheet head.
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Generations 30 voyager Brainstorm.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Guess who's back...back again...]]
*'''Brainstorm''' ([[2014]])
:Part of the eighth wave of 2012-onwards ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' Voyager Class toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' [[Brainstorm (G1)#Generations|Brainstorm]] transforms into a turquoise Cybertronian aircraft, and is notable for being the first Headmaster-style figure in the ''Generations'' line. He comes with two pistols which can attach via [[5 mm post]] to his hands and the nosecone of the jet. [[Arcana#Generations|His head]] transforms into an unnamed robot that is most certainly Arcana, and can be inserted inside the cockpit to be used as a pilot. Putting the head robot into the neck socket will reveal Tech Specs like the G1 toy. The Tech Specs are based off the original figure, not the Tech Specs on the box.

:Be warned, the head robot suffers a [[design flaw]], wherein it is possible for it to get stuck in the main robot's socket, and too much force could separate its own head from its body.
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===''Titans Return''===
[[File:TF-Generations-Titans-Return-Deluxe-Perceptor.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
{{See also|Titan Master#Toys}}
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===''Legends''===
[[File:TF-Legends-LG32-Chromedome.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
:The Takara ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Headmaster figures are redecos or retools of Hasbro's ''Titans Return'' figures, which like all Takara products prior to the brand merger, were changed to match the source material. Some figures were even new molds created specifically for the line. Brainstorm's ''Thrilling 30'' Voyager figure also saw release.
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:WFC-Siege-Voyager-Apeface.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Apeface''' ([[2019]])
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===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
[[File:TF-Generations-WFC-E-Voyager-Snapdragon.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Snapdragon''' ([[2020]])
*'''Scorponok''' (2020)
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===''The Last Knight''===
[[File:TLK-DeluxeCogman.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
*'''Premier Edition''' (2017)
**Cogman (Deluxe Class)
:Cogman's head is capable of transforming into his diminutive "true" robot mode.
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===''Studio Series''===
*'''Cogman''' (2019)
:A redeco of the ''Premier Edition'' figure.

==Merchandise==
===Super-God Masterforce===
*'''Headmaster-Braces—Goshooter''' (1988)

:Japanese exclusive [[roleplay toy]]s that represent the [[Master-Brace]]s used by the [[Headmaster Junior]] [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]]. They are packaged with a role-play communications device.

==Fiction-only Headmasters==
*'''Autobots'''
**[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]/[[Galen|Galen Kord]] {{storylink|Broken Glass!}}
**[[Playback]] {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}
**[[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Sunstreaker]]/[[Hunter O'Nion]] {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}}
*'''Decepticons'''
**[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]/[[Abraham Dante]] {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}
*'''Others'''
**[[Sunstreaker clone]]s/[[Machination]] humans, like [[Reese]] {{storylink|Devastation issue 2|Devastation #2}}
**[[Myskrion]] {{storylink|Earthfall Part 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}}
**[[Thinkbox]] {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 3|Heart of Darkness #3}}

==Notes==
*Generation 1 [[TakaraTomy]] designer [[Kōjin Ōno]] cites the Japanese super robot franchise ''{{w|Steel Jeeg}}'' as his original inspiration for the Headmaster gimmick.<ref>Interview in ''Diaclone Combat Chronicle Vol. 2''</ref>
* Early promotional materials, including [[catalog]]s and toy [[commercial]]s, advertised the Decepticon Nebulan partners as "trainers" for their beastly companions, rather than equal partners. One [[commercial]] took this so far as to have the "trainers" holding whips and ordering Weirdwolf, et al. to jump through hoops of fire.
===Homages===
*The [[Unicron Trilogy]] featured a few examples of smaller robots ([[Mini-Con]]s) becoming the heads of larger ones.
**''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] had two Mini-Con drivers, [[Rook (Armada)|Rook]] and [[Crosswise (Armada)|Crosswise]], for his motorcycle form that could become individual heads, or combine into a [[Mirror|larger robot/driver]]. This functionality was retained for his ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' redeco [[Rapid Run (Energon)|Rapid Run]] and his drivers [[Nightscream (Energon)|Nightscream]] and [[Nightcruz (Energon)|Nightcruz]] (and their combined form [[Nightcreeper]]).
**''Armada'' [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]]'s Mini-Con partner [[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout]] became the head (and part of the chest) of the larger robot, who could in turn become armor for [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]].
**''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]] ''[[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] also had a Headmaster partner, Omega, which combined with two vehicles to form a large robot.
*The ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' series features a supervillain named [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] who can use [[Headmaster unit|a flying robotic head]] that aggressively removes another robot's head and replaces it with itself. The head itself can also transform into a small [[robot mode]].
*[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots']] [[High Tide]] can combine with his Rescue Rig as the head of a larger robot, in an apparent Headmaster homage.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Headmaster''' (ヘッドマスター ''Heddomasutā'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Fejmester''' ("Headmaster")
*''Italian:'' '''Leaderbot'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Tóulǐng Zhànshì''' (头领战士, "Headman Fighter")
*''Russian:'' '''Vlastogolov''' (Властоголов, "Headpower")
*''Finnish:'' '''Päällikkö'''

==See also==

*[[Titan Master]]
*[[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]
*[[Powermaster]]
*[[Headmaster Junior]]
*[[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]]
*[[Triple-Threat Master]]

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Bulgaria

2024-10-19T12:01:22Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

[[File:Flag of Bulgaria.png|thumb|right]]

[[File:Europa 2000.jpg|thumb|The world looked a lot different in 1985.]]

'''Bulgaria''' is a country within [[Europe]]. It is bordered by [[Albania]], [[Yugoslavia]], and [[Rumania]].

It is also spelled as "'''Bulgalia'''".

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
Bulgalia was found on a map made to show the route of the [[Europa 2000]], which passed through the country. {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[Slash Monkey]] was a Bulgarian band. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}

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

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France

2024-10-19T11:58:47Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

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[[File:Flag of France.png|thumb|right]]
[[File:Titan Paris1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|The French, pictured speaking English.]]
'''France''' is a nation in [[Europe]], former colonial power, permanent member of the [[United Nations|UN Security Council]], and a wielder of [[nuclear weapon]]s. It is known for making many contributions to Western culture and has a reputation for snobbery.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[File:Europa 2000.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Not to [[scale]].]]
The transcontinental [[Europa 2000]] car race started from Paris and went on to Istanbul. Secretly, it was a scam of [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s! A map of the race's route showed that either France is bigger in the show's universe than in reality, or the map-maker knew bog all about France's geography. {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''Car Robots'' cartoon=====
:''See [[#2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon]], below''

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
France was one of six nations blackmailed by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] to give him all its energy or face destruction. The [[Trainbot]]s stopped him before he could get round to carrying this threat out. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

=====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====
The [[Headmaster Junior]] [[Minerva (human)|Minerva]] was French on her mother's side.

France held the F1 World Grand Prix at the Rouen Circuit, and was the homeland of champion racer [[Germain]], whose car mysteriously survived every crash it was ever in. He later retired to run a bar in the small town of [[Dagneux]]. Both the Autobot and Decepticon Headmaster Juniors believed his car to be a [[Transtector]] and headed for France to investigate, with the latter group attacking Dagneux. They got their butts kicked. {{storylink|Assemble! The Four Godmaster Gunmen}}

In order to discredit [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] in the eyes of humanity, the Decepticons later dropped a meteor on Paris, destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. {{storylink|Expose the Decepticons' Dark Trap!}}

As part of the Decepticon plan to devastate Earth, known as Operation M-1, [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] devastated Paris and toppled the Arc de Triomphe ''again''. The French armed forces were overpowered. {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}}

===Young Corgi===
France would presumably be a member of the [[Federation of Western Europe]]. {{storylink|Battle Beneath the Ice}}

===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
[[Cobra]] conquered France in [[1939]], crushing the [[Maginot Line]] and enslaving the entire population of Paris.

''Cobra''. That has to be embarrassing. {{storylink|The Line}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
During the 19th century, France was led by [[Napoleon III]], whose ambitions posed a threat to Britain, and thus skilled French exile [[Victor Hugo]] was instated as head of the [[Action Man Programme]], an unprecedented honor for a foreigner. {{storylink|Absolute Beginners}}

During [[World War II]], [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] hunted down and killed a [[Maximal Shockwave|a brainwashed duplicate of Shockwave]] in war-torn France. Their battle was witnessed by [[Sgt. Savage|Robert Savage]] and his [[Screaming Eagles]]. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}}

When the Decepticons seized [[New York City]] and began hitting other sites across the planet in 2008, 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. (This discussion of nuclear mass-murder put them off their tea.) The French were pretty happy ''Europe'' had had the luxury of time to prepare unlike other countries; a lucky break that definitely wasn't {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}} an intentional plot by Megatron! {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} Knowledge of the nuclear plot reached America somehow but they couldn't ''do'' anything about it. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}}

The strike was launched during an internal Decepticon spat. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}} France, having the only {{w|Dassault Mirage 2000N/2000D|nuclear-armed jets}} in Europe, was going to drop the bomb but decided to re-use their old, retired propeller bombers for this missions rather than the Dassault Mirages; we don't know why but that sure was a lucky break for [[Octane|Tankor]]! {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} Megatron decided to have the French bomb dropped anyway but luckly for New York it got stopped. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
The goal of the [[International Grand Prix]] was the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}}

===Live-action film series===
====Titan movie comic====
[[File:Titan Paris2.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hell, you should see the ''[[Savannah|other]]'' [[Washington, D.C.|guys]].]]
When the Decepticons conquered the United States, France joined the other nations of [[NATO]] in opposing them. Paris underwent an unknown level of bombardment during the conflict, but the Palais Bourbon (France's seat of government) was still used as a meeting point for world leaders when NATO decided to make a nuclear assault. However, the Decepticons hit NATO first, engaging its forces at the Bay of Biscay near France.

After ten minutes of ass-kicking, [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]] took out the Palais in a bombing strike. The French government was probably killed here. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}}
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====''Revenge of the Fallen''====
=====''Revenge of the Fallen'' viral campaign=====
[[Fassbinder]] was given a video recording an incident between Frenchman [[Vinny Lemans]] and an [[Toy biplane robot|alien robot]] to post on [[The Real Effing Deal]] as part of their continuing efforts to expose the alien invasion occurring at the time. {{storylink|The Real Effing Deal}}

=====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film=====
[[File:Rotf-paris.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Eiffel Towers are as numerous as [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]s.]]
It was a lovely day in Paris, when a couple of Decepticon transition forms came hurtling out of the blue skies, startling human pedestrians. One struck a masonry tower, causing it to collapse in smoke and flames. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|In real life, the [[Eiffel Tower]] is indeed visible from the ''Place de la Concorde''... but it would be ''behind'' the viewer in the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' scenes. It certainly isn't visible from [[Philadelphia]], whose City Hall tower is the one shown getting blown up.}}

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
According to [[Chase (RB)|Chase]], they eat snails in France. {{storylink|The Lost Bell}}

==Games==
===Hunt for the Decepticons===
{{locationstub}}
{{storylink|Hunt for the Decepticons}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
After forming an alliance with the Decepticons, [[Cobra]] established a [[The Joint|secret cybernetics lab]] in the [[Pyrenees]]. {{storylink|Cobra/Con Fusion}}

==Notes==
*In [[World War II]], France surrendered in the face of foreign invasion, leaving the population to suffer under a genocidal dictatorship for four years. This is seen as a source of hilarious jokes by [[United Kingdom|some]] [[United States of America|other nations]].
*France {{w|History of NATO#French withdrawal|withdrew}} from NATO's integrated military command in 1966 and rejoined in 2009. This is one year ''later'' than in ''Twilight's Last Gleaming'', but then in real life there wasn't an alien occupation of North America.
*Comic artist [[Dan Reed]] lived in France. (He was an American and working for Marvel UK. Globalisation gone mad!)
*France has had [[multilingual packaging]] since 1985, due to Transformers distributors wanting to get all of mainland Europe in one product line.
*''Beast Wars'' was known as ''Animutants'' in France.
*As well as dubbing the ''Transformers'' cartoons, France has dubbed and broadcast the ''{{gb|Challenge of the GoBots|Challenge of the GoBots}}'' cartoon. In fact, it dubbed that ''and'' the unrelated Japanese {{w|Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos|''Machine Robo'' anime}}, slapping the ''GoBots'' logo on the latter.

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

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Soviet Union

2024-10-19T11:56:05Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

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

{{See also|Russia}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

====''Bumblebee'' film====
When [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] landed on Earth, [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]] argued that they couldn't be trusted, but [[Dr. Powell]] convinced [[General Whalen]] that the [[Decepticon]]s would take their technology to Russia if [[Sector Seven]] didn't ally with them, likely costing the U.S. the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

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

==Notes==
*In the real world, the {{w|Soviet Union}} collapsed in [[1991]], breaking up into {{w|Commonwealth of Independent States|its constituent republics}}. This event was foreseeable to economists when the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|animated series]] was being produced in the mid-1980s, [[tvtropes:Main/FailedFutureForecast|but not to cartoon writers]]. Thus the third season of the cartoon, set in the then-future year of 2006, depicted the Soviet Union as still extant. Oh well.
*[[Escalation issue 3|''Escalation'' #3]] refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway Soviet state", which is corroborated by [[Escalation issue 4|issue #4]]. In addition, the opposing army is repeatedly identified as "Soviets". While on first sight this may seem to imply that the Soviet Union still exists in the present-day setting of ''Escalation'', [[Escalation issue 5|issues #5]] and [[Escalation issue 6|#6]] replace "Soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "Soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.
*When asked what terrible things happened to Earth in the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' continuity, [[Jim Sorenson]] stated that when the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] spread to Earth in the 1980s, the USSR used [[nuclear weapon]]s to drive the Transformers out of Borovia.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3362363 Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2016/10/18]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{w|Soviet Union}} at Wikipedia
{{GBwiki|Soviet Union}}

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Soviet Union

2024-10-19T11:55:44Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

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

{{See also|Russia}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

====''Bumblebee'' film====
When [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] landed on Earth, [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]] argued that they couldn't be trusted, but [[Dr. Powell]] convinced [[General Whalen]] that the [[Decepticon]]s would take their technology to Russia if [[Sector Seven]] didn't ally with them, likely costing the U.S. the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

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

==Notes==
*In the real world, the {{w|Soviet Union}} collapsed in [[1991]], breaking up into {{w|Commonwealth of Independent States|its constituent republics}}. This event was foreseeable to economists when the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|animated series]] was being produced in the mid-1980s, [[tvtropes:Main/FailedFutureForecast|but not to cartoon writers]]. Thus the third season of the cartoon, set in the then-future year of 2006, depicted the Soviet Union as still extant. Oh well.
*[[Escalation issue 3|''Escalation'' #3]] refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway Soviet state", which is corroborated by [[Escalation issue 4|issue #4]]. In addition, the opposing army is repeatedly identified as "Soviets". While on first sight this may seem to imply that the Soviet Union still exists in the present-day setting of ''Escalation'', [[Escalation issue 5|issues #5]] and [[Escalation issue 6|#6]] replace "Soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "Soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.
*When asked what terrible things happened to Earth in the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' continuity, [[Jim Sorenson]] stated that when the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] spread to Earth in the 1980s, the USSR used [[nuclear weapon]]s to drive the Transformers out of Borovia.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3362363 Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2016/10/18]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{w|Soviet Union}} at Wikipedia
{{GBwiki|Soviet Union}}

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

2024-10-19T11:51:53Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

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

{{See also|Russia}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

====''Bumblebee'' film====
When [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] landed on Earth, [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]] argued that they couldn't be trusted, but [[Dr. Powell]] convinced [[General Whalen]] that the [[Decepticon]]s would take their technology to Russia if [[Sector Seven]] didn't ally with them, likely costing the U.S. the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

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

==Notes==
*In the real world, the {{w|Soviet Union}} collapsed in [[1991]], breaking up into {{w|Commonwealth of Independent States|its constituent republics}}. This event was foreseeable to economists when the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|animated series]] was being produced in the mid-1980s, [[tvtropes:Main/FailedFutureForecast|but not to cartoon writers]]. Thus the third season of the cartoon, set in the then-future year of 2006, depicted the Soviet Union as still extant. Oh well.
*[[Escalation issue 3|''Escalation'' #3]] refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway Soviet state", which is corroborated by [[Escalation issue 4|issue #4]]. In addition, the opposing army is repeatedly identified as "Soviets". While on first sight this may seem to imply that the Soviet Union still exists in the present-day setting of ''Escalation'', [[Escalation issue 5|issues #5]] and [[Escalation issue 6|#6]] replace "Soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "Soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.
*When asked what terrible things happened to Earth in the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' continuity, [[Jim Sorenson]] stated that when the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] spread to Earth in the 1980s, the USSR used [[nuclear weapon]]s to drive the Transformers out of Borovia.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3362363 Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2016/10/18]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{w|Soviet Union}} at Wikipedia
{{GBwiki|Soviet Union}}

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Russia

2024-10-19T11:50:18Z

JunoDeguzman2024:

[[File:Flag of Russia.png|thumb|right]]
'''Russia''' is a nation-state. It is the largest
country on [[Earth]]; stretching from [[Europe]] across [[Asia]].

It used to be part of the [[Soviet Union]], and the most dominant of its fifteen republics, but the band broke up in the early 1990s...we think.

{{quote|It's a Cyrillic alphabet; it's like all the buttons you never push on a calculator!|[[Dutch (DOTM)|Dutch]] on the Russian language|[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]}}

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[File:Europa 2000.jpg|thumb|This is absolutely how Europe works.]]

Russia shares borders with [[France]], [[Ciech]], [[Rumania]], and possibly [[Hungary]] (it's hard to tell). {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}}

===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
A worker at the [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] assumed they were under attack from the Russians, but in reality it was [[Decepticon]]s. {{storylink|Power Play!}}

Nobody at the [[White House]] was able to confirm the Russians were controlling the robots that raided Harrison Nuclear Power Plant. Meanwhile, [[Moscow]] assumed the commotion was caused by the Americans testing their Star Wars arsenal. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
An ongoing separatist movement in the breakaway Russian state of [[Brasnya]] was being manipulated by the Decepticons for their own ends, by means of artificial human "[[Facsimile construct|facsimiles]]". {{storylink|Escalation issue 3|Escalation #3}} {{storylink|Escalation issue 4|Escalation #4}} {{storylink|Escalation issue 5|Escalation #5}} {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}}

When multiple Transformer factions were gathered on Asian soil, Russia tried to destroy them with a nuclear strike. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|International Incident Part 4}}

===Live action film series===
====Movies====
=====''Transformers'' film=====
Russia was one of the nations that the [[Pentagon]] believed could be responsible for hacking the U.S. security network. During the resulting military escalations, Russian naval groups began to close in on US naval operations in the Yellow Sea. Once [[Tom Banachek]] informed the Pentagon about the alien nature of the threat, US forces were pulled back. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

=====''Age of Extinction'' film=====
In the aftermath of the Battle of [[Chicago]], many pieces of Transformer technology littered the ruins of the city. Russia began a bidding war on the black market for whatever could be found. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

=====''The Last Knight'' film=====
Russia's response to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] nearing [[Earth]] displeased the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

====Titan movie comics====
Russia was a [[NEST]] member, with a base in the Arkhangelskaya Oblast. [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] established a Decepticon command hub in the same oblast, and a battle erupted there between Autobot/NEST and Decepticon forces. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}}

In an alternate timeline where Megatron succeeded at killing Sam, the Decepticon invasion caused Russia to buddy up with NATO and advocate nuclear strikes on Decepticon-held America. It didn't work out well... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[MECH]] used an energon signal to lure [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] to a ghost town on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] and capture Breakdown. They attempted to disassemble Breakdown in an abandoned railway tunnel, but he was rescued by Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}}

==Notes==
*[[Escalation issue 3|''Escalation'' #3]] refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway soviet state", which is corroborated by [[Escalation issue 4|issue 4]]. While on first sight this may seem to imply that the [[Soviet Union]] still exists in the present-day setting of ''Escalation'', [[Escalation issue 5|issues 5]] [[Escalation issue 6|and 6]] replace "soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.
*In the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' episode, "[[Hidden]]", two Air Force jets are very similar in model to [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], but in a basic gray color scheme. However, the model of fighter jet is of Russian make, while the pilots are American.

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

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Russia

2024-10-19T11:48:16Z

JunoDeguzman2024: The flag

[[File:Flag_of_Russia|400px|thumb|right]]
'''Russia''' is a nation-state. It is the largest
country on [[Earth]]; stretching from [[Europe]] across [[Asia]].

It used to be part of the [[Soviet Union]], and the most dominant of its fifteen republics, but the band broke up in the early 1990s...we think.

{{quote|It's a Cyrillic alphabet; it's like all the buttons you never push on a calculator!|[[Dutch (DOTM)|Dutch]] on the Russian language|[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]}}

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[File:Europa 2000.jpg|thumb|This is absolutely how Europe works.]]

Russia shares borders with [[France]], [[Ciech]], [[Rumania]], and possibly [[Hungary]] (it's hard to tell). {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}}

===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
A worker at the [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] assumed they were under attack from the Russians, but in reality it was [[Decepticon]]s. {{storylink|Power Play!}}

Nobody at the [[White House]] was able to confirm the Russians were controlling the robots that raided Harrison Nuclear Power Plant. Meanwhile, [[Moscow]] assumed the commotion was caused by the Americans testing their Star Wars arsenal. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
An ongoing separatist movement in the breakaway Russian state of [[Brasnya]] was being manipulated by the Decepticons for their own ends, by means of artificial human "[[Facsimile construct|facsimiles]]". {{storylink|Escalation issue 3|Escalation #3}} {{storylink|Escalation issue 4|Escalation #4}} {{storylink|Escalation issue 5|Escalation #5}} {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}}

When multiple Transformer factions were gathered on Asian soil, Russia tried to destroy them with a nuclear strike. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|International Incident Part 4}}

===Live action film series===
====Movies====
=====''Transformers'' film=====
Russia was one of the nations that the [[Pentagon]] believed could be responsible for hacking the U.S. security network. During the resulting military escalations, Russian naval groups began to close in on US naval operations in the Yellow Sea. Once [[Tom Banachek]] informed the Pentagon about the alien nature of the threat, US forces were pulled back. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

=====''Age of Extinction'' film=====
In the aftermath of the Battle of [[Chicago]], many pieces of Transformer technology littered the ruins of the city. Russia began a bidding war on the black market for whatever could be found. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

=====''The Last Knight'' film=====
Russia's response to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] nearing [[Earth]] displeased the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

====Titan movie comics====
Russia was a [[NEST]] member, with a base in the Arkhangelskaya Oblast. [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] established a Decepticon command hub in the same oblast, and a battle erupted there between Autobot/NEST and Decepticon forces. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}}

In an alternate timeline where Megatron succeeded at killing Sam, the Decepticon invasion caused Russia to buddy up with NATO and advocate nuclear strikes on Decepticon-held America. It didn't work out well... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[MECH]] used an energon signal to lure [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] to a ghost town on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] and capture Breakdown. They attempted to disassemble Breakdown in an abandoned railway tunnel, but he was rescued by Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}}

==Notes==
*[[Escalation issue 3|''Escalation'' #3]] refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway soviet state", which is corroborated by [[Escalation issue 4|issue 4]]. While on first sight this may seem to imply that the [[Soviet Union]] still exists in the present-day setting of ''Escalation'', [[Escalation issue 5|issues 5]] [[Escalation issue 6|and 6]] replace "soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.
*In the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' episode, "[[Hidden]]", two Air Force jets are very similar in model to [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], but in a basic gray color scheme. However, the model of fighter jet is of Russian make, while the pilots are American.

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

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[[Category:Russia]]

Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)

2024-10-13T15:25:18Z

JunoDeguzman2024: obviously accordance from RangerWiki

{{factions|autobot|decepticon|hofsilver}}
{{disambig3|Optimus Prime}}
:''Optimus Prime is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseOptimus.jpg|thumb|300px|''People getting chosen by the Matrix... leading the Autobots... and I'm like... I just wanna mow hay.'']]
'''Optimus Prime''' is the legendary leader of the [[Autobot]]s. With axe and hard light [[Insignia|Autobrand]] shield in hand, he's taken on the [[Decepticon]]s in more battles than you can count. As strong in mind as he is in body, Optimus' speeches and care for his men has led to him becoming widely respected. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] acknowledges his former friend's prowess enough that he'll enter occasional negotiations for peace. He's good friends with [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]], who is practically his right hand bot. If you're looking for a hero, then he's your bot.

However, this heroism is something that was thrust upon him. Feeling the weight of his reputation, Optimus occasionally finds himself unable to connect to his far more relaxed crew in times of celebration. In times of peace, he'd much rather contribute to restoration efforts than continue on as active leader, despite his popularity. Until that day, Optimus Prime is the best leader an Autobot could ask for, and the worst nightmare a [[Decepticon]] could imagine.

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jake Foushee|Jake Tillman]] (English), [[Takehito Koyasu]] (Japanese)|[[Erwin Grunspan]] (French, season 1), [[Benoît Grimmiaux]] (French, season 2), [[Klaus-Dieter Klebsch]] (German), [[Marco Balzarotti]] (Italian), [[Alfonso Ramírez]] (Latin-American Spanish, Season 1), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish, Season 2 and 3), [[José Luis Orozco]] (Latin-American Spanish, season 4), [[Miguel Ángel Muro]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Mário Spatziani]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Dariusz Odija]] (Polish, eps.9-10)}}
[[File:We Want The Same Thing (Cyberverse - Megatron Is My Hero promo).jpg|thumb|300px|"So are we on for our regular Scrabble night?"]]
Once a mere file clerk, {{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}} Optimus was drawn to the charismatic [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]]'s campaign for change, becoming one of his closest allies. During a meeting at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], Optimus assured Megatron he would author the speech Megatron was to give at their upcoming rally. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At the rally, Optimus stood amongst Megatron’s closest allies as he unveiled the Decepticon movement. Though the rally was a success, Megatron's growing power began to reveal darker shades of his personality and ambition. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

Megatron eventually staged an attack on the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] killing all of the councillors save [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] who had Bumblebee bring Optimus to him. Though Optimus blamed himself for the war, Trion reassured his protege that he had done what he felt was right and stayed true to himself. Before he passed however, Trion bestowed the [[Matrix of Leadership]] onto Optimus who accepted the talisman and became Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

Optimus made one last effort to peacefully negotiate with his old friend, asking him to end his hostilities and allow them to diplomatically resolve their issues. With neither Megatron or Optimus willing to bend to the other, Megatron declared [[Great War (Cyberverse)|open war]] on his once friend and his faction. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

As the war escalated, Optimus was captured by the notorious [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] who stashed him in an Energon warehouse. Before he could delivered, Optimus was rescued by Bumblebee and brought back to Autobot territory. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}} Another adventure saw him personally carry a wounded [[Prowl (Cyberverse)|Prowl]] across a battlefield. {{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}} Optimus and Megatron had several peace talks during the war but never managed to come to an agreement. Witnessing one of these talks, [[Maccadam]] inspired Optimus to never lose hope, noting that a successful ceasefire would make all the failed attempts worth it. {{storylink|Parley}}

[[File:MatrixOfLeadership-OPglows.jpg|thumb|300px|left|"I HAVE THE POWER!"]]
After learning that the Decepticons sought to use [[Vector Sigma]] to reprogram the [[AllSpark]], {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} the Autobots planned to keep the artifact out of Megatron's reach by sending it through a [[Space bridge|Space Bridge]]. Though the Decepticons put up a fierce fight, the Autobots ultimately succeeded in their goal, Decepticon firepower caused the Space Bridge to collapse after the AllSpark was sent through, sending it to parts unknown. {{storylink|Allspark (episode)|Allspark}} Sometime later, Optimus and Bumblebee were being pursued by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]]. After a short battle in the [[Grand Imperium]] resulting in the Seekers retreating, the pair reflected on Cybertron’s current state and how Optimus had failed to account for the debilitating effects that the AllSpark's absence would have on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Realizing the mistake he'd made in launching the artifact, Optimus ordered the construction of a new [[Vanguard-class Deep Space Interceptor|''Vanguard''-class]] vessel so that the AllSpark could be located and retrieved. {{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

When the [[Ark (Cyberverse)|''Ark'']] was completed, it launched from Iacon. {{storylink|Fractured}} Among the Autobots joining him was Bumblebee, who shared a heartfelt goodbye with [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] before Optimus called him to the ship. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

During their travels, the Autobots, running critically low on [[Energon]], stopped on a nearby planet in response to an Energon reading. Once there, they found a race of [[Cave monster|subterranean creatures]] that attacked them on sight. During the battle, Optimus realized the creatures fed off of Energon and ordered his troops to retreat. Despite the planet containing much needed Energon, Optimus insisted it be left alone, finding it too high a moral cost to damn the aliens to extinction merely to ensure their own survival. Instead, he ordered the entire crew to enter stasis to conserve power. {{storylink|The Journey}}
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On autopilot, the ''Ark'' made its way to [[Earth]] only to suffer a hull breach and crash, {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}} in [[Mount St. Hilary]], its sleeping passengers blissfully unaware of their ship's fate. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

This unintentional radio silence left many of the Autobots on Cybertron to question the fate of their missing comrades with Bumblebee's amnesia preventing him from answering Windblade's queries on Optimus's location. {{storylink|Fractured}} {{storylink|The Journey}}

Once [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] had hacked into Windblade and Bumblebee's [[cortical psychic patch]], he trapped the scout in a fake memory that painted both he and Optimus as deep-cover Decepticons who had sabotaged the ''Ark''. Realizing that Optimus would never commit such acts, Bumblebee managed to break free of the illusion. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

When Bumblebee's group had rediscovered the ''Ark'', [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]] managed to reactivate the ship and revive the crew. As Optimus caught up with his friends, getting a hug from Bumblebee, Teletraan informed everyone that a [[Decepticon fleet]] was bearing down on their location. Not wasting a moment, Optimus led his crew outside so they could confront their foes. {{storylink|Eruption}}

Optimus eventually addressed the populace of Earth on television to make the Autobot-Decepticon war public knowledge, and vowed to protect the planet to the best of his ability. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}} During this time, he also fought Megatron at a silo site. {{storylink|Spotted}} Later, he led the Autobots on an excursion to the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] to prevent the Decepticons from destroying the earth with his [[Planet Smasher]]. Optimus managed to overpower Megatron, forcing him to retreat, and he and the other Autobots managed to shut down the doomsday device. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}} Before they could pursue the Decepticons into the subterranean caves, the [[planetary engine]]s the Decepticons had installed sprang to life and forced the moon on a collision course with Earth. Leaving a small team to work on deactivating the engines, Optimus lead his own squadron into the caves to secure the control room. Upon reaching their destination, the room self destructs, preventing them from disabling the engines. Fortunately, [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]], [[Prowl (Cyberverse)|Prowl]] and [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]] manage to hack the system and reverse the engines, moving the moon back into stable orbit. Satisfied, Optimus announced their victory to the people of Earth, echoing his previous promise to protect the planet. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

After returning to Earth, Optimus showed interest in the potential of Wheeljack's new [[Hyper Fuel]] to move the ''Ark'' out of its resting place. He later decided the material was too unstable for use after an incident involving a hyperactive [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], one which he narrowly stopped through the use of Wheeljack's [[force shield blaster]]. {{storylink|The Visitor}} Shortly thereafter, Optimus was contacted by Megatron, who was holding Hot Rod captive, and demanded Prime give his own life if he wanted to save the young Autobot. Prime was prepared to agree, but when Hot Rod managed to free himself and escape, Optimus rescinded his agreement. {{storylink|Bring Me The Spark Of Optimus Prime}}

[[File:Cyberverse-Trials-PrimeArmor.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Now where have I [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|seen]] [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|this]] [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|before?]]]]
After analyzing the [[GroundBridge]]s appearing around the world to find their point of convergence, the Autobots sent Optimus through one to retrieve the AllSpark, where he found Megatron also arriving. Before they could clash, they were interrupted by [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], the AllSpark's guardian, who granted them powerful new [[spark armor]] and pitted them against each other to win possession of the relic. While the two were distracted by the battle, Starscream snuck into the chamber and stole the AllSpark. Optimus, unaware of Starscream's new independence, accused Megatron of deceit and attempted to stop him, but Megatron escaped through another GroundBridge. Determined to prevent the Decepticons from misusing the relic, he convinced Cheetor to become their new ally and the two headed back to the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Trials}}

After helping Cheetor make his acquaintance with the other Autobots, Optimus, along with Grimlock, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod, took Cheetor to the bridge, and had him explain his mysterious origins. After this explanation of his history, Optimus was determined to retake the AllSpark back from Megatron at all costs. To which, he led an assault on the ''Nemesis'', and sent Cheetor, along with Hot Rod and Bumblebee, to find the AllSpark. As both Optimus and Megatron fought one another, they were interrupted by Cheetor, who explained how this conflict was pointless as the AllSpark wasn’t on the Decepticon warship, when Optimus demanded an explanation from Megatron, he discovered how Starscream had broken away from the Decepticons and stole the AllSpark for himself. This led to Optimus and Megatron calling a truce, and possible alliance against Starscream. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

As Optimus prepared himself for negotiations with Megatron, he recalled a memory of Maccadam had encouraged him to never give up his diplomatic mindset until there was peace between all Cybertronians. This lesson would carry on into his latest attempts of negotiations with Megatron to discuss the danger of Starscream. Though initial strides were made, the underlying tensions between the two factions was triggered by the arrival of [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], who had been trying to speak to Windblade but was killed by the Decepticons on the presumption that she was a traitor, leading to an all-out brawl. As a result, Megatron declared that there would be no peace between Autobots and Decepticons with Optimus declaring that the Autobots would have to stop Starscream alone. {{storylink|Parley}}

Not long after this, Optimus sent Bumblebee, Hot Rod, Windblade, and Cheetor to Starscream's lair, only to learn that the Decepticon had abandoned the base. Once they returned, however, they received an SOS from the ''Nemesis'', which in turn prompted Optimus and a small group of Autobots to investigate, in turn, they discovered that something had drained all the Decepticons of their Energon. They would eventually meet the culprits in the form of the [[Scraplet]]s, who managed to separate Optimus and Windblade from the rest of the group. As they made their way to the bridge, they saw Megatron laying on the ground, his Energon also drained. It didn't take long for the Scraplets to surround them and damage Optimus, it was then that Starscream revealed himself and explained his plan, and communed with the Scraplet who was supposedly [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] and explained how he wanted the Matrix of Leadership back. When Optimus refused, Starscream had their Energon completely drained, and was prepared to seize the Matrix, until he was bested by Cheetor, who managed to use the AllSpark to restore everyone and disable the Scraplets. However, he was unable stop Starscream from escaping with the AllSpark, it was then that Megatron permitted Optimus and the Autobots to leave. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Optimus would then assign the Autobots to different tasks in hopes of finding Starscream and the AllSpark, but failed to account for Cheetor, who wasn’t acknowledged by the Autobot leader as he was working at one of the terminals on the ''Ark’s'' Bridge. Later, after hearing of Starscream’s attempt to kidnap Cheetor and Bumblebee, Optimus stated that Cheetor would make an excellent Autobot scout after hearing of his training as well. {{storylink|Spotted}}
[[file:Cyberverse-Optimus-Wounded.jpg|thumb|300px|Darn leg cramps!]]
Later, the Autobot leader would be on the ''Ark'' when they were unexpectedly attacked, believing the intruder to be Starscream, Optimus rallied the Autobots to retaliate, only to be surprised when instead it was in fact [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]], who wanted to challenge his mortal enemy, [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]]. Optimus told the Decepticon that Jetfire was destroyed, but Sky-Byte didn’t believe it, and escaped to find the ''Nemesis''. Not long after this, Optimus and the other Autobots would again be pleasantly surprised when the previously mentioned Jetfire appeared and went inside with the others to explain his long-running feud with Sky-Byte across the cosmos. But when the offer was made for Optimus and the other Autobots to help defeat the Decepticon once and for all, Optimus refused, stating that they had more important matters at hand, such as retrieving the AllSpark, and that it was Jetfire's choice on wether he wanted to save lives or destroy them.

Much later, Optimus was beaten down by Sky-Byte, who was infused with Spark Armor granted to him by Starscream and took the Autobot leader to a Colosseum. Jetfire had also brought Megatron there to meet with Sky-Byte to finish the feud. The ensuing battle would lead to Jetfire, Sky-Byte, and Optimus to fall into a cavern below, where Optimus was fairly wounded from the fall. In the end, Jetfire made the noble decision and rescued Prime before shedding his Spark armor, telling Optimus about the whereabouts of the AllSpark as they returned to the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Guided by Jetfire to the GroundBridge Nexus, the Autobots were met by the Decepticons, themselves guided by Sky-Byte before Starscream arrived, now having merged with the AllSpark. As the Seeker tried to extract everyone's sparks, Optimus channeled the power of the Matrix of Leadership, blasting the AllSpark out of Starscream and ending his threat, though the act left Optimus in deep stasis. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

As his mind shifted through visions brought on by the Matrix, Optimus was placed in the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s sickbay as Hot Rod led the ship off Earth and towards the space bridge. When the ''Nemesis'' began bombarding the ''Ark'', the chaos awoke Optimus and he made his way to the bridge. Entering just after Shockwave had destroyed Earth's space bridge, Optimus ordered a course set for Cybertron. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

When a C-Class emergency was raised in Hangar 7, Optimus came running only to find that his troops were having a victory party. Uncomfortable with such things, Optimus gave an awkward speech before he went to stargaze on the hull, being joined by Cheetor before Teletraan-X raised a genuine C-Class alarm. Working with Cheetor, Optimus discovered that Starscream had hacked Wheeljack's AllSpark emitter badges, overloading the Autobots who were wearing them. The trio fought their way to the AllSpark's containment device, Optimus smashing it to pieces to liberate his crew. With the festive mood ruined, Optimus made the ultimate sacrifice and did a little jig to get the party going once again. {{storylink|Party Down}}

When the ''Ark'' entered a thick debris field, Optimus ordered a new course plotted, even as Hot Rod, Bumblebee, and Cheetor went off for some solar-wave surfing. When the three returned, having managed to earn the ire of the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] race, Optimus watched as Cheetor used the AllSpark to recreate the [[Sharkticon homeworld]]. {{storylink|Wiped Out}}

On the bridge of the ''Ark'', Optimus was alerted to Windblade having stolen the AllSpark and made for a nearby planet. Taking Cheetor, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod with him, Optimus followed the cityspeaker through an an abandoned city, facing off against a horde of automated defences, as an entity guided Windblade to bring the AllSpark to the city centre. Though the quartet caught up to Windblade, they were too late to prevent her from opening the AllSpark. To their surprise however, the entity revealed itself as a [[Titan (group)|Titan]], [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]]. Revealing that the city was once a [[Cybertronian colonies|Cybertronian colony]], Croaton apologized for the trouble he'd caused before he returned the Autobots their shuttle and went on his way. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Forty cycles after their departure from Earth, the ''Ark'' was struck by an EMP that immobilized all electromechanical systems, save [[Arcee (Cyberverse)|Arcee]], Grimlock, and Teletraan who saved the ship from a supernova. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

When a distress call came in from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided that they had to accelerate their return home. Finding a disused space bridge, Optimus ordered it repaired. When the portal activated however, it transported them all to [[unspace]], the void between universes. Teaming up with several multiversal counterparts to the ''Ark'', the Autobots used their AllSparks to return to their own universes, Optimus allowing himself a rare smile when the ''Ark'' entered Cybertronian orbit. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

As he sent Jetfire and Windblade to scout the planet, Optimus tried to make contact Chromia. Unable to raise her, Optimus began to suspect a trap. Ordering the ''Ark'' evacuated, Optimus set the ship on automatic and entrusted the AllSpark to Cheetor, ordering Bumblebee and Hot Rod to defend him and instructing the three not to enter the [[Threshold of the Well]] until the Decepticons had been defeated. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}} {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

Once the ''Ark'' had been destroyed by a [[laser snare]], Optimus led his troops into battle. As he duelled Megatron, Optimus was targeted by Shadow Striker before Prowl took the shot at the cost of his life. Enraged, Optimus leapt at Megatron, swearing that this would be their final battle. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

Pushing past Megatron, Optimus tried to enter the Threshold only to find it swarming with scraplets, forcing him back before Megatron pinned him down and summoned gigantic war-capable versions of [[Shockwave's drones]]. Summoning his shield, Optimus attacked the drones but was forced back by their sheer mass. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Finding a second wind, Optimus managed to turn the tide of the battle against the drones before Windblade informed him that Vector Sigma had been destroyed. Once the AllSpark had been restored to the core, Optimus declared the Great War over before Megatron, through Shockwave, tried to destroy the AllSpark, Cheetor's sacrifice saving the world. In a rage, Megatron lunged at Optimus who sent him back into the scraplets. After barring Shadow Striker from aiding her master, before declaring that it was time for Cybertron to transform for the better. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

The peace would not last long however. The [[Quintesson]]s soon invaded Cybertron, locking the populace in a virtual reality that celebrated the [[Parade of Metals]], Optimus serving as the Parade's grand marshal. {{storylink|The Loop}}

In the physical world, Hot Rod and Perceptor led the few free Cybertronians in a resistance. Though Perceptor pushed for Hot Rod to be a leader, he continued to doubt himself and tried to free Optimus to take command. Though Hot Rod made several attempts, even throttling his leader, Optimus could not overcome the Loop's programming. {{storylink|The Sleeper}} Along with the others, Optimus was later freed when Perceptor hacked into the Loop and introduced a flock of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]] into the simulation. Optimus ordered his troops to roll out, their subsequent transformation freeing the Loop whereupon they retreated to [[Iaconus]]. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

Upon being informed of the magnitude of the Quintesson threat, Optimus was quick to agree to allying with the Decepticons but could not have Megatron join them. When the resistance tried to blow up the Quintesson ship, Optimus towed a warhead to the craft. While the Cybertronians proved able to defeat the [[Prosecutor (Cyberverse)|Prosecutors]], they were overwhelmed by the savage Sharkticons, Optimus' warhead being detonated. The Cybertronians were saved when Windblade managed to partially rouse Iaconus, unearthing his massive arm. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

When it was determined that the only way to destroy the Quintesson flagship was to draw out the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]] and its army, Optimus and Megatron led a strike team that infiltrated the ship. When the group reached the [[multiverse drive]], they were confronted by the [[Scientist (Cyberverse)|Scientist]]. While Megatron promptly shot the Quintesson dead, he deployed an army of backup bodies, Optimus and Bumblebee holding them off as Wheeljack, backed up by Megatron and Dead End, disabled the drive only for the Decepticons to betray Wheeljack as they fled to another universe. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}
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Soon afterwards, the Judge, damaged beyond repair by Hot Rod's group, crashed into the ship, its out of control weapons collapsing it. With no recourse, the three Autobots used the drive and jumped into another universe only to be confounded by its shifting architecture. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}} Ordering Bumblebee to remain by the portal, Optimus tried to rescue Wheeljack only to be delayed by the architectural shifts.{{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}} Wheeljack eventually awoke and used his grappling hook to quickly reunite the trio. Passing back through the portal, the Autobots found themselves in the Scientist's laboratory, facing off against his endless supply of bodies before Wheeljack tracked the Scientist's command signal to his true body, a diminutive organic creature, and squashed him. With the alien dead, the three moved outside to deal with the brainwashed Croaton. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}} Arriving outside, the Autobots joined the fight against the Prosecutors before they were confronted by the new Judge, Starscream, who sought vengeance against Optimus for the Prime's crimes against him, before Megatron arrived aboard [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]]. With both leaders in one place, Starscream began using unspace to destroy the universe before both used their Matrices of Leadership to defeat the Judge, saving the universe. In the aftermath, the Transformers formed a truce. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

As rebuilding commenced, Optimus focused his efforts on repairing the [[Grand Imperium]] before Jetfire and many others began asking for his advice and permission on their own reconstruction efforts. Hot Rod later informed Optimus of Bumblebee's mission in Decepticon territory, Optimus leading a force to the border. When they arrived, Megatron had surrounded Bumblebee, Whirl and Windblade, ready to execute them before Optimus argued that holding Windblade prisoner was a treaty violation. Having more urgent matters to attend to, Megatron released the prisoners. {{storylink|Enemy Line}} Optimus later struggled with a large pillar when he met the bombastic [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], inducting the beastformer into the Autobots. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

While aiding in rebuilding [[Cobalt Springs]], Optimus was confronted by [[Wildwheel (Cyberverse)|Wildwheel]], a former crew member of the ''Ark'' who had fallen from the ship as it entered Earth's orbit and felt abandoned by the Autobots, Prime in particular. Though Optimus attempted diplomacy, Wildwheel's anger led to him attacking a civilian, Optimus quickly downing him as a result. Optimus then offered the turncoat a fresh start only to be rebuked. {{storylink|Wild Wild Wheel}}

To discover Megatron's goal, Optimus sent scouting parties into Decepticon territory, all finding nothing to report. When communicating with Jetfire however, the flier was struck by an unusual beam of energy, Optimus ordering [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] to find him. After the medic, along with [[Rack'n'Ruin (Cyberverse)|Rack'n'Ruin]], had recovered Jetfire, Optimus congratulated the Autobots on a successful mission. {{storylink|Rack 'n' Ruin 'n' Ratchet}}

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During a mission briefing, Optimus' consciousness was pulled into the Matrix where he reunited with Maccadam. Revealing himself to be [[Alchemist Prime]], the barkeeper told Optimus that the last of Windblade's psychic shards was in the alternate Matrix of Leadership, an artifact that Optimus was to destroy. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} Leaving Hot Rod and Arcee in command of the Autobots for the time being, Optimus led a strike team into Decepticon territory, managing to push into the control room of Croaton just as a hemisphere encompassing shield went up, cutting the strike team off from the other Autobots. Confronting Megatron, the tyrant called in his favor for helping save Cybertron before towering hostiles teleported in. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

Recognizing the hostiles as the [[Decepticon supersoldier|Perfect Decepticon]]s that Megatron had sought to create, Optimus assumed them to be his foe's troops only for Megatron to reveal them as products of "the Other One." The invaders proved too powerful for standard weapons, forcing Optimus and Megatron to channel their multiverse energy to defeat them. When Optimus reiterated the destruction of the alternate Matrix, the Other One, [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|an alternate version of Megatron]], arrived and reclaimed his Matrix. As Optimus cradled the deactivated Megatron, Bumblebee stole the alternate Matrix and flew off. Following, Optimus caught up with him just as the Other One had bonded with the artifact, engaging him in a duel of Matrices. Though he initially held the advantage, Optimus was steadily overcome by the invader before the psychic shard of Windblade sabotaged the alternate Matrix, allowing Prime's beam to paralyze the Decepticon. Before they could decide what to do with him, Astrotrain claimed his master and took him away into the multiverse as punishment for his abuse. Optimus was later present when Windblade made a full recovery, celebrating her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

With Megatron gone, Soundwave became the new Decepticon leader, and he and Optimus worked together to draft the [[Treaty of the Wall]], at last reaching terms that both sides could accept. The two leaders held a grand ratification ceremony at the border wall, with Optimus giving a speech celebrating the planet's newfound unity. As he prepared to sign, he and the rest of Cybertron were [[time blaster|time-locked]] by a band of [[Mercenary|Mercenaries]], only for them to be driven back off planet by Grimlock and his new friends the [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobots]]. With help from Wheeljack, the team managed to unfreeze Optimus and everyone else, and though he was temporarily confused by the appearance of the enormous frozen [[Trypticon (Cyberverse)|Trypticon]], he proceeded to finish the ratification ceremony, declaring Cybertron reunited at last. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

Some time later, Optimus was speaking at the dedication of Trypticon Plaza, but was interrupted by the crash-landing of Astrotrain, who cryptically warned of a coming threat before succumbing to his wounds. Though Optimus and the other leaders attempted to prepare, this proved to be for naught when Cybertron found itself the new site of a battle between the Decepticon supersoldiers. One of the newcomers identified himself as [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], who had evolved beyond his programming, and Optimus expressed hope that the same could be done for the other supersoldiers. When they proved incapable of being disabled or destroyed, Tarn suggested using the lost [[Cortex Helm]], to reprogram the supersoldiers. Optimus, Tarn, and a group of others journeyed to the [[Isle of Onyx Prime]], avoiding the many traps before finally reaching the Helm's chamber. However, Tarn betrayed the others and took the Helm for himself, taking control of his fellow supersoldiers and ordering them to destroy all the Autobots. Tarn then teleported Optimus and himself to an empty [[Cube Arena|Cube arena]], where Tarn challenged Optimus to battle his supersoldiers before he would be allowed to fight Tarn himself. Left with no choice, Optimus began his fight, but began to grow tired as Tarn threw more and more opponents at him at once. Eventually Optimus couldn't keep up and fell in battle, but before Tarn could finish him, he was saved by the arrival of the other Autobots. The Decepticons subsequently arrived, announcing they too refused to tolerate Tarn's rule, and the whole group engaged in battle with the supersoldiers. During the battle, Optimus attempted to remove the Cortex Helm from Tarn, but was overwhelmed once more. Ultimately, Tarn was destroyed and the supersoldiers were reprogrammed by Soundwave, at the cost of his own life. Optimus subsequently spoke at Soundwave's wake, leading the rest in a toast to his memory. With the war finally at an end, Optimus decided the time was right for him to step away from leadership and enjoy the peacetime he'd fought so hard for, confident that Bumblebee, Hot Rod, Windblade and Shadow Striker would do a fine job leading in his stead. {{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

====Alternate universes====
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A multiversal series of Optimus Primes were among those who found themselves trapped in unspace after attempting to use the improperly repaired space bridge. Though a few lost their lives to the matter between universes, most were able to escape using the combined power of their AllSparks. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In a different universe, when Optimus confronted [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] following his attack on the High Council, Megatron realized that he and Optimus would oppose each other forevermore and slew his once friend with a point blank [[fusion cannon]] blast before he seized the Matrix from him. As short lived as his tenure as a Prime had been, Optimus' spirit persisted within the accumulated wisdom of the Matrix of Leadership. When the Matrix was stolen by another version of Megatron and brought to his universe, a psychic shard of the native Windblade wound up lodged in it. Greeting the cityspeaker, Optimus' spirit guided her to destroy the Matrix so she could save her universe. Presumably, Optimus' spirit was dissipated when Windblade followed his orders and destroyed the talisman from within. {{storylink|The Other One}}

===''Play-Doh Videos''===
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Optimus Prime prepared a surprise birthday party for the Green [[Play-Doh]] with the help of [[Rarity]], {{w|Peppa Pig}}, {{w|PJ Masks|Catboy}} and the [[Power Rangers|Dino Fury Red Ranger (Zayto)]]. Unfortunately, it was ruined by a storm caused by the mad scientist {{w|PJ Masks#Villains|Romeo}}'s weather machine shortly before the Green Play-Doh arrived. Fortunately, however, the Red Ranger was able to distract the Green Play-Doh while the others fixed everything. Optimus accidentally ripped the birthday sign as he was cleaning it, but Rarity managed to patch it up as she and Optimus restored it to its signposts. Though Romeo was angered that his plan had failed, Optimus and the others still invited him to join the party.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y4L_jHXu_c Play Doh Videos 🎉 PARTY with Peppa, PJ Masks, My Little Pony, Transformers Optimus Prime ⭐️ Play-Doh]</ref>

Optimus got into a fight with [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] but they were eventually interrupted by the Red Play-Doh, who made them clean an ice cream truck. After they completed their task, the ice cream truck transformed into [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] and scared away the Red Play-Doh. While celebrating, Optimus and Grimlock accidentally destroyed each other's ice creams, causing both of them to fight again.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnLPRYTSZ9k Trouble with the Transformers | Kids Animation ⭐️ Play-Doh Videos]</ref>

===''Transformers Stop Motion Series''===
While [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] and [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]] were racing, they were attacked by [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]], and [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. Optimus Prime eventually intervened to help them defeat the Decepticons.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCujZVu8XI Autobots VS Decepticons! | Episode 1 | NEW Stop Motion | FULL Episode | Transformers Official]</ref> When the Decepticons were in pursuit of Bumblebee again, Optimus stopped the violence with a dance party in which both the Autobots and Decepticons participated in.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6-YBGrLtBg Transformers Dance off | Episode 2 | NEW Stop Motion | FULL Episode | Transformers Official]</ref>

===''My Nezha and Transformers'' cartoon===
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jake Foushee]] (English)|[[Marc Bretonnière]] (French), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Stefano Thermes]] (Italian), [[Javier López]] (Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Transformers: Battlegrounds}}}}

==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
====Tiny Turbo Changers====
[[File:Cyberverse-Optimus-Turbo-Charger.jpg|thumb|300px|Listen, this is great and all, but what happened to my arms?]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Tiny Turbo Changers, 2019)
**''Series:'' '''1, 2, 3, 5'''
**''Bag Code'': '''B''' (Series 1-3), '''L''' (Series 5)
: Released in the first Series of ''Cyberverse'' [[Tiny Turbo Changers]], Optimus changes from semi-truck cab to robot and back in a few simple steps. He has a molded "attack" weapon, in his case a large panel from his truck mode becomes his left-arm-mounted energon axe in robot mode.

: Optimus was also released without changes in Series 2, 3 and 5.

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[[File:CV-toy TTC EnergonOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Energon Optimus Prime''' (Tiny Turbo Changer, 2020)
**''Series:'' '''4'''
**''Bag Code'': '''I'''
: Part of the fourth Series of ''Cyberverse'' Tiny Turbo Changers, Energon Optimus Prime is an entirely translucent blue redeco of the figure above.

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====Scout Class====
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|300px|'''That''' looks like it's gotta hurt.]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Scout Class, [[2018]])
**''Action Attack'': "Ion Blast"
:''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' Scout Class Optimus Prime is a roughly Legends Class sized figure of Optimus Prime that transforms into a ''half-robot-half-truck thing'', also known as a "transformational mode". When he is transformed, an [[ion blaster]] flips onto his arm, representing his "Ion Blast" Action Attack... which looks as if he [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|has his own]] [[fusion cannon]] due to it being a humongous, arm-mounted cannon. Optimus also features one 5mm-compatible hand on his right arm. Perhaps he wants to have an optional weapon before pulling out the big gun?

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[[File:TF-Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Optimus-Prime-(2019).jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Scout Class, [[2019]]-[[2021]])
**''Action Attack'': "Energon Axe Attack"
:Despite similarities in parts and proportions to the figure above, this ''Cyberverse'' Scout Class Optimus Prime is a new mold. His "Energon Axe Attack" is activated by pressing the rear wheels/legs in place, which unlocks the spring-loaded waist, swinging the torso to the left side. The right arm must face forwards before activation.

:This version of Optimus Prime has seen three releases: First in 2019 in then-current ''Power of the Spark'' [[subline imprint]] packaging design, then again in 2020 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' subline imprint packaging refresh, and thern ''again'' in 2021 in the ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.
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====1-Step Changers====
[[File:Cyberverse-2018-One-Step-Changer-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|300px|At least he doesn't look like Megatron this time.]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (1-Step Changer, 2018)
:Released as part of the second wave of 1-Step Changers, this ''Cyberverse'' Optimus Prime is an all-new mold, with the transformation engineering taking cues from the [[Megatron_(Movie)/toys#Robots_in_Disguise|''Age of Extinction'' Galvatron]] toy. His transformation is triggered when you depress a tab on the back of his wind vane and spin the wind vane a full 360 degrees, deploying his robot mode. Rotating the wind vane clockwise changes him back into a truck. He features articulation at his shoulders.

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[[File:TF-Cyberverse-One-Step-Optimus-Prime-(New).jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|He's hitting the Energon Goodies again.]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (1-Step Changer, 2019, 2021)
**''Japanese Name'': '''Turbo Change Optimus Prime'''
**''Japanese Release Date'': [[July]] [[2019]]
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TCV-02'''
**''Action Attack'': "Energon Axe Attack"
:This ''Cyberverse'' 1-Step Changer Optimus Prime is an all-new mold, using the same transformation scheme as [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#OneStep|''Age of Extinction'' Optimus Prime]]. He also features an "Energon Axe Attack" Action Attack gimmick, which can be "wielded" horizontally or vertically. He is also slightly taller than the previous One-Step changer.

:The CG stock render on the back of the packaging depicts his Energon Axe in yellow, but the final product just features an unpainted axe cast in red plastic.

:This version of Optimus Prime has seen three releases: First in early 2019 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, then again in mid-2019 in the then-current ''Power of the Spark'' subline imprint packaging refresh, and then ''again'' in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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====Warrior Class====
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-Warrior-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Everything feels stiff all of a sudden...]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Warrior Class, 2018-2019)
**''Action Attack'': "Energon Axe Attack"
:Released as part of the first wave of ''Cyberverse'' Warrior Class lineup, this Optimus Prime is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts into a robot to truck and back. He also features a pop-out axe on his left hand when pushing his back after the gimmick is set up. Because of this, he has both no left hand and no elbow articulation.

:Other promo photos of the product depict him having [[:File:TF-Cyberverse-Warrior-Class-Optimus-Prime-Painted-Smokestacks.jpg|painted smokestacks]] which are not featured in the final product. At least one copy sports a maskless head [[variant]] in early 2019.

:This version of Optimus Prime was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2019 in the ''Power of the Spark'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh. He was also released in ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' packaging in Chinese markets.

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[[File:TF-Cyberverse-Optimus-Prime-Battle-Base-Trailer.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I have a cool trailer for your little guys to fit inside! Buy me again, pretty please!]]
*'''Optimus Prime Battle Base Trailer''' (playset, 2018)
**''Action Attack'': "Energon Axe Attack" (Prime), "Cannon Charge" (trailer)
:This figure is an unchanged re-release of the ''Cyberverse'' Optimus Prime figure above, but with a trailer. The trailer can interact with Scout Class up to Warrior Class figures. It also features a "Cannon Charge" Action Attack, where small cannons flip out of the front of the Trailer. The Trailer, when folded open, has a turret that a Scout class figure can sit awkwardly on. A single Warrior Class (or smaller) car can be stored in the trailer in vehicle mode.

:Due to the Optimus figure itself being unchanged, the trailer attaches by his feet slotting into the front end of the trailer. As a result, only variations of this mold can pull it and it does not turn easily.

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[[File:TF-Cyberverse-PotS-Optimus-Prime-Starscream-two-pack.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Please buy me already, I'm clogging up so many warehouses!]]
*'''Optimus Prime & Starscream''' (2-pack, 2019)
**''Action Attack'': "Energon Axe Attack"

:Released as part of the ''Power of the Spark'' sub-line, this Optimus Prime is basically unchanged from the first release, and he is sold along with an equally unchanged Starscream. The package also bears the logo for the franchise's 35th anniversary.

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[[File:TF-Cyberverse-2018-BCA-Warrior-Cybertronian-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Brotimus Prime.]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' ("Cybertronian Mode" Warrior Class, 2020-2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Mega Axe Attack"

:Released in the 8th wave of ''Cyberverse'' Warrior class toys, this version of Optimus Prime now converts into a Cybertronian truck. He features bulkier proportions and retains an axe gimmick, though it now swings out from the side of his arm and is now on the opposite side compared to the first warrior class version. His axe attack is activated by pulling up and then pushing down the blue bar behind his head, rather than being button activated.

:This version of Optimus Prime was ''also'' released twice: First in 2020 under the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' subline imprint, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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====Ultra Class====
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-Ultra-Class-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Ultra Class, 2018, 2019)
**''Action Attack'': "Bash Attack"
:Released as part of the third wave of ''Cyberverse'' Ultra Class toys, this Voyager-sized Optimus Prime's Action Attack gimmick consists of a large flip-out vehicle mode shield in the shape of the Autobot insignia that is based on his defensive shield seen in the episode "[[Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership]]", which is activated manually by pulling the shield out from the truck's underneath first, then it automatically flips up with a press of a button.

:Once again, this version of Optimus Prime was released twice: First in late 2018/early 2019 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in late 2019 in the ''Power of the Spark'' subline imprint packaging refresh. He was also available as a ''Nezha: Transformers'' product in China.

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====Ultimate Class====
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-Ultimate-Class-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[:File:PDtype-Matrixattack.jpg|Matrix does not pop out with the effect part.]]]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Ultimate Class, 2018-2019)
**''Japanese Name'': '''Matrix Attack Optimus Prime'''
**''Japanese Release Date'': [[July]] [[2019]]
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TCV-06'''
**''Action Attack'': "Matrix Mega Shot"
{{toydesigner|[[Ryan Glantz]] (instruction designer)}}

:''Cyberverse'' Ultimate Class Optimus Prime is a toy that transforms from a roughly Leader-sized robot to a truck in around eleven steps. Articulation is somewhat limited for such a large toy but sells at a cheaper, voyager class-ish price point as a trade-off. The arms have ratcheted elbows, a swiveling bicep, and shoulders that swivel forward and hinge outward. The legs have ratcheted hips and thigh swivels, plus a knee joint which is located further down the leg from the molded detail to facilitate transformation.

:His "Matrix Mega Shot" Action Attack gimmick utilizes the Matrix of Leadership within the figure's chest. <ref name=io9>[https://io9.gizmodo.com/these-new-transformers-cyberverse-figures-are-fantastic-1823007404 These New Transformers Cyberverse Figures Are Fantastic Callbacks to the Original '80s Toys] at io9.gizmodo.com</ref> This feature can be accessed in robot mode by pressing down just on his left clavicle, or in vehicle mode by pressing down on the top of the cab. You will likely deploy it on accident a lot due to how sensitive the button is, especially during transformation. Once deployed, it can be made to spin by rolling the truck mode forward (powered by the right front wheel) or by spinning the small red wheel on the robot mode side. This causes the clear blue "energy" details to open, revealing the Matrix underneath. This gimmick is gravity-dependent, meaning it must be in the correct position to activate properly.

:Unlike the other simple-assembly wheels, the front right wheel activates the gimmick in vehicle mode due to the connection between the gimmick's hexagonal joints. Because of this, only 5 out of 6 wheels can smoothly roll unless you pull it backward or push it down while rolling it forwards, which also activates the spinning matrix inside the truck's cavity. A running change was also added: The locking tabs are now modified to allow the Matrix to rotate back securely in one touch. Due to the weight of his torso, the hip ratchets can barely support an even wider A-stance due to the combined weight of the upper torso.

:Like his wave-mate [[Megatron (Cyberverse)#Ultimate Class|Megatron]], this version of Optimus Prime was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2019 in the ''Power of the Spark'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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[[File:TF-Cyberverse-Ultimate-Class-(POTS)-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"I reject my complex transformation, [[Kenzan|KENZAN]]!" ]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Ultimate Class, 2020-2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Energon Axe Attack"

:This Ultimate Class Optimus Prime utilizes a different transformation scheme from the prior Ultimate Class figure. He also features both the Energon Axe action attack and a flip-out Armor triggered from his rear legs. This Optimus also features a unique transformation: Pulling out the Energon Axe when converted halfway unleashes the "twist-and-change" action consists of spinning his torso and arms in place. As a result, his upper limbs are very loose. This Optimus only features articulation on the forearms, while his pair of legs is a [[Brick (term)|brick]] as it was used to store the armor gimmick.

:Like the previous Ultimate Class figure, this version of Optimus Prime was also released twice: First in 2020 under the ''Battle for Cybertron'' subline imprint, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.
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====Elite Class====
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-Elite-Class-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"Jet Jet! Jet Combat!"]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Elite Class, 2019)
**''Japanese Name'': '''Wingfire Optimus Prime'''
**''Japanese Release Date'': [[September]] [[2019]]
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TCV-16'''
**''Spark Armor'': "Sky Turbine"
:''Cyberverse'' Elite Class Optimus Prime is a smaller, Warrior Class-sized mold that transforms from robot to a smokestack-less truck. He also comes with a fighter jet accessory with built-in Gatling guns, which can form his battle armor in robot mode. Like all Elite Class toys, the accessory also comes with a unique built-in helmet. The wings automatically transform in place if the cockpit is folded down when combined with Optimus.

:The "[[Sky Turbine]]" is based on a swing-wing jet of made-up model, with some design details being reminiscent of [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. It features large undercarriage Gatling guns and, satisfyingly, folding nose-cone landing gear. When folded down as armor, the guns unlatch and swing beside Prime's arms using a spring-loaded mechanism, and wings rotate 180 degrees with the jet exhausts becoming shoulder-mounted cannons. For extra stability, the heel supports on Optimus are extra long to support the weight of the armor. Unlike most Elite-class Spark Armor, there are no larger hands sculpted in. This Optimus Prime can also tow the Battle Base Trailer.

:While the promotional renders for the toy show a solid silver truck-mode grill, the actual toy has a red hinge arm in the middle. This is likely due to a planned [[paint operation]] being omitted from the final product.

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====Ark Power====
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-Ark-Power-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=2|thumb|If [[Hikaru Midorikawa|Gridman]] can save Christmas, so can I!]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Ark Power, 2019)
**''Spark Armor'': "[[Ark (Cyberverse)#Toys|Ark Power]]"
**''Japanese Name'': '''Ark Combine Optimus Prime'''
**''Japanese Release Date'': [[November 9]], [[2019]]
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TCV-23'''

:Released as the largest ''Cyberverse'' toy, Ark Power Optimus Prime features a completely different transformation from the Ultimate Class toy, albeit omitting the leg and head articulation. He also includes a large accessory that is modeled after the Ark, which also transforms into his battle armor with a molded blade for his gauntlet. The blade is stored in between the foot armor/engines of the Ark, which can itself be carried on the back of Prime's truck mode. Curiously, the box art depicts him with gauntlets for ''both'' arms, which may be connected with the gap in the front of the Ark.

:This toy was released in ''Nezha: Transformers'' packaging in Chinese markets.

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====Deluxe Class====
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-2018-Deluxe-Class-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The impossible possible.]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Deluxe Class, 2019)
**''Build-a-Figure part'': Maccadam's left forearm
**''Japanese Name'': '''Action Master Optimus Prime'''
**''Japanese Release Date'': [[August]] [[2020]]
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''01'''
**''Accessories'': Ion Blaster, [[Fire Blast effect|Effect part]]
**''Action Attack'': "Matrix Mega Shot"

:Released as part of the ''Cyberverse'' [[Transformers:_Cyberverse_(toyline)#Deluxe_Class|Deluxe Class]] lineup, this Optimus Prime is a show-accurate mold that is more poseable than most of his previous releases. He comes with an Ion Blaster that can be wielded by his 5mm hands, and an effect part for both his blaster and the Matrix, which can be revealed by opening the chest panels. He can tow the battle base trailer if you leave the feet untransformed, though the protruding rear ankle panel makes it impossible to roll the truck smoothly. A hole in the back of his vehicle mode can use the effect part as a booster flame. Due to the transformation scheme, Optimus's robot mode features fake wheels on his robot back/upper hood flap.

:In Japan, Optimus Prime was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive. The catalog reveals that he was originally intended to be sold for the regular markets (hence the "TCV-28" ID Number) with a February 2020 release date. Like the rest of the figures, he was released in a windowless, monochrome packaging.

:The waist, wheels, and Ion Blaster of this figure were reused for ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)|EarthSpark]]'' Deluxe Class [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]].

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====Battle Call====
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-2018-Battle-Call-Officer-Class-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[AWAKENING]]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Officer Class, 2020)
**''Accessories'': Sword, Shield

:Released as part of the ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'''s Battle Call subline, the Officer Class Optimus Prime is a roughly Leader-sized mold that converts from robot to truck and back. Like his sub-line's brethren, Optimus features a "Battle Call" voice-activated gimmick, which automatically deploys his armor and activates his battle sounds if "Power Up" is spoken. He also comes with a sword and shield that is strongly reminiscent of his live-action film's counterpart's weapons. In the U.S., this was released as a [[Walmart]] exclusive.

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====Roll N' Change====
[[File:Cyberverse roll n transform optimus prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Horny on main]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Roll N' Change, 2021)
:*''Accessories'': Sword, chestplate, arm blades

:A large scale figure of Optimus which transforms automatically from Cybertronian truck to robot when rolled along a smooth surface. His face has no faceplate and he includes an energon armor parts and a sword along with electronic lights.

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====Smash Changers====
[[File:Cyberversetoy-SmashChangersOptimusPrime.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|WHEN DID TOYS GET SO SOFT]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures Dinobots Unite Smash Changers, 2022)
**Japanese Name: '''''Papapatto'' (Quick) Change Optimus Prime'''
**TakaraTomy Release Date: April 15, 2023
**TakaraTomy ID Number: '''BPC-02'''
:A ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts]]'' toy shuffled into ''Cyberverse'' to account for the movie's delay, ''Transformers Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures Dinobots Unite'' Smash Changers Optimus Prime (phew) changes from a [https://www.favcars.com/mercedes-benz-armored-heavy-actros-mp3-2008-11-images-264827 Mercedes-Benz Armored Heavy Actros] to extremely-''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''-movie robot in three kinetic auto-transforming steps. Manually converting the toy back into truck mode takes eleven steps. [https://gizmodo.com/transformers-toys-no-longer-make-kids-work-for-it-1848595676 Jaded boomer clickbait] may be written about only the first half of this process. He features limited articulation on the elbows.

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===''Buzzworthy Bumblebee''===
[[File:Buzzworthy warrior 4 pack.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Because 3 times wasn't enough...]]
*'''Optimus Prime / Bumblebee / Megatron / Starscream''' (Warrior Class 4-pack, 2021)
**''Series'': '''''Cyberverse'''''

:Part of the cross-''Generations'' ''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'' subline, the [[#Warrior Class|first Warrior Class Optimus Prime]] was re-released without any changes for this 4-pack along with [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)#Buzzworthy Warrior|Bumblebee]], [[Megatron (Cyberverse)#Buzzworthy Warrior|Cybertronian Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Cyberverse)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Starscream]].

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[[File:TF-Buzzworthy-Bumblebee-Cyberverse-2018-Deluxe-Three-Pack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Bumblebee / Optimus Prime / Cheetor''' (Deluxe Class 3-pack, [[2022]])
**''Series'': '''''Cyberverse'''''
**''Accessories'': Ion Blaster, [[Fire Blast effect|Effect part]]

:The [[#Deluxe Class|Deluxe Class Optimus Prime]] toy was re-released without any changes for this 3-pack along with [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)#Buzzworthy Deluxe|Bumblebee]] and [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Cheetor]]. This release does not come with a [[Maccadam]] [[Maccadam#Cyberverse|build-a-figure piece]].

:This 3-pack first saw release in Asian countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

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[[File:CV-toy Buzzworthy 1-Step Optimus Prime.jpg|upright=1.44|thumb]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (1-Step Changer, 2022)
**''Series'': '''''Cyberverse'''''

:The [[#1Step2ndMold|second 1-Step Changer Optimus Prime]] (the one with the axe) was re-released without any changes in [[rebranding|rebranded]] ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' packaging.

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==Merchandise==
===McDonald's===
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-McD-Japan-Happy-Set-Optimus-Prime-Water-Gun.jpg|upright=1.33|thumb]]
*'''Optimus Prime Color Reveal Squirter''' (2019)
**''Accessories'': Insignia-revealing base

:Released as part of McDonald's Japan's “All-Star Water” promotion from August 16th to August 22nd, this translucent vinyl figurine of Optimus Prime features a [[water-squirting gimmick]]. He also comes with an Autobot insignia with paper that changes color when hit by water.

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[[File:McD CV 2019 Optimus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (2019)
**''Accessories'': Jet/armor

:Optimus Prime is a 4-inch-tall figure with articulation at the neck, hips and arms. He includes a small fighter jet (reminiscent of his [[#Elite Class|Elite Class]] toy) that can be separated in half and reattached onto various posts around his body as weapons or armor.

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[[File:CV-toy McDonalds OptimusPrime 2021.jpg|thumb|150px]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (2021)
:Released only in Singapore in January 2021, Optimus Prime is a non-transforming figure with limited articulation. The chest of the figure has a panel with a lenticular image sticker on it which changes angle when the left arm is moved. Moving the panel causes the image on his chest to change.

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===Burger King===
[[File:Cyberverse Burger King toys 2019.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (2019)
:Released a mere month before the aforementioned Happy Meal toy, Burger King's take on Optimus Prime is a figure of his Spark Armor body with the inclusion of a jet cockpit on his chest and a detachable set of wings on his back. His left arm and hips are articulated, whereas his right arm has a spring-loaded projectile launcher sculpted in.

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===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy XiaomiBrickSet OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1675'''
**''Pieces'': '''432'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Optimus Prime is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a truck mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Optimus must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.

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[[File:Nezha-toy XiaomiOnebot OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Onebot set, 2020)
**''Set number'': '''QTZ01IQI'''
**''Pieces'': '''1280+'''
:''Onebot'' Optimus Prime is a similar building kit to the one above and can also be assembled into either robot or truck mode, except it's now much larger and is based on the "Lego Technic" style of more complex pieces and builds. It was released as part of the MITU brand of building sets also made by Xiaomi. Building instructions are available on the official app for mobile devices and Windows. Robot mode requires 1277 parts assembled over 1228 steps, truck mode takes 669 parts and 596 steps.

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*'''Optimus Prime''' (Blind-box building doll, 2021)
**''Set number'': '''???'''
**''Pieces'': '''???'''
:This "blind-box building doll" Optimus Prime uses the same style of construction as the ''Onebot'' set above, but is a much smaller kit resulting in a super-deformed robot mode that lacks a rebuildable vehicle mode.

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[[File:Nezha-toy XiaomiOnebot SmartBrick truck.jpg|thumb|300px|The main feature of this Optimus in the promo material is being able to listen in conversations which is uuuhhhh...]]
*'''Smart Building Block Transformers''' (Onebot set, 2021)
**''Set number'': '''OBTFS27AIQI'''
**''Pieces'': '''518 (this build uses 388)'''
:This Optimus Prime is one of the 9 builds with provided instructions for the LEGO Mindstorms-like set, featuring a Transformers-branded programmable module, two motors and inertial data sensor. The module can be programmed via an app using a Scratch-like drag-and-drop "language" or Python. The truck build features a molded Autobot symbol on the hood, front wheel axis steerable with one motor and rear wheel axis motorized with another one. It requires 388 pieces over 322 steps of building instructions, which are available in the mobile and Windows app, same as the large Onebot sets.

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===Perfect Toys===
{{note|Due to the lack of official English translations for the products, the wiki uses its own translations unless otherwise specified.}}
[[File:TF-Cyberverse-2018-PRC-exclusive-OP-RC-Offroad-Buggy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The Decepticon Crusher. No, [http://img30.360buyimg.com/popWaterMark/jfs/t1/86619/5/7500/206052/5dfc3901E653b0b4b/bfdddc97218f1d26.jpg this is how the advertisement mentioned].]]
*'''Optimus Prime Off-Road Buggy''' (2020)
**''Accessories'': Remote Control

:Produced exclusively for the [[China|PRC]] markets under Hasbro's licensing, this remote control Off-Road Buggy features an Optimus-themed livery (though in his ''Age of Extinction'' pattern), and comes with a non-removable Optimus Prime figurine (inspired by his Generation 1 appearance) riding it. The vehicle also features unique tires that allow the buggy to move sideways, has a suspension gimmick, and plays music. (What kind of music is unknown.)

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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Optimus_Prime-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|"[[The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|Optimus will be back. He]] '''[[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|always]]''' [[The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|comes back.]]"]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Optimus Prime's design is based on the [[evergreen]] design also used for his [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]], with some minor stylistic tweaks.
*All merchandise depictions (with the exception of two) have his [[energon-axe]] colored orange like it was in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]". The actual cartoon depiction, however, is blue.
*In Japanese, Optimus Prime is voiced by [[Takehito Koyasu|the Japanese voice actor]] of [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]], just as as ''Cyberverse'' Megatron is voiced by [[Shigeru Chiba|the Japanese voice actor]] of ''Beast Wars'' [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]].
**In an interesting coincidence both the Mexican and French dubs of Cyberverse had also hired the dub actors of Beast Machines Optimus Primal of their respective languages to dub Cyberverse Optimus Prime and even more freaky is how both actors only ended up voicing Optimus Prime in the first season only before being replaced for season 2.
*Optimus's Earth alternate mode appears to be a fictionalized {{w|Freightliner Argosy#Second generation (2012-present)|Freightliner Argosy}}, arguably the closest modern successor to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|the original Optimus Prime's]] Freightliner WFT-8664T altmode.
*In the cartoon, Optimus' [[:File:Cyberverse EOTU II OptimusPrime OtherDimension.jpg|stomach grill]] lacks the panel lining and pre-rendered shading prevalent in the show's art style, making it look more like a grey stripe unless [[:File:We Want The Same Thing (Cyberverse - Megatron Is My Hero promo).jpg|viewed from the side]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Optimus Prime''' (オプティマスプライム ''Oputimasu Puraimu'')
*''Korean:'' '''Optimus Prime''' (옵티머스 프라임 ''Optimeoseu Peuraim'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Qíngtīanzhù''' (China, 擎天柱, "Pillar that Supports the Sky")

==See also==
{{OtherVersions
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*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the stoic and heroic Autobot leader from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], the violent and murderous Autobot leader from the [[live-action film series]].
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], the young and inexperienced commander from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]].''
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], the a member of the [[Thirteen]] and leader of the Autobots from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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Transformer afterlife

2024-09-20T07:08:39Z

JunoDeguzman2024: spelling correction

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{{Disambig3.5|the afterlife|the life giving object|AllSpark|Allspark}}

[[File:Theallspark.jpg|upright=2|thumb|The Allspark. Yes, it does kind of look like a big sperm on purpose.]]
Whereas [[human]]kind has fought wars over the meaning behind life and death, the [[Transformer]] race is fortunate enough to possess a sense of security in knowing for certain that their lifeforce will persist in some form when they pass on from the material plane to the '''Transformer afterlife'''.

At the heart of an endless, cyclical process of birth, [[death]] and resurrection, the Cybertronian afterlife is an extradimensional realm that is the living essence of their creator [[Primus]]. It is the wellspring from which all Transformers' [[spark]]s are born, and the place to which they return when they die. When a Transformer is brought online, it is commonly through use of a [[sacred treasure]] which serves as a means of access to Primus's realm. Through this implement, a spark departs the afterlife and enters the new Transformer's body, granting it life. The Transformer then lives out their life, and upon the moment of their death, their spark will return whence it came, taking with it all the emotions, experiences, and knowledge that the Transformer has gained throughout their time online. All this information is suffused into the collective essence of the afterlife, gathering with that derived from all other sparks from throughout time, forming a collection of information known as the "Wisdom of the Ages".

There is little individuality in the great beyond; deceased Transformers lose all sense of self-awareness as their experiences become one with all the others in the afterlife and they effectively cease to exist as a singular entity. However, some Transformers do retain their individuality—typically, those who have had close contact with sacred treasures, such as the Autobots who have carried the [[Matrix of Leadership]]—and can serve as guides for any visitors to their realm.

The afterlife is known by many names in many different [[universal stream]]s, often shared with the names of sacred treasures and locations that allow access to it; these include the '''Matrix''', the '''Allspark''', the '''Well of All Sparks''', and the '''Afterspark'''. If considered the analog of "heaven" in the Transformers' belief system, its "underworld" counterpart is [[Pit (BW)|The Pit]], but there is no evidence that realm actually exists.

{{bigquote|Where...all are one.|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] after travelling through the Allspark|"[[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)]]"}}

==Conceptual history==
[[File:FFoD4 rodimus ancient robot.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.35|Rodimus Prime ventures into the Matrix, guided by the spirit of [[Primon|an ancient robot]].]]
The concept of the Transformers having an afterlife to which they go when they expire has existed since near the beginning of the line, and has evolved and coalesced over the last thirty years. The history of this development is covered here for clarity; for the specifics on the different interpretations in various continuities, see the "Fiction" section below.

The very beginnings can be found in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]], which introduced the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]] in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. The Matrix was a powerful, ancient talisman, revealed in the episode "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]" to be a vessel containing the "life forces" of its previous bearers, who stood sentinel over the accumulated "Wisdom of the Ages" within the Matrix and guided [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] through its depths. Additionally, the deceased Autobot [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] was shown to exist within both the Matrix in "[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2]]" and the mega-computer [[Vector Sigma]]—source of Transformer life in this continuity—in "[[The Rebirth, Part 2]]"; this was a contradiction at the time, but would become hugely relevant years later.

While the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Generation 1 Marvel comic]] had debuted its version of the Matrix, the Creation Matrix, ''before'' the cartoon under writer [[Bob Budiansky]], it was not until after the cartoon introduced these concepts that writer [[Simon Furman]] expanded on the nature of the comic's Matrix. Under Budiansky, the Matrix had already been established to be the source of new Transformer life in the comic continuity, while Furman further revealed it to be a vessel containing the essence and power of the Transformers' creator and god Primus, in addition to explaining that all Transformer life-forces are fragments of Primus' own.

[[File:TheReformatting allspark oracle.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.35|''Beast Machines'' was responsible for clearly explaining most of the mechanics of the afterlife, which it depicted as a huge mass of sparks when seen from the "outside."]]

It was the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon that took understanding of Transformer life to the next level when it established the concept of [[spark]]s, a Transformer's "soul." Sparks, it was explained, came from somewhere or something called "the Matrix," and returned to this realm when they died. Additionally, the Transformers could often be heard swearing "by the Matrix," indicating its reverential place in their belief system. Behind the scenes, ''Beast Wars'' writers [[Bob Forward]] and [[Larry DiTillio]] did not have the specifics of this "Matrix" fleshed out; they envisioned it variously as a mysterious facility on Cybertron from which Maximal protoforms emerged, or as the nebula that was home to the cartoon's enigmatic aliens, the [[Vok]], thus making those creatures responsible for Transformer life in the Beast Era. The latter idea was never used (and has since been pushed well out of the realm of possibility by subsequent fiction) while the former would later be officialized over a decade later in the [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] story "[[The Razor's Edge]]." Regardless, it was ''Beast Wars''' own sequel series ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' that was first to expand on what this "Matrix" truly was, forging it into the central concept of its own storyline. ''Beast Machines'' introduced an additional name for the Matrix, the "Allspark," and established it to be the realm from which all Transformer sparks "that ever lived, or ever will live" come from, cementing the vast majority of the details covered in the top section of this article.

[[File:RebirthPt2 optimus and alpha.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.35|This scene from "[[The Rebirth, Part 2]]", depicting Alpha Trion inside Vector Sigma, was contradicted by an earlier scene from "[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2]]" that showed him within the Matrix. The discontinuity was retroactively corrected when the details of the afterlife were further explored.]]

In ''Beast Machines'', the Allspark was accessed by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] supercomputer, at the core of which was Vector Sigma, tying back into the Generation 1 cartoon and indicating how the computer had been able to provide life in its version of events. The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' cartoon soon reiterated the connection, describing Vector Sigma as "the Allspark" in "[[Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!]]". A year or two later, [[Dreamwave Productions]]' ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets The Eye]]'' guidebook did the same for the Matrix of Leadership, describing it as a conduit for the life-giving power of Primus (as in the Marvel comic), a container of great wisdom (as in the cartoon), and the source and destination of all sparks (as in the ''Beast'' cartoons). With all these links in place, the Alpha Trion contradiction mentioned above suddenly took on new meaning: he was not within either the Matrix ''or'' Vector Sigma, but within the afterlife realm, which was merely being ''accessed'' by these two items. As a final touch, in 2006, the bio of the e-Hobby exclusive "Laser" [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]] figure explained why the Autobot leaders from the Generation 1 cartoon had appeared as individuals within the afterlife when ''Beast Machines'' had established this should not be the case: those who had held the Matrix of Leadership were exempt from this rule, and retained their individuality.

Following ''Beast Machines'', which favored the "Matrix" name in-show despite the secondary moniker it introduced, "Allspark" became the standard term used to refer to the afterlife, presumably to avoid confusion with the physical Matrix object. This held for several years, until [[2007]] when the [[live-action film series]] and ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'' cartoon both used "AllSpark" (with a camelCase "S") as the name of the [[AllSpark|ancient object]] that was the source of Transformer life in these continuities (itself identified as a "[[sacred treasure]]" like the Matrix and Vector Sigma by Takara's [[World of the Transformers]] website). Faced with finding a new way to avoid confusion, ''Animated'' referred to the afterlife not as the "Allspark," but as the "Well of All Sparks," after a location introduced in Dreamwave's comics which was itself another means of accessing the realm, while the movies simply opted to avoid referring to the afterlife by any name altogether. The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' cartoon, however, did not replicate either solution, resulting in a somewhat confusing depiction of the Allspark/AllSpark in "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]" that practically treated the physical object and the afterlife realm as if they were the same thing—not unlike the treatment of the Matrix in the Generation 1 cartoon, but with the weight of history against it. This would occur again in the ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' cartoon wherein the physical AllSpark object would be depicted as both the source ''and'' final resting place of all Transformer life, with the sparks of deceased Transformers actually shown to physically enter the AllSpark object shortly after a Transformer's death, as though the afterlife actually resided within said object. Such conflation was probably inevitable given the afterlife had three different names, each one shared with an item or location connected to it; in 2011, [[IDW Publishing]] sought to sidestep such issues by providing a fourth, original name, the "Afterspark," introduced in ''[[Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime]]''.

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==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[File:RoOP2 enter the matrix.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.25]]
Injured in battle with the [[Decepticon]]s in 2005, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]]'s lifeforce temporarily retreated into the [[Matrix of Leadership]], where he was offered confusing glimpses of the Transformers' history that implied a connection with the [[Quintesson]]s. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2}} Desperate to learn more about the evil aliens and why they were targeting the Transformers, Rodimus voluntarily short-circuited himself so that he could travel into the Matrix once again. This time, he was greeted by the spirits of the deceased leaders who had come before him, who took him on a guided tour through twelve million years of Cybertronian history that revealed the full extent of their origins. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

When Optimus Prime was returned to life in 2006, he entered the Matrix in the hope that amongst the wisdom it contained was a cure for the [[Hate Plague]] currently ravaging the galaxy. Welcomed back to the afterlife by the spirit of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], Optimus journeyed back through history to consult the earliest known entity within the Matrix, "[[It]]," who revealed that the unthinking rage brought on by the spores could be counteracted by the wisdom found within the Matrix itself. Prime emptied the Matrix to cure the plague, {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}} but subsequently used its empty shell to reactivate [[Vector Sigma]] so that he could commune with Alpha Trion once more, seeking answers about the Decepticon's theft of the [[Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber|key]] to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]]. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}}
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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
[[File:Legends trion finds magnus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2.25]]
Following [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s death in 2011, {{storylink|Ultra Magnus Dies!!}} his temporary custodianship of the Matrix saw him inducted into the ranks of past Autobot leaders who retained their individuality in the afterlife. Decades later, when [[Galvatron II]] arrived from another dimension, Magnus sensed the danger from within the Matrix. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#G-2|G-2 Laser Ultra Magnus bio}} Requiring help to battle Galvatron, Optimus Prime called upon Alpha Trion's spirit—now bonded to the Matrix after he had restored it from its emptied state {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}—to help him resurrect Magnus. Trion ventured into the afterlife and located Magnus's spirit, then used his Matrix-granted powers to bring both Magnus and himself back to life. {{storylink|LG14 Ultra Magnus Prologue#Resurrection Chapter|Resurrection Chapter}}

The indestructible nature of the treacherous Decepticon [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]'s mutant spark meant that when he died, rather than go to the afterlife, he found himself in the twilight realm of [[Limbo]], between life and death. From there, Starscream created a [[flip-soul|crystal]] that allowed him to return to the physical plane as a ghost. {{storylink|MP-3G Destron Air Commander / Starscream Ghost Ver.}}

After his death in the war against the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s, {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|The Cost of Victory}} [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]'s spirit ended up in the [[Legends World|Legends Universe]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rattrap)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} As a ghost, Rhinox was able to fight and defeat fellow ghost Starscream. Afterwards, Rhinox had his soul placed into a fully-functional body built in the Legends Universe, and he returned to his home universe with his friends. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rhinox)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}
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===Beast Era===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
[[File:ComingoftheFuzors2 other side of the matrix.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.25]]
The Beast Warriors' first reference to the Matrix came when Tigatron swore by it as an exclamation of shock. {{storylink|The Probe}} When [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] perished, [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] said a prayer for his spark to "join the Matrix, the greatest of Cybertron." {{storylink|Code of Hero}} [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] was heard to invoke it as a threat; when firing what he thought was a killing shot at [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]], he mockingly declared "Time to go back to the Matrix, hero!" {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

When Optimus Primal perished in a [[unspace|transwarp]] explosion and his spark crossed over into "the other side of the Matrix," the nature of the explosion meant that it left a trans-ion trail behind, an ethereal pathway leading into the great beyond. Piggybacking on this trail, [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] was able to project his own consciousness into the afterlife, where he located Primal's spark, bringing it back to reality and implanting it into a blank [[protoform]], restoring Primal to life. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}
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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
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{{quote|We are all but fragments of the Matrix, which releases each of us in order to struggle, and grow, and evolve—so when we return to it, ''it'' may grow and evolve. Thus do we serve the Matrix, not just by battling, but also by acquiring knowledge, wisdom, and experiencing love.|Optimus Primal|[[Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future]]}}

[[File:BMEndgame2 Optimus allspark vision.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5]]

Upon their return to Cybertron, Optimus Primal and his Maximals were summoned to the planet's depths by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] supercomputer. Thanks to his "receptive spark," Primal was able to interface with the Oracle, and via its Vector Sigma core, commune with the Matrix itself—referred to by the Oracle as "the Allspark that links everyone and everything that ever lived or ever will live." {{storylink|The Reformatting}} Through this link, Primal would often experience prophetic, metaphorical visions that steered him on a mission that he believed was the Matrix's purpose for him: to restore organic matter to Cybertron. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent}} It was while he was in the middle of such a communion that Primal found himself unexpectedly joined on this higher plane of consciousness by [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], whose [[spark]] had been separated from her body during a battle with [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Blackarachnia was confused, but Primal explained that all Transformers were linked through the Matrix. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse}}

[[File:Fallout primal enters allspark.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]

It was also through communion with the Oracle and the Allspark that Primal discovered Rhinox's spark was trapped within the Vehicon general [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]. As Tankor, Rhinox manipulated Optimus and Megatron into releasing the energies of the Plasma Energy Chamber and the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], but the resultant clash between the two threatened to destroy the planet, with Tankor as one of its first victims. In the heart of the maelstrom, Primal found himself drifting into the Matrix once more, where Rhinox's spark appeared to impart a final message. Spurred on, Primal was able to take control of the forces ravaging Cybertron and directed them through the Oracle, into the Matrix itself. In doing so, however, Primal destroyed himself, and his own spark began to join the Matrix. Just before he merged with it, he had another vision that finally made clear what the Matrix's mission for him was: not to ''replace'' the planet's technology with organic matter, but to unite the two and create a [[technorganic]] Cybertron. Realizing his work was not yet done, Primal's spark refused to join the Matrix, and he returned to the physical world to continue leading his Maximals. {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}}

[[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] saw the Allspark when the Oracle granted her a vision of what had been happening to Cybertron. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike}} Soon after, when Optimus petitioned the Oracle for aid in fighting the final battle against Megatron's forces, the Allspark itself answered the call, super-charging the sparks of the Maximals with the energy of the innumerable sparks that made up its being. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall}} Optimus subsequently perished defeating Megatron and his spark appeared one last time to [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] through his own newfound connection to the Oracle before departing to join the Matrix. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}}
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====Singularity Ablyss====
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During his ongoing battles with the Maximals for control of the sparks of Cybertron, Megatron's own spark became separated from his body. Against his own wishes, his spark began to drift into the next world, where it was greeted by the spark of the deceased Rhinox. The Maximal explained that he was to serve as Megatron's guide through the "[[Tree of Life]]" that linked the physical world to the Allspark, and that he would lead him through the eight "levels" on the tree, each one repsenting a different emotion or ethic that would educate Megatron's spark in preparation for his arrival at the "top" of the tree and his merging with the Allspark. Revulsed at the notion of losing his individuality, Megatron fought back, obliterating Rhinox's spark and returning to the material world to continue his plans. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}

===Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity===
[[File:Vector Primevs.Megatron.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.5]]
In [[Aurex 802.23 Alpha|this reality]], sparks emerge from the Allspark via something called the "Iacon chamber." {{storylink|Rebellion (Armada)|Rebellion}} Characters could be heard to swear by the Allspark, and [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] once referred to death as being sent to "meet the Allspark." {{storylink|Trap}}

When [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] died defending Earth against the threat of the [[Hydra Cannon]], the [[Mini-Con]]s were able to resurrect him by recovering his spark from the great beyond via the Matrix of Leadership. {{storylink|Miracle (episode)|Miracle}}

After [[Vector Prime]] and [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] met their ends during the quest for the [[Cyber Planet Key]]s, their spirits were shown duelling one another in the next world. {{storylink|Beginning}}

Mini-Cons have what is essentially their own version of the Allspark, called the [[Linkage (dimension)|Linkage]]. {{storylink|Linkage (comic)|Linkage}}
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===''Animated'' cartoon===
Uniquely, the afterlife is referred to as the "Well of All Sparks" in this dimension, first referenced by the Autobot medic [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] when wryly commenting on the non-life-threatening severity of injuries received by [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]: "Well, he's not quite ready to join the Well of All Sparks, if you know what I mean." {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

In order to sufficiently reconstitute the shattered AllSpark crystal, Prowl added his own spark to the crystal mass. He died in the process, but his spark did not move on to the afterlife, instead persisting as a ghost. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

{{note|Had ''Animated'' been renewed for a fourth season, a further episode would have explored Prowl's adventures as a ghost, possessing Transformers animated by AllSpark fragments.}}

===Live-action film series===
[[File:ROTF-sixprimes.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.75]]
While carrying the knowledge of the [[AllSpark]] in his mind, [[Sam Witwicky]] was gravely wounded by a blast from [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. As his body lay apparently dead, his consciousness ascended into the Transformer afterlife, where he was met by the [[Dynasty of Primes]]. Congratulating Sam on his valiant efforts to resurrect the fallen [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], the Primes revealed that by being willing to die in Optimus's name, Sam's had proven himself worthy of the power of the Matrix of Leadership. The Primes then returned him to the material world so he could complete his mission and use the Matrix to revive Optimus. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:DoOP afterspark.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|Optimus Prime initially mistook the blighted, primordial landscape of the transformed Cybertron for the Afterspark.]]
The afterlife is typically referred to as the "Afterspark," though when [[Nominus Prime]] was given a grand funeral, it was said to honor his "ascension to the Allspark". {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}}

According to legend, the Afterspark had been created by the [[Guiding Hand]] after the [[God War]] so that Cybertronians could live forever following their deaths. {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (2): The God War|The God War}} One interpretation of the Afterspark was that it was an informational cloud with skies of program code and mountains of ancient data. {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (1): Metastasis|Metastasis}}

After awakening from his "sacrifice" to cleanse [[Vector Sigma]] of the [[D-Void]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] thought he was in the Afterspark. Subsequent exploration soon revealed his belief to be incorrect; the world was [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] itself in a period of rebirth. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} The massive changes to the planet caused [[Hipotank]] to ask the Autobots "What in the Afterspark have you done?" {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson}}

During a discussion on [[Primus]], [[Ore]] told [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] that he didn't believe in the Afterspark or any other afterlife for that matter. Once Ore suddenly vanished, the more religious Swerve assumed that Primus had intervened and sent the poor soul to the Afterspark. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations}} [[Tarn (G1)|Tarn]] was similarly skeptical, but considered himself agnostic rather than atheist, because while he considered the existence of the Afterspark to be in doubt, he had no doubts that Hell was real—and that he had created it in [[Grindcore (prison)|Grindcore]] prison. {{storylink|Speak, Memory! (Part 2)}}

"Afterspark" was also utilized in insults. When [[Outback (G1)|Outback]] casually mentioned killing other bots, [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] denounced him "Afterspark-spawned". {{storylink|New Cybertron End: Feel Safe Without Regrets|Feel Safe Without Regrets}}

[[File:Unicron6 Spirits of the Dead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|right|"''This'' is the Bad Place!"]]

[[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]] referred to [[infraspace]] as a limbo between the land of living and the afterlife. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}

On [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], devout adherents of the [[Way of Flame]] believe in reincarnation: the Sparks of the departed return to the forge of [[Solus Prime]], which burns beneath the Primal Wellspring, and are eventually reborn as new Cybertronians. {{storylink|The Life of Sideswipe}}

After an accident with the [[Warren]], [[Team Rodimus]] found themselves on [[Mederi]] which presented itself to them as [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]]'s interpretation of the Afterspark based on his powerful desire to reunite with the believed to be deceased [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]. {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (3): You Are Here|You Are Here}}

Though all the myths and legends of Cybertron had been disproved, [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] managed to use the [[Enigma of Combination]] and the "Earth-Enigma" to tap into a metaphysical realm populated by the spirits of deceased Cybertronians, alongside fallen [[human]]s and [[Space Knight]]s, though whether this realm truly was the Afterspark is unclear. {{storylink|Ceremony}}
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===Aligned continuity family===
[[File:PredaconsRising allspark.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1]]
In this world, the distinction between the afterlife and the sacred treasure used to access it is harder to define. At first, it seemed as if there was a physical AllSpark object through which the afterlife was accessed, kept within the [[Well of All Sparks]], {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} but later, it was explained the "physical" Allspark was actually nothing of the sort: it was ethereal energy, which was placed within a container built by [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] so that it could be launched into space and put beyond Megatron's reach. The language used to describe the energy was vague, but spoke of how it was "extracted from the ether" and was made up of "a multitude of sparks," suggesting that the energy might have actually been that of the Allspark realm itself, drawn into the material world. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

[[File:Rebellion prime sees the light.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Don't go into the light, there's a whole season left yet!]]
As [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] lay dying, he had a vision of approaching the Allspark and speaking with Alpha Trion, who invited him to join it. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}} The power of the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] saved Optimus's life, and he returned to the material plane to resume his war with Megatron, which culminated in Megatron's death at [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'s hands—but Megatron was soon to learn that ''his'' spark was ''unable'' to join the Allspark, as it was forever marked with the taint of [[Unicron]]'s evil by [[Dark Energon]]. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

When Optimus recovered the reliquary containing the Allspark, he found it necessary to empty the container so it could be used as a prison for Unicron's dark spark. To keep safe the energy of the Allspark, he transferred it from the container into the Matrix of Leadership, bonded to his own spark. Gravely, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] and [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokscreen]] realized that Optimus had quite literally enacted the metaphysical concept of becoming "one with the Allspark." Only by sacrificing his own life could Prime release the energy of the Allspark, returning it to the Well of All Sparks and restoring Cybertron's ability to generate new life. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}} However, before his own spark could join the Allspark, it was intercepted by the [[Thirteen|legendary Primes]] and transported to [[Realm of the Primes|their realm]], {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} from whence he was resurrected. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}}

{{-}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe12 afterlife.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.75]]
After being slain by the god-emperor [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s sparks embarked on the journey to their eternal rest, travelling across a digital wireframe plane. Informed by the spirit of Alpha Trion that as they were not guaranteed a place in the pantheon of the Matrix, they had to prove their worth by facing the weird landscape's many perils, including [[Kremzeek]], the "eater of souls", who threatened to consume their lifeforces before they could transcend to the next world. Grimlock struggled along the way, weighed down by the metaphorically representative burden of his sword, but Prime helped him, and together they climbed a winding mountain peak, where they were confronted by the [[Bludgeon (G1)|Angel of Death]], who told them that only those possessing the "[[Key to Vector Sigma|Key to Vector Stigmata]]" could cross over into the Matrix. Prime realized that the wounds on his body were the key, but the angel would not permit him to bring Grimlock with him. Prime traded Grimlock the key for his sword, and allowed the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] to take his place in the Matrix. From his new seat in the afterlife, Grimlock tormented the talisman's current holder, Megatron himself, mockingly telling him there was nowhere he could hide from him. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} [[Scarlett]] subsequently used [[Doctor Venom]]'s [[Brainwave Scanner]] to induce a transcendental experience, allowing her to make contact with Optimus Prime's spirit and guide it back to his repaired body. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
After his death at the hands of the [[GoBot]] [[Vamp]], the [[Maximal]] [[Overshoot]] was faced with a choice: he could either join the Allspark — and abandon his partner [[Stiletto (BW)|Stiletto]] — or remain in the material plane, forever forsaking his chance to transcend to the next life. He chose the latter option, remaining an incorporeal presence who could prod the thoughts of his ex-partner. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

Following the end of the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], Overshoot, his job in this life done, rejoined the Oracle, reaching transcendence of a sort. {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Notes==
[[File:Ffod tree of life.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.25]]
*When Rodimus Prime gains his first glimpse of the afterlife in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] episode "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2]]", he is shown travelling down a purple-walled corridor, and experiences a psychedlic vision of flying mathematical formula which then explode (see collage, at right). The prose story "Singularity Ablyss" by ''Beast Machines'' story editor [[Bob Skir]], ''also'' included these pieces of imagery during its description of Megatron's journey into the afterlife—but only as the result of an absolutely ''incredible'' coincidence, as Skir had never seen the G1 episode!
*[[Unicron]]'s ''Transformers: Armada'' 2003 Fleer/Skybox trading card—the first new modern retelling of the Unicron/Primus origin story—claimed that "the All Spark" was responsible for birthing both him and Primus. This doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense, and when the story was recounted in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' within the following year, the "All Spark" was replaced with [[The One]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Matrix Zone''' (マトリクスゾーン ''Matorikusu Zōn''), '''Allspark''' (オールスパーク ''Ōrusupāku'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huǒzhǒng Yuán''' (火种源, "Origin of Sparks")

==See also==
*[[Primus]]
*[[Vector Sigma]]
*[[Linkage (dimension)|Linkage]]

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Philippines

2024-09-16T03:49:29Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Fiction */

The '''Philippines''' is a country comprising many islands in the western [[Pacific Ocean]].

==Fiction==
===''Deguzmani Universe''===
In the 15th of December 2012 AD, [[Juno Deguzman|Raphael Cyd Deguzmán Carino]] was born. 22 years later, He moved and with his family to the [[United States]] to have a better life.
===''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon===
The [[Karin Islands]] were located at the edge of the Philippines, and were home to the [[Autobot]] [[Headmaster Junior]] [[Cab (human)|Cab]].

===Spacewarp's Log===
In the 31st century, the Philippines became part of the global island-based [[United Kingdom]], the only Earth nation to not be overrun by [[Inhumanoid]]/[[Darkling Lord]] conquest. {{storylink|Transformers: Spacewarp's Log|Spacewarp's Log (2), 2015/12/05}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
[[Alex Malto]] was born and raised in [[Bohol]] before later moving to the [[United States of America|United States]]. He often shared many of his homeland's traditions with his American children, such as Kali techniques or legends of the [[Wakwak]]. [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] also used to drag race in [[Tagbilaran City]]. {{storylink|Traditions}}

==Notes==
* The Republic of the Philippines counts 7,641 islands. That's a lot!
* [[Top Draw Animation]], the animation house to which [[DHX Media]] outsourced work on ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'', is based in the Philippines.

==External links==
*The {{w|Philippines}} at Wikipedia

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Europe

2024-09-13T09:49:16Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Member states */

'''Europe''' is a (arbitrary) continent on [[Earth]], responsible for much of traditional Western culture and the spreading of several languages across the world. It's home to a number of wealthy, democratic nations, as well as [[Russia]] and [[Latveria]], and organisations such as the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Federation of Western Europe]], the [[European Crisis Coalition]], the [[European Union]], [[Action Force (team)|Action Force]], and much of [[NATO]].

[[Image:Europa 2000.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Close enough, it's only for kids...]]
Strangely, a lot of the time, the Decepticons ignore it in favour of [[Japan]] or the [[United States of America]], and several of the times they have noticed, they've just focused on the [[United Kingdom]]. [[TV Magazine|We]] [[Hasbro Studios|can]] [[Marvel Comics|only]] [[Sunbow Productions|wonder]] [[Toei|why]] [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|that]] [[Cartoon Network|is]]...

Scientifically speaking, Europe is merely a large peninsula of [[Eurasia]].

==Member states==
Nations in Europe include:

*[[Albania]]
*[[Austria]]
*[[Brasnya]]
*[[Belgium]]
*[[Bulgaria]]
*[[Ciech]]
*[[Denmark]]
*[[France]]
*[[Germany]]
*[[Greece]]
*[[Hungary]]
*[[Italy]]
*[[Latveria]]
*[[Netherlands]]
*[[Portugal]]
*[[Rumania]]
*[[Russia]]
*[[Spain]]
*[[Switzerland]]
*[[Symkaria]]
*[[United Kingdom]]
*[[Yugoslavia]]

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

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Insignia/Gallery

2024-09-13T09:42:34Z

JunoDeguzman2024: /* Non-Cybertronian insignia */

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There are so many variations of [[insignia]] across the breadth of the [[Transformers brand]] that it might be a fool's errand to try and list them all — but we are those fools!

While many of these insignia, such as that of the [[Wreckers]], are used in multiple [[continuity|continuities]] or [[continuity family|families]], others, such as the [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobot]] insignia, are confined to [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|only one]].

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==Factions==
===Autobots===
In the real world, the Autobot insignia was derived from the head of [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s toy.

Its in-universe origin varies: in [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] it was applied by the [[Quintesson]]s to their "consumer good" creations, while in [[Marvel Comics continuity]] it is seemingly based on the [[Last Autobot]]. In [[2005 IDW continuity]] it was "created" by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], who claimed it to be the face of [[Primus]], as part of an ontological paradox.
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File:Symbol autobot reg.png|'''[[Autobot]]''' 
File:G1PackagingAutobotInsignia.png|The Autobot symbol as it appeared on Generation 1 toy packaging and cartoon [[scene transition]]s.
File:AutobotInsignia-TheArk.png|The model sheet of the Autobot symbol created for the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|G1 cartoon]].
File:AutobotlogoMarvelcoloringbook.jpg|The [[Search for Treasure Under the Sea]] variant of the toy packaging insignia.
File:Live action Autobot insignia.png|'''Autobot''' ''([[Live-action film series|live-action film]])'' The biggest change is that the tops of the eye sockets, horizontal in the G1 symbol, tip down towards the middle in the Movie symbol.
File:Movie Autobot.JPG|A metallic variant of the movie Autobot symbol.
File:TitanmagAutobotinsigniaburning.jpg|A burning movie Autobot symbol from a sticker sheet that came with the [[Transformers Comic issue 17]].
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File:G2AutobotInsignia.png|'''Autobot''' ''([[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|G2]])'' The G2 Autobot symbol is based on the face of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].
File:G2AutobotInsigniaAlternate.png|'''Autobot''' ''([[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|G2]])'' Alternate colors of the G2 Autobot symbol. Seen on the Generation 2 logo.
File:Ancient Autobot Symbol.png|'''[[Primon|Ancient Robot]]''' This symbol appears to be a prototypical Autobot insignia. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4|FFoD}} In [[2005 IDW continuity]], it is the symbol denoting a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]. {{storylink|Informed}}
File:War Within Autobot Symbol.png|An early war Autobot insignia variant used in ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]]. 
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===Decepticons===
In the real world, the Decepticon insignia was based on [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s toy head. In the 1980s the crest of the symbol usually had a "squared-off" bottom, while modern portrayals generally have the crest pointed at the base.

Its origin in-universe is generally less-explored than that of the Autobots. In the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] it was a symbol applied to the Quintessons' "military hardware", while in the [[live-action film series]] and [[Aligned continuity family]] it is seemingly based on the face of [[the Fallen]].
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File:Symbol decept reg.png|'''[[Decepticon]]''' 
File:G1PackagingDecepticonInsignia.png|The Decepticon symbol as it appeared on Generation 1 toy packaging and cartoon [[scene transition]]s.
File:DecepticonInsignia-TheArk.png|The model sheet of the Decepticon symbol created for the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|G1 cartoon]]—note the third spike and blunt base on the crest.
File:DecepticoninsigniaMarvelcoloringbook.jpg|The [[Search for Treasure Under the Sea]] variant of the toy packaging insignia.
File:MarvelTFUDecepticonInsignia.png|The Decepticon sigil as it appeared in ''[[The Transformers Universe]]''.
File:Live action Decepticon insignia.png|'''Decepticon''' ''([[Live-action film series|live-action film]])'' The movie symbol has diamond-shaped eyes, as opposed to the triangular eyes of the G1 symbol.
File:Movie Decepticon.JPG|A metallic variant of the movie Decepticon symbol.
File:TitanmagDecepticonfrozen.jpg|A frozen movie Decepticon symbol from a sticker sheet that came with the [[Transformers Comic issue 17]].
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File:Con-g2.png|'''Decepticon''' ''([[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|G2]])'' The G2 Decepticon symbol is inexplicably identical, aside from color, from the insignia used by the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]]. 
File:Con-g2alternate.png|'''Decepticon''' ''([[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|G2]])'' Alternate colors of the G2 Decepticon symbol.
File:Decepticon warwithin symbol.png|An early war Decepticon insignia variant used in ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]].
File:Decepticon Knights.jpg|A variant Decepticon symbol seen in promotional material for ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''.
File:Ascenticon insignia.png|'''Ascenticon''' The insignia of the proto-Decepticon faction from the [[Transformers (2019 comic)|2019 IDW comics]].
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===Maximals===
The Maximal insignia is a stylised canine or feline face, reflecting the Maximals being primarily made up of mammals and birds.
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File:Maximal symbol.png|'''[[Maximal]]''' Certain characters and toy packaging featured this insignia in alternate colors, such as red or dark green.
File:Maximal symbol bm.png|'''Maximal''' ''([[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|BM]])'' A variant insignia worn by the Maximals in [[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|''Beast Machines'']].
File:Kingdom Maximal insignia.png|'''Maximal''' (''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'') A variant incorporating elements of the Autobot insignia, used on packaging and promotional items for ''Kingdom'', though not on the actual toys.
File:ROTB Maximal insignia.png|'''Maximal''' (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|Rise of the Beasts]]'') ''Another'' variant of the Maximal insignia, retaining the Autobot elements from ''Kingdom'' but with proportions closer to the original ''Beast Wars'' version.
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===Predacons===
The Predacon insignia is a stylised insect head, as the Predacons consist mainly of invertebrates and reptiles.
<gallery>
File:Predacon symbol.png|'''[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]''' Certain characters and toy packaging featured this insignia in alternate colors, such as yellow.
File:Timelines Predacon Symbol.png|'''Predacon''' ''([[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|BM]])'' A variant insignia worn by [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] in ''[[Dawn of Future's Past]]''.
File:Kingdom Predacon insignia.png|'''Predacon''' (''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'') As with the ''Kingdom'' Maximal symbol, this variant integrates elements of the Decepticon insignia, and was used as part of packaging and promotional items but not on any of the toys. It is also used for the instructions on [[Scorponok (ROTB)#Studio Series|Studio Series Scorponok.]]
File:ROTB Predacon insigna.png|'''Predacon''' (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|Rise of the Beasts]]'') ''Another'' variant of the Predacon insignia, retaining some Decepticon elements from ''Kingdom'' but with proportions closer to the original ''Beast Wars'' version.
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===Other factions===

====[[Unicron]]====
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File:Blentron red.png|'''[[Blentron]]''' This symbol is based on the face of Unicron, reflecting the Blentrons' true allegiance.
File:Unicron faction symbol.png|'''[[Herald of Unicron]]''' A recolor of the Blentron insignia, first found on a [[sticker|sticker sheet]] included with ''[[The Transformers: Collector's Edition|Collector's Edition]]'' [[Overcharge (G1)#Collector's Edition|Overcharge]], later used by the ''[[Transformers: The Ark]]'' book to denote Unicron and his followers.
File:Unicron energon symbol.png|A recolor of the [[Mini-Con]] symbol; used on the Japanese packaging of ''Armada'' Unicron and on Takara's website for the [[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|''Armada'' toyline]], it was also seen in the background of Unicron's transformation sequence in the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'' cartoon]].''
File:Unicronsymbol dwmtmte.png|Used in [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s [[More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada|Armada profile book]] to denote Unicron-allied Transformers.
File:Terrorcon symbol.png|"[[Movie continuity family|Movie]]" '''[[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]'''
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====Combined factions====
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File:MarvelUS-77-AutobotDecepticonAlliance.png|'''Autobot/Decepticon Alliance''' {{storylink|Exodus!}}
File:Cybertron-Alliance.png|'''[[Cybertron Alliance]]''' First introduced in the [[Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2 story pages]], this symbol is used for various (doomed) Autobot/Decepticon coalition governments in the world of the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 cartoon]].
File:Ancient Transformer Symbol.png|'''Ancient [[Transformer]]''' An ancient symbol discovered by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], who claimed that Autobots and Decepticons were once one race. {{storylink|Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave) |Generation One}}
Cobra Decepticon symbol.png|'''Cobra/Decepticon''' Initially used on [[:File:GI Joe vs Transformers 1rep.jpg|covers]] for [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]], this symbol would later return on [[G.I. Joe and the Transformers (toyline)|various]] [[Viper (CW)|toys]].
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====Others====
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File:Optimus symbol.png|'''[[Optimus (faction)|Optimus]]''' The "heroic" faction of the Brazilian [[Estrela]] G1 toyline.
File:Malignus symbol.png|'''[[Malignus (G1)|Malignus]]''' The "villainous" faction of the Brazilian [[Estrela]] G1 toyline.
File:Cybertronian.png|'''[[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]]''' Used by [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s Cybertronian Empire, this symbol is inexplicably identical to the Generation 2 Decepticon insignia aside from color.
File:Vehicon symbol.png|'''[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]'''
File:Minicon symbol.png|'''[[Mini-Con]]''' As the Mini-Cons in ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' were created by [[Unicron]], the "M" echoes Unicron's face and the border represents his orbital ring.
File:Symbol star seeker reg.png|'''[[Star Seeker]]s'''
File:PredaconPrimeLogo.png|"[[Aligned continuity family|Aligned]]" '''[[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]]'''
File:Predacon Prime PrototypeInsignia.png|This symbol was originally planned to represent the ''Prime'' Predacons before [http://sunnybutte.tumblr.com/post/131368170623/and-if-you-were-wondering-why-beast-hunters-was being replaced]; it still made it onto a number of toys and stock photos.
File:Mercenary-Symbol.png|'''[[Mercenary]]'''
File:WFCScorponokInsignia.png|'''[[Scorponok (group)|Scorponok]]''' This symbol was used for [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s race in promotional materials for the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''Earthrise'']] cartoon.
File:Primus Vanguard Insignia Clean.png|'''[[Primus Vanguard]]''' This Autobot symbol recolor is used to denote the followers of [[Primus]] in the [[Precursor World continuity|Precursor World]]. {{storylink|Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic|CMCpc}}
File:Straxus Insignia.png|'''[[Straxus (G1)#Precursor World|Straxus]]''' The villainous splinter faction of the Primus Vanguard led by, well, Straxus. {{storylink|Cybertron Convobat prequel comic|CCpc}}
File:ExarchonSymbol.png|'''[[Exarchon]]'''
File:Terran Insignia.png|'''[[Terran]]''' Projected in the sky by Quintus Prime. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 2}}
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==Subgroups==
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===Autobot subgroups===
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File:Wreckers symbol.png|'''[[Wreckers]]'''
File:Wreckers TCG.png|'''Wreckers''' Variation introduced for the ''Titans Masters Attack'' set of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]''.
File:Wreckeridw.png|'''Wreckers''' ''[[Transformers: Wreckers—Tread & Circuits|Tread & Circuits]]'' variation
File:TeamRodimus-EnergonClean.png|'''[[Team Rodimus (Energon)|Team Rodimus]]''' (Version 1) The early version of the insignia used on flags wielded by the group led by [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]].
File:TeamRodimus-EnergonInsignia.png|'''[[Team Rodimus (Energon)|Team Rodimus]]''' (Version 2) The upgraded insignia used on flags wielded by the group and also used on [[Team Rodimus's ship|their ship]]'s flags.
File:Team Ironhide symbol.png|'''[[Team Ironhide]]''' An insignia worn by [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] and a group of Omnicons under his command.
File:Cybertron Defence.png|'''[[Cybertron Defense Team (Cybertron)|Cybertron Defense Team]]''' Used by [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]], and [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], after their collective reconstruction.
File:Cyb Elite Guard Badge.png|'''[[Elite Guard|Cybertron Elite Guard]]'''
File:TFA Autotrooper Badge.png|'''[[Autotrooper (Animated)|Autotrooper]]'''
File:RescueBots symbol.png|'''[[Rescue Bot]]s'''
File:RescueBots cartoon insignia.png|Simplified Rescue Bot insignia
File:Lightningstrikecoalitionfactionlogo.jpg|'''[[Lightning Strike Coalition|Lightning Strike Coalition Force]]'''
File:DinobotFactionInsignia.png|'''[[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobot]]'''
File:Samswordbotsym.png|'''[[Swordbot Samurai Team]]'''
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===Decepticon subgroups===
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File:CybertronGuard.png|'''[[Cybertron Guard]]''' This symbol represents the Decepticons under [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]]'s command charged with Cybertron's security. It was [[Retcon|retroactively]] named in 2007 by TakaraTomy's [[World of the Transformers]] website, but unnamed in its original context. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer|Divide and Conquer}}
File:Ultracon symbol.png|'''[[Ultracon]]''' Used by a Decepticon splinter faction led by [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]. {{storylink|Transformers: War Within: The Age of Wrath|The Age of Wrath}}
File:Seeker-Con Airforce.png|'''Seeker/Decepticon "Air Force"''' Appears on several [[live-action film series]] toys, and is worn by ''Prime'' [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]].
File:Stunticon Symbol.jpg|'''[[Team Stunticon|Stunticon]]'''
File:Yokohama Decepticon.png|'''[[Yokohama Convoy|Yokohama Decepticon]]''' {{storylink|Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base|YDSB}}
File:StudioSeries Dev Sym.jpg| '''[[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]''' Appears on the ''[[Studio Series]]'' boxes for the components of [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]].
File:MayhemAttackSquaed-Insignia-LegacyToyline.png| '''[[Mayhem Attack Squad]]''' Utilized by the group in the ''[[Transformers: Wreckers—Tread & Circuits|Tread & Circuits]]'' comic series. Appears on the ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy]]'' "Doom 'n Destruction Collection" figures and instructions.
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===Others===
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File:Mutants symbol.png|'''[[Mutant (BW)|Mutant]]'''
File:Maximal Guard Insignia.png|'''Maximal Peacekeeper''' Worn by knight-like Maximal soldiers/peacekeepers in [[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|Beast Wars: The Ascending]].
File:Space pirate seacon sign.png|'''Space Pirate [[Seacon (BW)|Seacons]]'''
File:Dinobots symbol.png|''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' '''[[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobot]]''' 
File:Car Robots Destron.png|'''[[Commando (RID)|Combatron]]''' An inverted ''Generation 2'' Autobot symbol, derived from the symbol molded into the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Laser Optimus Prime]] toy and its [[Scourge (RID)|Black Convoy]] redeco. The symbol was removed from the toyline when ''Car Robots'' was released in the West as [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|''Robots in Disguise'']], though it was still occasionally seen in the cartoon.
File:Protector Insignia.png|'''[[Protector]]''' This insignia is based on the face of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], whose [[function]] given on his Generation 1 toy was "Protector".
File:Cybertron Knights.png|'''[[Cybertronian Knight]]'''
File:Raptoricon symbol.png|'''[[Raptoricon]]'''
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==Individuals==
;Generation 1 [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]]
These symbols appeared on the walls of a transwarp shunt room in IDW's [[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|Beast Wars: The Gathering]]. They depict the [[beast mode]]s of the original Predacon combiner team.
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File:Razorclaw Symbol.png|'''[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]'''
File:Tantrum Symbol.png|'''[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]]'''
File:Divebomb symbol.png|'''[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]]'''
File:Headstrong symbol.png|'''[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]]'''
File:Rampage symbol.png|'''[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]]'''
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;[[Sparkbot]]s
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File:Sparkbot Angela symbol.gif|'''[[Angela]]'''
File:Sparkbot Stardust symbol.gif|'''[[Star Dust]]'''
File:Sparkbot Zangetsu symbol.gif|'''[[Zangetsu]]'''
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;''[[Transformers: Devastation]]''
Each playable Autobot has a Generation-1 style insignia next to their name on the character select screen, combining details of the classic Autobot symbol and the character's head (in Grimlock's case, his beast mode head). These symbols also serve as icons for certain character-related achievements. Other characters from the game also receive their own insignia as achievement icons.
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File:Devastation Supreme Commander.jpg|'''[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'''
File:Devastation Sting Like A Bee.jpg|'''[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]'''
File:Devastation The Wizard Of Iacon.jpg|'''[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'''
File:Devastation Raging Bull.jpg|'''[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'''
File:Devastation The King.jpg|'''[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'''
File:Devastation Till All Are One.jpg|'''[[Nova Prime]]'''
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Devastation Halfway There.jpg|'''[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'''
File:Devastation Flyswatter.jpg|'''[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]]'''
File:Devastation Roadblock.jpg|'''[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]'''
File:Devastation Surround Sound.jpg|'''[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'''
File:Devastation Wrecking Crew.jpg|'''[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]'''
File:Devastation Triple Changer.jpg|'''[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]'''
File:Devastation Destruction Derby.jpg|'''[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]'''
File:Devastation Dont Look Him In The Eye.jpg|'''[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'''
File:Devastation Emperor of Destruction.jpg|'''[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'''
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;[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|''Rise of the Beasts'']] [[Maximal]]s
These Mesoamerican-inspired symbols appeared on the packaging of the Maximals in the ''Rise of the Beasts'' toyline.
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File:ROTB symbol Airazor.jpg|'''[[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]]'''
File:ROTB symbol Cheetor.jpg|'''[[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]]'''
File:ROTB symbol Optimus Primal.jpg|'''[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]]'''
File:ROTB symbol Rhinox.jpg|'''[[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]]'''
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;[[Nezha: Transformers (franchise)|''Nezha: Transformers'']]
<gallery>
File:Nezha insignia.png|'''[[Nezha]]'''
File:Lei zhenzi insignia.png|'''[[Lei Zhenzi]]'''
File:Tu xingsun insignia.png|'''[[Tu Xingsun]]'''
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;Others
<gallery>
File:Tarantulas_Logo.png|'''[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]''' Painted on Tarantulas' [[Arachnoid]] drones. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}
File:Moon symbol clean.png|'''[[Moon (BW)|Moon]]'''
File:Emirate Xeon symbol.png|'''[[Xeon|Emirate Xeon]]''' This symbol appeared on the helmet of the deceased politician Emirate Xeon. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}}
File:Cobybot Logo.png|'''[[Cobybot]]''' This symbol was placed on the shoulder of the reformatted [[Scrapmetal (race)|Scrapmetal]] piloted by [[Coby Hansen]]. {{storylink|City}}
File:Megatron Origin Symbol.png|'''[[Clench (G1)|Clench]]''' This symbol was worn by Clench's team, later [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s, in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]'s [[Gladiatorial combat|illegal pitfights]] prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin}}
File:Movie Bonecrusher Sym.jpg| '''[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]''' Appeared on the side of Bonecrusher's vehicle mode both in-film and as a sticker on his Deluxe Class toys.{{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}
File:ROTF Mixmaster Decepti-dog.jpg|'''[[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]]''' Mixmaster possesses a {{w|Mack Trucks|Mack}} bulldog hood ornament with a Decepticon sigil for a head. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
File:PrimeSharkticonSymbol.png|'''[[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Beast Hunters|Sharkticon Megatron]]
File:Prowl symbol.jpg|'''[[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]]'''
File:Bumblebee_Movie_Symbol.jpg|'''[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]''' Used in promotional material and seen during the end credits of the movie. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
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==Religious symbols==
;The [[Thirteen]]
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File:PotP-Prima.png|'''[[Prima]]'''
File:PotP-VectorPrime.png|'''[[Vector Prime]]'''
File:PotP-AlphaTrion.png|'''[[Alpha Trion (disambiguation)|Alpha Trion]]'''
File:PotP-SolusPrime.png|'''[[Solus Prime]]'''
File:PotP-MicronusPrime.png|'''[[Micronus Prime]]'''
File:PotP-AlchemistPrime.png|'''[[Alchemist Prime]]'''
File:PotP-NexusPrime.png|'''[[Nexus Prime]]'''
File:PotP-OnyxPrime.png|'''[[Onyx Prime]]'''
File:PotP-AmalgamousPrime.png|'''[[Amalgamous Prime]]'''
File:PotP-QuintusPrime.png|'''[[Quintus Prime]]'''
File:PotP-LiegeMaximo.png|'''[[Liege Maximo]]'''
File:PotP-Megatronus.png|'''[[The Fallen|Megatronus/The Fallen]]'''
File:Fallen faction symbol.png|'''[[The Fallen]]''' {{storylink|Titanium Series}}
File:PotP-Thirteenth.png|'''The [[Thirteenth Prime]]'''
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;[[Guiding Hand]]
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File:Primus.png|'''[[Primus]]''' 
File:Solomus.png|'''[[Solomus]]''' 
File:Mortilus.png|'''[[Mortilus]]''' 
File:Epistemus.png|'''[[Epistemus]]''' 
File:GrandArchitectInsignia.png|'''[[Adaptus]]''' 
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==Governments==
{{main|Transformer government}}
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File:Ratbat symbol Megatron Origins.png|'''[[Senate]]'''
File:Security symbol Megatron Origin.png|'''Security Services''' Used by the Autobot Security Services crew operating under [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] and at the state funeral of [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]] and [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]].
File:Functionist council insignia.png|'''[[Functionist Council]]'''
File:Functionary insignia.png|A variant Functionist Council insignia worn by [[Functionary]] enforcers.
File:CSF Insignia.png|'''[[Cybertronian Security Force]]''' Insignia used by the CSF under the administration of Ironhide, after whom it was designed. {{storylink|The Line Between Us}}
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==Non-Cybertronian insignia==
;Human governments
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File:Federation of western europe.jpg|'''[[Federation of Western Europe]]'''
File:E27 earthfederationlogo.png|'''[[Earth Federation]]'''</gallery>

;Human defense forces
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File:EDC Symbol.png|'''[[Earth Defense Command|EDC]]''' (cartoon)
[[File:EU]]|'''[[Earth Defense Command|EDC]]''' (Dreamwave)
File:EUcoatofarms.png|'''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union|European Union]]'''
File:Skywatch Logo.png|'''[[Skywatch]]'''
File:Sector7logo.png|'''[[Sector Seven]]'''
File:NEST insignia.png|'''[[NEST]]''' Depicted on vehicles and uniforms of NEST personnel. Variations include a version with Autobot insignia over the top.
File:NEST Global Alliance.png|'''NEST''' Insignia used on Autobot toys from the "N.E.S.T. Global Alliance" toyline.
File:Unit E.png|'''[[Unit:E]]'''
File:CemeteryWind.png|'''[[Cemetery Wind]]''' {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}
File:TRFlogo.png|'''[[Transformers Reaction Force]]'''
File:GHOST Insignia.png|'''[[G.H.O.S.T.]]''' Insignia worn by human G.H.O.S.T. personnel. For Cybertronian members, their faction symbol appears in place of the insignia's "jaw".
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;Other human organizations
<gallery>
File:RobotMasterInsignia.png|'''[[Donny Finkleberg|Robot-Master]]'''
File:Z Foundation.png|'''[[Z Foundation]]'''
File:Machination logo.png|'''[[Machination]]'''
File:Stopsector7.png|'''[[Stop Sector Seven]]'''
File:Sumdac Systems.PNG|'''[[Sumdac Systems]]''' The corporate logo of [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]]'s company, as seen in the foyer of [[Sumdac Tower]].
File:Otoboto-faction symbol.png|'''[[Otoboto family]]''' Symbol for ''Animated's'' live-action shell-sequence in Japan.
File:Doctor Morocco logo.png|'''[[Doctor Morocco]]'''
File:MECHlogo.png|'''[[MECH]]'''
File:KSILogo.png|'''[[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated]]'''
File:Mandroid Insignia.png|'''[[Mandroid]]''' Visible on special badges and control chips placed by Mandroid onto his victims.
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;Other species
<gallery>
File:Junkion symbol.png|'''[[Junkion (species)|Junkion]]'''
File:Quintesson symbol.png|'''[[Quintesson]] [[Terrorbot]]'''
File:Earthrise Quintesson insignia.png|'''Quintesson''' {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Earthrise}}
File:Zarak Consortium Logo.png|'''[[Zarak Consortium]]'''
File:AmmoniteInsignia.png|'''[[Ammonite]]s'''
File:Destructon Symbol.png|'''[[Destructon]]'''
File:Waruder Symbol.png|'''[[Waruder]]'''
File:BF-toy FireWaterWood.jpg|'''[[Beastformer (species)|Beastformers]]''' Fire / Water / Wood
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==''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (franchise)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''==
{{main|Cybertronian military insignia/gallery}}
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File:WFCT Insignia Overview.jpg|
File:WFCSiege Insignia Chromia.png|'''Ground Command Special Ops Sergeant''' An example of an Autobot rank insignia. Used by [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]].
File:WFCSiege_Insignia_Starscream.png|'''Air Command Infantry Captain''' An example of a Decepticon rank insignia. Used by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]].
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==[[Transtech]]==
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File:Transtech Autobot symbol.png|'''Autobot'''
File:Transtech Decepticon symbol.png|'''Decepticon'''
File:Axion Nexus Security Administration symbol.png|'''[[Axiom Nexus Security Administration]]'''
File:Ozsa badge.png|'''Offworlder Zone Security Administration'''
File:Convoysymbol.png|'''[[Convoy (group)|Convoy]]''' Worn by members of the Convoy to allow them to remain in [[Axiom Nexus]].
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==''Shattered Glass''==
The alternate reality of the [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]] timeline posits an army of evil Cybertronians united under the leering visage of a purple insignia badge... though perhaps not the one you were expecting.
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File:Autobot Shattered Glass.png|Evil '''Autobot'''
File:Autobotsecretpolice.png|Evil '''Autobot [[Secret Police]]''' Worn by [[Nightbeat (SG)|Nightbeat]] and presumably his subordinates.
File:Cust Class Thunderclash Insignia.png|Evil '''Elite Guard''' Worn by [[Thunderclash (SG)|Thunderclash]] and presumably his subordinates.
File:Decepticon Shattered Glass.png|Heroic '''Decepticon'''
File:SG Elite Guard Ancient.png|Heroic '''Elite Guard''' Worn by [[Thunderwing (SG)|Thunderwing]] and presumably all pre-war officers of the Elite Guard.
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==''BotBots'' ==
<gallery>
BackpackBunch.png|'''[[Backpack Bunch]]'''
GreaserGang.png|'''[[Greaser Gang]]'''
JockSquad.png|'''[[Jock Squad]]'''
LostBots.png|'''[[Lost Bots]]'''
ShedHeads.png|'''[[Shed Heads]]'''
SugarShocks.png|'''[[Sugar Shocks]]'''
TechieTeam.png|'''[[Techie Team]]'''
ToiletTroop.png|'''[[Toilet Troop]]'''
BakeryBytes.png|'''[[Bakery Bytes]]'''
LawnLeague.png|'''[[Lawn League]]'''
MusicMob.png|'''[[Music Mob]]'''
SpoiledRottens.png|'''[[Spoiled Rottens]]'''
SwagStylers.png|'''[[Swag Stylers]]'''
ArcadeRenegades.png|'''[[Arcade Renegades]]'''
FreshSqueezes.png|'''[[Fresh Squeezes]]'''
GooGooGroopies.png|'''[[Goo-Goo Groopies]]'''
PlayroomPosse.png|'''[[Playroom Posse]]'''
PlayroomPosse-alt.png|Alternate '''Playroom Posse''' insignia (web)
SeasonsGreeters.png|'''[[Seasons Greeters]]'''
HomeRangers.png|'''[[Home Rangers]]'''
LosDeliciosos.png|'''[[Los Deliciosos]]'''
MagicTricksters.png|'''[[Magic Tricksters]]'''
MovieMoguls.png|'''[[Movie Moguls]]'''
RetroReplays.png|'''[[Retro Replays]]'''
Sciencealliance.png|'''[[Science Alliance]]'''
WildernessTroop.png|'''[[Wilderness Troop]]'''
WinnersCircle.png|'''[[Winner's Circle]]'''
CardioClique.png|'''[[Cardio Clique]]'''
FrequentFlyers.png|'''[[Frequent Flyers]]'''
HibotchiHeats.png|'''[[Hibotchi Heats]]'''
PartyFavors.png|'''[[Party Favors]]'''
Meetngreets.png|'''[[Meet N' Greets]]'''
Lineleague.png|'''[[Line League]]'''
Fantasticfuelers.png|'''[[Fantastic Fuelers]]'''
HungerHubs Insignia.png|'''[[Greaser Gang|Hunger Hubs]]'''
CustodialCrewInsignia.png|'''[[Toilet Troop|Custodial Crew]]'''
GamerGeeksInsignia.png|'''[[Gamer Geeks]]'''
PetMobInsignia.png|'''[[Pet Mob]]'''
BotBots - Pet Mob alternate insignia.jpg|Alternate/canceled '''Pet Mob''' insignia
CaffeineCollective.png|'''[[Caffeine Collective]]'''
GiftedGuild.png|'''[[Gifted Guild]]'''
File:PlayPlexers.png|'''[[Play Plexers]]'''
FashionForwardsInsignia.png|'''[[Swag Stylers|Fashion Forwards]]'''
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==Others==
;[[Rubsign]]s
<gallery>
File:Rubsign inactive.png|'''[[Rubsign]]''' Unactivated rubsign.
File:Rts-symbol.png|'''[[Rubsign]]''' Unactivated [[Transformers (2010 toyline)#Hasbro Reveal the Shield subline|Reveal the Shield]] variant.
File:Fastlane.png|'''[[Fastlane]]''' Rubsign used on Autobot Clone Fastlane.
File:Cloudraker.png|'''[[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]]''' Rubsign used on Autobot Clone Cloudraker.
File:Pounce.png|'''[[Pounce]]''' Rubsign used on Decepticon Clone Pounce.
File:Wingspan.png|'''[[Wingspan]]''' Rubsign used on Decepticon Clone Wingspan.
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;[[Powerlinx]]
<gallery>
File:Energon Powerlinx symbol.png|'''[[Powerlinx]] - Black''' Used by [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Wing Saber (Energon)|his]] [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|combiner]] [[Omega Sentinel (Energon)|partners]].
File:Energon Powerlinx Gold symbol.png|'''Powerlinx - Gold''' Worn by Mega-sized Transformers who can combine with fellow Mega- and Deluxe-sized Transformers.
File:Energon Powerlinx Silver symbol.png|'''Powerlinx - Silver''' Worn by Deluxe-sized Transformers who can combine with fellow Deluxe- and Mega-sized Transformers.
File:Energon Powerlinx Red symbol.png|'''Powerlinx - Red''' Worn by Ultra-sized Transformers, who can combine with additional vehicle mode parts to form a "brute mode".
File:Energon Powerlinx Blue symbol.png|'''Powerlinx - Blue''' Used by the [[Air Team]], the [[Construction Team]], and the [[Destruction Team]].
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;[[Cyber Key]]s
<gallery>
File:Cyber Key symbol Earth.png|'''[[Earth]]'''
File:Cyber Key symbol Velocitron.png|'''[[Velocitron]]'''
File:Cyber Key symbol Jungle Planet.png|'''[[Jungle Planet (colony)|Jungle Planet]]'''
File:Cyber Key symbol Gigantion.png|'''[[Gigantion]]'''
File:Cyber Key Combatron.png|'''[[Combatron (planet)|Combatron]]''' {{storylink|Force of Habit}}
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;Others
<gallery>
File:Energon symbol.png|'''Energon''' Used to denote [[energon]]. It is a stylized representation of an Autobot [[Energon star]].
File:Cyberglyphics Prime Symbol.png|The [[Cyberglyphics|Cyberglyphic]] symbol for [[Prime (rank)|Primes]].
File:Gobots auto symbol.png|'''[[Go-Bot (species)|Go-Bot]]'''
File:Playschool Go-Bots G.png|'''[[Go-Bot (species)|Go-Bot]]'''
File:FirstTFinsignia.png|'''[[First Transformers]]'''
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==Other properties==
;''[[GoBots]]''
<gallery>
GuardianSymbol.png|'''[[Guardian (GoBots)|Guardian]]'''
RenegadeSymbol.png|'''[[Renegade]]'''
</gallery>

;''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]''
<gallery>
Joelogo.png|'''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'''
GIJoe-movie-insignia.png|'''G.I. Joe''' (live-action films) As seen in ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''
ActionForce Logo.png|'''[[Action Force (team)|Action Force]]''' The European localization of the ''G.I. Joe'' brand.
Cobralogo.png|'''[[Cobra]]'''
Arbco logo.png|'''[[Arbco]]'''
AdventureTeamLogo.png|'''[[Adventure Team]]'''
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;Other Hasbro properties
<gallery>
File:Autotots sigil.png|'''[[Autotot]]'''
File:Protectonsymbol.png|'''[[Protecton]]'''
File:Terrakor symbol.png|'''[[Terrakor]]'''
MASKlogo.png|'''[[M.A.S.K.]]'''
VENOMlogo.png|'''[[V.E.N.O.M.]]'''
ActionManinsignia.png|'''[[Action Man]]'''
Dr X logo.png|'''[[Doctor X]]'''
</gallery>

;''Star Wars''
<gallery>
Alliance Starbird.png|'''[[Rebel Alliance]]'''
Republic Emblem.png|'''[[Galactic Republic]]'''
Imperial Emblem.png|'''[[Empire]]'''
Sith Quad-Sun.png|'''[[Sith]]'''
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;Other external properties
<gallery>
File:MickeyMouseTransformer.png|'''[[Mickey Mouse]]''' ([[Transformers Disney Label|Disney Label]])
File:Donald Disney Label Insignia.png|'''[[Donald Duck]]''' (Disney Label)
File:Autobirds symbol.png|'''[[Autobird]]s''' ([[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]])
File:Autobird Wreckers symbol.png|'''Autobird''' '''[[Wreckers]]''' (Angry Birds Transformers)
File:Deceptihog symbol.png|'''[[Deceptihog]]s''' (Angry Birds Transformers)
File:Garikunsym copy.jpg|'''[[Gari Robo-kun]]
File:Autobot Terminator Insignia.png|'''Autobot/[[T-800]]''' ([[Transformers vs. The Terminator]])
</gallery>
<gallery>
File:Animorphlogo.png|'''[[Animorph]]'''
Nerv Logo.png|'''[[Nerv]]'''
ShadalooLogo.png|'''[[Shadaloo]]'''
Starfleet.png|'''[[Starfleet]]'''
KlingonEmpire.png|'''[[Klingon Empire]]'''
Ghostbusters.png|'''[[Ghostbusters]]'''
Elitemountaindewrobots.png|'''[[Mountain Dew Robot|Mountain Dew]]'''
Lunchables brigade symbol.png|'''[[Lunchables Brigade|Lunchables]]'''
File:TRUFactionSymbol.png|'''[[Toys"R"Us Prime|Toys"R"Us]]'''
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==Files==
*[[:File:Transformers Symbols.ttf|Transformers Insignias True Type Font]]

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