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Heavy Metal War

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 cartoon episode|the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' episode|Heavy Metal War - Part 1}}
{{episode
|series=G1toon
|ep=16
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=10
|prev2=Countdown to Extinction (episode)
|next2=Autobot Spike
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=5
|prev3=S.O.S. Dinobots
|next3=The Autobot Run
|image=HeavyMetalWar Primedefeated.jpg
|caption=The agony of defeat.
|title="Heavy Metal War"
|production code=#700-13
|airdate=[[December 15]], 1984
|written by=[[Donald F. Glut]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Megatron challenges Optimus Prime to a one on one battle to end the war.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:HeavyMetalWar Megatron invitation.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Silly Megs, tricks are for kids!]]
A busy construction site is attacked by driver-less construction equipment, and several components are stolen. The construction vehicles return to Decepticon headquarters and are revealed to be the newly built [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. The components they stole are parts to a machine that will allow [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] to absorb the [[power chip rectifier]]s from his [[Decepticon]] warriors.

While the final preparations are completed on the machine, Megatron flies to [[Autobot]] headquarters and makes [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] an offer he cannot refuse. Megatron offers the Autobot leader a one on one battle with the winner staying on [[Earth]] to do as he pleases, and the loser taking his army and exiling themselves to deep space. Confident in his own abilities, Prime accepts the challenge and sets the match.

[[File:HeavyMetalWar Megatron powerup.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Fear me, for I have the power of... poo gas!!]]

Knowing that Prime would be unable to resist a chance to honorably end their conflict, Megatron returns to the Decepticon base and uses the newly completed machine to gain all of the special powers of his warriors. [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]'s teleportation, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]'s sonic boom, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]'s seismic attack, etc. Knowing that Megatron would now be unbeatable, [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] voices concerns that the Autobot computer [[Teletraan I]] would be able to detect what Megatron had done. Anticipating this problem, Megatron dispatches the Constructicons to take care of the computer.

The two armies arrive at the battle site, and the contest begins. Megatron unleashes a barrage of powers (while Starscream gives a running commentary), and Prime is outclassed at every step. Not knowing that he has been deceived, Prime concedes the fight and comments that he underestimated Megatron. The shocked Autobots begin the trek back to base, and the Decepticons follow to make sure they leave.

[[File:Heavy Metal War Devastator.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Not Brawl.]]

Meanwhile, the Constructicons have nearly tunneled their way into the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and Teletraan I. Sensing the imminent danger, Teletraan I activates the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. The Dinobots respond and start pounding on the Constructicons, opening up a lava channel in the process. The battle not going in their favor, the Constructicons pull out one last trick and combine into the super warrior, [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. The returning Autobots see the battle, but are unable to help. Inside the Ark, Teletraan I is able to show that Megatron cheated, and the Autobots rush outside to help the Dinobots.

[[File:Heavy Metal War Decepticons beat.JPG|upright=1.1|thumb|You'd think Starscream would be used to this, but no...]]

Despite the arrival of the rest of the Autobots to the fight, Devastator is still too powerful to be defeated, so [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] distracts the monstrous Decepticon with a [[hologram]] of [[Halonix Maximus|a colossal Autobot]]. Stunned at the sudden appearance of a robot even bigger than he is, Devastator is shot by Optimus Prime and falls apart. The Constructicons try to drive away, but the Dinobots blast them into the lava. The other Decepticons are routed by the Autobots and also pushed or knocked back by gunfire into the lava. There is much rejoicing.

...Until Megatron rises from the lava, vowing that the Decepticons will rise again.
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (13)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (14)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (15)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (16)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (20)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (21)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (24)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (25)
*[[Teletraan I]] (26)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (27)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (28)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (29)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (30)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (31)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (32)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (33)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (36)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] (37)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (38)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (39)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (40)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (41)
*[[Halonix Maximus]] hologram (43)
|c2=
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (2)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (3)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (4)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (5)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (6)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (7)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (8)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (9)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (10)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (11)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (12)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (22)
*[[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (23)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (34)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (35)
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (42)

|c3=
*Construction Workers (1)
*[[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (17)
*[[Chip Chase]] (18)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (19)
}}

==Quotes==
"Forgive me, but I believe your boast sounds vaguely familiar."
:—'''Starscream''', after hearing another of Megatron's promises to destroy the Autobots.

[[File:Shockblastcannon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I'm alright! I'm alright. That was supposed to happen.]]
"Let's see how he likes my new [[Shock blast cannon|shockblast cannon]]! ''[The cannon explodes in his hands]'' Uhh... hnh... that's a shock, all right."
:—'''Wheeljack'''

"But I need my power chip rectifier. Besides, the Cybertron Code of Combat requires each warrior to fight as he is, without additional reinforcement. You wouldn't want to cheat, would you, Megatron?"<br>
"I will win by any means! At any cost! Even if it means terminating ''you'', Starscream!"<br>
"I was only raising a legal point..."
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Megatron'''

"Doesn't this remind you of the gladiatorial combats in ancient Rome?"<br>
"Maybe it would if I knew what you were talkin' about."
:—'''Chip''' and '''Ironhide''' on the duel between Optimus and Megatron.

"Sludge not see these Decepticons before."<br>
"Not see again either. Because we dino-mite them to pieces!"<br>
:—'''Sludge''' and '''Snarl''' vs. the Constructicons.

"It is ended."<br>
"Is it really over, Optimus? I mean, have we seen the end of this war? Forever?"<br>
"Who can say, Spike? In this vast universe, is anything truly forever?"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Spike''', with a question that is quickly answered, at least for the audience

==Notes==
===Technical or animation glitches===
*It seems the artists might have had only script directions to go by when drawing the Constructicons' vehicular attack modes, and not actual character models. Both Long Haul and Mixmaster deploy weapons that are of similar description to their toys' attack forms (cab-mounted cannon, twin missile launchers), but look nothing like them.
*Coloring errors:
**As Long Haul deploys his missiles, his Decepticon symbol is red, and missing its "cheeks".
**The top of Hook's head is green as Scrapper bows to Megatron... and again in the very next shot.
**Scavenger's face is colored all-green as he welds. If it was a stylistic decision to show the light from his welding, then it should flicker along with the welding lights.
**As Scrapper directs the others working on the infuser, his head is green instead of black, and Mixmaster's drum and torso are purple instead of green.
**The top of Wheeljack's chest is colored glass-blue instead of white after the shock cannon blows up.
**During the pan across the Decepticons before the strength transfer, Soundwave is missing the line in the middle of his mask, and his yellow stripes are mostly colored blue.
**Megatron's waist is red instead of silver after the transfer.
**When Megatron talks to Starscream after that, Starscream's air vent "boobs" are colored white instead of black.
**The front of Scrapper's head is red instead of black as Megatron orders him to move out.
**As Scrapper transforms, his whole helmet is green.
**As Optimus explains the code to Spike, Ironhide's forehead isn't fully drawn in.
**"Defeat, Megatron?" Megatron's fusion cannon is white instead of black during this line.
**At the end of the across the Decepticons seating themselves, Soundwave's optic visor is blue instead of red.
**Laserbeak's head is light gray as he ejects from Soundwave.
**Megatron's faction emblem is missing before he teleports.
**And it's missing again as he says the Autobots must exile themselves.
**Starscream's right arm is colored dark gray for a moment, while he talks to Skywarp about the rectifiers.
**Wheeljack's missing one of the lines on his "ears" as he and the others listen to Optimus say he was not prepared.
**Prime's tires are light gray as he transforms to truck mode, and his headlights aren't colored in.[[File:Heavymetalwar constructicons target teletraan.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Oh, and Scavenger's chest shouldn't be purple, either.]]
**Scrapper's helmet is green in two shots as he and the others run into Autobot Headquarters.
**Scavenger's back is purple as he and the others back away from the Dinobots.
**Snarl's helmet is the same medium gray as his body as he joins Sludge.
**As Devastator walks toward the Dinobots, Swoop's head is white, while Sludge and Slag are block-colored gray.
**Devastator's hand is green instead of purple as he throws Grimlock.
**The top of Starscream's chest is red instead of gray as Megatron rants about the hologram.
*"Besides, the Cybertron code of combat requires..." Starscream's hand phases behind the transfer machine's light during his monologue.
*There's a discontinuity between shots as Megatron is infused; in one shot he's moving and reacting in visible pain to the power transfer; in the next, he's just standing there like a statue.
*Also in the above scene, when Megatron says "I now possess all your powers in addition to my own" his "helmet" is significantly wider than his usual onscreen character model's, and in the NEXT shot ("Optimus Prime and the Autobots... are FINISHED!! Huhuhwarhahahahaha!!") his helmet suddenly shrinks back to its usual narrow width. It would therefore be reasonable to surmise the animators were using Megatron's G1 Toy as a drawing reference for the former shot, as his helmet IS significantly wider than the "normal" Megatron's onscreen model.
*After Megatron talks of the Constructicons destroying Teletraan I, he's suddenly no longer attached to the machine.
*When Megatron laughs maniacally after being infused with the power of the other Decepticons, his head is disproportionately small, and his Decepticon insignia moves independently of his body.
*When the Autobots transform into their alternate modes right before leaving to the duel, Trailbreaker transforms outside the Ark somehow.
*When the Autobots transform back into robot mode when they arrive at the duel, Ironhide, already in robot mode, transforms into his alternate mode. The next scene shows him in robot mode again.
*When Starscream lands behind Megatron before the latter's duel with Optimus Prime, the animators forgot to animate the dust Starscream's feet stir up, so we can see that his legs are not fully drawn, and instead of feet, they end in paint blotches.
*Chip is drawn speaking Spike's line "It's Earth history, Ironhide!"
*During the duel, what are the Autobots supposed to be sitting on? Air?
*After the boulder Prime threw at Meagtron splits in two, it completely disappears before the shot ends.
[[File:HeavyMetalWar Huffer towing Prime's trailer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*Huffer is drawn with six wheels instead of four as he takes Prime's trailer.
*How long's it take for the animators to forget that Prime isn't towing his own trailer? All of one shot! Huffer is nowhere to be seen as the 'bots leave the battlefield.
*Mixmaster's cab-weapon changes color and form between scenes (it's a gray sphere when the Constructicons start tunneling; it's a green gun when they reach Autobot Headquarters.)
*Mixmaster's acid-laser changes from pink to orange between shots. The weapon that fires it has gone back to gray in the second shot.
*The animation doesn't really show a hole ''melting'' in the floor; a section of the floor just vanishes and is replaced with a melted hole.
*Grimlock has his original head design in this episode, rather than the later, toy-based one he normally is drawn with.
*Grimlock's Galaxial Rocket Launcher is drawn as one of the barrels of his laser rifle shooting off.
*The Dinobots' voices are ''heavily'' processed in his episode, far beyond the norm, giving them a crunchy, gravely sound.
*The inside of Sludge's [[robot mode]] mouth is glowing orange ''again''. Clearly this is part of his character model, but why and how did such a bizarre choice come about in the first place?
*As Scrapper clutches his wounded shoulder, he has two small eyes instead of a visor. (It makes him look a lot like [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]].)
[[File:G1DevastatorHeads.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|But let's face it - he looks much, much cooler with the visor.]]
*Much like [[A Plague of Insecticons|Kickback's insect head]], the cartoon could never quite make up its mind whether Devastator was supposed to have two small eyes or one big visor. This episode shows him with eyes as he monologues, then the visor shows up just a shot or two later.
*When the Autobots cheer inside their headquarters, [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]]'s insignia is missing, Wheeljack's ears aren't flashing, and Jazz's mouth is blinking on and off.
*As the hologram fades out, Hound isn't shown in the nearby cave from which he's supposed to be projecting it.
*When [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] finds out the "Giant [[Autobot]]" is a hologram, his cannon [[kibble]] is gone for a brief second.
*In the final closeup of Megatron's face, several of the lava streams are flowing ''behind'' his eyes and back out. OUCH!
*When we first see the Autobots in the Ark after the duel, Ironhide punches empty air, the whole screen shakes, and he says, “Uh, sorry about that” to no-one.

===Rhino DVD release===
More than most episodes, the [[Kid Rhino]] DVD version of this episode is full of animation errors that do not appear in the original broadcast version or prior home video releases (as a result of incomplete film masters being used for the DVD), as well as crude attempts made by Rhino to fix some of these errors.

Some are merely aesthetic complaints:
*In one shot, the camera pans sideways to follow the Constructicons, however they aren't moving, so they actually lag behind the screen. Then, as they round a corner, they are animated above the animation cel of the building they drive around, and you can see they are not fully drawn. Their [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]s end in unfinished lines and paint blotches until they come fully into view.
*As the Constructions make their big introductory transformations, the camera doesn't pan up with Bonecrusher, Long Haul, and Mixmaster, leaving them cut out of the shot from the thighs upward. Bonecrusher is also visibly floating above the ground.
*After Long Haul transforms, the equipment he's supposedly carrying simply pops into view. As the outlines tell us, it has been retroactively shopped into the image.
*The Rhino DVD portrays the power-chip smelter as a featureless rectangular smear, lacking all the light effects and animation that should be present.
*When Megatron says "Scrapper, you have your orders...", the Constructicons' eyes / eye visors no longer glow red in response.
*As he drives up to start digging, [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] is constantly jumping a bit back and forth while driving, as if the animation frames are not ordered properly.
*When the Autobots transform to leave base for the battlefield, Optimus Prime's left headlight blinks in and out a couple of times.
*Then, as they all drive out of the Ark, the screen freezes for a moment. The Autobots seem to have teleported after the animation finally continues.
*The sky behind Ironhide, when he is informing us of his ignorance of Earth's history, jumps noticeably at the beginning of the shot, and the shadowy outlines around him vibrate wildly.
*The audience isn't actually sitting on the edge of the pit, rather they are all somehow seated on the slopes.
*At two points during the duel with Optimus Prime (one of them recycled as him landing at Autobot Headquarters), Megatron is colored dark gray.
*When the miscolored Megatron blasts Prime away, the background isn't moving to simulate the camera pan, whereas Prime's animation is.
*The humans in one shot are drawn horribly off-model, with terrible looking teeth, may we add. Spike shows his pre-final print uppers again in a later shot.
*When Skywarp boasts that Megatron acquired the power of teleportation from him, he is colored like Starscream, who is seen sitting right next to him.
*During the Dinobots' fight scene with the Constructicons, some of the laser-firing animation is missing, leaving the characters with huge "holes" and gaps on their bodies where said laser shots should have been animated. This also renders the shot of Sludge firing his eye-beams completely pointless.
*And as Swoop fires his missiles, the background art isn't moving, making it look like he is floating.
*Also in one shot, the rock covering the Constructicons is missing from the foreground, and again, we see incomplete drawings instead of fully-drawn robots.
**However a later shot has a cave mouth drawn over the screen's outer rim, which shouldn't be there, as the scene takes place outside.

However, some of the screwups actually confuse the plot:
*Power chip rectifier only appear in the finished animation as little more than small glowing pink dots. When Starscream removes his, this glowing effect is missing, meaning he's holding nothing, and that none of the rectifiers ever actually appear on-screen in the Rhino version.
*When Rhino DVD Optimus Prime hurls a boulder at Megatron, Megatron still lights up to use Skywarp's teleportation ability to get out of the way... but after the teleporation glow effect fades, Megatron is ''still standing there''. The boulder ''flies straight through him'' with nobody seeming to care, including Megatron himself.
*When Megatron is talking to Starscream while the Constructicons are building the infuser machine, Starscream is colored like Skywarp.
**Speaking about the Constructicons being hard at work, this sequence is completely missing. We are instead treated to a shot of Megatron and Starscream standing silently for seconds.
*When [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] runs up and uses his [[glass gas]], he is coloured like [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]].
[[File:HeavyMetalWar Mixmaster spray.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|That sure isn't a cave you're in there, Mixmaster.]]
*The animation sequence of Megatron landing at the Autobot base ''is missing entirely'', and is replaced by looped animation from later in the episode of Megatron landing after a jump, along with a recycled snippet of Cliffjumper looking elated after encasing Megatron in ice from just a few seconds earlier.
*When Megatron lands, there are two Optimus Primes and Ironhides there to greet him.
*As the Autobots help Prime make his decision, the camera pans are missing, and the scene is instead shown as multiple, separate shots. Secondly, Wheeljack's light effects are mis-aligned. Finally, the added lens-effects in Prime's optics makes him look like he's about to cry.
*When the Constructicons move out to dig the passage to the Autobot headquarters, they're all shown outdoors instead of inside the base.
*A transformation sequence for Trailbreaker, recycled from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]", still retains its exterior background even though it's supposed to happen inside Autobot Headquarters.
*When the Autobots arrive at the pit in vehicle mode, Ironhide is seen transforming from robot mode to vehicle mode. Then, he is back in his robot form.
*Instead of using the finished shot, we see recycled animation of a standing Prime being hit when Megatron delivers his final blow. He should be lying on the ground.
*The animation of the lava is absent in a couple of shots.

But, uhhh, hey, that silver DVD case sure is shiny and pretty!

===Shout! Factory DVD release===
*Like "[[Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction]]" before it, the sound effects of this episode are cranked down to near-inaudibility, compared to the music and vocal tracks.
*This episode is also one of several affected by Shout!'s inability to obtain complete master reels to restore the incomplete animation used in the Kid Rhino releases, resulting in 1-inch tape versions being used instead. Picture quality is thus all over the map. The scenes of Megatron approaching Autobot Headquarters are noticeably under-lit. Several scenes are in visibly softer focus compared to shots before and after, such as the pan of Autobots as Cliffjumper says "I don't trust 'im!"

===Continuity errors===
[[File:Lineup.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|"Where'd you get the Constructicons?"<br>"We found them."<br>"Found them? On Earth? Constructicons are Cybertronian!"<br>"The Cosmos may fly into the sun or the Omega Supreme or the Astrotrain may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land."<br>"Are you suggesting that Constructicons migrate?"]]
*This episode gives the first of [[Constructicon (G1)|three contradictory origins]] for the Constructicons.

*The building site that the Constructicons raid is a power plant. One of the construction workers states that it will be able to provide the whole planet with limitless energy, raising the question of why the Decepticons didn't raid such a powerful energy source for energon.

*So this head worker guy sees driverless, talking construction vehicles, that turn into giant malevolent thieving robots with the Decepticon symbol on 'em... but somehow he only figures out that they're Decepticons when Scrapper says they work for Megatron. Is Megatron's name more famous than all the defining aspects of his faction?

*Ironhide is apparently able to detect the Decepticons by himself, without relying on Teletraan I. However, in "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 1]]", the Autobots were unable to detect the approaching Decepticons with Teletraan I sabotaged.

*Optimus Prime takes out Devastator with a single shot from his laser rifle, something rather at odds with the later portrayal of combiners as nigh-invulnerable. Maybe they were upgraded?

*It's a bit strange that Starscream of all mechs should be concerned with legalities and suggest that Megatron try to fight honorably... but there ''is'' a touch of sarcasm when he says "You wouldn't want to ''cheat'', would you, Megatron?"

*There is a rather ''huge'' hole in Megatron's "Destroy Teletraan I" plot: When the Autobots come back from Optimus Prime's defeat, wouldn't a burning-and-smoking Teletraan I ''immediately'' scream "Megatron DID cheat" rather than cover that fact up?

[[File:DinobotsG1.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2]]
*The Autobots return to headquarters as the Dinobots have begun their battle with Devastator. They have time enough to repair Optimus Prime and detect the Decepticon deception, and meanwhile, the Dinobots are ''still'' fighting Devastator.
**On that note the Autobots don't even try to tell the Dinobots that they were leaving and the fight was over. Were the Autobots going to leave the Dinobots behind and strand them on Earth!?

*Speaking of which, didn't anybody notice the big flaming hole in the floor of Autobot Headquarters?

*So the Decepticons couldn't '''FLY''' out of the lava when they fell in?

*Doesn't anybody notice Megatron down there floating in the lava?

===Continuity notes===
*This episode introduces the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]].
[[File:Heavymeatlwar megatron powers.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|This fist of mine glows with an awesome power chip rectifier!]]
[[File:HeavyMetalWar Scavenger.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|This shovel of mine glows with an awesome sensor reading!]]
[[File:Heavymetalwar constructicons target teletraan.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|This computer of mine glows with an awesome lollipop!]]
*Gadgets and powers:
**The Constructicons show off a variety of armaments and abilities, such as Mixmaster melting a whole steam roller into goop and later firing a stream of rock-melting liquid, Long Haul having dump truck mode missile launchers (perhaps a nod to his toy's "attack mode"), and Scavenger's shovel-based sensors.
**Long Haul has the rather ''amazing'' ability to fill up his cargo bed with a payload, transform to robot mode, then convert back to dump truck mode... and still have the cargo be there!
**Ironhide detects Megatron's approach using a sensor that displays on his chest, not unlike abilities he displayed in "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]" and "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 1]]".
**Cliffjumper's [[glass gas]], if that's what it's supposed to be, acts a lot more like Ironhide's liquid nitrogen. He shoots a huge stream of it from his retracted wrists, and it encases Megatron in ice.
**Speaking of which, being encased in ice does not affect Megatron's ability to fly.
**Ironhide doesn't even bother retracting his fists; he just shoots lasers right out of them. It's an unusual conceit for ''Transformers'', though [[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2|not]] [[Dinobot Island, Part 2|unheard of]].
**As explained in this episode, [[power chip rectifier]]s are what give Transformers their unique special abilities.
**The episode gives us a showcase of the Decepticons' most notable abilities, as Megatron uses Starscream's [[cluster bomb]]s and null rays, Reflector's light-generating abilities, Rumble's earthquakes, Skywarp's teleportation, and Thundercracker's sonic abilities.
***Incidentally, this is the first time said sonic abilities have been used explicitly. And it's not even by the guy they belong to.
**Optimus shows the strange ability to fire lasers out of his palm. He's blocking Megatron's shot with the other arm at the same time, almost like he's [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity#Beast Machines cartoon|absorbing the energy and shooting it back]].
**Teletraan-1 can make up its own mind to wake up the Dinobots when a threat is detected.
**Grimlock actually uses his rocket launcher, though it's drawn as one of the barrels of his laser rifle shooting off like a rocket (similar to the future fate of [[Haywire]]'s gun mode).
**Snarl's sword can fire energy blasts from its tip. The Dinobots actually using their swords is something that doesn't happen often, but this is the second time Snarl has been shown with his. Instead of being red, as per the toy and comics, it uses the gray coloring it has in Snarl's package art.
**While the lasers in the Dinobots' dinosaur modes come out of their eyes, horns or mouths, Snarl's dinosaur mode lasers come out of his nostrils. ''Yeah.''
**Hound projects one of his holograms out of both fists.
**Hey, turns out the Constructicons can turn themselves all into one big robot! Wonder if the toys can do that??
*When the Constructicons are tunneling, Scrapper refers to [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] as "[[Scrounge (G1)|Scrounge]]". In their [[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|''More than Meets the Eye'']] bio, Dreamwave would paint this as a deliberate derogatory term other Decepticons sometimes refer to him as.
*Soundwave totally pets Ravage on the head like a kittycat. Adorable!
*This episode is also the "source" of the aborted "Lava Bath Safety" deco for the original Megatron toy.
*The ''Law of Cybertron'' will be invoked again many years later, to resolve the Generation 2 War. {{storylink|Transformers: G-2 (story page)|The Autobots Triumph in the Battle of Good Vs. Evil!}}

===Real-world references===
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' engine burst/whine as the Constructions take off from the construction site.
**Same effect as Megatron leaves Autobot Headquarters.
**[[Lightsaber]] ignition sound when Megatron activates Reflector's light powers.
*Chip provides the episode's requisite dose of "Oh, it's ''educational''" by likening the leaders' combat to the gladiatorial matches of ancient Rome.
*Mixmaster gets in on the act by naming a couple of acids by formula: H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> (sulfuric acid) and HCl (hydrochloric acid).
*Oh, and the construction site will make energy from the earth's magnetic field. "Magnetic field" sounds like science, right??

===Trivia===
[[File:SnarlG1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|And we don't just mean the "horrible rape-related imagery" aspect, either.]]
*The art style of this episode has a distinctively Japanese flavor to it (in a handful of scenes), similar to that of "[[Roll for It]]". [[Masami Ōbari]]'s believed to be involved with this episode.<ref>http://mimizun.com/log/2ch/ranime/1118994758/</ref>
*The animation pretty much gets Devastator's transformation spot-on. Enjoy it while you can; it [[The Core|won't]] [[The Autobot Run|last]].
*Storyboards for this episode indicate that at one point in the scripting process, power chip rectifiers were also tied into the ability to transform. Upon giving up their rectifiers, the Decepticons lose their ability to transform, and during the fight, Megatron transforms into a jet! <ref>[http://cartoonpaperwork.com/network/dt/003.shtml "Heavy Metal War" storyboards at CartoonPaperwork.com]</ref>
*Scenes and dialogue deleted from this episode include Wheeljack showing off the latest improvements he has made to the Dinobots outside Autobot Headquarters (during which Megatron arrives), Scavenger referring to Scrapper with the misnomer of "[[Gravedigger]]", and Megatron using Soundwave's mind-reading powers on Optimus Prime during their fight.
**An extended portion of dialogue is also cut from Megatron's address to Optimus Prime, resulting in the rather clumsy line in the finished episode, "Our war has gone on for millions of years — Decepticons fighting Autobots — in which opposing leaders — you and I, Optimus Prime — may do battle." In the episode's dialogue script, following "Decepticons fighting Autobots," Megatron finishes his first sentence by lamenting the endless nature of the war. Prime shares in his regret, but deems it necessary as long as Megatron continues his pursuit of conquest. Megatron then speaks again, raising the topic of the "age-old law of combat," then picking up the finished line from "in which opposing leaders..."
[[File:RumbleisRed.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The "red robot" is clearly blue.]]
*During Teletraan I's montage of the sources of Megatron's acquired powers, the descriptions for the individual Decepticons are verbatim quotes from the [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/ Transformers Series Bible's "Decepticon Rollcall" page], albeit including several lost-in-translation typographical errors ("Decepticon Lider", "Decepticon Commicator", "Sky Warp"). The most notable of those is [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (misspelled as "Runble") being identified as a [[FIRRIB|"red robot"]]. Furthermore, the seemingly random numbers listed on those screens are actually Hasbro's product codes for the respective toys. Interestingly enough, [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] is given a product number, even though he was never released at mass retail. However, the renditions of the Decepticons are ''not'' the official [[character model]] poses for those characters, but rather all-new drawings.
*The head construction worker's cry as Scavenger drops him is recycled from "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 2]]" (from when Laserbeak kidnaps two security guards.)
*The episode's ending sure seems intended as a potential conclusion to the series, just in case it wasn't renewed for a second season. Turns out that ''Transformers'' was a bit of a hit, so that whole falling-into-lava thing was ignored (though it was alluded to in the [[title sequence]] animation for season two, as the Insecticons traverse in lava).
*The hologram image Hound projected went anonymous for 26 years until it received an identity at [[BotCon 2010]] as the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard member]] [[Halonix Maximus]].
[[File:RavagePet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Who's a good widdle killy-kitty? YOU IS!]]
*When the Autobots and Decepticons are getting ready to watch the fight, Soundwave lets Ravage out and Ravage then sits beside Soundwave and auidbly ''purrs'' while Soundwave pets him. This is both very cute and very creepy.
*When aired on [[Hub Network]]'s video-on-demand, the Kid Rhino version is used for some reason, even though Hub Network always airs the original pre-Kid Rhino versions

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Guerra dos Metaleiros'''" ("War of Metalheads")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''German'''
:*''Title (Generation 2 dub):'' "'''Der Zweikampf'''" ("The Duel")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 28]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (both dubs):'' "'''Il duello'''" ("The Duel")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cybertron-sei no Okite'''" (せイバートロン星の掟, "The Laws of Planet Cybertron")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 7]], [[1985]]
:*In Japanese anime fashion, Megatron yells the names of several of the special attacks he's purloined from his minions; namely, Reflector's "Flash Beam" and Thundercracker's "Sonic Beam".

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Voyna tyazhelogo metalla'''" (Война тяжёлого металла, "Heavy Metal War")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Serbian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Sukob metalnih ratnika'''" (Сукоб металних ратника, "Battle of the Metal Warriors")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Spanish title'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fuerte Guerra de Metal'''" ("Heavy Metal War")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1986 — ''The Transformers'' — Volume 10: "Heavy Metal War" ([[Family Home Entertainment]])<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1987 — ''Transformers'' — Heavy Metal Wars / The Girl Who Loved Powerglide ([[Tempo Video]])<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1989 — ''Transformers'' — A Ghost in the Machine / Heavy Metal Wars (Tempo Video)<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1990 — ''Transformers'' — Heavy Metal Wars / The Girl Who Loved Powerglide ([[Tempo Video|Abbey Home Entertainment]])<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2000 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 6: Evolution Revolution ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;[[Wikipedia:LaserDisc|LaserDisc]]
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1994 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only.<br>
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''The Transformers'' — Autobot Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers: Generation 2'' ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]])<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Original Series: Volume Three (Sony Wonder)<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition (Sony Wonder)<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — First Season Collector's Edition ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Volume Three (Rhino Entertainment)<br>
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 1: Series 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]])<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Metrodome]])<br>
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — The Best of ''The Transformers'' (Madman Entertainment)<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Episodes (Metrodome)<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Classic Transformers'' — Series One: Part Two (Metrodome)<br>
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)<br>
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 02: Stagione Uno Parte Seconda ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio.<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season One (Metrodome)<br>
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete First Season: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]])<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory)<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete First Season: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Roar of the Dinobots (Shout! Factory)<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.com/cartoon-dossier/season-1/synopses/700-13.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]
[[Category:Generation 2 episodes]]
[[Category:MSTF]]

Voltronic Galaxer

2016-09-22T01:44:50Z

Kenshiroh:

:''The Voltronic Galaxer is a piece of technology from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:BlasterBlues Megatron voltronic galaxer.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|"Let's go Voltronic Galaxer Force!"]]
The '''Voltronic Galaxer''' encodes audio waves into pulses, which aliens can then easily translate into their own language. It can also intercept and decode transmissions.

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Haley|Professor Haley]] attempted to show off the Voltronic Galaxer at [[Haley Observatory]]. His demonstration proved to be effective in contacting alien life; however, the alien life it contacted was [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], who was standing on the roof of the observatory. The Decepticons blasted their way into the building, with [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] almost inadvertently destroying the device. Megatron stole the Voltronic Galaxer and spirited it away to the [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. It was installed in the [[Decepticon lunar dome base]] as part of a plan to block all of [[Earth]]'s radio waves, and ransom them for the planet's energy.

Unfortunately for both Megatron and Professor Haley, [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] and [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] injected feedback into the device, destroying it in order to foil Megatron's plan. {{storylink|Blaster Blues}}

==Notes==
*A similarly-named but otherwise totally different weapon, the "Voltronic Galax''idor''", appeared in the 1986 ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' episode "My Brother's Keeper", scripted by ''Joe'' veteran and occasional ''Transformers'' writer, [[Buzz Dixon]]. This wasn't the only apparent ''Transformers'' reference the episode contained: it also featured a television program depicting a robot based on the [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]/[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] bodyform, a reference to [[Attack of the Alien Robots|Dash Jordon]] appearing at a sci-fi convention, and in perhaps a more coincidental example, a [[Chip Chase|brown-haired, bespectacled, wheelchair-bound scientific genius]].
*[[Flint Dille]] was not a fan of the "Voltronic Galaxiter".<ref>https://www.facebook.com/flintdlile/posts/10154593193276095</ref>

<references/>

[[Category:Generation 1 objects]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon technology]]
[[Category:MacGuffins]]

Auto-Bop

2016-01-14T02:31:44Z

Kenshiroh: Added info about David Wise's inspiration for the episode which he stated in a podcast

{{episode
|image=Auto-bop 4.jpg
|caption=Go ahead and mock '80s clothing, but in thirty years, they'll be mocking what we wear.
|series=G1toon
|ep=52
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=52
|prev2=Prime Target (episode)
|next2=Starscream's Brigade
|title="Auto-Bop"
|written by=[[David Wise]]
|production code=700-51
|airdate=[[November 13]], 1985
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]] (maybe)
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Tracks and Blaster uncover a hypnosis plot. A ''funky'' hypnosis plot.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Just the usual Manhattan commuter crowd.]]

[[Raoul]] and his friends [[Poplock]] and [[Rocksteady]] are trying to make some spare cash, breakdancing on the sidewalks of [[New York City]]. Unfortunately, the management of the [[Dancitron]] nightclub doesn't like competition, and sends a mob after them. The trio grab their tape deck and flee, riding a wheeled dumpster until it's brought to a sudden halt. They're soon surrounded by armed thugs, but luckily [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] are in the city, and come to the trio's aid. While fighting the thugs off, Tracks is surprised to notice one of them is a man in a business suit.

Raoul introduces the rest of the [[Bop Crew]] to the two [[Autobot]]s, who say they're monitoring Decepticon activity, and now suspect there's something strange going on at the Dancitron. The pair enter the club and admire the immense sound system. Soon Blaster is dancing with an apparently blissed-out patron, while Tracks notes a number of oddly-dressed dancers—a garbage man, a middle-aged woman in a bathrobe and curlers, and a man dressed to the nines. In an upstairs booth, [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] observe the two Autobots.

[[File:AutoBop Blaster surfing on Tracks.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Mind the paint job.]]

Meanwhile, the Bop Crew are taking an elevated subway train when it unexpectedly begins gathering speed. The driver, entering a hypnotised state, pulls the accelerator lever to full and smashes the control panel with an iron bar. Raoul pulls the emergency cord until it breaks, but the brakes are ineffective at stopping the train. Fortunately Tracks and Blaster happen to be walking nearby, and are able to halt the train. They find the sabotaged control panel, however the driver has already fled.

Tracks sends Blaster, Poplock and Rocksteady to check with [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] while he and Raoul go to check out the Dancitron again. On the way, the pair spot an active building site—somewhat of an odd sight at 1am, and even odder when they notice the workers are more inappropriately-dressed people, including some of those previously seen at the Dancitron. They're quickly spotted by the workers, and Tracks drags the gate shut to prevent the humans from attacking them, though that doesn't stop a workman on the building itself from firing red-hot rivets at them.

[[File:Trackscruc2.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Passion of the Chrysler.<br>''Alternate joke'': Radio killed the video star.]]

Poplock and Rocksteady are offered free tickets into the Dancitron and eagerly accept, believing they'll be able to investigate on their own. The duo enter the club and are soon hypnotised by the music. Arriving at the club, Tracks leaves Raoul outside and encounters the boy's two friends inside. They lead him to two Decepticons, who use the club's hypnotized patrons to ensnare him and bind him to the club's sound system. Starscream reports to [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] that the building construction is on schedule.

Having consulted Teletraan I, Blaster arrives at the Dancitron to find Raoul waiting outside. The pair enter to find Tracks, with Blaster tracking an ultrasound signal. Raoul encounters his two friends and, remembering Blaster's warning about the hypnotic sound, plugs his ears with a paper napkin. They chase him, and he soon finds Tracks, but is overwhelmed by the hypnotized dancers. As he soon discovers, the hypnosis can be broken by simply getting the victim [[Water|wet]], so he triggers the club's sprinkler systems, freeing the patrons from their trance. The Bop Crew swiftly frees Tracks and they pursue Starscream.

[[File:Auto-Bop Blaster Soundwave.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Soundwave and Blaster in a two-bot reenactment of You Got Served.]]

Blaster squares off with Soundwave at the club in a sonic "battle of the boom boxes"; the two are nearly evenly matched, until Blaster uses the club's sound system to amplify his abilities and drive Soundwave off. Tracks engineers a rain cloud which de-hypnotises the humans working at the building site. This also flushes out Starscream, who chases Tracks. The Autobot flies through the partially completed building, and the larger Decepticon damages his wing trying to follow, forcing him to retreat. Blaster arrives and uses the Dancitron speakers to bring down the building.

Tracks offers grateful thanks to Raoul and his buddies for saving his life, saying that if there's anything he can do for them... and it turns out there is. The trio lost their radio in all the chaos, and until they earn enough street cash to get a new one, poor Blaster will make an ideal replacement.
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (5)
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (6)
*[[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] (10)

|c2=
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (8)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (9)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (11)

|c3=
* [[Raoul]] (1)
* [[Poplock]] (2)
* [[Rocksteady]] (3)
* [[Furg]] (4)
* [[Stylish man]] (7)
}}

==Quotes==

"I've got to french-fry your circuits."
:—'''Raoul''' shows his gratefulness to '''Blaster'''

"That's what I call a riveting experience!"<br>
"I don't know why I hang out with you, man."
:—'''Tracks''' makes a terrible pun after being shot at by a guy with a rivet gun, and '''Raoul''' calls him out on it.

"Foo on this jive! My main machine's in trouble!"
:—'''Raoul'''

"I've been waiting a long time for this, you poor excuse for a sound system."<br>
"All talk...no shock."
:—'''Blaster''' and '''Soundwave''' begin their sonic duel.

[[File:AutoBop blaster speakers.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
"Yo, the dude's gone crazy!"<br>
"Yeah... like a fox!"
:—'''Poplock''' and '''Tracks'''.

"I'd say your nightclub just went out of style."
:—'''Blaster''', having just annihilated Dancitron

==Notes==
===Animation or technical glitches===
[[File:Raoul-AutoBop.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Well, he ''did'' say he wanted to pull a Michael Jackson.]]
* In this episode, Raoul's skin color is colored lighter than for his last appearance in "[[Make Tracks]]". In fact, even though his [[character model]] is consistent with his last appearance, down to the clothes, nearly ''all'' his colours are off (black instead of brown jacket etc.).
* Despite Rocksteady breakdancing and being thrown around quite a lot, his hat always remains firmly on his head.
* Throughout the episode, when people run, it sounds like they're wearing tapdancing shoes (over-exaggerated sound effect).
* "Let's beat it!" - Raoul is supposed to be saying it, but Rocksteady mouths the words.
* Before the Bop Crew jump onto the dumpster, it's standing against a wall, but shifts out into the middle of the sidewalk as they jump onto it.
* Coloring errors:
** As the thugs first start firing at Blaster, the edges of his helmet are white instead of red.
** As Tracks says "Mellow kind of place", the edges of Blaster's helmet are white again.
** After that [[Stylish man|one fellow]] leaves the bar to ask Tracks a question, his colors ''completely'' change between shots. (See below.) Not only that, his voice changes as well!
** Shortly after Tracks notices the out-of-place people, there's a shot of Blaster and Tracks walking — Tracks's Autobot insignia is outlined in white instead of black, and Blaster's insignia blinks out of existence every few frames.
** In the first shot of Soundwave, his faceplate is dark grey, and his eject button is blue. Then it pans over to Starscream, who has a dark grey face.
** As Blaster says he didn't spy anything unusual at the club, his forehead is red instead of white, and Tracks's wings are missing. The same two errors occur in the next shot but one.
** When Tracks looks up at the subway train, his hood is gray instead of blue.
** When the two Autobots open the door of the train to see the Bop Crew, Tracks's helmet is mostly blue instead of white.
** When Raoul enters Tracks after the train incident, Tracks' interior is glowing the same yellow as his windows (and the seat gets cut off in a yellow stripe as Raoul sits).
** Tracks's wings are blue when he flips them out to take off after he and Raoul leave the building site.
** When Starscream contacts Megatron, Megatron's insignia is red instead of purple.
** Tracks has grey wings, both when the door to the DJ booth opens and as Starscream gloats he'll never get out of the club alive.
** Soundwave's faceplate is oddly shaped, his eyeband is colored white, and his eject button is blue as he announces he's ready for the ultra-sound transmission.
** Directly after Soundwave jumps through the DJ booth window, the right-hand edge of Blaster's helmet is white, and his forehead is red.
** A moment later, the sides of Soundwave's head are blue instead of white, as he reels from Blaster's first attack.
** The sides of Soundwave's head are blue again when he's sent flying from Blaster's attack with the sound system speakers, and his eject button is blue again a moment later, when he stands up in the rubble.
** During a shot of Tracks flying through a building, his wings are blue. This shot is followed by one of Starscream colored as [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]].
[[File:Autobop Blaster's putting on weight.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|This scene was actually filmed while Blaster was pregnant with [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] and [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]]. That's his baby bump!]]
* When the first thug shoots at Blaster, a layering problem causes the blasts to pass by ''in front'' of the thug in the foreground, making him appear ''huge''.
* As Blaster aims his electro-scrambler, he looks a little... fat.
* As the gangsters retreat, both Blaster and Tracks are shown firing the electro-scrambler wave effect.
* Raoul is missing a row of studs on the left-hand side of his jacket when he claims he had things under control.
* When Raoul introduces Poplock and Rocksteady, they're both suddenly at least a head shorter than him.
* Every shot of the train interior shows it devoid of passengers other than the Bop Crew, but a repeated exterior shot shows panicked people climbing out the windows. The shot is edited in a bit early the first time it's used, before it's clear that the whole train is panicking.
* Blaster walks along Tracks's grappling line a couple of steps too far, and appears to be walking on the side of the train.
* The location names on the side of the train change configuration between shots.
* As Tracks stands up after they halt the train, a cel ordering error results in the windows on the rear of the train appearing on top of him.

[[File:Autobop Tracks holding bouncer.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Ah crap, he deflated.]]
* The bouncer appears to halve in body weight when Tracks picks him up.
* After Tracks climbs up onto a catwalk, the shots of hypnotized club patrons approaching him from either side are the same shot, just mirrored.
* There's not a soul outside the club when Blaster arrives, not even the doorman.
* When Blaster enters the club, in a couple of frames the chest portion of a female dancer's costume flashes flesh-colored.
* When Raoul attempts to free Tracks, the club patrons go into their zombie hypnotized state again. This is the same shot repeated from when the same thing happened earlier, only mirrored.
* Starscream's gunfire doesn't get the standard Decepticon laser sound.
* Starscream's mouth is missing as he indignantly shouts "What?!"
* Right before Starscream jumps through the window, an exterior shot of the Dancitron (with motionless identically-dressed couples leading in a line out of it) can be seen through it, before panning swiftly to the right. As this is supposed to be an exterior window of the Dancitron itself... this shot doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
* After Tracks blasts a hole in the wall, the cels aren't properly aligned, so he appears to drive through a point in the wall slightly to the side of the hole.
* After Tracks causes rain to wake up a variety of distinctively dressed hypnotized humans at the building site, there's a shot of dozens of men fleeing it, all clad in identical construction worker outfits.
* Tracks' bumper gun sounds like Optimus' rifle.
* As Soundwave laughs, the walking animation makes him appear to be moonwalking forwards.
* After Soundwave knocks Blaster into the Dancitron sound system, Blaster sits up, and the piece of debris behind him winks out of existence.
* When Tracks shoots the half-constructed building, the flames wash across the ground about a foot too high.
* The pattern of creases in the Bop Crew's dance mat varies depending on the angle.
* The crowd gathered to watch Poplock and Rocksteady breakdance are completely motionless, despite some of them being in running poses (and check out the oddly "Old West" dressed people by the coffee shop!)

===Continuity errors===
* Rocksteady takes off his jacket in order to breakdance, but somehow is suddenly wearing it again when Raoul announces they should beat it.

* Tracks and Blaster actually open fire on humans! Isn't that supposed to be a don't-do-that kind of thing for the Autobots?

[[File:G1Auto-Bop Tracks girl.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
* Apparently there are still people who don't know about the Autobots, as that one fellow in the club appears to think that Tracks and Blaster are ordinary (gigantic!) humans wearing elaborate costumes.
* Blaster stops the subway train by disabling "the engine", but... subways don't have engines, neither in the "motor" or "locomotive" sense of the word.
* Presumably the train which the Bop Crew were riding on was heading away from the Dancitron, and at high speed. Yet Tracks and Blaster just happen to be walking in exactly the right place to see it speeding along when they were in the club the last time we saw them.
* How did Poplock and Rocksteady get to the Dancitron ahead of Raoul and Tracks, who were driving? The scuffle at the building site didn't hold Tracks up ''that'' long.
* At one point, the show does a flashback to a warning that Blaster gave Raoul ''less than a minute earlier''. Just to make sure nobody forgot.
* Superhuman <s>Spike</s>humans:
** Superconductor: the subway train driver pulls a grab bar right off the wall of the train's cab!
** The hypnotized humans are somehow able to throw Tracks off the catwalk.
* Blaster reacts with surprise to Soundwave's revelation that his 'accomplice' is right behind him, but the animation makes it rather unclear that Starscream is supposed to be hiding from him as he walks in.
* One major plot point is that Tracks realises that there's something wrong when he notices middle-aged housewives and fancy-dressed people at the club, but as the Decepticons are hypnotising people with the music at the club, how did those people get there in the first place in order to be hypnotised?
* It is never established within the episode itself just what the Decepticons are trying to '''accomplish''' with their hypnotize-people-to-construct-a-building plot. However, according to the official [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] synopsis included in [[Metrodome]]'s DVD release: "... the boys and the Autobots pursue Starscream to the skyscraper—a new Decepticon headquarters being constructed by the hypnotized patrons from Dancitron." Oh. Well then.
* Why do Tracks and Blaster destroy what looks to be a perfectly good building? Why not keep it?

===Continuity notes===
* This episode is one of four pre-movie episodes to not feature [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]].

* Gadgets and Powers:
** Blaster uses his electro-scrambler to disable the Dancitron thugs' guns.
** Tracks has a grappling hook in his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] hood, and a laser which he uses to blast a hole in the wall of the Dancitron.
** Tracks can place a passenger inside his chest in [[robot mode]].
** The back of Blaster's cassette cover functions as a monitor for his ultra-sound detector.
** Tracks "seeds" clouds (using some kind of special smoke) to make it rain.
** When leaving the building site to head to the Dancitron, Tracks inserts Raoul into his chest ''before'' transforming to vehicle mode. Weird.
*This episode features the second of only two instances in the series in which Soundwave ''laughs''. The first was in "[[Quest for Survival]]". It is possibly the scariest thing ever.
* The location the Autobots are using as a base has "SPARKPLUGS" over the door, though it's different from [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]]'s shop in "Make Tracks".

===Real-world references===
[[File:AutoBop Clothes Horse.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Furg02.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
* The episode in general features then-relevant (or slightly past-relevant) cultural touchstones - [[wikipedia:Breakdancing|breakdancing]], mohawks, spiked clothing and other outlandish outfits, and the paranoia over [[wikipedia:Subliminal message#Audio|subliminal messages hidden in popular music]]. There's even a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to the popular FRANKIE SAYS RELAX T-shirts common at the time, based on the 1983 single "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
* When confronted by the gang of thugs employed by Dancitron, Raoul suggests they "pull a [[Michael Jackson]]" and [[wikipedia:Beat It|beat it]].
* While fleeing from the thugs, Raoul wishes their blaster (boom box) was "THE [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]]". Rocksteady retorts that Raoul "knows the Autobots like I know [[Prince]]".
*When first meeting Blaster and Tracks, Rocksteady responds to Blaster's implication of trouble-making with "Hey! We were just breakin' in front of the Dancitron (''shifts from two open palms and a shrug to one thumb extended pointing behind him'') and these '''Road Warrior''' rejects tried to bounce us out."
* The sound effect of the DJ booth door opening and closing is the door sound effect from ''[[Star Trek]]''. This occurs in plenty of other episodes, along with other ''Star Trek'' sound effects (phasers, photon torpedoes...).
* ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] sound effects:
** ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' engine burst as Tracks pursues Starscream, followed by some [[TIE Fighter]] roar. Starscream gets the trench run targeting-sequence noise just before he crashes.

===Trivia===
[[File:Auto-bop 2.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|"I play this song, Jazz plays this song, Cold Slither plays this song... does anybody ''not'' play this song?"]]
*When Tracks and Blaster enter Dancitron, the song playing is an instrumental version of the song performed by [[Cold Slither (band)|Cold Slither]] from the ''G.I. Joe'' episode of the same name.
* This episode is also noteworthy for pitting the two tape decks, Soundwave and Blaster, against each other, in an intense sonic duel. It turns out that Soundwave is actually somewhat the more powerful of the two, and Blaster had to augment his output with some nearby additional speakers to best his opponent.
*This was one of twelve episodes of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original cartoon]] released as audio adventures by the [[Germany|German]] company [[Karussell|Karussell Musik und Video]].
* According to David Wise, his inspiration for writing this episode was the '''Wonder Woman''' episode ''Disco Devil''.<ref>https://aalsbits.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/23-david-wise/</ref>

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gefährliche Hypnosekraft'''" ("Dangerous Hypnosespower")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 16]], [[1989]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''Linee di raggruppamento'''" ("Meeting up Lines")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Auto-rock'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::* In the second Italian dub, the ''Mad Max'' reference is replaced with a ''Street Fighter'' one for unknown reasons.

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Broadcast VS Soundwave'''" (ブロードキャストVSサウンドウェーブ)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[July 11]], [[1986]]

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tantzetron'''" (Танцетрон,"Dancitron")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;[[Wikipedia:LaserDisc|LaserDisc]]
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only.<br>
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 6 (Rhino Entertainment)<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]])<br>
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]])<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)<br>
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)<br>
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (3DVDs) ([[Flex Media]]) — German audio only.<br>
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 05: Stagione Due Parte Terza ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio.<br>
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome)<br>
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]])<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.com/cartoon-dossier/synopses/auto-bop.html Dossier at the Cybertron Chronicle]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]
[[Category:MSTF]]

Keith Tucker

2014-06-26T03:00:28Z

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Keith Tucker is a cartoonist who drew storyboards for the episode [[Aerial Assault]].<ref>[http://cinemassacre.com/2014/06/25/top-10-transformers-wtf-moments/ Comments section of Cinemassacre's Top 10 Transformers WTF Moments]</ref>

[http://www.keithtuckercartoonist.com/ Website]([http://www.tuckertoons.com/ Alternate URL])

{{stub}}

== References ==

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Aerial Assault

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{{episode
|image=Giantpurplegriffon.jpg
|caption=MERV GRIFFIN!!!!!
|series=G1toon
|ep=58
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=46
|prev2=Hoist Goes Hollywood
|next2=Trans-Europe Express
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=45
|prev3=B.O.T. (episode)
|next3=Cosmic Rust (episode)
|title="Aerial Assault"
|written by=[[Douglas Booth]]
|production code=700-57
|airdate=[[December 10]], 1985
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Slingshot and Skydive go undercover to discover who is responsible for the theft of planes in the Middle East.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Aerialassault.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Hey, look, no arms!]]

In an unnamed Middle Eastern country,<ref>The country is retconned to be [[Iran]] in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II]]''.</ref> the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] are searching for clues to a group that is stealing planes. After flying over a bazaar (in which is a [[Swindle (G1)|hauntingly familiar jeep]] being driven by a suspicious man loading equipment), the Aerialbots receive a distress call. Heading into a nearby canyon, they are attacked by the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], and [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] ends up being buried within a cave by [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]. However, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]], [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] arrive and drive off the [[Decepticon]]s. After unearthing Slingshot, the [[Autobot]]s return to a nearby air base for repairs. Slingshot is fixed, but his weapons systems have been damaged, and he needs a new [[weapons console|console]] from the [[Ark (G1)|base]]. [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] gets the idea to let himself serve as bait, which [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], in his infinite wisdom, believes is a good idea, and Slingshot decides to join as well. As night comes, the two Aerialbots are soon stolen by the plane-nappers, but they are disassembled and their [[radio]] transmitters are disabled.

[[Image:AerialAssault Slightshot newchest.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Retooling gone badly wrong.]]

Transporting their ill-gotten planes in laundry trucks, the plane-nappers manage to get past security, but are followed by a young boy named [[Jumal|Hassan]]. Getting into the truck carrying the Aerialbots' nose cones, he meets up with them and identifies the man heading this operation as [[Ali (Sunbow)|Ali]]. As it turns out, Ali has deposed Prince Jumal, the young ruler of the country, and has allied with [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] to create both [[plane drone]]s for conquering the oil fields of the [[Middle East]], and a...[[Giant Purple Griffin]] that will...do...stuff. As the convoy reaches the Palace, the Decepticons begin reassembling the planes, but the Aerialbots cause themselves to short-circuit, leaving their parts free to be reassembled. They manage to get everything except Slingshot's chest plate, but Hassan manages to borrow the front grill assembly from a car that Prince Jumal owned.

[[Image:AerialAssault Onslaughtheadinsand.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Onslaught's head in the sand serves subtly as a scathing rebuke of isolationism as foreign policy.]]

As the Decepticons prepare to mobilize, Skydive and Slingshot manage to contact the other Aerialbots, who come to help. Meanwhile, Hassan has slipped aboard the...fortress to steal a new weapons console for Slingshot. As the Aerialbots arrive, Blast Off, [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]], and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] take control of the drone forces. The Aerialbots are able to dispatch the drones and their commanders, so [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] decides to off them himself, only to be stopped by Slingshot. Blast Off orders the Combaticons to [[Transformation|transform]] into [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Slingshot bravely tries to prevent the merge, as [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]]'s absence prevents his own team from merging into [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]. Eventually, Bruticus forms after Slingshot is thrown into the head of the now mobile...fortress. Hassan gets a weapon console to Slingshot, frees them, then heads to attack Bruticus. Fireflight finally arrives, and the Aerialbots form Superion and damage the...fortress, causing it to crash into an oil field. Superion separates into his Aerialbot components, causing the diving Bruticus to fall into the oil field. The Aerialbots then set fire to the field, forcing the Decepticons to retreat.

At the palace, the Aerialbots are trying to figure out what to do with Ali and what he did with Prince Jumal, only to discover that Hassan ''is'' Prince Jumal. He explains that Slingshot may keep the new chest plate as a gift, as Jumal's hobby is fixing old junk cars. Slingshot feels honored... 'til he thinks that Jumal is calling him a piece of junk.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (6)
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (7)
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (8)
* [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (9)
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (10)
* [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (16)
* [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (17)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (18)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (19)
* [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (25)

|c2=
* [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (4)
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (11)
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (12)
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (13)
* [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (14)
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (15)
* [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (20)
* [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (21)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (22)
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (23)
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (24)

|c3=
* Auto parts merchant (1)
* [[Jumal|Hassan/Prince Jumal]] (2)
* [[Ali (Sunbow)|Ali]] (3)
* Ali's henchmen (5)
}}

==Quotes==
"About time too. That high altitude was making me dizzy."
:—Thankful for a reason to land, '''Silverbolt''' reveals he's still afraid of heights.

"On my way to a turkey shoot. Isn’t that right, turkeys?"
:—'''Blast Off'''

"Megatron, you promised me world domination!”<br/>
"You’ll be lucky if I let you live, fool!"
:—'''Ali''' pushes his luck with '''Megatron'''

"Hey. Did you just call me a... junker?"<br>
"Don't worry, Slingshot. No matter what you're made of, you'll always be a Rolls Royce to me!"
:—'''Slingshot''' and '''Jumal'''

==Notes==
===Animation or technical glitches===
[[File:AerialAssault Swindle Ali.jpg|thumb|right|200px| ]]
* Swindle's missing his guns as he drives into the bazaar, though the omission could be intentional.
* Until the end of the canyon battle, all the Transformers' voices are filtered as though they're communicating by radio. Not impossible, but it goes against the show's usual conventions. Later, when Skydive and Slingshot are being disassembled by the plane thieves, and it ''would'' make sense to talk only by radio, they use their normal voices. The radio filtering returns again when the Aerialbots are in battle.
* Fireflight is missing as the Aerialbots dive into the canyon, but in the next shot he's directly behind Silverbolt.
* Brawl and Onslaught steal Megatron's fusion cannon sound as they open fire for the second time in the canyon.
* After he and Onslaught transform, Brawl's head is all gray instead of having some rust-brown bits. He's also missing his chest detailing and the treads on his left arm. Onslaught, meanwhile, is missing his Decepticon symbol.
* Onslaught's visor is white instead of its usual yellow as he recoils from Optimus Prime's laser fire.
* When Hoist is towing Slingshot from the canyon, Optimus' cab windows are red.
* After Ratchet repairs him, the top of Slingshot's head is white instead of orange. The coloring error repeats multiple times, such as when he takes off to try and prevent the Combaticons from merging.
[[File:Aerial assault4.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"No problem! Just wait a few more scenes and the animators will forget we were disassembled at all!"]]
* Skydive and Slingshot are shown to be disassembled to the point where only a small portion of their cockpit remains in the laundry bin. Yet when Hassan finds them, they transform into their full torso, even sporting their nosecones which were clearly removed.
** Later on when Blast Off inspects them, they are no longer in the bins, and are now suddenly composed of the entire front half of their jet forms, as a retroactive correction to the earlier scene.
* After Ramjet installs a missile on one of the aircraft, his left arm disappears. The plane he's attaching it to seems to be a commercial passenger jet... and he's affixing it to the tail wing, where it would be likely to blow off the primary wing in front of it.
* Swindle's guns are missing again at the border inspection point. Again, within the bounds of the plot, it seems a good idea not to have them out!
[[File:AerialAssault BlastOff Aerialbots.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Blast Off ultimately decided the goatee thing wasn't for him.]]
* "We'll take over now" - in this line and his next, Blast Off's voice is missing its robotic processing.
* When Blast Off opens the laundry truck, the center of his faceplate is a darker gray than the rest of his face; it should be the same color.
* "These two jets are cheap junk" - the line separating Blast Off's right optic from his faceplate is missing.
[[File:AerialAssault Slightshot newchest.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Sweet, another thing for the animators to forget!"]]
[[File:Aerialbots2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|If we're gonna have scale problems, let's just take it to the most absurd lengths possible.]]
* Slingshot flips his new Rolls Royce grill chest plate over, and its backside matches his original chest design, but colored gray. After this scene, however, his chest has its normal coloration until the very end of the episode.
* The griffin's lasers have a different sound effect before the commercial break than they do after it.
* Ramjet has Dirge's color scheme in the scene just after the griffin starts firing on the Aerialbots. (It ''could'' be Dirge, but the jet is shown alongside Vortex and Blast Off where Ramjet is supposed to be hanging out, and Dirge is shown strafing Slingshot in the very next shot, so...)
* An odd sound editing error clips the end off of Onslaught's line "So I can blast him into obli(vion!)" and the start of Blast Off's following line, "(Combaticons, u)nite, and transform into Bruticus!"
* Blast Off's shot which causes Slingshot to cry out "I'm hit!" actually misses him entirely.
* The animators clearly struggled with Blast Off's lack of visible weapons in his shuttle mode. Sometimes lasers come out of his wings, sometimes they come from ''under'' his wings (where we clearly see there are no guns), and once we get a close-up of him firing a boxy weapon which is nowhere in evidence on his character model.
* Air Raid doesn't actually ''hit'' Ramjet, but Ramjet just flies into the ground anyway.
* Rumble and Frenzy both have two guns mounted on their backs throughout the start of the battle, but when Megatron orders him to launch the fortress, Rumble only has one. Later, as Megatron orders him to annihilate Superion, he doesn't have either of them (and Frenzy is down to just one); then it's back to two as the Aerialbots blow up the oil field.
* The griffin's eye doesn't appear to be hollow, but Hassan comes out of it anyway.
* When Bruticus is first seen trying to swat Silverbolt, he has a single eyeband instead of two large but separated optics.
* One of the shots showing Slingshot's missing radio console is inexplicably recycled to show Silverbolt reacting to Fireflight's arrival.
* When Fireflight finally arrives, he is colored entirely black.
* As the Aerialbots combine, there's either no transformation sound or it's completely drowned out by Silverbolt's order to combine. The Aerialbots also suddenly go from cruising along in jet mode in one shot, to being in robot mode and combining in the next shot.
* "Rumble, Frenzy! Annihilate him!" Megatron's order looks rather odd, given that it's ''Bruticus'' visible on the display screen.
* After they exit the griffin, Ali mouths Megatron's roar of frustration.
* "You'll be lucky if I let you live, fool!" - Megatron's Decepticon symbol is missing as he turns away from Ali.
* The Decepticons blow around like paper in the wind after the oil explodes.
* Air Raid is drawn mouthing Silverbolt's line "Maybe we should let Prince Jumal deal with him." In the same shot, Silverbolt is a bit shorter than the other Aerialbots, when he should be a head or two taller.
* During the final scene, when Slingshot and Prince Jumal are discussing the Rolls Royce grille Slingshot was using as a chest plate, the grille appears and disappears into thin air several times.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:Primesb&skydiveairassault.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''Overly Complicated Engineering Theatre'']]
[[Image:Slingshot undercover.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hmm let's see... Autobot symbol... nope, nothing suspicious to see here!]]
* This episode was produced and aired well out of sequence. Most visibly, the Combaticons appear, placing the episode chronologically after "[[The Revenge of Bruticus]]". It also presumably occurs after "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]", because the Aerialbots have no problem fighting Decepticons ''and'' aren't jerks towards humans.
* Why can't the Autobots just move the rocks trapping Slingshot?

* How exactly do the plane thieves not hear Skydive and Slingshot talking right in front of them? The dialogue makes it clear they're not talking by radio.
* Nobody in the "laundry" truck notices Hassan coming up behind them in his motorcycle, nor the enormous THUD as he launches himself into the back of the truck.
* Slingshot's worried about being put back together enough to be recognized by Blast Off. Lucky for him that Blast Off didn't notice the big Autobot symbol on his nosecone.
* For a piece of equipment so vital to Slingshot that it prevents him from joining the battle, removal of the weapon console doesn't seem to have any detrimental effects on the griffin.
* We never learn the reason for Fireflight's protracted absence.

===Continuity notes===
* Gadgets and powers:
** Slingshot has a grappling hook and tow cable for ''Empire Strikes Back''-style tripping up of large behemoths.

===Real-world references===
* ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
** [[Death Star]] firing sound as Onslaught and Brawl take off to retreat.
** [[TIE Fighter]] roar as Ramjet is hit and falls out of the sky.

===Trivia===
[[File:AerialAssault Ali.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"I hate this episode. And everything in it. Including myself."]]
* Deleted scenes in this episode include Hassan reconstructing Slingshot and Skydive to disguise them as refrigerators to get them past the border guards; the trucks transporting the jet parts breaking down in the desert and some camels being stolen to tow them when Swindle refuses to do so; and Swindle discovering the Aerialbots, being knocked out and having his memory banks wiped so he forgets they were there.
* The Giant Purple Griffin has become one of the most mocked creations in Trans[[fandom]], and rightly so. In addition to looking absurd and doing almost nothing of value, it gets taken out of the fight by one little kick from Superion.
* The drone jets aren't much better. They fire a few missiles (which miss), and then the Aerialbots take them apart with ease.
* In this episode, [[Ed Gilbert]] takes over the role of Superion from [[Frank Welker]], who voiced him briefly in "[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2]]".
* For some reason, quite a few [[fandom|fans]] misremember this episode as being set in [[Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya|Carbombya]], a country that didn't get identified by name until season 3.
* This episode was storyboarded by [[Keith Tucker]].<ref>Comments section of http://cinemassacre.com/2014/06/25/top-10-transformers-wtf-moments/</ref>

===Foreign localization===
'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''Rotta di collisione'''" ("Collision Course")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Assalto aereo'''" ("Aerial Assault")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Totsugeki Airbot'''" (突撃エアーボット, "Charge, Airbots")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 30]], [[1986]]

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Vozdoushnaya ataka'''" (Воздушная атака, "Aerial Assault")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Exclusively from Blockbuster ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;Laserdisc
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only.<br>
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.<br>
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])<br>
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 7 (Rhino Entertainment)<br>
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]])<br>
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]])<br>
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)<br>
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)<br>
[[Image:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 06: Stagione Due Parte Quarta ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio.<br>
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome)<br>
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)<br>
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]])<br>
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/synopses/aerial_assault.html Dossier on the Cybertron Chronicle]

[[Category:Generation 1 episodes]]
[[Category:Generation 2 episodes]]
[[Category:MSTF]]

Defensor (G1)

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{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Defensor}}
:''Defensor is an [[Autobot]] [[Combiner]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:G1Defensor-VisualWorks.jpg|right|300px|thumb|First Aid didn't feel like being an arm today.]]
The [[Combiner|combined form]] of the five [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] '''Defensor''' exists specifically to safeguard [[human]] life. In many ways he feels about the human race the way a parent would their children and he would give his life away in an instant rather than let one human come to harm. Defensor is emotionally attached to humans on a level that sometimes worries his fellow Autobots. He identifies with them the same way a sheep dog would with its flock or a puppy with its human owners. As far as Defensor is concerned the humans are his "kind." Sadly the titanic robot giant's attempts at personal interaction and friendly exchanges with humans tend to fail. We humans tend to be more wary and frightened of his alien nature and great size than Defensor can understand. Despite this, Defensor is fairly well adjusted mentally compared [[Devastator (G1)|to]] [[Abominus (G1)|almost]] [[Menasor (G1)|every]] [[Superion (G1)|other]] Generation 1 gestalt.

Defensor's most notable ability is a powerful [[force field]] he can create within 50 feet of his person, but it is very fuel consumptive and he cannot maintain it for long.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
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''Defensor's birth was prophesized by a dream shared by Optimus Prime and [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]], due to their independent connections to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. {{storylink|Second Generation!}}''

[[Image:G1 Afterdeath Defensor.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Optimus hesitated, remembering the big guy's name only at the last second.]]
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] met at a fuel research station with the Protectobots and the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]], planning to brawl over it. Optimus pointed out that with the Protectobots, they had Megatron and the Combaticons outnumbered six to four. Megatron replied that Optimus is terrible at counting, and that the sides were six vs six. Optimus wasn't foiled yet, and revealed that the Protectobots can combine to form Defensor. Once more Megatron foiled Prime, having the Combaticons merge into Bruticus. The sides were still even.

[[Image:G1 Child'sPlay Defensor.jpg|right|230px|thumb|He has to shout his own name when Optimus isn't there to do it.]]
When [[Ethan Zachary]] suggested they uploaded themselves to the computer to battle over it safely, both sides agreed. In the [[Multi-World|virtual world]], after each individual Protectobot had taken care of the Combaticon, they combined to fight Megatron, leaving Optimus Prime safely off to the side. Defensor burned the bridge he and Megatron were standing on, letting them both 'die' in the virtual world. It would have worked perfectly had Megatron not cheated. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}}

Not long after, the Protectobots were summoned by the current leader Grimlock to find and arrest Blaster. They came up against the Combaticons during this mission, culminating in a battle between Defensor and Bruticus in an old train yard. Their battle wrecked the entire area, threatening to kill several human children in the process. Defensor was protected by his forcefield, while Bruticus countered with Defensor's inability to aim. Ultimately Bruticus defeated Defensor by beating him over the head with an entire train. He was only saved by Blaster, freed by the humans, defeating Bruticus by causing an electrical tower to topple on him. {{storylink|Child's Play (issue)|Child's Play}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====The Transformers cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Chris Latta]] (English), [[Kenyū Horiuchi]] (Japanese), [[Takurō Kitagawa]] (Japanese, "The Ultimate Weapon")|[[Roberto Alexander]] (Latin American), [[Michael Rüth]] (German, ''The Ultimate Weapon''), [[Ulrich Bernsdorff]] (German, ''The Burden Hardest to Bear'' & ''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1''), [[Niko Macoulis]] (German, Generation 2 Dub of ''The Ultimate Weapon'')}}

[[Image:BOT Defensor forcefield.jpg|left|170px|thumb|"We'll be fine so long as they don't do that again."]]
Defensor once reduced [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] to scrap with a single shot, dryly noting afterwards that "there's junk all over the street." Later, he attempted to defend the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot headquarters]] against Decepticon attack by using his forcefield, which almost immediately failed. He was blasted back into his component parts by the Decepticons. {{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}

Defensor occasionally appeared during the Autobots' battle with the Decepticons on [[Eurythma]]. He didn't seem overly concerned that [[Hot Spot (G1)|his chest]] was standing by his feet at the time. {{storylink|Carnage in C-Minor}}

[[Image:G1 UltimateWeapon Defensorcatchestrain.jpg|right|170px|thumb|Alternate sequence for "Marge vs the Monorail" climax]]
In the year 2006, when [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] was unable to prevent the theft of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s [[transformation cog]], he left the Protectobots, feeling that he was useless and a liability to the rest of the Autobots. Unfortunately, this left the remaining Protectobots with the unenviable task of resuming their duties as Defensor with only one arm. Defensor safely managed to catch a train thrown by the Decepticons, but remarked that this would have been a lot easier if First Aid had been there. {{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

When the Decepticons staged a series of nonsensical raids across [[Japan]], Defensor fought his nemesis Bruticus outside a dojo. After knocking Bruticus down, he tried to dissuade him from bringing further harm to the humans, but failed. The Combaticons were soon chased away by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]. {{storylink|The Burden Hardest to Bear}}

Later that year, Defensor was standing guard outside of [[Gregory Swofford|Swofford]] and [[Mark Morgan|Morgan]]'s lab when the [[Hate Plague]]-infected [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] first broke free. The Protectobots transformed and fled in order to avoid infection. Not long thereafter, however, Defensor was attempting to clear a bridge of innocent bystanders when the crazed Superion came hunting for him and infected the Protectobot combiner. He was later seen committing mass property damage. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

Later, when Optimus Prime saved the galaxy with the matrix, the Protectobots were back to normal. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}}

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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====
When [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] attacked a baseball stadium in Japan, intent on turning it into a Decepticon base, the Autobot ally [[Kenji]] summoned Defensor and [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] to stop him. However, Bruticus soon joined the battle and laid the smackdown on Defensor, injuring Hot Spot in the process. With their torso component out of commission, the Protectobots were unable to re-combine. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 5|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #5}}

=====''Scramble City'' OVA=====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Kenyū Horiuchi]] (Japanese)
[[Image:ScrambleCity Defensor.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Posing for the camera while Superion gets a butt-whupping.]]
The Protectobots rolled out ahead of Metroplex and formed Defensor just as Bruticus and Menasor moved in for the kill for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s forces. He stood there and pointed at them with ''justice'', which did not seem to impress the Decepticons, until Metroplex arrived to blow them away with a single shot from his gun. {{storylink|Scramble City: Mobilization}}

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=====''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers''=====
When the [[Prime Energy Tower]] on [[Feminia]] was attacked by [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], Bruticus and Menasor, Defensor teamed up with Superion and [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] to fight them. Unfortunately, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] had a fourth Decepticon combiner up his sleeve—[[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]]. This new warrior defeated all three Autobot super robots with a single punch. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 5|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #5}}

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
{{voiceactor|[[Kōji Totani]] (Japanese), [[Hōchū Ōtsuka|Yoshitada Ōtsuka]] (ep. 12), [[Kazuo Oka]] (ep. 25), [[Hirohiko Kakegawa]] (ep. 34)}}

In 2011, the Protectobots defended Cybertron from Galvatron's invading army. They formed Defensor and battled [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} Alongside Superion and [[Raiden]], Defensor got into a shooting match with four Decepticon combiners. They were outgunned until the [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Battleship Maximus]] swept in to turn the tide. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Later, the Protectobots were assembled on Earth by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. With [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] focused on locating and recharging the [[Matrix of Leadership]], the other Autobots were tasked with running interference for him against the Decepticons. While scouting for the enemy, the Protectobots ran across the Combaticons. Defensor was assembled, and he fought fiercely with his old foe, Bruticus, before collapsing a mountainside on him. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

The Protectobots were summoned to Cybertron to defend the planet against Galvatron's latest invasion, and protect the new super-metal, [[Cybertonuron]], which [[Vector Sigma]] had developed. The fighting escalated when Defensor and Bruticus were formed and began grappling with one another. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1}} Defensor eventually emerged victorious over his simple-minded nemesis, delivering a crushing back-blow as the coup-de-gras. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2}} Later on Earth, Defensor assembled during a Protectobot mission to save the citizens of [[Peru]] from an active volcano. His efforts were waylaid by the Decepticon Headmasters, though, as [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] blasted him with a paralysis ray, leaving him immobilized and unable to help. {{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}}

Defensor assembled on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] to attack the Decepticons during Scorponok's leadership rally. The tide turned when Galvatron arrived and galvanized his troops to strike back at the Autobots. Defensor was literally torn limb from limb by the counter-fire, and fled with the other Autobots. {{storylink|Return of the Immortal Emperor}} The Protectobots later formed Defensor to defend the emergency energon rations the Autobots were sending to planet [[Sandra (planet)|Sandra]]. Defensor fought against Devastator to protect the supplies. {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}}

As the Decepticons launched five simultaneous attacks on the Autobots around the globe, Defensor was assembled to respond to one of the sites. He was seen battling with [[Sixshot]] on Galvatron's monitors. Considering how much Galvatron was crowing about Sixshot's mad skillzz, odds are Defensor didn't win. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}} Later on, Defensor helped Raiden and [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] demolish an old Decepticon base after the enemy abandoned the planet Earth. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}}

After Fortress's battleship was damaged on the planet Master by [[Weirdwolf]]'s bombs, Defensor and Raiden were seen helping to repair it. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}}

Following a lengthy period of inactivity, the Decepticons renewed their attacks on Earth. With Fortress still off in space, Spike Witwicky dispatched the Protectobots to attend to the threats. In Canberra, [[Australia]], the Protectobots confronted Bruticus at one of Scorponok's new Death Towers as Defensor. Defensor was beaten severely by Bruticus, and First Aid was even knocked out of the arm socket. Using Scramble Power, Defensor switched Streetwise up to his shoulder and reattached First Aid as a leg, still carrying his fireball cannon. Despite this cunning(?) trick, Defensor was defeated by Bruticus. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}} Defensor participated in the Autobots final battle with Scorponok's Decepticons at the North Pole. He lent his energies to the Headmasters' [[Head Formation]] to revitalize Fortress Maximus at the critical moment. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

====''Wings Universe''====
After Cybertron entered its new Golden Age, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons still raged in space and on Earth. Defensor was permanently destroyed in battle with his nemesis, [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. Only Streetwise, acting as one of the giant's legs at the time, managed to survive the colossal damage Defensor suffered. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:G1 WarWithin Defensor.jpg|right|170px|thumb|For a guy dedicated to being protective of his surroundings, he sure does leave a mess everywhere he goes.]]
During the so-called [[Dark Ages]] where the Autobots and Decepticons split up into many smaller factions, the [[Wrecker]]s were searching for [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] [[Ultracon]]s in the [[Tagan Heights]] when [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] was unleashed. Upon hearing the news, the Protectobots decided to counter-attack to prevent an escalation of hostilities. {{storylink|Escalation}} As this was (presumably) before the Protectobots' combined mentality was refined, Defensor and Devastator's all-out brawl risked destroying the entire area. Just as Defensor looked ready to finish Devastator off, [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] pointed out all the destruction caused by the brawl. Unfortunately this distraction gave Devastator the chance to recover and savagely beat Defensor, prompting the Protectobots to separate and fight him as a team. This worked out better for them. {{storylink|Devastation}}

Millions of years later, Defensor and the [[Omnibot (G1)|Omnibots]] tried to prevent [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] from escaping a [[Detention Banks|detention facility]] and got their butts kicked. Ultra Magnus had to bail them out. [[Twin Twist]] and [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] were assigned to get the Protectobots back on their feet. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} They were apparently successful, since later on Defensor joined the Autobots in rising up against Shockwave's rule, decking an [[Guardian robot#Dreamwave comics continuity|Omega Sentinel]] that was threatening [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1defensor toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Brick (term)|Solid.]]]]
* '''Defensor''' (1986)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-76'''

:Defensor is formed out of the five individual Protectobots, with [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] serving as the central torso component. Unusually for [[Scramble City (disambiguation)|Scramble City]]-style combiners, Defensor's head is not a separate piece, but hidden inside his fire truck ladder assembly, like [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]. This gives his head an unusually high amount of articulation. He is armed with Hot Spot's twin fireball cannons. Though any of the smaller Protectobots can serve as any limb, the "correct" configuration has Blades and First Aid as the right and left arm, respectively, and Groove and Streetwise as the right and left leg, respectively.

:Defensor's arms are very commonly mis-transformed, even in official artwork such as the art at the top of this page (in which Streetwise and First Aid have also reversed positions). The instructions (and the cartoon model) show the nose of Blades' helicopter form, and the front panel of First Aid's ambulance mode, unfolded to hang off of Defensor's shoulders (as shown at right.) But almost as frequently, both these components are shown folded away. First Aid's legs are often not unfolded properly as well, giving Defensor a shorter arm than he would otherwise have.

:Defensor was available as the individual Protectobots sold separately, or as a [[giftset]].

:This mold was later [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Guard City]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Defensor/defensor.htm More information on Defensor at TFU.info]''
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===Generation 2===
[[Image:G2 Menasor and G2 Defensor.jpg|right|180px|thumb|At least his colors would have been more different than Guard City's were.]]
: The Protectobots were to be released as part of the second wave of combiners in the [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'' toyline]], and naturally would have been able to form Defensor. However, this entire wave was ultimately canceled for unknown reasons.

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==Merchandise==

===Transformers Ramune===
[[Image:Defensor keshigomu.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Guardian''' (1986)

:While no figure of Defensor was released by [[Hasbro]] as part of their 1987 [[Decoy]] promotion, the Protectobot combiner did have a soft rubber figure crafted in his image that was available exclusively in Japan, as part of a second wave of the figures released there by [[Kabaya]] as part of the ''[[Transformers Ramune]]'' series, along with other ''Transformers 2010'' characters. Like the other figures in this series, Defensor was sold in a [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] box and was available in multiple colors, including red, blue and yellow.

===Forms Robo===
*'''Guardian''' (1987)

:Defensor was also part of the small ''[[Forms Robo]]'' collection of larger rubber figures, with this version of the character standing at around twice the height of a regular Decoy. Like the other figures in this series, Defensor was packaged in an individual baggie and was available in red, blue, green and yellow.
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==Notes==
* Like other names such as [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the name "Defensor" was also used by [[Marvel Comics]] before the ''Transformers'' line was conceived, for an [[wikipedia:Defensor_(comics)|Argentinian superhero]] (real name Gabriel Sepulveda) who first appeared in ''Contest of Champions'' #1 (1982) and was killed off-panel prior to ''Captain America'' #422 (1993).

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Guardian''' (ガーディアン ''Gādian'')
*''Italian:'' '''Guardian''' (''The Headmasters'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Bǎu-wèi Jě''' (Taiwan, 保衛者, "Defensor" or "Guardian"), '''Shǒuhùshén ''' (China, 守护神, "Protector God")
*''Russian:'' '''Detector''' (Детектор)

==External links==
*[http://ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Defensor Defensor's Marvel TF Universe profile on NTFA.net]
*[https://www.google.com/patents/USD294157 Patent US D294157 S: "Assembled humanoid robot toy"]

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Omega Supreme (G1)

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Kenshiroh: Added info about toy's apperance in "Golden Ninja Warrior"

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{{disambig3|Omega Supreme}}

:''Omega Supreme is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:StudioOxOmegaSupreme.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Favorite punctuation mark: colon.]]

'''Omega Supreme''' is one of the [[Scale|largest Autobots there is]]. He isn't much for words, preferring his massive frame and equally massive weapons to do the talking for him. Omega is the last line of defense for the Autobots, a titanic guardian robot capable of instilling fear and panic into the [[spark]]s of [[Decepticon]]s that dare face him on the field of battle.

Except [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. Kill that little guy, it just makes him angry.

{{bigquote|Omega Supreme: always prepared.|Omega Supreme|"[[Blaster Blues]]"}}

:''Preliminary name'': '''Fortress Maximus'''
:''Italian name'': '''Megarobot'''
:''Hungarian name'': '''Szuper Omega'''

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Jack Angel]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), [[Henry Djanik]] (French)

[[Image:Robo-Smasher and Omega Supreme.jpg|thumb|left|Et tu, Robo-Smasher?]]

Millions of years ago, Omega Supreme was a member of the legendary [[Guardian robot]]s, and was charged with defending [[Crystal City]], the most spectacular city on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He befriended the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], the city's creators. However, as it would happen, the Constructicons were attacked by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron's]] [[Robo-Smasher]] and converted into [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. The now-evil Constructicons convinced Omega to leave his post to help defend another city, and promised to look after the city in his stead. When he left, they demolished the Crystal City, to Omega Supreme's horror. He tracked them down and tried to change the builders back into Autobots, but the process was irreversible, and the treacherous Constructicons lured Omega into an ambush by the Smasher. The Robo-Smasher attacked Omega, but it was destroyed before it could convert him.

{{Quote|I lived, but changed. Since then, I feel only hate for the Constructicons.}}

[[Image:Secretomegachatinwoods.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Storytime: informative.]]

Some time after these events transpired — after the launch of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' — the Constructicons left Cybertron in a starship and tried to locate the missing Megatron. Omega Supreme pursued them, "for millions of years, across the galaxies"; eventually, the Constructicons rejoined Megatron on [[Earth]], and Omega Supreme followed them there, still seeking revenge. {{Storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme}}

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{{Storylink|Blaster Blues}} {{Storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} {{Storylink|The God Gambit}}

He got his chance at revenge when the Constructicons started mining an asteroid that turned out to be the egg of an [[Asteroid bird alien|strange creature]]. Omega left the creature to its own devices, which would have resulted in it devouring [[San Francisco]]. However, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] convinced Omega to lead the creature back to its asteroid, which would sustain it. Omega lost his chance at revenge, but he did his duty. {{Storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme}}

{{storylink|Kremzeek!}}

In late 1985, the Autobots used Omega Supreme to follow the Decepticons back to Cybertron when they intended to use [[Vector Sigma]] to create a new group of Decepticon warriors. After failing to stop the Decepticons from creating the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], the Autobots created a new team of their own to counter the new threat, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]. As Omega Supreme escaped Cybertron, he was hit by weapons fire from the [[Centurion droid]]s, and once he safely disembarked his passengers on Earth, he catastrophically exploded. {{Storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}}

[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] connected Omega Supreme's mind to the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s'' life support unit while they set about putting the giant back together. The arrogant Aerialbots, unimpressed with both the Autobots and the humans they protected, refused to help their comrades in defeating the Decepticons until their group leader [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] showed them how Sparkplug was able to disregard his fatigue and continue repairing Omega Supreme simply because of his concern for a friend's well being. Soon afterwards, the Aerialbots were facing defeat as [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] at the hands of the Stunticon combined form, [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], when the newly-repaired Omega Supreme suddenly appeared and helped them defeat the combiner and send the Decepticons packing. {{Storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

He transported the Autobots and the Aerialbots back to Cybertron when they detected strange energy readings emanating from the planet. The trip expended his energy so he was forced to sit out the mission. While the Autobots dealt with a [[Kronosphere|time machine]] sending the Aerialbots to the past, the Decepticons reacted one of Omega's fellow Guardian Robots. After the Aerialbots returned from their trip through time, Silverbolt handed over some power packs they had taken from the Cybertron's Golden Age to refuel Omega. {{Storylink|War Dawn}}

After the coming of [[Unicron]], his space transport was fulfilled by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], though he still carried out occasional missions. He transported several Autobots to Junkion to investigate the strange behaviour of the Junkions. He was shot down by [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and the [[Sweep]]s crashing the Autobots on an asteroid. After being repaired Omega quickly turned the tide of the battle. On arriving on Junkion Omega again battled the Decepticons. He was knocked down by a blast from Galvatron's cannon mode but recovered and battled the Decepticons until Blaster asked him to bring him to altitude to counter the Quintesson signals. {{Storylink|The Big Broadcast of 2006 (episode)|The Big Broadcast of 2006}}

He was off on an undescribed mission when [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] acquired super-intelligence. {{Storylink|Grimlock's New Brain}}

====''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms:The Transformers'' comic====

Omega Supreme was deployed alongside [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] to defend the [[Prime Energy Tower]] of planet [[Feminia]] from the Decepticons. Together, the three giant Autobots were a match for [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Unfortunately, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] had a trump card ready: [[Predaking]]. With a single blow from his fist, Predaking toppled Omega Supreme, Defensor and Superion. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 5}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
[[Image:Omega_comics.jpg|thumb|left|200px|I... AM DARKWING DUCK!]]
Almost immediately after [[Grapple]] was brought online on Earth, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] had a secret project in mind for the architect. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}} Constructed by Grapple and given life by Prime's [[Creation Matrix]], Omega Supreme was unveiled in front of the Autobots as the Ark's last line of defense. With Omega completed, the Autobots were now free to leave the base en masse to attack the Decepticons, an advantage Optimus Prime took advantage of immediately. As the Autobots attacked the Decepticon headquarters, Megatron, unaware of Omega Supreme's birth, took [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]], and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] with him to attack the Ark, which he believed to be unguarded. At first Megatron underestimated the tank and rocket ship sitting outside their target, but Omega Supreme transformed and within moments destroyed all of them one by one without pause. Laserbeak managed to escape with a wounded Megatron back to the Decepticons. {{Storylink|Command Performances!}}

''Early on in the first [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] encounter, the Autobots openly talked about siccing Omega Supreme on the Decepticons. And then '''never did so''', despite it being a smart idea and knowing it was an option.'' {{Storylink|Target: 2006}}

[[Image:Omegasupreme-blasterandgrimlock.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Size: indeterminate.]]

Though Omega Supreme continued to guard the Ark, he didn't seem to stay [[Scale|quite as huge]] as he used to be. He could soon fit into the Ark, where watched with other Autobots as Ratchet tried to repair Optimus Prime, who had fallen in battle. At Prime's funeral, Omega placed his body in his final resting place, a spaceship casket which they shot into space. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend!}} Omega entered the Ark again when he and other high-ranking Autobots assembled to nominate Prime's replacement, and he suggested courage as a valuable trait for their imaginary candidate. When [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] attacked, the Decepticon carpeted the entrance to the Ark with sonic scrambler mines, disabling Omega and the other Autobots within; Omega was thus unable to square off against the giant. Fortunately, they were rescued by Grimlock and the other [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], a turn of events that persuaded him, along with the other Autobots, to support Grimlock as their new leader. {{Storylink|King of the Hill!}} Later, Omega Supreme acted as a sort of Master of Ceremonies when [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and Grimlock were due to fight it out for Autobot leadership on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. He had shrunk more by then, but once [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons surprise-attacked them, he seemed bigger again. Omega survived the battle seemingly uninjured. {{Storylink|Totaled!}}

[[Image:Buzzsawyikes4.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Match: Met.]]

Omega traveled with the rest of the Autobots to the [[Arctic]] to investigate a distress signal sent by [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]. Soon, they were ambushed by two Decepticon armies, and Buzzsaw cannon-blasted Omega Supreme—and [[:Image:Buzzsawyikes4.jpg|Omega actually seemed to be getting knocked over]]. This was all revealed as a plot by Starscream to divert both factions away from his attempts to absorb the powers of the [[Underbase]]. Omega traveled to [[Buenos Aires]] as part of a team led jointly by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. When Fortress Maximus was in danger, he jumped to his rescue—however, the Underbase-powered Starscream, recalling his earlier defeat at Omega's hands, gleefully killed him. {{Storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}

Pieces of him were seen in Ratchet's repair bay. {{Storylink|Back from the Dead}}

In an alternate future of 2006, Omega Supreme flew a group of Autobots to [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]] to investigate some strange goings-on there. He fought off alien spacecraft that were attacking the Autobots under hypnosis. He also battled with "[[Scourge (G1)|Sweeps]]" and helped disrupt a [[Quintesson]] hypnosis signal by flying [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] into the air to broadcast soothing music. {{storylink|The Big Broadcast of 2006 (issue)|The Big Broadcast of 2006 (US)}}

{{note|In the UK version of the story, the events of "The Big Broadcast of 2006" are a fabrication invented by [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]].}}

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===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:TheOmegaEffect_OmegaSupreme_Sunstorm_Starscream.jpg|thumb|200px|Starcream's pants: soiled]]
Some time after the departure of the Ark, Omega Supreme and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] were part of one of the last Autobot space programs, tasked with containing the expansion of the Decepticons to other worlds and, more importantly, to find [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the crew of the Ark. After falling out with the other members of the operation, Jetfire and Omega detected what they thought was the energy signature of the Ark, only to be attacked by [[Scourge (G1)|a mysterious, powerful assailant]]. They ultimately ended up buried under Antarctica on Earth. {{Storylink|Original Sin}} Millions of years later, Jetfire remotely reactivated Omega Supreme in an attempt to defeat the powerful and insane [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]. Though Omega Supreme managed to capture the weakened Sunstorm thanks to Ratchet's energy siphon, Starscream destroyed the device to enable his own escape, reactivating Sunstorm and truly commencing the battle between the two powerhouses. Omega was ultimately successful in overpowering Sunstorm in a straight fight, but when he retracted his damaged visor in order to examine his quarry, Sunstorm blasted him right in the face with a burst of solar radiation, instantly knocking him off line. {{Storylink|The Omega Effect}} While he was recuperating from his damage, he shared [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]'s concerns over the danger their friends were in and how useless they felt. {{Storylink|Atonement}} Omega later recovered and helped the Autobots in building [[Autobot City]]. {{Storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

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===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers'' comics===
[[Image:ArtofWar3_OmegaSupreme_Sixshot_Astrotrain.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Characteristic speech pattern: averted.]]
Omega Supreme served as security during an Autobot peace ceremony on Cybertron. When [[Serpent O.R.]]'s forces attacked, he transformed and shot down [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], but soon found himself surrounded by [[Predaking]], [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} The combined might of the three giants was too much for Omega, who was defeated and almost crushed a [[Optimus Prime's rescuee|civilian]] as he fell to the ground. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

Following the defeat of Serpent O.R. and the Decepticon army, Omega Supreme helped repair damaged buildings in [[Capitol City]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

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===IDW comics continuity===
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[[Image:OmegaSupreme_SpotlightPrime.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Privacy: Requested. Discharge: Imminent.]]

Omega Supreme is largely a non-participant in the war between the Autobots and Decepticons. Predating the notion of factions and having survived two [[Prime (rank)|Primes]], he remains in seclusion in a specially-shielded artificial asteroid within the [[Muta-Gaath Nebula]]. Though nominally allied with the Autobots, he remains outside of the conflict for fear of escalating it due to the firepower he commands. Instead, he exists as a resource to Primes in times of doubt. However, he did participate in the Autobot/Decepticon battle to stop [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]], alongside [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1}}

Omega Supreme is one of the few living Transformers to remember the first ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. Believing that the Transformer race should exercise a slow inner growth through intellectual contemplation, he frequently clashed with the expansionist [[Nova Prime]], who felt Cybertron's destiny lay in the conquest of other worlds. After the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s departure and Nova Prime's disappearance, Omega Supreme discovered a horrific creation of theirs: [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]]. He sealed the gestalt in a dimensionally-displaced prison to prevent it from devastating Cybertron and escalating the burgeoning conflict. Centuries later, Optimus Prime came to him for advice. While the two were talking, Monstructor — somehow freed from captivity — attacked. Omega Supreme told Optimus Prime the truth about himself, Nova Prime, and Monstructor. Though Optimus Prime succeeded in defeating the gestalt, he condemned Omega Supreme for attempting to play god by simply locking them away. {{Storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}}

{{Note|As he was defeated very easily by a single gestalt, this version of Omega is either considerably weaker than others, or the gestalts are considerably ''stronger'' in this continuity. Omega seems to believe the latter.}}

When the [[Dead Universe]] Transformers began attacking the Autobots, Omega confirmed the identities of Galvatron and Cyclonus for Jetfire, informing him that they too had been aboard the first ''Ark'' millions of years ago. {{Storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}

[[Image:Omega Arrives in AHM.jpg|thumb|left|250px|RAAAAAIIIID?!]]

Omega Supreme would appear some time later, after the Decepticons had executed a galaxy-wide assault on Autobot outposts, whose security systems had all been shut down by Bombshell's use of the Headmaster technology present within Hunter O'Nion. Alerted by a presumed futile distress call sent by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], Omega arrived on Cybertron to assist the group of Autobot survivors, who were stranded there and about to be devoured by the Swarm. Omega's arrival on the battlefield almost instantly turned the tide, and he apologised for taking so long. When questioned about his survival (Prowl stated the Decepticons would've sent an entire ''army'' to take down Omega), Omega gave a simple explanation: "I am Omega Supreme." At Prime's request, he transformed to shuttle mode, allowing the weary Autobots to board and disembark for Earth. {{Storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10}}

Later, when he arrived on Earth, he engaged [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. During the course of the battle in which Omega had the upper hand, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]] ordered him to take it somewhere else to avoid damaging the city. {{Storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} Eventually, the towering titans had crossed to Liberty Island, with Omega Supreme forcing Devastator on the backfoot. As he pushed Devastator into the back of the [[Statue of Liberty]], Omega ignored the panicking Decepticon combiner's bravado and took the gestalt out with a blast to the midsection, which also destroyed Lady Liberty. Woops. {{Storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}

[[Image:NewArrivalsOldEncounters_OmegaSupreme.jpg|thumb|250px|Movieverse redesign: funky]]

Two years after the New York battle, Omega Supreme was in hiding in a remote canyon when Hot Rod approached him, wanting to use his rocket mode to get off the planet. Omega refused, steadfast in staying on Earth as long as Optimus Prime remained there. Besides, even if he was willing to help help, he didn't have enough fuel to reach orbit anyway. The conversation was then interrupted when a squad of Decepticons attacked. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} Soon afterwards, Omega Supreme found himself crammed into an entirely too small cave, as [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], the new Autobot leader, worried that [[Skywatch]] could easily find him out in the open. He found it extremely uncomfortable, and by this time he was too low on energon to even transform into base mode. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} Omega was later present at the cave's opening when [[Gordon Horiuchi]] made a visit to repair Bumblebee's supposedly damaged killswitch board. {{storylink|The Gift Horse}} After Horiuchi's scheme to control the Autobots was thwarted with the help of [[Daniel Klonowski]], Omega Supreme was present when Bumblebee's new, more powerful body was unveiled. {{Storylink|Wings of Wax}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1OmegaSupreme_toy.jpg|thumb|300px|Little yellow clips: misplaced.]]
*'''Omega Supreme''' (1985, 2008)
**''Accessories:'' 2 small shields, 2 medium shields, 2 large shields, 4 armour halves (A, B, C, D), 4 ankle halves (E, F, G, H), 2 feet, backpack, 4 tracks (J, K, L, M)

:Omega Supreme transforms into three individual components simultaneously: a large rocket base, a rocket and a tank. Omega Supreme's "transformation" involves very little manipulation of his moving parts, in fact, the only part that transforms is his main body/tank. Instead, it is achieved by disassembling him into his component pieces, which are then put back together in a different configuration. The tank forms his main body, the rocket forms his forearms, the track makes up most of his legs, while the gantry forms his feet and backpack, with extra track parts forming wings. The torso features a battery-operated motor which propels the tank around the track as its turret spins and flashes with orange light, or allows Omega to walk (very slowly) forward in robot mode. This motor is extremely susceptible to failure.

:Omega Supreme was one of several toys licensed by [[Hasbro]] from a company other than [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]. In this case, and in common with [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], Omega Supreme was licensed by a company called Toybox. As a consequence, Omega Supreme was never released in [[Japan]] under the ''Transformers'' brand during the original 1980s run. In June 2008 TakaraTomy released the toy for the first time in Japan as part of their "[[Encore|Transformers Encore]]" ''Generation 1'' [[Generation 1 reissues|reissue]]. The new release was slightly [[retool]]ed to have a face (well, the top half of one) in the tank turret which becomes his head, although this ends up looking odd in vehicle mode.

: Normally it's not possible to have every part of the rails attached to him if one follows the instructions and animation model, but by arranging the "wings" into an "X" shape on his back, one can store all of his parts in robot mode.

: The retooled version was later [[redeco]]ed as a [[Guardian robot]], available through the online [[e-Hobby]] store.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/OmegaSupreme/OmegaSupreme.htm More information on Omega Supreme at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:G1OmegaSpreem_toy.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Identity: specious. Colors: [[Neon|abrasive]].]]
*'''Omega Spreem''' (Action Master Elite, 1991)
**''Accessories:'' Gun/treads

:As an [[Action Master Elite]], Omega Spreem is one of the few figures in the [[Action Master]] line that can actually transform to some extent, in this case transforming into a Cybertronian tank, though the "transformation" itself merely consists of him bending over. A button on back of the tank turret, when pressed, spins the front half of the turret. In robot mode, he carries the front of his tank as a treaded gun.

:Omega Spreem, as with the other Action Master Elites, was only released in Europe and Australasia.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1991/Autobot/OmegaSpreem/omegaspreem.htm More information on Omega Spreem at TFU.info]''

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==Merchandise==
===Super Collection Figures===
[[Image:HOC_OmegaSupreme.jpg|thumb|250px|Mask: Required wearing. Face: OH GOD NO]]
*'''Omega Supreme''' (2001)

:A three-inch tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine of Omega Supreme was available in "Act 5" of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' line (which, oddly, centered around ''[[Super-God Masterforce]]'', a series which Omega Supreme was not part of). Like all the figures in the wave, it was available as both a standard full color figure and a metallic silver "pewter" version, one of each of which was available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures. Additionally, in eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Omega Supreme came packaged with the left leg of the [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] collectable "build-a-figure".

===Heroes of Cybertron===
*'''Omega Supreme''' (2003)

:Omega Supreme's ''Super Collection Figure'' PVC was released two years later by [[Hasbro]] as part of their ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line. Like all the figures in the series, Omega was given a [[light-piping]] gimmick by being cast entirely in translucent blue plastic then painted everywhere except on his eyes and the back of his head. Part of the fifth and final wave of ''Heroes of Cybertron'', Omega was, unlike the Japanese figure, sold on an individual blister card and came packaged with the torso of the [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] "build-a-figure".

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===Diamond Select===
[[Image:Ark_Globe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Appearance: cameo. Residuals: minimal.]]
*'''Autobot Snow Globe''' (2007)

:Omega Supreme appears as part of the base of this snow globe, sculpted by [[Art Asylum]] and sold by [[Diamond Select]].

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[[Image:Omega_statue.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Pose: [[Pat_Lee#Transformers_by_Dreamwave|Dreamwave]]. Knees: buckling.]]
*'''Omega Supreme Statue''' (2008)

:Omega Supreme was released as a statue in 2008 by Diamond Select Toys. He was sculpted by Mark Wong of Art Asylum and limited to 1,000 pieces. He's in scale with G1 toys.

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==Notes==
[[Image:ToyboxMechabot-1.jpg|thumb|250px|Repaint: [[Black repaint|black]].]]
*Unlike the bulk of early Transformers that drew their molds from [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' and ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' toys, Omega Supreme's original form was "[http://1501bc.com/pretf/mechabot.html Super Change Robo Mechabot-1]", produced by a company called [[Toybox]] (an origin he shares with [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]). As mentioned above, he was not released in [[Japan]] under the ''Transformers'' brand during the original 1980s run, and it seems that he was not released in the United Kingdom, either; part of the reason for the latter omission is presumably due to the fact that the Mechabot-1 mold was licensed to a UK company called Grandstand and sold as [http://megatronofcybertron2.homestead.com/omegatron.html Omegatron], part of Grandstand's ''Convertors'' toyline.

*Originally, Omega Supreme was going to be named [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], due to Hasbro wanting to use the name on something.

*Omega Supreme's name could be translated as "Last of the Best"; given his role as the "last line of defense", this is appropriate.

*Omega Supreme can seemingly launch his rocket into space, leaving the remaining parts behind at his launch base, and then transform fully back to robot mode even though the majority of his body parts are separated from the rocket by a good planetary diameter or two (if not several light years). Indeed, sometimes his base mode is seen to be inexplicably awaiting his rocket mode at his destination, leading some to speculate that Omega (rather implausibly) has duplicate body parts on some other planets, "just in case". Some [[fanon]] alternatively holds that in cases such as these. Omega's non-rocket parts actually use [[Size changing|size-changing technology]] to shrink down and travel as cargo inside his rocket mode, which are then disgorged and enlarged before landing. Another theory is that the base is transported to [[subspace]], as some believe happens with Optimus Prime's trailer. Whatever helps you sleep at night...
*Although over half of the episodes from the Generation 1 cartoon featuring Omega were written by [[David Wise]] (including his showcase episode, "The Secret of Omega Supreme"), don't let that fool you into thinking Wise had a soft spot for Omega—he really didn't like him! In fact, the uncharacteristic eloquence displayed Omega in "Secret" was actually a script error by Wise, who was unaware of Omega's trademark speech pattern and wrote the episode with normal dialogue. Script editors had to add in lines about Omega being able to talk normally when he wanted to make it work without a wholesale rewrite.<ref>[http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=553015 Moonbase 2 interview with David Wise]</ref>
*According to the [[Letters page (Marvel_UK)|letters page]] of Marvel UK issue #285, [[External Forces!]], Omega is tougher than a "block of triple-strength [[Durabylium]] Steel."
*Omega Spreem (the name of Omega Supreme's Action Master Elite form) is actually one possible transliteration of the Katakana (i.e. Japanese) version of "Omega Supreme", suggesting that the name could possibly have resulted from the name "Omega Supreme" going from English to Japanese, and then back to English again. ''Why'' it would have gone through this rigmarole, however, is unknown.

* An version of this toy (minus the track and rocket parts) appears in the Godfrey Ho movie ''Golden Ninja Warrior''.<ref name="Golden Ninja Warrior">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cCpeDuQdVA Clip from ''Golden Ninja Warrior'' on YouTube]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Omega_Supreme Omega Supreme's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

[[Category: Action Masters]]
[[Category: Multi-component Transformers]]
[[Category: Autobots]]
[[Category: Autobot bases]]
[[Category: Generation 1 characters]]

Grand Mal

2007-07-29T22:17:06Z

Kenshiroh:

:''The Grand Mal is a space ship in the [[Beast Machines]] portion of the [[Generation 1]]/[[Beast Era]] [[continuity family]].''

[[image: BFH.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|Dave, will I dream?]]

The '''Grand Mal''' is the vessel [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] inhabited during the second season of [[Beast Machines]]. It could change between being an immense aircraft and, well, a '''big floating head''' (bearing a resemblance to Megatron's own head).

:''Japanese name:'' '''Megahead'''

==Fiction==
===Beast Machines cartoon===

Megatron had been working at length to purge his body of its biomechanical elements. In the midst of a cataclysmic confrontation with Optimus Primal, he apparently succeeded, splitting his organic components off into a separate entity (the purely biological [[Noble/Savage]]). His [[Spark]], however, remained with the Noble/Savage portion, while his original robot form was destroyed by the combined forces that he and Primal had been unleashing.

Shortly afterwards, the Maximals encountered the Grand Mal, a giant version of Megatron's own head drifting empty, unmanned and lifeless above Cybertron; which [[Rattrap]] referred to as "...a sparkless floating tribute to [[Unicron]]". Apparently Megatron had been constructing it for some time in secret (schematics of it can be seen in the episode "Forbidden Fruit"), but was unable to reach it before the destruction of his original body. Some time later, with the unwitting help of the Maximals, "Noble" was eventually able to re-enter his citadel, where he transferred his Spark into the Grand Mal. The vessel served Megatron's body for much of the series' second season.

Inside the big floating head, Megatron often manifested himself as a slightly smaller floating holographic head.

Some time later, Megatron's Spark emerged from the Grand Mal while consuming the collective Sparks of Cybertron's population, an act which left him vulnerable to an attack by Nightscream. Nightscream's sonic blast left Megatron's Spark "depolarized", wandering madly about Cybertron without a body for a time. The Maximals occupied the empty Grand Mal and used it as their base, defending the captured Sparks of Cybertron's population that it contained.

In a subsequent battle, Megatron's Vehicons shot down the Grand Mal, which crashed on top of the citadel and was the site of the final battle between the Vehicons and Primal's team of Maximals. After the reformatting of Cybertron, its form remained visible, though covered with technorganic greenery.

''Note: The Grand Mal was not named in the [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines television series]]. The name comes from scripts and the short story [[Singularity Ablyss]] by series writer [[Bob Skir]].

==Toys==
===Robots in Disguise===
[[Megabolt]]
===Beast Wars Returns===

==Trivia==
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal_seizure Grand Mal is also a type of seizure].
[[Category: Starships]]
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Microman

2006-09-03T04:04:51Z

Kenshiroh:

Microman is one of two [[Takara]] toy lines (the other being [[Diaclone]]) from which the original Transformers toys came.
{{stub}}<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Diaclone

2006-09-03T04:04:21Z

Kenshiroh:

Diaclone is one of two [[Takara]] toy lines (the other being [[Microman]]) from which the original Transformers toys came.
{{stub}}<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Electrum

2006-09-03T03:59:12Z

Kenshiroh: Added info about real electrum

'''Electrum''' is a golden substance which can be used to render a Transformer virturally invulnerable for short period.

When coated with Electrum, a Transformer turns golden in color and can survive even the strongest of attacks without so much as a scratch.

[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] once found a lagoon full of the stuff, which was promptley seized by the [[Decepticons]].

[[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] was also built out of an Electrum Alloy which instantly repaired any damage he suffered. Whether this property is natural of Electrum, or was a side effect from Sunstorm's unusual creation is unknown.

In reality, electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum Electrum on Wikipedia]</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{stub}}
[[Category: Substances]]
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Maurice LaMarche

2006-08-18T16:49:43Z

Kenshiroh:

Maurice LaMarche is a voice actor and former stand up comedian. His most famous roles are probably '''Brain''' from ''Pinky and the Brain'' and '''Egon Spengler''' in ''The Real Ghostbusters''.

LaMarche was only in one episode of ''Transformers'', when he played [[Six-Gun]] in the episode “[[Theif in the Night]]”. In an [http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/?p=1153&page=2 interview with Quick Stop Entertainment], he describes the recording session for this episode as "the longest session of [his] life", due to [[Wally Burr]]'s "unusual directing style":

:''He line read you 72 times on each line. He just made you parrot back what he did into the microphone. And you always… in fact, that director is the reason there is now a four hour recording session rule in the SAG basic contract for animation. Because it used to be 8 hours. Now, nobody was there 8 hours, but that was the allowed minimum. Until this guy came along and started directing Transformers, and all of a sudden, you were there 8 hours. And the way voice actors make their money is volume. As my friend Rob Paulson is fond of saying, “Volume baby. Volume.” So even though you’re booked for four hours, if they know you’ve got a 2:00 and you’re in there at noon, they’ll get you out for 2:00 because they know you want to get on and make another session fee. The one thing that you’ll find in our business is most of us work for scale. The idea is how many times a day do you work for scale. But this one director...would just keep you there.''<ref name="quickstop">[http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/?p=1153&page=2 Quick Stop Interview: Maurice LaMarche]</ref>

==Generation 1==
*[[Six-Gun]]
[[Category:Voice actors|LaMarche, Maurice]]

==References==
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The Transformers (1985 video game)

2006-06-17T19:04:56Z

Kenshiroh: Fixed Category:Video Games link

{{stub}}
''Transformers'' is a computer game for the Commodore 64. It was developed by Denton Designs with music by Fred Gray, and released by Ocean.<ref name="lemon64">''Transformers'' (Ocean) page at Lemon 64</ref>

==References==
<references/>
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The Transformers (1985 video game)

2006-06-17T19:04:24Z

Kenshiroh:

{{stub}}
''Transformers'' is a computer game for the Commodore 64. It was developed by Denton Designs with music by Fred Gray, and released by Ocean.<ref name="lemon64">''Transformers'' (Ocean) page at Lemon 64</ref>

==References==
<references/>
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The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth

2006-06-17T18:58:45Z

Kenshiroh:

{{stub}}
''Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth'' is a computer game for the Commodore 64 written by David Crane with music by Russell Lieblich, released in 1986 by Activision.

The intro for this game features probably the most amount of speech of any Commodore 64 game. [http://www.lemon64.com/music/speech/transformers_(ocean).zip This speech] tells the history of the Transformers, with most of the dialog taken from the narration at the beginning of the first episode of the TV series.

==Notes==
*The creator of the game was obviously unaware that [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodiums Prime]] are the same character, since they both appear in the game together at the same time.

==External Links==
[http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2700 ''Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth'' page on Lemon 64]
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Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle

2006-06-17T15:07:08Z

Kenshiroh: Added mini-game only characters and external links section

[[Image:BeastWarsGameBoyColor.jpg|thumb|250px|(Cue ''Mortal Kombat'' theme.)]]

'''Duel Fight -- Transformers: Beast Wars -- Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle''' (<ruby><rb>決闘　トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　ビースト戦士最強決定戦</rb><rp> </rp><rt>Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen</rt><rp></rp></ruby>) is a fighting game for Nintendo's Gameboy Color system.

It has a ridiculously long title and some adorably short combatants from ''[[Beast Wars]]'', ''[[Beast Wars II]]'' and ''[[Beast Wars Neo]]''.

==Characters==
===Maximals===
*[[Lio Convoy (BW)|Lio Convoy]] (Supreme Commander)
*[[Scuba (BW)|Scuba]] (Underwater Craftsman)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Jungle Patrol Leader)
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (Original Supreme Commander)
*[[Star Upper (BW)|Star Upper]] (Hyper Boxer)
====In mini-games only====
*[[D. J. (BW)|D. J.]]
*[[Ikard Octoba Barks (BW)|Ikard Octoba Barks]]

===Predacons===
*[[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] (New Destroying Great Emperor)
*[[Megastorm (BW)|Megastorm]] (Destruction Marquis)
*[[Guiledart (BW)|Guiledart]] (Dinosaur Staff Officer)
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (Original Destroying Great Emperor)
====In mini-games only====
*[[Starscream (BW)|Starscream]]
*[[B. B. (BW)|B. B.]]
*[[Scylla (BW)|Scylla]]

===Other===
*[[Artemis (BW)|Artemis]] & [[Moon (BW)|Moon]]

==External Links==
[http://kenshiroh.tripod.com/games/bw/ Instructions / Menu translation]

[[Category: Beast Wars]]
[[Category: Beast Wars II]]
[[Category: Beast Wars Neo]]
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Star Upper (BW)

2006-06-17T14:30:33Z

Kenshiroh: /* Beast Wars Neo (Anime) */ Added missing "x" that was left out of the work "Maximals"

''Star Upper is a [[Maximal]] in the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] continuity.''
[[Image:Starupper.jpg|thumb|"I want to eat his children"]]

Star Upper is a boxer with the Intergalactic No Holds Barred Boxing competition. His incredible 'star upper' punch, which uses mass shifting to approach the speed of light has earned him the moniker "Hellion Marsupial Brilliant Special." He's is also a fearsome kick boxer.

Despite these strengths, his physical combat skills are of limited use in a battlefield filled with ray-guns and missiles, and he is best suited to one-on-one direct confrontations, not field combat.

==Fiction==
===Beast Wars II (Manga)===
[[Image:Star upper Beast mode.JPG|left|thumb|He stole the headband from Ryu]] [[Image:Star upper Manga.GIF|thumb|right]]
Star Upper traveled to Gaia and posed as the Maximals' soon-to-arrive reinforcements from Headquarters ([[Magnaboss (BW)|Magnaboss]]) in an attempt to regain his confidence in the ring.

After a madcap adventure, he returned to the boxing circuit to reclaim his place as champion.

===Beast Wars Neo (Anime)===
[[Image:Neo-waitingroom.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Star Upper and [[Break (BW)|Break]] wait to receive their orders in the first episode of Beast Wars Neo.]]

Star Upper was one of many Maximals waiting to recieve their mission assignments while [[Big Convoy (BW)|Big Convoy]] was being chewed out by the upper brass.

Some time after that, Break tuned in a broadcast of one of Star Upper's matches on the Intergalactic No Holds Barred Boxing circuit.

===Beast Wars II GameBoy Game===
He was a secret character in the Beast Wars II fighting game on the Game Boy system.

[[Category: Maximals]]
[[Category: Beast Wars II]]
[[Category: Beast Wars Neo]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle

2006-06-16T03:13:54Z

Kenshiroh:

<ruby><rb>決闘　トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　ビースト戦士最強決定戦</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> is a fighting game for Nintendo's Gameboy Color system. Translated into English, the title is ''Duel Fight -- Transformers: Beast Wars -- Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle''

[[Image:BeastWarsGameBoyColor.jpg|thumb|Front of the box for the game 決闘　トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　ビースト戦士最強決定戦 (Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen)]]

==Characters==
===Cybertron (Maximals)===
*総司令官　ライオコンボイ (Supreme Commander: [[Lio Convoy]])
*水中工作員　スクーバ (Underwater Craftsman: [[Scuba]])
*密林巡査員　<ruby><rb>チータス</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Cheetor</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> (Jungle Patrol Leader: [[Cheetor]])
*元祖総司令官 <ruby><rb>コンボイ</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Convoy</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> ( Original Supreme Commander: [[Optimus Primal]])
*ハイパーボクサー　スターアッパー (Hyper Boxer: [[Star Upper]])

===Destron (Predacons)===
*新破壊大帝　ガルバトロン (New Destroying Great Emperor: [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]])
*破壊侯爵　メガストーム (Destruction Marquis: [[Megastorm]])
*恐竜参謀ガイルダート (Dinosaur Staff Officer: [[Guiledart]])
*元祖破壊大帝メガトロン (Original Destroying Great Emperor: [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]])
*アルテミス＆ムーン ([[Artemis]] & [[Moon]])<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

File:BeastWarsGameBoyColor.jpg

2006-06-16T02:44:53Z

Kenshiroh: The front of the box of the game <ruby><rb>決闘　トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　ビースト戦士最強決定戦</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>.

The front of the box of the game <ruby><rb>決闘　トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　ビースト戦士最強決定戦</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>.<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Video games

2006-06-11T17:51:49Z

Kenshiroh: Added web games

With a franchise as large as Transformers, it is surprising how few video games have been produced for it. Further, around half of those were released solely for the Japanese market.

*[[Transformers: Convoy no Nazo|<ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　コンボイの謎</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Transformers: Convoy no Nazo</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>]] aka "Mystery of Convoy") (Famicom)
*[[Transformers (Commodore 64)]]
*[[Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth]] (Commodore 64)
*[[Transformers: The Headmasters (Video Game)|トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ (Transformers: The Headmasters)]] (Famicom Disc System)
*[[Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen |<ruby><rb>決闘　トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　ビースト戦士最強決定戦</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>]] (Duel Fight -- Transformers: Beast Wars -- Beast Warriors' Strongest Decicive Battle) (GBC)
*[[Beast Wars: Transformers (Video Game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]] (PC, PS1)
*[[Beast Wars: Transformers Transmetals|<ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　激突！ガンガンバトル</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Transformer Beast Wars Metals: Gekitotsu! Gan-Gan Battle</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> (Transformers Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle)]] (Japan)<br />[[Beast Wars: Transformers Transmetals]] (USA) (N64, PS1)
*[[Transformers (PS2)]]
*[[Transformers (Atlus, PS2)]]
==Transformers Web Games==
*[http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/web_game/m_game01.html TRANSFORMERS G-1 クイズ (Quiz)]
*[http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/web_game/game02.html Ｑロボシューッティングゲーム　トランスフォーマー　スペースブリッジ作戦] (Q-Robo Shooting Game : Transformers: Space Bridge Sakusen <Strategy>)

Though not a Transformers game, the Konami's PS2 game '''[http://www.hudson.co.jp/gamenavi/gamedb/softinfo/wfight/index.html DreamMix TV: World Fighters]''' (only released in Japan), features numerous Transformers as either playable characters or cameos.
Due to copyright issues, it is highly unlikely that the game will ever leave the country.

In the 90s, a game based on [[Generation 2]] was supposedly in development for the Super NES console, but the project was dropped. It has been rumored that this project then evolved into the SNES SuperFX chip enabled game '''Vortex''', largely due to timing and the fact that the game involved a polygon-based transforming robot.

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Video games

2006-06-11T16:38:08Z

Kenshiroh: Added and modified links

With a franchise as large as Transformers, it is surprising how few video games have been produced for it. Further, around half of those were released solely for the Japanese market.

*[[Transformers: Convoy no Nazo|<ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　コンボイの謎</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Transformers: Convoy no Nazo</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>]] aka "Mystery of Convoy") (Famicom)
*[[Transformers (Commodore 64)]]
*[[Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth]] (Commodore 64)
*[[Transformers: The Headmasters (Video Game)|トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ (Transformers: The Headmasters)]] (Famicom Disc System)
*[[Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen |<ruby><rb>決闘　トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　ビースト戦士最強決定戦</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>]] (Duel Fight -- Transformers: Beast Wars -- Beast Warriors' Strongest Decicive Battle) (GBC)
*[[Beast Wars: Transformers (Video Game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]] (PC, PS1)
*[[Beast Wars: Transformers Transmetals|<ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　激突！ガンガンバトル</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Transformer Beast Wars Metals: Gekitotsu! Gan-Gan Battle</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> (Transformers Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle)]] (Japan)<br />[[Beast Wars: Transformers Transmetals]] (USA) (N64, PS1)
*[[Transformers (PS2)]]
*[[Transformers (Atlus, PS2)]]

Though not a Transformers game, the Konami's PS2 game '''[http://www.hudson.co.jp/gamenavi/gamedb/softinfo/wfight/index.html DreamMix TV: World Fighters]''' (only released in Japan), features numerous Transformers as either playable characters or cameos.
Due to copyright issues, it is highly unlikely that the game will ever leave the country.

In the 90s, a game based on [[Generation 2]] was supposedly in development for the Super NES console, but the project was dropped. It has been rumored that this project then evolved into the SNES SuperFX chip enabled game '''Vortex''', largely due to timing and the fact that the game involved a polygon-based transforming robot.

[[Category: Video Games]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Video games

2006-06-11T16:23:20Z

Kenshiroh: Added full title for Gameboy Color Beast Wars game

With a franchise as large as Transformers, it is surprising how few video games have been produced for it. Further, around half of those were released solely for the Japanese market.

*<ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　コンボイの謎</rb><rp>(</rp><rt>[[Transformers: Convoy no Nazo]]</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> aka "Mystery of Convoy") (Famicom)
*Transformers (Commodore 64)
*[[Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth]] (Commodore 64)
*トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ ([[Transformers: The Headmasters (Video Game)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]) (Famicom Disc System)
*[[Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen |<ruby><rb>決闘　トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　ビースト戦士最強決定戦</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Kettou Transformer Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>]] (Duel Fight -- Transformers: Beast Wars -- Beast Warriors' Strongest Decicive Battle) (GBC)
*[[Beast Wars: Transformers (Video Game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]] (PC, PS1)
*<ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　激突！ガンガンバトル</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Transformer Beast Wars Metals: Gekitotsu! Gan-Gan Battle</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> (Transformers Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle) (Japan) <br />[[Beast Wars: Transformers Transmetals]] (USA) (N64, PS1)
*[[Transformers (PS2)]]
*Transformers (Atlus, PS2)

Though not a Transformers game, the Konami's PS2 game '''[http://www.hudson.co.jp/gamenavi/gamedb/softinfo/wfight/index.html DreamMix TV: World Fighters]''' (only released in Japan), features numerous Transformers as either playable characters or cameos.
Due to copyright issues, it is highly unlikely that the game will ever leave the country.

In the 90s, a game based on [[Generation 2]] was supposedly in development for the Super NES console, but the project was dropped. It has been rumored that this project then evolved into the SNES SuperFX chip enabled game '''Vortex''', largely due to timing and the fact that the game involved a polygon-based transforming robot.

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Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)

2006-06-11T16:07:33Z

Kenshiroh: Added Japanese title

'''Beast Wars: Transformers Transmetals''' is the name of two seperate games, one for the Sony Playstation and one for the Nintendo 64. The two games share a primary theme; characters from the second season of the [[Beast Wars]] television series duking it out in one-on-one combat, but the games differ in character selection and bonus features. The title of the Japanese version of the game is <ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　激突！ガンガンバトル</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>Transformer Beast Wars Metals: Gekitotsu! Gan-Gan Battle</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> (Transformers Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle) (Japan)

=Story Summary=
Both games feature an all-out battle between the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon]]s. The player's character must fight through all possible enemy forces in order to beat the game. In the Nintendo 64 version, there is a final battle with an upgraded version of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], called "Megatron X". Megatron X is identical to [[Transmetal]] Megatron, except chromed and outfitted with a pair of dragon-like wings. ''(Note that the player must fight Megatron X even if said player is actually using Megatron as their character!)''

The games diverge at their conclusions; the Playstation version has a very vague ending for either faction that generally upholds the status quo; the N64 version features individualized text stories for each character, the vast majority of which involve somehow finding The [[Ark]] and fiddling about with the timestream.

=Playable Characters=
'''Playstation version'''
''Maximals''
* [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (Transmetal)
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Transmetal)
* [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (Transmetal)
* [[Silverbolt (BW) (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]

''Predacons''
* Megatron (Transmetal)
* [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]
* [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (Transmetal)
* [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]]

''Hidden Characters''
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] ([[Transmetal 2]], palette swapped and stretched Tarantulas)
* [[Ravage (BW)|Ravage]] (palette swapped and remeshed Cheetor)
* [[Tigatron (BW)|Tigatron]] (palette swapped Cheetor)
* [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]] (palette swapped Silverbolt)

'''Nintendo 64 version'''
''Maximals''
* Optimus Primal (Transmetal)
* [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (Transmetal)
* Cheetor (Transmetal)
* Rattrap (Transmetal)

''Predacons''
* Megatron (Transmetal)
* Tarantulas (Transmetal)
* [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (Transmetal)
* [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (Transmetal)

''Hidden Characters''
* Blackarachnia (Transmetal 2)
* Ravage
* Tigatron
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (palette swapped Waspinator to resemble his pre-Transmetal form, as possessed by Starscream in ''[[Possession]]'')

=Trivia=
Both versions of the game include a bonus feature where images of various Beast Wars toys can be unlocked.

The US Playstation version of the game features the voices of [[Gary Chalk]], [[Ian Corlett]], [[David Kaye]], [[Campbell Lane]], [[Scott McNeil]], and [[Alec Willows]].

The N64 version features several mini-games, mostly involving timed button-mashing.

One of Rampage's alternate color schemes in the Playstation version bears a striking resemblance to [[Shokaract (BW)|Shokaract]].

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Video games

2006-06-11T16:02:07Z

Kenshiroh: Added translation for Gekitotsu! Gan-Gan Battle

Video games

2006-06-11T15:54:45Z

Kenshiroh:

Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)

2006-06-10T17:12:28Z

Kenshiroh: Added "Category:Video Games" link

トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ (Transformers: The Headmasters) is a video game for the Famicom Disk System, based on the toy line and TV series of the same name. [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]], [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]], [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]], and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortesss Maximus]] are all playable characters at various points in the game. All of these characters (except for Fortress Maximus) share the same sprite for their robot modes.

[[Image:Fortress Maximus in 'Metroplex' mode.gif|thumb|"Fortress Maximus" in Metroplex's vehicle mode]]

== Improvements over Mystery of Convoy ==
*Game progress can be saved.

*Characters can be hit more than once before they die.

== Notes ==
*For some reason, Fortress Maximus transforms into [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex's]] vehicle mode instead of his own.

[[Category:Video Games]]
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Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)

2006-06-09T16:37:25Z

Kenshiroh:

トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ (Transformers: The Headmasters) is a video game for the Famicom Disk System, based on the toy line and TV series of the same name. [[Rodimus Prime]], [[Chromedome]], [[Highbrow]], [[Brainstorm]], [[Hardhead]], and [[Fortress Maximus]] are all playable characters at various points in the game. All of these characters (except for Fortress Maximus) share the same sprite for their robot modes.

== Improvements over Mystery of Convoy ==
*Game progress can be saved.
*Characters can be hit more than once before they die.

== Notes ==
*For some reason, Fortress Maximus transforms into [[Metroplex]]'s vehicle mode instead of his own.[[Image:Fortress Maximus in 'Metroplex' mode.gif|thumb|"Fortress Maxius" in Metroplex's vehicle mode]]
*Rodimus Convoy (Rodimus Prime) is spelled "RODIMUSCOMBOI" in this game.

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File:Fortress Maximus in 'Metroplex' mode.gif

2006-06-09T16:31:26Z

Kenshiroh: A screenshot from the Famicom Disk System game "Transformers: The Headmasters", showing what is supposed to be Fortress Maximus, but instead looks like Metroplex.

A screenshot from the Famicom Disk System game "Transformers: The Headmasters", showing what is supposed to be Fortress Maximus, but instead looks like Metroplex.<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)

2006-06-09T16:29:25Z

Kenshiroh: Added Metroplex image.

トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ (Transformers: The Headmasters) is a video game for the Famicom Disk System, based on the toy line and TV series of the same name. [[Rodimus Prime]], [[Chromedome]], [[Highbrow]], [[Brainstorm]], [[Hardhead]], and [[Fortress Maximus]] are all playable characters at various points in the game. All of these characters (except for Fortress Maximus) share the same sprite for their robot modes.

== Improvements over Mystery of Convoy ==
*Game progress can be saved.
*Characters can be hit more than once before they die.

== Notes ==
*For some reason, Fortress Maximus transforms into [[Metroplex]]'s vehicle mode instead of his own.[[Image:Fortress Maximus in 'Metroplex' mode.gif|thumb|"Fortress Maxiums" in Metroplex's vehicle mode]]

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Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)

2006-06-09T16:25:18Z

Kenshiroh: Created entry

トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ (Transformers: The Headmasters) is a video game for the Famicom Disk System, based on the toy line and TV series of the same name. [[Rodimus Prime]], [[Chromedome]], [[Highbrow]], [[Brainstorm]], [[Hardhead]], and [[Fortress Maximus]] are all playable characters at various points in the game. All of these characters (except for Fortress Maximus) share the same sprite for their robot modes.

== Improvements over Mystery of Convoy ==
*Game progress can be saved.
*Characters can be hit more than once before they die.

== Notes ==
*For some reason, Fortress Maximus transforms into [[Metroplex]]'s vehicle mode instead of his own.

{{stub}}<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Video games

2006-06-09T16:02:53Z

Kenshiroh: Changed "The Headmasters" link to "The Headmasters (Video Game)", since there is a show with the same name.

With a franchise as large as Transformers, it is surprising how few video games have been produced for it. Further, around half of those were released solely for the Japanese market.

*<ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　コンボイの謎</rb><rt>([[Transformers: Convoy no Nazo]]</rt></ruby> aka "Mystery of Convoy") (Famicom)
*Transformers (Commodore 64)
*Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth (Commodore 64)
*トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ ([[Transformers: The Headmasters (Video Game)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]) (Famicom Disc System)
*Beast Wars (GBC)
*Beast Wars: Transformers (PC, PS1)
*[[Beast Wars: Transformers Transmetals]] (N64, PS1)
*[[Transformers (PS2)]]
*Transformers (Atlus, PS2)

Though not a Transformers game, the Konami's PS2 game '''DreamMix TV: World Fighters''' (only released in Japan), features numerous Transformers as either playable characters or cameos.
Due to copyright issues, it is highly unlikely that the game will ever leave the country.

In the 90s, a game based on [[Generation 2]] was supposedly in development for the Super NES console, but the project was dropped. It has been rumored that this project then evolved into the SNES SuperFX chip enabled game '''Vortex''', largely due to timing and the fact that the game involved a polygon-based transforming robot.

[[Category: Video Games]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Video games

2006-06-09T05:26:04Z

Kenshiroh: Added Japanese names

With a franchise as large as Transformers, it is surprising how few video games have been produced for it. Further, around half of those were released solely for the Japanese market.

*<ruby><rb>トランスフォーマー　コンボイの謎</rb><rt>([[Transformers: Convoy no Nazo]]</rt></ruby> aka "Mystery of Convoy") (Famicom)
*Transformers (Commodore 64)
*Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth (Commodore 64)
*トランスフォーマー　ザ★ヘッドマースターズ ([[Transformers: The Headmasters]]) (Famicom Disc System)
*Beast Wars (GBC)
*Beast Wars: Transformers (PC, PS1)
*[[Beast Wars: Transformers Transmetals]] (N64, PS1)
*[[Transformers (PS2)]]
*Transformers (Atlus, PS2)

Though not a Transformers game, the Konami's PS2 game '''DreamMix TV: World Fighters''' (only released in Japan), features numerous Transformers as either playable characters or cameos.
Due to copyright issues, it is highly unlikely that the game will ever leave the country.

In the 90s, a game based on [[Generation 2]] was supposedly in development for the Super NES console, but the project was dropped. It has been rumored that this project then evolved into the SNES SuperFX chip enabled game '''Vortex''', largely due to timing and the fact that the game involved a polygon-based transforming robot.

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Transformers: Mystery of Convoy

2006-06-09T05:09:25Z

Kenshiroh: Added cheat codes

[[Image:convoynonazotitle.png|thumb|right|Convoy no Nazo title screen.]]

トランスフォーマー　コンボイの謎 (''Transformers: Convoy no Nazo'') (English: Mystery of Optimus Prime) was a video game for the Famicom (the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System). The player controlled [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] on his mission to find the whereabouts of the missing [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Along his quest, Ultra Magnus faces various [[Decepticon]] threats, including [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]-like fighter jets, the [[Combiners]] [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], and a final battle against [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]].

Upon completing the game, the player was given the option of starting again at level one, this time playing as [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]. Rodimus Prime had a new sprite for his vehicle mode, but his robot mode was simply a recolored Ultra Magnus.
[[Image:convoynonazoscreen.png|thumb|right|[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] tries not to get his ass kicked.]]

Despite his name being in the title of the game, the only time Optimus Prime appears in-game is during the start screen, when his head explodes and reassembles as the player's sprite.

This game is also somewhat notorious for being extremely difficult to the point of frustration, thanks to dodgy hit mechanics and sluggish control.

==Cheat Codes==
{| border=1
|+Memory Address Cheat Codes
!Address
!Value
!Effect
!Side Effect
|----
|0069
|3
|Always have three lives
|----
|0053
|20
|Indestructible
|Music restarts everytime you are hit
|----
|0053
|40
|Shot Power Up
|----
|0053
|60
|Indestructible and Shot Power Up
|}

==External Links==
[http://geocities.com/starsaber/moc/main.html Perhaps the most comprehensive "Convoy no Nazo" site online, with screencaps, hints, and .ROM files.]

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