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Clench (G1)

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:''Clench is a [[Decepticon]] [[Obliterator]] from the [[Generation 2]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. He is also known as '''Colossus'''.''

[[Image:G2-Clench-boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|You were supposed to be this colossus! You were this great legendary thing!]]
Utterly devoted to destroying the [[Autobot]]s, the Decepticon leader '''Clench''' is fueled by anger, hatred and malevolence. He wades into battle blasting, smashing and running over anything in his path with no mercy, then shooting anything else with heavy firepower.

So naturally, he's a registered driver in [[Texas]].
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==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 2 UK====
[[Image:WarWithoutEndG2UK-Clench.jpg|left|200px|thumb|C'mon, at least shout your name and powers or something.]]
Clench was part of the Decepticon force led by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], sent to [[Earth]] to smash stuff up and lure out [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Mostly, he just drove over some parked cars. {{storylink|War Without End (issue)|War Without End}}
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===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:MegsOrigin2 Clench dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Insert crappy "Let me give you a hand" joke here.]]
Long before the war, a group of ex-miners including [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] took part in a violent uprising against leaders who had exploited them while pocketing the fruits of their labor. They found themselves on the lam in [[Kaon]], which is where they apparently met Clench. Clench employed these same bitter ex-miners to work as gladiators in an [[Gladiatorial combat|underground bloodsport]] (in which he also occasionally partook), placing them at greater risk than they had ever known and conditioning them to give into their murderous impulses, all while hoarding the fruits of their labor for ''himself.'' Clearly, he had thought this through.

So Megatron eventually killed him during one of the fights and took over. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2}}
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===Timelines: Generation 2: Redux===
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{{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G2-toy Clench.jpg|right|300px|thumb|MEGAWEAPON!]]
*'''Clench''' (Obliterator, 1993)
**''Accessories'': 6 missiles

: Clench transforms into the front half of a long-nosed truck cab of undetermined model. The back half of his vehicle form, the truck bed and container, turns into a large, double-barreled, missile-launching artillery platform that uses "gravity feed" to load a new pair of missiles for rapid firing. Pressing a button between the barrels pops up a spring-loaded targeting reticule. Both [[gimmick]]s are available in truck mode as well. In truck mode, the support strut for the artillery cannon becomes a rear-mounted, extending gripper-claw.

: He was first released as part of the "transitional" period of ''Transformers'' in the European market, in Generation 1 style packaging, yet bearing the new ''Generation 2'' Decepticon sigil.

:Despite what his tiny fictional appearance and his boxart would suggest, Clench is actually a very dark blue-green in colour. With neat little sparkles! Yay. Sparkles.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Clench/clench.htm More information on Clench at TFU.info]''
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===Generation 2===
*'''Colossus''' (Obliterator, 1994)
**''Accessories'': 6 missiles

:Clench was re-released in Europe without changes in ''[[Generation 2 (European toyline)|Generation 2]]'' proper under the name "Colossus."

===Timelines===
[[Image:Timelinestoy-ClenchG2Redux.jpg|right|thumb|300px|His name is "Clench" because that's what your fist is doing right now around your-- oh, hey, kids!]]
*'''Generation 2: Redux''' (BotCon 2010 box set)
**''Accessories'': Shield

:A [[retool]] of of ''[[Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' Ultra-class [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]], Clench transforms into a six-wheeled SWAT assault truck with positionable mine-scoops and a rotating double-barreled turret on top. His right arm has a spring-loaded flip-out (non-firing) blaster cannon that can actually be deployed in vehicle mode as well. his blast shield can be mounted on his left arm, and placed on his turret in vehicle mode. It is unknown if the toy comes with Onslaught's electronics.

: Clench is part of the [[BotCon 2010]] boxed set, alongside [[Breakdown (G1)#Timelines|Breakdown]], [[Pyro#Timelines|Spark]], [[Streetwise (G1)#Timelines|Streetwise]] and [[Sky-Byte (Timelines)|Sky-Byte]].

:The original version of this toy was redecoed into [[Hardhead (G1)#Universe (2008)|Hardhead]].

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==Trivia==

* No, really, his toy's license plate says "Texas." It's also clearly some kind of European plate, so apparently this is the Texas in Europe.

[[Image:Timelines-Clenchfake.jpg|right|thumb|300px|THIS TOY REVEAL MAKES US SO ANGRY!!! BOTCON IS [[Ruined FOREVER|RUINED FOREVER]]!!!]]

* Speaking of Clench's stickers, those on his truck hood are oddly involved by Transformers standards: jagged lightning bolts that at their center feature a gunsight-target view of a red wolf in crosshairs. Exactly what this is supposed to symbolize is unclear.

* His Function is "Leader." This supposedly means he's the main baddie of 1993's line, though Hasbro Europe was pretty liberal with the "Leader" label during that time. But most of the other "Leaders" were members of multi-bot groups, and since Clench is a Decepticon sub-group of one, then it follows he's likely the head honcho of them all.

* After some crafty fans found images of [[BotCon 2010]] [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] in BotCon.com's directory structure, a (fake) photoshopped image of [[Universe (2008)|''Universe'']] [[Octane|Tankor]] was found also soon thereafter, and reported as real news by Seibertron.com. About half an hour later, the BotCon 2010 site went live, revealing Clench's true mold. Oh, those [[Fun Publications]] guys, such [[Shattered Expectations|pranksters]].

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Devastator (ROTF)

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:''Devastator is a [[Decepticon]] [[Combiner]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ROTF_Devastator_promo.jpg|thumb|400px|[[City of Steel|King Kong]] ain't got nothin' on me!]]

Whether he's formed from six, seven, or even nine [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]s, '''Devastator''' is a giant among giants. He is in fact so huge that his body simply cannot support itself when carrying his weight upright, forcing him to lumber on all fours.

Devastator is a tormented being, his very formation wracking his component Constructicons with pain and stressing them to the breaking point both physically and mentally. The imperfect fusion process produces a mind that's very much less than the sum of its parts; rage and pain are all he knows, pushing aside whatever intelligence he might possess. Devastator relies on almost pure instinct in battle.

Devastator is named after [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] unwithstandable and terrifyingly destructive [[Devastator Winds]], due to his intimidating strength. Devastator can also create powerful gravity wells by generating an artificial [[black hole]] with his [[Vortex Grinder]], located in his mouth.<ref>Devastator's [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/Battle-Bios.cfm Battle Bio] at Hasbro.com</ref> Nearby objects are drawn into his gaping mouth to be crushed.

Devastator is made up of:
*[[Scavenger (ROTF)|Scavenger]] (torso)
*[[Hightower (ROTF)|Hightower]] (left arm)
*[[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]] (right leg)
*[[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]] (head)
*[[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]] (left leg)
*[[Scrapper (ROTF)|Scrapper]] (right arm)
;Sometimes omitted
*[[Overload (ROTF)|Overload]] (lower waist)
*[[Unknown Constructicon dump truck|Yellow dump truck]] (left leg)
*[[Unknown Constructicon shovel|Second bulldozer]] (left hand)

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

Devastator (the Devastator? ''A'' Devastator?) was involved in a battle with [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sidewipe]], thousands of years ago. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 2}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
:Voice actor: [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Yasuyoshi Hara]] (Japanese)
[[Image:Devastator-ROTFvsLeoSpitz.jpg|thumb|left|300px|He's like a giant puppy! Who wants to eat you.]]

Upon arrival in [[Egypt]], the Constructicons that made up Devastator combined and attacked [[Leo Spitz]], [[Seymour Simmons]], [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]], and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]]. It rampaged through the construction facility, sucking up anything not anchored down, such as sand, cars, and Mudflap. Despite the powerful vacuum, Mudflap held out for a while before being sucked further in. Seeking vengeance, Skids clambered up Devastator for revenge. However, Mudflap had survived, and he blasted a hole through the giant Decepticon's eye to climb out before further attacking the combiner and slowing it down.

[[Image:ROTF Devastator death.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Hi ho, hi ho-HOLY SLAG!]]

[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] yelled Devastator's name from atop the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] to end the twins' distraction. Devastator clambered out the construction pit and grappled his way to the peak of the pyramid, where he used his turbine breath to suck up the stones that hid the [[solar harvester]] inside. By this point, Simmons had made his way to the pyramid, and he radioed a nearby navy ship to fire its experimental [[rail gun]], which had been developed based on studies of Megatron during his captivity at [[Hoover Dam]]. The gun's projectile hit Devastator, blasting off an arm and making him lose his balance, causing him to shatter into many pieces as his body tumbled down the pyramid. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)
====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====
=====Autobot campaign=====
[[Image:ROTFgame_360PS3PC_Devastatorbattle.jpg|thumb|300px|Don't think about how out of scale the limbs are...and lets sink in the awesomeness of this picture.]]

After the Autobots defeated Megatron and [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], the Decepticons' ultimate weapon, Devastator, was unleashed upon [[Cairo]]. [[William Lennox|Major Lennox]]'s [[NEST]] forces as well as the local military were unable to hold back the titanic Decepticon, and were relegated to a supporting role once the Autobots arrived in the city. However, NEST helicopters provided invaluable assistance by laser-painting critical weapons subsystems for the Autobots to attack, such as his back-mounted missile launchers, his hip-mounted cannons and his arm-mounted guns, before they could attack his head-mounted armored node. Once the node was breached, Devastator collapsed in the streets of Cairo. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}
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==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Legends Class toys====
[[Image:ROTF Devastator ezcollectiondx.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The one you will actually buy.]]
*'''Constructicon Devastator''' (Legends, 2009)

:Like the on-screen combiner, but unlike the Supreme class Devastator toy, the Legends class Devastator comprises seven Constructicons, including the elusive [[Overload (ROTF)|Overload]], each with individual robot modes. Because of this, he is a lot more complex than the Supreme class toy, with a more "layered" look than his movie counterpart had. Devastator is (roughly) Deluxe sized while standing up. The only real drawback he has is that he almost has no articulation. But hey, you can't have everything, right?

:In [[Hasbro]]'s markets, Devastator will be available as a store-[[exclusive]] set, packaged in a currently-unique clear box in gestalt mode. A huge two-sided instruction sheet explains transformation in both directions from gestalt to vehicles and vehicles to robots, with the curious note that "Some poses may require hand support". In the United States and in Canada, the exclusive lies with [[Walmart]]. In the United Kingdom, the set is (to date) only available through Argos.

:In [[Japan]] the Constructicon team members are available individually. Unlike the usual EZ collection toys, the Constructicons are not blind packed but packed in much the same way as Hasbro Legends class releases.

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[[Image:Image-ROTF Devastator ezcollectiondxG1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Bet yer ''green'' with envy.]]

*'''EZ Collection Devastator - G1 Colors Version''' (Legends, 2010)
:Takara will reissue the seven Legend class Constructicons in G1 inspired green and purple color schemes. Quick! Cancel those Hasbro orders you made! He even comes packaged in the same clear box set the Hasbro version used.

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====Combiner Class toys====
[[Image:ROTF Devastator combiner toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Actually movie accurate... [[Overload (ROTF)|NOT.]]]]
*'''Constructicon Devastator''' (2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RD-16'''

:Devastator is formed from the combination of six transforming construction vehicle toys that do not have individual robot modes. Unlike [[Duocon|prior]] [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#Energon|cases]] of this format, Devastator's vehicles represent separate Transformers, [[Scavenger (ROTF)|and]] [[Rampage (ROTF)|most]] [[Long Haul (ROTF)|of]] [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|them]] have other non-combiner toys that ''do'' have robot modes.

:Despite the figure's complex appearance(from the front anyway), the limbs' transformations into combined mode are rather simple. Fortunately, this makes him a lot easier to muck with than some of the other larger-scale ''Revenge of the Fallen'' toys. This is good, because Devastator is ENORMOUS. His smallest limbs (his legs) are the size of Deluxe-class toys, and his largest components are bigger than Leader-class toys. While the legs can not be swapped (unless for some reason you want a backwards walking Devastator), the arms can be swapped around.

[[Image:ROTF_Supreme_Devastator_japanese.jpg|thumb|left|150px|You've got red on you.]]

:The toy's electronics are all in the Mixmaster component. Pressing the button makes Devastator's mouth open and activates voice clips and engine sounds, as well as green lights in his mouth and eyes. Pressing the button for a few seconds activates his "Vortex grinder". However, the button trigger is so sensitive that he ''never shuts up''. In Devastator mode, his mouth can be locked into the open position by clicking his lower jaw sections into the large tank treads that form his shoulders. His mouth is enormous, and it lights up all pretty and green. He can easily swallow any Legends-class toy and spit it out the other side by opening up the back of his head. Covering Devastator's head when separating him from the torso and turning him back into Mixmaster's vehicle mode activates the transformation noise, and after that somehow makes engine stalling noises without pulling the trigger.

:Sadly, Devastator has a hard time standing on all four of his limbs, and is most stable standing on his hind legs. This is mainly because the most weight is located in the head, and his fingers are not made to hold that weight. He will also look straight to the ground unless you lock his head in place with the lower jaw.

:The Japanese [[TakaraTomy]] release of this figure has extra paint applications on Devastator's face, for a better resemblance to the final CG model.
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====Mega Power Bots====
[[Image:ROTF MegaPowerBots Devastator.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Not a Power Rangers Megazord.]]
*'''Constructicon Devastator''' (2009)

: [[Mega Power Bots]] Devastator is a simple toy for younger children, featuring plenty of playing sounds and flashing lights. His limbs have limited swivel articulation and do not detach into separate vehicles. He has a distinctly more humanoid stature than normal.

: Unlike regular [[Power Bots]], and unlike other portrayals of the character in general, Devastator features a transformation! It consists of putting his arms up and laying him flat on his stomach, which lets him roll around using the wheels on his limbs.

: Pressing down the Decepticon shield on his crotch (!) spins the vortex in his chest, lights up his eyes and makes him utter one of many Welker-recorded phrases, including [[Transformers: The Movie|"Prepare for extermination!"]], "Crush Autobots!" and "I am Devastator!" Pressing on the crane of his excavator arm makes a cannon blast sound effect, while pressing the cab of his loader arm turns the scoop into claws.
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==Merchandise==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Burger King====
[[Image:ROTFMerchandise-BurgerKingDevastator.jpg|right|200px|thumb|What? No wrecking ball testicles? LAME. ]]
*'''Constructin' Devastator''' (2009)
:Burger King Devastator consists of five parts — a head and body, and simplified versions of the vehicle modes for Long Haul, Scrapper, Rampage and Hightower, which connect to the torso on [[ball joint]]s. The generic connectors mean that they can be attached in any configuration, however the intended layout is marked with letters from A to D. The ball joints are loose enough to allow limited articulation.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/BKDevastator/devastator.htm More information on Devastator at TFU.info]''
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====RPMs - Robot Powered Machines====
=====Track Set=====
[[Image:ROTF RPM Devastator Showdown Playset.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Rejected name: Escape The Teabag.]]
*'''Devastator Showdown''' (2009)
**'''Includes:''' [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] [[Mini-Vehicle]].

:The Devastator Showdown track set is a [[retool]] of the ''Indiana Jones'' race track. This playset is compatible with the other Hot Wheels-like miniature cars. It fires the car on a track to an area that (when a car goes over it) releases a "wrecking ball" and the Devastator head lights up and makes sounds. The wrecking ball will follow the car down the track until the tracks stop.

:Yes, that means he fires his testicles at you.

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====Robot Heroes====
*'''Desert Devastation''' (Multi-pack, 2009)

[[Image:rotf_desertdevastation_rh.jpg|right|thumb|300px|D'awwwvstator.]]

:"Desert Devastation" Devastator is a super-sized ''[[Robot Heroes]]'' figure, at least twice as big as other toys in the line. He is only available in a multi-pack with [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] in their vehicle modes and [[William Lennox]].

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==Notes==

{{quote|[[Steven Spielberg|Spielberg]] saw [Devastator] and said, 'This is (expletive) awesome!' It's always nice when you can make him swear.|[[Michael Bay]]|"[http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-04-01-transformers-first-look_N.htm First look: Robo-brawlers big, small in new 'Transformers']" in ''USA Today'' ([[April 3]], [[2009]])}}

[[Image:ROTF Devastator and components concept art.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Six?! What happened to seven?!" "Just kidding."]]
* In the film, none of Devastator's components are shown as individual Transformers. This might vaguely justify why the components of his Supreme class toy lack individual robot modes.

* Devastator's final CGI head differed from that used for his promotional images, including more red panels and several pulleys and wires, four highly pronounced horns, and a trio of throat gears lit like a furnace, instead of a single, complex vortex machine that is lit green like his eyes.

* In the film, there are ''nine'' vehicles that form Devastator! A [[Unknown Constructicon shovel|yellow bulldozer]] is seen unfolding and is then scooped up by Devastator's left arm, which has been formed by Hightower. Another [[Unknown Constructicon dump truck|yellow dump truck]] lines up next to Rampage and helps him form the leg. This means two things: It explains why Devastator's left arm has scoops on it while Hightower's vehicle mode has no such equipment, and also why none of the Devastator toys are movie-accurate.
** Hasbro's [[Hasbro_Q%26A/December_2009:_Answers|''official'' line]] is that there are seven Constructicons that form Devastator.

* Devastator is made up of 52,632 geometric pieces and 11,716,127 polygons. The total length of all the pieces is 13.84 miles. <ref>Robertson, Barbara (2009). Weighty Matters. Computer Graphics World, 32(7), 20-29</ref>

* Devastator is made up of 6467 total textures, taking up 32 gigabytes of computer space. <ref>Robertson, Barbara (2009). Weighty Matters. Computer Graphics World, 32(7), 20-29</ref>

* When Devastator punches the pyramid, its hand is traveling at 390 miles per hour. <ref>Robertson, Barbara (2009). Weighty Matters. Computer Graphics World, 32(7), 20-29</ref>

[[Image:Devastator-ROTFenemyscrotum.jpg|right|thumb|250px|NSFW]]
* Devastator's got [[Humanization#Questionable body parts|brass balls]]. Exactly ''how'' is pretty questionable; even the crane Hightower would only have one wrecking ball as a counterweight. When Hasbro was asked if there ever will be a Devastator toy with wrecking balls, they replied straight out "no".

:* The Devastator Showdown track set does, however, feature one wrecking ball that chases cars down the track. Hmmm.

* According to [[Shawn Kelly]], the [[ILM]] lead animator for ''Revenge of the Fallen'', Devastator caused a computer to catch fire spontaneously and its insides to melt. <ref>''Nickelodeon Magazine'', issue 153, published June 2009</ref> One assumes he was exaggerating for the purposes of publicity, as it is improbable for modern computers to actually catch fire under operations for which they are designed, such as rendering an extremely complex model. The special features on the DVD do (indirectly) show one of the computers blowing, with lots of black smoke and the poor animator (and his keyboard) covered in soot. (This was all done as a prank, leading to said animator asking "What the hell, man?") Not quite melting, but still.

*Interestingly, despite the supreme class toy being formed from vehicles similar to his [[Devastator (G1)|''Generation 1'' counterpart]] (dump truck, bulldozer, front end loader, crane, excavator, mixing truck), none of them form the same component in both versions.

*In [[Transformers Generations 2009]], volume 3, a very early Devastator mock-up is pictured that places more emphasis on height than width (being rather creepily lanky) and includes among other things, a [[Blackout (Movie)|Sikorsky]] helicopter as a component. It was [[kitbash]]ed together from various figures from other lines, including some from Spawn and Kamen Rider.

* Massive Black's concept art is totally different from the film version: a red mining truck forms the torso, an excavator and timber harvester form the arms, and the legs are formed by a military plow and bulldozer. The resulting robot is human in posture.<ref>[http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2483869&postcount=2179 Massive Black post of their ROTF concept art]</ref>

*Devastator has a [[tongue]], which is cool and disturbing-looking at the same time.

*According to a [[catalog]] included with ROTF toys, the ONLY way for the Autobots to defeat Devastator is by combining Optimus Prime and Jetfire.

*Given that the film establishes multiple sets of Constructicons, it seems entirely possible that more than one "Devastator" could be formed.

*Devastator was in an early draft of [[Reign of Starscream]], but was dropped at Hasbro's request.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/members/mowry-73165.html#vmessage167559]</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Combined forms]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen Constructicons]]
[[Category:Robot Heroes]]

Transformers (2007 toyline)

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[[Image:Crosssell-movie.jpg|right|400px|thumb|These ain't your daddy's toys, kids.]]
The 2007 [[Transformers (2007)|''Transformers'' film]] was accompanied by one of the largest product blitzes in the history of the [[Transformers brand]]. The prominence of the movie allowed [[Hasbro]] to push the toy line to new levels of complexity and diversity.

In addition to the standard "main line" figures, several sub-lines were developed. Some, such as the [[Fast Action Battler|Fast Action Battlers]] and [[Cyber Slammers]], are aimed at younger users. Others, such as [[Real Gear Robots]] and the various role play toys, expand on the plot and concepts of the movie. Furthermore, many stores received various exclusive [[redeco]]s and multi-packs. Other markets, such as Japan and even Europe, also had their own exclusives.

Virtually all characters of the movie cast received multiple toy incarnations at various price points, from the tiny $4 [[Legends Class|Legends]] versions and two-for-$5 ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' PVCs up to the massive, complex, [[Gimmick|electronic]] $80 Ultimate [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]]. Given the limited number of Transformers featured in the movie, the toyline naturally contains many additional characters. Many of these are featured in alternate movie-related media, such as prequel comics and video games.

Following the success of the movie toyline, it was expanded with the [[AllSpark Power]] and [[Premium Series]] sub-lines, while the subsequent toyline, ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Transformers Animated]]'', was officially pushed back from late 2007/early 2008 to July 2008.

==Toyline==
===Action figures ("main" line)===
====Overview====
[[Image:Moviebonecrushertoy.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Bonecrusher hates being a Deluxe.]]
The main line movie figures attempt to emulate the spindly, multi-faceted appearance of the screen characters, succeeding to a remarkable degree. This aesthetic carries over to characters that do not appear in the movie, giving the line a unified appearance. Most alternate forms are realistically styled contemporary Earth vehicles, many of which are [[Licensed vehicle alternate modes|licensed replicas]].

The main line figures feature an above-average design complexity, with figures such as [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Deluxe Class Bumblebee.]] packing an amazing number of moving parts into a small package. Transformations are fairly complex, and tend to capture the movie's visual spectacle of a vehicle flying apart into a thousand pieces as the robots transform. The primary gimmick of the main line is "[[Automorph Technology]]", a gimmick by which moving one piece of a toy will in turn move other pieces into their designated positions via hidden gears, furthering the parallel with the movie's visuals.

[[Image:Bumblebeemovietoydeluxe67.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Float like a butterfly and sting like a......wait- what's my name again?.]]
Many of the vehicle modes' exteriors are formed by thin panels, but limbs and torsos are sufficiently integral to the vehicle-mode panels that they are not [[shellformer]]s. On some of the toys, these panels swing back on themselves or are otherwise concealed to such an extent that the finished robot gives comparatively little indication that it turns into a vehicle at all -- yet another point of unity with the movie's design aesthetic.

Other noteworthy characteristics of the "main" movie line include a stronger focus on the [[Legends Class|Legends]] [[size class]], which was once again available at all major retailers (instead of just at specialty and convenience stores), including toys for all but [[Frenzy (Movie)|one]] of the [[Transformers (2007)|movie's]] robot cast (although Legends were later changed from single packs to the "Allspark Battles" two-packs); the "Screen Battles" diorama sets containing minor, more [[Show-accuracy|movie-accurate]] redecos of Deluxe Class toys in nifty diorama sets including PVC figures of some of the movie's human cast (a rarity in Transformers toylines); the [[Real Gear Robots]], a concept originally conceived for the ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' line, but then held back because it conveniently tied into a key scene in the movie; and the [[Premium Series]], a mostly collector-aimed lineup of even ''more'' movie-accurate redecos of previously released toys of most of the movie's robot cast.

Unfortunately, due to issues of vehicle-mode licensing and the fact that the robot designs are the shared intellectual property of [[DreamWorks]], it is a virtual certainty that the Movie toys will never be made available as [[redeco]]s in other franchises (bar any movie sequel line) or as [[BotCon|convention]] [[exclusive]]s. So get 'em while the getting's good!

====Legends Class====
'''Wave 1'''
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]]
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]]
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]]

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]]
*[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]

{{note|This wave had minimal distribution in the USA, and as a result was hard to find; it was released in larger quantities in other countries, however.}}

====Allspark Battles====
{{note|"Allspark Battles" are two-packs that contain two Legends Class figures each. On the North American market, they replaced the Legends Class single packs in late 2007, coinciding with the launch of the [[AllSpark Power]] sub-line, whereas other markets continued getting some of the toys included in these two-packs as single packs instead. Most of the Legends Class toys included in these sets are [[redeco]]s of molds previously available as single packs, although a few new molds made their debut as part of a two-pack.}}

'''Wave 1'''
*[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] vs. [[Barricade (Movie)|Recon Barricade]] ([[Redeco|redecoes]] of Legends Class Bumblebee and Barricade)
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]] vs. [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]] (minor redeco of Legends Class Jazz)
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Rescue Ratchet]] vs. [[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]] (redeco of Legends Class Autobot Ratchet)

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] vs. [[Blackout (Movie)|Desert Blackout]] (redeco of Legends Class Blackout)
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime]] vs. [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Stealth Starscream]] (redecoes of Legends Class Optimus Prime and Starscream)

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Battle Jazz]] vs. [[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Ice Megatron]] (redecoes of Legends Class Autobot Jazz and Megatron)
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] vs. [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] (battle damaged redeco of Legends Class Bumblebee)

====Real Gear Robots====
{{note|Capitalizing on movie scenes in which the [[AllSpark (Movie)|All Spark]] brings ordinary Earth machines to life, the [[Real Gear Robot]]s are a sub-set based on modern electronic items (not actually working) which convert to miniscule robots. The toys are comparable to the Scout class in size and price. Their alternate forms tend to be slightly scaled down from life size, with realism varying widely. The robot modes are generally more in line with the "classic", blocky aesthetic of previous ''Transformers'' toylines, rather than the more complex look of the movie characters.}}

'''Wave 1'''
*[[Speed Dial 800]] (Mobile Phone)
*[[Longview (Movie)|Longview]] (Binoculars)
*[[Spy Shot 6]] (Digital Camera)
*[[Power Up VT6]] (Portable Video Game Player)

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Booster X10]] (MP3 Player)
*[[Zoom Out 25X]] (Digital Video Camera)

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Meantime]] (Digital Watch)
*[[High Score 100]] (Game Console Controller)

'''Wave 4'''
*[[Wire Tap V20]] (Mobile Phone; redeco of Speed Dial 800)
*[[Night Beat 7]] (MP3 Player; redeco of Booster X10)

'''Wave 5'''
*[[Hacker X-3]] (Portal Video Game Player; redeco of Power Up VT6)
*[[Highline 1070]] (Mobile Phone; redeco of Speed Dial 800)
*[[Photon T-34]] (Digital Camera; redeco of Spy Shot 6)

'''Wave 6'''
*[[Farsight T-20]] (Binoculars; redeco of Longview)
*[[Midnighter XR-4]] (Digital Watch; redeco of Meantime)
*[[Twitcher F451]] (Game Console Controller; redeco of High Score 100)
{{note|This wave had minimal distribution, and as a result was very hard to find, if at all.}}

====Deluxe Class====
'''Wave 1 (Movie Preview wave)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Protoform Optimus Prime]] ("entry mode" form as seen in the movie)
*[[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Protoform Starscream]] ("entry mode" form, robot mode design appears in the movie-affiliated [[Movie (comics)|comics]])

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] (Classic Camaro)
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]]
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]]
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] (includes small figure of [[Frenzy (Movie)|Decepticon Frenzy]])
*[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]
*[[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] (a non-movie character, based on an unused ILM design)

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
*[[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] (a non-movie character, appears in the movie-affiliated [[Transformers: The Game|videogame]] and [[Movie (comics)|comics]])

'''Wave 4'''
*[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] (a non-movie character, was included in an earlier draft of the movie's script, toy based on an unused ILM design, appears in the movie-affiliated [[Movie (comics)|comics]])
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] (Concept Camaro)
*[[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]] (a non-movie character, appears in the movie-affiliated [[Transformers: The Game|videogame]] and [[Movie (comics)|comics]])

'''Wave 5'''
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Final Battle Jazz]] ([[retool]] of regular Deluxe Autobot Jazz, featuring sculpted battle damage and a new, more movie-accurate weapon)
*[[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]] (a non-movie character, appears in the Movie-affiliated [[Transformers: The Game|videogame]] and in the comic book mini-series [[The Reign of Starscream]], based on a non-transforming tow truck that appears in the movie)
*[[Payload (Movie)|Payload]] (a non-movie character, appears in the movie-affiliated [[Transformers: The Game|videogame]] and [[Movie (comics)|comics]])

'''Wave 6'''
*[[Dropkick]] (a non-movie character, appears in the movie-affiliated [[Transformers: The Game|videogame]])
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Recon Barricade]] (non-movie-based [[redeco]] of Barricade)

'''Wave 7 (Allspark Power wave 1)'''
*[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] (a non-movie character, redeco of Deluxe Concept Camaro Bumblebee, appears in the movie-affiliated comic book mini-series [[The Reign of Starscream]])
*[[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]] (a non-movie character, based on a [[Sector Seven]] vehicle from the movie, appears in the movie-affiliated comic book mini-series [[The Reign of Starscream]])
*[[Camshaft (Movie)|Autobot Camshaft]] (a non-movie character, redeco of Deluxe Swindle, appears in the movie-affiliated comic book mini-series [[The Reign of Starscream]])

'''Wave 7 Revision 1 (Allspark Power wave 2)'''
*[[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] (a non-movie character, based on a [[Sector Seven]] vehicle from the movie, appears in the movie-affiliated comic book mini-series [[The Reign of Starscream]])

'''Wave 8 (Allspark Power wave 3)'''
*[[Overcast (Movie)|Overcast]] (a non-Movie character, redeco of Deluxe Dreadwing)
*[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Jungle Bonecrusher]] (non-Movie-based redeco of Deluxe Bonecrusher)

'''Wave 9 (Allspark Power wave 4)'''
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Stealth Bumblebee]] (non-movie-based redeco/retool of Deluxe Concept Camaro Bumblebee, sporting a new head sculpt based on the "battle mask" from the movie)
*[[Salvage (Movie)|Salvage]] (a non-movie character, redeco of Deluxe Dropkick as a [[wikipedia:Sanford & Son|Sanford & Son]] homage, appears in the movie-affiliated comic book mini-series [[The Reign of Starscream]])

'''Wave 10 (Premium Series wave 1)'''
*"Premium Series" [[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]] (more movie-accurate redeco of Deluxe Autobot Jazz)
*"Premium Series" [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] (more movie-accurate redeco of Deluxe Barricade)
*"Premium Series" [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] (more movie-accurate redeco/retool of Deluxe Concept Camaro Bumblebee, sporting the same "battle mask" head sculpt as Stealth Battle Bumblebee)

{{note|"Premium" Bumblebee was slated to officially debut in wave 10; however, initially only revisions of this wave were sighted at retail which contained "Premium" Jazz and Barricade, but no Bumblebee; the first sightings for Bumblebee were not reported until a few weeks after Jazz and Barricade had first been found.}}

====Screen Battles====
{{note|Screen Battles are minor [[redeco]]s of previously released mass retail Deluxe Class toys in more [[Show-accuracy|movie-accurate]] colors and/or decos, in order to emulate specific moments from the movie. They come packaged in nifty diorama boxes and include PVC figurines of both human and Transformers characters from the movie (the latter do not transform). In Europe, they are named "Battle Scenes" for inexplicable reasons.}}

'''Wave 1'''
*'''Final Stand''' (minor [[Show accuracy|movie-accurate]] Deluxe [[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]] redeco with [[Mikaela Banes|Mikaela]] driver figurine and battle damaged legless Bumblebee figure)
*'''First Encounter''' (minor Deluxe [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] redeco with [[Sam Witwicky|Sam]], [[Mikaela Banes|Mikaela]] and [[Frenzy (Movie)|Decepticon Frenzy]] figurines)

'''Wave 2'''
*'''Desert Attack''' (minor Deluxe [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] redeco with [[Robert Epps|Epps]], [[Jorge Figueroa|Figueroa]] and [[Patrick Donnelly|Donnelly]] figurines)
*'''Capture of Bumblebee''' (minor Deluxe [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Camaro Concept Bumblebee]] redeco with [[Seymour Simmons|Simmons]] and [[Sector Seven]] agents figurines, one of them being a miscolored [[William Lennox]])

====Voyager Class====
'''Wave 1'''
*[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] (includes non-transforming [[Scale|scaled-down]] figurine of [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]])
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]]
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]

'''Wave 2 Revision 1'''
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]]

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]

'''Wave 4'''
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Rescue Ratchet]] (non-movie-based [[G1]]-[[homage]] [[redeco]] of Ratchet)
*[[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] (a non-movie character, [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of Starscream using the same head sculpt as the Target exclusive Starscream redeco, appears in the movie-affiliated comic book mini-series ''[[The Reign of Starscream]]'')

'''Wave 5 (Allspark Power Wave 1)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|First Strike Optimus Prime]] (non-movie-based [[G1]]-[[homage]] [[redeco]] of Voyager Optimus Prime)
*[[Evac (Movie)|Evac]] (a non-movie character, redeco/retool of Voyager Blackout; replacing the Scorponok mini-figure with a new lifeboat/weapon accessory)
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Offroad Ironhide]] (non-movie-based redeco of Voyager Ironhide)

'''Wave 5 revision 1 (Allspark Power Wave 2)'''
*[[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]] (a non-Movie character, based on Bell/Boeing VH-22 Osprey, seen during the movie.)

'''Wave 6 (Premium Series Wave 1)'''
*"Premium Series" [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] (more [[Show-accuracy|movie-accurate]] redeco of Voyager Class Ironhide)
*"Premium Series" [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] (more [[Show-accuracy|movie-accurate]] redeco of Voyager Class Blackout including the [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] mini-figure, virtually identical to Japan's Lawson exclusive Blackout version 4500X)

====Movie Leader Class====
'''Wave 1'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]]

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]]

'''Wave 4 (Allspark Power Wave 1)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime]] ([[redeco]] of Leader Optimus Prime)

'''Wave 5 (Allspark Power Wave 2)'''
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Deep Desert Brawl]] ([[redeco]] of Leader Decepticon Brawl)

'''Wave 6 (Premium Series Wave 1)'''
*"Premium Series" [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] (redeco/remold of Leader Class Optimus Prime)
*"Premium Series" [[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]] (redeco of Leader Class Megatron)

====Ultimate Class====
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Ultimate Bumblebee]]

===Fast Transformers Fun===
====Cyber Stompin' Robots====
(non-transforming)
*Cyber Stompin' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
*Cyber Stompin' [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]]

====[[Cyber Slammers]]====
'''Wave 1'''
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] (Classic Camaro)
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]]
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]]

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee (Camaro Concept)]]

'''Wave 4'''
*[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] ([[redeco]] of Cyber Slammers Camaro Concept Bumblebee)
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]]

'''Wave 5'''
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Patrol Barricade]] (redeco of Cyber Slammers Barricade)

====Fast Action Battlers====
'''Wave 1'''
*Cannon Blast [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
*Battle Blade [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]]
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Power Hook Optimus Prime]]
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Ion Blast Autobot Jazz]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Double Missile Decepticon Brawl]]
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Axe Attack Autobot Ratchet]]

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Frenzy (Movie)|Disc Blast Decepticon Frenzy]]
*[[Blackout (Movie)|Gyro Blade Blackout]]
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Fusion Blast Megatron]]

'''Wave 4'''
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Blade Shield Barricade]]
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Plasma Punch Bumblebee]]

'''Wave 5'''
*[[Ramjet (Movie)|Claw Slash Ramjet]] ([[redeco]] of Fast Action Battler Starscream)
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Fire Blast Optimus Prime]] (redeco of Fast Action Battler Optimus Prime)
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Pulse Cannon Ironhide]] (redeco of Fast Action Battler Ironhide)
*[[Smokescreen (Movie)|Sonic Shock Smokescreen]] (redeco of Fast Action Battler Jazz)

'''Wave 6'''
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Rally Rocket Bumblebee]] (redeco of Fast Action Battler Plasma Punch Bumblebee)
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Rescue Torch Ratchet]] (redeco of Fast Action Battler Axe Attack Autobot Ratchet)
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Desert Blast Brawl]] (redeco of Fast Action Battler Double Missile Decepticon Brawl)
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Night Attack Megatron]] (redeco of Fast Action Battler Fusion Blast Megatron)

===Role Play===
====Helmet Role Play====
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] Voice Changer (helmet)

====Converting Arm Blasters Role Play====
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] Battle Rig Blaster
{{Note|In Europe, the role-play accessory is named "Optimus Prime Big Rig Blaster" for inexplicable reasons.}}
*[[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]] Barrel Roll Blaster

====Allspark Blasters====
* [[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]] Blaster
* [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] Blaster

====Super Soaker Gauntlet Blaster====
*Transformers Water Shooter

====[[T.E.C.H.]] (Transformers Electronic Combat Hardware)====
'''Wave 1'''
*[[Digital Dagger]]
*[[Quick Bow]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Tight Shot]]
*[[Flash Bang]]

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Autofire]]

===Plain Transformers Fun===
'''Mr Potato Head Transformers'''
*[[Optimash Prime]]

'''Plush Transformers'''
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Softimus Prime]] ([[G1]]-style Prime, soft toy transforms by turning inside out, using velcro)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Slumblebee]] (ditto, for G1-styled Bumblebee)

====[[Robot Heroes]]====
(2-inch non-transforming cutified figurines similar to Star Wars Galactic Heroes et al. [[Generation 1 (cartoon)|G1 cartoon]] characters in Movie packaging)

'''Wave 1 (Generation 1 characters)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] vs. [[Ravage (G1)/toys|Ravage]]
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys|Rodimus]] vs. [[Shrapnel (G1)|Insecticon]] (Actually Hot Rod vs. Shrapnel)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] vs. [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]
*[[Grimlock (G1)/toys|Grimlock]] vs. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]

'''Wave 2 (Generation 1 characters)'''
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]] vs. [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]]
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]] vs. [[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]]

'''Wave 3 (Generation 1 characters)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] w/[[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] vs. [[Unicron]]
*[[Jazz (G1)/toys|Autobot Jazz]] vs. [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]

'''Wave 4 (Movie characters)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] vs. [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]] vs. [[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]]
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] vs. [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]] vs. [[Frenzy (Movie)|Decepticon Frenzy]]

'''Wave 5 (Movie characters)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] w/sword vs. [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] ([[alternate mode]])
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] vs. [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Armor Bumblebee]] vs. [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]]
*[[Protoform]] [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] vs. [[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]]

'''Wave 6 (Movie characters)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] vs. [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] vs. [[Dispensor]]
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Battle Jazz]] vs. [[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]]
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Allspark Bumblebee]] vs. [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]]

===Collector===
====Unleashed====
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]]

====Turnaround Unleashed====
'''Wave 1'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]]

'''Wave 3 (not released in the USA)'''
*Autobots ([[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]] & [[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]])
*Decepticons ([[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] & [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]])

{{note|The "Autobots" and "Decepticons" sets were only released in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia and Mexico, but were cancelled for the US market.}}

====Robot Replicas====
'''Wave 1'''
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]]
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]]
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]]
*[[Frenzy (Movie)|Decepticon Frenzy]]

====Titanium Series (3")====
{{main|Titanium Series}}

'''Wave 1 (Wave 8 overall)'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]]
*[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]

'''Wave 2 (Wave 9 overall)'''
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]]
*[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]]

'''Wave 3 (Wave 10 overall)'''
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]]
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]]

===Store exclusives===
====Scout Class ([[Target]] exclusive)====
{{note|The Scout Class toys were also available as non-exclusive mass retail releases in Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. Some European countries skipped the first wave, however, and never got any of the Allspark Power waves either.}}

'''Wave 1'''
*[[Hardtop (Movie)|Hardtop]] (redeco of ''Cybertron'' [[Hardtop (Cybertron)|Hardtop]])
*[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]])
*[[Signal Flare (Movie)|Signal Flare]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Signal Flare (Energon)|Signal Flare]])

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Strongarm (Movie)|Strongarm]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]])
*[[Skyblast (Movie)|Skyblast]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Skyblast (Energon)|Skyblast]])
*[[Clocker (Movie)|Clocker]] (redeco of ''Cybertron'' [[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]])

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]] (redeco of ''Cybertron'' [[Armorhide (Cybertron)|Armorhide]])
*[[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]])
*[[Air Raid (Movie)|Air Raid]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Skyblast (Energon)|Skyblast]])

'''Wave 4 (Allspark Power Wave 1)'''
*[[Warpath (Movie)|Warpath]] (redeco of ''Cybertron'' [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]])
*[[Storm Surge (Movie)|Storm Surge]] (redeco of ''Cybertron'' [[Shortround]])
*[[Crosshairs (Movie)|Crosshairs]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]])

'''Canceled wave'''<ref>[[Hasbro Q&A/March 2009: Answers]]</ref>
{{canceledtoy}}
*[[Backtrack (Movie)|Backtrack]] (redeco of ''Cybertron'' [[Lugnutz]])
*[[Reverb (Movie)|Decepticon Reverb]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Blackout (combiner)|Blackout]]/[[Stormcloud (Energon)|Stormcloud]])
*[[Gunbarrel (Movie)|Gunbarrel]] (redeco of ''Energon'' [[Kickback (Energon)|Kickback/]][[Blight (Energon)|Blight]])

====Other single-packed store exclusive redecos====
'''Best Buy exclusives'''
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]] (metallic redeco of Voyager Class Ratchet)
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]] (metallic [[Show-accuracy|movie-accurate]] redeco of Voyager Class Megatron)
{{note|Ratchet and Megatron were also available as non-exclusive mass retail releases in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.}}

'''[[Target]] exclusives'''
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Robo-Vision Optimus Prime]] (redeco of Voyager Class Optimus Prime)
*Autobot Jazz (''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' [[homage]] [[redeco]] of Deluxe Class Autobot Jazz)
*Starscream (''Generation 1'' [[homage]] [[redeco]] of Voyager Class Starscream)
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] (redeco of Concept Camaro Deluxe Class Bumblebee with "Allspark Power" blue accents in robot mode)
*Autobot Jazz (redeco of Deluxe Class Autobot Jazz with "Allspark Power" blue accents in robot mode)
*[[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]] (redeco of Deluxe Class Decepticon Brawl with "Allspark Power" blue accents in robot mode)
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] (redeco of Deluxe Class Barricade with "Allspark Power" blue accents in robot mode)
*[[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Deep Space Starscream]] (redeco of Voyager Class Starscream)
{{note|All these toys were also available as non-exclusive mass retail releases in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. In addition, the "Allspark Power" versions of Bumblebee, Autobot Jazz, Decepticon Brawl and Barricade were also available as Sainsbury's exclusives in the United Kingdom. Deep Space Starscream was also available as a Toyworld exclusive in New Zealand, and a Zellers exclusive in Canada.}}

'''[[Toys"R"Us]] exclusives'''
*[[Wingblade]] (redeco of [[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]] Ultra Class [[Wing Saber]])
*[[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]] (redeco of Cybertron Ultra Class [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]])
*[[Inferno (Movie)|Inferno]] (redeco of [[Armada (toyline)|Armada]] Max-Con [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]])
**With [[Longarm (Movie Mini-Con)|Longarm]] [[Mini-Con]] (redeco of Armada Mini-Con [[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]])
*[[Mudflap (Movie)|Mudflap]] (redeco of Cybertron Voyager Class [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]])
{{note|All those toys were also available as non-exclusive mass retail releases in Hong Kong.}}

'''[[Walmart]] exclusives'''
*[[Big Daddy (Movie)|Big Daddy]] (redeco of [[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]] Deluxe Class [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]])
*[[Jolt (Movie)|Jolt]] (redeco of Cybertron Deluxe Class [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]])
*[[Grindcore (Movie)|Grindcore]] (redeco of Cybertron Deluxe Class [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]])
*[[Divebomb (Movie)|Divebomb]] (redeco of Cybertron Deluxe Class [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]])
{{note|All these toys were also available as non-exclusive mass retail releases in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.}}

*[[Crankcase (Movie)|Crankcase]] (redeco of Cybertron Deluxe Class [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]])
*[[Fracture|Decepticon Fracture]] (redeco of [[Classics (2006)|Classic Deluxe]] [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]])
*[[Breakaway (Movie)|Breakaway]] (redeco of Cybertron Deluxe Class [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]])

====Single-packed non-redecoed store exclusives with bonus content====
'''[[Kmart]] exclusives'''
*Unleashed [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] with bonus comic (''[[Movie Prequel (2007)|Movie Prequel]]'' [[Movie Prequel issue 1|#1]] with exclusive [[Klaus Scherwinski]] cover)

'''[[Walmart]] exclusives'''
*[[Protoform]] [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] with bonus poster
*Protoform [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]] with bonus poster

====Store exclusive multi-packs with redecos====
'''[[Target]] exclusives'''
*"Evolution of a Hero" two-pack (regular Deluxe Class "Classic Camaro" [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] & battle damaged "Camaro Concept" Bumblebee)
{{note|This two-pack was also available as a non-exclusive mass retail release in Hong Kong and Europe.}}
* Screen Battles "Freeway Brawl" (contains a minor redeco of Voyager Class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] and an unchanged Deluxe Class [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]])
* Screen Battles "Battle Over [[Mission City]]" (contains a redeco of Voyager Class [[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]] and an unchanged Deluxe Class [[Jazz (Movie)|Final Battle Jazz]], the latter named "Autobot Jazz" for this pack)
{{Note|These two-packs were also available as a non-exclusive mass retail releases in Singapore.}}

'''[[Sam's Club]] exclusives'''
*Voyager/Deluxe three-pack (battle damaged Voyager Class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]], battle damaged Deluxe Class [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] & regular Voyager Class [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]])
{{Note|This three-pack was also available as a mass retail release in Hong Kong, as a Toys'R'Us exclusive in Canada, and as a Kmart exclusive in Australia.}}

'''[[Walmart]] exclusives'''
*[[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]] vs. [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] (battle damaged Robot Replicas Megatron & Optimus Prime)
* The Legacy of Bumblebee three-pack (movie-inspired minor [[redeco]] of ''[[Classics (2006)|Classic]]'' Deluxe [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]], regular Movie Deluxe Class "Premium" [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] and regular ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]])
{{Note|This three-pack was also available in New Zealand, possibly exclusive to Farmers stores.}}

====Store exclusive multi-packs without redecos====
'''BJ's Wholesale Club exclusives'''
* Cyber Stompin' Optimus Prime with Bonus Robot Heroes Rodimus & Insecticon
* Cyber Stompin' Optimus Prime with Bonus Robot Heroes Starscream & Mirage
* Cyber Stompin' Optimus Prime with Bonus Robot Heroes Shockwave & Grimlock
* Cyber Stompin' Optimus Prime with Bonus Robot Heroes Ravage & Optimus Prime
{{Note|At least some of the Optimus Prime combos were also available as Argos exclusives in the United Kingdom and as Kmart exclusives in Australia.}}
* Cyber Stompin' Bumblebee with Bonus Robot Heroes Rodimus & Insecticon
{{note|Official stock photos of the Bumblebee combo have been seen; but unlike the various Optimus Prime combos, it's unclear whether this one has ever actually been released.}}

'''[[Costco]] exclusives'''
*Leader Class Optimus Prime with bonus figures ([[Legends Class]] Bumblebee & Autobot Jazz)
*Ultimate Bumblebee with "Special Value" bonus [[Titanium Series]] 3" Bumblebee figure
{{Note|This bonus pack was also available as a non-exclusive mass retail release in Hong Kong.}}

'''[[Sam's Club]] exclusives'''
*Deluxe three-pack (Decepticon Brawl, Bonecrusher & Autobot Jazz)
{{Note|This three-pack was also available as a non-exclusive mass retail release in Hong Kong.}}

'''[[Target]] exclusives'''
*"Generations Legends" four-pack (Movie [[Legends Class]] Optimus Prime, Legends of Cybertron [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], Movie Legends Class Megatron & Legends of Cybertron [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]])
*"Ultimate Optimus Prime 3-Pack" (contains [[Titanium Series]] 3" "Robot Mode" Optimus Prime, "Vehicle Mode" Optimus Prime and [[Protoform]] Optimus Prime)
{{Note|Both multi-packs were also available as non-exclusive mass retail releases in Hong Kong.}}

'''[[Toys"R"Us]] exclusives'''
*"Decepticon Desert Attack" two-pack (Voyager Class Blackout & Deluxe Class Scorponok)
*"Battle for the Allspark" Legends six-pack (Bumblebee, Autobot Jazz, Optimus Prime, Megatron, Barricade & Starscream)
{{Note|Both multi-packs were also available as non-exclusive mass retail releases in Hong Kong.}}

'''[[Walmart]] exclusives'''
*"First Encounter" two-pack (Deluxe Class Bumblebee & Deluxe Class Barricade)
*"Leader for the Ages" two-pack (Fast Action Battler Optimus Prime as "2007 Optimus Prime" & "1984 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]" [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] "The Ultimate Battle" two-pack)
{{Note|Both multi-packs were also available as non-exclusive mass retail releases in Hong Kong.}}
*"Mass Media Battle" two-pack (Real Gear Robots Speed Dial 800 & Booster X10)
*"Robo Recon Team" two-pack (Real Gear Robots Spy Shot 6 & Longview)
*"Brain Scrambler Team" two-pack (Real Gear Robots Power Up VT6 & Zoom Out 25X)
*Ultimate Bumblebee three-pack (Ultimate Bumblebee, Deluxe Scorponok & Deluxe Decepticon Brawl)
* Cyber Stompin' Optimus Prime with Bonus Cyber Slammers Bumblebee (Classic Camaro)
* Cyber Stompin' Bumblebee with Bonus Cyber Slammers Barricade

===Sub-lines===
====Allspark Power====
{{main|AllSpark Power}}

====Premium Series====
{{main|Premium Series}}

===Notable international variants===
Even though the Movie toyline differed from previous Transformers toylines insofar as TakaraTomy's Japanese versions of the toys were almost identical to their Hasbro counterparts (as a matter of fact, the Japanese "mainline" toys even came in Hasbro packaging, with additional Japanese stickers on the packaging identifying them as the Japanese versions), there were a few genuine variants - and on top of that, one of those variants was also released in the United Kingdom, making it the first shared Japanese/European "variant" toy since red Armada Powerlinx [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]].

====UK variants====
* [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime]] (Leader Class; missing the US version's "Allspark Power" blue paint and coming in slightly different packaging)

{{note|This toy was available exclusively at Argos stores in the UK several months before the US version came out. Apparently this had originally been intended for the United States market, since the packaging sports various US market-specific logos and English-only texts.}}

====Japanese variants====
* Most of the initial decos of the [[Real Gear Robot|Real Gear Robots]] ([[Speed Dial 800]], [[Spy Shot 6]], [[Power Up VT6]], [[Longview (Movie)|Longview]] and [[Zoom Out 25X]]) featured different stickers in Japan, depicting scenes involving the [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] cast rather than screenshots from the [[Cybertron (cartoon)|''Cybertron'' cartoon]], and replacing the time index "7:47" (hinting at the US release date of the movie, July 4th) with "8:04" (as the movie wasn't released in Japan until August 4th).
* MA-03 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] (Deluxe Class Classic Camaro; using clear blue plastic for the windows with painted over yellow car parts, instead of the US version's yellow plastic with [[Tampograph|tampographed]] blue windows)
* MA-18 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime]] (Leader Class; identical to the UK version)
* MA-19 [[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]] (different shade than the Hasbro version, and features tires made of rubber instead of plastic)
* MA-21 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Battle Mode Optimus Prime]] (same mold as Hasbro's Leader Class [[Premium Series]] Optimus Prime, but features [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum metallized]] rims, bumper/grill and gas tanks/toolboxes. His overall paint deco in robot mode is also slightly more detailed.)
* MD-22 [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]] (Voyager Class; sporting black as the main colour and a slightly different deco than the US version; also comes with a small Allspark cube accessory)

===International exclusives===
{{note|Even though European countries got some of the US toyline's store exclusives (such as various Toys'R'Us exclusive releases) as well, some of them even at mass retail (such as the Target exclusive Scout Class redecos of ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' and ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' toys, or the "Evolution of a Hero" two-pack with the Deluxe Class Classic and Concept Camaro Bumblebee toys), and some toys that were released as store exclusives in the UK (such as Deluxe Class Recon Barricade) or Japan (such as Leader Class Decepticon Brawl) were available at mass retail in the USA, there were also some multi-packs and redecos that were genuine exclusives to European countries or Japan.}}

====Non-US market Legends Class single packs====
'''Wave 4 (Allspark Power Wave 1)'''
*[[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] ([[redeco]] of Legends Class [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]])
*[[Barricade (Movie)|Recon Barricade]] (redeco of Legends Class [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]])
*[[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]] (minor redeco of Legends Class Autobot Jazz)
*[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]

{{note|The toys themselves are identical to those released as part of the "Allspark Battles" two-packs in the USA. However, these versions come on European-style single cards. Thus far, they have been released in various countries in Europe, Asia and Oceania.}}

====Non-US market Hasbro multi-packs====
* "Unleashed y Voyager" (two-pack of Unleashed [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] with either Voyager Class [[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]] or [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]])

{{note|These two-packs have only been released in Mexico.}}

* [[Jazz (Movie)|Autobot Jazz]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Protoform Optimus Prime]] & [[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]] three-pack (Deluxe Class Autobot Jazz, Deluxe Class Protoform Optimus Prime & Deluxe Class Decepticon Brawl)

{{note|This three-pack has only been available as a mass retail release in the United Kingdom.}}

* "[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]]" two-pack (Deluxe Class Concept Camaro Bumblebee & Voyager Class Optimus Prime)

{{note|This two-pack has been available as a mass retail release in Hong Kong, as an Argos exclusive in the United Kingdom, as a Kmart exclusive in Australia, and with undertermined distribution in France. Apparently this had originally been intended for the United States market, since the packaging sports various logos and design elements usually only found on North American packaging, as well as English-only texts.}}

* "Towed to Safety" two-pack (Deluxe Class [[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]] & Deluxe Class Classic Camaro [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]])

{{note|This two-pack has only been available as a mass retail release in the United Kingdom.}}

====Non-US market Hasbro "special" single packs====
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Autobot Optimus Prime]] (battle damaged redeco of Voyager Class Optimus Prime, identical to the one from the Sam's Club exclusive three-pack)
*[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] (battle damaged redeco of Deluxe Class Arcee, identical to the one from the Sam's Club exclusive three-pack)

{{note|These toys have only been released in Asia, but were also stocked by US-based online retailers. "Autobot Optimus Prime" comes in the same packaging style and sports the same assortment number as the Best Buy exclusive "Premium Series" redecos of [[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobot Ratchet]] and [[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Megatron]], while Arcee comes on the same cardback as the regular release, with the only difference being an additional "exclusive battle damage" sticker on the blister bubble and a different barcode. An isolated sighting for Arcee has been reported from a [[Walmart]] store in the USA, which might or might not have been a fluke.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-toys--products-30/battle-damage-arcee-individual-carded-version-released-164343/]</ref>}}

====Japanese exclusive molds====
*TS-01 Trans Scanning [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] (an articulated "Protoform"-esque figure with snap-on vehicle mode parts)
*TS-02 Trans Scanning [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] (an articulated "Protoform"-esque figure with snap-on vehicle mode parts)

====Japanese exclusive redecos====
*EZ Collection Bumblebee "scanning version" (a clear redeco of Legends Class [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]], exclusively available with the August 2007 edition of ''Hyper Hobby'' magazine)
*Bumblebee "limited metallic color version" (a redeco of the first Deluxe Class [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]] toy with a shiny gold metallic finish, exclusively available at Lawson stores)
*Protoform Optimus Prime "Fusion Cluster Edition" (a redeco of Deluxe Class Protoform [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Optimus Prime]] in "entry mode" colors, exclusively available at the C3xHobby Convention and later also from [[e-Hobby]])
*Protoform Starscream "Fusion Cluster Edition" (a redeco of Deluxe Class Protoform [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]] in "entry mode" colors, exclusively available at the C3xHobby Convention and later also from [[e-Hobby]])
*Optimus Prime (a Movie-esque redeco of the [[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]] Spychanger [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] mold, available at pretty much every store for purchase of the Transformers Movie DVD)
*EZ Collection Bumblebee metallic version (a metallic redeco of Legends Class [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys|Bumblebee]], exclusively available at Tsutaya Records stores for purchase of the Transformers Movie DVD)
*Blackout "4500x version" (a more [[Show-accuracy|movie-accurate]] redeco of Voyager Class [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] and his little [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] companion, exclusively available at Lawson stores; based on the same paint mask as Hasbro's "Premium Series" redeco of Blackout, with very minor differences)
*Starscream Vardia Red Model (a red-ish redeco of Voyager Starscream, exclusively available at Toshiba stores for purchase of the Toshiba RD-A301 HD-DVD player)
* MA-20 [[Arcee (Movie)|Black Arcee]] (black redeco of Deluxe Class Arcee, based on the motorcycle used by [[William Lennox]] during the final battle of the Movie; the only explicit redeco of a movie toy available at mass retail in Japan with no US counterpart)
* Arcee G1 color edition (a pink and white redeco of Deluxe Class Arcee, limited to 1000 pieces, exclusively available at Wonder Festival 2008 Winter)

==Merchandise==
* [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=123245 Exhaustive Transformers 2007 merchandise list, maintained by AMS.]

==Trivia==
*The "Scout" [[size class]] was made exclusive to Target stores for the run of the Movie toyline (although it was available as a mass retail assortment in other countries), and consisted solely of [[Redeco|redecos]] of toys from the ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' and ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' toylines. The ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' lines didn't revisit this price point at all, but the Scout price point returned with the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen toyline]]'', this time with entirely new molds.
* Likewise, the "Ultra" size class was originally not used during the Movie toyline's run either. Eventually, the only two "Ultra Class" releases were redecos of ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' toys that were exclusively available at Toys"R"Us stores. The 2008 ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' line brought the price point back as a mass retail assortment.
*The Fracture, Crankcase, and Getaway exclusive toys were originally meant to be part of the 2008 ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' line, but Wal*Mart insisted that they be placed into the Movie line instead. (The logic being that the old Universe line eventually failed in the market, while the Movie line was a dramatic hit.)

=="Drought"==
[[Image:Movie Deluxe 2009 Bumblebee toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Oh well. Better luck with the sequel toys!]]
For the remainder of 2007 following the movie's premiere, many fans complained of a severe toy shortage in most markets, particularly the U.S. Mainline figures had proven to be more difficult to locate at retail than in many years, if not '''ever'''. This was due to the convergence of several factors:

*The tremendous success and high profile of the movie has vastly broadened the toy-buying audience, with many more kids, adult collectors, and [[Toy scalping|scalpers]] seeking out product.
*Major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target placed orders for TF movie product based on their sales records for [[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]] and ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' figures, as well as movie-related toylines in general, which tend not to do well (as the ''Spider-Man 3'' figures still warming shelves wherever you live can attest).
*Unusual congestion at Chinese factories and shipping docks lengthened the time necessary to produce and ship new figures to the West.

Ironically for much of 2008, as supply began to overtake demand, the movie toys became shelf-warmers, appearing not to sell in huge numbers, and often to the detriment of shelf-space for the newer [[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]] and [[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]] toylines.

==References==
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[[Category:Movie]]
[[Category:Toys]]

MediaWiki:TFWiki.net 2010 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Entries

2010-04-02T02:20:15Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: /* Poll entries */

This is the page for the '''TFWiki.net Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions''' entries. The rules are as follows:

#You must pick your top five ''Transformers'' characters, from any era. They must actually '''be''' Transformers; sorry, but no humans, non-Transformer aliens, non-Transformer robots, or anything else of the sort are being considered for the Hall of Fame. Any votes for such entities will '''not''' be tabulated. It is the sole discretion of the contest organizers to decide what does and does not count.
#Take your top five list and '''put it in alphabetical order'''. Order of preference does not matter. Feel free to denote the character's franchise of origin, although these distinctions may not figure into the final results.
#You '''cannot''' pick a specific version of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron or Starscream. They're already being inducted!
#Only one entry per user.

Please put your characters of choice and user name below in the following manner:

*Bulkhead (Animated), Emirate Xaaron, Side Swipe (Armada), Waspinator (BW), X-Brawn --(four tildes)

Poll entry period ends '''April 21st, 2010'''. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 01:19, 1 April 2010 (EDT)

==Poll entries==
* Bluestreak (G1), Drift, Lio Junior, Skyfire (G1), Wheelie (Movie) --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 01:23, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Elita One, Hellbat, Shokaract, Ultra Magnus, Wipe-Out --[[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 01:31, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dinobot, Drift, Hot Shot, Shokaract, Ravage --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 01:36, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Impactor, Jhiaxus, Liege Maximo, Scrounge, Straxus --[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 01:43, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dinobot, Drift, Hopper, Shokaract, Straxus --[[User:Jhiaxus|Jhiaxus]] 01:45, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Blackarachnia (BW), Bludgeon (G1), Hot Rod (G1), Jazz (G1), Prowl (Animated) --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 01:46, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Blaster (G1), Nightbeat (G1), Rhinox (BW), Shockwave (G1), Sky-Byte (RID) --[[User:G1MarvelBlaster|G1MarvelBlaster]] 01:49, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dualor, Scorponok, Sky-Byte, Ratchet, Rattrap - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] 01:59, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dinobot, Emirate Xaaron, "Piano Transformer Guy", Wreck-Gar (Animated), Wreck-Gar (G1) [[User:Monty Prime|Monty Prime]] 02:07, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dinobot, Grimlock, Ravage, Soundwave, Waspinator -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] 02:12, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
[[Category:TFWiki.net]]
* Arcee (Animated), Blackarachnia (Animated), Elita One, Ravage, Wreck-Gar (Animated)--[[User:Wednesday|Wednesday]] 02:12, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Ironhide (Movie), Prowl (Animated), Rhinox, Sky-Byte, Soundwave --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:18, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Devastator, Laserbeak, Ravage, Shokaract, Ultra Magnus --[[User:LV|LV]] 02:21, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Blitzwing (Animated), Bludgeon (G1), Soundwave (G1), Waspinator, Wreck-Gar (Animated) --[[User:HunterCham|HunterCham]] 03:02, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Bludgeon, Elita One, Impactor, Ratbat, Soundwave -- [[User:Ayellowbirds|Ayellowbirds]] 03:15, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dinobot, Overlord (G1), Shockwave (Animated), Sunstreaker (G1), Waspinator (BW) --[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 03:56, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Blackarachnia, Dinobot, Rattrap, Ultra Magnus, Waspinator --[[User:HotAndCold|HotAndCold]] 04:47, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Devastator (G1), Dinobot, the Fallen, Hot Rod (G1), Optimus Primal -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 05:33, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Jazz (G1), Soundwave (G1), Ultra Magnus (G1), Vector Prime, Wreck-Gar (Animated) --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 06:18, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Blitzwing (Animated), Dinobot, Grimlock (G1), Jazz (G1), Waspinator (BW)`--[[User:TVsGrady|TVsGrady]] 09:44, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dead End (SG), Grimlock (G1), Hubcap (G1), Rattrap, Sky-Byte (RID) --[[User:Bzero|Bzero]] 10:23, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Bruticus, Jazz (G1), Rumble, Shockwave, Shrapnel -- [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 10:26, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Blaster (G1), Perceptor (G1), Rumble (G1), Shockwave (G1), Soundwave (G1) --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:34, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
*Grimlock (G1), Ramjet (Animated), Sentinel Prime (Animated), Sky-Byte (RID), Waspinator (BW) --[[User:Dan|Dan]] 9:40, 1 April 2010 (CDT)
* Big Daddy (G1), Dinobot (BW), Scrounge (G1), Waspinator (BW), Wheeljack (G1) -- [[User:Tonyfitz|Tonyfitz]] 12:07, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Big Daddy (G1), Bluestreak (G1), Dinobot (BW), Sky-Byte (RID), Waspinator (BW) -- [[User:Bluestreak7|Bluestreak7]] 12:41, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Drift, Sky-Byte, Soundwave (BW), Tarantulas, Waspinator (BW). [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 14:24, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dinobot, Shockwave, Soundwave, Tarantulas, Waspinator. [[User:Gizen|—Gizen]] 15:00, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Arcee (G1), Elita 1(G1), Prowl (Animated), Rumble (G1), Soundwave.[[User:TFgirl|TFgirl]] 15:11, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Blaster, Nightbeat (G1), Perceptor (G1), Shockwave, Wheeljack --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 15:49, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dirge (G1), Rattrap, Shockwave (G1), Sixshot (G1), and Soundwave (G1).[[User:Stevo|Stevo]] 15:55, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Blades (G1), Punch, Scourge (RID), Side Burn (RID), and Smokescreen (G1) [[User:Antimatter|Antimatter]] 16:17, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Dinobot (BW), Shockwave, Sunstreaker, Swindle, Waspinator - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 16:42, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Arcee (G1), Dinobot (BW), Galvatron (G1), Hot Rod (G1), Soundwave (G1)---[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 17:06, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Grimlock (G1), Optimus Primal (BW), Prowl (Animated), Shockwave (Animated), Sky-Byte (RiD)--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 18:47, 1 April 2010 (EDT)
* Crankcase (G1), Prowl (RID), Red Alert (Armada), Thundercracker (Cybertron), Vector Prime--[[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 22:20, 1 April 2010 (EDT)

Scattorshot (ROTF)

2010-03-08T21:00:24Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Armada counterpart?

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{{disambig3|Scattershot}}
:''Scattorshot is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ROTFtoy-ScattorshotScout.jpg|thumb|350px|Oh, so THAT'S how you look like without glasses.]]
'''Scattorshot''' spends a lot of time carefully planning out any battle tactics he and his teammates can use, and only expects as much time for careful planning and thoughtful action from the Decepticons. Unfortunately, true to their nature, they tend to specialize in suprise attacks or causing just plain random chaos more than anything else, which bugs the heck out of Scattorshot. In fact, nothing upsets him more than the chaos of unplannned battle. However, he still can't help but get his kicks out of peppering the air around [[Divebomb (Movie)|Divebomb]], the latest Decepticon to interrupt his contemplative strategizing, with all the artillery at his disposal. And that's a LOT of artillery. Unfortunately for Scattorshot, he does not realize that the slow and clumsy Decepticon he's using for target practice is just a diversion for an even more duplicious attack by [[Skystalker (ROTF)|another]]...

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Scout class toys====
*'''Scattorshot''' (Scout, 2010)
**''Japanese ID number:''

:Scattorshot transforms into an anti-aircraft vehicle resembling a futuristic pick-up truck retrofitted for heavy combat, with armaments such as roof-mounted cannons, armor plating and a grated plow. There are many elements on the toy that are a homage to Scattorshot’s [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Cybertron counterpart]], including the dual roof-mounted cannons, predominantly dark blue and gray color scheme, black windows, yellow lights and front grill detailing. The plow plays homage to the front-mounted minesweeping claws on the Voyager Cybertron Defense version of Armada Scattorshot. In robot mode, the dual cannons become hand-held rifles instead of a firing back-mounted weapons pack as on the Armada version. The signature goggles are also missing on the ROTF version, with a bulbous helmet in its place. The only detailing reminiscent of the original in robot mode is chest detailing resembling the front of the vehicle mode, but split in half.

:There are two variations of Scattorshot available out there, one with light gray parts and one with darker gray parts. Judging by the photos on the blister package, the toy was originally made with dark gray parts, and a running change has made more recent versions of the toy with light gray parts.

[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen characters]]

Shockwave (G1)

2010-02-26T18:26:05Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 430388 by 173.13.112.253 (Talk)Because swearing is so hilarious, I'm going to revert that.

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:''Shockwave is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|continuity family of the same name]]. He was also briefly known as '''Shockblast'''.''

[[Image:Shockwavearealldead.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Transformers images don't GET much more awesome than this. Or [[The Reign of Starscream Issue Number One|imitated]].]]

'''Shockwave''' has been referred to as "a computer on legs." This is not far from the truth. Logic rules Shockwave's thought processes and is the source of his every inspiration. He sees emotion as a weakness and a distraction. His cold and calculating ''modus operandi'' is supported by his frightening and exceptionally powerful form.

Shockwave is possibly even more powerful than [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Perhaps logic may one day dictate that the time to replace Megatron's flawed, emotion-fueled rule is at hand. After all, the only logical choice for [[Decepticon leader]] would be Shockwave himself.

As an [[Action Master]], he is [[Action Master partner|partnered]] with [[Fistfight]].

{{bigquote|Ultimately, I serve only one master... pure logic!|Shockwave on his true loyalties|[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]}}

:''Japanese name'': '''Laserwave'''
:''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Jèn pō''' (震波, "Shock Wave")
:''French name (Canada):'' '''Onde de Choc'''
:''Italian name':' '''Brutal'''
:''Hungarian name'': '''Sokkoló''' ("Shock")
:''Portuguese name (Brazil comic):'' '''Onda de Choque''' ("Shock Wave")
:''Portuguese name (Portugal comic):'' '''Onda-Choque''' ("Shock-Wave")
:''Russian name'': '''Vzrivala''' (Взрывала, "Blaster")

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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''Millions of years ago, on the troubled planet Cybertron, Shockwave was the military ruler of the city-state of [[Tarn]]. Following a botched attempt by [[Vos]] to ignite war between [[Iacon]] and Tarn, Tarn went to war with Vos, and both cities were destroyed by an exchange of [[Photon missile|photon missiles]]. The survivors of both cities—presumably including Shockwave—were gathered together by the ex-gladiator [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who used their bitterness towards Iacon to unite them under his control as the Decepticons.'' {{storylink|State Games}}

[[Image:Laststand-autobotsarenomore.jpg|thumb|right|200px| ]]

As Military Commander, Shockwave planned the strategy of the Decepticon assault on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. After the Autobots had successfully destroyed the asteroids threatening [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Megatron and the other Decepticons attacked the ship while Shockwave remained behind on [[Nemesis (G1)|their ship]] to pilot it and act as a potential backup. When the Ark subsequently crashed on [[Earth]], deactivating all those within, Shockwave followed the ship down, but the planet's magnetic fields caused a malfunction in his guidance systems, resulting in him landing half a world away, in the tropical Antarctic jungle known as the [[Savage Land]].

The Ark's dying computer detected Shockwave's presence on the planet, and reactivated five Autobots to combat him, rebuilding them in the shapes of the Savage Land's native dinosaurs. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} These "[[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]" battled Shockwave, a battle that ended in permanent stalemate when [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] brought down the mountain that Shockwave stood upon, knocking all the combatants into a tar pit. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

[[Image:Megatrong1marvelhumiliation.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Early on, Shockwave establishes the pecking order.]]

In 1984, when the rest of the Transformers aboard the Ark were awakened by a volcanic eruption, the Autobots attempted to track down their five missing comrades. A sensor drone tracked them to the Savage Land, but inadvertently wound up reactivating Shockwave, who headed straight for [[Oregon]]. He arrived just as the Autobots had claimed victory over the Decepticons, and his explosive entry saw all the weakened combatants knocked off-line. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Rounding up the bodies, Shockwave took control of the Ark, strung up the Autobots for spare parts, decapitated [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and restored his fellow Decepticons back to health. This came as something of a rude shock to Megatron, who awoke to find that Shockwave had decided it was only logical for him to take over leadership of the Decepticons in light of Megatron's failure. After declaring his leadership and the superiority of Decepticons over humans, he flew off to begin his conquests. {{storylink|The New Order}}

Shockwave's first attack was on the new offshore oil-drilling platform of tycoon [[G.B. Blackrock]]. Tearing his way through the rig's defenses, he quickly secured it for use as a secondary base of operations. Unbeknownst to Shockwave, the violent attack crippled the human Josie Beller, leading to her transformation into [[Circuit Breaker]]. When Shockwave returned to the Ark, a weakened Megatron engaged him in combat for leadership. Despite his power, Megatron was soundly defeated. Shockwave dumped Megatron's broken body before the troops he had once commanded, and demanded that they vow to serve Shockwave alone. They didn't argue. Megatron grudgingly swore his fealty as well. {{storylink|The Worse of Two Evils!}}

[[Image:Repeatperformance-preparedtheprisoner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Dammit, woman! Where's my supper?!]]

Shockwave's next attack came through [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], who took control of the [[Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One]]. After Soundwave reported his success, Shockwave traveled from the oil platform to the Ark, checking in with Megatron and reminding him again of where he stood. From the Ark, he transported Optimus Prime's head to the Aerospace Plant. Shockwave effortlessly blasted his way past the Army cordon surrounding the plant, all the while lecturing the foolish humans about the raw strength of his armor. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

Shockwave quickly began setting up the Aerospace Plant's facilities to carry out his plans; however, this was rather boring work for Decepticon warriors, leading to some diminished morale; Shockwave had to sic [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] on [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] when the latter started throwing a temper tantrum over threats from the human G.B. Blackrock. Still, accepting Starscream's argument that morale could use a boost, Shockwave granted permission for Starscream and Frenzy to destroy Blackrock's weapon. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}}

[[Image:Buzzsawyikes1.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Speaking of "pecking order"...]]

After some time, the plant was ready, and Shockwave used it to create the bodies of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], whose brain modules had already been brought to life with the power of the [[Creation Matrix]] drained from Prime's head. Shockwave then began work on his next project, the superjet [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], but was startled to find that he could not bring him to life. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}}

Shockwave had the plant's captive workers begin construction of a hundred jet warriors; meanwhile, he tried yet again to bring Jetfire to life. When the process failed, he deduced that Optimus Prime must have hidden the Matrix somewhere. Scanning the memory banks of [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], he discovered that Optimus had transferred the Matrix into the mind of the human, [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]. Shockwave programmed Jetfire to capture Buster, but the boy was able to use the power of the Matrix to bring the robot under his own control. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}}

[[Image:Brainstorm-welcomeboost.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Hasbro probably sold a LOT of Shockwave toys just from this panel.]]

Buster used Jetfire to travel to the Aerospace Plant, intending to free Optimus Prime. Jetfire's pre-programmed response to an Air Force attack, however, meant that Buster was knocked unconscious and delivered to Shockwave as a captive.

The Autobots' attempts to keep Buster away from the Decepticons led Shockwave to suspect that his headquarters was bugged. Soundwave soon ferreted out a telephone link that was allowing the Autobots to listen in on their plans. Shockwave used the link to manipulate the Autobots into bringing their leader's body with them to a nearby swamp, where his head was to be deposited, there to corrode away forever. The head that actually arrived there, however, was a false one constructed by Shockwave, which attacked the Autobots once it was joined with Optimus Prime's body.

Shockwave had reckoned without Buster's fighting back, however; as Jetfire was about to take the real head of Optimus Prime and pitch it into the swamp, the captive human used his Matrix powers to take control of Jetfire and knock out Shockwave. Shockwave awoke to find both Optimus Prime and the human workers gone; he quickly deduced what had happened, and flew to the battle site. There he engaged the newly-whole Optimus in a one-on-one battle which ended when the Decepticon leader was tossed into a swamp. {{storylink|Prime Time!}}

''Finally extricating himself from the swamp after being trapped for several months,'' Shockwave returned to leadership of the Decepticons with some new ill-fated plans involving stealing sonic energy from a rock concert {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}} and attempting to exploit [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] as a weak link in the Autobot forces {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}.

[[Image:ShockwaveSecondGeneration1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Uh...you're on your own, kid. See ya!]]

''When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] built Buster a mechanoid battle suit, the human test-drove it by attacking [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Shockwave responded to the attack, only to be briefly blinded when a desperate Buster flung a handful of sand into his optic sensor. The darkness this brought about revived memories of his four-million-year burial and his humiliating swamp submergence, and an enraged, barely-sane Shockwave disregarded logic in a desire for revenge that saw him pursue Buster throughout the night. As the new day dawned, Buster made one final attack with all the suit's power, which destroyed it but merely injured Shockwave. Seizing the boy in his hand, Shockwave was about to crush the life from him when the Autobot forces arrived to rescue him.'' {{storylink|Robot Buster!}} ''His rationality returning, Shockwave realized that Buster could potentially be a powerful tool to use against the Autobots, and had the Constructicons attempt to abduct him, but during the battle, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] discovered that the Matrix had planted in Buster's mind a vision for the future of the Transformer race.'' {{storylink|Devastation Derby!}} ''Shockwave watched intently as Soundwave tapped into Buster's dreams, and witnessed a vision of [[combiner]] Transformers battling. Little did he know that Soundwave was also beaming the vision to Megatron (now operating independently of Shockwave), who decided that it was time for him to retake Decepticon leadership. Shockwave and Megatron battled once more, but with Megatron at full health, the fight was much more evenly matched and drawn-out, and was even televised by the Decepticons' unwilling human ally, [[Donny Finkleberg|Robot Master]]. To prevent the Decepticons from being made to look like fools, Soundwave demanded they cease fighting and consent to a joint leadership. Begrudgingly, both agreed.'' {{storylink|Second Generation!}}

This joint leadership did not last long. Leaving Shockwave in charge of the Decepticons' Wyoming coal mine base, Megatron led a team of Decepticons to attack the Autobot base, only for the majority of their number to be deactivated and captured by [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. At the same time, however, the Autobots attacked the Decepticon base to draw out [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], to learn more about the combiner process. With the day having firmly been won by the Autobots on both fronts, Megatron argued that although he may have charged into a trap, Shockwave had been ineffective enough to do nothing, and had allowed a trap to spring up around him. Bowing to the logic of this argument, Shockwave stepped down and allowed Megatron to resume sole command. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}

''Shockwave's movements were unknown for the brief time that followed this embarrassment. He was absent from the Decepticons' base when the time-traveling future Decepticon [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] arrived from 2006 and temporarily disposed of Megatron, but returned not long thereafter. Wondering where everyone was, he was met by [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and Frenzy, who had escaped their confinement in the Autobot base, but then, abruptly, all three were mass-displaced into [[limbo]] when three future Autobots traveled back in time to thwart Galvatron's plans.'' {{storylink|Target: 2006}} ''In limbo, Shockwave and his two companions battled alongside the similarly-displaced Optimus Prime, [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and Ratchet against the deadly illusions created by the dimension's native lifeforms, before returning to their natural place in space and time when the time-travellers returned to their point of origin.'' {{storylink|Distant Thunder!}}

''It was not long before Shockwave began scheming to return to the position of leader, and when Megatron summoned the Decepticon hunters the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] to Earth to stalk Optimus Prime, he saw his opportunity. Conspiring with them, Shockwave arranged for the team to turn on Megatron during the hunt, depriving him of his weapons, expecting that he would have no chance against Prime one-on-one.'' {{storylink|Prey!}} ''When Megatron did not return, Shockwave believed him dead, but in truth, he had escaped to Cybertron—though this was of little concern to the cyclopean schemer, who took up the mantle of leadership in his absence again. It was not long after this that Galvatron returned, having traveled back from the future once more, and now dancing dangerously on the edge of sanity. Fearing the threat Galvatron might pose to his own leadership, Shockwave had the Decepticons aid the Dinobots in battling him, and Galvatron departed rather than fight his own future troops.'' {{storylink|Fallen Angel (issue)|Fallen Angel}} ''Shortly thereafter, Megatron returned from Cybertron with a case of amnesia, sparing Shockwave any retribution for his actions.'' {{storylink|Resurrection!}}

Not long afterwards, Optimus Prime perished in a video game duel with Megatron, but the Decepticon leader grew progressively more paranoid, fearing his foe had survived. Apparently attempting to shock Megatron back to his senses, Shockwave had the Predacons come to Earth and force him into a combat situation, implanting a copy of his personality program in the team so that he could "be part" of the battle from a safe distance. Events culminated in Megatron's apparent death when, having fully plunged into insanity, he blew the space bridge up while standing on it. Once again, Shockwave was leader. {{storylink|Gone but Not Forgotten!}}

Shockwave established regular contact with Cybertron Decepticon commander [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], {{storylink|King of the Hill!}} ''and had the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]] sent from Cybertron so that they could use their aquatic abilities to help fortify the Decepticons' new artificial mobile island base. It was while they were performing this task that Galvatron returned, advancing on the island, much to Shockwave's distress. He ordered the Seacons to attack, but Galvatron tore through both them and the base walls—he had, he claimed, come in peace, but Shockwave's attack had made an enemy of him, putting all Decepticons in danger. This of course, was a complete lie, but it turned the Decepticons against Shockwave, thereby disrupting the one-eyed warrior's command.'' {{storylink|Enemy Action!}}

[[Image:Shockwaveburnsup.jpg|thumb|250px|Shockwave's mistake was whittling [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fort Max]] down to the story-protected [[human]] center.]]

After interfering in a scheme of Ratbat's, Buster Witwicky was captured by the Decepticons and brought to their island, which Shockwave then transformed into spaceship mode and took to the fringes of Earth's atmosphere. Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] leader [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] pursued the craft and battled Shockwave in the void of space, where he defeated him and sent him tumbling back through Earth's atmosphere in free-fall. {{storylink|The Desert Island of Space!}} ''Although thought dead by many, Shockwave in actuality survived and returned to the Decepticons' original fortress base, where he concentrated on resolving the threat posed by Galvatron. Seeking to use the missing Megatron as a weapon against him, Shockwave had the small number of Decepticons still under his control recover a [[Straxus (G1)|clone of the departed leader]] from the Thames river, which he and [[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]] repaired and brainwashed using the [[psycho-probe]].'' {{storylink|Salvage!}} ''Around the same time, Galvatron's fellow time-travelers [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] had joined up with Shockwave's Decepticons, but, chafing in his service, Cyclonus wound up accidentally blurting out that they would be responsible for killing him in the future of 2008. Seeking to preserve his continued existence, Shockwave unleashed the Megatron clone upon them, resulting in the death of Cyclonus. Satisfied with the clone's performance, he dispatched him against Galvatron.'' {{storylink|Dry Run!}} ''The battle had an unexpected conclusion, however, when "Megatron" found a kindred spirit in Galvatron and actually joined forces with him.'' {{storylink|Altered Image!}}

[[Image:Shockwavetimewars.jpg|thumb|left|250px|It's okay, [[Time Wars]] didn't make sense to any of us, either.]]

''This unfortunate chain of events led to Shockwave losing his grip on sanity. Unable to logically fathom the situation, he slipped into despondency, stringing up the remains of Cyclonus on the walls of his castle as a twisted trophy. What Shockwave did not realize, however, was that the repeated time-travel and the death of Cyclonus had caused a rift in space-time that threatened the stability of reality. Hoping to restore the balance by returning all time-travelers to their proper place in time, Scourge attempted to reclaim Cyclonus's body, but was shot down by Shockwave for his trouble. At Scourge's urging, [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] was able to present events logically enough to Shockwave to restore some semblance of coherency to his thoughts, and Shockwave himself deposited Cyclonus's remains in the rift, and sealed it with an x-ray blast.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}

[[Image:Shockwavefightmoretalkless.jpg|thumb|250px|Hypothesis: Shockwave should internalize his thought process.]]

It would be some time before Shockwave next resurfaced, emerging from the sea on the coast of Blackpool, England, and killing a human who had seen him. {{storylink|Dark Creation}} Seeking to establish his own faction of Decepticons, he saved [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from Circuit Breaker {{storylink|The Human Factor!}}, and the pair, along with Ravage, recruited those who had grown disenfranchised with the leadership of the current Decepticon Earth commander, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} The small group staged an attack on Scorponok's [[New Jersey (Earth)|New Jersey]] base, and Scorponok and Shockwave battled in the waters around Manhattan before being interrupted by the super-team, the [[Neo-Knights]]. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} Shockwave used the ensuing confusion to implicate the Autobots in an attack on the human team, but was later recognized by Circuit Breaker as the robot responsible for crippling her, and was blown out of the sky by her powers. {{storylink|Out of Time!}} Abruptly, the battle was ended when the Transformers were all teleported to Cybertron to face the threat of [[Unicron]], but even Shockwave's data grid could not compute the vastness of the threat the chaos-bringer posed. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

After Unicron was destroyed, Shockwave teamed up with Starscream once more to find the remains of the Autobots' Ark, which had crashed during the battle. {{storylink|Still Life!}} The pair succeeded in getting the craft airborne again, but were unaware that the numerous damaged Transformers in the ship's stasis pods had been reactivated with [[nucleon]]—Megatron among them—and that an alternate future version of [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] was also on board. {{storylink|Exodus!}} Conflict erupted when Megatron and Galvatron met, but the sight of Shockwave saw the two Decepticons team up against him. To put an end to things once and for all, the revived Ratchet sent the Ark crashing to Earth. {{storylink|A Savage Circle}} There was no indication that Shockwave survived, suggesting that his evil had once and for all been put to rest.

=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
''In the alternate future timeline of [[Earth-120185]], Shockwave attacked the unveiling of the first female Autobot [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] in 1995 with [[Fangry]], [[Squeezeplay]] and [[Horri-Bull]]. When Arcee quickly disabled his men, though, Shockwave took off and left them to fend for themselves.'' {{storylink|Prime's Rib!}} ''Years later, in 2004, he staged an attack on the opening day of [[Autobot City]], but was defeated by the extremely illogical actions of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], who threw him down a mountain, and jumped along with him for the ride.'' {{storylink|Aspects of Evil!}}

''After Decepticon commander [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] disappeared following Unicron's attack on Cybertron in 2006, the new Autobot leader [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] devoted his forces to searching the galaxy and making sure the Decepticon was truly dead. This diverted attention allowed Shockwave to assume leadership of the Decepticons in the chaos that followed, and he consolidated them into a strong force on Cybertron that ultimately resulted in a stalemate between the factions by 2008.'' {{storylink|Wanted:Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}} ''Knowing that the freelance peacekeeping agent named [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]] had a grudge against Rodimus Prime, Shockwave had [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] hire him for 10,000 [[shanix]] to hunt down and exterminate the Autobot, providing him with secret entry into Cybertron and information about Prime's movements. At the same time, Shockwave allowed Scourge and Cyclonus, Galvatron's former top two lackeys, to brazenly go after Rodimus Prime themselves. Seeing the powerful duo as a potential threat to his position, Shockwave hoped that by tossing these various parties into the mix together, at least some of his problems would turn out dead.'' {{storylink|Headhunt}}

''Unfortunately for Shockwave's plans, it was then that Unicron's influence was felt again, as he mind-controlled Cyclonus, Scourge and Death's Head into trying to assassinate Shockwave. Death's Head used the supposedly deactivated bodies of the duo to gain access to Shockwave's audience chamber, and then left his "comrades" to seal the doors while he chased down the Decepticon leader. After a hard-fought battle, Shockwave was ultimately destroyed, his body blown to pieces and his memory module crushed between Death's Head's fingers, ensuring that he could never return. Still, the hunter was sickened by being forced to kill against his will, and Death's Head promised Shockwave's corpse that he would eventually avenge them both. ''{{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

=====Earthforce=====
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''Reality unfolds in many ways, across many dimensions. In one such dimension, it was not Scorponok that Shockwave challenged for leadership in the [[Decepticon Civil War]], but a returning Megatron, and the two of them built their armies up for a renewed battle for control over the Earth. Upon hearing that [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] had somehow restored his Dinobots to life without the Creation Matrix, Shockwave and his soldiers attempted to force the secret out of the Dinobots. They failed, miserably. '' {{storylink|Two Steps Back!}}

''Unable to gain an advantage over Megatron, Shockwave was forced to suggest an [[Enclave]], a truce whereby the Decepticons could meet and hopefully overcome their differences as they had in the past, for the mutual goal of destruction of the Autobots. Certainly, the Autobots had something to say about that, and they rigged a scenario so that Megatron was tricked into thinking Shockwave had sent an assassin sniper to kill him during the meeting. A brawl broke out, and any chance at peace was chucked out the window, along with several dismembered body parts. '' {{storylink|The Bad Guy's Ball!}}

''Thanks to a [[Soundwave (G1)|secret informer]] inside Megatron's camp, Shockwave was able to surprise his rival at the site of an energon delivery, and he and the [[Triple Changer|Triple Changers]] overpowered Megatron and tossed him over a cliff, claiming his energon as their own.'' {{storylink|Secrets}} ''Turnabout's fair play, however, and Shockwave's own lieutenant Starscream tipped off Megatron about when Shockwave would be alone and open for attack. What's worse, Starscream and Soundwave took advantage of their leaders' absence to stage a coup, and so Shockwave and Megatron were left on the run from [[Earthforce]] while their troops abandoned them to their fates.'' {{storylink|Internal Affairs!}}

''Shockwave and Megatron subsequently organized a hit on Starscream, using a series of cheap assassins to trick Starscream into assuming Soundwave wanted to wipe him out and assume sole command of the Decepticons. '' {{storylink|Assassins}} ''They then attacked their betrayers personally when it didn't go to plan, but were countered by the Earthforce, who needed Starscream alive to help heal [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]], afflicted with [[Corrodia Gravis]]. Even with the help of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Mayhem Attack Squad]], Megatron and Shockwave were forced to retreat.'' {{storylink|The Lesser Evil}}

====Fun Publications ''Classics'' comics====
Megatron decided to keep Shockwave alive in spite of past betrayals because of the use of his logical skills. However, he decided to prevent further betrayals by keeping him only as a head hooked to some sort of life support. Megatron queried him on information regarding [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and Shockwave told him all he knew, but when he requested computer access for more information, Megatron refused and closed up the chamber. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}

===''Generation 1'' cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Corey Burton]] (English), [[Yu Shimaka|Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese), [[Peter Musäus]] (German; Generation 1), [[Claus Brockmeyer]] (German; The Movie & Generation 2 Season One), [[Vladimiro Conti]] (Italian, second dub)

{{note|Shockwave’s cartoon portrayal is highly inconsistent with his appearances in all other fictional media. Instead of a coldly logical, power hungry rival to Megatron, in the cartoon Shockwave is consistently loyal and subservient. This may have been because the cartoon already had one [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|over-the-top Decepticon traitor]]; however in a [[Shout! Factory|2009 retrospective documentary about the brand]], [[Hasbro]] staff said this disparity was a simple--though extreme--result of there not having been enough time during the production of the G1 cartoon and comic to get all the story basics firmly and consistently established from the outset. The character descriptions in the cartoon's [[production bible]] are mostly abridged versions of [[Bob Budiansky]]'s original character writeups, which went on to become the toys' [[tech spec]]s... yet Shockwave's show bible description is entirely different from his tech spec [[bio]].}}

[[Image:ShockwaveUltimateDoom3.jpg|thumb|Sorry, but you kids are going to have to play somewhere else.]]

Shockwave was a highly ranked and staunchly loyal Decepticon, and with Soundwave, apparently one of the first at [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s side. {{storylink|War Dawn}} Certainly he was one of Megatron’s more favored troops, in that Megatron's constant praise of him seemed to annoy Starscream to no end. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

Shockwave was entrusted with the stewardship of Cybertron by Megatron when the latter left to intercept an Autobot mission surveying for new forms of energy. Neither Decepticon suspected that Megatron's absence (and Shockwave's command) would last four million years. Little changed on Cybertron during those years, although Shockwave apparently lost his left hand and replaced it with a laser cannon. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

He oversaw all Decepticon activity on the evidently near-empty Cybertron. His keen scientific mind resulted in several incredible devices, including the [[space bridge]]. Although he was able to keep Cybertron functional for the extended length of time, he continued to try to contact Megatron in hopes of finding an energy source to revitalize the planet. In 1984, he finally reestablished contact with the Decepticon leader. The two coordinated the refinement of the space bridge, first to send [[Energon cube|energon cubes]], and eventually as an easy method of transport for Decepticons. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} {{storylink|Roll for It}} However, Autobots would also occasionally hijack use of the bridge, and Shockwave found himself having to repel stowaways on more than one occasion. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

Eventually, Megatron and Shockwave developed a space bridge powerful enough to transport Cybertron itself to Earth. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} The close proximity of the two worlds caused horrible weather disturbances that the Decepticons were able to utilize as sources of energy which could easily be shipped back to their homeworld. It was during this affair that Shockwave and his men had to stop an attempt by several Autobots and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] to rescue Spike's [[Sparkplug Witwicky|father]], who was being held on Cybertron as a slave. The Autobots were eventually able to escape with both Sparkplug and the data for [[Doctor Arkeville]]’s mind-control hypno chips. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}}

Even though he partook in the near-destruction of the Earth, he could also be credited with helping save it shortly after. With Megatron presumed dead following an explosion on his star cruiser, Starscream assumed command on Cybertron. He rigged Dr. Arkeville’s exponential generator to blow up the Earth so the Decepticons could harvest the release of energy. Despite Starscream’s orders, Shockwave continued to make communications to Earth, finally reaching Megatron, who wasn’t dead after all, and warning him in time to disable the generator. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}

He once came to Earth, but only for a short time. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}}

[[Image:ShockwaveDesertionOfTheDinobots1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Shockwave bought himself on eBay!]]

When all the Earthbound Transformers began to malfunction due to the deterioration of the essential element [[Cybertonium]] in their bodies, Shockwave was tasked with having more mined from Cybertron to send to the Decepticons. The Autobots sent the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] to attack the space bridge and snatch some Cybertonium for them. Instead, the rebellious Dinobots used the space bridge to travel to Cybertron, where they intended to stay. They were captured by Shockwave’s sentinels, rewired, and put to work in the Cybertonium mines. Spike and [[Carly]] were also captured when they attempted to rescue them, but Shockwave underestimated the two humans. Once they were put in the mines, Spike and Carly were able to fix [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and the others. The Dinobots broke free and were able to escape Shockwave with enough Cybertonium to repair the Autobots. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

[[Image:SearchforAlphaTrion Shockwave gun mode.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Though he'd believed them to be extinct, Shockwave discovered a small group of [[Female Autobots]] when they attempted to raid his energon stockroom. Although they got away with some supplies, he was able to track them to their hidden hideout. He alerted Megatron, who devised the plan of kidnapping their leader, [[Elita One]]. Megatron knew she had a relationship with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Sure enough, after her capture, Optimus raced to Cybertron to rescue her, only to be captured himself by Starscream. Thanks to Elita’s special power, she and Optimus were able to escape. Meanwhile, Shockwave, Starscream, and the other Decepticons had to contend with Ironhide leading a small group of Autobots who had followed Optimus Prime. With the help of the Female Autobots team, they eventually cornered the Decepticons, until Shockwave blasted them off the bridge with his gun mode. He would’ve been able to finish them off had Prime and One not intervened at the last moment to save their comrades, send Starscream and the others running off, and blast Shockwave down into the pits of Cybertron. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}

He wasn’t out of action for long. After Megatron built his new combiner team, the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], Shockwave helped locate the key to [[Vector Sigma]], the computer that gave life to all Transformers. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}} He later learned and reported to Megatron that the key had other unknown properties on other worlds, which Megatron discovered meant turning organic matter into metal. Unfortunately for Megatron, [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] was able to score a precise shot, blowing apart the key before Megatron could get away with it. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

Another device built by Shockwave was the [[Kronosphere]], a time machine that was used to dispose of the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]. When the Autobots were able to drive the Decepticons out of their hideout, Shockwave helped Megatron reactivate a fallen [[Guardian robot]] to try to take back the base. In the end, the Autobots were able to bring the Aerialbots back to the present, and with their help, drove the Decepticons away for good. {{storylink|War Dawn}}

Later, Shockwave alerted Megatron to the theft of five personality components from the [[Decepticon Detention Center]] on Cybertron. These were stolen by Starscream to build his own force to defeat Megatron, the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

[[Image:RevengeOfBruticus Shockwave on Starscream.jpg|200px|thumb|left|No caption is needed for this image.]]

This coup failed, and Starscream and the Combaticons were exiled to deep space. While Starscream went off on his own, the Combaticons instead made their way back to Cybertron, where they attacked Shockwave and his sentinels and succeeded in taking over Decepticon headquarters. Shockwave ran into Starscream, and the two teamed up to stop the Combaticons and their plan to use the space bridge to push the Earth into the Sun. However, Starscream saw an opportunity to assert power over Megatron, who was still on Earth. He turned against Shockwave, the two fought each other, and they were captured by the Combaticons. They were both eventually freed when Megatron and Optimus Prime came to Cybertron to defeat the Combaticons themselves. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

[[Image:Shockwave5Faces.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Shockwave didn't die. He just got a new [[Six Shot|paint job]].]]

By 2005, Megatron had returned to Cybertron and completely conquered the planet, leading Shockwave to rejoin Megatron's inner circle. He participated in the [[Battle of Autobot City]] and was present for both Starscream's coronation and his subsequent destruction by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], the reformatted version of Megatron. With Galvatron indisposed, Shockwave commanded the Decepticon forces during [[Unicron]]'s attack on Cybertron and is believed to have been killed in the ensuing battle. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

{{note|Though Shockwave's death was written into the movie's script, it did not make it into the released film. However, IDW's [[Transformers: The Animated Movie#4|20th Anniversary comic adaptation]] did include Shockwave's death. Shockwave's model did show up in season 3 episodes as possible animation errors, in "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3]]" and "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]".}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====

{{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese timeline inserts many new stories into the proceedings, only one of which featured Shockwave.}}

=====Binaltech=====

[[Image:Binaltech shockwave.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

In 2004, as the battle for control of Cybertron was reaching fever pitch, Shockwave was among the casualities of war, his body destroyed but his personality component intact. Around this time, the time-tossed Decepticon [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] took control of the Kronosphere, seeking to use it to alter the course of history. Ravage used the Kronosphere to teleport Megatron and the majority of the Decepticons outside of time, knowing that this would leave the Autobots to face the looming threat of Unicron alone. To keep the remaining Decepticons organized until then, Ravage realized they would need a leader, and Shockwave was elected for the task; his personality component implanted into a vehicle outfitted with molecular-manipulating [[Transmuter (G1)|Transmuter]] technology, Shockwave was reborn in a powerful Binaltech body and rallied the Decepticons under his command. {{storylink|Changing Lanes}}

Although they were forced off of Earth by the Autobots there, Shockwave's Decepticons continued to operate within the [[solar system]], and were discovered in the vicinity of [[Saturn]]'s rings by a [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]. Alas, Prowl did not make it back to Earth after making his discovery: Shockwave led an attack on his shuttle and Prowl's [[spark]] was lost when he attempted to transfer it to safety through [[subspace]]. {{storylink|Prowl & Chase}}

Through the efforts of the mysterious time- and space-bending entity known as the [[Optimus Primal|Protector]], the changes Ravage wrought upon the timeline were undone, and history was corrected. The altered version of the timeline, however, was also preserved as a parallel dimension (colloquially known as the "BT World"), and in that alternate dimension, the Autobots were successul in defeating Unicron alone. In accordance with Ravage's plan, however, Megatron and his forces then returned from beyond time, immediately launching a ferocious attack upon the weary Autobots.

The Autobots' total defeat was only delayed by Megatron's encounter with [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]], an Earth-made robot which had taken the side of the Decepticons, who challenged Megatron during an attack on the [[Earth Defense Command]] base on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] for ownership of Earth's solar system. While Megatron and Nemesis Prime battled, across the galaxy, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] ventured into the depths of Cybertron and activated the [[Quintesson]]s' [[large switch|killswitch]], deactivating all non-Binaltech Transformers throughout the universe. With Megatron deactivated right in front of him, Nemesis Prime declared himself Decepticon leader, and summoned Shockwave to his side, instructing him to gather up as many fallen Decepticon as he could before the humans' took possession of them. Shockwave hesitated momentarily, but quickly acquiesced to the logic of the plan and complied. {{storylink|Kill Switch}}

===Grandreams ''Generation 2'' comics===
Shockwave participated in the Decepticons' attack to capture a crashed spaceship from the Autobots atop [[Table Mountain]], blasting Optimus Prime with a laser. Alas, the "spaceship" was an Autobot trap that fired Shockwave and the other Decepticons randomly into space. {{storylink|Day of the Decepticons}}

{{note|Given his absence from other G2 media, it's possible Shockwave's mention in this [[Slipstream (G2)|typo-riddled]] text story was meant to be Soundwave. However, the G2 annual seems be its own [[micro-continuity]], so there's no reason Shockwave couldn't have been there.}}

===''Call of the Future'' video game===
[[Image:Ps2tatakai shockwave1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Absolute Power, etc., etc.]]

Shockwave grew frustrated with [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s increasingly abusive leadership, and when he discovered the [[Zel Quartz]], which could vastly boost the power of a Transformer, he implanted it into himself and staged a one-robot mutiny. Unfortunately, the power proved too much for Shockwave's systems and he ran wild. Neither the Autobots nor the Decepticons could stop him and they took massive casualties in the attempt. Shockwave eventually destroyed Cybertron, then set out on a quest to destroy all planets with life.

Elite teams of Autobots and Decepticons traveled to the past to prevent these events by either destroying or seizing the Zel Quartz years before Shockwave would find it. In the end, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] accidentally negated the quartz's powers, and Shockwave's reign of terror was averted.

Shockwave was among the present-day Decepticons sent to investigate the arrival of the visitors from the future. He remained ignorant of the circumstances that prompted their arrival. {{storylink|Transformers: Call of the Future}}
 

===Dreamwave ''Generation 1'' comics===
[[Image:Shockwavedwtww1.jpg|thumb|left|Dreamwave is all his fault.]]

As a major player in the Decepticon army in Cybertron's past, Shockwave led the main attack on the Autobots' stronghold shortly after the appointment of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], and personally destroyed two [[Guardian robot|guardian robots]] with one blast in space gun mode. {{storylink|The War Within}}

After Megatron's apparent death in an early space bridge test, the Decepticon faction splintered, with [[Air Commander]] [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] creating the "[[Predacon (War Within)|Predacons]]" and High Auditor [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] the [[Ultracon|Ultracons]], while Shockwave led the Decepticons through the [[Dark Ages]] of Cybertron. During this period, his logic allowed him to put aside differences with Jetfire and the Autobots in order to defeat the greater evil of [[The Fallen]]. Meeting up with Jetfire to discuss the upsurge in violence, the two were attacked by the [[Chaos Trinity]], and Shockwave was taken down. Recovered by the newly built [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], Shockwave organized a counter strike against the three mystics that included Trypticon, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], and the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. Exactly how logic dictated that Shockwave bring an entire army to deal with three rogue Decepticons is unknown. Grimlock's [[Lightning Strike Coalition]] arrived, saying that they had a stake in this, and Shockwave agreed to a temporary ceasefire. After the Fallen was defeated, Shockwave and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] agreed to seal the [[Well of All Sparks]] with six coded barriers for each faction. They were to remain in place until Cybertron was united. Or, as Shockwave put it, [['Til all are one|until all are one]]. {{storylink|War Within: The Dark Ages}} As the Dark Ages came to an end, Shockwave was ready to sign a peace treaty with Ratbat's Ultracons and the Autobots, but the return of Megatron derailed the plan. Shockwave was tasked with reverse engineering the [[Quintesson]]-created clones he brought back to the planet with him, which suffered difficulties due to Megatron's refusal to divulge their origin, but greatly intrigued Shockwave. {{storylink|War Within: The Age of Wrath}}

Shockwave was left behind on Cybertron while Megatron's forces pursued Optimus Prime and were subsequently lost on Earth for four million years, and became Decepticon leader on the planet. He began experimenting with cloning, and through studies of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], began to conceive the idea of a Transformer with multiple alternate modes. Cybertron, however, was steadily growing lower and lower on energy, and in an attempt to create new energy-conservative Transformers, Shockwave allied with the Autobots for a pooling of resources that created the [[Micromaster]]s. {{storylink|Destined for Nothing}} This came back to bite him, however, when the Decepticon Micromaster [[Skystalker (G1)|Skystalker]] attempted to overthrow his command, knocking him offline and decapitating him to use in a grotesque puppet show, giving orders to the other Decepticons by holding Shockwave's severed noggin up to a video screen. {{storylink|Victims of the Revolution}} When Skystalker was defeated, Shockwave was repaired, but eventually, he and all the other Transformers on Cybertron succumbed to stasis as the planet's energy ran out, and it entered a hibernation phase known as the "[[Great Shutdown]]."

3000 years ago, Unicron's herald [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] located the dead planet, and reactivated Shockwave for study purposes. {{storylink|Generation One issue 0|Generation 1 #0}} However, when Shockwave was attacked by a swarm of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]], Scourge intervened and saved him, {{storylink|Cold War}} only to be shot in the back by the Decepticon and captured. Dissecting and studying Scourge, Shockwave learned many secrets about the function and purpose of Transformers and Cybertron from the secrets hidden within him. Using that knowledge, Shockwave steadily worked to restore Cybertron, reactivating its population and solving their energy needs, ending the war and unifying the planet. He also continued his experiments into multiple transformations, yielding the unstable [[Duocon]]s, and then successfully mastering the process with [[Triple Changer]]s. Capturing [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], Shockwave sought to unlock the full secrets of [[Vector Sigma]], having already learned of the mysterious significance of Earth to the Transformer race. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} In preparation for the invasion of the planet, Shockwave subliminally influenced the population of Cybertron to become more violent, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and prevented the return of Optimus Prime and Megatron aboard the ''[[Ark II]]'' by having a [[Robert Hallo|human agent]] blow it up. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

{{note|The [[Keepers Trilogy]] novel "[[Hardwired]]" made a brief reference to Shockwave being part of the Decepticons on Earth, but having been incommunicado for months prior to the disappearance of Megatron in [[Tokyo]]. This statement is at odds with Dreamwave continuity established after the novels.}}

[[Image:Shockwavedwwarandpeace.jpg|thumb|250px|Deja vu all over again.]]

In 2003, Shockwave made his move, heading to Earth with his Triple Changer troops and capturing Megatron and Optimus's forces, planning to try the two leaders as war criminals. Megatron was jettisoned into space by Starscream, {{storylink|New World Order}} while Prime escaped from his clutches and fell in with a rebel group. {{storylink|Cold War}} Mobilizing the planet's Autobots, Prime led an attack on Shockwave's citadel, and confronted Shockwave himself, only to be defeated by the Decepticon, who ripped the Matrix from him. Using the Matrix to activate Vector Sigma, Shockwave downloaded the compressed contents of the mega-computer into his network, but before he had an opportunity to view the data, he was pulled into a battle with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. In the course of the fight, the fuel line to his cannon was severed, and the resulting explosion destroyed his citadel and knocked him into a chasm. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

While the rest of Cybertron believed Shockwave to be deceased, he had actually survived the explosion and gone underground in the wastelands of Cybertron. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} In addition to re-establishing communications with the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] on Earth (who had been operating there as an advance squad preparing the way for his invasion), {{storylink|Extermination}} Shockwave continued his experimentation, resulting in the creation of [[Sixshot]]. Soon after, however, Megatron returned to Cybertron and bested Shockwave, {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} taking him to Earth where he did the same to Starscream. But now, the three players were assembled, each knowing certain dark secrets of Cybertron's past... {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

{{note|...and then Dreamwave went out of business. Dag, yo.}}

===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. Transformers'' comics===
[[Image:Shockwave-ddp2-2b1.jpg|thumb|left|There are so many ways to make him look awesome.]]

In the absence of Megatron, Shockwave had assumed command of the Decepticons on Cybertron, and had successfully driven the Autobots into an underground resistance movement. When a number of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[Cobra]] troops, along with the captive Starscream, accidentally arrived on Cybertron via an overloaded wormhole gate, Shockwave and his troops immediately surrounded them. The same wormhole malfunction blasted a number of Transformers off of Cybertron and into random points of Earth's past, a temporal anomaly that threatened to scour the Earth's face with fire if the Transformers were not brought back.

Ultra Magnus and Perceptor arrived and were able to hold off the Decepticons for a time with a force field, while teams of humans were time-ported away to retrieve the missing Transformers and end the anomaly. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1}} Magnus's force field power ran out before all the teams had returned, and Shockwave had his troops capture the Autobots. He took personal pleasure in blasting Ratchet when he was returned through the gate.

Revealing that he had intended all along for the humans to discover the wormhole gate technology, Shockwave set the gate to continue operating but blocked the last remaining group from returning—thus condemning Earth to destruction, easy pickings for conquest. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 3}} Fortunately for Earth, two members of the G.I. Joe team were able to reactivate the gate, allowing the newly-created Dinobots to return to Cybertron. The Dinobots' power quickly drove Shockwave's Decepticons into retreat.

Regrouping on the other side of the planet, Shockwave had the long-missing Starscream brought before him. As Starscream attempted to explain his way out of being seen as a traitor, a recording of Cobra Commander's voice suddenly began to play, explaining that he had lined Starscream's hull with explosives. Shockwave leapt to try and stop the process, but the entire building exploded, apparently taking the two Decepticons with it. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4}}

With Shockwave's defeat, peace returned to Cybertron, and the Decepticons were driven back to a region known as the [[Gladiator Zone]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1}} One of the mish-mash of robot parts known as the [[cannibalizer]]s was seen with Shockwave's blaster hand grafted onto its arm. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3}}

===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===
[[Image:Shockwavetfjoetrenches.jpg|thumb|100px|First guy to call him "Big Bertha" gets it in the face.]]
As one of the Decepticons who crashed to [[Earth]] in the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' millions of years ago, Shockwave was retrieved by [[Cobra]] and pressed into service, taking on the alternate form of a massive artillery cannon. Chafing under the leadership of [[Cobra Commander]], he was ordered to transform and destroy the [[Autobot]] [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]. {{storylink|Trenches}} Although he did so, he was forced to fire sixteen consecutive times, despite needing to repair himself after every shot. The resulting strain on his structure irrevocably damaged him, and Cobra Commander refused to allow [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] to use the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to restore him. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

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===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
During a gladiatorial match in the depths of Cybertron, Shockwave detected incoming security forces and raised the alarm. When Megatron mused that perhaps it was time to start their rebellion by destroying the incoming forces, Shockwave suggested they wait and build up their numbers. Megatron agreed and the pair departed. {{storylink|Parts}}

===IDW ''Generation 1'' comics===
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Long before the war, Shockwave was an understudy of some sort for the mad scientist [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}
[[Image:Shockwave Regenesis.jpg‎|200px|thumb|left|IDW is mostly his fault.]]
Six hundred thousand [[Units of time|meta-cycles]] ago, he had become a Decepticon scientist. He predicted the eventual destruction of Cybertron as a result of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], driving the combatants out across the galaxy. Knowing that control of resources in this period would be crucial, Shockwave decided to create his own secret network of energon sources on scattered planets, a tool he could use to ensure his own domination. Calling the project "[[Regenesis]]", Shockwave covertly launched rockets from Cybertron to several worlds with specific geological properties. The rockets contained a distilled form of energon that would act as a catalyst in their target planets, sparking chain reactions that, if properly regulated, would create seams of an extremely potent [[Ultra-Energon|energon ore]]. One of these planets was Earth, and after a long period (possibly millions of years), the energon reaction reached a critical point. Shockwave needed to plant global dampers to prevent the reaction from spiraling out of control, so he traveled to Earth and found it at the end of its [[Wikipedia:Pleistocene|most recent ice age]]. As he went about his business, he was unaware of a threat that had shadowed him.

Before departing Cybertron, Shockwave had been dispatched to "tidy up" after an energon raid by the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]], following the team of misfits back to Autobot territory and blowing up their stolen fuel. The Dynobots had vowed revenge, and after their explosion-inflicted injuries had been repaired, they tracked Shockwave to Earth. While Shockwave was busy on the planet, the Dynobots either destroyed or disabled his ship and then altered their own bodies to withstand the energon-rich atmosphere.
[[Image:Shockwaveg1idw.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Shockwave began to have second thoughts over his choice of manicurists.]]
As Shockwave finished planting the dampers and was preparing to visit other Regenesis worlds, the Dynobots teleported upon him. The attack threw Shockwave off-kilter with both its ferocity and its unexpectedness, as he had anticipated a stab in the back from Megatron but had failed to consider the simple vengeance of the Dynobots. Mentally and physically confounded by the assault, Shockwave deactivated his higher reasoning and allowed a subroutine simulating rage to take over. This brutal, violent Shockwave decimated the Dynobots, burning off the organic coating shielding them from the planet's high energon fields and forcing them into [[stasis lock]]. As the battle concluded, Shockwave restored his full neural operations and logged the emotional experience for further study. But, as his logic center churned away once more, it again failed to anticipate his enemies' chaotic nature. Specifically, Grimlock had set a dead-man's switch on [[Skyfire (ship)|the Dynobots' ship]], and before Shockwave could act upon his own victory, the ship shot an energy beam into a nearby volcano, causing it to erupt and consume all of the combatants.

Megatron became suspicious of Shockwave's absence and assigned [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] to search through Shockwave's files. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}} Bludgeon discovered the Regenesis project but kept the information to himself and his close-knit team. Some time after the [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] catastrophe but before Cybertron had been declared off-limits, Bludgeon's team set upon the goal of bringing Thunderwing back to life using Shockwave's seeded Ultra-Energon. To this end, they covertly restored Shockwave's old subterranean laboratory and recovered Thunderwing's body, staying on Cybertron long after the planet was officially evacuated and quarantined. After lengthy preparations, the group headed to Earth and became the first beneficiaries of Shockwave's labor, harvesting all the energon ore they needed in a base inside [[Mount St. Helens]]. They were briefly interrupted in the year [[1984]] by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], who had been spying on them all along and sought to both secure the ore for himself and prevent Thunderwing's return. But Bludgeon's swordsmanship made short work of Soundwave's [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|cassette]]s [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], and [[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]] took Soundwave down with a weapon from Shockwave's lab, an energy gun that forced Soundwave into his [[alternate mode|alt-mode]] and locked him in that form. As Bludgeon's group left with their bounty, they induced a volcanic eruption, burying their opponents. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}} A little over twenty years later, Bludgeon finally completed his task and resurrected Thunderwing. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2}}

[[Image:Shockwave Agent Red.jpg‎|200px|thumb|left|[[Transformers (2007)|Call him NBE-1]].]]
Coindentally, around the same time ([[2006]], to be precise), a [[Professor Goring|human archaeological team]] uncovered Shockwave's body. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}} As the dig continued and the Dynobots also began to be unearthed, a government organization swept in and took the operation over. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5}} This organization, [[Skywatch]], had also recovered Ravage and Laserbeak back in 1985. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}}

Skywatch repaired and attempted to control their captives through neural inhibitors, but the results were consistently disastrous. As the Dynobots and cassettes wreaked havoc (due to the [[Machination]]'s interference) or otherwise pursued unknown agendas (due to Soundwave's interference), Skywatch commander [[Joshua Red]] decided to use a less sophisticated method on their last remaining subject. Bringing Shockwave online in their Salt Lake City base, Red told him there was a bomb in his head set to detonate in 24 hours if Skywatch didn't transmit a reset code. Shockwave's task was to take down the rogue [[Transformer]]s in that time. Shockwave casually asked if they knew how much damage he could do in 24 hours, then he made a beeline for Soundwave, who was active but still mode-locked in a [[Portland]], [[Oregon]] child's possession. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 3}}
[[Image:Shockwave V Scorponok MD.jpg‎‎|200px|thumb|right|Hypothesis: [[...All This and Civil War 2|Turnabout is fair play]].]]
At the same time, Soundwave was using his broadcast abilities to block Skywatch's control over Ravage and Laserbeak, who retrieved Soundwave from his human captivity. The three returned to Mt. St. Helens, where Shockwave joined them and struck a deal. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 4}} Deducing that his own weapon had mode-locked Soundwave, Shockwave offered to undo its effects, but only after they helped him thwart Skywatch's threat to himself. They agreed, and the first step of the plan was for the cassettes to help Shockwave feign obedience to Skywatch. Shockwave told Skywatch where to find the cassettes, and indeed Ravage and Laserbeak allowed themselves to be recaptured without a fight.

[[Image:Shockwave V Dynos.jpg‎|250px|thumb|left|"And we'll KEEP dancing until we get it RIGHT!"]]
Meanwhile, Shockwave played out his own part by seeking the Dynobots. But he found them already engaged with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and the Machination, whom Shockwave decided to attack first so he could destroy the Dynobots himself. Observing the battle, Joshua Red ordered the explosives detonated only if Shockwave ''succeeded,'' since it would guarantee a "clean sweep" of all the combatants and their bodies. If Shockwave was still in battle when the 24 hours were up, Red wanted the reset code sent instead, presumably because he feared anyone but Shockwave walking away alive and unsubdued. It is unclear if Shockwave had deduced this, but his actions produced the effect he desired. By the time Shockwave beat Scorponok, only 12 minutes remained, and Grimlock proved to have more than 12 minutes' worth of fight left in him. On the 30-second mark, the two were still grappling in a Machination arms bunker, so Red ordered the reset code sent. The code was intercepted and decrypted by Soundwave, who transmitted the information to Shockwave, who in return sent him instructions to mentally disable the mode-lock. Soundwave transformed, his cassettes attacked their would-be captors, and Shockwave abruptly walked away from his fight, declaring an end to the "charade." But Grimlock would not be denied his revenge, so before Shockwave could leave, he detonated a grenade that blew the arms bunker sky-high. The two were soon recovered, still functioning, by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], who took both Shockwave and Scorponok into custody. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5}}
During Shockwave's time in Skywatch captivity, the researchers had gathered enough information about him to design a weapon based on his technology. According to [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Cmdr. Spike Witwicky]], the first working prototypes were the size of a house, but with some unspecified "outside help," they were able to condense it to a size small enough for hand-held use by a human. It was stored in a secret [[New York City]] facility, and when the city was overrun by Megatron's forces, Spike was sent in with a military squad to retrieve it and use it to kill Megatron. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9}} Though his team perished, Spike survived, got the weapon, and successfully shot Megatron in the head, ending the Decepticon occupation. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}

Later, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] reflected on an event he called "Shockwave's resurgence." It is unclear exactly what this was or when this happened. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

===IDW ''Hearts of Steel'' comics===
After awakening in 19th century America, Shockwave took on the form of an ironclad warship and recruited inventor [[Tobias Muldoon]] to the Decepticon side (by pretending to be a friend to humanity). {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1}} He took Muldoon to his Decepticon comrades underwater, where he was questioned by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}} As a huge ship, he did not participate in the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]'s attempted attack on New York, and thus may have survived the story unharmed. Clever bot.

 

==Toys==
{{main|Shockwave (G1)/toys}}

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

==Trivia==
[[Image:ToyCoAstroMagnum.jpg|250px|thumb|"Shackwave"? '''"Shackwave"?!''' RADIOWAVE, [[fandom|you]] idiots!]]
* Although Shockwave was depicted in the very first episode of the original cartoon series, he did not receive a toy release until early in 1985. Unlike the bulk of early Transformers that drew their molds from [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' and ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' toys, Shockwave's original form was first produced by ToyCo as the "[http://www.robot-japan.com/Gallery/Takara/Transformers/G1/AstroMagnum/Toybox-Astro-Magnum.asp 4 Changeable Astro Magnum]". As such, similar non-Transformer toys using the same mold were released in 1985, including a [[RadioShack]] exclusive called "Galactic Man". A minor but amusing difference between the Radio Shack version, humorously called "Shackwave" by fans, and the [[Hasbro]] version, is that Shockwave's inconveniently placed trigger was remolded and appears less...inconvenient.
[[Image:StudioOxCybertronBattleCons.jpg|250px|thumb|It's not easy being grey. It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.]]
* A Cybertronian battle scene in ''[[TV Magazine]]'' (reprinted in ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' and ''[[Transformers Visualworks]]'') depicts Shockwave not in purple, but in the original grey color scheme of the Astro Magnum/Galactic Man toy.
* Shockwave has been periodically drawn with two hands in various media. He first shows up this way in [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]], and the condition briefly reappears in [[Divide and Conquer]]. He also wound up this way on the cover of ''[[Ashes, Ashes...|G.I. Joe and the Transformers]]'' #3.
* Voice actor Corey Burton based Shockwave's voice on that of actor [[wikipedia:David Warner (actor)|David Warner]], specifically his role as evil computer thingy [[wikipedia:Sark (Tron)|Sark]] in ''[[wikipedia:Tron (film)|Tron]]''.<ref>[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/60-astrominutes/corey-burton/corey_burton_1.html Corey Burton interview on the Cybertron Chronicle]</ref> Burton even provided the voice of Sark in the video game ''[[wikipedia:Kingdom Hearts II|Kingdom Hearts II]]''.
* In contrast to Megatron, when Shockwave transforms, he does not [[Size changing|change size]]. He can also fly, aim, and fire himself in gun mode. [[Combiner|Combiners]] are large enough to wield him. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}
[[Image:Starbrigade.jpg|125px|thumb|Product and colors (and franchise) may vary.]]
* In the Japanese dub of the Generation 1 cartoon, Shockwave's personality was altered from the American interpretation—he was presented like a grizzled old man with a loud, raspy voice and a very short temper.
* One of the earliest pictured versions of Action Master Shockwave features some awkward proportions and Fistfight with reversed colors. Another oddity of this version is that Shockwave's right hand is sculpted in an open position.
* A silhouette of Action Master Shockwave's card art appears on the back of the [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] Star Brigade packaging... as [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]!
* Shockwave is, of course, the basis for the ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' Decepticon [[homage]] [[character]] [[Shockblast (Energon)|Shockblast]].
* A company named Lanard Toys held the "Shockwave" [[trademark]] in the "toys" field for several years. For that reason, the ''Energon'' toy/character mentioned above was given the substitute name "Shockblast". The same name was later given to the ''[[Alternators]]'' version of G1 Shockwave for the same reason. However, by that point Lanard had abandoned their "Shockwave" trademark, making it available to Hasbro again. Unfortunately, the packaging for ''Alternators'' Shockwave had already been printed by that point, so Hasbro decided to go with the substitute name. They then slapped the name "Shockwave" onto the [[Shockwave (Cybertron)|next available]] [[Mini-Con]] just so they could reclaim the trademark. Subsequently, all new toys of the G1 Shockwave character, as well as [[Shockwave (Animated)|homage characters]], were released under the name "Shockwave" again. (Ironically, [[Hasbro]] later used the name "[http://www.yojoe.com/action/08/shockblast.shtml Shockblast]" for new toys of a ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I.Joe]]'' character originally also named "[http://www.yojoe.com/action/88/shockwave.shtml Shockwave]", possibly in order to avoid brand confusion; apparently, Hasbro view the name "Shockwave" as more iconic for the Transformers character than his G.I. Joe namesake.)
* Shockwave bears the rather strange distinction of receiving a number of particularly high quality [[Knockoff|knockoffs]], all of which known retain the electronics and some even having odd [[wikipedia:Flash Gordon|Flash Gordonesque]] [[Retool|retools]].
 

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1985/Decepticon/Shockwave/shockwave.htm Shockwave at TFU.info]
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Shockwave Shockwave's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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Explosive Fist

2009-12-05T20:10:23Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 398868 by 83.24.162.197 (Talk) Technically speaking, uploading TF episodes onto there is illegal so...

{{disambig2|the [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]] short|the titular punch|Punch of Kill Everything}}

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|image=Explosive Punch explosion three.JPG
|caption=This is what happens when you put a potato in the microwave.
|prev=Starscream Heckles Megatron
|next=Bulkhead Plays with Grimlock
|title="Explosive Punch"
|airdate=N/A (the DVD containing this short was released on [[January 6]], 2009)
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|directed by=errr...
|animation studio= [[Studio 4°C]]
}}

'''Lugnut punches the ''Hell'' out of stuff.'''
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==Synopsis==
Lugnut plummets from the sky into a large pine forest, using his devastating [[Punch of Kill Everything]] to create a massive crater. Not satisfied with just that, he uses the punch again to make an even ''bigger'' crater, then once ''again'' to create one mother of a hole in the ground.

Blitzwing, in his Random mode, steps up, admiring Lugnut's work... but comments that on second thought, the swimming pool would be better set "over there".

Lugnut is not amused.

==Featured characters==
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* [[Lugnut]] (1)
* [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (2)}}

==Notes==
* This short was included as a bonus on the ''Animated'' Season 2 DVD, along with "[[Starscream Heckles Megatron]]".

* The title of the short is supplied by [[Derrick J. Wyatt]]. Clearly, it was titled before the crew knew about "[[Punch of Kill Everything]]".

* It is unknown if they were actually trying to build a swimming pool, although it '''IS''' Blitzwing, nobody knows if he was serious or not.

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Yoketron (Animated)

2009-11-26T22:11:39Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 395606 by 68.239.238.78 (Talk) "sic" means we include the typos.

{{factions|autobot}}
:''Yoketron is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].

[[Image:FiveServosOfDoom-Yoketron.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"I find that offensive. Just because I am of Japanese ancestry, you assume I know karate. Have I ever led you to believe I have studied karate?"]]

'''Yoketron''' is a wise old Autobot responsible for training the Autobot [[Cyber-Ninja Corps]], but more importantly, he protects the Autobots' cache of [[protoform]]s, which will have to be activated if [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Project Omega]] fails. He is a master of several martial arts, including [[Circuit-Su]] and [[Metallikato]].

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[George Takei]] (English)

During the final stages of the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]], when the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guardsman]] [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] dragged in a young draft-dodger named [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], Yoketron decided to train him instead of throwing him in the stockade. Prowl was a rebellious and cocky young upstart at the time, and so Yoketron tried to humble and ground him. Yoketron stripped him of his weapons and mods, and slowly trained Prowl in the ways of the ninja.

After Prowl was close to finishing his Cyber-Ninja training, Yoketron revealed that he hoped Prowl would become his replacement. He showed Prowl a vast, hidden chamber behind his quarters which stowed an army of unborn protoforms, the Autobot army's last resort in the war. But Prowl was unable to mimic Yoketron's usage of [[processor-over-matter]] to seal the chamber, so Yoketron sent him on an "optics quest" to find his center.

[[Image:FiveServosOfDoom-Yoketron%27sDeath.jpg|thumb|left|200px|No refund...]]However, while Prowl was gone, one of Yoketron's former students, [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], betrayed him, stealing most of the protoforms for the Decepticons, and leaving Yoketron to die. Prowl returned during the aftermath, and he attempted to revive Yoketron by transferring his spark to a protoform that had been left behind. Though Yoketron formed from the new Protoform, Yoketron chastised Prowl for not accepting fate, telling him he "...must not sacrifice a piece of the future to bring back the past." As he told Prowl that he would understand when his time came, Yoketron relinquished his spark, and his new body grayed. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
*Yoketron is named for [[Takara]]'s lead designer, [[Hideaki Yoke]].
* According to [[Derrick Wyatt]]'s twitter feed, Yoketron transforms into some kind of "Cybertonian race car"{{sic}}.[http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/statuses/1458156818]

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[[Category: Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category: Ninjas]]

Hasbro Q&A/December 2009: Question submission

2009-11-24T15:28:53Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

Transformers Wiki participates in [[Hasbro]]'s roughly-every-other-month [[Hasbro Q&A|Question & Answer]] session. Our site will be allowed to submit '''three''' questions to Hasbro's Transformers team for answering. If you're a registered user at our site, please add your question below!

Keep in mind that Hasbro is not likely to tell us about future product they are not ready to reveal, so '''the odds of such questions being selected are nil'''. However, there are still plenty of ''other'' things to ask them about! Go wild!

Please be as thoughtful about your question as possible. We will reject questions like, "Hasbro, why do you suck so much?" The better and more useful the question, the more likely the admins will choose it to be one of the three submitted. We also reserve the right to edit your question for clarity if need be.

Each registered user can ask '''one''' question at this time. Please bullet and sign your question. The deadline for your questions is the evening of '''Sunday, November 29th''', and answers will be sent back on (approximately) '''December 14th'''. If you're a registered member and for some reason you can't edit this page, ask your question on the [[Talk:Hasbro Q&A/November 2009: Question submission|discussion page]], then I or [[User:ItsWalky|Walky]] will move it here.

Thanks!
--[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 19:06, 23 November 2009 (EST)

==December 2009 questions==
*If The Fallen could spare one fast food chain from destruction, which would it be? --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:27, 24 November 2009 (EST)
* It's understood that Hasbro now owns the intellectual property related to the Tonka GoBots - Is it possible that the GoBots stories could one day be retroactively integrated into TF continuity, much as M.A.S.K. was retroactively inserted into GIJoe's via the Matt Trakker figure? [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:36, 24 November 2009 (EST)
* Was that [[Stratosphere]] that [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] rolled out from at the beginning of ''Revenge of the Fallen''? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]]
* There was a large amount of talk about a fan preference for an Animated straight to DVD movie. Has Hasbro/CN ever considered producing one? ---[[User:Eire|Eire]]
* Have Hasbro ever considered revisiting/creating more unique forms of combinations for combiners? (Such as RiD [[Landfill]]'s, [[Rail Racer (RID)|Rail Racer]]'s G1 Devastator's construction, or the [[Combiners#Unused_concepts|unseen 15 Micromaster concept]] from ages ago) [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 10:28, 24 November 2009 (EST)

Blackarachnia (Animated)

2009-11-13T04:22:10Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Something I've noticed.

{{disambig3|Blackarachnia}}
{{disambig3|Elita One}}
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:''Blackarachnia is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]]. She was previously an [[Autobot]] known as '''Elita-1'''.

:[[Image:FinalAniBlackarachnia.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Welcome to [[wikipedia:Goth Talk|Goth Talk]]!]]

In another life, she was '''Elita-1''', an energetic, spunky Autobot Academy cadet. That was until a fateful trip to [[Archa Seven]], where [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|her]] [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|teammates]] abandoned her to a horde of alien spiders. Now calling herself '''Blackarachnia''', she hates her new body with a passion. Her loathing of her organic parts is slowly driving her insane, and she will do ''anything'' to get rid of them, no matter whom she has to crush in her path. Her mutation fueled a newfound hatred of the [[Autobot]] cause and a quest for revenge that led her to join [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] in his war against them. However, she does not appear overly loyal to her leader.

In her mutant [[technorganic]] form, she makes use of her newfound '[[cyber venom]]' to paralyze her enemies, and combines this with her natural ability to download and mimic other [[Transformer]]s' traits and weaponry for a limited amount of time with a simple touch. Hope nobody told [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]].

{{quote|It'll be a long time before I ever trust another Autobot. Especially you, Optimus.|Blackarachnia|"[[Along Came a Spider]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{note|Events from [[IDW Publishing]] comic books are in italics.}}
:''Voice actor:'' [[Cree Summer]] (English), [[Christin Marquitan]] (German), [[Marcella Silvestri]] (Italian)

[[Image:TFA Elita-1.JPG|left|175px|thumb|Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know it's serious.]]

Blackarachnia was previously known as Elita-1. A thousand [[Units of time|stellar cycles]] ago Elita and her teammates were exploring [[Archa Seven]], looking for a Decepticon [[Twilight (Animated)|ship]] filled with [[Energon (fuel)|energon]]. They accidentally fell into a series of caves. They were ambushed by giant spiders and, when escaping the massive energon explosion caused by the battle, Elita ended up being left behind. When she tried using her ability to borrow powers from other beings, she was injected by the spiders' venom, turning her into the hideous freak she is now. Because of her new, semi-organic nature, her signal did not appear on Optimus's radar, leading him and Sentinel to believe that she had perished in the explosion. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}}

When the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] was found by a group of Autobots, Blackarachnia was aboard the [[Nemesis (Animated)|''Nemesis'']] with the other Decepticons, annoyed at [[Lugnut]]'s emphatic, vocal loyalty to Megatron. She even suggested that Lugnut's speech of praise was hardwired into his mind. She also had conflict with [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], who touched a sore point by insulting her organic mode. Her retort to "blow it out your actuator, three-face" angered Blitzwing to the point that he... began to express his feelings in song. Later, at Megatron's orders, she scanned the Autobots' ship to determine the nature of their high-energy cargo. She confirmed the Autobots were carrying the AllSpark, or at least something just as powerful. When the Autobots escaped and it became clear the ''Nemesis'' was going to crash into an exploding space bridge, Blackarachnia fled in an escape pod. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

''Fifty stellar cycles later, while searching space for any trace of the AllSpark in the hope that she could use its power to purge herself of her organic mode, Blackarachnia stumbled across [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], still operating out of the battered shell of the ''Nemesis''. Realizing that Starscream was searching for the AllSpark as well, Blackarachnia proposed an alliance, but Starscream proved uninterested in sharing power and promptly booted her out into space. Before being ejected, however, Blackarachnia was able to plant a homing device on Starscream, {{storylink|Dispatches}} and eventually tracked the beacon to [[Earth]]. At first setting down on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]] to investigate the crashed hulk of the ''Nemesis'', Blackarachnia ran afoul of the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], who had been hired by Blitzwing to hunt down Optimus Prime. Not willing to risk the bounty hunter finding the AllSpark before her, Blackarachnia attempted to dissuade him from investigating Earth, but Lockdown didn't take kindly to her interference, and the pair wound up battling. During the fight, Blackarachnia used her download ability on Lockdown, knocking him out, but she was immediately overwhelmed by the sheer number of powers and modifications she wound up taking from him, and passed out herself. Blackarachnia was first to awake, however, and hid herself aboard Lockdown's [[Death's Head (Animated)|ship]], so that when the bounty hunter finally came to and headed for Earth, she was able to hitch a free ride to the planet. {{storylink|A Few Loose Strands}}'' At some unknown point in the future, Blackarachnia was interviewed by the trans-dimensional magazine ''[[Venus (magazine)|Venus]]'' and recounted this adventure for the publication's readers. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac}}

[[Image:Blackarach anim beast.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Itchy Bitchy Spider crawled up the water spout...]]

After arriving on Earth, Blackarachnia stalked [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], and [[Sari Sumdac|Sari]] on [[Halloween]] night. Once she took out the boys, she attempted to sweet-talk Sari into handing over her [[AllSpark Key]], but Optimus Prime arrived to intervene. Using Bulkhead and Bumblebee's stolen powers to overcome Optimus, Blackarachnia captured Sari and web-swung her way to the top of a skyscraper, with Prime in hot pursuit. In the ensuing fight, Prime finally realized who Blackarachnia truly was. Exploiting the opening, Blackarachnia bound Prime in her web and seized Sari's key, activating its power in hopes of become fully mechanical. However, the energies unleashed caused any organic life in range, including Sari (and presumably any other [[Human|fleshy]]), to shrivel and sicken. It almost killed Blackarachnia, but Optimus Prime pulled the Key out, restoring the organics. Prime tried to reason with "Elita", asking her to come with them in the hopes of curing her, but Blackarachnia stabbed him, saying that it would be a long time before she trusted him again. After she knocked out Prime, she cried her four eyes out. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}}

Later, she again kidnapped Sari, who was running away after having the AllSpark Key taken away from her. When she heard about the Key and how Sari felt totally mistrusted by the Autobots, Blackarachnia played on the girl's sympathies by saying she knew how Sari felt. Blackarachnia noted how she was not a Decepticon until after the Autobots turned their backs on her, and how the AllSpark's power was the only thing that could cure her current form. Despite being kidnapped again and nearly being killed by Blackarachnia's previous use of the Key, Sari appeared to start seeing eye to eye with her captor. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1}}

[[Image:Megatron Rising Blackarachnia farewell.JPG|left|175px|thumb|Here's hoping her organic half can withstand impact.]]

At least, that was what she wanted Blackarachnia to believe. Leading her around in circles over the frozen [[Lake Erie]], Sari was finally forced to admit that the [[Teletran-1|Autobots' ship]], which contained the AllSpark, was underwater. Blackarachnia's organic half couldn't survive the icy water; incensed, she prepared to kill Sari. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] brought the ship up through the ice, and Sari bit Blackarachnia's hand, showing that her organic half couldn't withstand teeth, causing her to drop Sari and allow Ratchet to grab her and get in the ship. As Blackarachnia tried to force the door open, the vessel accelerated, and Blackarachnia was thrown off the ship. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

[[Image:TFA Black Friday ME GRIMLOCK IN LOVE.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Me Grimlock be kisser for you!]]

Washing ashore on [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]], Blackarachnia was taken in by the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]], who gave her [[Meltdown (Animated)|Meltdown]]'s former base as a home. Using her charms, Blackarachnia was able to manipulate the Dinobots into doing anything she wanted. [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] was particularly attached to her, and reminded the other Dinobots of this through violence. Going over Meltdown's notes, she realized that he would be able to remove the organic half from her body. She sent the Dinobots to release him from prison, causing the Autobots to come investigating. Blackarachnia then poisoned Bumblebee and [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] with her venom, and used the "promise" of an anti-venom to blackmail Optimus into helping Grimlock find the [[genetic modifier]] Meltdown needed for the experiment. Unfortunately, Meltdown turned the tables on them when the modifier was his, planning on removing Blackarachnia's technological half and leaving him with an organic transformer. Optimus was able to stop Meltdown before he succeeded, but the modifier was damaged and Meltdown presumed killed. Needing to escape, Blackarachnia urged Optimus to hold her, causing Grimlock to attack in jealousy, and Blackarachnia fled. However, it appears that Blackarachnia left the anti-venom needed to save Bumblebee and Prowl beside them. This gave Optimus hope that beneath all of Blackarachnia's anger and manipulation, there was still something left of Elita-1 in there. {{storylink|Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday}}

[[Image:TFA-PredaconsRising-SentinelBlackArachnia.jpg|thumb|left|[[Dark Designs (episode)|Better dead than Pred!]]]]
Still taking refuge in Meltdown's abandoned laboratory, Blackarachnia began experimenting with [[transwarp]] energy to create new techno-organic beings to experiment on in an attempt to purge her organic elements, the idea being if she could turn another techno-organic purely robotic, she could do the same to herself. Most of her early attempts proved fruitless, until [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] was able to capture the perfect test subject: the renegade Autobot [[Wasp]]. Tempting him with both her feminine wiles and promises of power great enough to achieve revenge on the bots who betrayed him, she coaxed him into being experimented on, fittingly merging him with the DNA of a wasp.

[[Image:TFAni Predacons Rising Blackarachina sans Helmet.jpg|thumb|I'd hit it.]]

While Wasp was being turned techno-organic, her old friend Sentinel Prime stumbled upon the lab and was disgusted to find a robot with an organic mode. He was even more shocked when she revealed that they had a past: she was his old friend Elita-1. Disgusted by her mutation, Sentinel was willing to "put her out of her misery", and during a scuffle knocked Blackarachnia's helmet off, allowing him to see her true, partially organic face. After Wasp's transformation into Waspinator was complete, Blackarachnia revealed her plans to Sentinel and Optimus.

[[Image:PredaconsRising-WaspinatorBlackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left]]

Unfortunately, Waspinator was within earshot when she revealed what little regard she had for his life. Hurt by this betrayal, the now physically unstable Waspinator issued Blackarachnia an ultimatum: either fix him or be destroyed. She tried to escape, but once it was revealed that the transwarp energies responsible for his creation were going critical and about to cause a huge explosion, Blackarachnia surrounded herself and Waspinator in her webbing, shielding the Autobots from the explosion and seemingly leading to her final demise.

However, when she awoke, she was in a strange jungle, in front of a [[Maximal|group of organic creatures]] that looked rather surprised to see their new guests. {{storylink|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan Magazines===

Realising that the Autobots also win due to the power of teamwork, Blackarachnia decided to isolate one of them from the rest of the team. She stuck a tracer on Bumblebee so she could listen in on the crew and find out the best opportunity, while she roped Blitzwing and Lugnut into helping her. By the next day, when Bumblebee and Prowl were having a race at [[Crazy Coyote Canyon]], the Decepticons had set up a trap and were able to capture Prowl. To Blackarachnia's annoyance though, Bumblebee turned up and somehow her comrades failed to pursue him even ''with'' the tracer.

She commanded Lugnut to fire on the Autobots as they sped across the cave roof, realising too late this would cause a cave-in. To add insult to injury, she found the tracer couldn't track Bumblebee any more because it was stuck on Lugnut's butt... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|The Race}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Blackarachniaanimateddeluxe.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Hideously mutated into this sexy, sexy figure.]]
*'''Blackarachnia''' (Deluxe, 2008)
**''Accessories'': Grapnel-hook

:Blackarachnia transforms into a mechanical spider with some organic aesthetic. Many of her pointier parts are [[For safety reasons|molded in softer plastic]] to keep unfortunate children from putting their eyes out. She comes with a [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grapnel grapnel] hook accessory. This is spring-loaded, with a jointed claw at the end of it. Pressing a button causes it to retract along the string. It may be mounted under her abdomen in spider mode or on her back in robot mode, via two different sets of pegs. There is also a peg hole in each wrist, for [[Spider-Man|web-slinging]] action.

:The spider's head is mis-transformed in the package, making the first step of her instructions initially confusing. Furthermore, the pedipalps will easily come off if manipulated too much, and her transformation requires that they be turned around completely. Because of this, they will often fall off over, and over, and ''over''...

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Blackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''

{{anchor|Prime2pack}}
*'''The Revenge of Blackarachnia''' (2-pack, 2008)
**''Accessories'': Grapnel-hook

: The Blackarachnia toy was released again in a Wal-Mart [[exclusive]] two-pack with the "Battle Damaged" [[Optimus Prime (Animated)#DVDpack|Optimus Prime from the a DVD 2-pack with Megatron]]. Both toys are identical to their original releases.

{{-}}

==Notes==
[[Image:AniBlackarachniaPromoModel.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Black belly is, like, so last season.]]
* A non-final [[character model]] for Blackarachnia was included in the initial ''Transformers Animated'' press kit from [[Cartoon Network]], was used briefly (in silhouette) for her first appearance in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", and appears on the Deluxe figure's packaging. Though the toy shares the non-final model's spider-leg placement in robot mode, black belly, dark purple skin, and yellow Decepticon symbol, the rest of the toy adheres much more closely to the finished model.
*The initial ''Transformers Animated'' press kit from Cartoon Network also said that Blackarachnia's techno-organic state was caused by "an encounter with the [[AllSpark (Animated)|ALLSPARK]]" in the past. Given her actual in-show origin, either this was an early idea for the character, or the press release writer was misinformed.
* As Blackarachnia, what seemed to be her new head is actually a helmet that was lying around in the wrecked Decepticon warship where she had her accident. After seeing her without it in "[[Predacons Rising]]", you can see why she wore it.
* So far, Blackarachnia's the only major ''Transformers'' character not to have [[stock footage|a detailed on-screen transformation]].
* Blackarachnia can swing off of tall, unseen buildings, with webbing that shoots out of her hands. Wow, we've never seen that befo—[[Spider-Man|wait a minute...]]
* As Elita-1, her head seems to be based on the pony-tailed Ariel, the younger form of [[Elita One]], while her body's ornamentation homages Elita One herself.
* According to [[Derrick J. Wyatt]], Elita-1's [[alternate mode]] is a "Cybertronian car". [https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21975298&postID=2344351953813555694&isPopup=true]
* Apparently, Blackarachnia was quite the scientist even before she was introduced to Prometheus Black's genetics experiments. According to the [[AllSpark Almanac]], Blackarachnia introduced the concept of [[Triple Changer|Triple-Changing]] to the Decepticon ranks, when she rebuilt [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] after the Great War.
* Blackarachnia has a [[faceplate]], which is only ever seen in [[The Arrival]] issues [[Dispatches|1]] and [[The Arrival issue 4|4]] but never in the show itself.
*Blackarachnica is the only member of the "main cast" Decepticons who was never blown up into pieces during the show's run, most likely due to her partially organic nature, or her gender.

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Talk:Shane McCarthy

2009-11-09T18:06:07Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

''"He is not a fan of the 2007 Transformers movie."'' 
Too deep and complex a story for him, huh? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 09:57, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
:I'm not a fan of him, but I hope that's not an unfair addition to his article. He's allowed his opinion of the movie. It was more of a continuation of how we note when somebody involved with Transformers (such as [[Neil Kaplan]] or [[Michael McConnohie]], apparently) openly state their dislike of some other aspect of Transformers, particularly the ones they weren't involved in. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 10:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
::I can say with complete sincerity that I think it's a fascinating and fitting addition. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 10:16, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
:::I personally find it ironic. From what I can tell so far, AHM is alot like what we saw in the movie: Decepticons blowing a city up and the humans as main characters, while the Autobots are around at the peripheries, just in case you forgot there were Autobots in Transformers. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 10:19, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
::::I'd be willing to go one step further, FFN. I've been thinking for some time now that AHM reminds me a great deal of the '07 Movie so far, just that the Movie actually did it all entertainingly. :P [[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 15:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
:::::So he cribbed it without realising? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:26, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
::::::Either that, or decided to write his own version of the movie with all the "sucky parts" removed. Really, it does read like a version of the movie with all of the parts many folks complained about either taken out (the humor, the military guys being lionized, Autobots in suburbia, etc...) or changed to what they wanted (more Con screen time, more action, humans being ineffectual cannon fodder, etc). I'd like to think the result so far speaks for itself. [[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:00, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Primus, we're only three issues in. You people are animals.[[User:SolarisOmega|SolarisOmega]] 04:41, 4 October 2008 (EDT)
:Hey Shane. Welcome to the TF Wiki. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:59, 4 October 2008 (EDT)
::Hi person. I'm not Shane. Jeysie knows me from deviantArt and the IDW boards. Hi, Jeysie. ~bloodandsteel ...[[User:SolarisOmega|SolarisOmega]] 04:41, 4 January 2009 (EDT)
::: *waves* I suspected that nick wasn't McCarthy, but I couldn't remember who it actually was instead offhand. :> But now I remember your alt nick/OC name. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 06:30, 4 January 2009 (EST)

"Primus, we're only three issues in." - three issues, that sucked like hell, you forgot to add ;P [[User:Minime|Minime]] 04:54, 6 October 2008 (EDT)
:Not to start off another debate here on this, but I'd rather address it here than just change it and start a whole hullabaloo... Is the comment on McCarthy's quote really nessessary? Yes, AHM has it's fair share of haters and I'm not totally sold on the series myself, but I honestly do feel that particular dig at the man is rather petty. --[[User:Darkspeed|Darkspeed]] 13:15, 3 January 2009
:::Yeah, let's reserve this spite for people who commit real crimes. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:24, 3 January 2009 (EST)
::::You people are gutless :) --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 18:29, 4 January 2009 (EST)
:::::And you won't stop beating a dead horse --[[User:Eire|Eire]] 23.42 4 January 2009 (UTC)

See, I'm all for calling a spade a spade. However, we're ranging into venom we usually reserve for, say, Pat Lee. Shane may be a hack, but he's no Pat Lee.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 18:45, 4 January 2009 (EST)
:Before this develops into constant edits, can i get an official saying if "Hissy Fit" is acceptable for this entry? --[[User:Darkspeed|Darkspeed]] 19:03, 4 Jan 2009
::Walky says to reserve spite for people who deserve it; Walky is an administrator. Ergo, I think his judgement overrules FFN's. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 19:02, 4 January 2009 (EST)
:::The "tells you not to buy his books" thing may have been too much, but fact remains that his behavior on the post in question was a hissy fit. Total Biscuit commented that in spite of what Shane said in interviews, nothing in AHM seemed to flow with what was previously established, and Shane replied with a "You're impolite and uncivil so I won't answer". --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 19:14, 4 January 2009 (EST)
::::Just to be picky here... Total Biscuit never actually asked a question in his post. He just started listing off a load of inconsistencies in a story that had only just begun, then accused McCarthy of not being able to follow on from furman's story when we already knew this was a soft reboot of the franchise. McCarthy's response was abrupt, but calling it a hissy fit is a big stretch IMHO.
::::Which is exactly my point. It's your opinion that it's a hissy fit, and it's mine that it's not. But the entry isn't for us to push opinions on, just to give the facts. So that's why I feel "hissy fit" is too much, and it should just remain "comment". Let people make up their own minds. --[[User:Darkspeed|Darkspeed]] 19:44, 4 Jan 2009
:::::I could swear that before AHM was released McCarthy claimed that the story was not in any way a reboot and it was always written to be in-continuity with Furman's storyline. Now they say it's a soft reboot? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 19:47, 4 January 2009 (EST)
::::::It being a "soft reboot" in no way conflicts with it being in-continuity and not an actual reboot. All a soft reboot signifies is a change of direction and tone. That's what the term means. G1 cartoon season 3 was a soft reboot. Beast Machines was a soft reboot. Energon and Cybertron were soft reboots. All were in-continuity, but a new start at the same time, with some alterations and some concepts dropped and others added. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:04, 4 January 2009 (EST)

I've tried to go the middle road by reproducing a little more of that exchange in the article's quote. Let people judge for themselves.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 19:49, 4 January 2009 (EST)
:I don't see any particular need for the exchange to be quoted in this article at all. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 20:10, 4 January 2009 (EST)
::I'll have to agree... Unless this is just a test for people's reaction, how it was before suited me fine aside from the comment on hissy fit. But if we are going to do that here, perhaps something like the quotes section on Pat Lee's page? --[[User:Darkspeed|Darkspeed]] 20:16, 4 Jan 2009
:::I don't find the quote exchange at all informative or useful. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:29, 4 January 2009 (EST)

I'm going to say it here, just because I've really got no one else to say it to. AHM has been some of the worst comic reading experience of all time. Which is an incredible shame, as the Furman IDW continuity was some of the best. Pleh.

== Caption ==

I'm totally loving the Top Gear gag in the mainpic caption. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 15:07, 7 November 2009 (EST)
:I don't really, cos Top Gear is awesome and Hammond deserves better than being associated with this guy. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 15:15, 7 November 2009 (EST)
::Thanks, I like Hammond too. I was just struck by the resemblance in this photo, which is why I've not used more recent photos of McCarthy for this wiki. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:59, 7 November 2009 (EST)
:::Also, is anyone else up for adding "Now read this caption in Jeremy Clarkson's voice" to that caption in parentheses? --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 12:37, 9 November 2009 (EST)
::::I like that idea. Although I do have to say, I feel the same dismay associating an awesome show with the worse ever writer this franchise has encountered (That's a set in stone fact. The Maya predicted it). [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 13:06, 9 November 2009 (EST)

Talk:Nexus Prime

2009-09-27T18:26:10Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

I wouldn't mind not increasing traffic to that, um, non-Transformers related website. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 20:18, 30 May 2009 (EDT)
:Well, Critical Name Research Failure ''is'' the sort of thing we tend to find news-worthy, and I'm not sure how else to cite it... --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:27, 30 May 2009 (EDT)
::As a side note, at least as of today this wiki page has pulled ahead of the, shall we say, "original" Nexus Maximus page. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 05:24, 4 August 2009 (EDT)

So..... ummm in the Club comics he is a Prime now (Nexus Prime) ....... there goes all the jokes.... ho huh........ [[User:Protoman|Protoman]] 12:07, 27 September 2009 (EDT)
: Source please. Let's make this better, £5 if it's not leaked.[[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 14:26, 27 September 2009 (EDT)

Jetfire (Movie)

2009-09-16T19:28:17Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 366347 by 173.169.8.91 (Talk)

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{{disambig3|Jetfire}}
:''Jetfire is a [[Decepticon]] and [[Autobot]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ROTF_Jetfire.jpg|thumb|351px|Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers!]]

In his day, '''Jetfire''' was a living legend both in the air and on the battlefield. Sadly, his day has long since passed. His body went south years back. His bunny is dead on the wheel. He's got rust in places he didn't even know he had. Basically, Jetfire's old! An ancient Decepticon [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]], Jetfire was around long before the war broke out, and unlike many, came to see his "comrades" for what they were. This caused him to defect to the Autobots, something virtually unheard of. As a consequence, Jetfire never managed to fully obtain the trust of the others back in the day<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/Battle-Bios.cfm Hasbro Jetfire Battle Bio]</ref>. He's still a fine asset, powerful and possessing the ability to teleport across great distances. This is slightly offset by the fact he's so old, his processor gave up the ghost millennia ago. These days he has a hard enough time remembering his name. It makes him a bit crotchety and also leaves him with the nagging feeling he's forgotten something important.

{{quote|My father, why, he was a wheel! The ''first'' wheel! And do you know what he transformed into? ''Nothing!'' But he did so ''with honor! Dignity, damn it!''|Jetfire suffers the seven signs of aging|[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]}}

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
[[Image:Defiance4_Jetfire.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Hopefully I won't end up on some [[earth|godforsaken planet]] and be infested with [[Maximal|disgusting little critters.]]]]
In the distant past, the [[All Spark (Movie)|All Spark]] Cube created [[Thirteen original Transformers|a race]] of powerful, trans-dimensional beings as the first inhabitants of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The Cube gave these beings mighty powers, as well as terraforming their world, but it was not limitless, and gradually became depleted. The first beings learned that the All Spark's power could be replenished by harvesting the energy of stars, but they were unable to locate new stars to suit their purposes, despite their amazing ability to travel between dimensions. Once again, the Cube came to the rescue, creating a race of workers who had the ability to change their shape.

Jetfire was among the very first of these new beings, a "[[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]]" with the ability to travel across the vastness of space in search of new suns. Once located, he would lead others and his masters back to it so a [[Solar harvester|harvester]] could be constructed to drain the energy of these stars, thus replenishing the All Spark. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} It is assumed that at some point during the civil war on Cybertron, he sided with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], the new protege of Jetfire's only surviving ancient master, [[The Fallen]].
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===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Mark Ryan]] (English), [[Hisao Egawa]] (Japanese), [[Engelbert von Nordhausen]] (German)
[[Image:ROFT Jetfire Bay clip.jpg|thumb|250px|Rust in my aft you say!?]]

Jetfire was one of the Seekers dispatched by The Fallen to locate the [[Matrix of Leadership]] after the [[Dynasty of Primes]] hid it on Earth. However, Jetfire and the other Seekers were unable to locate the [[Tomb of the Primes|Tomb]] that the Primes had forged. The only clue they could find was a riddle: "When dawn alights the Dagger's tip, Three Kings will reveal the Doorway". Eventually, the Fallen abandoned the Seekers and they were forced to go into stasis lock out of a lack of energon.

For many years, a dormant Jetfire had hidden in his alternate mode at the [[wikipedia:Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[wikipedia:National Air and Space Museum|National Air and Space Museum]]'s [[wikipedia:Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center|Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]], until [[Seymour Simmons]], [[Sam Witwicky]], [[Mikaela Banes]], [[Leo Spitz]] and [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] broke in with a small fragment of the [[All Spark]]. It was only after the All Spark shard hit Jetfire that they bothered to check which side he was on. The sight of the Decepticon [[insignia]] sent the humans scrambling for cover, but the surge of energy awoke him. Confused at the "hideous mausoleum" he was held in, Jetfire decided to head outside to get a better handle on where he was. After his attempts at overriding and shooting the doors failed, Jetfire smashed them aside, then wandered about the planes outside, damaging a few. When the humans tried to talk to them, he initially claimed that he couldn't deal with them, as he had a mission, but did ask what planet he was (he wasn't too fond of the name "Earth", feeling it might as well be called "Dirt"). Jetfire inquired on the state of the civil war, and revealed that he had defected to the Autobots (it's an intensely personal decision). This led the smaller Wheelie to defect to a [[Mikaela Banes|human female]] he dubbed "Warrior Goddess". After the human Sam asked what he was saying, Jetfire, still confused, pounded the ground and shouted that he had a lot of issues regarding his mother, and that his father was the first wheel, who did not transform but performed his functions with honor and dignity. At which point a parachute stored in him suddenly popped open, bringing him down. Sam then tried to explain what was going on.

When Sam was finished carving [[Cyberglyphics|Cybertronian symbols]] on the ground, he mentioned Megatron and [[The Fallen]]. Jetfire ranted that The Fallen was the original Decepticon and had left him on Earth to rust. The symbols were a part of Jetfire's mission, and they jogged his memory banks enough to convince him to teleport the entire group (including [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], [[Skids (ROTF)|the]] [[Mudflap (ROTF)|twins]], and Wheelie) to [[Egypt]]. Thankful that he had managed to stay on the planet, Jetfire then told them the story of the Dynasty of Primes and The Fallen, Cybertron's first contact with Earth, the [[solar harvester]] which could destroy a [[Sun]] and convert it to energon, and the Matrix of Leadership needed to activate it, hidden on Earth. He revealed that only a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] could kill The Fallen, but he believed that none were left. Sam told him of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]; this caught the ancient Seeker's interest, and he was distraught to hear of Prime's death. Sam then wondered if the Matrix could restore Optimus to life. Jetfire said it was not the Matrix's intended use, but that the power within was unlike any known. Sadly, this was all Jetfire could do for the group, and after telling them of the riddle, he urged them to hurry off and find the [[Tomb of the Primes]].

During the final battle around the [[Pyramid|Great Pyramid of Giza]] (which contained the Solar Harvester), Jetfire arrived and attempted to "stick" the landing, which didn't go quite as he planned. He immediately decided to "show how they brought the pain in my day", using his axe to slice [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]] across the chest and decapitate the [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]. He was critically wounded by a surprise attack from [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] and although he managed to kill the Decepticon, the injury was fatal. Fortunately, Jetfire was treated to one last wonder, as Sam Witwicky used the Matrix to resurrect Optimus, and Jetfire could hardly believe that he was seeing a living [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]. Unfortunately, The Fallen teleported in and attacked, damaging Optimus and stealing the Matrix, placing it in the harvester. As he lay dying, Jetfire, who felt that during his entire life he'd never done a thing worth doing, offered his parts to Optimus Prime, saying that they would give him "a power like you've never known". Telling Optimus to fulfill his destiny, Jetfire ripped out his spark core and died.

Jetfire's sacrifice was not in vain: within moments of his death, [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] instructed [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] to begin a full transplant of the afterburners and weapons systems onto Optimus. Now equipped with Jetfire's powerful weapons and engines, Optimus broke through a blockade of debris The Fallen had telekinetically erected around the Pyramid and destroyed the Solar Harvester before it could be used against the Earth's Sun. Prime then faced the Fallen and Megatron, using his afterburners to send Megatron flying through some ruins. During the battle, The Fallen pulled off the left wing and afterburner, using them to strike Prime in the face, but Optimus ultimately triumphed and ripped out the Fallen's spark core, killing the treacherous Prime. After the battle, Optimus quickly detached Jetfire's parts. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
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===''Revenge of the Fallen'' novel adaptation===
Immediately after arriving in Egypt, Jetfire was attacked by [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]]. Calling Jetfire a traitor, the smaller Seeker fired a few shots, but they were ineffective, and Jetfire promptly stomped him to death, muttering how he'd never liked that guy. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (novel)}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===
====Xbox 360/PS3/PC====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Clive Revill]]

====Autobot campaign====
Jetfire appeared for the first time at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and took Sam through a space bridge to Egypt. He was killed by Megatron at the end of a boss battle, but his parts were use to give Optimus Prime a makeshift super mode.

====Decepticon campaign====
Jetfire is only featured in the level "Desert Massacre" as one of the two bosses.

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Legends Class toys====
[[Image:ROTF Jetfire 2009 Legends.JPG|right|300px|thumb|It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Legends, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''EZ-05'''
[[Image:ROTF Legends Prime Jetfire combo.jpg|thumb|left|Don't I look glorious as a corpse backpack?]]
:Legends class ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Jetfire transforms from a tiny [[Wikipedia: SR-71 Blackbird|SR-71 Blackbird]] spy plane to a sort of hunchback robot. In a bit of character design accuracy, his left arm has a cane.

:The upper fuselage of the plane mode has a thin rectangular peg to slot into the back of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Revenge of The Fallen|Legends class Optimus Prime]] to recreate the powered up mode at the end of the movie. There are no instructions on the packaging making mention of this, but they're hardly needed, as it's as simple as plugging him on and folding his wings backwards.
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====Leader Class toys====
[[Image:Jetfire ROTF leader toy.jpg|thumb|right|400px|"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions, and I was shot down in every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Leader, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-13'''
**''Accessories:'' Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile

:Jetfire converts into an [[wikipedia:SR-71 Blackbird|SR-71 Blackbird]] spy plane, quite possibly the largest alternate mode yet for the [[size class|Leader class]] price point.

[[Image:ROTF_Leader_Jetfire_PowerUpPrime_toy.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Jetfire died to become a power mushroom. There have been worse fates.]]

Jetfire features several electronic lights and sounds; in jet mode, pushing the button on his back activates a "swooshing" noise, while in robot mode, a new button is revealed on his rear that triggers mechanical stomping sounds. Pressing the tab on Jetfire's chest activates his moving [[Mech Alive]] gears and head, accompanied by Jetfire announcing: "Jetfire's mah name!" In contrast to the film, where the character speaks with actor Mark Ryan's natural Yorkshire accent, the toy is positively Scottish. Despite the back of the package showing two lights within Jetfire's torso, he only has one light, on his left side, while the other slot that would normally house the light is replaced with a button that emits Jetfire's transformation noise when the toy is transformed.

:As seen in the movie, he can combine with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Revenge of The Fallen|Leader Class Optimus Prime]] to form Prime's powered-up mode, albeit at the cost of Optimus Prime's leg articulation. An [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-feedback/234956-rotf-leader-jetfire-pictorial-review-23.html#post3834101 alternate foot/leg configuration] can be used which not only looks more accurate, but allows decent leg articulation. Written under the cockpit windows are: Lt.Col.Brawley This aircraft has heat armorment contaner an explosive check the maintenance manual before removing.(Hard to read, words are small)
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====Fast Action Battlers====
[[Image:Jetfire ROTF FAB toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|NOBODY MOVE...I dropped me cane...]]
*'''Photon Missile Jetfire''' (Fast Action Battler, 2009)
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile" projectile

: [[Fast Action Battler]] Jetfire is a simplified, roughly Deluxe-sized toy of Jetfire. In vehicle mode, he transforms into a sort of cute, super-deformed SR-71 Blackbird jet. As with most ''Transformers'' toy jets, he has a fair bit of undercarriage junk from his robot mode, though not to the extent of the Leader class toy. In robot mode he has a reasonably accurate depiction of Jetfire's design, though his right arm ends in a spring-loaded projectile launcher shaped like a rotary cannon.
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====Robot Replicas====
[[Image:ROTF Robot Replica Jetfire.jpg|thumb|right|150px|With genuine simulated robo-bursitis!]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Robot Replica, 2009)
**''Accessories:'' Cane

: [[Robot Replicas]] Jetfire is a non-transformable, accurate representation of his CGI model from the film. He is highly posable, and not much else.
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==Merchandise==
===Robot Heroes===
[[Image:Robotheroesmegatronfallenprimejetfireironhide.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Kinda morbid, really.]]
*'''Battle for the Fallen''' (box set, 2009)
:This ''Robot Heroes'' box set of figures comes with [[The Fallen]], [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] (tank mode), [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and Jetfire combined, and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] (truck mode).

==Notes==
* Jetfire's head was redesigned so [[Industrial Light & Magic]] could animate a smirk on the character. This early, mouthless head was still used for the toy designs and promotional art though.<ref>[http://vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=4003 Scott Farrar's VFXWorld interview]</ref>

* Jetfire's ancient Cybertronian vehicle mode as seen in [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Defiance issue 4|''Defiance'' #4]] bears more than a passing similarity with the starship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''.

* Jetfire is one of the few movie Transformers to mention having [[Relatives|a family]]; in fact, he claims his father was ''the'' wheel.

* In the film, Jetfire seemed to say that the reason he was extremely "elderly" was that he has gone for too long without an adequate supply of energon. Well, the fact that he was one of the first Transformers ever to live probably contributes a little; but at least the low energon explains why he is 'slowly falling apart and dying' as opposed to other 'old' bots like [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]].

*As seen in the movie, he can access a [[Space Bridge]] to transport himself and others across vast distances in mere moments. Apparently he's not very good at it though, as he ignores the fact that his teleportation attempt resulted in injury to all involved, and simply shows relief that they ended up on the right ''planet''. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)}}

*While the Leader Class toy is advertised as being able to combine with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] they do not combine in the movie itself, per se. Jetfire merely kills himself so that Optimus Prime can ''wear'' the parts of his corpse as extra armor and weaponry. That's right, he's [[kibble]].

*The presence of other Seekers scattered across the world is confirmed by Wheelie. However, outside of [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]]'s appearance in the novel adaptation and [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Titan comics]], Jetfire is the only one to play any role. You'd think a bunch of ancient, dormant Transformers scattered across the United States would be a concern.

*Amusingly, his Leader class figure's kibble likes to fall off during transformation. It makes him a little more screen accurate, after all...

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Decepticons]]
[[Category:Elderly Transformers]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen characters]]
[[Category:Seekers]]
[[Category:Turncoats]]

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/MovieJetfire/jetfire.htm Jetfire at TFU.info]

Talk:Primal (Cybertron)

2009-09-14T22:50:02Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: New page: I don't think much of the bruise as a continuity error. I mean, Optimus will get a bruise later on in this series, and Wing Saber does that anime sweat thing, without sweat glands. I'd say...

I don't think much of the bruise as a continuity error. I mean, Optimus will get a bruise later on in this series, and Wing Saber does that anime sweat thing, without sweat glands. I'd say it was more along the lines of humanising. [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 18:50, 14 September 2009 (EDT)

Transformers Animated (franchise)

2009-09-14T22:39:54Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Ahem.

{{Nav-Animated}}

'''''Transformers Animated''''' is the latest television-supported ''Transformers'' [[franchise]], which began in December 2007. The latest re-imagining of the [[Transformers brand]] brings a highly dynamic and stylized look to the toys and fiction.

The franchise consists of the following components:

*[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|A cartoon series]]
*[[Transformers Animated (comic)|Three comic book series]]
*[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|A toyline]]
*[[Transformers Animated (books)|Several books]]

The cartoon began with a 3-episode mini-movie, first aired on Cartoon Network on December 26, 2007, and followed by a full 13-episode season, which started airing in January. The toyline, however, did not hit stores till the late spring of 2008, due to the ongoing popularity of the [[Movie (toyline)|2007 movie toys]].

The series has adopted a new visual art style and form of storytelling which has not been used before in ''Transformers.'' The changes in design were created in an attempt to attract the modern youth viewer. The new art style incorporates a more "organic" feel to the Transformer characters. This style of art and character movement was introduced to emphasize dramatic movements and to allow the animator to express more emotion than in previous series.

==Reception==
On [[January 25]], [[2008]] the first regular episode of the Transformers Animated cartoon premiered as the #1 boys show in its time slot, ''significantly'' better ratings than previous [[Cartoon Network|CN]] programming.<ref><tt>"[...] the half-hour original series premiere of Transformers Animated (Saturday, Jan. 5, 10:30 a.m.), charting impressive double-digit delivery and ratings gains among key kid demos and ranking #1 in its time period versus all broadcast and cable competition with boys 6-11 and boys 2-11, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research."</tt>, ''TimeWarner press release about the premiere of the first regular episode of [[Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]], "[[Home Is Where the Spark Is]]"'' — “Transformers Animated Premieres #1 on All Television Among Boys and Boosts Kids 6-11 and 2-11 Delivery by Powerful Double-Digits” ([[January 8]], [[2008]].) TimeWarner newsroom - TimeWarner. Retrieved on [[February 24]], [[2009]]. [http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1701434,00.html]</ref>

On [[February 24]], [[2009]] the seventh wave of Animated Voyager-class toys was canceled for unknown reasons.<ref><tt>"TFormers sponsor [http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/ BigBadToyStore] has just informed us that Hasbro has cancelled [sic] their Transformers Animated Wave 7 Voyager Golfire Grimlock and Hydro Bumblebee figures."</tt> “Animated Wave 7 Voyager Golfire Grimlock and Hydro Bumblebee Cancelled!”, [http://forums.tformers.com/talk/index.php?showuser=440 bwbm (TFormers staffer)] ([[February 24]], [[2009]].) TFormers.com. Retrieved on [[February 24]], [[2009]]. [http://tformers.com/transformers-animated-wave-7-voyager-golfire-grimlock-and-hydro-bumblebee-cancelled/11061/news.html]</ref>

==Homages==
Even more so than ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'', ''Animated'' is saturated with frequent and obvious references and [[homage]]s to ''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' and other lines, possibly intended as a celebration of the Transformers' 25th anniversary year. It would, in all seriousness, take less time to list the characters who are ''not'' homages to past series: [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], [[Lugnut]], [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]], [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] & [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], and [[Yoketron]]. The rest are mostly drawn from G1, [[Hot Shot (Animated)|though]] [[Strika (Animated)|some]] [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|other]] [[Blackout (Animated)|franchises]] are also represented. See individual character pages for specific details. Most of the humans are original, though the [[Spike Witwicky (Animated)|Witwicky]] [[Carly Witwicky (Animated)|family]] [[Daniel Witwicky (Animated)|are]] [[Sparkplug (Animated human)|exceptions]].

Of course, there's also the [[theme song]].

==Trivia==
* This is the second Transformers series (the first being ''[[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'') wherein a strict separation is made in the type of weaponry used by either side. According to [[Derrick J. Wyatt]], "To me the Autobots were built as a labor force, and the Decepticons were created as the Military. This is one reason that the Decepticons use military weapons, while the Autobots use 'tools' to fight with." <ref>[https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21975298&postID=8564559979841180115 Comments section of "Back from BotCon" in Derrick Wyatt's blog]</ref>
* An early working title for this incarnation was ''Transformers: Heroes'' <ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=8312 Next TF Cartoon Series: "Transformers Heroes"?]</ref>
* An edited 10-minute preview of the first episode was shown at the NTFA Mini-Con fan convention held in Arlöv, Sweden, on November 3 and 4, 2007. The full episode had been promised and secured by Hasbro Nordic for the event, but Hasbro US overruled them in the last second, allowing only an abbreviated and for the event created edit to be shown.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/156331-new-transformers-animated-series-details-revealed-ntfa-mini-con.html</ref>

==External links==
* [http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=194&itemid=11280 Transformers animated press release]
* [http://tv.ign.com/articles/801/801348p1.html Exclusive Transformers Animated Producer Interview]
* [http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/transformersa/index.html Cartoon Network Transformers Animated site]
* [http://www.kabillion.com/transformers Transformers Animated on Kabillion (Full Episodes and Games]
* [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/animated/ Hasbro's official ''Transformers'' Animated homepage]

==References==
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[[Category:Animated| ]]
[[Category:Continuity families]]
[[Category:Franchises]]

Talk:Ruined FOREVER

2009-09-14T13:07:04Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: /* Adding to the list */

==Regarding deletion==
I see no point to having this article. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 07:11, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:There are 4 instances of Ruined Forever on [[Transformers timeline|this page]] alone. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 07:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

::I see no point to having those, either. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 07:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:::JaAm has a page. 'Ruined Forever' is used ironically within the fandom- and this is clearly marked as a fandom article just like [[True fan]] is. Ruined Forever is clearly more prominent than [[Dull surprise]], though possibly not as widely as [[Neon]]. (Which now that I look at it need its opening quote reformatted...) My entire impetus for creating it was that Sntint made an ironic Ruined Forever joke on a talk page and I was like- "huh, why dont' we have a page for that?" (Well, also I wanted to wash the bad tast of [[Don Murray]] out of my brain.)
:::Ruined Forever appears to rest comfortably within the range of existing articles on the Wiki, but I am content to allow others to decide. If a majority think it's not relevant to Transformers the article can be deleted, as always. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 07:37, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
::::I say it's as relevant as Playskool, neon, and FIRRIB. {{unsigned|Terrocon Blot}}
:::::And Derik on the rebound to make me feel dumber. It's not enough that I misspelled my own screenname, he's also got to sign my posts for me. Damn that Derik. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWN. --[[User:Terrocon Blot|Terrocon Blot]] 07:49, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I vote for keeping the page. As already stated, a number of other pages already exist to explain similar fandom colloquialisms. --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 13:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:I don't see this article as explaining anything. It seems to exist purely to ridicule fandom behavior that we don't like, and thus I see no point to keeping it. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 19:35, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I think it needs to stay too. Where else would terms like ''Ruined FOREVER'', [[Furmanism]], and [[Chewed caramels]] be documented for all time, if not here?--[[User:Evil-yuusha|Evil-yuusha]] 14:59, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:Do these fandom terms need to be ones that are famous/infamous, known or used widely? Then how about TFW2005's 'HE TELL ME' (in reference to that guy who claimed Peter Cullen was cast as RID Prime)? TFW2005 is probably the most prominent of the Transformers fan sites, as well as the one that Hasbro seems to unofficially prefer. I personally never even heard of 'dull surprise' until I read it on this wiki. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 20:49, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
::Nor I. But I don't think we're just documenting memes-- each of these articles, Truk !Munky, Chewed caramels even JaAm are 'about' a belief/response/tendency in fandom- not just the phrase used to illustrate it. Dull Surprise is a belief the masturbatory praise heaped on Superstar Funana was undeserved, JaAm is about the backlash against Dreamwave's style-over-sanity lack of visual storytelling, Truk not Monkey encompasses both knee-jerk hatred of BW and frustration about knee-jerks, and Chewed caramels ''seems'' to be about a desire that all TF toylines subscribe to some broad interpretation of G1's design aesthetic. I doubt anyone put ''conscious thought'' into this, but the fandom-meme articles people found worthy of creating aren't ''just'' about the phrase- they're about phrases that expresses something larger about how fans relate to Transformers.
::(I'm not familiar with 'HE TELL ME' and where it may fall with this.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 21:21, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:::Personally, I think dull surprise is way too limited in use (basically just #wiigii! as far as I know) to really belong here, but Derik does sort of have a point about the article being about a little more than that. I also don't know "HE TELL ME" but it sounds like something worth considering -- claims of unnamed inside sources and all that. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 01:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

::::Oops, it was actually Peter Cullen as Armada Prime. The posts (being from 2002), no longer exists, but fortunately blitz_64 managed to save the posts for posterity [http://www.geocities.com/blitz_64/HETELLME.html The Saga of HE TELL ME and GoOP].

::::Actually, Steve-o, I'd say "Secret Inside Sources" would be a more appropriate meme/article to describe that last one. Having never heard of "HE TELL ME", and seeing that few others apparently have either, I'm not sure it's as much a meme as "Secret Inside Sources" is.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 13:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

::::Around the same period, I recall some other idiot who claimed to be a Hasbro photographer and described crazy things like the Mini-Cons becoming body armour and Prime's minicon transforming into his Matrix. These claims, while totally false, were important because they apparently spurred Aaron to emerge as ORSON and totally destroy that other dude, IIRC. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:28, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
:::::I remember that quite vividly indeed. The guy who claimed to be the photographer actually revealed himself over [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26415&st=20&p=551756&#entry551756 at the Allspark this year], actually. Oh yeah, and I think the animu thing was 4Chan leakage [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=animu].--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 05:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I say we keep it. [[User:Compy-Rex|Compy-Rex]] 18:55, 16 March 2008 (UTC)Compy-Rex
:If this page is deleted I will cry. [[User:(Undecided)|(Undecided)]] 05:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

==Usage==
Has "ruined forever" ever been used seriously by fans? While it describes a real and annoying sentiment, I'm not sure I like basing an article on a phrase that was sarcastic in the first place. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 18:26, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:Seconded. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 18:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:I'm sure something very similar, at least, has been used. But regardless, you say that it describes a real sentiment, so, what's the problem? Can you recommend a better title for the article? Or are you saying the article shouldn't exist at all? --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 19:08, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
::Well, my vote is for not existing at all. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 19:22, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
::: I (and a number of others) used to think "Rapeing my childood" was only used for sarcastic reasons. Then I read the thread on the promo poster for Transformers Animated, which had a number or people using the seriously. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 20:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:Has Trukk not Munky ever been used in a non Ironic/Sarcastic way? It's still a catchphrase used by the fandom, as is this. Both rate articles under the fandom category, IMo.--[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 20:24, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

:The '''scream your head off in outraged panic''' / '''call for mass-firings or send death threats over something that has/will ruin/ed TF''' ''behavior'' of this article certainly was in evidence during Beast Machines- and I think the "sky is falling" aspect is amply evidenced by the sheer ''number'' of times fans have declared TF ruined forever. (And, clearly, been wrong every time, or every time but 1 depending on your belief system.)
:If you have some other title you'd prefer for this article like 'Clicken-Little Syndrome' by all means propose it and see what people think, but the article speaks to a genuine (and highly mockable) aspect of fandom psychology.
:And frankly, while the ''behavior'' itself is worthy of ridicule, the ''reason'' for it- an exaggerated concern for the health and future of the brand- is actually kinda ''endearing'' and speaks well of fans. At least their ''hearts'' are in the right place. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

==Paul Dini==

I think accusing the fandom of saying the art style of Paul Dini ''the writer'' being used for Animated will "RUIN TRANSFORMERS FOREVER" is making the article simply too mean-spirited. I've never seen any individual display the idiocy we're accusing the fandom of with that line. -[[User:Rotty|Rotty]] 05:40, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I have.
Scary, scary stuff.

Also, the last line of the entry seems to cut a little into the humor by overexplaining. Replace it with a "general hasbro idiocy" linking to "transformers" or somesuch?

==Marked for deletion.==

This is getting out of hand.

This page has become the epicenter of an edit war that has gone on for nearly a week now. As of the time of this writing, only six other pages link to this article. While I fully support the light tone of Teletraan I, and I understand that some explanation of aspects of the fandom complete the Wiki, I believe this particular article and debate at this point only detracts from the issue.

I DO agree that it was biased in the form in which it existed before our anonymous editor "friend" decided to change it, but I do not think that matters any longer. This article does not add anything inherently positive to the wiki, indeed, it does not chronicle anything positive ''or'' negative about Transformers itself at all. Its relation to Transformers is tangential at best.

By deleting this, we would not lose anything except the beginnings of what appear to be the modern equivalent of a Usenet flamewar. Deleting it, I believe, can only benefit Teletraan I. --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 12:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

:I whole-heartedly agree. [[User:Detour|Detour]] 12:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
::I agree. I didn't feel this article was necessary, and I still don't. I agree that the fandom is full of idiots who never bothered to grow up after 1986, but our mockery of them doesn't belong in the wiki. Not to say that Mister "integrity of the characters" is right, though. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 12:30, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
:::I'm putting in a vote for keeping it. It's a fun article to read, and it speaks a lot of truth in it's wonderfully snarky way.--[[User:Gouki|Gouki]] 12:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
::::Snarkyness can be fun but this article is just pushing it, IMO. [[User:Detour|Detour]] 12:38, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
:::::I think it should stay, it's funny. Also, if you delete it then the terrorists win.
::::::I would keep it. I think it describes a real sentiment, that needs to be pointed out as overblown. [[User:JW|JW]] 13:55, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
The edit war was only between registered users and a single unregistered dude. I've fixed things, at least for the moment, by protecting the page from unregistered editors. If you're gonna get in a pissy editing war, we'd damn well better know who you are. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 14:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
:Our anonymous friend is from the Netherlands, if anybody cares. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 14:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

This "Ruined FOREVER" article is stupid and don't make any sense. Its just shit

: [[Seafood Louis]]. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 04:00, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if the opinion of an anon means anything, but I think this article is freaking hilarious. I was talking with a friend about TF:Animated and he said that the girl with the transforming bike 'ruined it permanently' so I linked him this article. He laughed and said, 'ok, well maybe I'm over-reacting.'

I think the article is funny and provides valuable perspective. {{unsigned|66.167.253.76}}
: Well said, citizen. [[User:JW|JW]] 16:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
:Well, you've cancelled out the other anon from earlier, at any rate. And yeah, I agree with your assessment of it.--[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 22:43, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
:Same --[[User:Chiasaur11|Chiasaur11]]

I happen to think this article is incredibly useful in charting the tendency for all fans everywhere (but especially TF fans) to react in comical and hyperbolic ways. I think the breadth of what people determine can/has ruined TF forever automatically makes the article an amusing and insightful look for the novice fan into the fandom's reactionary past.

Indeed, I actually have shown this article to people just coming back (or getting into) TF. It's inspired about as many laughs as it has genuine curiosity as to what the fandom and franchise are like as entities. Isn't that the idea of this wiki? I would think reference materials as to the history of the fandom, good and bad, are always a boon.

(and that aside, I just think it's really, really funny)

.... Aaaaaaand I had to go and screw up. Bah. That's me above. --[[User:Cmdr Crayfish|Cmdr Crayfish]] 10:24, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

==Where do we draw the line?==
How do we stop this from becoming just a giant list of everything that anyone has ever expressed any dislike for ever? Why, for instance, is ''The Beast Within'' in there? Or Gonzo (which I thought was generally accepted as at least ''better'' than We've, even if not as good at Mainframe)? - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 18:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
:I've kinda been watching this list grow with some mild irritation- it went from about 1 item for every 2 years to ''twice'' that in fairly short order, and that bothers me.
:I've sorta resolved to edit the list down this October, pruning it (so to speak) with some opportunity for people to say what should stay and what should go.
:The Beast Within has to stay though- at the ''very'' least it ruined the Dinobots forever- now whenever George Rodd brings up combiner Dinobots we have to grudgingly admit they're canon. Also, it was the reason for the article's creation in the first place. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:58, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
::Why wait? If we want this to be a list of developments that prompted widespread fury that lingered for years, we can shorten it to "Actionmasters, BW, BM, Armada, Hallit, and Bay," and perhaps a few others, right now. Then a "Trivia" note saying that The Beast Within really DID ruin Transformers, or at least Dinobots, forever. Just a thought... but yeah, having every single series in there dilutes the point. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 19:12, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
:::Problem is, how do you decide what deserves to be listed as ruining TF forever, if none of it really did in the first place. I've seen just about everything listed there used as an example of why ____ TF series/movie/toyline will fail--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 20:15, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
:::Also, Thy, I'd append your list with a general "*-masters" thing, as a lot of armchair CEOs claim that the entire -master trend killed the line, not the fact that it had, you know, run its course. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 14:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
:::I'll just basically agree with Thy and Hoop that whatever's listed here should have a certain "endurance" as a scapegoat. The turnaround of opinion on Animated was what, two weeks? "* Masters" certainly counts, as should Pretenders. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 14:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

:::What, a simple a Google newsgroup search for [http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22killed+transformers%22&start=10&sa=N&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&|"killed transformers"] ain't enough? /:] -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 05:15, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

:I doubt I'd get objections if I added it, but I'd like to throw it by the community: Should we readd [[Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 04:53, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

::I really think Animated should stay in there, if only because it's '''such a dramatic departure.''' Turn around was fast, but the initial reaction was strong. I mean, for the first time in fifteen years of being a fan, I actually found myself muttering "My god... they've finally done it. It's ruined..." --[[User:70.190.251.10|70.190.251.10]] 05:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

beast wars didnt reuin tf beast machines sorta did but it was still quite good ,if u ignore some minor things - Unsigned post by [[User:80.6.180.141|80.6.180.141]]
:You're missing the point of the article, then. The point is that every time something new comes along, the fandom screams about how it will ruin Transformers forever, when in reality it's usually the opposite. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 22:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

==Last Deletion Locked in?==
Spotted a couple of points on the list removed by [[Special:Contributions/Teletraan|someone who seems to like deleting stuff just because]], but when I tried to restore the page, it was already locked. Were his edits accepted, then?--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 15:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
:There are two facets to this. First, without occasional pruning, the list in this article tends to grow, and grow, and grow. Every now and then, someone has to come along and cut it back. Since this is a wiki, the question of what gets cut is made by the person willing to do the cutting.
:The second facet is that the items cut were in fact less core to the "ruined forever" concept. "Runined forever" is a cry that springs up whenever ''something new is added to the Transformers brand'' by HasTak, and it happens every single time. Thus, the fans ''can't'' ruin TF forver, because they don't add new canon. And, while HasTak ''can'' ruin TF forever, it's because they're the only ones who can do so. I.e., one of the cut items was in error, and one was redundant. [[User:JW|JW]] 15:54, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
::Fair enough, I suppose. It was a combination of both the deletions and the person who committed them that made me question their validity.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 17:00, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
:::Yah, user Teletraan is not exactly a primo contributor. Still, this particular edit seems (at minimum) defensible. [[User:JW|JW]] 17:03, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

==Masters of the Universe link==
I've never, ever been interested in MOTU, so I have no idea what was the cause of the revamp line's failure, but given the extreme slant of the article, I can only assume it failed because it concentrated on collectors rather than kids. If so, why does it link to a Wikipedia article that cites Mattel's ''"excessive focus on attempting to mass-market the line to a new generation of children rather than focusing on a safer collector-based approach"'' as the reason for the line's failure? Am I missing something or does that sound like the line tanked because it focused on selling toys to kids rather than what this article is railing against? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 11:09, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
: Guess who wrote the Wikipedia article. (Hint: It wasn't kids.) [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 12:04, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

:: The fact is the line failed, no one can say *exactly* why. There are reasons for both oppinions.

::'''Fact:''' The line DID court fans rather than kids in many ways. It didn't reinvent the boat but took the exact looks, exact characters, and in some cases even exact stories the fans clamored for and did them again, only better, prettier, smarter, and more "realisticly". In that respect it was pretty much EXACTLY what older fans of '80s properties clamor for, and said fans generally loved it. But for whatever reason it never caught on with '''actual kids''' in the way the simple, campy, primitive, bowlegged original did. So some see that and blame the line's failure on the older fan mentality.

::'''Also Fact:''' Mattel tried to sell the toyline the way they had Batman. I.E. A million goofy variations on He-man and Skelator (and one or two others) and everyone else was almost impossible to find or didn't get a figure at all. This was very much NOT what collectors wanted. Many blame it for the line's failure at retail, arguing that part of what made the original a hit where the huge variety of strange and different warriors and monsters that Mattel had left out this time in favor of flooding the shelves with He-man repaints and ill-concieved alterations (The entire wave of "samori repaints on stilts" is often pointed to, but are only one of many examples.) Some see this and blame an ill-concieved inapropriate retail stratagy aimed at marketing to kids having crippled the line's retail appeal.

::Personally I think there's some truth to BOTH. For whatever reason (timing, approach, luck,) the older fan oriented cartoon never clicked with the kiddies, '''AND''' the Batman-style retail stratagy was a bad choice for a MOTU type toyline. --[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 14:17, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

:::Yes, that was the feeling I got, that is there is no clear cut side to 'blame', and in this case, I think we should ditch the Masters of the Universe link, given the information there contradicts the slant of this article, and in any case it's not a clear cut case of 'it's all the collectors fault'. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
::::Hrm, there's some legitimate thought there... but it ruins the G.I. Joe comparison. (Why catering to adult collectors and abandoning attempts at reinvention is a losing strategy in the long run necause ther old dudes die off and uyou're not bringing new fans in.)
::::For what it's worth, I meant from design and marketing- I agree that the actual toyline was schitzophrenic- alternating between a slavish adherence to the original designs and case assortments aimed at kida who weren't watching the cartoon.-[[User:Derik|Derik]] 16:45, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
:::::Here's an idea - how about one of you guys (who actually know about MOTU) edit the wikipedia article so it's more balanced, so we don't end up looking like idiots in this article? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 17:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I think it's worth noting that even in today's environment, the military has ''some'' pull to kids. Not so much the gay, gay fur-bikini barbarians. Sword-and-sorcery has some appeal nowadays, but mostly when it's very Japanesey kids-anime-style. (One could also note that the "big" Joe revival frankly isn't very big. It's pretty damn low-key, really, where He-Man was some major-league THIS WILL BE BIG!!! Lower expectations = greater chance of meeting and exceeding them.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
:Yeah, I'd also imagine that production costs on the 25th anniversary Joe figs are pretty darn reasonable on Hasbro's bookkeeping. They've done similar lines for Star Wars for decades, so they know what they're doing.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 17:10, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
::I'm really annoyed that the GI Joe 25th line isn't available here, because Hasbro AU's last attempt to revive GI Joe in Australia totally tanked. If you can believe it, Toys R Us stores here languished under piles of unsold Cobra Trooper 6-packs, which, as I've read in forums, collectors were fighting over. They're not on pegs anymore, so I guess they've been shredded or incinerated by now.--[[User:FFN|FFN]] 17:28, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

So have we decided on this link yet? The Wikipedia link still contradicts the snarky joke link of this article. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 13:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
:It's always going to, because there will always, ''always'' be enough people who are going to make sure that the bullshit boogeyman "CASE RATIOS!! CASE RATIOS!!! KIDS WANTED ALL THOSE OBSCURE ONE-EPISODE GUYS AND USELESS MINOR VILLANS!!!!!" (while patently ignoring the fact that if you can't sell your ''two primary characters in the line'', maybe there's something wrong with your franchise, not case ratios... it'd be like if a Batman line couldn't sell toys of Batman) is squarely blamed for MOTU's failure. Frankly, I'd say just add a note to OUR article saying "ignore the bullshit about case ratios. Kids just didn't want a line about a boring gay man in a fur bikini." --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 15:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

::Ignoring your general disdain for He-man here, and even the whole case ratio issue, the fact remains that saying (as our snark does) that the newer He-man line "catered exclusively to older collectors" and that this caused its failure is both unprovable, AND very widely disputed. I'd say we should remove the link on those issues alone. --[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 15:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC) (-'''Edit:''' On a side-note, given the apparent success of the 25th ann. line and the coming movie, the critical G.I.Joe link in there may soon be meaninglessly out of date as well...)

:::And this is my point - we'll start looking like idiots who can't even get our facts or jokes straight if we insist on keeping these links. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
:::I see Zac's point- but I think he's reacting to something that's not in the article. We're holding the MOTU reboot as an example of a line that abandoned all attempt at reinvention. Since there ''was'' not reinvention in the reboot line, at all, this should not be up for dispute.
:::We do not say that this is ''why'' the line failed. It probably ''was'', but we don't say that. We merely hold it up as an apporach that's probably unhealthy for Transformers to follow.
:::So to be really blunt-- I don't care what whiny fanboys may have edited Wikipedia to say in support of their view that the line was perfect and viable the way it was. '''A)''' That's masturbatory. '''B)''' It's not what this article is talking about, so it's simply not relevant. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 14:00, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
::::But it says 'cater exclusively to the old-school collectors', which the line evidently did not do. In which case, regardless of if we are holding up as an approach that TF should not follow, it's not a good example in the context of the very joke-link, especially if it sends the reader to an article that disputes the joke. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
::::In this context, that 'catering' refers to design, not case assortments. We're discussing ''reinvention''. One does not 'reinvent' case assortments! And in terms of designs, characters etc... MOTU ''did'' cater. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 14:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
:::::More to the point- we're discussing changign the content on ''this'' page because highly dubious artument on Wikipedia disagrees with something ''we're not even saying here''.
:::::If Wikipedia had a bullshit argument we were actually refuting I might kinda understand this. But we're not! We are actually arguing about removing a link to an article because fanboys have jizzed across it in ways that contradict things our article ''doesn't'' say, but which 'might run through that same fanboy's mind as they read our article.'
:::::While '''I''' clearly feel the fanboy argument is specious-at-best '''it doesn't matter'''. We say it catered to collectors. That's it! '''It's just an example of one extreme a toyline can take.''' -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 14:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== Why? ==

Why is The [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] series , [[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]] series, the [[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]], and [[Exclusives]] listed here?[[User:Autobot Soundwave|Autobot Soundwave]] 19:12, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
:Because fans reacted [[Trukk not munky|very]] [[Pokeformers|negatively]] to a lot of these things, which went on to become major successes. It's satire. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 19:15, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
:Because they ruined Transformers forever, of course.--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 19:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

== Adding to the list ==

The Cliff Notes version: there's very little reason to.

The full version: Contrary to what [http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Ruined_FOREVER many people think], this is not a list of [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Ruined_FOREVER everything Transformers ever]. It is not even a list of everything Transformers that fans have ever complained about. It is a list of the relative handful of times that something ground-shaking and new has come along, something totally different from what's gone before, something that's not exactly like 1984, that causes people to complain that Transformers has irrevocably jumped the shark and begun sinking into an irreversible oblivion. All this doomsaying is then typically followed by the franchise surging back to life as the awful horrible new thing turns out to be a smashing success. Alternately, the horrible new thing quietly fades away while the franchise chugs along to the next new thing.

Thing is, anybody who's stuck with Transformers to this point is used to these reinventions. Perspective has grown long enough that plenty of fans now understand that anything they don't like will be gone in a year or two. Maybe I'm biased 'cause I only read the Allspark boards and they're fairly intelligent, but cries of RUINED FOREVER are increasingly rare these days.

I don't see why Drift is on the list. Plenty of people think he sucks, but nobody's claiming he's going to bring down the whole franchise. ''All Hail Megatron'' would be a better candidate, because people (including myself!) ''are'' claiming that IDW's whole storyline has been permanently destroyed by it. (You could also make a case for ''Energon'' ("bad anime"), ''Prime Directive'' ("MATURE ADULT XXX" or "Buckets of Blood" or "Pat Lee"), and/or Dreamwave ("The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man", "Superstars", "Bankruptcy").

I don't see why stolen prototypes are on the list. Yeah, some of us make a fuss over them. Y'know why? Because HASBRO THEMSELVES HAS SAID THEY ARE A THREAT TO THEIR BUSINESS. There's no ridiculously overblown grasping-at-straws fandom absurdity to mock here.

And I'd need to see a LOT of linked posts before I'd accept ROTF on the list. I can't fathom someone having complaints about ROTF that didn't also apply to the first movie. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 12:10, 25 June 2009 (EDT)

:There are new complaints about ROTF - about [[Mudflap (ROTF)|these]] [[Skids (ROTF)|two]].--[[Special:Contributions/172.162.17.159|172.162.17.159]] 08:34, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
::I agree with Repowers 100%. If anything, I think the list could use some trimming. Are people complaining about the Twins? Sure! Is ANYONE saying that Transformers, as a franchise, is over/tainted? Umm ... not that I've heard. Certainly no substantial block of the fandom.
::And stolen prototypes, while I DO think people make a somewhat biggish deal about them, don't really belong on the list either. A: as Repowers points out, Hasbro itself has legitimized the concern. B: people getting annoyed about something is NOT the same as saying that the Transformers brand is beyond recovery. Hell, even AHM seems like a stretch. I think that most of the fandom has gained enough hindsight to know that, at worst, AHM represents a change in direction for *IDW'S* story, but certainly not the end of Transformers as we know it. Hell, ROTF and Animated were contemporary, and both were tremendous successes.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 09:48, 10 August 2009 (EDT)

I'm not sure we we can't have Energon on this list, seeing all the complaints on this very wiki, but, eh.--[[User:Spin-Out|Spin-Out]] 08:00, 14 September 2009 (EDT)
:I disagree. I've read on here that people LIKED it at first, but eventually lost faith/the will to live after watching it. The list chronicles the events which work the OTHER way around. [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 09:07, 14 September 2009 (EDT)

Talk:Sideswipe (Movie)

2009-09-14T12:59:52Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

It needs to be added that Sideswipe has a legends toy. I am in posession of it right now.
Cheers! -[[Special:Contributions/74.170.18.35|74.170.18.35]] 09:16, 30 May 2009 (EDT)Proconix

New here. Just wondering why there's a "Not yet released sign at Sideswipe's FAB section. I know i have already seen it on sale for a while -Treadshot A1

== Caption Change Request ==

I'd like to change the caption of the Legends Sideswipe toy to "Whoa! I never even knew I had these driving claws!" because Sideswipe's heels can be unfolded in vehicle mode to resemble the driving claws that Armada Hot Shot had. I don't have the deluxe version so I don't know if that one can do it too. [[Special:Contributions/84.69.143.180|84.69.143.180]] 07:51, 14 September 2009 (EDT)

:No. Captions are an award for contributing. Information first, then the humour. [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 08:59, 14 September 2009 (EDT)

Skids (ROTF)

2009-09-10T23:01:21Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 363153 by 67.10.177.73 (Talk)There's a reason why that didn't stick.

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:''Skids is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].

[[Image:ROTF_Skids_promo.jpg|thumb|300px|Look, it's that robot child actor that grew up and robbed a convenience store.]]

The dopey-looking '''Skids''' spends a lot of his time arguing with his twin brother [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] and trying to outdo him in crazy stunts, all while believing ''he's'' the responsible, level headed one. In his own mind, everything dangerous and dopey he does is simply making him a better warrior. And that means one day, one ''glorious'' day, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] will ''notice'' him! Prime even looking in his direction makes him babble, fall over, and generally fail to make an impression, but that won't stop him trying! Underneath it all, he harbors a secret fear that Mudflap is actually the superior warrior of the pair... which is probably true.<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/Battle-Bios.cfm Hasbro Skids Battle Bio]</ref>

Skids' hyper-reactive optical imaging scanner allows him to process tactical information faster than ''anyone'' (except his twin). Add that to his supreme firepower and his unpredictable actions, and he's a pain in the aft for any [[Decepticon]] who wants to counter him! And that's only if they spot him. He changes alt-mode so much it's hard to keep track of him. On Earth, he's already been part of an ice-cream truck (combining with his brother), and more recently a Chevy Beat, but that's unlikely to last very long.

{{bigquote|You gotta blend in... be stealthy... like a ninja.|A less-than-successful Skids tries to conceal himself,'' [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}
==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
[[Image:Alliance04 icecreamtruck.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Skids is the one in front.]]
Skids and Mudflap arrived on [[Earth]] as part of Autobot reinforcements that [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] requested. They both chose the [[combiner|combined]] form of an old, beat-up ice cream truck. The newly-arrived Autobots joined the human-Transformer military alliance [[NEST]] and began training in earnest on [[Diego Garcia]], but soon had to be deployed to [[Shanghai]], [[China]]. {{Storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}}
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===Titan Magazines ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

Skids first met [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] when they were about to be thrown into a [[smelting pool]]. {{Storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Dogfight!}} He and his twin are well known for tall tales and messing about, enough so that people have stopped believing their claims. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}}

[[Image:Titan2-1_Skids.jpg|right|thumb|350px|You know what? ''You'' tell him he looks dopey.]]

Skids and Mudflap happily stayed on Cybertron, going through intensive training (which ''totally'' wasn't goofing off) and having extreme-sports contests. Neither wanted to leave their homeworld, and they were the only Transformers on it until [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] turned up with a Decepticon army. When they heard him mention a [[Solar Harvester|star harvester]], they realised they should tell someone...but Skids worked out the fastest way to do that would be in person, meaning they'd have to leave their homeworld.

The decision was made for them when the Decepticons attacked. Skids angrily blew away some of the jet-drones when they shot his brother, using an impressive missile barrage, and used transform-and-shoot moves to keep their pursuers away...but he realised this was delaying the inevitable. They fled the planet, with Skids remembering to head for Earth, the site of Optimus's message. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.1|Training Day}}

[[Image:Titan2_twinsbeats.jpg|left|thumb|200px|...actually, no, tell him to ''put some clothes on JESUS''.]]

The twins made it to [[Earth]] soon, crash-landing in [[Toronto]], [[Canada]]. On the way in, Mudflap hit a [[Wikipedia: CN Tower|big tower]], but Skids felt it wasn't that big a deal. They swam their way to Ball's Falls, where they picked up Earth alternate modes and set out to try and find local Autobots and warn them about the solar harvester.

Driving along the wrong side of the Interstate (Skids wanted a challenge!), the twins were attacked by the Seeker [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]], trying to kill them on [[the Fallen]]'s orders. While Skids dissed Ransack's retro alt mode, he pursued them across [[Wikipedia: North by Northwest|open countryside]]. With their energon levels low, the airborne enemy kept up with the twins, and Skids soon collapsed, unable to run any further. He and his brother would've both died, if not for Bumblebee arriving and forcing the Seeker into retreat. {{Storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Dogfight!}}

[[Image:Titan2-3_Mudflap_face.jpg|right|thumb|"I hear you're racist now, Father! How'd you get involved in that sorta thing?"]]

Now living at [[NEST]]'s [[California]]n base with Bumblebee as their minder, Skids and Mudflap repeatedly asked to deliver their info to [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]—and only Optimus, much to [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide's]] annoyance. He was more annoyed when they ambushed him (Skids tipping crates on him!) to get to Optimus...who, as it turns out, was away on a need-to-know mission anyway.

After this defeat, and with Ironhide having bluntly told them nobody believed them, they desperately asked to join in a NEST op in [[Las Vegas]]...getting turned down, because they were too crap to get involved. Annoyed with this, Skids went along with Mudflap's suggestion to go to Vegas and show Ironhide just what they could do! What they could do, it turned out, was screw up a successful mission by freeing [[Grindor (ROTF)|a captured Decepticon]] by trying to "shoot him down". Skids was left mortified. Ironhide, recognising what they were trying to do, told him that maybe they could work on training the twins not to jump in without looking, and that the trick was to learn from mistakes. The twins claimed they'd try. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}}

They soon wished they hadn't, as they were condemned to NEST's [[United Kingdom|Orkney Islands]] base for days of sim-com (simulated combat) training under [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]]. Skids had a nagging feeling this was just an excuse to keep them away from the main action, and both protested to Sideswipe that they could handle Decepticons. Him pointing out their failure with Grindor shut them up. However, the training was interrupted when [[Ravage (ROTF)|a huge metal cat monster]] broke into the base, KOed Sideswipe, and tried to eat the twins!

[[Image:Titan2-4_SkidsRavage.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]

They transformed and fled, drawing the creature into a trap where Skids used his weaponry to bring the roof down on it. When that failed, he deferred to and helped Mudflap carry out his plan of trapping the beast in a sim-com session on maximum setting. With that done, and with it revealed that the creature was sent after them by another Decepticon, they tried to fill in the revived Sideswipe... except the creature had gone, leaving their instructor with the view that ''they'd'' knocked him out in revenge for their training. Between that and Grindor, he thinks they're up to something... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.4|New Tricks}}

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===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tom Kenny]] (English), [[Tomokazu Seki]] (Japan), [[Michael Pan]] (German)

Skids and his brother were part of a taskforce deployed in Shanghai to root out Decepticon activity. In their combined ice cream truck [[alternate mode]], they rolled through the evacuated zone, taunting and trying to lure out the Decepticons in the area. When the Decepticons did show themselves, they gave chase to the escaping [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]]. However, their slow and ungainly choice of vehicle could not keep up with the fugitive, and they rounded a corner too sharply, tearing their combined form in half. Even though Mudflap took the blame for the separation, Skids still berated (and smacked) his brother for his failure. It's combat, what's wrong with him?

Upon arrival at [[Diego Garcia]] and NEST headquarters, the twins received new, separate alternate modes. A fight broke out between the two of them over which vehicle they wanted, and Skids "called" the [[Wikipedia: Chevy Beat|Beat]], resigning Mudflap to the form of a [[Wikipedia: Chevy Trax|Trax]].

Later, the twins, along with the other NEST-allied Autobots, were dispatched to look for [[Sam Witwicky]] when Decepticons were detected heading towards his college. After [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was killed by [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], the twins helped the Autobot force fight off the Decepticon leader and [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], allowing Sam, [[Leo Spitz]], [[Mikaela Banes]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] to make good their escape. Skids and Mudflap met up with Bumblebee and the humans, and together they fled to a remote location. After teasing Leo for a while for his panic attack, Sam inquired whether one of them could interpret the Cybertronic symbols he had become obsessed with, but the twins claimed that they couldn't read the ancient Language of the Primes, and weren't much into reading, anyway.

[[Image:ROTF_movie_SkidsMudflap_bigmother.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Yousome people gonna die??" "Yep. Wesa screwed."]]

With the help of the Decepticon [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] and former [[Sector Seven]] agent [[Seymour Simmons]], the group made their way to the Smithsonian, where the humans reactivated the venerable ex-Decepticon [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]]. He teleported them all to [[Egypt]] before telling them the tale of the original [[Prime (ROTF)|Primes]], the [[Solar harvester]], which had the potential to destroy all life on Earth, and finally, the [[Matrix of Leadership]], the key to activating the harvester, and possibly the only thing that could bring Optimus Prime back to life. When the Matrix could not be found at the ruins of [[Petra]], the twins began arguing with each other over why they were following Sam, which soon escalated into physical violence. As their brawl nearly crushed the humans, Bumblebee picked up the twins in each hand, slammed them together, and threw them outside the ruins, which Skids considered to be just rude. Fortunately, their bickering created a hole in the wall where the [[Tomb of the Primes]] lay, and with it, the Matrix.

Making their way back to the Pyramids where NEST waited with Optimus Prime's body, the group came under attack by Starscream. Mudflap, Skids, Leo and Simmons acted as a decoy to lure the Decepticons away from Sam and Mikaela. Unfortunately, they attracted the attention of the [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicons]], who [[combiner|combined]] into [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] and attacked by vacuuming up loose objects such as sand, cars, and Mudflap. When his brother was thought dead, Skids clambered up the Decepticon's leg for vengeance, only to discover that Mudflap had survived being vacuumed up by Devastator and had blasted a hole through its head. Together the twins attacked the combiner, but were unable to stop him from reaching the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]]. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
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==Toys==
===''Revenge of the Fallen''===

====Legends Class Toys====
*'''Skids''' (Legends, 2009/2010)

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====Deluxe Class Toys====
[[Image:ROTFtoy-SkidsDeluxe.jpg|250px|thumb|Kids, never try to deflect a fusion cannon blast with your face.]]
*'''Autobot Skids''' (Deluxe, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-10'''

:Skids was released as part of the second wave of deluxe class ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' action figures. He transforms into a green Chevy Beat Concept car with black stripe designs on either side and a black hood. His vehicle form features transparent blue windows. In robot mode, Skids features a "[[Mech Alive]]" [[gimmick]] that makes the fenders on the sides of his chest push out and his head move forward when the front grill is pushed inwards. Moving the head up and down through this gimmick may suggest it's meant to make him appear as though he is talking, but the packaging only says "Moving Armor Panels".

:Skids' right arm is larger than his left, just like his movie counterpart's. It features a small cannon that when pressed both makes the cannon stick out in a position more suitable for firing, and activates Skids' "Punching Robot Fist" action. Despite this, his right hand is surprisingly poseable.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/Skids/skids.htm More information on Skids at TFU.info]''
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[[Image:ROTF_Deluxe_Skids&Mudflap_toy.jpg|thumb|250px|Hey look, it's the robot child actor who grew up and ''became'' a convenience store.]]
*'''Autobot Skids And Mudflap''' (Deluxe, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:''

:This two pack of the two twin Autobot brothers can combine into a single, old-fashioned ice cream truck. Unfortunately, they are SMALLER than a scout class figure and are missing the "Suck My Popsicle" writing.

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====Fast Action Battlers====
[[Image:ROTF_FAB_Missile_Blast_Skids.jpg|thumb|250px|That's not going to pick up any [[Charlene (cowgirl)|cowgirls]] any time soon.]]
*'''Missile Blast Skids''' (Fast Action Battler, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:''
**''Accessories:''

:[[Fast Action Battlers]] Missile Blast Skids is quite similar in transformation engineering to [[Bumblebee (Movie) toys#Fast Action Battlers|Plasma Punch/Plasma Blast Bumblebee]], and even has a similar [[gimmick]] in having one arm being a spring-loaded projectile launcher.
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====Human Alliance====
{{anchor|haskids2009}}[[Image:ROTFtoy-SkidsHumanAlliance.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Then again...]]
*'''Autobot Skids / Arcee / Mikaela Banes''' (Human Alliance, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-25'''
**''Accessories:''

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====Gravity Bots====
[[Image:ROTF_GravityBots_Skids.jpg|thumb|250px|From car to novelty trash can in the blink of an eye!]]
*'''Autobot Skids''' (Gravity Bot, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''???'''

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==Merchandise==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====R.P.M.s - Robot Powered Machines====
=====Battle Series=====
[[Image:ROTFtoy-SkidsRPM.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I ran myself over!]]
*'''Mudflap vs Autobot Skids''' (R.P.M. Mini-Vehicle, 2009)
**''Number:'' '''04 of 08'''

: Number four in a series of eight [[Robot Powered Machines]] [[Mini-Vehicle]] versus packs, Skids is packaged against his twin, Mudflap. He's an untransformable Hot Wheels-like car, unless you count his robot mode being sculpted and painted onto the underside of him.

: This toy is also available with the Devastator Showdown track set.

=====Robot Replicas=====
*'''Autobot Skids''' (Robot Replica, 2009)

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=====Track Set=====
*'''Devastator Showdown''' (R.P.M. Mini-Vehicle Track Set, 2009)

: A Mini-Vehicle of Skids also comes with this Devastator-themed race track set.

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===Robot Heroes===
[[Image:RobotHeroes_SkidsMegatron.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
*'''Autobot Skids and Megatron''' (2009)

:''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' Skids is a [[super deformed]] figure with limited articulation in his neck and shoulders. He came in a two-pack with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]].

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[[Image:rotf_desertdevastation_rh.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Give me your fac—oh wait, wrong article.]]
*'''Desert Devastation''' (Multi-pack, 2009)

:Both Skids and Mudflap are sculpted in their vehicle modes for this box-set that also includes [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] and [[William Lennox]].

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[[Image:Robotheroestwinswidewaysprimedemolishorsideswipe.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Pink smoke? Should probably get that looked at.]]
*'''Shanghai Shootout''' (Multi-pack, 2009)
:Shanghai Shootout replicates the opening action scene from ''Revenge of the Fallen'', featuring figurines of [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]]/Skids (ice cream truck), [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] (vehicle mode), [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]], and [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]] (vehicle mode). Demolishor is a slightly-oversized figure and the centerpiece of the box set.
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==Notes==
*The Chevrolet Beat, Skids's alternate mode, goes into production in 2011 as the Chevrolet [[Spark]].
*The ice cream truck's bumper sticker reads "Decepticons, suck my Popsicle." Classy. Too bad the toy does not. (Because, you know, for kids...)
*In many markets, the aforementioned text was edited out, resulting in the somewhat nonsensical result of a Decepticon symbol and the word "Popsicle".
*The twins have been accused of being derogatory racial stereotypes. Though Skids's voice actor Tom Kenny had not commented at the time this note was written, Mudflap's voice actor [[Reno Wilson]] was sad to learn his way of speaking was apparently offensive to himself. Writers [[Roberto Orci]] and [[Alex Kurtzman]] claim to have followed [[Michael Bay]]'s lead with the characters, while Bay says Wilson and Kenny came up with their schtick on their own. <ref>[http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/jivetalking-twin-transformers-raise-race-issues-ap Yahoo's coverage of the furore over the Twins]</ref> Orci and Kurtzman said the twins' portrayal was not in their script, that they were disappointed in the characters and admitted that they could understand if others were offended by the characters.<ref>[http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/orci-and-kurtzman-respond-to-claims-of-racism-in-transformers-2.php Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman respond to claims of racism on ''Revenge of the Fallen'', Film School Rejects, June 24, 2009 ]</ref> Bay has admitted the idea was that they were intended to be a caricature of white people pretending that they're black ("wiggers")... which is difficult to convey when they're colored red and green.
*The twins are less slangy in the [[Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation|comic adaptation]] and [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Titan comics]], which could either indicate it was a last-minute voice actor decision or [[Simon Furman]] just didn't want to try writing ebonics.
*If Skids can't read the [[cyberglyphics|Language of the Primes]], why does he have a glyph from it on the sides of his vehicle mode?
*Amusingly, [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/Battle-Bios.cfm Hasbro's Battle Bio] for Skids lists his arch-enemy as... [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]].
*The ice cream truck alternate mode is probably the most bewildering violation of [[scale]] in the movie universe. The combined form is only as large as a single Chevy vehicle, which begs the question of how both twins manage to fit into the combiner, or how a single twin can grow to fit a separate car.

==References==
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[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:NEST]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen characters]]
[[Category:Robot Heroes]]

Grindor (ROTF)

2009-09-08T00:46:55Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 361964 by 99.150.253.138 (Talk)

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{{disambig3|Grindor}}
:''Grindor is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Grindor rotfgame trailer.jpg|thumb|250px|right|I copied another character's alt-mode 'cause [[Scavenger (ROTF)|all]] [[Buffalo MPV Decepticon|the]] [[Rampage (ROTF)|cool]] [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|'cons]] [[Long Haul (ROTF)|were]] [[Scrapper (ROTF)|doing]] it.]]

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to get one over on '''Grindor'''. A master strategist, and close combat specialist, Grindor can predict his opponents next move before they know it themselves. It's reached the point where it's less planning and more instinct on his part. With every possible move planned out beforehand, Grindor confidently wades into the center of battle, ready for any and all comers.

Except [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|this guy]].

Don't confuse him with [[Blackout (Movie)|that guy]].

{{bigquote|Objectives will win a battle, but it is sheer ruthlessness that will win a war.|Grindor's sagely advice to the Decepticons|[[Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen: The Game]]}}

==Fiction==

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]]

Ordered by [[The Fallen]] to capture [[Sam Witwicky]] for the information that the [[All Spark (Movie)|All Spark]] had imprinted in his mind, [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] led [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and Grindor to [[Earth]], waiting for the [[human]] boy to be flushed out by [[Alice|one of their agents]]. Grindor captured the humans' escape vehicle and brought it to an abandoned industrial facility where Starscream and Megatron were waiting. While Grindor waited outside, Megatron and [[Scalpel]] interrogated the boy, preparing to extract the information by removing his brain, a process that was interrupted by the arrival of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]. Optimus briefly fought off Megatron and Starscream before escaping with Sam into the woods.

[[Image:ROTF Optimus vs Grindor.jpg|thumb|left|250px|I predict a checkmate in 4 mo-*stab*.]]
Megatron followed, but soon called for his soldiers to assist. Grindor played little part in the opening attack, but gathered on the outnumbered and outgunned but defiant Optimus Prime. The [[Autobot]] [[Prime (rank)|leader]] immediately unsheathed both [[Dual Energon Swords|battle blade]]s and attacked the Decepticons, cutting off Grindor's right arm, slashing into his chest, and sending some of Starscream's artillery his way. Badly hurt, Grindor required some downtime before he could rejoin the battle, during which Optimus stabbed Megatron and knocked off Starscream's arm.

As Grindor advanced on him, Prime unleashed a hook and jabbed it into Grindor's [[optic]], using the leverage to pull him up. Once on top of the larger Decepticon, Prime then struck another hook into Grindor, then proceeded to ''tear his head apart'', killing Grindor. As he pushed the lifeless hulk to the ground, Optimus contemptuously commented on the materials Grindor was made of. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
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===Titan Magazines===
{{note|Unlike his bio, Grindor here comes off more like a working stiff.}}

[[Image:GrindorTitan_talkinghislanguage.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Him and [[Raoul]] were in the same engineering course.]]

Grindor was despatched to [[Las Vegas]] by [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], who refused to tell him what he was looking for and directed him to [[Seeker (ROTF)|some old car]]. He was a bit fed up until he was told to cut open said car and remove its insides, fun fun fun! Once he'd secured the Cybertronian "memory tree", he came under attack by [[NEST]] forces intending to capture him. Using his rotors, he created a whirlwind that hurled cars at his enemies, but they easily managed to anchor him to the ground with an electrified cable before he could retreat.

Luckily [[Skids (ROTF)|two]] [[Mudflap (ROTF)|dumbasses]] turned up and shot the cable off, allowing Grindor to escape! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}}

==Games==
===''Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Fred Tatasciore]]

====''Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game (Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC)====
=====Decepticon campaign=====
[[Image:ROTFgame-Grindor.jpg|left|thumb|I have tan parts! That's how you know.]]

Grindor served in a similar capacity amongst the Decepticons to that which [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] served for the Autobots - he was the Heavy Weapons Guy. Big, slow, durable, and seriously over-armed, Grindor could even drop off machinegun turrets for that extra added overkill.

During the Decepticons' missions in [[China]], Grindor oversaw their supposedly secret mission in [[Shanghai]], until his forces were detected and routed by [[NEST]] and the Autobots. Imprisoned in the docks, [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] had to come and rescue his comrade.

On the United States West Coast, Grindor was assigned to hack into NEST's communication network in the downtown area. Fighting through its Autobot [[Protectobot Scout|Protectobot]] defenders, Grindor managed to link up with each of the town's five communications arrays, furthering the Decepticon cause.

On the East Coast, Grindor was assigned to capture Ladiesman217, designation Samuel Witwicky. After destroying the human's dorm building, Grindor took Witwicky to the nearby foundry where he would be interrogated by Megatron. However, during this process, the Autobots sent waves of Protectobots against Grindor in an attempt to save the boy, but they failed.{{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}
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=====Autobot campaign=====

While Grindor secured their position by deploying [[Combaticon (ROTF)|Combaticon]] and [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]] drones around the town, [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] arrived to rescue Sam. Assisted by his drones, the Decepticon almost overwhelmed the plucky little Autobot, but in the end Bumblebee reduced Grindor and his unit into scrap metal. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Legends Class====
[[Image:ROTF_Legends_Grindor.jpg|thumb|300px|No, I'm not Blackout! There is NO missing scene dammit! We're nothing alike. I would never let myself get shot in the balls.]]
*'''Grindor''' (Legends, 2009)

:''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Legends Grindor is a [[redeco]] of the [[Movie (franchise)|first movie]]'s Legends class [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] toy in a light blue base color with digital camouflage. Legends Grindor is a small and highly simplified version of the character, featuring limited articulation and detail, with the helicopter mode not being a particularly faithful recreation of an [[wikipedia:MH-53_Pave_Low|Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low]] heavy-lift helicopter. (The placement of the fuel tanks, in particular, makes him look more like a [[Wikipedia:CH-53 Sea Stallion|CH-53 Sea Stallion]].) Even though the robot mode sports an attempt to emulate the movie character's chest design, this does not involve the use of obvious fake elements of the helicopter mode's cockpit, unlike [[Jazz (Movie)|other]] Legends Class toys of movie characters.
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====Voyager Class====
[[Image:ROTF_Voyager_Grindor.jpg|thumb|300px|Just you wait, someone will call him Leader-1.]]
*'''Grindor''' (Voyager, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RD-18'''
**''Accessories:'' Scorponok mini-figure

:Grindor is a redeco of the first movie's Voyager class Blackout figure in a more military-accurate grey colour scheme. The little [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] mini-figure has been redecoed to reflect the colour changes on the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' release of Deluxe class Scorponok (even though the two never appear together in the film).

:Grindor transforms into a reasonably accurate MH-53 Pave Low. An aft "cage" compartment can be opened to release a small PVC figurine of his partner, Scorponok. A button under his tail rotor can be pressed in a geared action to rotate his rotor blades. By attaching the Deluxe-class Scorponok to his underside, the rotor [[gimmick]] also spins Scorponok's claws.

: During transformation, Grindor's (mind-numbingly delicate) [[Automorph Technology|Automorphing]] gimmick is activated when the user swings down his legs, which in turn flips the gray chest section his head is mounted upon up and into position, and lifts his back assembly and locks it into place behind his head. Another, less impressive automorph is in his legs—if you pull his knees down, his shin armor pops out a bit. The entire rotor assembly on his back can be removed and converted into a gigantic fan weapon, to represent ''vaguely'' the hand-held rotor-blade weapon he and Blackout wield in the films. Because of the size of his rotor assembly, Grindor is also much shorter than most Voyager-class figures despite his bulk, barely taller than a Deluxe figure.

: It is ''very'' easy for the gears in the cockpit/chest to become misaligned during transformation, enough so that the chest/head section refuses to align with the cockpit halves. Getting the gears back into alignment is a veritable nightmare, as so many other parts shift and move as you attempt to manipulate the respective pieces. Swinging the legs down locks the back assembly into place for robot mode, but simply swinging the legs back does ''not'' ''un''lock it, with the user being required to separate the parts actively by hand. Failing to do so is sure to misalign your Grindor to bejeezus.

: An interesting side note is that the two hard points located on Grindor's shoulders, intended to support his abominably large weapon, are actually the same size as the [[Mini-Con]] [[Powerlinx]] plugs on most [[Unicron Trilogy]] figures.

:The original Blackout release of this mold was retooled as ''[[Movie (toyline)|Movie]]'' [[Evac (Movie)|Evac]] and ''Revenge of the Fallen'' [[Whirl (ROTF)|Whirl]].
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====Fast Action Battlers====
[[Image:Grindor ROTF FAB toy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Hey, is that Leader-1?]]
*'''Missile Assault Grindor''' (Fast Action Battler, 2009)
**''Accessories:'' Projectile

:Missile Assault Grindor is a redeco of the first movie's Gyro Blade Blackout in a more military-accurate grey colour scheme. He is a simplified version of Grindor/Blackout design, designed for smaller children. His rotor blade can be detached and inserted into his left hand to represent the hand-held rotor blade seen in the film, just like the Voyager class version. He also features a chest cannon which can be flipped up from his back. Oddly, you can only see one-fourth of Grindor's head from a 90-degree angle. Even less of it is visible when his chest cannon is flipped up. He features a firing missile.
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==Notes==
*Although his toys (and seemingly the CG model of his robot mode) are identical to Blackout's, and although the toys' packaging retains Pave Low [[licensed vehicle alternate modes|licensing]] information, Grindor's alt mode in the movie is in fact a [[Wikipedia:CH-53E_Super_Stallion|Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion]]—essentially a slightly upsized Pave Low operated by the [[United States Marine Corps|US Marine Corps]]. The ROTF video games include licensing information for the Super Stallion instead of the Pave Low. The alt mode switch may be explained by the retirement of the USAF's Pave Lows in 2008.

*Frank Welker is not credited for the voice of Grindor in the credits of the film itself, but his "[http://www.frankwelker.net/ Official Homepage]" would later credit him for the role. While we're not entirely convinced that the page wasn't simply updated by someone who read it on Wikipedia, the "sheeeagh" that Grindor lets out as Optimus Prime rips his head apart is pretty unmistakeably Welker.

* ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' never explicitly establishes Grindor as a separate character from Blackout. Screenwriter [[Roberto Orci]], when asked, was not sure whether they were supposed to be the same character or not.<ref name="orci">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/180451-welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions-283.html#post3785383 Q&A with Roberto Orci at TFW2005]</ref> In the [[Hasbro Q&A/July 2009: Answers|{{SITENAME_SHORT}} Hasbro Q&A for July 2009]], it was confirmed that Grindor, not Blackout, appears in the movie.

==Footnotes==
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[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen characters]]
[[Category:Decepticons]]

Warpath (Animated)

2009-09-07T16:37:34Z

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{{disambig3|Warpath}}
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:''Warpath is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Warpathanimated.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Gone before we could even say ''bam! pow!'' hello.]]

'''Warpath''' is member of the [[Cybertronian Elite Guard]] who reported to [[Yoketron|Master Yoketron]]. He's got a rather surly, confrontational attitude, and a big gun. In his chest.
{{TOCclear}}
==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[David Kaye]] (English)

[[Image:TFAni Warpath Prowl.jpg|thumb|left|200px|It's a cannon in my chest, ok? I am not happy to see you.]]

Warpath took a young and rebellious [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] to Master Yoketron after the bot tried to escape participation in the later stages of the [[Great War (Animated)|Autobot-Decepticon War]]. Warpath made it clear that he believed that those who don't fight the Decepticons aren't any better than the 'Cons themselves. Prowl gave him some lip, and Warpath was tempted to take him on, until Yoketron told Warpath that he had it under control. Warpath left grumbling about Prowl being a "draft-dodging peacenik" but not without uttering a "bam, pow" first. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}

[[Image:Transwarped-Warpath.jpg|thumb|right|200px|So, uh, no toy, huh?]]

Near the end of the war, Warpath was seriously wounded during the fateful battle in which [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] defeated most of the Decepticon army. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] walked past his unconscious body while looking to help the heavily damaged Omega. {{storylink|TransWarped}}

Warpath survived, and millions of years later, was seen in a crowd welcoming [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and the captured Decepticons on Cybertron (albeit [[scale|looking a little smaller than he used to]]). {{storylink|Decepticon Air}} He was back up to full height when he appeared to cheer for [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his crew when they returned to Cybertron triumphant. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

==Notes==
*Like his [[Warpath (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]], this Warpath uses onomatopoeic words in his sentences, ("Bam, pow!") though they don't dominate his speech patterns.

[[Category: Animated characters]]
[[Category: Autobots]]
[[Category: Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category: Elite Guard]]

Snow Cat (Universe)

2009-09-06T21:50:59Z

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{{disambig3|Snow Cat}}

:''Snow Cat is a [[Decepticon]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]] (via the [[Universe (2008 franchise)|2008 Univese line]]).''

[[Image:Snow Cat Universe 2008 toy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|White Ranger Tiger Power!]]

'''Snow Cat''' is a member of the [[Ground Surveillance Team]].

==Toys==
===Universe (2008)===
====Armada Series====
*'''Mini-Con 10-Pack''' (Multi-pack, 2009)
: Snow Cat is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' [[Snarl (Classics)|Snarl]], transforming into a robotic white tiger. He has a (non-firing) blaster hidden in his beast-mode mouth.

: He was only available as part of a Mini-Con 10-pack with [[Windrazor (Universe)|Windrazor]], [[Ransack (Universe 2008)|Ransack]], [[Stockade (Universe 2008)|Stockade]], [[Overcharge (Universe)|Overcharge]], [[Sky Shadow (Universe)|Sky Shadow]], [[Scavenger (Universe 2008)|Scavenger]], [[Longview (Universe)|Longview]], [[Treadshot (Universe 2008)|Treadshot]], and [[Crosshairs (Universe)|Crosshairs]].

: This mold was also used to make [[Apexus]] and ''[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Rampage (SG)|Rampage]].

[[Category:Armada characters]]
[[Category:Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]
[[Category: Universe (2008)]]

Decepticon Air

2009-09-05T22:41:34Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: And now to get the page working again.

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|image=TFAni Decepticon Air Decepticons Freed.jpg
|caption=So which one of them is John Malkovich?
|ep=39
|title="Decepticon Air"
|airdate=[[May 2]], 2009
|written by=[[Michael Ryan]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Shigeharu Takahashi]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
}}
'''The Decepticons aboard the Elite Guard ship decide to take down the Autobots that turned them in.'''

==Synopsis==
On [[Earth]], [[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] have completed a [[space bridge]] terminal in record time, for which [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] congratulates them. However, the [[transwarp]] field sequencers still have to be recalibrated, and Sumdac and Bulkhead argue over whose fault that is. [[Sari Sumdac|Sari]] insists she could have helped get it right, but both builders politely rebuff her as insufficiently knowledgeable. As they continue arguing about getting the resequencing done, she takes matters into her own hands—almost literally. Using her new abilities, she fixes the terminal's calibrations and gets it to activate, to the surprise of the others.

[[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air Sentinel Typing.jpg|thumb||180px|left|"[[Ravage (SG)|Ravage]] has poked me on Facebook ''how many'' times?"]]
Meanwhile, out in space, [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] fruitlessly attempts to interrogate his [[Decepticon]] prisoners for info on the military cells that have been attacking space bridge outposts. He returns to the bridge after [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] tells him there's an incoming message from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]], [[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]] and [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] indicate that the [[Autobot High Council]] has decided to make public the news of the assault on [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]]. Sentinel tries to pull rank on them, since he's now technically the ''pro tempore'' [[Magnus]], and advises them to keep it quiet, but Alpha Trion makes it clear that they don't quite recognize his authority. Frustrated, Sentinel tries to pull rank on Jazz instead, commanding him to take the ship at full thrust through an energy cloud, despite any risks, as that heading will be the shortest route to Cybertron. Jazz complies despite objections, and of course, his worries prove justified: The energy strikes and flows through the ship, re-energizing [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] and bringing him out of time-stasis. Swindle soon frees and re-arms the other Decepticons, even if they don't have payment up front for it, as they work for [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], his best customer. With the alarms muted by Swindle's [[Sonic Jammer 3000]], the Decepticons strike at the ship's bridge just after the ship emerges from the energy cloud. Swindle quickly takes out [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] with a demo of the SJ3K's other function, a [[stasis suspension ray]]. Sentinel and Jazz put up a fight, but to little avail, and finally, Sentinel sends a brief, encrypted call for help to his old buddy, Optimus Prime (as he's too embarrassed to call Cybertron). Shortly afterward, [[Lugnut]] strikes him down, but Swindle convinces the massive Decepticon to spare their prisoners' lives: Not only could selling off their [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]] parts earn a fortune, but they could be a bargaining chip in finding Megatron.

On Earth, Optimus receives Sentinel's message, which decrypts to "[[Broken Lance]]", a coded call for help that Sentinel used with him back in their [[Autobot Academy|academy]] days. Bulkhead notes the space bridge terminal detects an unusual transwarp field aboard the Elite Guard's ship. With Sari's help, the terminal locks onto the field, providing stable coordinates for an arrival point. [[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air Swindle Optimus Hand.jpg|thumb||180px|right|HUNGER GETS WHAT HUNGER WANTS.]] The space bridge is activated, and Optimus steps through... only to emerge from Swindle's chest, having arrived via the private storage dimension he uses for holding all his stock.

Rather than attack against overwhelming odds and attempt to free Sentinel and the others, Optimus takes off down the ship's corridors to better his situation. Most of the Decepticons give pursuit, with Lugnut ordering Swindle to watch the prisoners in the meantime. Taking an elevator to the ship's energon storage chamber, Optimus perforates a group of energon cubes with his axe, destabilizing them just enough. He then puts them in the elevator car and slices its cables, so it explodes near the bottom just as the Decepticons pry open the doors. Slightly charred from the backblast, Optimus enters one of the service ducts and works his way back to the brig area, grumbling as he does.

Meanwhile, Swindle's greed is still holding sway, and the arms dealer leaves his prisoners unguarded so he can raid the ship's stores. Prime arrives almost immediately afterward and frees his fellow Autobots, earning no gratitude from the power-tripping Sentinel. The Decepticons then return, so Optimus tells Jazz to rewire the decontamination unit on the bridge into a freezing chamber to trap them, his Autobot emblem blinking all the while. Optimus severs a steam duct, giving Jazz cover to escape, but then Lugnut punches a hole in the hull, sending everyone else in the brig out into space.

The Jet Twins prove far more capable in space combat than anticipated, giving the Decepticons a fair amount of trouble. Noting their predicament through a porthole in the storage depot, Swindle metaphorically shrugs and goes back to looting. Meanwhile, despite Sentinel's continued objections and struggling, Optimus uses him as a living spiked slingshot against Lugnut. Sentinel insists he be obeyed as leader, but this only prompts [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] to freeze him and hold him hostage. Sentinel demands they don't surrender, but Optimus convinces the Jet Twins to follow his lead instead, and they capitulate.

[[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air Optimus Jazz HighFive.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Slip me some metal, O.P.!]]
On the bridge, Blitzwing, [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]], and [[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] put Sentinel, Optimus and the Jet Twins in the decontamination unit with Jazz. Blitzwing sneers that Optimus shouldn't have blabbed his plan where all could hear it, as now the Autobots will suffer freezing instead. However, when he activates the chamber, the freezing tubes reverse direction, icing all the Decepticons on the bridge and leaving the Autobots safe. Optimus explains to a surprised Sentinel that back in the brig, he'd used his blinking emblem to send a different message to Jazz in Cybertronian [[cybertronian optical code|optical code]]. They all pause as they hear a roar of engines, courtesy of a loot-filled Swindle taking off in one of the ship's shuttles. As the Decepticons are imprisoned again, Sentinel offers Optimus the Elite Guard spot that will be opening when Sentinel becomes Magnus, but Prime demurs, as he's still got plenty to do on Earth.

At [[Sumdac Tower]], Bulkhead frets as Swindle's transwarp signal moves too far away to warp Optimus back. Sari offers to help fix it, but her father points out it won't be necessary, as the Elite Guard ship has come to them. Optimus steps off the ship, and he and Sentinel trade salutes before it departs.

On Cybertron, Sentinel has a victory parade, displaying his prisoners to a cheering crowd and vowing to hunt down and offline [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] and any other Decepticon if they accept him as the new Magnus. Perceptor and Alpha Trion exchange dubious glances, but say nothing.

[[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air Lugnut Megatron.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Ugh...I'll get the squeegee...]]
Out in space, [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] warps into place near a drifting Lugnut, who abruptly finds himself plastered on the front window—right in front of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
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==Featured characters==

{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (2)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (8)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (9)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (12)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (13)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (14)
*[[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]] (15)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (16)
*[[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]] (17)
*[[Dug Base]] (18)
*[[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]] (19)
*[[Carerra (Animated)|Carerra]] (20)
*[[Searchlight (Animated)|Searchlight]] (21)
*[[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]] (22)
*[[Furao]] (23)
*[[Freeway (Animated)|Freeway]] (24)
*[[Beachcomber (Animated)|Beachcomber]] (25)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (26)
*[[Huffer (Animated)|Huffer]] (27)
*[[Powerglide (Animated)|Powerglide]] (28)
*[[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]] (29)
*[[Rattletrap]] (30)
*[[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]] (31)
*[[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]] (32)
*[[Autotrooper]] (33)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (34)
*[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] (35)
*[[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]] (36)
*[[Tracks (Animated)|Tracks]] (37)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (38)
|c2=
*[[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] (5)
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (6)
*[[Lugnut]] (7)
*[[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] (10)
*[[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]] (11)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (39)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (40)
|c3=
*[[Isaac Sumdac]] (3)
|c4=
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (4)
|}}

==Quotes==
'''Sentinel Prime''': All due respect, Alpha Trion, the Council should concern itself with more important matters, like beefing up security for the Decepticon prisoners that...ahem...''I'' captured. 
'''Cliffjumper''': I thought that was [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]].
:—Actually, they're [[Lockdown (Animated)|both wrong]].

"Those bureaucratobots couldn't find their own [[Anatomic euphemism#Diode|diode]]s with a bitmap and a homing beacon."
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' talks behind the council's back.

"The Sonic Jammer 3000! Don't leave Cybertron without it! But wait—there's more! It also has a stasis suspension ray, handy for those tight spots. Picked this baby up on [[Quintessa]]. Nice folks, the [[Quintesson]]s; give you a good deal and all the oil you can drink."
:—'''Swindle''', ready as ever with a sales pitch.

"Guard the prisoners, or... loot the ship? It's a no-processor...er."

"Maybe I should help them.... or maybe I should just help myself!"

"Nothing beats a shopping spree... especially when it's all ''free!''"
:—The Tao of '''Swindle'''.

"Maybe that energon was a little ''too'' unstable!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' realizes he may not have thought his plan through very well.

==Notes==

===Animation or technical errors===
* When Sentinel calls for Jetfire and Jetstorm, the prisoners do not have their facemasks.

* Character heights vary wildly throughout the episode, mostly with the non-Swindle Decepticons being various levels of undersized. The kneeling Decepticons still tower over Swindle as he first talks to them (which seems correct, as Swindle is small), but do not appear to gain any height on him once they're upright. The final scene in particular, Blitzwing and the two clones are downright tiny, looking to be about as big as the average Autobot.

* In the crowd scenes towards the end of this episode, characters change positions relative to each other every time the camera angle switches. Beachcomber, in particular, appears in literally four different places at once.

* When Lugnut crashes against Omega Supreme at the end of the episode, his Deception insignia is missing.

===Continuity errors===
* Safeguard is able to create a tornado in outer space?

===Transformers references===
[[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air BoxScream ConeScream.jpg|thumb|180px|right|"Your conehead makes my ears look silly in comparison!" "No it doesn't!"]]
* Swindle claims to have had business dealings on [[Quintessa]], suggests they could make enough from Elite Guard parts to "retire to a beach island on [[Nebulos]]", and swears by "the fifth moon of [[Pz-Zazz]]".

* His reference to a "personal storage dimension" from which accessories can be pulled at a moments' notice hearkens back to the concept of [[subspace]].

* To help tell the Starscream clones apart, Swindle gives the Ramjet a [[conehead]] accessory and Sunstorm a boxy helmet resembling those of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. The new cone-head is topped with a drill. Cool.

* Sentinel's adoring public consists of a seriously crazy amount of cameos, a great many of which have not been seen before this episode. While many of them could be identified right away, it would take a further few episodes, and some more crowd scenes in "[[This Is Why I Hate Machines]]" and "[[Endgame, Part II]]", before some of the more obscure characters could all be named and shamed. The crowd includes [[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]], [[Carerra (Animated)|Carerra]], [[Searchlight (Animated)|Searchlight]], [[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]], [[Furao]], [[Freeway (Animated)|Freeway]], [[Beachcomber (Animated)|Beachcomber]], [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]], [[Huffer (Animated)|Huffer]], [[Powerglide (Animated)|Powerglide]], [[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]], [[Rattletrap]], [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], [[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]], [[Autotrooper]] (based on [[Autrooper]]), [[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]], [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]], [[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]] and [[Tracks (Animated)|Tracks]]. The widescreen-to-fullscreen crop also manages to cut off an unnamed orange female robot (her forearm can be seen for a split-second poking into shot over Rosanna's head) who would reappear in "Endgame, Part II", an unknown, tall blue-and-white robot (behind the second Beachcomber, above Hot Shot) and an equally-mysterious skinny red-and-orange robot (behind Hot Shot). Recolored [[generic]] robots in the crowd include a Tracks-colored Mainframe, a red-white-and-blue Warpath, and a [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]]-colored Cosmos, sans nacelles.

* Sentinel and the Autobot Council are carried upon [[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]]. Behind them, the Decepticon prisoners are carried by a [[Dug Base|Grandus lookalike]] with yellow detailing; Derrick Wyatt stated that this was supposed to represent Grandus's ''[[Brave]]'' [[redeco]], Dag Base.

* The "Lance" in "[[Broken Lance]]" refers to Sentinel's weapon of choice.

===Real-world references===
* The title is a play on ''[[wikipedia:Con Air|Con Air]]'', a Nicolas Cage movie where prisoners being transported by plane get free and do bad things.

* Sentinel's phrase "[[Broken Lance]]" is similar to the [[United States of America|U.S.]] military term "[[wikipedia:United States military nuclear incident terminology#Broken Arrow|Broken Arrow]]", which is used to describe a cock-up involving nuclear weapons. In this context, it is more likely to be a reference to the 1996 action film [[wikipedia:Broken Arrow (1996 film)|of the same name]], in which John Travolta hijacks a stealth bomber (in order to sell the nuclear missiles on board).

* Speaking of action movies, Optimus crawling through an air shaft, while sarcastically complaining about how much fun he's having, is very similar to a famous sequence from ''[[wikipedia:Die Hard|Die Hard]]''. The exploding elevator trick also appears in the film.

* When Optimus drops out of the air shaft suspended by a wire harness, it's similar to a famous sequence from the Tom Cruise version of ''[[wikipedia:Mission Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible]]''.

* Optimus claiming to have a small chamber that can trap his foes, only for them to doublecross him and force him inside it, only for him to ''triplecross'' them when the chamber is the only place safe from the real trap, is similar to a famous sequence from ''[[wikipedia:Superman II|Superman II]]''.

* Sari's fingers extending and separating when she types are a reference to ''[[wikipedia:Ghost in the Shell|Ghost in the Shell]]''.

* When Sentinel uses his remote to unlock and re-lock Lugnut's mouth clamps, it makes the same noise as a car alarm remote.

* When Swindle first hears Megatron's name, his facial expression changes with the sound of a cash register.

* Swindle's personal storage dimension features old Hanna-Barbera stock sound effects, typically used to denote magic spells.

* Swindle's "Don't leave Cybertron without it!" is a variation of the American Express credit card slogan "Don't leave home without it." He immediately follows that up with "But wait, there's more!", one of TV huckster [[wikipedia:Ron Popeil|Ron Popeil]]'s most famous catchphrases.

===Trivia===
*Sentinel Prime went through the space disturbance to gain some time, but in the end, agreed to go all the way back to Earth to drop off Optimus Prime. So the whole thing ended up being a rather pointless act. Lesson learned, Sentinel?
*Sentinel seems to have decided to keep his Earth alt-mode [[Autoboot Camp|this time]].

*At the end of "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]", Captain Fanzone claimed that Swindle would be stripped down for parts. But other than his weapons (which would have been confiscated by the Elite Guard if the Detroit Police hadn't already taken them), nothing obvious seems to be missing from his person. Maybe Fanzone was just trying to freak him out?

*When he's giving the helmets to Sunstorm and Ramjet, Swindle mentions in a very casual manner that he "never could get the hang of cloning." Thinking back, no one was really shocked to see the army of clones that Starscream created. So maybe, cloning is something fairly common among Decepticons, or at least was at some point.

*This episode marks the last appearance of Blitzwing, Sunstorm, Ramjet, and Swindle. They were some of the most loved Decepticons as well!

[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Decepticon Air

2009-09-05T22:40:23Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 360633 by 59.167.37.83 (Talk)I believe you're mistaken, notable quotes go there, not a fractured transcript.

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon

|image=TAni DDcepticon AAir Dcepticons FFreed.jg
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|caption=So which one of them is John Mkovich?
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|ep9
9
|title="Decticon Air"r"
|airde=[[Mayay 2]], 2009
|written by=[[Michael Ryan]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]] [[Shigehu Takahasai]]
|anim
imation studio=[[Mook]]

'''
'''The Decept aboard thed the Elite Guard ship decide to take down the Autoboat turneturned them in.'''

==Synopsis==
On [[Earth]], [[Isaac Sumdac|Pror Sumr Sumdac]] [BulkhBulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] have completed a [[space bridge]] terminal in record time, for which [[Optimus P(Animatnimated)|Optimus]]ratulattulates them. However, the [[transwarpeld sequesequencers still have to be recalibraand Sumdac adac ankhead head argue over whose fault that is. [[Sari Sumdac|Sainsistnsists she could have helped get it right, but both builders politely rebuff her as insufficiently knowledgeable. As they continue arguing about getting the resequencone, she take takes matters into her own hands—almost literally. Using her new abilities, she fixes the terminal'ibrations ions and gets it to activate, to the surprise of the others.

[[Image:TFAni Decep Air entinel Tyel Typing.jpg|thumb|||lepx|left|"[[e vage (SG)|Ravage]] has poked me on Facebook ''any'' ti'' times?"]]
Meanwhile, out in space, [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] fruitlessly attempts to interrogate his [[Decepticon]]oners for for info on the military cells that have been attacking space bridge outposts. He returns to the bridge after [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] tells him there's an incoming message from [[Cybertron (p)|Cybertrbertron]].rceptor (tor (Aed)|PercePerceptor]],pha TrionTrion (AnimaAlphaAlpha Trion]] and ffjumffjumper ated)|CliffCliffjumper]icate that that the [[Autobot Highcil]] hl]] has decided to make public the news of the assault on [[Ultra Magnus (Anim|UltraUltra Magnus]]. Sel trie tries to pull rank on them, since he's now technically the ''pro tempore'' [[s]], an], anises tses them to keep it quiet, but Alpha Trion makes ear tear that they don't quite recognize his authority. Frustrated, Sentinel tries to pull rank on Jazz instead, commanding him to take the ship at full thrust through an energy cloud, despite any risks, as that heading will be the shortest route to Cybertron. Jomplies dies despite objections, and of course, his worries prove justified: The energy strikes and flows through the ship, re-energizing [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] and bringing him out of time-stasis. Swindle soon frees and re-arms the other Decepticons, if they doey don't have payment up front for it, as they work for [[Megatron (And)|MegatMegatron]], est cust customer. With the alarms muted by Swindle's [[ Jammer 3mer 3000]e Dece Decepticons e at the shhe ship's bridge just after the ship emerges from the energy cloud. Swindle quickly takes out [[Jetfire (Ani)|JetfiJetfire]] anetstormstorm (And)|JetstJetstorm]] w demo ofmo of the SJ3K's other function, a [[stasis suspension ray]]. Sentinel and Jazz put up a fight, but to little avail, and finally, Sentinel sends a brief, encrypted call for help to his old buddy, Optimus Prim he's te's too embarrassed to call Cybertron). ly afterwfterward, [[Lugnut]] strhim doim down, but Swindle convinces the massive Decepticon tre their peir prisoners' lives: Not only could selling off their [[Cybertron Eluard|Elit|Elite Guard]] parts earn a fortune, but they could be a bargaining chip in finding Megatron.

Oth, Opti Optimus receivntinel'inel's message, which decrypts to "[[Broken Lance]]", a coded call for help that Sentinel used with him back in their [[Autobot Academdemy]] my]] days. Bulkhead notes the space bridge terminal detects an unusual transwarp fielard the Ethe Elite Guard's ship. Sari's ri's help, the terminal locks onto the field, providing stable coordinates for an arrival point. [[Image:TFAni Decepticr Swirdle Optimuptimus Hand.jumb||18b||180ghtright|HUNGES GETS WHAT HUNGER WANTS.]] The space bridge is activated, and Optimus steps gh... o... only to emerge from Swindle's chesving arri arrived via the private storage dimension he uses for holding all his stock.

Rather than attack against overwhelming odds and attempt to free Sentinel and the others, Optimus takes ofn the sthe ship's corridors to better his situation. Most of the Decepticons giveuit, with Lith Lugnut ordering le to e to watch the prisoners in the meantime. Taking an elevator to the ship's energon storage er, Opt, Optimus perforatgroup ooup of energon cubes wis axe, axe, destabilizing them just enough. He then puts them in the elevator car and slices its cables, so it explodes near the bottom just as the Decepticons pry the doors. ors. Slightly charred from the backblast, Optimters one o the sehe service ducts and works his way back to the brig area, grumbling as he does.

Meanwhile, Swindle's greed isl holdinglding sway, and the arms dealer leaves his prisoners unguarded so he can raid the ship's stores. Prime arrives almost immediately afterward and frees his fellow Autobots, earning atitude tude from the power-tripping Sentinel. The Decepticons then r, so Optimuptimus tells Jazzewire tire the decontamination unit on the bridge into a freezing chamber to trap them, his Autobot emblem bli all thll the while. Optimus severs a sduct, gct, giving Jazz cover to escape, but then Lugnut punches a hn the the hull, sending everyone else in the brig out into space.

The Jet Twins prove far more capable in space combat than anticipated, giving the Decepticons a fair a of troubleouble. Noting their predicament through a porthole in the storage depot, Swindle metaphorically shrugs and goes back to looting. Meanwhile, despite Sentinel's continued objections and struggling, Optimus uses him as ing spig spiked slingshot against Lugnut. Sentinel inshe be e be obeyed as leader, but this only prompts [[Blitzwing (Animated)zwing]] tg]] to freez and hold hold him hostage. Sentinel demands they don't surrender, but Optimus convinces th Twins wins to follow his lead instead, and they capitulate.

[[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air Os Jazs HighFive.Five.humb|lemb|lefpx|Slip Se s me some metal,!].P.!]]
On the bridge, Blitzwing, [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]], and [[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] put Sentinel, Optimus and the Jet Twins in the decontamination unit with Jazz. Blitzwing sneers that Optimus shouldn't have blabbed his plan where all could hear it, as now the Autobots will suffer freezing instead. However, when he activates the chamber, the freezing tubes reverse direction, icing all the Decepticons on the bridge and leaving the Autobots safe. Optimus explains to a surprised Sentinel that back in the brig, he'd used his blinking emblem to send a different message to Jazz in Cybertronian [[cybertronian optical code|optical code]]. They all pause as they hear a roar of engines, courtesy of a loot-filled Swindle taking off in one of the ship's shuttles. As the Decepticons are imprisoned again, Sentinel offers Optimus the Elite Guard spot that will be opening when Sentinel becomes Magnus, but Prime demurs, as he's still got plenty to do on Earth.

At [[Sumdac Tower]], Bulkhead frets as Swindle's transwarp signal moves too far away to warp Optimus back. Sari offers to help fix it, but her father points out it won't be necessary, as the Elite Guard ship has come to them. Optimus steps off the ship, and he and Sentinel trade salutes before it departs.

On Cybertron, Sentinel has a victory parade, displaying his prisoners to a cheering crowd and vowing to hunt down and offline [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] and any other Decepticon if they accept him as the new Magnus. Perceptor and Alpha Trion exchange dubious glances, but say nothing.

[[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air Lugnut Megatron.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Ugh...I'll get the squeegee...]]
Out in space, [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] warps into place near a drifting Lugnut, who abruptly finds himself plastered on the front window—right in front of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
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==Featured characters==

{{featuredcharacters
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*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (2)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (8)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (9)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (12)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (13)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (14)
*[[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]] (15)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (16)
*[[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]] (17)
*[[Dug Base]] (18)
*[[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]] (19)
*[[Carerra (Animated)|Carerra]] (20)
*[[Searchlight (Animated)|Searchlight]] (21)
*[[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]] (22)
*[[Furao]] (23)
*[[Freeway (Animated)|Freeway]] (24)
*[[Beachcomber (Animated)|Beachcomber]] (25)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (26)
*[[Huffer (Animated)|Huffer]] (27)
*[[Powerglide (Animated)|Powerglide]] (28)
*[[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]] (29)
*[[Rattletrap]] (30)
*[[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]] (31)
*[[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]] (32)
*[[Autotrooper]] (33)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (34)
*[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]] (35)
*[[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]] (36)
*[[Tracks (Animated)|Tracks]] (37)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (38)
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*[[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] (5)
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (6)
*[[Lugnut]] (7)
*[[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] (10)
*[[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]] (11)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (39)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (40)
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*[[Isaac Sumdac]] (3)
|c4=
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (4)
|}}

==Quotes==
"Megatron cannot be stopped. Megatron is EVERYWHERE!" 
"You don't know how true that is."
:—'''Lugnut''' and '''Sentinel Prime'''

'''Sentinel Prime''': All due respect, Alpha Trion, the Council should concern itself with more important matters, like beefing up security for the Decepticon prisoners that...ahem...''I'' captured. 
'''Cliffjumper''': I thought that was [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]].
:—Actually, they're [[Lockdown (Animated)|both wrong]].

"Those bureaucratobots couldn't find their own [[Anatomic euphemism#Diode|diode]]s with a bitmap and a homing beacon."
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' talks behind the council's back.

"The Sonic Jammer 3000! Don't leave Cybertron without it! But wait—there's more! It also has a stasis suspension ray, handy for those tight spots. Picked this baby up on [[Quintessa]]. Nice folks, the [[Quintesson]]s; give you a good deal and all the oil you can drink."
:—'''Swindle''', ready as ever with a sales pitch.

"Guard the prisoners, or... loot the ship? It's a no-processor...er."

"Maybe I should help them.... or maybe I should just help myself!"

"Nothing beats a shopping spree... especially when it's all ''free!''"
:—The Tao of '''Swindle'''.

"Maybe that energon was a little ''too'' unstable!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' realizes he may not have thought his plan through very well.

==Notes==

===Animation or technical errors===
* When Sentinel calls for Jetfire and Jetstorm, the prisoners do not have their facemasks.

* Character heights vary wildly throughout the episode, mostly with the non-Swindle Decepticons being various levels of undersized. The kneeling Decepticons still tower over Swindle as he first talks to them (which seems correct, as Swindle is small), but do not appear to gain any height on him once they're upright. The final scene in particular, Blitzwing and the two clones are downright tiny, looking to be about as big as the average Autobot.

* In the crowd scenes towards the end of this episode, characters change positions relative to each other every time the camera angle switches. Beachcomber, in particular, appears in literally four different places at once.

* When Lugnut crashes against Omega Supreme at the end of the episode, his Deception insignia is missing.

===Continuity errors===
* Safeguard is able to create a tornado in outer space?

===Transformers references===
[[Image:TFAni Decepticon Air BoxScream ConeScream.jpg|thumb|180px|right|"Your conehead makes my ears look silly in comparison!" "No it doesn't!"]]
* Swindle claims to have had business dealings on [[Quintessa]], suggests they could make enough from Elite Guard parts to "retire to a beach island on [[Nebulos]]", and swears by "the fifth moon of [[Pz-Zazz]]".

* His reference to a "personal storage dimension" from which accessories can be pulled at a moments' notice hearkens back to the concept of [[subspace]].

* To help tell the Starscream clones apart, Swindle gives the Ramjet a [[conehead]] accessory and Sunstorm a boxy helmet resembling those of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. The new cone-head is topped with a drill. Cool.

* Sentinel's adoring public consists of a seriously crazy amount of cameos, a great many of which have not been seen before this episode. While many of them could be identified right away, it would take a further few episodes, and some more crowd scenes in "[[This Is Why I Hate Machines]]" and "[[Endgame, Part II]]", before some of the more obscure characters could all be named and shamed. The crowd includes [[Tap-Out (Animated)|Tap-Out]], [[Carerra (Animated)|Carerra]], [[Searchlight (Animated)|Searchlight]], [[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]], [[Furao]], [[Freeway (Animated)|Freeway]], [[Beachcomber (Animated)|Beachcomber]], [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]], [[Huffer (Animated)|Huffer]], [[Powerglide (Animated)|Powerglide]], [[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]], [[Rattletrap]], [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], [[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]], [[Autotrooper]] (based on [[Autrooper]]), [[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]], [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]], [[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]] and [[Tracks (Animated)|Tracks]]. The widescreen-to-fullscreen crop also manages to cut off an unnamed orange female robot (her forearm can be seen for a split-second poking into shot over Rosanna's head) who would reappear in "Endgame, Part II", an unknown, tall blue-and-white robot (behind the second Beachcomber, above Hot Shot) and an equally-mysterious skinny red-and-orange robot (behind Hot Shot). Recolored [[generic]] robots in the crowd include a Tracks-colored Mainframe, a red-white-and-blue Warpath, and a [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]]-colored Cosmos, sans nacelles.

* Sentinel and the Autobot Council are carried upon [[Grandus (Animated)|Grandus]]. Behind them, the Decepticon prisoners are carried by a [[Dug Base|Grandus lookalike]] with yellow detailing; Derrick Wyatt stated that this was supposed to represent Grandus's ''[[Brave]]'' [[redeco]], Dag Base.

* The "Lance" in "[[Broken Lance]]" refers to Sentinel's weapon of choice.

===Real-world references===
* The title is a play on ''[[wikipedia:Con Air|Con Air]]'', a Nicolas Cage movie where prisoners being transported by plane get free and do bad things.

* Sentinel's phrase "[[Broken Lance]]" is similar to the [[United States of America|U.S.]] military term "[[wikipedia:United States military nuclear incident terminology#Broken Arrow|Broken Arrow]]", which is used to describe a cock-up involving nuclear weapons. In this context, it is more likely to be a reference to the 1996 action film [[wikipedia:Broken Arrow (1996 film)|of the same name]], in which John Travolta hijacks a stealth bomber (in order to sell the nuclear missiles on board).

* Speaking of action movies, Optimus crawling through an air shaft, while sarcastically complaining about how much fun he's having, is very similar to a famous sequence from ''[[wikipedia:Die Hard|Die Hard]]''. The exploding elevator trick also appears in the film.

* When Optimus drops out of the air shaft suspended by a wire harness, it's similar to a famous sequence from the Tom Cruise version of ''[[wikipedia:Mission Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible]]''.

* Optimus claiming to have a small chamber that can trap his foes, only for them to doublecross him and force him inside it, only for him to ''triplecross'' them when the chamber is the only place safe from the real trap, is similar to a famous sequence from ''[[wikipedia:Superman II|Superman II]]''.

* Sari's fingers extending and separating when she types are a reference to ''[[wikipedia:Ghost in the Shell|Ghost in the Shell]]''.

* When Sentinel uses his remote to unlock and re-lock Lugnut's mouth clamps, it makes the same noise as a car alarm remote.

* When Swindle first hears Megatron's name, his facial expression changes with the sound of a cash register.

* Swindle's personal storage dimension features old Hanna-Barbera stock sound effects, typically used to denote magic spells.

* Swindle's "Don't leave Cybertron without it!" is a variation of the American Express credit card slogan "Don't leave home without it." He immediately follows that up with "But wait, there's more!", one of TV huckster [[wikipedia:Ron Popeil|Ron Popeil]]'s most famous catchphrases.

===Trivia===
*Sentinel Prime went through the space disturbance to gain some time, but in the end, agreed to go all the way back to Earth to drop off Optimus Prime. So the whole thing ended up being a rather pointless act. Lesson learned, Sentinel?
*Sentinel seems to have decided to keep his Earth alt-mode [[Autoboot Camp|this time]].

*At the end of "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]", Captain Fanzone claimed that Swindle would be stripped down for parts. But other than his weapons (which would have been confiscated by the Elite Guard if the Detroit Police hadn't already taken them), nothing obvious seems to be missing from his person. Maybe Fanzone was just trying to freak him out?

*When he's giving the helmets to Sunstorm and Ramjet, Swindle mentions in a very casual manner that he "never could get the hang of cloning." Thinking back, no one was really shocked to see the army of clones that Starscream created. So maybe, cloning is something fairly common among Decepticons, or at least was at some point.

*This episode marks the last appearance of Blitzwing, Sunstorm, Ramjet, and Swindle. They were some of the most loved Decepticons as well!

[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Race

2009-09-04T00:05:02Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=14
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=15
|title="Race"
|japanese=バドとホップの都会旅行
|romaji=Bud to Hop no Tokairyokō
|translation=Bud and Hop's Trip to the City
|image=Cyb_ep14_override_victorious.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Kazuhisa Sakaguchi]]
|director=[[Masashi Nagao]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[April 16]], 2005 (Japanese) [[September 17]], 2005
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''While the great race kicks into high gear on Velocitron, Bud and Lori go undercover on Earth, and Starscream recruits a new Decepticon.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb ep14 secret mission.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

On [[Velocitron]], the great race for the [[Planet Cup]] has finally begun! [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] and [[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]] battle it out for the lead, while the other [[Autobot]]s keep an eye on [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] and [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]]. [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] blocks the two goons' path, while [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] and [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] watch them from behind. The two trouble-makers allow the Autobots to pass...but only so they can fire on them from behind! The explosions catch Hot Shot's attention, but Prime encourages him to leave things to the other Autobots and for him to focus on winning.

Video of the race is transmitted to the Autobots [[Earth]], where it proves to be the only entertainment available for [[Bud Hansen|Bud]], who is caught in a traffic jam in the city, having been sent there on a mission with [[Lori]] and the [[Recon Mini-Con Team]] by [[Vector Prime]]. Bud is not happy to be in the noisy, cramped city, but Lori is thrilled to be back in her element. Once they get out of the traffic jam, Jolt leads the team to a university campus to search for a strange gear-shaped artifact, but when they try to sneak inside, a security guard chases after them.

[[Image:Cyb ep14 little red wagon.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

Back with the race, Ransack transforms to robot mode and leaps on top of Crumplezone, using his new position to launch a spring that hooks onto Optimus Prime's rear end. The spring catapults Ransack ahead of the Autobots, where he unleashes a smokescreen that allows Crumplezone to sneak up to join him. The pair then switch positions, with Crumplezone riding on top of Ransack! They draw up level with Hot Shot and Dirt Boss, and are able to cause the two racers to crash into each other, allowing them to pull ahead. Hot Shot recovers from his spin first, and gives chase.

[[Image:Cyb ep14 mudflap recruited.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Typical, the two guys with Generation 1 counterparts bully the new character.]]

Also watching the race from Earth are [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]], who are soon contacted by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]. When Megatron instructs Starscream to go to Velocitron and aid Crumplezone and Ransack, Starscream refuses point-blank and Megatron silently terminates their communication links. Thundercracker is shocked at his actions, but Starscream intimates that it is time for them to start making some decision for themselves, and their first one is to approach the civilian Autobot, [[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]]. A fight immediately breaks out between Thundercracker and Mudflap, but Starscream steps in to stop the brawl and offers Mudflap membership in the [[Decepticon]]s. Unable to fathom humans and discontented with life on Earth in general, Mudflap is swayed by Starscream's honeyed words and agrees. Switching his symbol to a Decepticon [[insignia]], Mudflap hops aboard Thundercracker and is taken back to the [[fire dimension]], leaving Starscream to cackle to himself at the beginning of the "fall of Megatron".

[[Image:Cyb ep14 kids meet suzuki.jpg|right|thumb|220px|So, what do you think of the caption?]]

Meanwhile, Bud and Lori manage to evade the campus security guard by ducking into a room. No sooner do they have time to observe that the room is a mess before someone else enters, and the pair quickly dive into a supply closet. Their hiding place is immediately discovered when the female professor who has just entered spills a cup of orange juice and opens the closet in search of cleaning supplies. Surprisingly enough, she takes this quite well, introduces herself as Professor [[Lucy Suzuki]], and even shows the kids her collection of strange archaeological artefacts, which she believes to be alien in origin. One of the pieces turns out to be the object Bud and Lori are looking for, so the kids quickly excuse themselves and depart. Lucy is poised to go after them before she gets a phone call from the front desk to inform her that [[Colonel Franklin|someone from the government]] is here to see her urgently...

[[Image:Cyb ep14 feeling flat.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Back on Velocitron, Crumplezone and Ransack use their lead to blast out a bridge, leaving Dirt Boss and all the Autobots behind them unable to proceed. Optimus helps Hot Shot clear the gap by driving off the edge into mid-air and using his cannons as a ramp for Hot Shot to vault off of, making it safely to the other side. Dirt Boss, meanwhile, goes off road, and quickly closes the gap on Crumplezone and Ransack, crashing down on top of them from above and flattening them down into the asphalt. While all this excitement goes on, Override crosses the finish line in first place, and Hot Shot then uses his [[Cyber Key]] Power to take second, securing his position in the next heat of the race.

Across the galaxy on [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]] , [[Backstop (Cybertron)|Backstop]] entreats [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] to listen to [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]]'s pleas. Unfortunately, Overhaul's gruff, confrontational manner means that the "discussion" doesn't go very well, almost immediately degenerating into a face-off between the two...
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (2)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (4)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]] (8)
*[[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]] (9)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (10)
*[[Vector Prime]] (11)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (12)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (14)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (15)
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (17)
*[[Six-Speed]] (18)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (20)
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (29)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (31)
*[[Backstop (Cybertron)|Backstop]] (32)
|c2=
*[[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]] (3)
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (6)
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (7)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (22)
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (23)
*[[Mudflap (Cybertron)|Mudflap]] (24)
*[[Undermine]] (27)
*[[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]] (28)
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (30)
|h3=[[Human]]s
|c3=
*[[Coby Hansen]] (13)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (16)
*[[Lori]] (19)
*Campus guard (21)
*[[Lucy Suzuki|Professor Lucy Suzuki]] (25)
*[[Colonel Franklin]] (26)
|c4=
*Race announcer (1)
}}

==Quotes==

"My theory... is that the item... is in a ''room''."
:—Elementary, my dear '''Bud'''!

"Has Crumplezone overheated and mistaken Ransack for his little red wagon?"
:—'''Race announcer''' after Crumplezone jumps upon Ransack

"What's weeth zeez humans, anyway? Zey are one bunch of deesorderly cats, eh?"
:—Zut alors! '''Mudflap''' is French! Why? Dang if we know!

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===

This episode features no notable changes from the ''Galaxy Force'' version, beyond the usual modifications and extensions made to dialogue and music.

===Transformers references===
*Thundercracker says of Mudflap, "This guy's about as neighborly as a hungry [[Tigatron]]!"
*The mysterious government operative previously appeared in "[[Hidden]]" and "[[Collapse]]".
===Real-world references===

*Bud dubs Jolt "Double-Oh-Zero", a variation of famous spy [[Wikipedia: James Bond|James Bond]]'s codename, Double-Oh-Seven (the joke is also in ''Galaxy Force'', though the term used is "0099"). Bud later does his best impression of Bond-as-played-by-[[wikipedia:Sean Connery|Sean Connery]], referring to a "Miss Pennymoney" (a reference to Bond's eternally unrequited love interest, Miss Moneypenny).

===Miscellaneous trivia===

*"Race" was the last episode of ''Cybertron'' to premiere on [[Cartoon Network]] in 2005; following its broadcast, the series moved to [[Kids WB]] and switched to a daily broadcast, beginning with the debut of the first two episodes of the series, "[[Fallen (episode)|Fallen]]" and "[[Haven]]", which Cartoon Network had originally skipped.

*The unknown actor who replaced [[Ryan Hirakida]] as Bud in "[[Hero]]" continues to voice the character in this episode.

*The green filter that tinges Megatron's brief communication with Starscream indicate that he's still in his unexplained regeneration bubble-thingy, as seen in the previous episode. This is the last we see of this little oddity; at the start of the next episode, he rolls up in vehicle mode and no mention is made of it again.

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Axe (weapon)

2009-09-01T18:17:24Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Chronological order.

{{disambig2|a type of melee weapon|the Andalite [[Animorph]]|Ax}}
[[Transformer]]s sometimes use '''axes''' for melee weapons.
==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] wielded an [[Energon-axe]] during a fight against [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] on a [[Sherman Dam|kind of important dam]]. Although the original toy did not include this accessory, it became closely associated with the character.

===Beast Wars Neo===
[[Mach Kick]]'s tail converts into a hatchet.

===Unicron Trilogy===
[[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]] generates an axe as an [[energon weapon]] and [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] has his colossal axe [[Sparkdrinker]].

===Live-Action Movie Series===
While Optimus's retractable blade weapon has been interpreted as a [[Swords|sword]] rather then an axe in this contuinity, the [[Michael Bay|AWESOMENESS]] of axes hasn't been overlooked: the [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] toy has a fold-out axe in one forearm (although no fiction to date has depicted him using it), [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]]'s landing-gear cane converts to an axe, and [[Crosshairs (Movie)|Crosshairs]] has an axe as well.

===Transformers Animated===
[[Optimus Prime (Animated)]] uses a rocket-powered axe as a signature weapon and for transport. Before the events of the series, it is shown that this weapon would have been used primarily as a tool rather then a weapon, used to clear rubble and detritus from space bridges. Not that that makes it any less effective in combat.

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[[Category:Cybertron]]
[[Category:Generation 1]]
[[Category:Weapons]]

Mace (weapon)

2009-09-01T18:03:46Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: battle Ravage stuff.

{{disambig2|the melee weapon|the [[human]] from [[Star Wars]]|Mace Windu}}
[[Transformer]]s sometimes use '''maces''' for melee weapons. A mace with the head connected to the handle by a cord or chain is typically called a flail.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] deployed an [[Energon mace]] once, as he battled [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]] atop a dam. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

===Beast Wars===
[[Optimus Primal]]'s Ultra Class gorilla toy possessed a (totall metal) skull-shaped mace that could be stored in his left arm. Said weapon was not used for his cartoon appearances. Although, when he was later upgrated to a [[Transmetal]], he possessed two maces, accessible in both robot mode and flight mode, (depicted as capable of deflecting laser blasts) and converted into a dual-cannon harness in robot mode. Said body's toy could also use these maces as ammo for his hand-held firearm.

===Unicron Trilogy===
The [[Battle Ravage]] drones possessed a mace, which turned ito it's beast mode's tail.

===2007 Movie===
This [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] had a retractable mace in his right arm. When a [[Sam Witwicky|puny fleshling]] refused to hand over the [[Allspark|cube]], Megatron demonstrated the foolishness of this response by using his mace to smash the concrete statue the human was holding onto for dear life.

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[[Category:Generation 1]]
[[Category:Movie]]
[[Category:Weapons]]

Talk:Emperor of Destruction

2009-09-01T18:00:48Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: /* SG Prime */

==Overlord==

Deathsaurus' Japanese profile reads: "Succeeded Overlord as the fifth Destron Leader." So would that imply that Overlord was an Emperor of Destruction, if only for a short time? --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 18:37, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

==BW Megatron==

Got a question. Was Megatron (BW) ever referred to as an Emperor of Destruction, perhaps in his Japanese tech spec or something? I only have a few episodes on tape in Japanese and none of them make a reference to Emperor of Destruction. I know that wouldn't gel with Galvatron being the Emperor at the same time, but Megatron was a rebel so it's possible he just self-titled himself. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 04:11, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

BW Megatron could have earned the title later, such as when he was in control of all of Cyberton in Beast Machines. - Ithekro

I haven't managed to see much of Beast Wars Returns, I'll have to see if I can find some packaging pics or something, but that's a good possibility. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 04:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

:Here's a list I just put together, Speng. These all come from the Japanese tech specs.

:G1 Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.
:G1 Galvatron: Fortress Staff Officer (or Fortress Officer; compare Ultra Magnus's "City Commander").

::Super Hybrid Model Galvatron says he's a "New Emperor of Destruction" --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 15:45, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

:G1 Megazarak: Emperor of Fear.
:Blood: Destruction Commander (or Commander of Destruction; compare Metalhawk's "Space Commander").
:Overlord: Ambassador of Destruction.
:Black Zarak: Emperor of Darkness.
:Deathsaurus: Emperor of Destruction.
:Metrotitan: Destron Commander.

:G2 Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.

:BW Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.
:Megalligator: Amazon Soldier.
:Megastorm: Duke of Destruction.
:BW Galvatron: New Emperor Of Destruction (the "new" seems to be part of his actual title, although whether if it means he took over from Megatron or not I dunno).
:Gigastorm: Grand Duke of Destruction.
:Magmatron: Emperor of Destruction.
:Metals Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.
:Metals Dragon Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.

:Gigatron: Dark God of Destruction.
:Devil Gigatron: Ultimate God of Destruction.

:Armada Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.
:Armada Galvatron: Emperor of Destruction.
:Armada Unicron: Emperor of Stars.

:Energon Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.
:Energon Megazarak: Destruction Commander (or Commander of Destruction).
:Energon Galvatron: Emperor of Destruction.

:Cybertron Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.

:Beast Megatron: Emperor of Destruction.
:Rebirth Megatron: Dark Emperor of Destruction.

:Unfortunately, I don't have Cyb Galvatron's function, as the Japanese TS archive hasn't updated since before the end of Galaxy Force. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 00:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

::Sorry to bump this, but which versions are the last two (Beast & Rebirth Megatron)? Are they RM and Beast Wars Reborn? Also, do either of the Beast Wars Returns Megatrons have titles? --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 18:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
:::Beast Megatron and Rebirth Megatron are Robot Masters characters. Beast Megatron is considered to be a time-traveling Beast Wars Megatron, and Rebirth Megatron is Reverse Convoy.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]] 02:42, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

==Starscream==
Shouldn't Starscream be included among the Emperors of Destruction? I mean, while I haven't seen the Transformers movie, I know that most of his reign was the length of his own coronation, but he is counted among the Decepticon leaders. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 15:23, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

:I think it's fair to say that in the context of the Japanese fiction that is Likely what he was crowning himself, but with out an explicit statement it's probably too speculative to be included in the wiki.--[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 15:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
::As the list above proves, not every Deception leader is an "Emperor of Destruction". [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 02:21, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
*It's been a while, but I can break out my copy of the Movie in Japanese and fastforward to the cornonation scene. Maybe he says something like "As the new Emperor of the Destruction, I-" I doubt it, but I'll check it out. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 19:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

==Gnashteeth==
"Gnashteeth (ナッシュティース) is the God of Destruction of the Destrons" Is that a title?

==Dark Nova & Master Galvatron==
I found this title for Dark Nova - 大帝王. It seems to be "Ultimate Emperor". Also, the Japanese tech spec archive has updated with Cybertron Galvatron/Master Galvatron's title - 真破壊大帝. This seems to be "True Emperor of Destruction". Before I add them, I'd like some comments on the accuracy of translation... TX55? --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 11:21, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
::Oops, sorry for the late to see the message. The term "大帝王" should be "Great (or Grand) Emperor". "Ultimate" is for "究極". As for "真破壊大帝", yep, IMO "''True'' Emperor of Destruction" is good and suitable. :D --[[User:TX55|TX55]] 02:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

== Animated Megs ==
Um, I haven't see most of the episode of TF: Animated. Did anyone know which episode mentioned Animated Megatron is [[Emperor of Destruction]]? I only know Animated Magnus is Autobot Supreme Commander. Thanks. --[[User:TX55|TX55]] 09:23, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

== Scorponok ==

I'm sure Zarak did not call himself Emperor of Destruction but choose his own title. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 15:05, 17 June 2009 (EDT)

== SG Prime ==

Uhh.....was SG Prime ever referred to as an Emperor of Destruction, or did someone pluck that one out of thin air? --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 13:35, 1 September 2009 (EDT)
: IIRC, it was on his tech spec card, but I don't have it handy to check. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:38, 1 September 2009 (EDT)
::OK.....gonna have to get used to that..... --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 13:47, 1 September 2009 (EDT)
::: You do remember correctly, I checked Siebertron's photos of his tech spec card and it does say that. [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 14:00, 1 September 2009 (EDT)

Ship

2009-09-01T17:54:14Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=12
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=13
|title="Ship"
|japanese=アトランティスの攻防
|romaji=Atlantis no Kōbō
|translation=Atlantis's Offense and Defense
|image=Cyb ep12 battle for the lock.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Gyō Yamatoya]]
|director=[[Isao Takayama]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[April 2]], 2005 (Japanese) [[September 3]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''In the shadow of the Moon, Optimus Prime battles Megatron for possession of the Omega Lock!'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb ep12 atlantis moon.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

The [[Autobot]]s begin the search for the missing ''[[Atlantis]]'' in earnest, but despite the help of their civilian comrades, they are unable to find any trace of the lost starship. Eventually, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] has a brainstorm—if the ship is not on Earth, but lacked the power to teleport any further away, then there's only one place it could be: in the shadow of the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]! The [[Decepticon]]s, unfortunately, have already used the [[Planet Map]] to figure this out and are well on their way toward the ''Atlantis'', unaware they are being followed by the mysterious robot [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]].

Aboard the ''Atlantis'' out in space, [[Vector Prime]] explains to the children that he believes the [[Omega Lock]] to be on board the ship. Before they can start searching, alarms alert them to the approach of the Decepticons, so Vector Prime transforms the ''Atlantis'' into battle mode, allowing its powerful weapons systems to keep the Decepticons busy. No sooner have they begun their descent into the bowels of the ship, following the kids' sensitivity to the [[Omega Frequency]], than Megatron is able to break through the ''Atlantis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s hull, and starts after them.

[[Image:Cyb ep12 enter sideways.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Gentlemen.]]

The other Decepticons are about to follow him through when the Autobots arrive and engage them in battle. In the middle of the fight, Sideways comes streaking out of nowhere and opens fire on [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], offering Optimus Prime the distraction he needs to break off from the battle and get inside the ''Atlantis''. The other Autobots take the help where they can get it and form on Sideways to join him in attacking Starscream, when suddenly, out of the blue, the enigmatic robot summons a [[Cyber Key]] and switches his [[insignia]] to a Decepticon one! The mystified Autobots are quickly taken down by Sideways, who then transforms to vehicle mode and flies off, leaving all the combatants (not to mention viewers) wondering just ''what the hell that was all about''.

[[Image:Cyb ep12 megs lock.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Sure, go ahead and touch it. Just don't cry to me when you need new fingerprints.]]

Deep within the ''Atlantis'', Vector Prime's team have located the room containing the Omega Lock, but the device itself is nowhere to be seen. Vector Prime touches a control console, causing six pedestals to rise from the floor. The three kids and three Mini-Cons each take a pedestal, and when they all touch them simultaneously, the Omega Lock at last emerges! Vector Prime is about to perform the last step that will release the Lock—disabling the security system surrounding it—but before he can do so, Megatron swoops into the room and seizes the Lock, triggering the security system and sending the ''Atlantis'' into self-destruct mode. Before the Decepticon leader can abscond with the Omega Lock, however, Optimus Prime comes crashing through the ceiling and orders Vector Prime and the others to retreat while he battles Megatron for possession of the ancient device.

Vector Prime, the kids and the Mini-Cons join the other Autobots outside the ''Atlantis'' and watch as explosions burst all across the surface of the craft, until it finally erupts in a colossal fireball. The Autobots think Optimus Prime is done for, but moments later, the Autobot leader comes soaring out of the fading light of the explosion, Omega Lock in hand! Believing Megatron to be so many cosmic particles, the Decepticons retreat, and the Autobots regroup on the surface of the Moon. Optimus Prime moves to hand the Omega Lock to Vector Prime, when it suddenly erupts with light, shooting a beam of energy off into the depths of the space. On [[Velocitron]], the [[Planet Cup]] resonates and does the same, as does the [[Beast Totem]] of [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]]. Before the Autobots' eyes, a [[space bridge]] opens in the air above them, and a communication comes through from [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]], urgently instructing them to come to Velocitron. Ordering the other Autobots and kids back to base with the Omega Lock, Optimus Prime takes Vector Prime and [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] with him through the space bridge to the next planet and the next adventure!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (1)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (2)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (3)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (4)
*Airliner Autobots (6, 7)
*Submarine Autobot (8)
*Space shuttle Autobot (9)
*[[Six-Speed]] (16)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (17)
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (18)
*[[Vector Prime]] (19)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (21)
|c2=
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (10)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (11)
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (12)
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (20)
|h3=[[Human]]s
|c3=
*[[Lori]] (13)
*[[Coby Hansen]] (14)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (15)
|h4=Other
|c4=
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (5)
}}
==Quotes==
"You'll never defeat me!" 
"It's all I ever do!"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' as they clash over the [[Omega Lock]]. Optimus has a bit of a point.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===

The principal change to this episode is the customary insertion of the Omega Frequency and dialogue relating to it into a large number of appropriate scenes. Additional changes include:

*In ''Galaxy Force'', the airliner Autobots investigate the North Pole. In ''Cybertron,'' they search the ''South'' Pole.
*When Vector Prime activates the ''Atlantis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s battle mode in ''Galaxy Force'', an ancient recording plays (in an unintelligible language which [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] translates), simply telling the "crew" of the ship what is happening. ''Cybertron'' replaces this with the sound of the Omega Frequency, and Jolt not translating, but simply telling them what's happening. This ancient language is later heard again announcing the self-destruct sequence, and is simply replaced with a klaxon in ''Cybertron''.

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* In the opening seconds of the ''Cybertron'' version of the episode, Jetfire asks: "Where did they go? And how do we get them back?" but it's Landmine's mouth that's moving.
===Continuity errors===
*''Cybertron'' has Vector Prime claim that "all four" of his team are fine after they escape the ''Atlantis''. There are seven of them!

===Miscellaneous trivia===

*From this episode up to "[[Champion]]" (inclusive), a different, unidentified actor replaces [[Ryan Hirakida]] as Bud.
*In the closing moments of the episode, as Optimus Prime hands him the Omega Lock, Vector Prime spontaneously develops a British [[accents|accent]]. He'll keep this upper-class method of speech for the remainder of the series.

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Inferno (episode)

2009-09-01T17:20:11Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

{{disambig3|Inferno}}
{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=52
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=2
|prev2=Fallen (episode)
|next2=Haven
|title="Inferno"
|japanese=トランスフォーマーとの遭遇
|romaji=Transformer no Sōgū
|translation=Encounter with the Transformers
|image=Cyb_ep52_burning_down_the_house.jpg
|caption=Fool! Pain is my friend...allow [[Inferno (BW)|me]] to introduce ''you'' to it!
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Hiro Masaki]]
|director=[[Kahoru Igusa]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[January 15]], 2005 (Japanese) [[October 2]], 2006 (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Some other things happen.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Cyb ep52 hauling landmine.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and his [[Autobot]]s take a [[space bridge]] to [[Earth]], though [[Vector Prime]] warns that the evacuation of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] is only delaying the inevitable; the [[Unicron Singularity|black hole]] will eventually consume all of reality if they do not stop it. To this end, the Autobots split into two teams: [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]], [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] and [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] are assigned to accompany Vector Prime in pursuit of [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], to recover the [[Planet Map]] the [[Decepticon]] leader stole, while Optimus and [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] search Earth for the missing [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]].

Meanwhile, on Earth, [[Coby Hansen|Coby]] rushes to the garage of his engineering mentor [[Mr. Stanton]], looking for tools to help repair the injured Landmine. Coby claims he is going to "mine for gold", and the amused Stanton lets Coby borrow the tools, plus his ATV. Coby uses the ATV to help pull Landmine out of the impact crater he left when he fell to Earth, and he and his brother [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] proceed to lead the Autobot into the cover of the forest, where they meet with their friend [[Lori]] and begin repairing his injuries and polishing his armor.

Elsewhere on Earth, Optimus is waiting for Scattorshot to scan a new [[alternate mode]]. He spies a billboard with what might be a war-movie advertisement on it and scans the vehicle from that: a half-track tank. Optimus is dubious, but Scattorshot gets suitably lippy and the two drive off.

[[Image:Cyb ep52 planet map.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Remember, using chaff or entering Alert staus will disable your map.]]

In outer space, Megatron and [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] arrive in an asteroid field, guided by the stolen map to the location of one of the [[Cyber Planet Key]]s. When Megatron breaks open the largest asteroid, however, he finds nothing, and almost crushes the map in anger, until Starscream stops him and points out that the map itself is ancient, and that the universe is constantly moving. Megatron muses that some adjustments need to be made, but then the Autobot strike team arrives. Vector Prime and Jetfire tackle Starscream while Overhaul and Hot Shot pile on Megatron. They put up a good fight, but even two-to-one, the Autobots are unable to take down the Decepticons.

[[Image:LandmineFootprints.jpg|left|220px|thumb|I sure hope somebody needs a forest ranger around here sometime.]]
Back on Earth, the town sheriff and a crowd of people discover the giant footprints Landmine left behind, and begin searching the woods in search of the "Bigfoot" that has left the tracks. Word of this discovery travels fast, and Optimus Prime happens to overhear two gas station attendants talking about it. The Autobot leader quickly reads between the lines, and sets off for the forest to investigate.

Elsewhere, the Decepticon [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] arrives on Earth and scans a military jet for his alternate mode. Thundercracker soon spies Landmine and the kids, fleeing through the woods with the search party hot on their heels, and launches a volley of missiles at the Autobot. The fires that result from Thundercracker's incendiary attack send the rangers fleeing, at which point Optimus Prime arrives on the scene! Thundercracker lands and fires on Optimus, but can't take the heat, and returns to the air. Optimus follows in his flying form, and the two play cat-and-mouse in a nearby canyon until Optimus gets the upper hand and blows up a battery of Thundercracker's missiles right in the Decepticon's face, sending his hurtling away through a [[dimension gate]].

[[Image:Cyb ep52 fire fighting.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

With Thundercracker disposed of, the Autobots have to turn their attention to the fire, and the humans trapped within the flames. Optimus Prime sucks up water from the nearby lake, and converts to [[Super Mode]], using his cannons to douse the inferno with a hyper-ionized blast of water. That to the Autobot leader's careful tactics, the humans think that it is simply raining, and walk away happy after the flames die out.

The other Autobots soon arrive on the scene, and more introductions are made between them and the kids. The Autobots are loathe to involve the human children in their mission, but that doesn't stop Bud from cozying up to Vector Prime inspecting his impressive clockwork inner workings. As Bud touches the ancient Transformers' armor, the [[Recon Mini-Con Team]] spring forth and scan their alternate modes from Coby's spilled books and magazines. Jolt recognizes the image on Lori's rock-band t-shirt is that of the [[Omega Lock]], one of the keys to stopping the black hole. Vector Prime muses that if that pattern is appearing on Earth, then maybe one of the Cyber Planet Keys is here...
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (2)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (3)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (4)
*[[Vector Prime]] (5)
*[[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] (6)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (7)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (11)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (17)
*[[Six-Speed]] (18)
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (19)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (14)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (15)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (16)

|c3=
*[[Coby Hansen]] (8)
*[[Mr. Stanton]] (9)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (10)
*[[Lori]] (12)
*Sheriff (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"Just one question... are you standard or metric?" 
"You know, I never really thought about it."
:—'''Coby''' and '''Landmine'''

"A ''tank''?! Are you ''trying'' to draw attention to us?!" 
"As opposed to a firetruck with giant ''cannons''? Yeah, 'cuz that blends in ''so'' well with the scenery. Where'd you go? Oh, ''there'' you are, I didn't see you for a second! Huh. A tank is perfect! No parking tickets, they'll all get out of my way, ''and'' I can get up to sixty miles per hour on rough terrain!" 
"Yes... but a fire truck is bigger." 
"''Wanna race?''"
:—'''Optimus''' and '''Scattorshot''' discuss their alternate modes' disguise value

"Bigfoot in platform shoes?"
:—'''Random witness''' to the footprints Landmine left behind

"It's been real, gentlemen."
:—'''Optimus Prime'''

"If the Earth is in danger..." 
"Not ''if'', ''when''!"
:—'''Lori''' and '''Scattorshot'''

'''Jolt:''' Um, where are we, anyway? 
'''Lori:''' This is Earth. 
'''Jolt:''' Ooh-hoo-hoo! ''Earth!'' 
'''Coby:''' You know it? 
'''Jolt:''' Never heard of it.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*''Galaxy Force'' includes a "previously on" segment that summarizes the events of the first episode, which ''Cybertron'' drops. This sequence featured the revelation that Landmine had not been sucked into the black hole, but had in fact been warped to Earth by Vector Prime, but American audiences already knew this, so its removal meant nothing.
*While ''Cybertron'' has the characters talking about a "search party", ''Galaxy Force'' has them discuss the consumption of Cybertron by the black hole, a plot point consistently excised from the English version of the show.
*In both ''Galaxy Force'' and the first ''Cybertron'' version of the scene (in the episode "[[Fallen (episode)|Fallen]]", see below), Vector Prime suspects that the presence of the symbol of the Omega Lock means the device may be on the Earth. Rather inexplicably, in this ''Cybertron'' episode, he suspects it may mean a Cyber Planet Key is here (of course, both suppositions eventually prove correct, but still...)

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
[[Image:Cyb ep52 wing clip.jpg|thumb|]]

* When Landmine is flexing his recently-repaired hand, the support strut for his right arm's shovel-half is actually phasing through the shovel.
* When Optimus Prime thanks the gas station attendants, and later when he meets up with Landmine, his headlights do not flash as he speaks. You might think it's a dubbing error, but the effect is missing in ''Galaxy Force'' too.
* After Thundercracker transforms to robot mode, as he fires at Optimus, his tail fin clips through his leg (see image at right).

===Continuity errors===
* A running error throughout these early episodes (well, early-continuity) is that characters have blatant Earth-alternate-mode [[kibble]] on them before they scan an Earth alternate mode. Scattorshot and the Mini-Cons scan theirs this episode... and Landmine won't get ''his'' until his [[Landmine (episode)|titular episode]], quite a few down the line.
* Despite getting a second chance to correct the error they made regarding it in "Fallen", ''Cybertron'' persists in claiming that the old t-shirt Lori wears in this episode is her brother's, when she doesn't ''have'' a brother.

===Transformers references===
* Optimus uses the old catchphrase "robots in disguise" when telling Scattorshot to hurry up and scan an alternate mode.

===Real-world references===
* The military jet scanned by Thundercracker is referred to as "Oceanic Flight 815", after the doomed airliner from the TV series ''[[wikipedia:Lost_(TV_series)|Lost]]''.
* Thundercracker hoots "Time to git 'r' done!", the catchphrase of popular hick-comedian [[wikipedia:Larry_The_Cable_Guy|Larry The Cable Guy]].

===Miscellaneous trivia===
[[Image:Cyb ep52 flying autobots.jpg|right|thumb]]
* This episode originally aired in Japan as the second episode of ''Galaxy Force'', but was combined with the first episode to create "[[Fallen (episode)|Fallen]]", the first episode of the ''Cybertron'' dub. To fill out the full run of 52 dubbed episode, this episode was dubbed as a "lost" episode that served as the 52nd and final of the series. When ''Cybertron'' was released on DVD in Malaysia, the episode was included as the second of the series, but when the series was released in the United States, it retained its iffy 52nd placement.
* This episode is the first in which several land-based Autobots fly under their own power in robot mode. It's not a feat they will repeat often.
* In this episode, as well as "[[Retreat]]" and "[[Revelation (episode)|Revelation]]", actress [[Chiara Zanni]] stands in for [[Sarah Edmondson]] as Lori.

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Sword

2009-09-01T16:15:43Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Rearranged some UT facts, added image and another example.

{{cleanup|July 2009|Lots of broken English, missing info and redirect links.}}
[[Image:Movie2007 Prime sword.jpg|right|300px|thumb|This is how he extracts your face...]]
'''Swords''' are popular melee weapons used by both [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s. They appear in multiple [[continuity family|continuity families]], including [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]], [[Movie (franchise)|the 2007 movie]], and [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
The [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]] [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] wielded a [[sonic sword]]. It made powerful vibrations, making it a deadly weapon against his enemies. [[Headstrong]] wields a [[diffraction sword]], while[[Tantrum]] uses an [[electro-sword]].

===Japanese cartoon continuity===
====Headmasters====
[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] used the [[Master Sword]], first using it to destroy a monstrous carnivorous plant attacking [[San Francisco]]. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}} Through torture, interrogation, and ransoming, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] got the data on the Master Sword and created the [[Zarak Shield]], which proved able to deflect the Master Sword when they first clashed in battle. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}} Fortress Maximus used the Master Sword to destroy the Zarak Shield and Scorponok's [[Transtector]], saving the planet. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

====Super-God Masterforce====
[[Grand Maximus]] wielded the [[Master Blade]] which was similar to the Master Sword used by his older brother.

====Beast Wars Neo====
[[Magmatron]] wielded the [[Magma Blade]]. He used it despite being only a decapitated head—by gripping it with his teeth—and gave it to [[Big Convoy]], asking Convoy to kill him with it so he could die a warrior's death. Big Convoy obliged. {{storylink|Double Cross}} Later Big Convoy destroyed [[Unicron]]'s physical body with the Magma Blade.

===Robots in Disguise===
[[Omega Prime]] can wield the [[Matrix Blade]] which was created from the desire for an Autobot victory from children all around the world. Seriously. Omega Prime then defeated Galvatron with the blade. {{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
The [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Air Defense Mini-Con Team]] could combine into the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]]

The Star Saber was the source of nigh-unlimited power for an ancient civilization. It was later responsible for the civilization's destruction via sinking into the ocean. [[Sonar (Armada)|Sonar]]'s [[Mini-Con]] panel was left there and later recovered by the [[Decepticon]]s. {{storylink|Ruin}}

Later, after invading the Autobot base, [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] used Sonar to locate the other two Mini-Cons and eventually succeeded in forming the Star Saber for the first time in ages. His victory was short-lived, however, as [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] stole it from him. Hot Shot was shaky in his command of the saber and at first did not put up a good offensive against Megatron. After words of advice from [[Rad White]], Hot Shot harnessed the power of the Mini-Cons to defeat Megatron, cutting off Megatron's antenna in the process. {{storylink|Swoop (episode)|Swoop}}

Hot Shot continued fighting and defeating Decepticons with the Star Saber, the Saber allowing him to easily slice off pieces of his opponents. While in a swordfight with [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], he was hit once, but Starscream's sword was cut in two by the Saber. But even with the Saber in his possession Hot Shot was no match for [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]], and was easily defeated. Afterwards Scavenger hinted to Megatron a legend of a [[Skyboom (Armada)|shield]] that could counter the Star Saber. {{storylink|Overmatch}}

Hot Shot practiced with the saber but struggled once again against Scavenger. He eventually used the sword to cut away an unfinished bridge, causing Scavenger to fall. {{storylink|Gale}} In another battle they were transported, along with [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]], to the Decepticon base. After a battle, Sideways was captured by Megatron, who offered a trade for the Star Saber. Hot Shot decided to agree to the trade, but as soon as Sideways was free he called back the Star Saber in the form of its three components. Sideways then turned on Hot Shot and knocked the Saber out of Hot Shot's grip and to Starscream, who then took control of it. {{storylink|Credulous}}

With the Star Saber in hand, the Decepticons won many battles and captured more Mini-Cons. Megatron later tricked Starscream into attacking him, and took the Star Saber as the Decepticon view shifted negatively against Starscream. {{storylink|Conspiracy|Conspiracy}} Megatron used the Star Saber to attack [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] in super mode, but had his attacks parried. He was later thrown into a crevasse, but kept the Star Saber in hand. {{storylink|Trust (Armada)|Trust}}

With the Star Saber, Megatron believed himself invincible. {{storylink|Reinforcement}} Megatron attacked Optimus Prime with both the Star Saber and the Skyboom Shield. Optimus Prime's gun was cut in two and his arm was damaged. With the help of [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]], Optimus was able to steal the Skyboom Shield away from Megatron. Then the Star Saber and Skyboom Shield collided, causing a beam of light to head off into space. {{storylink|Decisive Battle}}

The Autobots attempted to figure out the origins of the Star Saber while Megatron figured out new ways to attack using it. Optimus later commented that the power released when it hit the Skyboom Shield was due to the "screams of the Mini-Cons." {{storylink|Vow}} When Starscream contested Megatron for leadership of the Decepticons, Megatron bet the Star Saber on the winner. Megatron won the battle and kept the Star Saber for himself. {{storylink|Rebellion}}

[[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] at one point asked for the Star Saber as the only way to guarantee Decepticon victory. During the battle, he let Megatron use it and never actually took possession of it. {{storylink|Tactician}} Megatron found himself increasingly frustrated with his inability to harm the Autobots due to the Skyboom Shield. He wounded [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] once with the Saber, but found further hits once again parried by the shield. {{storylink|Linkup}}

The Star Saber was drawn toward the Skyboom Shield. Together they caused a signal that awakened the Mini-Cons that combined to create the [[Requiem Blaster]]. {{storylink|Desperate}} Later, in the jungle, Starscream used the Saber to battle Optimus Prime. The three component Mini-Cons turned the Saber off to protest the fighting. {{storylink|Sacrifice}}

After changing sides, Starscream used the Star Saber to attack Megatron and [[Thrust (Armada)|] and used it to block a shot from the Requiem Blaster. Optimus Prime then took it to attack [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]]. {{storylink|Regeneration}} In the attack to save the Mini-Cons, Starscream again battled Megatron and was able to chop off Megatron's turret. {{storylink|Rescue}} On the adventure to [[Mars]], Starscream threw a tantrum and sliced a few mountains with the Saber. Later when the Saber was in the presence of the Skyboom Shield and the Requiem Blaster, all three weapons shone light and then caused an explosion in space. {{storylink|Mars (episode)|Mars}}

When Starscream eventually turned sides again he took the Star Saber back to the Decepticon side. {{storylink|Crack}} He presented the saber to Megatron and was immediately threatened with it. All three weapons were then combined to power the ultimate weapon, the [[Hydra Cannon]]. {{storylink|Threaten}}

Armed with the Star Saber and Skyboom Shield, [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] led the attack on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and attacked Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Uprising}} Galvatron later almost handed the Star Saber to [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]], but instead used it to attack [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], who had infiltrated the base. [[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]] parried the attack. All of this prevented Thrust from stealing the Star Saber, so he instead ran off with the other two weapons. {{storylink|Dash (episode)|Dash}} When [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] was unable to catch the fleeing Thrust, Galvatron threatened him with the Star Saber. {{storylink|Drift (episode)|Drift}} Sideways then got angry at Thrust for not being able to secure the Star Saber with the Skyboom Shield and Requiem Blaster. {{storylink|Portent}}

Galvatron swiped at Starscream with the Star Saber then attacked Optimus Prime when Optimus attempted to negotiate a truce with the Decepticons. Optimus was able to catch the Star Saber in mid-swing. Starscream interrupted the battle, causing Galvatron to attack him. Starscream was able to dodge at first but then allowed himself to be run through. After pulling out the Star Saber from his chassis, Starscream attacked a hovering [[Unicron]]. Unicron retaliated, destroying Starscream utterly. Seeing this, Galvatron picked up the Star Saber and offered it to Optimus Prime, but Sideways appeared and stole it from his hand. {{storylink|Cramp}}

Returning to Unicron, Sideways shoved the saber into the ground, fully awakening him. {{storylink|Alliance (episode)|Alliance}} It then became part of Unicron's body and the component Mini-Cons were said to be impossible to awake. Later, when Galvatron and Optimus Prime invaded Unicron's interior, Galvatron saw the Star Saber and reached for it. Tentacles surrounding it attacked Galvatron, causing him to recoil. Eventually the saber was awakened by a Mini-Con song, splitting into the component Mini-Cons. {{storylink|Origin}}

[[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis Prime]] wielded the [[Vorpal Saber]]. After the [Autobots and the Decepticons landed on a strange world, they were menaced by a rampaging, powerful clone of Optimus Prime. The creature, calling himself Nemesis Prime, was seemingly defeated by Megatron when he fired the Requiem Blaster and blew the clone to pieces. However, the pieces reconnected with each other and Nemesis Prime formed the powerful [[Vorpal Saber]] as an extension of his own flexible, warping body. The Vorpal Saber disintegrated when the Mini-Cons arrived to save the other [[Transformer]]s. {{storylink|Puppet|Puppet}}

The [[Blizzard Saber]] is made up of the three Mini-Cons [[Beacon]], [[Lens]], and [[Quantum]].

[[Image:E07_megatronsword.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Argghhhh, my wrist!]]

Megatron also wielded an [[Energon Sword]] at one point.

Hot Shot, greviously injured, was regenerated into a new body by the power of Primus. His Cybertron Defence body so happened to have a sword with it. Sometimes he slotted it into his wrist, other times he held it.

===Transformers Animated===
After taking his Earth form, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]'s helicopter blades became dual swords. He used these swords to kill [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] at least once {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}} and later battled [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] with them. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

===2007 Movie===
[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] first deployed a sword from his right arm to take [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]'s face. He hated that. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers }} Optimus Prime used swords from both his arms to fight [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] in a fight in the forest. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

===Miscellaneous===
*Both [[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]] and [[Piranacon]] wield [[incendiary sword]]s.

[[Category:Blades| ]]

Dirt Boss (Animated)

2009-09-01T00:12:00Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 358837 by 200.181.174.17 (Talk)

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{{disambig3|Dirt Boss}}
:''Dirt Boss is a [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:AnimatedDirtBoss.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Diminutive, ain't he?]]

Created accidentally by the fusion of a forklift, a [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster unit]] and an [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] fragment, '''Dirt Boss''' is a little bot with big, big plans. Sick of having been bossed around back when he was nothing more than a simple machine, he's decided that ''he's'' going to be giving the orders from now on!

His nasty attitude might be enough to accomplish this on its own, but he's capable of getting muscle for his jobs very quickly. He can fire a small remote control device from his forehead, tipped with a drill that allows it to bore its way into other other machines{{m-}}Transformers included{{m-}}giving Dirt Boss direct control of their motor functions. And if he really has to get his servos dirty, his stumpy little legs are actually quite capable of delivering a brutal roundhouse. Now he's taken command of the other [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicon]]s and is going to make sure [[Detroit]] knows who's boss!

{{bigquote|Bots like us, we helped build this city! An' now we're gonna take a piece of it back! ''With interest!''|Dirt Boss about five minutes after activation|"[[Three's a Crowd]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor'': [[John Mariano]] (English)
[[Isaac Sumdac]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] were using the forklift that would become Dirt Boss in their [[space bridge]] recreation project at [[Sumdac Tower]], but Bulkhead's natural clumsiness sent the forklift, the recently recaptured Headmaster unit, and an Allspark fragment plummeting several floors. While Isaac went to sleep off his scare and Bulkhead went to get help with reinforcing the tower's structural support for the new space bridge, the fallen objects fused together.

[[Image:Imgdirtboss-animated.jpg|left|thumb|I gotta deal you can't-a refuse, icehole!]]

By the time Bulkhead returned with [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] and [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]], who were beginning to come around to the idea of becoming [[Autobot]]s, Dirt Boss had come to life. Pulled up by Scrapper, the tiny terror immediately used his motor-control power on Scrapper to make him hit himself repeatedly. The three far larger robots were quickly cowed into submission, and Dirt Boss revealed his plan to hijack oil shipments to increase his power base in the city...a plan with which the two Constructicons quickly got on board.

Leading the two on an overnight crime spree (and occasionally beating the Constructicons for drinking the profits), he revealed his plan to torch the [[Fossil Fuel]] plant, forcing the city to come to him for oil. Bulkhead attempted to stop them before they left, but that didn't go too well. Bulkhead was dragged to the fuel plant, and eventually Dirt Boss used his motor-control on him, intending him to start a fire that would destroy the plant (sacrificing the bound Mixmaster in the process). The rest of the Autobots arrived, but a stray spark set the spilled oil ablaze anyway. Dirt Boss took control of Mixmaster and Scrapper, who had become stuck together in the fight, and rode them to the top of the oil tower. Fortunately, Sumdac had followed them, carrying the [[plasmadynamic thruster]] from their space bridge. Bulkhead reprogrammed the device and transported the oil tanker—and the three Constructicons—to just offshore of [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]] just before it exploded. {{storylink|Three's a Crowd}}

48 days later, Scrapper had still not managed to contact or locate Dirt Boss or Mixmaster. {{storylink|Human Error, Part II}}

==Notes==
* Well, it took a while, but anime fans can at last point to an honest-to-gosh reference to the anime ''[[wikipedia:Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' in ''Animated'': As confirmed by [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] over his Twitter feed, Dirt Boss is designed in homage to the small Lagann mecha from the show.
* Despite having just been created, Dirt Boss manages to have a Decepticon insignia without [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]'s influence.
* Dirt Boss can fire shells from his forehead to control other robots? [[Bombshell (G1)|Sounds familiar...]]
* Given his relative size and design, Dirt Boss looks to be the head or torso portion of [[Devastator (G1)|a future Constructicon combiner...]]

[[Category: Animated characters]]
[[Category: Cartoon-only characters]]
[[Category: Constructicons]]
[[Category: Gangsters]]

Female Transformer

2009-08-31T17:03:09Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Added Shortround and Thunderblast examples. I'm not sure the second will stick.

{{disambig2|female Transformers in general|the [[Autobot]] resistance group led by [[Elita One]]|Female Autobots}}

{{bigquote|Well, I remember bringing up that question early on with Hasbro, "are any of these female?" And then I think Hasbro's attitude was, 'this is a boy toy. We don't wanna have, you know, girl robots.' So, I said, "OK, just want to clarify that."|[[Bob Budiansky]]|[http://rustingcarcass.yuku.com/topic/954 Rusting Carcass interview]}}

[[Image:ArceeManga1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Arcee, the most famous female Transformer, poses for the boys. Way to set an example there.]]
Despite being robotic lifeforms with generally non-sexual methods of [[reproduction]], the [[Transformer]] species has almost always been shown to include both male and female gender analogues, at least mentally if not physically. '''Female Transformers''' are usually portrayed as comparatively rare, but are considered an official part of the [[Transformers brand]] in pretty much every continuity.

Click here for a '''[[List of female Transformers]]''' from all continuities.

==Appearance==
[[Image:BMStrika.jpg|left|170px|thumb|Our mechanics assure us this is a woman.]]
The appearance of female Transformers in most continuities would seem to suggest a level of "sexual" dimorphism is present in at least the more humanoid members of the Transformers species (the term sexual is used in a gender-based, rather than physical sense, see the reproduction link above for that whole kettle of robo-fish). In almost all cases female Transformers are portrayed as comparatively more graceful of form, and more rounded and curved in general, than their male counterparts. Often they have a more than passing resemblance to an attractive human female made of metal and wearing armor and [[kibble]].

There are exceptions to this rule, and bulky, less overtly human-female-like characters have become more common, particularly among those who have toys. These are especially common in the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series and in latter expansions of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] series out of Japan, when the characters are often assigned to pre-existing "masculine" toys. Perhaps the best counter-example of this type is [[Strika (BM)|Strika]], who is female yet neither looks nor acts stereotypically feminine at all.

==Romance==
Despite their likely non-sexual means of [[reproduction]], romance between Transformers is a well-established factor in pretty much every continuity. Given that Transformers are a social species, this is perhaps not as odd as might initially seem. Harder to explain (at least, in fiction) is why most of these romantic connections are between males and females, what with the ratio female:male being about 1:10 in its most charitable instances.

Regardless of the whys and wherefores many romantic male-female Transformer pairings have appeared over the years, including:

*[[Elita One]] (Ariel) - [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (Orion Pax)
*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] - [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] - [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]
*Arcee - [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]
*Arcee - [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] {{storylink|The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters}}
*Arcee (she gets around) - [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers}}
*[[Nancy]] - [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]
*[[Octane]] once tried to tune in an image of a [[Cheesecake robot|disturbingly sexualized unnamed female robot]]. Make of that what you will. {{storylink|Starscream's Ghost}}
*[[Esmeral]] - [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deszaras]]
*[[Clipper]] - [[Holi]]
*[[Ragé]] - [[Stampy]]
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] - [[Tigatron]]
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] - [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]
*[[Botanica]] - [[Rattrap]]
*[[Strika (BM)|Strika]] - [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]]<ref>When Obsidian refers to Strika as his consort in [[Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike]] he appears to have been using the less-common "associate" or "partner" definition. There are no displays of affection between them during [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|''Beast Machines'']], and [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide|secondary information sources]] describe them only as "cohorts".</ref>
*[[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] has a female "life partner" whose name has yet to be revealed.
*[[San D-Go]] once had plans to marry [[Discharge]], apparently directly inspired by that aspect of [[human]] culture. Whether there was an actual romantic relationship involved is unknown.
*[[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] has a one-sided crush on [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]
*[[Crystal Widow]] had an unnamed lover before becoming stuck in the [[Axiom Nexus]]
*[[Shortround]] fancies [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]]. Naturally, she does not reciprocate.
*[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] - [[Megatron (Armada)|Just about anybody]] [[Starscream (Armada)|who's big and powerful]].

==Fandom and Terminology==
Probably because of their rarity in official fiction and toylines, female Transformers are popular plot devices in [[fan fiction]], where the term "femme" is often used to describe them, with "mech"<ref>While "femme" obviously is related to the French word for "woman", it's occasionally claimed that the use of "mech" as a name for male Transformers is derived from "mec", the French word for "guy" or "dude". This is probably more coincidence than anything, though.</ref> likewise being applied to "male" Transformers. In official fiction, the term "fembot" has been used on at least two occasions<ref>[[Rattrap]] refers to [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] as "Ya emasculatin' fembot!" after she cuts the tip from his tail/sword in "[[Nemesis Part 2]]", while ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] wonders in "[[Endgame, Part II]]" what chance he has in flying combat against the [[Lugnut Supreme|Lugnuts Supreme]] if he "couldn't handle [[Slipstream (Animated)|Starscream's fembot clone]]" on [[Endgame, Part I|his test run]].</ref> and "mech" has been used as a gender-neutral common noun for Transformers in various stories.

Likewise, there is a fan term for romantic relationships between Transformers: "[[spark]]mates". This has surprisingly been used in one official source—the end-of-game [[bio]] for [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (referring to her and [[Tigatron]]) in the Nintendo 64 version of the [[Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals|Beast Wars Transmetals]] video game.<ref>''Beast Wars Transmetals'' end-of-game bios - [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/756a36c7076a7195?dmode=source transcription]</ref>

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
[[Image:G1femmes.jpg|right|450px|thumb|A bunch of Female Autobots from the G1 toon and Alpha Trion. His pimp cane was removed in post-production.]]
Within this continuity, female Transformers are a rarity, but established to have been around from the species' start. A female named [[Beta]] existed back in the slave days under [[Quintesson]] rule, and thus it seems clear females were produced alongside the males as part of the Quintessons' product lines.

No females were explicitly shown to exist among the Decepticon ranks, although the introduction of [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] and implications of an eventual upgrade didn't raise any questions or remarks, suggesting that female Decepticons exist (or that the Decepticons royally don't care about a soldier's gender).

[[The Search for Alpha Trion|27 episodes after Nightbird's appearance]], female Transformers were introduced formally through the [[Female Autobots]]. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] at various points expresses surprise they aren't extinct, which would seem to imply females were thought to be no longer part of the Cybertronian race. While at the time a decent (though certainly not perfect) explanation for the scarce appearances of female Transformers, it didn't stop more females from showing up in the movie and season 3. Possibly Shockwave's "statement" could be considered as [[retcon]]ned and overwritten, or one of the following explanations applies:
# They were all built/"discovered" after the events of "The Search for Alpha Trion".
# Shockwave constantly calls them Autobots, never Transformers or Cybertronians. It is possible female [[Neutral]]s' (and the aforementioned female [[Decepticon]]s') existence was never thought over... and that none of them changed allegiance any time recently.
# "Female Autobot" is not used as a description, but as the team's name.
# This is the Generation 1 cartoon. You're not watching it for the flawless storytelling.

Females can be seen here and there among the [[Junkion]] tribe, mostly sharing [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]'s model. [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] has a "[[Nancy|Junkion lady]]" companion according to "[[The Big Broadcast of 2006]]". Just how relationships function in this isolated, media-based Transformers society is unclear, although it's notable that Wreck-Gar and his lady friend "slept" sitting up next to each other on giant thrones between television broadcast cycles. The lady's character model is actually that of a female [[Lithone (planet)|Lithone]], another mechanical race, but whether this is meaningful in any way or simple model recycling is uncertain.

In the French dub of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' (but not in the TV series), both [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] were referred to as female, with [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] calling Starscream "une imbecile" at one point (French articles are gendered), and Shrapnel referred to as "Mademoiselle". The reason for this gender-switch was never fully explained, though it presumably has something to do with both Starscream's and Shrapnel's rather high-pitched voices.
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===Generation 1 Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Nomates.jpg|left|200px|thumb|And what will happen is like this.]]
No female ''Transformers'' are ever seen or referred to in the US stories, and when [[Cloudburst]] is pressured into a relationship with the beautiful [[First One]] of [[Femax]], he explains that Transformers, as a species, have no gender. {{storylink|Recipe for Disaster!}} The UK stories corroborate this, and [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] is intentionally created by the Autobots to be the sole female Transformer in an attempt to placate [[human]] feminists. {{storylink|Prime's Rib!}} (See her picture above for a hint of how well that went over.)

Despite this, the Marvel continuity was actually the first in introducing a female ''Cybertronian'': [[Auntie]], the onboard computer of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', who was introduced in [[The Transformers (issue)|the very first issue]]. [[CatSCAN|Theoretically, she is not that different from other Cybertronians]] and one can only guess how to combine her existence and the "no <strike>girls</strike> gender"-statements.

The [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|letter pages]] mentioned another two females: Decepticon [[Clio]] and presumed Autobot [[Karmen]]. Provided they are real and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] didn't just make them up, they might have been built after Arcee's example.

[[BotCon]]'s ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' fiction, while not including the UK material, introduced [[Elita One]] in a similar manner as UK Arcee. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}

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===''Super-God Masterforce''===
A female Transformer was created through the introduction of [[Minerva]] to the ranks of the [[Headmaster Junior]]s. The [[transtector]] she was bonded to [[A Battle... and Then...|eventually]] evolved into a being of ''her'' own.

Meanwhile, the [[Godmaster]] [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] existed out of two humans before becoming sapient: husband [[Giga]] and wife [[Mega]]. Despite the double gender, Overlord is regarded a "he".

===''Victory''===
[[Image:Esmeryl-manga.jpg|right|150px|thumb|This is an official Transformers character. No, really.]]
In the manga, [[Decepticon]] females make their first (yet still to this day very rare) appearance in official fiction as [[Esmeral]] ([[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deszaras]]'s wife) and [[Lyzack]] ([[Leozack]]'s [[Relatives|sister]]). Both show up to show the Autobots just what it is Deszaras and his crew have been fighting for all this time: their poor families back home. This spares the Decepticons' lives in the final battle between the two forces. This certainly casts an odd light on the matter of Transformer [[reproduction]] (and on [[Masumi Kaneda|the manga author]]).

Meanwhile, in the animated series, the [[Micromaster]] [[Holi]] is shown to have a girlfriend on the planet [[Micro]], [[Clipper]].
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===''Operation Combination''===
''[[Operation Combination (franchise)|Operation Combination]]'' introduced a total of 24 Micromasters, none of which got a [[bio]]. Ten years later, ''[[Micromaster Collection]]'' did provide them, and the Micromasters [[Windy]] and [[Discharge]] were established as females.

===''Beast Wars''===
[[Image:TM2_Blackarachnia.jpg|left|250px|thumb|She was extremely popular with fans, I wonder why...]]

Female Transformers seem to be common here, with no one showing any surprise over their presence. Some of the Transformers also appear to have picked up human-style attitudes of women as a fairer and more vulnerable gender, with [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] refusing to fight a female out of <strike>lust</strike> chivalry. Most of the other Transformers, however, seem unconcerned about this.

[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] both engage in romances with male [[Maximal|Maximals]], the former blatantly and the latter far more subtly.

Over the course of the show Rattrap makes numerous innuendos, especially involving Silverbolt and Blackarachnia's relationship, that suggest that, at least by that era, there may have been something sex-like between Transformers. He also makes references to a bar on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] where the wait-staff go "without their torso-plates on"... which frankly sounds like it'd be really messy.

In the spin-off comics, [[Manta Ray (BW)|Manta Ray]] and [[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]] were both established as female Transformers.

===''Beast Wars II''===
[[Scylla]] is the impetus for a big ridiculous love triangle of hilarity and embarrassment in both the animated and manga continuities. She is in love with the squid-bot [[Scuba]], who wants nothing to do with her. Meanwhile, the Maximal [[Bighorn]] is in love with Scylla, who wants nothing to do with him.

The non-Transformer female robot [[Artemis]] harbors a crush on both Scuba (poor guy) and [[Starscream (BWII)|Starscream]].

===''Beast Machines''===
''Beast Machines''' [[technorganic]] reformatting raises even further questions about what it means to be a "female transformer". It is possible that the technorganic female Transformers, being merged organic and technological life to a cellular level, might actually be ''physically'' female.

[[Rattrap]] and [[Botanica]] end up in a romantic relationship towards the end of ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' ("So, I'm a tree-hugger!" Rattrap remarks). What this means for his bar-hopping days is never explored.

The [[Vehicon general]] [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] is referred to as the "consort" of [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]], and has been serving by his side, seemingly as an equal, for centuries. Some have taken this to mean the two have a romantic interest in each other, but the show itself does not offer any hints to this.

===Dreamwave comic continuity===
According to DK's ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'', "Transformers are inherently non-gender specific, and only some quirk of their timelost origins can account for [female Transformers'] difference in appearance and attitude." [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] was [[Unreleased Dreamwave issues|in the process]] of introducing more female Transformers and explicating their links to the Quintessons in this continuity when it went out of business.

===Unicron Trilogy===
[[Image:Twirl-Baby.jpg|right|250px|thumb|But she's got your altmode!]]
The existence of female Transformers throughout the [[Unicron Trilogy]] is portrayed as slightly uncommon (it is a fiction aimed at young boys, after all), but hardly remarkable. They just exist, as do "males", and no special attention is called to them. Quite a few appear in various places in "[[Motorcycle refugee|civilian]]" roles, as [[Autobot nurse|nurses]], and even on [[Velocitron band|colony worlds]].

There are examples and hints of romantic interest between males and females in both ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' ([[Redline]] and [[Falcia]] in the [[Linkage (comic)|''Linkage'' comics]], plus [[Nightscream (Armada)|Nightscream]]'s eagerness to appease and defend his [[bulk]] partner [[Airazor (Armada)|Airazor]]), and ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' stories (most obviously [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]]'s intense infatuation with [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack's]] secret crush on [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]], plus [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] reportedly has an unnamed female "life partner" lost somewhere on [[Earth]]). This too is treated as a fairly common event.

There are female Transformers in positions of very high power as well: in the [[Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'' cartoon]], [[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]] is the leader of the entire [[Omnicon]] race, while in ''Cybertron'', Override is the leader of the planet [[Velocitron]]. So far, the Unicron Trilogy is the only ''Transformers'' continuity to explicitly ''give'' female Transformers that level of responsibility.

In the French version of the ''Energon'' cartoon, Arcee is dubbed by a man. ''Why'' she was is currently unknown.

===IDW comic continuity===
[[Image:Spotlight_Arcee_b.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Information: you are ALL going to DIE.]]

Originally [[Simon Furman]] stated that he would not use female Transformers in IDW continuity until he came up with a reason for them to exist that made logical sense to him. He did not rule out doing so, as he said he had found a similar justification for the [[Pretender|Pretenders]], which led to the [[Stormbringer (comics)|Stormbringer]] miniseries.

Despite this, in ''[[Megatron Origin]]'' [[Alex Milne]] drew what are clearly intended to be female Transformers in a good number of "easter egg" cameo appearances. (Cameos included female [[Tonka GoBots]] character [[Crasher (G1)|Crasher]], [[Elita One]], [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], and a number of generic background femmes.)

This was finally resolved in "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]", where it was revealed that the malevolent Golden Age Cybertronian scientist [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] introduced gender to the Cybertronian genome just to see what it'd do. Tampering with the [[CNA]] of the titular character at her creation to make her Female, he discarded his experiment once he was finished, only to find she had an inherent homing instinct for his creations. Arcee's systems were severely messed up by this experiment, causing her to become tremendously unstable to the point of psychosis and fixated on getting revenge on Jhiaxus.

While the story implies that she is something very rare and unique it does not say that she was the ''only'' female Transformer Jhiaxus created, merely the first, leaving it open for the cameos in ''Megatron Origin'' to remain in continuity.

Jhiaxus specifically alters Arcee's CNA to make her female and introduce gender to the species. Exactly how deep these alterations went, how closely her form was designed to match the females of organic species on which she was based (particularly in relation to reproduction) is unknown and will likely remain so.

===2007 movie===
[[Image:Arceemovie.jpg|right|thumb|Comic artists ''cry'' when they see this model sheet.]]

[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] was originally going to be featured as part of the cast of the [[Transformers (2007)|''Transformers'' film]], but was cut early on in the movie's development. The script writers felt they would need to explain the presence of a female in an entirely robotic race, and there was not enough time in the film to do so. Arcee was replaced in the movie by [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]. Even so, Arcee was featured in IDW's [[Movie Prequel (2007)|Movie Prequel comics]] and remains in the movie toyline as both Deluxe and Scout-class toys.

One other female Autobot is featured in the movie continuity family, another Scout-class toy, [[Elita-One]]. Both Elita and Arcee, however, are featured in [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Titan Magazine's]] alternate reality stories as regular characters, with Arcee getting more prominence. Both also appear in IDW's Movie Sequel comic series ''[[The Reign of Starscream]]'', with Arcee playing quite a prominent leadership role. Surprisingly, Elita-One does not fair as well as her sister-in-arms, dying at the claws of [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] himself. Although it is unusual for a female Transformer to die in fiction ([[To sell toys|compared to how often Transformer death happens in general]]), it has [[Manta Ray (BW)|happened]] [[Sonar (BW)|before]].

As for Decepticons, [[Fracture]], based off of the aforementioned Crasher, was recently added to the end of the movie toyline as a Wal-mart exclusive. She has been featured in Titan Magazine's comics, as of issue 18, and in IDW's ''[[Alliance (comic)|Alliance]]'' series as of issue 3.

In all the comics where female Transformers do appear in the Movie continuality, their gender is never considered an issue. This raises questions about just how necessary "explaining" them would be in [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|future movies]].
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===''Animated''===
[[Image:Animated_females.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Did you ever feel like the only original designs in a sea full of homages?]]
Female Transformers were present in ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' from the very beginning of the cartoon, starting with [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]. What this meant for the state of females in the continuity at large was not immediately apparent; in "[[Along Came a Spider]]", both [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] expressed confusion as to ''what'' Blackarachnia was. Though they could have been referring to her [[Technorganic|partially organic]] nature, [[Sari Sumdac|Sari]]'s comment ("Duh, she's a girl.") seems to imply that the two Autobots were confused about Blackarachnia's gender. The fact that no other characters familiar with Blackarachnia ever reacted to her in an unusual way, however, suggests it was more of a misunderstanding on Sari's part used for comedic effect.

As the series proceeded, multiple lady-bots were progressively introduced, among which were a [[Slipstream (Animated)|female clone]] of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], the obligatory [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] and many more. Although they remain distinctly outnumbered by the male Transformers, this makes it clear that while female Transformers may be relatively uncommon, they aren't considered very remarkable or noteworthy—unless you're a young, male Autobot who's spent ''waaaaayy'' too much time fixing space bridges.

Despite Optimus's confusion over where organic babies come from in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", implying that there is no Cybertronian equivalent to [[Reproduction|sexual reproduction]] in ''Animated'', Transformer ''relationships'' are implied to be a possibility, as in "[[Along Came a Spider]]" and "[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]", respectively, Blackarachnia takes advantage of [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s and the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]]' obvious interest in her, especially [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]]'s.

[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]'s role as the Autobot medical officer was originally supposed to be assigned to a character named [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]], who was originally designed as a female, but then turned male. When brought in at the start of Season 3, Red Alert was female once again as an homage to the original design.

==Toys==
''[[Transmetal]]'' [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] is the first Transformer toy featuring slight female mood, but it still doesn't look very female.<ref>Page 62, Toy database section in ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]''</ref> The first truly female Transformers toy is ''Transmetal 2'' [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]].<ref>Page 73, Toy database section in ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]''</ref> Interestingly, these two monumental items in the history of ''[[Transformers brand|The Transformers]]'' toyline are both from the ''[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' toyline.

===List of the female Transformer toys===
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==References==
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[[Category:Female Transformers| ]]
[[Category:Biology]]
[[Category:Transformer culture]]
[[Category:Generation 1]]

Time (episode)

2009-08-30T01:05:01Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=9
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=10
|title="Time"
|japanese=ベクタープライムの決断
|romaji=Vector Prime no Ketsudan
|translation=Vector Prime's Decision
|image=Cyb ep9 time slip.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[we've|We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Hiro Masaki]]
|director=[[Tsuyoshi Masui]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[March 12]], 2005 (Japanese) [[August 13]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''The quest for the Omega Lock forces Vector Prime to take the greatest of risks!'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb_ep9_laser_loggins.jpg|left|thumb|220px|"You love the plane'arium! To not be at the plane'arium causes you great pain!"]]

[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] and [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] return from their most recent excursion to the [[Autobot]] base, where [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] and [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] inform them that [[Coby Hansen|Coby]], [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] and [[Lori]] have left with [[Vector Prime]] and the [[Recon Mini-Con Team]], ostensibly to search for the [[Omega Lock]]. This so-called "search" has led them to a tropical island, where Bud and Coby frolic in the surf and Lori relaxes in the shade (not being a fan of the whole "nature" thing), while Vector Prime and [[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] actually do all the work. Safeguard scans an [[Atlantis Pattern]] on some ruins just off the island shore, but it turns out to be another dead end. As the kids discuss how the Atlantis Pattern has pervaded popular culture, leading to copies all over the world, they ask Vector Prime to tell them more about the Omega Lock and [[Cyber Planet Key]]s, and he treats them to a holographic history lesson. After a brief interruption by a passing shepherd and his flock, Vector Prime continues to explain that the Omega Lock contains a map to the location of the four colony worlds where the Keys are located. Vector Prime grows frustrated as he recalls Megatron's theft of his map, perpetually putting the Decepticons one step ahead.

[[Image:Cyb ep9 hotshot vs redalert.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

And speak of the devil...[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] has successfully divined the location of the second planet to hold a Cyber Planet Key. While he studies this "[[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]]" from afar, [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] search for more leads in west [[Africa]], but find only a blue crate.

Meanwhile, on [[Velocitron]], [[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]] and [[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]] help tune up [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] in preparation for the race for the [[Planet Cup]]. [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alet]] once again accuses Hot Shot of racing for his own ego, leading to a big argument between the two that almost degenerates into a fistfight until Brakedown breaks it up and kicks Red Alert out of the workshop.

Back on the island, the kids start grilling Vector Prime on his powers over space and time. As Vector Prime tells them that his abilities are not what they once were, Safeguard emerges from the sea and reports that unfortunately, the island is definitely a dead end. Bud searches up some more information on Atlantis on his laptop, and the group heads for the location of another pattern in the Sahara desert. Jolt puts in a call to Autobot headquarters for a little assist, and Jetfire and Optimus Prime roll out to join them.

On Velocitron, the tuned-up Hot Shot hits the road for a test drive, but when he activates his [[Cyber Key]], he once again skids out of control and almost crashes through the guard wall. Acting quickly, Clocker transforms to robot mode and blasts a hole the wall, allowing Hot Shot to careen safely through the gap. Brakedown deduces that they have made Hot Shot too light, and Hot Shot hopes they can fix it, as he is willing to do anything to defeat [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] and save the universe.

[[Image:Cyb ep9 meteor attack.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

In the Sahara, Optimus and Jetfire arrive as Vector Prime is using his jets to blow away sand and excavate some ruins. Jetfire uses his Turbine Wave to finish the job quickly, revealing the remains of some grand amphitheatre...and what appears to be the Omega Lock itself! Just as the two Primes begin to lift it, however, Starscream and Thundercracker arrive, having following the kids from the island, and a battle erupts. Megatron himself soon arrives to join the fight, and with the added power of their leader, the Decepticons are able to overpower the Autobots, even Super Mode Optimus Prime. The Mini-Cons urge the kids to get to safety, leaving them to defend the Omega Lock alone, and the children regretfully comply. Megatron is highly amused and charges his body with flaming energy before hurling himself at the Mini-Cons. Vector Prime is unable to stop Megatron's meteoric descent, and the Decepticon leader impacts violently, causing a huge explosion that destroys the Mini-Cons.

[[Image:Cyb ep9 phoney lock.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Shame there's probably no water in the Fire Dimension, that's a lovely vase.]]

The horrified Vector Prime blames himself for leaving the Mini-Cons to protect the Lock alone, and he calls upon his long-neglected powers to rewind time to before the Mini-Cons' destruction. All the combatants realise that time has slid backward, and this time, the Mini-Cons and kids get to safety together. Unfortunately, this means that while the Autobots are occupied tending to the exhausted Vector Prime, who collapses after exerting himself to such an extent, Megatron and Starscream are able to seize the Omega Lock and prepare to take it through a portal to the Jungle Planet. When Optimus Prime takes off after them, Thundercracker tries to shoot the Autobot leader from behind...but at the last second, Prime swerves out of the way of Thundercracker's blast, which hits the Omega Lock and reduces it to so many fragments. Megatron is calm in defeat, however: Thundercracker has inadvertently discovered that this "Omega Lock" was actually an imitation, as the genuine article could never have been destroyed with such ease. Megatron and Starscream pull out for Jungle Planet, while Thundercracker escapes over the horizon, leaving the Autobots to pick up the pieces of their defeat.

A little later, as the sun begins to set, Vector Prime awakens to the concerned faces of the Autobots looking down at him. Despite all this concern from his comrades, Vector Prime is not happy, lamenting his initial failure to protect the Mini-Cons, his dangerous use of his own power, and the fact that Megatron has discovered the location of the second planet. But the kids find the silver lining: With both Megatron and Starscream busy on Jungle Planet, the Autobots can search Earth and find the Omega Lock first.

==Featured characters==
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*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (2)
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (3)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (4)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (5)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (9)
*[[Vector Prime]] (10)
*[[Safeguard (Cybertron)|Safeguard]] (11)
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (12)
*[[Six-Speed]] (13)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (17)
*[[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]] (18
*[[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]] (19
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (20)
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (21)
|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (14)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (15)
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (16)
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*[[Bud Hansen]] (6)
*[[Coby Hansen]] (7)
*[[Lori]] (8)
}}

==Quotes==
"Discussion of my butt aside, we were talking about the lock and keys." 
:—'''Vector Prime'''

"Stop. Don't give Bud any ideas. He might disrupt history altogether." 
"I guess they do say that in every single sci-fi movie ever made in the world." 
:—'''Lori''' and '''Bud'''

"Seems awful elaborate just for a takeoff. Ah, light at the end of the tunnel." 
"This elevator can use a window. First floor—housewares." 
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Optimus Prime''' comment on the use of stock footage.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===
*''Cybertron'' inserts a few beats of new music into the opening seconds of the episode, which were otherwise entirely silent in ''Galaxy Force''.
*In ''Galaxy Force'', Vector Prime explicitly notes that his powers over time have weakened due to the black hole's effect upon the fabric of reality. A limitation is also imposed that ''Cybertron'' leaves out: He can only rewind time by exactly one minute, lest the distortion of which he speaks come to pass.
*In ''Cybertron'', Jolt jokes that he is able to stop time, while in ''Galaxy Force'', he is claiming that stopping time is an ability Vector Prime still has.
*''Cybertron'' notes that Starscream and Thundercracker follow Vector Prime and company to the Sahara after hacking into Bud's laptop and discovering their intended destination. In ''Galaxy Force'', it's apparently just coincidence.

===Animation and/or technical glitches===

[[Image:Cyb ep9 no shading.jpg|right|thumb]]
*In the opening scene of the episode, as Scattorshot and Landmine speak to each other, they are both missing most, if not all, of their shading and texture effects. It's like an ''[[Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' flashback!
*When Starscream lands in the forest, he is ''crazy'' out of [[scale]] with his surroundings. The trees only come up to his ''ankles''!
*When Safeguard emerges from the water, Vector Prime greets him unusually: "Still nothing...thank you thank you, Safeguard." While the line does match the lip-flap animation, it ''sounds'' very much like two different recordings spliced together.
*As Clocker leaps down to join Hot Shot after the latter skids off the track, he shouts "Clocker, transform!" ...except he had already transformed about twenty seconds beforehand.
*Optimus Prime's mouth doesn't move when he says "Laugh at this!" (because he doesn't speak in ''Galaxy Force'').
*The blast Optimus fires at Megatron is a huge blue beam as it departs his cannon, but when the angle changes to Megatron swatting it away, it's thin and red.

===Continuity errors===

*What in the blue fudge is the deal with the crate Starscream and Thundercracker find? They track a signal to Africa, and...it's a crate. Why? There's no explanation in either version of the show.

===Transformers references===

* Hot Shot's accident, which almost repeats itself this episode, occurred in "[[Speed]]".

===Real-world references===

* "All in all, it's just a break in the wall!" Clocker cries as he shoots out the guard wall, paraphrasing the lyrics of Pink Floyd's ''The Wall''.
[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Hot Shot (RID)

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{{disambig3|Hot Shot}}
{{picsneeded|toys}}
:''Hot Shot is the leader of the [[Autobot]] [[Spy Changer]]s in the [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:RID Artfire HotShot biocard.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The heat is on. It's on the street.]]

'''Hot Shot''' has served with [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] for many years. His gruff exterior hides the tender heart of a [[Rhinox (BW)|pretty girly-man that wants to prance through wildflowers]].

Hot Shot's special jutsu is manipulating fire.

:''Japanese Name:'' '''Artfire''' (アートファイヤー ''Ātofaiyā'')

==Fiction==
===''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Michael McConnohie]] (English), [[Eiji Takemoto]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Hotshotrid.jpg|left|180px|thumb|He did come out as a burn-out technohippie]]
When the [[Predacon (RID)|Predacons]] stole a plutonium energy generator, [[T-AI]] called in the Spy Changers. Hot Shot, [[Crosswise (RID)|Crosswise]] and [[R.E.V.]] responded first, pursuing the Predacons onto the beach where they were joined by the other three Spy Changers. Hot Shot suggested a spot of "cyber-jousting", and climbed onto [[W.A.R.S.]]. The Predacons eventually escaped with a fake generator which the Spy Changers had swapped for the real one. {{storylink|Spychangers to the Rescue}}

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

[[Image:Mirage's Betrayal Hot shot.jpg|right|200px|thumb|This Hot Shot prefers a different flavor of [[JaAm]].]]
Later, the team tried to protect a ruby from Predacon theft, Hot Shot ordering Mirage onto a nearby roof to shoot the Predacons if all else failed. Mirage failed to take the shot and the Predacons got away. Though Hot Shot personally felt responsible, he was disturbed by Mirage's actions, especially when the Autobot failed to explain why he hadn't fired and even moreso when he appeared to have joined the Predacons. As it turned out, Mirage was undertaking a deception as he'd been bugged by [[Sky-Byte]], and Hot Shot welcomed him back to the team. {{storylink|Mirage's Betrayal}}

The Spy Changers also took part in the Great Race in an attempt to find [[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]]. Hot Shot was saved from Megatron's blinding blast by a warning from [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], and attempted to tackle Megatron on his own, but failed. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}} On another occasion, the Spy Changers were called back to base to watch footage of various battles, but had to wrap up a fight with the Predacons first. {{storylink|Hope for the Future}}

[[Image:Hotshot fireblaster.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Hey, my toy can do that!]]
The Spy Changers accompanied [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] to [[Montrose Island]] where Predacon activity was causing the volcano to become violent. They attempted to keep [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] and [[Sky-Byte]] busy while Optimus went to use his blizzard storm on the volcano. When the volcano was ruptured and lava threatened the nearby resort, the Spy Changers used their Inferno Blast to divert its path. {{storylink|Volcano}}

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

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

===Super Spy Changers catalog===
With [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] having departed Earth aboard [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Fortress Maximus]], the Autobots were unable to call upon his power when a new menace suddenly arose to challenge them. In order to combat this threat, a plan was put into motion to upgrade the Spy Changers with [[Spark Engine|Spark Engines]], granting them Super Modes.

Super Artfire gained the ability to manipulate blue, high-temperature flames and carried a more dignified presence of leadership.<ref>http://megazarak.hp.infoseek.co.jp/japaspe/carrobo/ssc.html Super Spy Changers story and bios in Japanese]</ref><ref>[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/731/37/ English translation of story and bios]</ref>

==Toys==
===Robots in Disguise===
*'''Artfire''' (Spy Changer, 2000)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-005'''
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: A [[redeco]] of the ''[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Go-Bot (G2)|Go-Bots]] [[Blowout]] mold, Artfire transforms into a Porsche 959 sports car. He features a through-axle construction that allows him to zip quickly along smooth surfaces in car mode, and is compatible with many "Hot Wheels" and "Matchbox" racetracks. His silver windshield has heat-sensitive paint that reveals an Autobot insignia, in a method similar to the original [[Rubsign|rubsigns]].

: This mold was also used to make the ''Generation 2'' Go-Bot versions of [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Autobot/HotShot/hotshot.htm More information on Artfire at TFU.info]''

{{anchor|SC6pack}}
*'''Spy Changer DX6''' (Multi-pack, 2000)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-011'''
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: All six Spy Changers were not only sold as individuals in Japan, but in a six-piece gift set as well.

{{anchor|Juscoclear}}
*'''Artfire clear version''' (Spy Changer, 2000)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: An [[exclusive]] [[redeco]] of Artfire in clear-red and clear-green plastics, this version was only available from [[JUSCO]] stores in Japan as a direct-mail premium to members of their "Peppy Kids Republic" (元気キッズ共和国, ''Genki Kidzu Kyōwakoku''), a sort of subsidiary/offshoot for selling baby goods and children's clothing. Since membership was open only to kids 12 and under and this version was shipped blind-packed, getting the entire set of six was extremely difficult.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Cybertron/ClearArtfire/artfire.htm More information on JUSCO clear Artfire at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:RIDHotShot-RIDtoy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ability to stick to any surface not included.]]
*'''Hot Shot & R.E.V.''' (Basic, 2001)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: Available only in a two-pack with [[R.E.V.]], the [[Hasbro]] version of Hot Shot replaces the heat-sensitive insignia with a normal Autobot insignia [[tampograph]] on the roof of the car. The window-paint changed to metallic blue, plus the toy was slighty [[Retool|retooled]] to have a locking tab on the windshield bottom to keep the car front end in place.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Autobot/HotShot/hotshot.htm More information on Hot Shot at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:RIDHotShot-KB1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|But does he crave JaAm?]]
*'''Hot Shot''' (Spy Changer, 2002)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: All six original Spy Changers were redecoed using clear versions of their normal plastic colors (keeping their normal paint applications, though), and released on individual cards through [[KB Toys]] chains as [[Exclusive|exclusives]]. This packaging was the first to identify the team as "Spy Changers" in Hasbro markets.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/KBHotShot/hotshot.htm More information on KB Toys clear Hot Shot at TFU.info]''

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*'''Hot Shot''' (Tiny Tins, 2002)
**''Accessories'': Rifle, carrying tin

: The normal Hasbro version of Hot Shot was released as part of the first assortment of [[Tiny Tins]] Transformers, coming with a carrying tin.

{{-}}{{anchor|Super}}
[[Image:RIDHotShot-Super.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Not [[negative universe]] Artfire.]]
*'''Super Artfire''' (Spy Changer, 2003)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: Long after the ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Car Robots]]'' line ended in Japan, Takara put out individually-boxed redecoes of the Spy Changers. Artfire was given a reversed white and black deco, with clear-green inner robot parts. His flames are painted a shiny metallic blue.

: In each case of twelve Super Spy changers, two were all-clear-plastic versions (but keeping their paint applications). All six Spy Changers had a clear variant.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Cybertron/SuperArtfire/artfire.htm More information on Super Artfire at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Cybertron/ClearSuperArtfire/artfire.htm More information on clear Super Artfire at TFU.info]''

{{-}}{{anchor|KB2}}
[[Image:RIDHotShot-KB2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Would be invisible if not for the fact that he's on fire.]]
*'''Hot Shot''' (Spy Changer, 2003)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: A second round of clear-plastic KB Toys exclusive Spy Changers was released on individual cards. This time around, he was done in colorless, blue and red clear-plastics.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Autobot/HotShot/hotshot.htm More information on KB Toys clear white Hot Shot at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
* The color scheme and deco of the original Spychanger toy is an homage to [[Ricochet (Headmasters)|Stepper]], an originally Japanese exclusive [[Targetmaster]] redeco of the 1984 [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] toy that's now better known as "Ricochet" outside Japan. Oddly enough, however, the original Japanese version of the Car Robots Spychanger used the name of Stepper's fellow Targetmaster, [[Artfire]].
* In Japan, Artfire is a [[relative]] of [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Fire Convoy]].

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Japanese-original characters]]
[[Category:Ninjas]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise characters]]
[[Category:Spy Changers]]
[[Category:Tiny Tins]]

Ironhide (RID)

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{{disambig3|Ironhide}}
:''Ironhide is an [[Autobot]] [[Spy Changer]] from the [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:RID Ox Ironhide biocard.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"Go Bulls!"]]
'''Ironhide''' is an ornery southern cuss, but a completely different flavor than [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], are we clear?

He's been friends with [[Mirage (RID)|Mirage]] a long time, despite them both being bull-headed types.

:''Japanese Name:'' '''Ox'''

==Fiction==
===''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Michael McConnohie]] (English), [[Eisuke Yorita]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Ironhide rid.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Yosemite Sam decided to shave this week]]
When the [[Predacon (RID)|Predacons]] stole a plutonium energy generator and attempted to escape along a beach, they were confronted with Mirage, Ironhide and [[W.A.R.S.]] driving across the water towards them. Ironhide gave Mirage a piggy-back ride in order to undertake the Spy Changer "cyber-jousting" manouvre. The Predacons eventually escaped with a fake generator which the Spy Changers had swapped for the real one. {{storylink|Spychangers to the Rescue|Spychangers to the Rescue}}

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

[[Image:Mirage's Betrayal Warsironhide.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
Later, the team tried to protect a ruby from Predacon theft, but the mission failed—partly because of Mirage's unwillingness to fire at the Predacons and risk hitting a chemical tank. Ironhide was supportive of his friend, even when the other Spy Changers considered dropping him from the team. Afterwards, Ironhide tried to persuade Mirage to come back and talk to the others but was rebuffed. Much to his shock and surprise, Mirage announced he'd be better off with the Predacons and Ironhide declared their friendship over. When Mirage lured the Spy Changers to a location where the Predacons had built a "mega-laser", he revealed the fact that he'd been bugged to Ironhide, who finally understood his friend's odd behavior. After the destruction of the laser, Ironhide reaffirmed their friendship. {{storylink|Mirage's Betrayal|Mirage's Betrayal}}

The Spy Changers also took part in the Great Race in an attempt to find [[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]] and were momentarily blinded by Megatron. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice|Skid Z's Choice}} On another occasion, the Spy Changers were called back to base to watch footage of various battles, but had to wrap up a fight with the Predacons first. Mirage rode on Ironhide again. {{storylink|Hope for the Future|Hope for the Future}}

The Spy Changers accompanied Optimus Prime to [[Montrose Island]] where Predacon activity was causing the volcano to become violent. They attempted to keep [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] and [[Sky-Byte]] busy while Optimus went to use his blizzard storm on the volcano. When the volcano was ruptured and lava threatened the nearby resort, the Spy Changers used their Inferno Blast to divert its path. {{storylink|Volcano|Volcano}}

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

The Spy Changers took part in the ambush of the Decepticons after the Autobot base was discovered. When the "[[Megastar]]" arrived at the battle, Ironhide opined that he thought they were in trouble. {{storylink|Surprise Attack!|Surprise Attack!}} After Galvatron's defeat, they celebrated by racing with [[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]]. {{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}}

===Super Spy Changers catalog===
With [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] having departed Earth aboard Fortress Maximus, the Autobots were unable to call upon his power when a new menace suddenly arose to challenge them. In order to combat this threat, a plan was put into motion to upgrade the Spy Changers with [[Spark Engine|Spark Engines]], granting them Super Modes.

Super Ox obtained strength greater than even that of Optimus Prime. However, he didn't rely on it, as his gentle nature hadn't changed.<ref>[http://megazarak.hp.infoseek.co.jp/japaspe/carrobo/ssc.html Super Spy Changers story and bios in Japanese]</ref><ref>[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/731/37/ English translation of story and bios]</ref>

==Toys==
{{picsneeded|Toys}}
===Robots in Disguise===
*'''Ox''' (Spy Changer, 2000)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-009'''
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: A [[redeco]] of the ''[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Go-Bot (G2)|Go-Bots]] [[Motormouth]] mold, Ox transforms into a Ford F150 Flareside pickup truck. He features a through-axle wheel construction that allows him to zip quickly along smooth surfaces in vehicle mode, and is compatible with many "Hot Wheels" and "Matchbox" racetracks. His windshield has heat-sensitive paint that reveals an Autobot insignia, in a method similar to the original [[Rubsign|rubsigns]].

: This mold was also used to make the ''Generation 2'' incarnation of [[Ironhide (G1)|Generation 1 Ironhide]] and ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Ironhide (Universe)|Ironhide]]


*'''Spy Changer Deluxe 6 Set''' (Multi-pack, 2000)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-011'''
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: All six Spy Changers were not only sold as individuals in Japan, but in a six-piece gift set as well. Each toy was identical to their normal individual release.


*'''Ox clear version''' (Spy Changer, 2000)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: An [[exclusive]] [[redeco]] of Ox in clear-green and clear-orange plastics, this version was only available from [[JUSCO]] stores in Japan as a direct-mail premium to members of their "Peppy Kids Republic" (元気キッズ共和国, ''Genki Kidzu Kyōwakoku''), a sort of subsidiary/offshoot for selling baby goods and children's clothing. Since membership was open only to kids 12 and under and this version was shipped blind-packed, getting the entire set of six was extremely difficult.


*'''Mirage & Ironhide''' (Basic, 2001)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: Available only in a two-pack with [[Mirage (RID)|Mirage]], the [[Hasbro]] version of Ox adds more [[Paint operation|paint applications]], mainly red in the truck bed. The heat-sensitive windshield insignia was replaced with metallic blue windshield paint and a normal Autobot insignia [[tampograph]] on the truck roof.


[[Image:RID Ironhide Toy.JPG|right|250px|thumb|Pick up truck, from the oooooold west!]]
*'''Ironhide''' (Spy Changer, 2002)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: All six original Spy Changers were redecoed in colorless-clear plastics (keeping their normal paint applications, though), and released on individual cards through Kay-Bee Toys chains.


*'''Ironhide''' (Tiny Tins, 2002)
**''Accessories'': Rifle, carrying tin

: The normal Hasbro version of Ironhide was released as part of the first assortment of [[Tiny Tins]] Transformers, coming with a carrying tin.


*'''Super Ox''' (Spy Changer, 2003)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: Long after the ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' line ended in Japan, Takara put out individually-boxed redecoes of the Spy Changers. Ox was given a deep blue and white deco.

: In each case of twelve Super Spy changers, two were all-clear-plastic versions (but keeping their paint applications). All six Spy Changers had a clear variant.

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[[Image:RIDIronhideKB2-UniHoist2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
*'''Ironhide''' (Spy Changer, 2003)
**''Accessories'': Rifle

: A second round of Kay-Bee-exclusive Spy Changers was released on individual cards. This time around, he was done in clear-blue, clear-orange and clear-colorless and lacking his cow-pattern deco (making him look not unlike a clear incarnation of [[Motormouth]]).

: This ''exact'' toy was later re-released as a ''Universe'' incarnation of [[Hoist (G1)|Generation 1 Hoist]].

==References==
<references />

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/2001/Autobot/Ironhide/ironhide.htm Ironhide at TFU.info]

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[[Category:Japanese-original characters]]
[[Category:Japanese promotion exclusives]]
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[[Category:Tiny Tins]]

Razorkukku

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:''Laser Cock (giggle) is a [[Beastformer]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:LaserCockPoster.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The best to you each morning!]]
'''Laser Cock''' ''(snicker)'' is one of the [[Autobot]] Beastformers fighting a war on the planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]]. His role in the Autobot Beastformer forces is Air Staff Officer (heh heh, ''staff''). He also holds the rank of Emperor of [[East Yutoranta]], the country where he was born, under King [[Strong Panda]].

:''English name'': '''Rowdy Rooster''' (tee hee)
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==Toys==
===Beastformers===
[[Image:LaserCocktoy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|See, it's funny because his name is ''"Laser Cock"'' and...]]
*'''Laser Cock''' (Beastformer, 1987)
**''Beast ID number'': '''63'''
**''Accessories'': "Valiant Laser" staff

: Laser Cock (hee hee) is an anthropomorphic domestic chicken in high-tech blue armor. He comes with his "Valiant Laser" double-bladed staff (you said "staff" again). He has one of three [[rubsign]]s on his chest, revealing the elemental power of fire, water, or, uh, wood (hahahahahaha wood).
{{--}}

==Notes==
*Wow.

==External links==
*[http://www.toyarchive.com/BattleBeasts/BattleBeasts1.html Battle Beasts info at Super Toy Archive]

[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Beastformers]]

Sideways (ROTF)

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{{disambig2|the live-action Decepticon|the Unicron-serving backstabber from every other continuity|Sideways (RID)}}
:''Sideways is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Sidewaysrotf.jpg|thumb|300px|Guess what? I'm not [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]! Had you all fooled, Didn't I?]]

Before the war, '''Sideways''' was a simple courier, not exactly a career demanding massive levels of courage. This means that in the battle against the [[Autobots]], Sideways prefers to team up with larger Decepticons. This way, his target-friendly companion takes all the heat! In fact, he generally shuns combat entirely. He's not a courageous fellow. But when he absolutely must face the enemy, he eagerly deploys the spinning saw blades on his arms.

Since he's arrived on [[Earth]], Sideways has started hanging out with the mountainous [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]]. There's few larger Decepticons to lurk in the shadow of!

{{bigquote|I'm on it. No one outruns me.|Sideways to [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]|''[[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
[[Image:ROTF Sideways Chromia.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sideways desperately tries to flee from a rabid fangirl.]]

Sideways was hiding out in [[Shanghai]] when [[NEST]] came to investigate a possible Decepticon insurgence. While the soldiers and their Autobot allies were busy fighting off [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]], Sideways attempted to make his getaway. He was not entirely undetected, however, as [[William Lennox|Major Lennox]] sent out [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|the]] [[Skids (ROTF)|twins]] in pursuit. The twins quickly fell out of the chase and Sideways was also able to fight off Arcee after crashing directly through a building. Sideways didn't get far, and eventually met his end when [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]] engaged in pursuit, transformed, and bisected Sideways as he attempted to flee. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{--}}

==Games==
===''Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===
:''Voice actor:'' [[John DiMaggio]]

====''Revenge of the Fallen''- The Game (Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC)====
=====Decepticon campaign=====
[[Image:ROTFTheGame_Sideways.jpg|300px|thumb|Bite my shiny metal ass!]]

Sideways operated as a high-speed reconnaissance operative with the ability to snipe at Autobot opponents from afar with his [[plasma sniper rifle]], and slow enemies to a crawl with his [[graviton mine]] when he needed to get away.

Sideways was deployed to Shanghai after the Autobots and their NEST allies were detected interfering with an important operation in the area. Upon arrival, various [[Protectobot Scout|Protectobot drones]] were sent to stop him, but failed. Later, Sideways is sent to the Shanghai waterfront to retrieve [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]], who had been damaged and captured by the Autobots. The nimble Decepticon sports car used a combination of speed and guile to fight his way through the numerically superior Autobot forces, freed Grindor and escorted his Decepticon brother back to the extraction point. He was sent back to the waterfront again find a cloaked Autobot probe that threatened the Decepticon operations in China. Following the probe's wake, Sideways raced through the waterfront past startled human dockworkers and the [[Protectobot Warrior|Protectobot units]] assigned to the area, destroying the probe as it revealed itself. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}
{{--}}

=====Autobot campaign=====
The Autobots were deployed to China when NEST forces detected the presence of Decepticons in Shanghai. Sideways secreted himself within the urban jungle and sent waves of [[Stunticon Scout 2|Stunticon drones]] against [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]. After the last batch of Stunticons had been defeated, Sideways revealed himself, taking pot shots at the powerful Autobot with his [[slag repeater]], after which he would <s>cheese it</s> flee through the narrow alleyways where Ironhide had difficulty following. While the Autobot struggled to pass the cramped causeways, Sideways set himself up on the roof of the tallest residential block and fired his plasma sniper rifle. Ironhide shrugged off the blasts, clambered up the building, and with a mighty punch, sent Sideways plummeting to the ground, reducing him to scrap. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Legends Class toys====
*'''Sideways''' (Legends, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:''

{{comingsoontoy}}
{{-}}

====Deluxe Class toys====
[[Image:ROTF Deluxe Sideways.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Seriously, how could you mistake me for [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]?]]
*'''Sideways''' (Deluxe, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RD-05'''

:Deluxe-Class Sideways features [[Automorph]] action during the conversion from car to robot mode. When the front bumper is pressed, his front pair of wheels automatically flip underneath the hood. There is also some [[Mech Alive]]: you can see internal gears moving in his fore-arms when moving his arms, as well as a turning disk on each of his elbow. On his right arm is a spinning "saw" blade. He is probably the least film-accurate toy to date (that doesn't fall in a lesser [[Legends Class|size-class]] or different [[Movie (toyline) #Fast Transformers Fun|toy-line]]), but that doesn't make him any less awesome.

:Unlike the other on-screen characters in ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' who turn into consumer vehicles, Sideways' vehicle mode is merely an approximation of an [[wikipedia:Audi_R8|Audi R8]] and is not an accurate replica. This is because the toy vehicle, lacking Audi signage, is unlicensed. This doesn't explain why all versions of Deluxe class Sideways (hand-painted [[prototype]]s, test shots and production toys) are missing the black front lid, roof and rear hood seen on Sideways toys of other price points, and the real car. However, all of the toys are missing the unique silver stripes on top of the black areas seen on the [http://www.europeancarsblog.com/apr-audi-r8/ APR-tuned Audi R8], which was the car used in the movie.

:Yet another victim of late mold changes rampant among the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Sideways appears to have had a hinged thumb on his left hand in Hasbro stock photos whereas this is a solid section molded on to the arm on the final toy. Also, Sideways' windshield underside has two notches added that are not in any early photos nor the instructions. These notches are there to more securely connect to Sideways' hood, but can only be used when the two triangular panels at Sideways's shoulders are folded up. Fortunately, doing so makes Sideways much more film-accurate. Also it seems as if the spinning saw blade was originally powered by gears, the gearbox and shaft for the lever can still be seen on his right forearm but are molded just like his thumb onto the arm.

:This mold was retooled into the Deluxe class version of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' [[Dead End (ROTF)|Dead End]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/Sideways/sideways.htm More information on Sideways at TFU.info]''

====Fast Action Battlers====
[[Image:Sideways ROTF FAB toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|''"Do your arms hang low...?"'']]
*'''Magna Missile Sideways''' (Fast Action Battlers, 2009)
**''Accessories:''

:Magna Missile Sideways' robot mode has the entire sides of the car becoming his arms, making this toy even more similar to Barricade than Sideways' movie CG and Deluxe class toy robot design. Like most of the Sideways toys and merchandise (bar the Deluxe class figure), he features screen-accurate black paint on his vehicle front lid, roof and rear hood.

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==Merchandise==
===R.P.M.s - Robot Powered Machines===
====Speed Series====
[[Image:ROTFtoy-SidewaysRPM.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Sideways? More like UNDERside! OH!]]
*'''Sideways''' (R.P.M. Mini-Vehicle, 2009)
**''Number:'' '''01 of 04'''

: Number one in a series of four [[Robot Powered Machines]] [[Mini-Vehicle]] single packs, Sideways is an untransformable Hot Wheels-like car, unless you count his robot mode being sculpted and painted onto the underside of him.
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===Robot Heroes===
[[Image:Robotheroessideswipesideways.jpg|right|thumb|300px|My shiny metal saw will bite ''you!'']]
*'''Sideswipe and Sideways''' (2009)
: Sideways is part of the first wave of ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]'' ''[[Robot Heroes]]'' figures and is packaged versus [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]]. He has rotational articulation at both shoulders and extremely limited neck articulation. Curiously, he holds a chainsaw-like blade in his hand, rather than it being integrated into wheel-kibble on his wrist. However, this is pretty close to how his weapon actually works in the official video game; when Sideways fights in melee, his wheel-blades spread out to form razor-edged ovals, presumably for added reach.

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[[Image:Robotheroestwinswidewaysprimedemolishorsideswipe.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Twins aren't the only vehicle that splits in two in this scene.]]
*'''Shanghai Shootout''' (Multi-pack, 2009)
:Shanghai Shootout replicates the opening action scene from ''Revenge of the Fallen'', featuring figurines of [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]]/[[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] (ice cream truck), Sideways (vehicle mode), [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]], and [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]] (vehicle mode). Demolishor is a slightly-oversized figure and the centerpiece of the box set.
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==Notes==
*When [[Wikipedia:Audi|Audi]] was looking to win screen time for one of its cars in the summer films during 2009, Ruben Igielko-Herrlich, a marketing consultant from Propaganda Global Entertainment Marketing, helped the company to find an opportunity in the film ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''. Ruben talked the staff from the film into finding a role for the [[Wikipedia:Audi R8|Audi R8]]. Ultimately, an Audi R8 appears in the film as Sideways. Thus, Sideways became the only car Transformer in the movie whose alternate mode is not manufactured by [[General Motors]].<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_28/b4139068367113.htm Hollywood's Blockbuster Role for Product Placement - BusinessWeek]</ref>
* Sideways's toys and merchandise are not licensed by Audi, and are thus merely approximations of the R8. However, Sideways' appearance in the [[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|''Revenge of the Fallen'' video games]] is fully licensed, so he is accurate to the car used in the film and has Audi's logos and signage.

==Reference==
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[[Category:Decepticons]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen characters]]
[[Category:Robot Heroes]]

Talk:Goldbug (IDW)

2009-08-10T20:33:15Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

=='87 toy==
This discussion is carried over from [[Talk:Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#VW Beetle]]. My view is that the '87 toy = Bumblebee renamed. It says so in his bio. So, ''at best'', the toy could be said to have been [[repurpose]]d into IDW Goldbug, except that IDW Goldbug is not a VW Beetle, so it is not even repurposed. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 17:05, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:The bios often vary wildly from the depiction in the fiction, yes? I'd say that this version of Goldbug is at least as close to the toy as, say, G1 Bumblebee is to Hearts of Steel Bumblebee, which co-exist on the same page. Or IDW Sunstreaker, who's a Headmaster. Maybe we should make a separate page for the non-gestalt, non-animal Predacons of IDW. I'd say that if we're willing to accept that there can be bodies for characters that aren't based on the toys, but are still associated with the toys, then it has to cut both ways. The only thing that makes Goldbug different from the other characters is that the character is sometimes the same guy as Bumblebee. Otherwise, if this toy can't live on the same page as Goldbug (IDW), then really none of the other IDW Throttlebot bodies (or any other kind of bodies) should live on the same page with their more toy-like other depictions. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 17:23, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::Well, except that the other characters live on the same page because we consider them to be the same characters, just portrayed slightly differently between continuities. So the fact that the toys don't always represent every single depiction is considered low priority.
::However, since we already decided that IDW Goldbug is a separate enough character to get his own page, that means that assuming the same toy as the Goldbug characters we separated him from is a "good enough for government work" match is no longer a "valid" assumption. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:29, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::: Ah, but we decided that he's separate enough from prior depictions of Goldbug to warrant his own page. But that's emphatically not the same as saying that he's a separate character. It's purely a wiki convention, for our own convenience. Clearly, the idea that Goldbug is a member of the team called Throttlebots is something that ultimately traces its roots to the toys. Ignoring a line on the bio, well, that's nothing new for us, or for Transformers fans, pros and everyone in between. This is not an analogous situation to, say, Galvatron II, where there were two guys running around with the same name. This is just, well, IDW's Goldbug, and in this continuity he's not Bumblebee. Just like in this continuity, Galvatron isn't Megatron. We still call them the same guy, and associate all the toys together, even though really the Galvatron G1 toy looks almost nothing like the Galvatron from IDW. And if the IDW Rodimus Prime isn't Hot Rod, which seems likely, then that toy should still be on the page too. All IMO, of course. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 17:48, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::Well, I tend to take the stance that we shouldn't assume/make up things unless we need to. And if we do need to make any assumptions, we should mark them as being such (which is why we have things like the "nameless character" templates, after all).
::::If we consider IDW Goldbug to be separate enough to get his own page, mere wiki convention or not, then IMHO he's separate enough that we shouldn't make an unofficial assumption that the toy still applies, unless we see something from IDW themself that suggests it does (like an Earth mode that looks like the toy). Seeing as how inclusion of a toy is not important enough that it demands an assumption on our part in order to fulfill the bare basic requirements for a character page. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:53, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::I agree with Jim. I don't think the visual depiction of a character needs to match the look of a toy for the toy to "apply," nor do previous personality depictions come into play at all, since bio/story-portrayal disparities have been a fact of Transformer life since the beginning. It's very ''odd'' to see the VW-Beetle Goldbug on this page, I agree, but the logic is sound. Imagine for a moment that, up until IDW, Goldbug had been a toy-only character. Then suddenly IDW uses him in "Cybertronian" form... wouldn't we still put the old toy on his page? It doesn't matter how much the bio differs; the toy of the yellowish Throttlebot named "Goldbug" in the G1 toyline was obviously the inspiration for IDW's character of a yellowish Throttlebot named "Goldbug" in their G1 comic. And, to return to the real world, it also doesn't matter that there's this other interpretation out there of Goldbug being a rebuilt Bumblebee. It doesn't affect the logic of this page's content, other than that the stories about him being Bumblebee belong on Bumblebee's page instead. The toy, being an independent entity (independent even from its own packaging bio), belongs in both places. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 18:51, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::That is one way to go about it, but taking that logic to its logical conclusion—both Goldbugs should be on the same page. I think the only reason we are squeamish about not merging them is because it says "Bumblebee" on the top of the page. That shouldn't matter, technically, since [[Goldbug (G1)]] redirects there. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 18:59, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::You're right; it's purely for convenience's sake that we've separated them. IDW-Goldbug ''is'' an incarnation of G1 Goldbug, so if we were being completely literal, we would put IDW-Goldbug's info on the page that [[Goldbug (G1)]] redirects to. But how would that read? We'd have to break the Bumblebee section up somehow between 'Bee and Goldbug, which is unprecedented and strikes me as an awkward solution, especially since we don't know how major a character Goldbug might become - or even how intertwined their storylines might get.
:::::::Actually, I think the most logically-consistent solution would be to make a separate [[Goldbug (G1)]] page and transplant all of the Goldbug info from [[Bumblebee (G1)]] into it. It's the [[Galvatron (G1)]] approach. The only counterargument to ''that'' I see is again one of convenience: it would put the reader through an unwarranted amount of work, jumping to a different page just to see the miniscule amount of material about, say, the Marvel Goldbug before jumping BACK to the Bumblebee page when he becomes a Pretender. Especially considering that, unlike Galvatron, there's no significant difference between Bumblebee and Goldbug's identities or story-roles.
:::::::So we're left with the pages as they currently stand, not really the most logical conclusion but the most convenient one. And... well, honestly, now I'm at a loss as to how this pertains to the toy question. If we can accept separating IDW-Goldbug from the rest, he's still an incarnation of the character represented by the toy, so why wouldn't the toy go here?
:::::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:24, 9 August 2009 (EDT)

::::::I don't find the logic sound at all. There's no official statement that toy Goldbug = IDW Goldbug, period. I really don't see why this is even an issue. The toy information is not at all important enough that it must be included, so there's no reason for us to make up a completely fanon assumption with zero canon support. If IDW ever does give us some canon info that makes assuming the toy is the same reasonable, then we can add it. But we shouldn't be putting fanon on the wiki. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:09, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::Jeysie, is there any official statement that toy Goldbug == Sunbow Cartoon Goldbug? I don't remember them every saying that. The character model is pretty different. Actually, I don't know of any official statement that, say, Activators Cliffumper is the same as Cliffjumper from the animated cartoon. One is an earth mode, one isn't. Or almost any other toy for that matter. Where would such a statement be made? Under what circumstances? --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 19:15, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::The fact that we consider them enough the same character to put them all on the same page is "good enough" there. But, if we consider a character incarnation separate enough to warrant its own page, then I fail to see any logic at all in assuming that the toy that belongs to the other incarnations ''we just declared as different'' still applies.
::::::::Now, if you wanted to argue that either this incarnation of Goldbug isn't different enough to separate out, or that we should separate out more (or all) different incarnations, those points would have some logic and consistency to it. But "we consider this character separate for its own page by fiction yet it's somehow still the same toy as the characters we just separated it from" just seems doofy to me unless there's some sort of actual canon support for the assumption.
::::::::Especially since we don't need to include toy info to fulfill the basic requirements of a character page, so there's nothing forcing us to add it, as opposed to leaving it off until we're sure we're being factual instead of fanon. This isn't like the "nameless character" situation, for instance, where we're forced to make something up just so we can create the page. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:47, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::I see no difference between Goldbug (IDW) and Goldbug (G1), vis a vis the state of his toy. If you think we need an 'official declaration' that the Goldbug (IDW) character belongs to the 1987 Goldbug toy to be valid, then that requirement should apply to the Goldbug (G1) toy. You've made a moderately compelling (but flawed, IMO) case that the toy might not apply to both characters, but you haven't even come close to coming up with an argument as to why the toy belongs with one more than the other. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 19:52, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::I had an edit-conflict with Jim there, but I was going to say basically the same thing in a single sentence: What are your standards for figuring out if a toy "applies" to a character? - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:24, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::::Basically, if we declare various incarnations of a character concept to be similar enough to belong on the same page, then that means the various toys that belong to that singular character concept are also similar enough to belong to those various character incarnations.
::::::::::Conversely, if we feel that a character incarnation is different enough to warrant its own page, then that logically means that it should be considered also separate from the toys that belong to the characters it's not the same as.
::::::::::But, saying that fictionally they're different but toy-wise the same is inconsistent and illogical to me unless there's fictional support that says the toy '''is''' still the same. And there is no such support, in this instance.
::::::::::If you feel that IDW Goldbug isn't different enough to warrant excluding his toy even though we have no fictional support that it's the same, then IMHO that's an argument from you that IDW Goldbug isn't different enough to be split off from the other Goldbugs to begin with, not an argument to put the toy on this separate page.
::::::::::I'm all about being consistent unless there's actual evidence of inconsistency, not just mere assumption.
::::::::::(Ironically, I think that toy Goldbug probably is IDW Goldbug as a pure fanon thing. I just think there's no outright ''canon'' evidence yet, and thus it's inappropriate to put it on the wiki.) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:31, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::::We're going in circles here. Even IF we grant the argument that separating out the character works, for whatever reason, where's your canon evidence that the toy belongs over on the Goldbug (G1) side of things? All your arguments are reciprocal, applying equally well to both articles. I can say that it's just your 'fanon' that the Goldbug 1987 toy belongs with the Goldbug (G1) article.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 20:39, 9 August 2009 (EDT)

:::::::::::I'm sorry, but I'm still not hearing a definition from you as to how you figure out if a toy "belongs" to a character. All I'm hearing is that you think it's logically dissonant to break IDW-Goldbug off from the older incarnations while accepting the toy contemporary to those incarnations as representative of the new guy. Is it the time factor that you think defines it? I'm at a loss.
:::::::::::But maybe part the problem you're seeing here is that, as I described above, there ''is'' an essential irrationality to how we've separated these pages. If we were being totally logical, either IDW-Goldbug would be on [[Bumblebee (G1)]] (like IDW-Galvy is on the same page with previous, Megatronny incarnations), or ''all'' the Goldbug info would be on a single [[Goldbug (G1)]] page separate from Bumblebee (like how [[Megatron (G1)]] has no Galvatron info on it). But both of those options, while logical, are unduly inconvenient. So we have this middle-ground setup that satisfies convenience but isn't fully consistent with policy. And, in trying to apply policy arguments to the toy question, I think you're correctly seeing that something is illogical, but the toy is kind of caught in your crossfire when the central issue is elsewhere. Once one accepts the central illogic...ity of the setup, I think the toy question resolves itself in favor of inclusion.
:::::::::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:54, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::::::Er... my definition of "how a toy belongs to a character" is that it was officially stated to belong to a certain character concept, and we consider a given fictional character incarnation to also belong to that concept.
::::::::::::So, if Hasbro officially declares a toy to be some form of "G1 Bumblebee", and we consider various fictional character incarnations to be G1 Bumblebee, therefore, by our existing wiki structuring, the toys and the characters go together.
::::::::::::But if we say that one Bumblebee incarnation isn't the same as the other ones, then we must also say that it is not the same as the toys that belong to the other ones either, ''unless'' the same fiction that caused us to separate the characters says the toy is the same anyway.
::::::::::::So I repeatedly made my argument of how I'd match up toys; you just didn't pay attention to what I said.
::::::::::::And, I agree there is sort of an inconsistency there, but the bulk of the problem is solved by stating that, if this incarnation of Goldbug is different enough for its own page, it therefore is well and truly separate in all aspects unless the canon gives a reason to think otherwise. There's zero logic to me in separating out the fiction but not the toys without some canon evidence we should be doing it differently. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 21:14, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::::::Edit: So it may be "fanon" that 1987 Goldbug goes with Goldbug (G1), but if so, it's the wiki's fanon, not mine. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 21:17, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::::::Well, then, it's simple. Hasbro officially declared the 1987 Throttlebot toy to be Goldbug, and so has IDW declared the character in Spotlight: Metroplex to be Goldbug. The parentheticals, it's been repeatedly stated, are NOT a part of the character's name or identity, merely a convenience so that we can have different articles about different concepts sharing a name. We could just as easily call the IDW Goldbug article name Goldbug (G1) and call the other one Goldbug (Bumblebee). It wouldn't, and shouldn't, make any difference to the article itself. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 21:33, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::::::::It makes sense insofar that we've considered this Goldbug to be different from every other Goldbug. So the toys either belong to the other Goldbugs or to this Goldbug, but not to both, unless the fiction that caused us to declare them separate them says otherwise. Otherwise, your argument is that we shouldn't have separated them out to begin with.
::::::::::::::My argument basically boils down to: either they're separate or they're not, so make up your mind please, unless official say-so forces us to be betwixt-and-between. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 22:08, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::If it had to come down to just one, I'd vote IDW Goldbug. He has no claim to any other toys, but a legitimate claim to this one. Fortunately, that's a false dichotomy. One COULD put IDW Goldbug with the rest of the Goldbug stuff. Or, one could make Goldbug its own page, separate from Bumblebee. Either way, the toy issue goes away. It just so happens that it's fairly convenient to do it this way, on a number of levels. But the wiki is an artificial construct, a collection of knowledge and organizational principles that doesn't actually bind the fiction at all. In this case, the underlying organizational principles make it smarter and more convenient to put the fiction in two different places. But the fact is that, should we (and we easily could) choose to separate Goldbug from Bumblebee we would include the Goldbug toy on that page. Should we choose to put IDW Goldbug on the Bumblebee page, and we easily could, we'd include the toy on that page. Choosing to split the difference to make everyone's life easier doesn't require us to throw common sense out the window and make a false choice for the one place a toy has to go. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 23:04, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::See, that makes sense. If all the Goldbugs belong on a separate page, then the Goldbug toys logically belong there too. And if IDW Goldbug is actually not different enough to be separate from Bee's page, that means he's not separate enough from the toys either. Now you're getting it. There's zero that's common sense to me about "Well, he's totally separate except for the bits that he's arbitrarily not based on our non-canon assumptions."
::::::::::::::::And, I dunno, to me, just leaving the toy info off is a perfectly easy way to do things. Why is having it on the page remotely a big deal? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 23:40, 9 August 2009 (EDT)

::::::::::::::::This whole page makes my brain hurt. Of course a [[repurposing|single toy can belong to two characters]], or even to two different iterations of the same character. Jesus Christ. What is this bullshit, and why are we wasting our time with it? --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 23:24, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::::Well, yeah, there's stuff that gets ''officially'' repurposed all the time that we list on the wiki. We don't list fanon repurposing, though, AFAIK.
:::::::::::::::::So it's not the mere idea of repurposing that's the issue, it's whether in this instance it's canon repurposing or not. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 23:40, 9 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::::::How EXACTLY are the IDW comics "unofficial"? Jesus Fucking Shitty Christ, why is EVERY stupid and retarded and horrible super-ass-long-fucking pointless argument on this wiki involving YOU? JESUS CHRIST. Can I just delete this damn page? Can I delete HER? --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 15:48, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::::::::::::::"But, saying that fictionally they're different but toy-wise the same is inconsistent and illogical to me..." Just to throw a wrench into this argument, the idea that the same toy can have two characters is a pretty big part of why nearly every single Japan-only G1 character has two pages. Personally, I'd favor the Galvatron approach: move all Goldbug stuff to a Goldbug (G1) page and reference to/from Bumblebee (G1). Since that doesn't seem likely to happen, I think leaving the page as-is is the next best thing. You're right, if you want to get REALLY technical, there's nothing ''officially'' stating that the Goldbug in IDW is the same as the original toy. Conversely, however, there's nothing stating he ISN'T, either, and I personally think that would be the bigger assumption to make. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 02:33, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::::::::::::I'd call the assumption with no official support the bigger assumption, personally.
:::::::::::::::::::And again, I have no problem with the idea of one toy being two different characters ''if'' it's got canon support somewhere. It's the latter thing that's my grumbling issue, not the former.
:::::::::::::::::::I guess it's that I tend to be a literal "if it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage" sort of person when it comes to reading canon. I got my own fanon theories same as anyone, but we're not here to catalog that. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 02:54, 10 August 2009 (EDT)

(''resetting the quote indents 'cause it's getting unwieldy'')
''How EXACTLY are the IDW comics "unofficial"?''
:Whoa there, cowboy. Nobody's calling IDW unofficial. They're saying that equating the alien bodyform IDW Goldbug, who is definitely not Bumblebee, with the Earthen bodyform Goldbug toy, which definitely IS Bumblebee, is of questionable canonicity -- IDW Goldbug to date has not looked like that toy. No one official has made that leap of repurposing explicit thus far.
:As for me, I'd rather just see a "see main article" link to the Goldbug section of "Bumblebee (G1)/toys" or whatever it is, but that's mostly because I strenuously oppose copy-paste repeats of identical text on different pages. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 16:13, 10 August 2009 (EDT)

::I feel pretty comfortable assuming the other Throttlebots' bios apply to them unless something were to conflict with them. IDW Goldbug? I don't know who he is. I considered putting the '''Category:Spies''' tag on the page, but I don't know if he is a spy. He doesn't appear to be an "espionage director." HOS Bumblebee was pretty close to G1 Bumblebee, actually. There wasn't anything that jumped out at me that would make me say, "Bumblebee wouldn't act like that." IDW Sunstreaker was very Sunstreaker-esque, so I don't know what you mean. He became a Headmaster? Well that is just imagining what would happen if G1 Sunstreaker became a Headmaster. Many Headmasters aren't Headmasters in IDW but have the same personality. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 18:36, 9 August 2009 (EDT)

No offense, Jeysie, because I respect your judgments and opinions, but I think we're locked in a static argument here. For whatever reason, you think putting Goldbug's toy on Goldbug's page is fanon, while Jackpot and I strongly disagree. (I think that ItsWalkey and Dark T Zeratu agree with Jackpot and I, but I'm less comfortable definitively saying so.) I think that at this point, barring some new viewpoints, we're going to have to agree to disagree. I feel I've answered your arguments, I'm sure you feel you've answered mine. I'm going to bow out the discussion until and unless it goes in a new direction and I'm able to contribute constructively, trusting that my position is clear. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 09:34, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
:Well, I think Walky and Zeratul mistakenly think it's a matter of being against putting repurposing on the wiki, when I'm just against putting ''non-canon'' repurposing on the wiki. I just feel something should either be completely separate or not when we have only our judgement to go on... Hasbro's the only folks who get to have their cake and eat it too, so to speak.
:You guys have zero canon evidence that Goldbug's toy represents IDW Goldbug, therefore the appropriate thing is to simply leave it off until we're sure, as it's not required for the basic needs of a character page. I'd rather leave info out than put up info we don't absolutely need and don't know is accurate or not. Him being a "comic-only character" is perfectly fine. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 10:52, 10 August 2009 (EDT)

==Move to "Goldbug (G1)"?==
In the discussion above, it occurred to me that the reason this page seems awkward and counterintuitive is that it breaks policy for the sake of convenience. IDW-Goldbug ''is'' a G1-franchise Goldbug, so he should go on [[Goldbug (G1)]]. Unfortunately, that happens to redirect to [[Bumblebee (G1)]], who is a separate individual in the IDW-verse, so we'd have to have two different write-ups in the same series-section. And if we pulled all the Goldbug info ''out'' of [[Bumblebee (G1)]] and put it in [[Goldbug (G1)]], just reading Bumblebee's story would require bouncing back and forth between articles with little benefit. So we've arrived at the current situation, which I think is the most expedient but certainly feels "off," especially when you bring the toy into the equation. Jeysie has been the most vocal about it, but she wasn't the only one who objected.

So I've made [[User:Jackpot/Sandbox/Goldbug (G1)|a sandbox]] to test a new proposal: Make [[Goldbug (G1)]] its own page, but just put links back to [[Bumblebee (G1)]] in the relevant sections. [[Goldbug (IDW)]] would redirect to [[Goldbug (G1)]], where the Goldbug toy can exist with no objections. [[Bumblebee (G1)]] can remain unchanged, other than adding a link to [[Goldbug (G1)]] for propriety. We may or may not remove the Goldbug toy from [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys]]; I don't really care one way or t'other.

The only disadvantage I see to this proposal is that someone searching for the Goldbug-who-is-Bumblebee will get a single extra click added to their path. But, hey, maybe they didn't know Goldbug was a separate individual in one continuity, and they'll learn something! It seems a small price to pay to make this page a little less counterintuitive and controversial, and more in-line with policy.

- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 13:06, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
:That makes a lot of sense. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 13:12, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
::To me, it makes no sense at all. Goldbug is only a separate guy in IDW. The current article title makes perfect sense. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 13:14, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
:::Then, by your logic, we should have a separate [[Galvatron (IDW)]] article. Maybe you agree with that, but until that happens, precedent is against your position. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 13:17, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
::::We are starting to trip over some of our own past rationalizations. [[Galvatron (G1)]] includes vintage G1 Galvatron who was rebuilt from Megatron, IDW Galvatron who had nothing to do with Megatron, and Henkei Galvatron who was just a temporarily-on-drugs Megatron. [[Cheetor (BW)]] includes Henkei Cheetor who is the size of a G1 character living in a G1-ish era on modern Earth when the entire Beast era never happened. [[Airazor (BW)]] for some reason includes TransTech Airazor, who came from a whole different dimension where, again, probably the Beast era never happened. If era and even identity of origin no longer matters so much, then sure as heck IDW Goldbug ought to be acknowledged as being G1 Goldbug. They look the same and do basically the same thing in basically the same story--that's been good enough for us in the past. (Note that even by that standard I still don't think H-Cheetor and TT-Airazor "work", but, whatever, let's just pick one way and be consistent with it). --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 14:06, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::''"...Henkei Galvatron who was just a temporarily-on-drugs Megatron"'' just has me in snicker fits.
:::::Ahem. That aside, Thy brings up a good couple points on IDW Galvie and H-Cheets (we could also toss in H-Dinobot for additional measure). --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 14:32, 10 August 2009 (EDT)

OH MY GOOD GOD '''JESUS''', GUYS. Are you ''LOOKING'' for things to complicate this decidedly non-complicated article with? I want to punch you all in the kidneys!! - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 14:23, 10 August 2009 (EDT)

:::::I will sooner eat a live rat than support this move. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 14:24, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
::::::Is there really that much difference between [[User:Jackpot/Sandbox/Goldbug (G1)|the proposal]] and the current article? It's just enough additional content to make it kosher with policy, but doesn't make the reading experience fundamentally different. I don't understand the hostility. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:30, 10 August 2009 (EDT)
:::::::Here is what I say. We do a vote. Let the people decide what to do. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 14:35, 10 August 2009 (EDT)

===Vote Tally===

* [[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] doesn't care if we move it or not, so long as the toy remains on wherever the IDW Goldbug info ends up.
* [[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] opposes the move, as Goldbug is only a different person in IDW, and he is Bumblebee in all other continuities, thus, we would just be overcomplicating this.
* [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] votes to '''move''' to "Goldbug (G1)" according to [[User:Jackpot/Sandbox/Goldbug (G1)|this model]], which is basically the same content with some links to [[Bumblebee (G1)]], but doesn't throw a wrench into existing policy as the current page does.
* [[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]], who is a bit unsure about calling for a vote on this at this stage of discussion, votes no to moving. It ain't broke, so let's not go fixing it.
* [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] will '''''murder you all'''''. Also, no on the move.
* [[User:Antimatter|Antimatter]], knowing full well his opinion means jack squat, votes move to Goldbug (G1), keep the toy on the page, and add his information from the comics and the cartoon to the page.
* [[User:Emvee|Emvee]] quite likes Jackpot's page and throws his vote behind that.
* [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]], who feels passionate about this issue for some reason, votes to keep IDW Goldbug separate and to keep the toy info on his page. Links to the relevant sections of Bumblebee's story info are okay though. Jackpot's suggestion is definitely preferable to moving Goldbug's Sunbow and Marvel info OFF of Bumblebee's page.
* [[User:Dark_T_Zeratul|Dark_T_Zeratul]] wants to move all Goldbug information to Goldbug (G1), but wants to see the toy on this page if it doesn't get moved
* [[User:Eire|Eire]] thinks a move is entirely pointless. Just add a note to the Bumblebee IDW section at the top "For IDW's version of Goldbug, see Goldbug (IDW)", and would support the same for IDW Galvatron, since we've got [[Galvatron II]]
* [[User:Mazenoise]] opposes the move and also wonders if making IDW Goldbug a separate character is a deliberate choice or if the writer didn't know Goldbug = Bumblebee, considering how bad these comics have been lately..
* [[User:Detour|Detour]] votes '''no''' on the move.
* [[User:Derik]] votes we move this to "Goldbug (G1)" with a top-level link under the bio- "In some continuities Goldbug is a new form of Bumblebee. For those version of Goldbug, See Bumblebee (G1)"
* [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE]] agrees with Eire.

Landquake (Energon)

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{{disambig2|the Energon-series Autobot|the Timelines-series Decepticon|Landquake (Timelines)}}
:''Landquake is an [[Autobot]] from the ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]]''

[[Image:LandquakeBrute.jpg|right|250px|thumb|You brute you brute you brute you bruuuute! *sobs*]]
'''Landquake''' is almost the dictionary definition of the phrase "gentle giant". Relatively uninterested in combat (unlike his brother, [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]]), Landquake prefers to use his massive strength and endurance to help the [[Omnicon|Omnicons]] dig for [[Energon (Energon)|Energon]]. However, if the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] bring the fight to him, Landquake is more than willing to teach them a lesson. He may be emotional and sensitive, but he knows how to handle unruly opponents.

==Fiction==
===''Energon'' cartoon===
Landquake himself did not appear in the ''Energon'' cartoon. However, his coloration was used to represent the "Energon" upgrade of Landmine, even though the Landquake toy was not released in Japan.

===Dreamwave ''Energon'' comic===
[[Image:Landquake-ComicHead.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Any clues where this noggin came from?]]
When [[Alpha Quintesson]] sent hordes of [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] drones to ravage Earth, Landquake was part of the team sent to [[Los Angeles]], California to tackle the [[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticon]] clone army there, under the command of [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]]. He mainly used his armored vehicle mode to run down swarms of the creatures on the ground. The others in his squad were [[Bulkhead (Energon)|Bulkhead]], [[Cliffjumper (Energon)|Cliffjumper]], [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]], and [[Tow-Line (Energon)|Tow-Line]].

{{note|Landquake's head changes back and forth across his appearances. He is first seen in issue #27, with a new head design not based on the toy. However, on the next page, his head is that of the toy. The next time he is shown in robot mode, issue #29, he has the "new" head again.}}

==Toys==
===Energon===
[[Image:Energon-toy_Landquake.JPG|right|250px|thumb|]]
*'''Landquake''' (Ultra, 2004)

: A [[redeco]] of the ''Energon'' Landmine toy in white, brown, and blue, Landquake transforms into a half-track tow-truck type vehicle. The cab portion of the vehicle mode is the main robot, while the back end can either form an artillery platform or combine with Landquake in his "brute mode", giving him massive claws and a heavy artillery backpack. The artillery pack/station features a spring-loaded missile launcher, a working retractable winch-hook, and electronic sound effects.

: This mold was also redecoed as ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Landshark]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Autobot/Landquake/landquake.htm More information on Landquake at TFU.info]''

===Attacktix===
*'''Starter Set''' (2007)

{{attacktix
|ID=TF2-22
|faction=Autobot
|class=Specialist
|special=Jam - 13/26 (50%) success ratio
|cost=30
|speed=10
|attacktype=Prodder (Punch)
}}
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: Available only in the second ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' four-piece Starter Set (along with [[Generation 1]]'s [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] plus ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' [[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]]), Landquake is a [[redeco]] of the ''Attacktix'' Landmine piece. As a redeco of Landmine he possesses the same excellent defense and four point articulation. There is a slight sculpt difference with Landmine; his thrust-attack arm is assembled upside-down. The attack still works fine and it helps to make Landquake different visually.

:His special power is <s>[[JaAm]]</s> "Jam" which does not allow the opponent to use any shooters for the remainder of the turn. His power normally has a 50% success rate, but due to its wording it's possible to neutralize his power simply by attacking him using your last attack to topple him.

==Notes==
* Landquake sports the same "mountain" logo as Cybertron [[Brushguard]].

[[Category:Attacktix]]
[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Energon characters]]

February 6

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<noinclude>{{cal-date|2|6}}</noinclude>
* '''1925:''' [[Walker Edmiston]] (voice of [[Generation 1]] [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] and others) is born.
* '''1971:''' [[Brian Stepanek]] ([[Sector Seven]] Agent #1 in ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]'') is born.
* '''2006:''' [[Kōji Totani]] passes away, due to heart failure.
* '''2008:''' [[Devastation issue 5|''Devastation'' issue 5]] is released in the US by [[IDW Publishing]].

Arcee (Movie)

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:''Arcee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Arceemovie.jpg|right|250px|thumb|She's got legs, she knows how to use them. Temporarily, anyway.]]
Though small compared to many of her peers and adversaries, '''Arcee''' compensates with speed and aggressive maneuvers, making her one of the most dangerous Autobots around. Moreover, Arcee is a born hunter. She honed her speed hunting [[Turbofox|turbofoxes]] with other speedsters, challenging herself to get as close as possible before tagging them with her bow. She's a crack shot with said crossbow weapon, and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] has trained her to use her speed to her advantage in battle, striking suddenly and swiftly and then vanishing away again as fast as she appeared.

The events at [[Tyger Pax]] created a nagging doubt in Arcee about her abilities. She carries some guilt about [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s injuries, and part of what drives her is the desire to prove herself, not only in the optics of her friends and comrades, but most importantly in her own.

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
Many, many years in the past, Arcee was a member of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus's]] science division, in charge of excavation site LT34 near the temple of [[Simfur]]. While Optimus was showing Protector [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] around, her team discovered a mysterious relic with a [[Decepticon|strange symbol]] etched into it. She led her superiors to the ancient relic and watched as Megatron and Optimus began to argue when the former demanded the relic be relocated to his private quarters, Optimus relenting due to a sudden alien attack. Arcee assisted with its evacuation from the dig site. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1}}

[[Image:Defiance2_Arcee_Clocker.jpg|thumb|left|250px|You just middle-fingered your way out of lunch missy!]]

After the attack, Arcee tried to save the life of one of the aliens, but was unsuccessful. She and [[Clocker (Movie)|Clocker]] moved the bodies to [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]'s lab, where they discovered that the beings were similar in structure to the Cybertronians, only lacking the ability to [[transformation|transform]]. Before they could speculate further about the common ancestry of the two races, [[Signal Flare (Movie)|Signal Flare]] arrived with orders from Optimus to assemble at the Simfur excavation site for a meeting. There, Arcee and the other scientists learned of Protector Megatron's demand for war and Optimus' thoughts on the issue. After most of the scientists agreed to follow Optimus, they travelled to [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]] to watch Megatron deliver his saber-rattling war rally. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2}}

Ratchet, Arcee and [[Elita-One]] returned to the lab to analyze the other relic fragments recovered from the Simfur excavation, while Optimus, [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] and [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]] broke into Megatron's quarters to examine the intact relic. Before Optimus could explain to Ratchet the strange condition of the artifact, Arcee reported a finding—a symbol that appeared in the same place on all the different fragments: the same symbol that was on Optimus' head. Ratchet theorised that the legend of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] was true, and that Optimus was somehow connected to all of this. Later, at the dig site near [[Burthov]], Arcee, Ratchet and Optimus were arrested by Prowl's security forces on orders from Megatron for treason. What they didn't know was they were all being led into a trap, and the assassins Megatron sent would only take Optimus alive. After [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl's]] initial attack, Optimus ordered the group to escape to Burthov while he took care of [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and his soldiers. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3}}

Arcee was part of the team who captured the disenchanted soldier [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and brought him before Optimus Prime. Ironhide pledged allegiance to Prime and brought news of the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'', a massive starship that Megatron was building. While observing its construction and taking images of the ship, Arcee remarked that she had never seen its like before. During the subsequent civil war, Arcee defended civilians who were being targeted by Megatron's Decepticons for refusing to join in the war against Optimus Prime's Autobots. She was under the command of Bumblebee and desperately fought against Megatron's vast army at [[Tyger Pax]]. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4}}

[[Image:MoviePrequel1 Arcee Bumblebee.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"Can I say something?" "Whatever it is now is not the right time!"]]

However, Arcee and the rest of those under Bumblebee's command didn't know the true purpose of their battle, for they were a diversion to keep Megatron busy while other Autobots readied the [[All Spark]] for launch from Cybertron. She was captured and interrogated by the Decepticons but survived the ordeal. She recounted to their Autobot rescuers Bumblebee's heroics in delaying Megatron, preventing Megatron from intercepting the wormhole-bound All Spark. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Prime Directive (IDW) issue 1}}

Many years later, following the death of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and the destruction of the All Spark on [[Earth]], Arcee was in command of an Autobot assault team on [[Mars]] and led [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] and others in an attack on [[Nemesis (Movie)|Starscream's ship]]. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Two}}

[[Image:ReignofStarscream4 Arcee.jpg|left|150px|thumb|She's so happy to be home, she doesn't even care that Payload's looking up her dress.]]

While her team made short work of the [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]], [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]], and [[Payload (Movie)|Payload]] drones the Decepticons sent against them, Arcee killed the Decepticon sniper [[Hardtop (Movie)|Hardtop]] before he could snipe [[Smokescreen (Movie)|Smokescreen]]. Her teammates were unprepared for the arrival of [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]], however, and he quickly slew [[Camshaft (Movie)|Camshaft]] and wounded [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]]. Remembering her failure at Tyger Pax, Arcee leapt into action, and soon she and Cliffjumper had Thundercracker at their mercy. The arrival of Starscream changed that, as he killed Smokescreen and Air Raid and badly damaged Cliffjumper. As she attempted to pull the last surviving member of her team to safety, Arcee was kicked aside by Starscream. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 3|The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Three}}

However, Arcee recovered an instant later. The Decepticon starship was already taking off, but she jumped and grabbed onto a piece of landing gear, holding on tight...through the [[space bridge]]. Wow. Later, she made her way back to an Autobot facility, where she unexpectedly met Clocker and [[Crosshairs (Movie)|Crosshairs]]. Along with a large force of Autobots, the three moved in on the Simfur temple, where Starscream was using captured Autobots for a strange project of his. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 4|The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Four}}

[[Image:Alliance4_bikeAutobots.jpg|thumb|180px|May I introduce myselfs?]]

She split her troops into two forces: One would attack the city of [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]] as a diversion, while the other moved in on Simfur. Arcee and her team could only watch helplessly as Starscream drained the life out of the Autobot prisoners strapped onto the [[replica Allspark|replica All Spark]], despite her friend Elita-One's pleas for mercy. An opportunity to cause havoc presented itself when [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]]'s forces attempted a coup. Arcee lined up her sights on the generator holding the life energy of the deceased prisoners, dedicated the shot to Elita, and destroyed it, annihilating the Cube and sending the Decepticons into disarray. Arcee's team fought their way through the disorganised Decepticons, linked up with [[Wingblade]]'s team, and rolled out just as the crippled starship came crashing down on the city. With the destruction of the capitol and the defeat of a significant portion of the Decepticon drone army, Arcee considered this to be the turning point of the war, but as long as Starscream was alive, he was a threat that she had to track down. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 5|The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Five}}

Sometime later, a reconfigured Arcee arrived on [[Earth]] with a small group of other Autobots to answer Optimus Prime's rallying call, but their joy was cut short with news of more Decepticon sightings on their new home. They caught up and reconnected through their training at [[NEST]]'s facility, as that was all the time they had. The new recruits were soon called upon to put their training into use: the Decepticon [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] had been sighted in [[Shanghai]], [[China]]. {{Storylink|Alliance issue 4}}
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===Target Robovision bio===
{{notemoviebio}}

Arcee was on [[Earth]] for a short time at the beginning of the conflict there, presumably arriving shortly after Bumblebee. When the situation on Earth began to ramp up into out-and-out combat, she was reassigned elsewhere, where her stealth skills would be of more use.

Now she fights in the [[Charii system]] against a Decepticon splinter cell working on a star-breaking weapon. If she has her way, the only things breaking will be their heads.

===Titan Magazines ''Transformers'' movie comics===
{{Note|Arcee's appearance in [[IDW]]'s [[Movie Prequel (2007)|2007 Prime Directive movie prequel]] is in continuity with the following appearance in [[Titan]]'s comics.}}

Originally, Arcee didn't serve either faction, working alone to solve injustices in her own way. [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] personally decided to make an example of her, and only an Autobot extraction team led by [[Kup (Movie)|Kup]] saved her life. This debt saw her join the Autobots. She's chimerical in nature and is constantly changing her alt-mode in an effort to go as fast as possible (maybe that's why her robot mode always looks different!). She [[Arcee (G1)|previously had a hover-car form]], but on Earth takes a modified bike mode. Once you earn her trust, she's [[Rick Astley|never going to let you down]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Arcee bio}}

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[[Image:Titan13 Arcee.jpg|right|150px|thumb|She's pissed off that she hasn't got her cool live-action design.]]

Arcee was one of the six Autobot reinforcements hiding on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}} When [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] attacked them, the quick-thinking Arcee was the one who took command and rallied the troops. When this still failed to work, she ordered them to Earth (following [[Strongarm (Movie)|Strongarm's]] initiative) and their prearranged targets. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 11|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3}} Alongside [[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]], she guarded [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] while he destroyed the captive [[All Spark]] and thus saved Earth from being cyberformed. When the other Autobots had believed they'd lost, Arcee was the only one who outright refused to accept defeat. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

And, of course, they didn't lose. However, Arcee was left bewildered by the idea that Humanity would not trust and love the Autobots, and Optimus explained to her that, from a human point of view, all the Transformers are alien horrors fighting on their planet. Following this, she guarded the [[Savannah]], [[Georgia]] shelter and was caught in [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream's]] ambush. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath Part 1}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 15|Aftermath Part 2}}

Among other engagements to protect the American infrastructure, she served with Bumblebee in protecting an Alaskan pipeline. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

[[Image:Titan22 Arcee.jpg|left|200px|thumb|''That's'' better!]]

She was later part of Ironhide's team in retrieving [[Nucleon]] from Cybertron, which ran afoul of [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} She acted as Bumblebee's distraction, drawing [[Storm Surge]] and [[Fracture]] away, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}} and doubled back to regroup with Ironhide (and pull him out of rubble) when [[Unicron]] arrived. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|Return to Cybertron: Part 3}} Later, she got Optimus Prime up to speed on the situation. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

Following the Decepticon re-conquest of Savannah, Arcee was part of the raid to rescue [[Mikaela Banes]]. She got off one bit of bravado about how hitting things was her kind of shindig before [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] hit ''her''. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

When the Autobots launched their final strike, Arcee was part of the spearhead team hittting the [[Decepticon Heartland]]. She started off the 'tagging' of Decepticons to teleport them away from Earth, getting [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]] in the back and looking very happy about it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}

{{Note|The following takes place in the Star Screams letter column continuity.}}

Arcee runs a lonely-hearts ad column called Arcee's Soulmates in her spare time.

No, really.

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Grey DeLisle]] (English), [[Masako Katsuki]] (Japanese), [[Martina Treger]] (German), [[Chiara Colizzi]] (Italian)
:''Holographic rider:'' [[Erin Naas]]

[[Image:ROTF-Arceethree.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Now I'm my own threesome!]]

Arcee answered the call from Optimus Prime to join his Autobots on Earth. Her consciousness was split between three motorcycles, all which could transform into individual robots, yet all three together were considered simply "Arcee." Her components also have the ability to recombine into a single robot mode.<ref>The Arcee components combining into one robot mode is not shown in the film, but in all other media.</ref> Under Optimus Prime's command, she was part of the Autobot/human military alliance known as [[NEST]], whose job was to hunt the remaindered Decepticons hiding across the globe.

[[Image:ROTF Sideways Chromia.jpg|left|thumb|You shoot like a girl!]]

Arcee and the rest of NEST were able to trace two Decepticons hidden in [[Shanghai]], [[China]]. When one of them, [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]], revealed himself, the three components of Arcee were released from a NEST truck trailer. Though Arcee was able to surround Sideways with herself and cover him in firepower, the Decepticon was able to elude her by jumping through a building. Unfortunately for Sideways, Arcee was also accompanied by [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|Sideswipe]], who quickly put the Decepticon down.

While not on missions, Arcee was parked with the other Autobots in their hanger at [[Diego Garcia]]. It was here that the Autobots received word from the [[President of the United States]], via [[Theodore Galloway|Director Galloway]], that the White House was concerned that the Autobots' living on Earth was the reason for the Decepticon activity, and that if need be, they would ask the Autobots to leave. Later, after [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] died in battle and [[The Fallen]] issued an ultimatum to Earth, the US government decided that the Autobots would be shipped back to Diego Garcia.

NEST had a different idea, and instead shipped Arcee and the other Autobots to [[Egypt]] on the advice of [[Sam Witwicky]], who had the means to resurrect Optimus Prime. During the climactic battle between NEST and The Fallen's Decepticons, Sam and Mikaela attempted to make their way through the bombed-out Egyptian town that had become the battlefield. Arcee arrived with [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] to escort them through the warzone, but unfortunately, her purple and pink components were disabled by [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|a Decepticon]], and only the blue component remained operational when she was last seen. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

==Toys==
===Transformers (2007)===
====Scout Class toys====
[[Image:Arceemoviescout.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Not Chrom- Well, maybe I am!]]
*'''Arcee''' (Target exclusive Scout Class, 2007)
**''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, scope, 2 tailpipes, "energon" star

: Arcee is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]], replacing her pinks and most of her whites and blacks with blue, and her translucent red with smoky brown plastic. She transforms into a "superbike"-type racing motorcycle. Unusually for a Transformer, she does not hold her weapon in her hands as most figures do. Instead, her Energon Bow mounts on a peg on either arm, with her hands being positioned to give the appearance of her using the bow. The bow itself is spring-loaded, firing a grey "arrow" missile.

:Arcee (and the rest of the Scout wave) were [[exclusive]] to Target stores, where they were all part of a [[Robo-Vision]] promotion. Arcee came with a [[Robo-Vision Decoder]] which allows you to see the Robo-Vision Code ("BULLSEYE") printed on her cardback. Starting [[June 2]], 2007, Target's website allowed users to input those codes to access exclusive content, a concept similar to the online [[Cyber Planet Key]] info from the ''Transformers: Cybertron'' toyline.

: This mold also was used to make ''Superlink'' Ariel Paradron Type, as well as the [[BotCon 2005]] ''[[Descent into Evil]]'' set's [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], [[Flamewar]], [[Flareup (Timelines)|Flareup]], and the fellow Target-exclusive movieverse [[Elita-One]].
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====Deluxe Class toys====
[[Image:Movie Deluxe Arcee toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Pretty in...purple?]]
*'''Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2007)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MA-11'''
**''Accessories:'' Launcher, missile

: Deluxe Arcee transforms into a purple 2006 Buell Firebolt XB12R motorcycle, genericised to get around licensing issues. Arcee has references [[Tampograph|tampographed]] on her vehicle mode, such as her motorcycle's model name, "RC 1100", and her Massachusetts license plate marked TF7407, the original release date of the movie.

: Arcee's [[Automorph Technology|Automorphing]] feature is located in her crossbow weapon (formed out of the seat/storage area of the bike), activated when the projectile (the bike's tailpipe) is inserted, which pushes out the recurved lath parts on the sides of the weapon. The rectangular peg which is supposed to be used to attach her weapon to her forearm in robot mode is sometimes a poor fit, and the weapon may pop off. As an alternative, the round peg by which the weapon is attached in ''vehicle'' mode can also be used in robot mode, with a little rearranging of parts.

: Undocumented in the instructions, the two shoulder-mounted half-wheels contain a small niche on the edge of the tires. By folding the wheels down with the hubcaps pointing towards the chest and turning the tires towards the shoulders, one can feel the wheels gently click into place via the tire niches and hidden tabs in the shoulders, allowing the wheels to remain in place and more closely resemble the figure as pictured on its packaging.

: As with most larger Transformers toys that become motorcycles, Arcee has a kickstand on the left side of the bike; unfortunately, it's mounted so low that she will fall in the opposite direction if it is fully extended.


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[[Image:Movietoy-Arceebattledamaged.jpg|right|thumb|300px|She's a dirty girl.]]
*'''Battle damage three-pack''' (Sam's Club exclusive three-pack, 2007)
**''Accessories:'' Launcher, missile

: A three-pack, exclusive to Sam's Club stores, consisting of redecos of Voyager Class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and Deluxe Class Arcee, both with battle damage deco, and an unchanged Voyager Class [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]].

: This version of Arcee later was sold at Asia online retailers and in European retail stores in the same packaging as the first release of Arcee. The packaging did not indicate any of the changes made to the figure, apart from a sticker on the bubble exclaiming "Exclusive! Battle-damage!".
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[[Image:Movie Arcee Black toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Not [[Flamewar]] and not [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]].]]
*'''Black Arcee''' (Deluxe, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MA-20'''
**''Accessories:'' Launcher, missile, Allspark cube

: This Japan-only [[redeco]] of Deluxe Class Arcee is cast in black in an attempt to match the look of the motorcycle [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]] rides near the end of the film. Surprisingly, it is not [[Black repaint|evil]].

: Like all Japanese "Allspark Power" toys, black Arcee comes with a small Allspark cube accessory.
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[[Image:Movie Arcee Wonder Festival G1 redeco.jpg|thumb|300px|How progressive. Wait, wait, no... the other thing.]]
*'''Arcee Limited Special Color Version''' (Deluxe-sized toy, 2008)
**''Accessories:'' Launcher, missile

:This Arcee is decoed in pink and white, in homage to Generation 1 [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], and was exclusive to the Wonder Festival 2008 Winter in Tokyo, Japan.
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===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
====Deluxe class toys====
[[Image:ROTF_Deluxe_Chromia.jpg|thumb|300px|Hey, I'm Arcee too, sometimes! Well, actually most times.]]
*'''Chromia''' (2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-11'''
**''Accessories:'' Missile, display stand

:[[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]] converts from a [[wikipedia:Suzuki B-King|Suzuki B-King]] to... a unicycle. Her vehicle mode weapon can attach as a display stand for either mode, ironically making a unicyclebot one of the most stable robot-modes. In robot mode, there is a spring-loaded missile between the tailpipes on Chromia's left hand in addition to the aforementioned non-firing blaster-stand. There is also a piece on the bottom of the vehicle mode (or back of the robot mode) that folds out, but there is no indication in the instructions as to what this piece is for. However, the piece can slide into a similar piece in the later Arcee toy, starting the supposed combined mode.

:While the instructions depict the motorcycle seat remaining flat so that it ends up covering the bottom wheel, the robot mode more closely resembles the movie design if the seat is folded in and locked into a slot on the motorcycle's bottom, as shown on the back of the packaging. The packaging photo also shows Chromia's front wheel resting behind the robot's shoulders, while the instructions leave it above her head. Furthermore, while it is not mentioned either in the instructions or shown on the box, the stand can be attached backwards and rotated with the guns facing up so that it acts as a prop for the toy, allowing the wheel to actually touch the ground, and letting the toy look from the front like it is unsupported.

:Though the instructions do not explain it, the back of the blister card mentions she has a [[Mech Alive]] gimmick in her left arm. While it isn't quite the "spinning gears" the card refers to, swinging her left forearm towards and away from her body makes a blue piston slide back and forth inside the large gun.
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[[Image:ROTF_Deluxe_Arcee_toy.jpg|thumb|300px|Help! I have scoliosis, and I can't stand on my own.]]
*'''Arcee''' (2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-23'''
**''Accessories:'' Side-car/display stand

:Deluxe class ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Arcee converts from a [[wikipedia:Ducati 848|Ducati 848]] to the most awkward robot mode you can imagine. The figure has a side-car which can become a weapon or a display stand.

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====Human Alliance====
[[Image:ROTFtoy-ArceeHumanAlliance.jpg|right|thumb|300px|I'm the red bike, but I transform into the blue bike's robot, but with the red bike's colors, and with the red bike's motorcycle mode - look, women are complicated, okay?]]
*'''Autobot Skids / Arcee / Mikaela Banes''' (Human Alliance, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-25'''

:The robot mode of the red Arcee bike in this set actually belongs to the blue motorcycle, Chromia.
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*'''Mudflap / Chromia / Seymour Simmons''' (Human Alliance, 2010)
**''Japanese ID number:''

:The robot mode of the blue Chromia bike in this set actually belongs to the red motorcycle, Arcee.
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==Merchandise==

===Revenge of the Fallen===
[[Image:Chromia_and_megs_robot_heroes.jpg‎|thumb|300px|]]

*'''Chromia vs Megatron''' (2009)
her robot mode belongs to flareup
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==Trivia==
[[Image:Movie scale chart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|In the time before time...]]
* As part of [[BotCon 2007]]'s Hasbro tour, fans viewed "Robot Scale Chart v03", dated 11.22.05, which showed Arcee's height as 9' (2.7m). However, all of the designs on this chart were very early and later heavily revised (though [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] was revised far less than the others).

* Arcee was originally going to be a member of the live-action movie's Autobot cast, but was later replaced by [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]. According to screenwriter [[Roberto Orci]], they would have needed to explain the point behind female robots, which there wasn't any time for in the movie.<ref>[http://movies.ign.com/articles/801/801098p3.html Roberto Orci explaining the reasons for Arcee's removal from the script in an interview with IGN.]</ref> Oddly enough, there was no attempt to do so in ROTF.

* In another interview, Alex Kurtzman cited "scale issues" as an additional reason for dropping Arcee; allegedly, Michael Bay simply considered her too small as compared to the rest of the Autobots.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070714214451/http://www.wizarduniverse.com/movies/transformersmovie/005082421.cfm?page=1 Wizard interview with Kurtzman and Orci]</ref> It's commonly assumed that Arcee's big part in the movie would have been the scene in which [[William Lennox]] starts his solo assault on [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] using an abandoned motorcycle. However, the screenwriters rejected that notion, stating that this scene wasn't written until ''after'' Arcee had already been dropped from the script—but if she ''had'' remained in the movie, that scene ''would'' have probably featured her as the motorcycle.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/2288318-post539.html Orci once again clearing up the story between Arcee and the motorcycle Lennox uses during the final battle]</ref>

* Arcee came ''this'' close to being killed off in ''The Reign of Starscream'', as the trade states that two revisions of the plot had her dying.

* Within the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie itself (and discussed in more detail in the novelization of the film), Arcee is revealed to be a "[[tripartite Cybertronian]]," meaning she is not one, but ''three'' motorcycles, who are controlled by a singular intelligence, in the vein of [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]]. The ''Revenge of the Fallen'' toyline, however, has identified Arcee as only ''one'' of the bikes (the pink/red one), and characterized the other two as individuals, [[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]] and [[Flareup (ROTF)|Flareup]]
**In a similar vein, it was originally intended that the three individual "Arcees" would combine into a singular, larger robot in the film, but this did not come to pass. The toys do possess the ability, however, and the combined form did appear in the film's novelization, and in one panel of the [[Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation|comic adaptation]].
**How to reconcile this new version of Arcee with the version seen in media associated with the first movie? The [[bio]] for ''Revenge of the Fallen'''s [[Knock Out (ROTF)|Knock Out]] holds the answer! This motorbike Autobot wants to undergo the new "combiner retrofit" he's been hearing about, strongly implying that Arcee underwent the same process, giving her the new powers she has in ''Revenge of the Fallen''. Whether or not the process involves getting combined with other, distinct Autobots (as the toyline would suggest, what with Chromia being an individual) or if it involves the Transformer's body being converted so that it splits into combining components (as the movie itself would suggest) is unknown.
***On that note, in the film itself she refers to her components in plural form. Before chasing Sideways, the Arcees are seen in vehicle form with their holographic drivers activating, with a communications officer asking if they are ready. To which, she replies; ''''We're''' locked and loaded'. This seems to suggest that her components are individuals like in the toyline rather than just extensions of herself. Additionally, writer [[Roberto Orci]] said that Arcee was written as three bikes that formed one being, but [[Michael Bay]] kept them as '''individuals'''.<ref>[http://transformerslive.blogspot.com/2009/07/ask-orci-final-edition.html Roberto Orci answers questions on the Transformers Live blogspot, July 13, 2009.]</ref>
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==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/TargetArcee/arcee.htm Arcee at TFU.info]

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Enemy (G1)

2009-08-07T23:26:25Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Undo revision 347858 by 75.171.155.44 (Talk)Good luck fighting a losing battle.

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:''Enemy is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Enemy.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Not to be confused with Cobra, the Enemy.]]
'''Enemy''' is one who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe. He is a hostile power or force, or possibly something destructive or injurious in his effects.

For example, if one were not to want to sound like a robot, Enemy would, counter to this one's desires, change this being's voice into sounding like that of a robot's. And he would do this with only one part of his body; nay, the only part of his body he has.

He is a bastard. Perhaps, even, a nemesis.

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:Enemytww.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Could it be? Is it he?]]
While [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] led most of the Decepticon army into [[Iacon]], several of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s troops snuck into [[Kolkular]] to end [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s plan to transform [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] into a spacefaring warship. Enemy, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and others countered the Autobots when they were discovered. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5}}

{{note|It's possible that Enemy was merely a miscolored [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] or [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], even though ''The War Within'' didn't shy away from using Microchange or Diaclone versions of toys as characters.}}

==Merchandise==
*'''AM Radio & Headset
[[Image:Am Radio decepticon.jpg|thumb|140px]]
:Enemy first appeared in 1984 as part of a working AM radio & headset, a piece of merchandise made by Nasta under the "Power Tronic" imprimatur. Featuring a large wearable Decepticon symbol belt-clip, removing this item revealed Enemy, a solid red (with blue thighs and upper arms) simplification of the [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] mould. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform in situ.
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*'''Enemy''' (voice changer)
[[Image:Enemy ecv inpackage.jpg|thumb|100px]]
:Enemy was given life again the following year when Nasta released a voice-changer in 1985. A large disembodied head, Enemy again looked like a red [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]/[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], but this time with proper silver face detailing. If a kid talked into a headset that plugged into Enemy's noggin, his voice would be modified to sound robotic. Enemy came with a belt clip, power pack, headset with built-in microphone, and ran on a single 9 volt battery (not included).
:''There is a product variant with a gold face instead of silver.'' (see main picture)
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==Trivia==
[[Image:Enemymicrochange.jpg|right|75px|thumb|Get on it, [[E-Hobby]].]]
* MC-01 Micross (Red) was a red cassettebot in [[Micro Change|Microchange]] which could retroactively be considered a version of Enemy. We like to think so, anyway.
*Enemy is awesome.
*Enemy could possibly be three times faster than most [[Mini-Cassette]]s, but his lack of media appearances make it hard to tell.

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Mixmaster (ROTF)

2009-08-07T13:51:08Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

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:''Mixmaster is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

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A genius chemist, '''Mixmaster''' serves as a weapons designer to the Decepticon elite. He has spent his entire lifespan mastering the intricacies of chemical reactions, becoming an expert in poisons, corrosive substances, and most especially explosives. He has a knack for improvisation, being able to make deadly concoctions from just the native materials a world has to offer. A member of the [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicons]], when [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] is formed he constitutes the lumbering beast's head.

Sometimes, there are more than one of him.

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
[[Image:Defiance4_Constructicons.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Not shown: Mixmaster learning to use a bone as a club.]]

In the distant past, the [[All Spark (Movie)|All Spark]] Cube created [[Thirteen original Transformers|a race]] of powerful, trans-dimensional beings as the first inhabitants of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The Cube gave these beings mighty powers, as well as terraforming their world, but it was not limitless, and gradually became depleted. The first beings learned that the All Spark's power could be replenished by harvesting the energy of stars, but they were unable to locate new stars to suit their purposes, despite their amazing ability to travel between dimensions. Once again, the Cube came to the rescue, creating a race of workers, who had the ability to change their shape.

Mixmaster was among the very first of these new beings, one of several "builders" who would construct a [[Solar harvester|harvester]] when a suitable sun had been found. Once built, the device would drain the energy of these stars, thus replenishing the All Spark. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4}} It is presumed that at some point during the civil war on Cybertron, he sided with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], the new protege of Mixmaster's only surviving ancient master, [[The Fallen]].
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===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
[[Image:ROTFMegatronrebirth.jpg|thumb|250px|]]
After the [[All Spark]] shard was retrieved from [[NEST]]'s secure bunker at [[Diego Garcia]], [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]], [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]], Mixmaster, [[Scalpel]], [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] and [[Ze little one|another Constructicon]] secreted themselves aboard the ''[[Bayos]]'' freighter heading towards the North Atlantic. Once the ship passed over the [[Laurentian Abyss]], the Decepticons jumped overboard and dove down to where [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron's]] broken body lay. Scalpel ordered the death of the smallest Constructicon to rebuild Megatron, a request that Mixmaster and the others obliged with. Soon, Megatron was reborn!

After Megatron killed [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], Mixmaster climbed the Brooklyn Bridge and knocked down the American flag in a display of dominance as [[The Fallen]] broadcast a worldwide message demanding the humans bring them the head of [[Sam Witwicky]].

Some time later, Mixmaster and another Constructicon with the same [[body-type]] were present during the climactic battle in [[Egypt]] between the [[Autobot]]/NEST forces and the Decepticons. Mixmaster and several other Constructicons waited in a quarry in their construction vehicle disguises until the [[human]]s [[Seymour Simmons]], [[Leo Spitz]] and their Autobot guardians [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] approached. The Constructicons [[combiner|combined]] into the mighty Devastator and attacked. Elsewhere, the other Mixmaster fought against the NEST forces in the Egyptian town near the great ruins of the pyramids, using his cannon emplacement mode to cause serious problems, until the ex-Decepticon [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] arrived to slice him in half and crush his torso. Meanwhile, Devastator had shrugged off the Autobot twins and was busy demolishing the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] when Simmons called upon the [[United States Navy]] to attack Devastator. The [[United States Navy#U.S.S. Kidd (DDG-100)|U.S.S. ''Kidd'']] fired her experimental [[Railgun|railgun]], smashing one of his arms to pieces and destroying Devastator. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

==Toys==
===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
====Legends Class toys====
[[Image:ROTF_Legends_Mixmaster.jpg|thumb|200px|]]
*'''Decepticon Mixmaster''' (Legends, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number'' '''D2'''
:Mixmaster and the six other Legends class Constructicons combine to form Devastator. In Japan, the Legends class Constructicons are sold individually. Mixmaster has the dubious honor of pulling Devastator's face around like a rectal growth in robot mode.
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*'''Constructicon Devastator''' (Legends figure multi-pack, 2010)

:In [[Hasbro]]'s markets, the Legends Constructicons are sold together as a store [[exclusive]].
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====Voyager Class toys====
[[Image:Mixmaster ROTF Voyager toy.jpg|right|thumb|400px|]]
*'''Mixmaster''' (Voyager, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RD-12'''
**''Accessories:'' Missile

:Voyager Class ROTF Mixmaster transforms into a gray and silver cement mixer with purple windows and headlights, based loosely on the [[Wikipedia:Mack Trucks|Mack]] truck seen in the film. The vehicle mode's mixing drum is incapable of rotating due to the transformation, but does boast a pair of gigantic Decepticon logos on either side. The cement chute at the rear of the vehicle mode can accurately raise and lower on a hinge.

: His robot mode is very thin and lanky, with numerous joints on the extremely long arms alone. The packaging calls out [[Mech Alive]] gimmickry in the form of "spinning gears" on his chest, but the feature is only present at the thighs and forearms, which reveal shifting internal bits when the joints are rotated. The robot mode's missile-firing cannon is locked in place on its back pointing straight upward; in order to aim it the toy must be transformed to its artillery cannon-like Battle Mode that has him essentially performing a belly flop, letting the launcher fire forward.

: The image of the cement mixer mode on the packaging has been flipped horizontally, leaving the location of the ladder switched. Additionally, the robot mode image on the packaging has a different mold for the mixing drum shells, with rectangular-shaped pegs rather than circular.

{{picsneeded|Artillery mode, "fixed" configuration.}}
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*'''Mixmaster''' (Voyager, 2009?)
**''Accessories:'' Missile

:A repaint of the above toy in G1 inspired colours. Presumably, it retains all the gimmicks of the mould.

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====Supreme Class toys====
[[Image:ROTF_Devastator_combiner_toy.jpg|thumb|300px|]]
*'''Constructicon Devastator''' (2009)

:The Mixmaster component of the Devastator set becomes Devastator's head. He contains the lights and sounds for Devastator, as well as individual sounds for his vehicle mode. They are motion activated, which means he never, ever shuts up. As with the other Constructicon members in this set, Mixmaster does not have his own robot mode.
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==Merchandise==
===Robot Heroes===
[[Image:Robotheroesironhidemixmaster.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Hi, I'm Mixmaster, and I'm extremely pleased to be your villain this evening.]]
*'''Ironhide and Mixmaster''' (2009)
:Part of the second wave of the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' portion of the ''Robot Heroes'' line, Mixmaster is a new sculpt that comes with a [[redeco]] of the first ''Robot Heroes'' [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]].
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*'''Desert Devastation''' (Multi-pack, 2009)

[[Image:rotf_desertdevastation_rh.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Munchy!]]

:Mixmaster is the sculpted head of "Desert Devastation" Devastator, a super-sized ''[[Robot Heroes]]'' figure. He is only available in a multi-pack with [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] in their vehicle modes and [[William Lennox]].

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Talk:Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)

2009-08-05T18:09:46Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

==Character list==

Should we add one, now that Roddy's been confirmed, (complete with twisty tache)

I think we should, since the story seems that it will revolve around Cliffjumper. Rodimus is confirmed so is 'Jumper so I think we should. Anyone else think we should?[[User:AWT88|AWT88]] 17:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

And now, a year later, this was clearly the wrong tactic, as the list has grown ridiculously long and unwieldy. A "Category: Shattered Glass characters" should get the job done just as well without putting a stupidly large list in the middle of this page. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 18:06, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
:Agree. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:15, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
::Definitely agreed. We don't do this for any other franchise.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 18:17, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
:::I think it dates from when the Shattered Glass page did double duty as the comic and franchise page. We split them late, and it was a bit messy. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:26, 8 July 2009 (EDT)

==Separate Continuity?==
So Siph brought it up and Steve-o and I talked about it for a bit... Anyway, how are we going to treat the characters from BotCon 2008? From what we know about the set, it's clearly just G1-but-evil, so I don't think it's different enough to pass off as a separate continuity family. On the other hand, it'd be cleaner to give them their own pages. Meanwhile, pages like Optimus Prime's are long enough that even his fiction sections need to begin being split off anyway.

What I think we should do, at the moment, is treat Mirror Optimus Prime as a split from G1 Prime's page. As.... <nowiki>[[Optimus Prime (G1 mirror)]], maybe? Also, uh, create some [[Optimus Prime (G1 cartoon)]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1 Marvel)]]</nowiki> pages and the like. Akin to Wikipedia, Optimus Prime's main page should have abbreviated versions of these sections which link to the full versions on separate pages. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
:I'm not so sure I'm up for splitting the pages around. True, some like Optimus and Megatron are quite large, but some of them are also ''quite'' small. I just don't think that we should split up just because a page is getting large. We've discussed that kinda idea at Wookieepedia before, and we concluded that it would just be easier to keep it all at one page. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 02:45, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
::I'm also against splitting up large pages of main characters, since keeping it all in one page would help readers get the full history of the character (well as much as we've written) from the various continuities. Easier for editing too, if one doesn't need to keep track of two different fictional versions of the same character on two different pages (three if you also have to add a summerised version on the main Optimus Prime (G1) page).
::As for Mirror Prime... how about we just call him Optimus Prime (Mirror)? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:05, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
:::Technically, he shouldn't be a new page, so long as he's clearly a G1 Prime. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 03:39, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps giving them [[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]] parentheticals would be valid?--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 02:50, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Look who all's in the set... Prime, Jazz, Bumblebee, Grimlock and Starscream. Aren't all those pages already hideously long? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 02:52, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
And oh yeah. I'm against splitting up the Fiction sections. Toys into their own, yes. But I'm leery of splitting up Fiction. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 03:07, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
:So in ten years, when Optimus Prime's page is three times as long, that'll be okay? That sounds a little ridiculous. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 03:13, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

:'''About fiction sections:''' What Walky and I discussed perhaps hasn't been clearly explained here: We're not saying to take the fiction section out entirely like we did with "toys". The idea is that in the case of very long articles (like Prime's), we can take, say, the cartoon subsection, create a new article out of it, and in its spot on the main Prime page just have a summary of the high points with a note "see this other article for all the details". (Of course, his cartoon subsection right now isn't especially complete anyway. He appears in nearly every episode of Seasons 1-2 but most of those events aren't mentioned.) Important stuff in the main article, excruciating detail in a separate article. Perhaps it's not quite time for that yet, but eventually it will be. Like Walky says, G1 Prime's fiction section is just going to get longer and longer.
:'''About Shattered Glass guys:''' If we treat them as distinct characters with their own pages, I think "Shattered Glass" is the appropriate parenthetical. Definitely not "mirror" since that word doesn't seem to be in the description of the set. There should definitely be linking between the Shattered and normal articles, though. Perhaps even with the normal guys having a Timeslines: Shattered Glass subsection that says "see this other article for his evil counterpart".
:--[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 03:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
::Hmm...I suppose that's okay, if we keep the main highlights in the main article. But I also agree that now is not the time. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 03:53, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
:::Then when? Optimus Prime's page, even sans toys, is already twice as long than is recommended. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 03:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

::Considering that we treat Universe Obsidian, Tankor, and Inferno as distinct characters with their own pages despite just being alternate timeline variations, then clearly the Shattered Glass guys should get their own articles. "Shattered Glass" would be my choice of parenthetical as well. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 03:58, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
:::Frankly, I've been against splitting those dudes up for some time. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 03:59, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

::I vote for these dudes getting their own pages. If they're "mirror" versions, they have completely different personalities and hence would need completely new profile writeups as well as fiction sections. If you wanna compare Tankor and Obsidian, they were basically the same dudes; they'd just made different choices along the line. This doesn't seem to be the case for the Shattered Glass guys. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 21:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey, PacifistPrime here.

I just thought I'd chip in with my two cents, since I created these first ''Shattered Glass'' articles last night. I think we should keep the articles for these characters separate, at least for now. Although yes, obviously, it does '''''appear''''' to be the case that ''Shattered Glass'' is just "Mirror G1" (as it were), we don't actually '''''know''''' that yet. I mean, to be fair, I think some of us are gettng ahead of ourselves here. Until we know otherwise for sure, I'm of the opinion that we should treat these as separate characters (just like the alternate universe [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|Optimus Prime from the ''Armada'' comic]]. I mean, if ''he'' gets his own page, then I think these guys should.

And I certainly think "Shattered Glass" is the preferable paranthetical, since there is (as yet) no other official term like "mirror" being used in relation to the set. Furthermore, it fits with our general naming convention of using the title of the character's native franchise/continuity, e.g. [[Thrust (Armada)]], [[Tankor (BM)]], [[Grimlock (Animated)]] etc..

Cheers,
--[[User:PacifistPrime|PacifistPrime]]
:Hey, PP, could you sign your posts with four tildes, so we can see what time you made the post? It helps for keeping track of discussions.
:On-topic, we're staring at the fundamental problem of how "different" a continuity needs to be, to no longer be G1. The most inclusive definition seems to be, "If all the robot characters have the same names and approximate roles as characters from the G1 toyline, it's a G1 continuity. Unless it's the Movie." Time period is irrelevant, human characters are irrelevant, when and how the robots came to Earth is irrelevant, altmodes are irrelevant, the origin of the TF species is irrelevant . . . et cetera.
:But, if want to include Shattered Glass as a G1 continuity, we need to drop "approximate role". Unless "who's the good guy and who's the bad guy" is not considered to be part of "role". [[User:JW|JW]] 21:32, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
::Well, you gotta remember that part of the reason for the continuity family splits here on the Wiki is simple bookkeeping and convenience. The Movie has a big G1 influence; it could also be considered a ground-up reinvention; but either way, it heralded an unprecedented avalanche of new toys, characters and fiction. That alone was a good reason to separate it. By contrast, I don't think Shattered Glass will go much further than a story or two, some bios, and a small set of toys. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 21:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
:::''"part of the reason for the continuity family splits here on the Wiki is simple bookkeeping and convenience"''
:::Granted. However, part of our current problem is that a lot of little things have added up to become a big thing. If OP (G1) was just the Marvel comic and the original cartoon, he'd be more manageable, but a bajillion little G1-ish bits have been added on to him. We can keep adding little bits on to him, or we can say that some of them are different enough to warrant a new page. The universe in which he's a murderous fiend fits that bill.
:::(Our criteria can't sensibly be ''size,'' after all.) [[User:JW|JW]] 22:01, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
::::Oh, yeah, I'm all for giving the ''characters'' their own pages -- they share names and bodies, but they have new personalities. But it sounded like some people are wondering if SG should be a whole different continuity family, which IMO is overkill -- I think it can easily fit under the G1 umbrella. I might have just misunderstood what someone was saying, too. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 22:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Based on what is known so far about the set/story, I have the following positions:
#Shattered Glass should be placed under the G1 umbrella. Yes, Prime is now evil, but he's still the leader, etc.. His role isn't ''that'' different.
#Each Shattered Glass character should have their own character page, with links back and forth to their "regular" character. Despite thinking of Shattered Glass as being G1, I think that the character differences ''in concert with'' bookkeeping/convenience factors make splitting the best option. I don't want my Bumblebee fiction section to be full of all this stuff about "normal" Bumblebees and then in the middle there's this random evil Bumblebee who has no fictional connections to all the surrounding material.
--[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 17:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
: I suppose that works. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 17:19, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
:Steve-o, I'm curious as to what you mean by "fictional connection". I mean, is the fictional connection between OP (IDW) and OP (Marvel) stronger than the fictional connection between OP (Marvel) and OP (Shattered Glass)?
:(Of course, all this essentially gets back to the problem that OP (Marvel) and OP (Sunbow) are from two different universes, but were represented by the same toy(s), and came into being at the same time, so they're "the same guy". I can't find a way of disagreeing with that which doesn't lead to more problems than it solves. Like, those G1 toys who didn't appear in fiction {{m-}} are they from the Marvel universe, the Sunbow universe, or somewhere else entirely? Bleh!) [[User:JW|JW]] 17:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
::"Connection" isn't really the right word, but it was the best I could come up with at the time. "Similarity", maybe? I mean, the Bumblebee fiction would read like...
::{{quote|'''Continuity X''': Bumblebee loves humans and does lots of funny and cute stuff to help save the universe. '''Continuity Y''': Bumblebee loves humans and does lots of different but still funny and cute stuff to help save the universe. '''Shattered Glass''': Bumblebee is hardcore evil and wants to kill you for no particular reason. '''Continuity Z''': Bumblebee loves humans and does yet another set of funny and cute stuff to help save the universe.}}
::And that's just not a sensible page. Makes way more sense to split him out.
::--[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 19:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Heya, PacifistPrime here again. I agree that the characters should have separate pages (I mean, if [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)]] gets a page, then ''surely''...!), but I'm unclear about the designation of the overall continuity/universe. Are we simply talking about category tags here, or something else? From a metafictional, rather than organisational, point of view I've always preferred (somewhat controversially) to have a more conservative view of G1 than the "everything but the movie" approach favoured here. In my view, broad issues of toy-accurate altmodes and basic storyline-premise/character mythology are pretty important, which is why I've always argued that the IDWverse and the MovieVerse are each different enough to all prior versions of G1 (even if they're not ''equally'' dissimilar) that they should '''both''' be considered to fall within ''or'' without the G1 continuity family. And, in developments since I originally aired this opinion, I'd say the same now goes for ''Transformers Animated'', which is also evidently a deeply G1-ish universe.

Indeed, now that we've got Animated in the mix, I'd argue that it's become even ''less'' defensible that the IDWverse is being categorised here as part of G1 when these other two aren't. Although it takes some cues from the MovieVerse, granted, I think it's a pretty hard sell to deem Animated as being ''all that much more'' radically different from G1 than the IDWverse, given that both use almost exclusively G1 characters with non-G1-toy accurate designs and drastically different basic storyline premises, human characters and background mythos. Apart from a debatable organisational imperative to avoid splitting articles, I increasingly fail to see a reasonable rational for lumping IDW in with G1 when Animated and Movie are not.

But I digress. As far as ''Shattered Glass'' ' category is concerned, I think it should be regarded as a separate [[continuity]] but probably not belonging to a separate [[continuity family]], ''at least until we know more''.

Also, aren't we jumping the gun a bit with the Timelines categorisation? Sure, it's extremely probable that it'll get that designation, but shouldn't we wait until this is official?

Cheers, [[User:PacifistPrime|PacifistPrime]][[User:PacifistPrime|PP]] 07:49, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

:<nowiki>*dittos everything PP posted about IDW*</nowiki> - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 19:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

So, now the convention's happened, and the comic's out. Shattered Glass seems to be basically a whacked-out anti-G1, but it's ''also'' completely different from anything else we've ever seen, 'cause all of Cliffjumper's energy traces and even their [[Spark|Sparks]] are polarity-reversed. Also, transformation seems to have been a relatively recent invention, but that's not as different as the whole Spark/Ember thing. But the Ember thing points to something apart from the "standard" differences between, say, the RiD and the Animated continuities. How do we handle that? [[User:Omnibus|Omnibus]] 00:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

==Bring in the funny==
Since this is all about evil twins, I submit that the article is in desperate need of a joke about how they will mainly be identified by their goatees. Anyone else?

(Clearly, however, it would have to be written so that its status as a '''joke''' is clear, lest anyone be misled) [[User:Buttbutt|Buttbutt]] 01:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Just remember that Omega Trion would have no facial hair, unlike his good universe counterpart. --[[User:Blue Spider|Blue Spider]] 05:28, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

== The comic ==

...oh God, there's comic preview pages on the Botcon site.

The whole thing is drawn to look like a G2 homage. Linestyle, coloring, ''everything''.

It even has a ''huge'' sprinkling of Furmanisms.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 05:11, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:Is this supposed to be April Fools? I'm not seeing anything on the Botcon page. All I see is a drawing of a robotic hand on the TF Club main page. They say the comic previews will go up on the 3rd. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 05:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:Nevermind, found em. [http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-comic-preview-and-more-guests-announced-this-week-164541/] --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 05:43, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
::Yeah. Not linked on the main site, but ''hosted'' there. These brought tears to my eyes. They're just made of ''100% pure win''.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 05:45, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:::This is unmitigated awesome. I love it. They've even got the Double Pretender spider in the background on the second page, wot? The good versions of the evil Botcon characters are pure hilarity.--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 06:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
::::Is that... is that Shattered Glass Cicadacon? Dude!
::::Edit: No... no, wait, I'm an idiot. Still bucket-loads of awesome, though - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 07:17, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:::::Oh lordy, they're trying to kill the Wiki.

:::::We've got:
:::::*[[Astrotrain (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*[[Stonecruncher (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*[[Tailwind (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*[[Submarauder (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*[[Bug Bite (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*"Buzzclaw (Shattered Glass)" or [[Dirge (Shattered Glass)]] (or "Dirge (Shattered Glass Insecticon)")
:::::*[[Buzzsaw (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*"Deathsaurus (Timelines)"
:::::*[[Dirge (Shattered Glass)]] (or "Dirge (Shattered Glass Seeker)") or "Thrust (Timelines)"
:::::*[[Overbite (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*[[Seawing (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*[[Snaptrap (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*[[Tentakil (Shattered Glass)]]
:::::*[[Thundercracker (Shattered Glass)]]

:::::If they use both Dirges, I will kill somebody. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 07:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
::::::To keep things from cluttering up the wiki, I'd suggest a general [[Mayhem Suppression Squad]] page for those guys, seeing as they're only in one panel. Point out that they're Good-Alternate-Universe-Doppelgangers of their 'real' versions, link to said 'real' versions from there and call it a day. [[User:Omnibus|Omnibus]] 19:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:::::::Seems to be the most sensible approach. Should have a sizable trivia section explaining that every one of these was a convention exclusive.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 19:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
The whole "I, Grimlock, wot?" thing transcends cool into sublime. [[User:JW|JW]] 11:25, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh my christ. They actually made this universe hilariously awesome. Way to fucking go, Savage & Co. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 13:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:If you ask me, this makes ''all'' the difference. All the goofiness of the concept of this universe, all the silly looks of the figures, all of this is vindicated in this moment with this the most sublime of convention comics. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for the Diamond edition of this.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 17:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
::...well crud. It was just Sipher pulling one over on us. It could have been beautiful. I want blood, Sipher! Blooooood!--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 17:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:::I KNEW it was too well-written to be a Botcon comic! --[[User:74.57.3.251|74.57.3.251]] 17:47, 1 April 2008 (UTC) ([[User:Detour|Detour at work]])
I dub this "Shattered Expectations"... though I don't think we're DONE with this goofyass take at all. At least, not if we have any say about it. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
:...So, horribly-dashed expectations of awesomeness aside, how Official are the April Fools' Pages? Does Shattered Glass Jazz get a "Shattered Expectations" sub-heading along the lines of the Marvel Comics Continuity/Animated Continuity divide where it says "He was totally G2ishly Evil Mr. T"? [[User:Omnibus|Omnibus]] 18:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
::I actually think we ought to do exactly that. Jazz talking like Mr. T is too much fun to go unchronicled.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 18:53, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Depending on how utterly shit the finished comic is, I hereby present the possibility of forgoing "Shattered Expectations" (which could mean something ''better'' than what you expected) and using "Shattered Hopes" (which means "Man, this is shit"). - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 19:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

:These definately need to be in there. Especially since Fun Pub now plans to go back to them at some point since the fandom that they thought would hate it actually loved these better than just about everything else they've ever done. :) Not sure the best way to tag them though.[[User:71.235.142.128|71.235.142.128]] 19:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey, what's Wiki policy on images from Shattered Expectations? Except for the APRIL FOOL'S! page, they aren't actually officially hosted anywhere public, even though they were intentionally uploaded and kept incredibly-obviously-easily-discovered-secret with the intention of having someone figuring out how to incredibly-obviously easily discover and share them.{{unsigned|Omnibus}}
:Good question. Sipher, can we consider these to be officially released material (and thus fair game for comic panels)?--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 21:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
::I think it should be all good. I mean, it was MEANT to be spread... like your mom. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 21:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I'm going to go ahead and ask if anyone want's to put up what the preview pages (posted '''today''') on the fiction, or just leave it with the joke Fun Pub pulled over on us? I'm running tight on time right now and if no one has seen the 3 pages, it depicts the real Cliffjumper, going through some kinda rift on Earth and ending up on a Cybertron that is all kinds of backwards for him. Not to mention that Hot Rod looks awesome in Decepticon colors ''and'' a freaking goatte. Just wanna throw this out there because I'm not the best when it comes to writing some of this stuff. Whadda think?[[User:AWT88|AWT88]] 01:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
:...if Hot Rod with a Spock-style Van Dyke is the bagged exclusive for the convention, I may have to sell my blood to be able to afford him.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 02:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

== Continuity family ==

I think we can safely say that it's no longer "unknown" how Shattered Glass will fit into existing continuity families. We've got Cliffjumper arriving immediately after his plot in the Fan Club comic. It's pretty plainly in the world-hopping Timelines continuity family now.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 18:27, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
:Timelines isn't a "continuity family" at all. It's an over-arching name that includes things from multiple continuity families. [[Landquake (Timelines)]] is from the Unicron Trilogy. [[Games of Deception]] is a Timelines story that takes place in G1. Etc. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 18:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
::Kil is right. Timelines is not a continuity family, but a bunch of loosely-affiliated stories that take place across several continuity families. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
:::Meanwhile, I'm inclined to believe it's part of G1, since everyone so far (even the hi-then-dies) is a direct analog to a G1 character. The only exception is the April Fools version with Cybertron Astrotrain and his Mini-Cons, and even then, that's just a G1 analog dude. If Hot Shot or Tidal Wave show up or something, I'll change my mind, but until then...--[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:30, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
::::We should call it the "1G" continuity. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 19:43, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
:::::The 3-page preview actually makes it seem like this is the classics universe, and something caused the autobots to become evil and the decepticons to become good--[[User:Autobotx1010|Autobotx1010]] 20:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
::::::I'm not really getting that impression at all. Cliffjumper had a counterpart in this universe, and that counterpart is either dead or working for the Decepticons. Ruckus seemed to recognize him.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 21:00, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
:::::::''"I'm inclined to believe it's part of G1"'' I dunno, with Razorclaw in there, this timeline has ''prominent'' Mini-Cons. (No doubt creations of the heroic planet-regurgitating Unicron.) I'd say it's a whole new beast. [[User:JW|JW]] 21:22, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
::::::::Classics has Mini-Cons. (And is Razorclaw even a Mini-con? They refer to him as a Predacon, shrunk down. Isn't he supposed to be G1 Razorclaw?) -[[User:75.168.112.43|75.168.112.43]] 21:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
:::::::::Razorclaw is only the victim of a shrink-ray in Shattered Expectations. We don't know what he is in the real comic.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 00:29, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

==Beast Era==
Oh My God. What Next?; [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] wage their battles to destroy the evil forces of the [[Maximal]]s?
:The maximals were already [[Maximal Torture Chamber|scary oppressive]], I rooted for the freedom fighters. Except for the crazy cannibal bug one. [[User:Spriteless|Spriteless]] 07:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

==Split==
I think the comic should be split into its own article. It's only the first of multiple stories to be set in the SG universe, after all... plus, this lets us apply the standard comic page template to it for consistency. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 02:14, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
:Yep, I came here just to say the same thing, for the same reasons. How 'bout we keep this page as an overview, and split the comic off to [[Shattered Glass (comic)]]? -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 03:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
::Sounds prudent to me.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 03:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
:::I just split it into [[Shattered Glass (comic)]]. But there are still several sections needed some works to be done. :) --'''[[User:TX55|TX55]]'''''[[User talk:TX55|TALK]]'' 03:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
===Move===
So we split the comic out to [[Shattered Glass (comic)]], but where does this go? I'm thinking [[Shattered Glass (franchise)]]. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 21:58, 5 May 2009 (EDT)

== Custom Styles ==

I was bored last night and did some poking at some custom styles for this page.

They are ugly, but I'm debatign whether they might be just the RIGHT amount of kitch-ugly for this.

Feedback appreciated. If consensus is to dump 'em, they're no loss. (And best when used sparingly, IMO.) (For a much ''better'' example of custom page-styles, see [[Void]]) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:30, 27 May 2009 (EDT)
:I appreciate the concept, but it's hard on the eyes. --[[User:Crockalley|Crockalley]] 18:52, 1 June 2009 (EDT)

:: :-( -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:54, 1 June 2009 (EDT)
:::I think it's a cool ''start'', but needs to be more comprehensive to work. Right now the link colors, featured character boxes, and note/quote/image/category/TOC boxes look really bizarre on the dark background. Those would need to be changed to mesh more visually. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:06, 1 June 2009 (EDT)

I think the entire endeavor is pointless. Put the page back to normal. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 23:27, 1 June 2009 (EDT)
: I think the entire endeavor is AWESOME. Let's see if we can make this work. Seriously... What is there to lose? I like quirks like this... Makes it stand out from those other boring wikis. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 23:32, 1 June 2009 (EDT)

Derik, try this on for size:

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body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise #content a:link {color:#acf !important;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise #content a:visited {color:#cbc !important;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise #content table, body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise #content #catlinks, body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise #content .thumbinner, body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise #content .thumbimage {background:#446 !important;border:2px #69c solid !important;color:#eee;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise #content h2 {color:#eee;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise #content .tt1_basicquote {background:#005 !important;border:4px outset #005;color:#eee !important;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise div#featured_characters table {background:#333 !important;border:4px outset #333 !important;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise div#featured_characters th, body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise div#featured_characters td {background:#300 !important;border:1px #300 solid;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise div#featured_characters th+th, body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise div#featured_characters td+td {background:#303 !important;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise div#featured_characters th+th+th, body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise div#featured_characters td+td+td {background:#320 !important;}
body.page-Shattered_Glass_franchise div#featured_characters a:link {color:#cdf !important;}</pre>

You'll have to wrap the Featured Characters table in a <tt><nowiki><div id="featured_characters"></div></nowiki></tt> and preview to get it to work fully. 
This gives an idea of what I had in mind, anyway. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 11:15, 2 June 2009 (EDT)

Derik, you know the people who AREN'T using "MonacoBook"? Did you give one second's thought to them in your '''Wikia-style''' rampage? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 11:57, 2 June 2009 (EDT)
:No to both questions! -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 12:00, 2 June 2009 (EDT)
::Further, did you look at the action=history page at all? '''Change. This. Back.''' - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 12:01, 2 June 2009 (EDT)
:::Yes'm~ -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 12:10, 2 June 2009 (EDT)

I like the idea of giving this a different look I don't know what Derik's looked like but it would be pretty cool, if the colours where inverted. So black background white text, red links that lead to existing pages and blue ones that lead to non exiting ones. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 04:38, 11 July 2009 (EDT)

== Negative universe ==

Is Shattered Glass a [[negative universe]]? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:00, 2 June 2009 (EDT)

: Probably! The latest club magazine finally gives SG a universal stream name. To get there, you have to "breach the dimensional barrier between the Positive Polarity Universes and Primax -408.24 Epsilon." (That's the date of BotCon 2008, of course.) It's apparently an area that even the TransTech haven't discovered. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:00, 2 June 2009 (EDT)
::Shattered Glass has a ''negative number''?
::...awesome. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:27, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
:::Inherently awesome, because it stipulates that there's a positive multiverse and a negative multiverse, and thus quite possibly ''a number of'' evil mirror universes.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 18:37, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
::::Well, we already know there's two, what with Shattered Expectations. It'd be Primax -408.01 Epsilon, I gather. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:08, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
:::::So does that mean that Primus/Unicron/The Thirteen are singularities across both multiverses, then? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:11, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
::::::The Fallen is specifically stated to be a singularity even in the Shattered Glass universe, so apparently it still carries over.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 19:12, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
:::::::They're all still technically parts of the same multiverse, just different halves of it. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:18, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
::Can I ask the ''context'' in which the SG-verse was identified with a Universal Stream ID? Who said it?
::The SG-verse has some non-Primax characters in it, which is why I ask. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:21, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
:::Aquarius's profile, which should be a neutral voice. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:24, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
::::Thanks! I didn't ''really'' expect the stream-ID to be revealed as a case of an unreliable narrator... but since SG has already lampshaded the fact is has non-G1 characters, I figured it was worth checking. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:28, 8 July 2009 (EDT)
:::::Eh, Primax has a Hot Shot now, so there are some bleedings over.--[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:29, 8 July 2009 (EDT)

== Own Toy page ==

As the idea was brought up on [[Category talk:Shattered Glass characters]] I decided to start work on one it's still in my sandbox and will stay there till it's up to standard. [[User:Dead Metal/DMsscrapheap]] Please take a look and point out mistakes or ideas to improve it. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 06:34, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:Good start, although I think it might be worthwhile to actually add in what the repurposed toys are on the page itself, rather than just pointing people at the individual pages. *will have to sift through the list to offer more suggestions* --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 08:35, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
::I think these are some of the missing Decepticons:
::*Official:
::**Razorclaw - Classics Overbite
::*Repurposed:
::**Bug Bite - BotCon 2007 Bug Bite
::**Buzzsaw - G1 Buzzsaw
::**Clench - G1 Clench
::**Crasher - '07 Movie Fracture
::**Darkwind - Robot Masters Gigant Bomb
::**Dreadwind - Robot Masters Smokesniper
::**Dirge - BotCon 2007 Dirge & Descent into Evil Dirge
::**Frenzy - G1 Frenzy
::**Goryu - Masterpiece Grimlock & Victory Gōryū
::**Laserbeak - G1 Laserbeak
::**Rumble - G1 Rumble
::**Slugfest - G1 Slugfest
::**Quake - G1 Quake
::Aaaand Autobots:
::*Official:
::**Goldbug - Cybertron Hot Shot
::**Nightclash - Combined Thunderclash and Nightbeat
::*Repurposed:
::**Afterburner - G1 Afterburner
::**Blaster - G1 Blaster
::**Cliffjumper - Classics Cliffjumper
::**Computron - G1 Computron
::**Crosshairs - '07 Movie Warpath
::**Downshift - G1 Downshift
::**Drench - G2 Drench
::**Dropshot - Armada Dropshot (unreleased)
::**Lightspeed - G1 Lightspeed
::**Ratchet - Energon Roadblock
::**Nosecone - G1 Nosecone
::**Rook - Universe Rook
::**Scattorshot - G1 Scattershot
::**Soundwave - Universe Ironhide as Earth mode
::**Steeljaw - G1 Steeljaw
::**Strafe - G1 Strafe
::**Wheeljack - Energon Downshift
::--[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 10:10, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:::Nearly all of those "repurposed" toys you list are NOT repurposed. They are (potential) redecoes. [[Repurposing]] means using a toy, basically unaltered, to represent a different character than was intended. (And Crasher is not Movie Crasher. She's white-deco original Crasher.) --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 10:25, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
::::Ah. Well, we can split into separate repurpose/redecoes anyway, so no big deal.
::::And, oh? Hrm. I must have read that thought somewhere else and mistakenly thought I saw it on the wiki. Sorry. :> --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 14:04, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:::::So what do you think of the article now? I'm not quite happy with the intro. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 15:01, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:Well I started it now [[Shattered Glass (toyline)]] [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 15:56, 11 July 2009 (EDT)

== Franchise Navigation ==

Now that we're going this far, we ought to go whole hog. That means split the fiction off into its own page (or pages) and do up a full franchise navigation template. Ideally, this page's format should mirror any other franchise's.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 16:29, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:Um... *quickly erases her own now redundant section on the matter* I agree with this thought, and already wrote up some nav template code. But what should we use for the parenthetical? Shattered Glass (fiction)? Shattered Glass (stories)? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:35, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
::The best example I can probably hold up would be maybe [[Kiss Players (franchise)]]? Given that the story there is told through a mix of comics, radio plays, and other assorted sources.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 16:37, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:::Well, that still is split between the radio drama and the manga. I more meant... should we have the comics and the text stories separate, or just one general page of stories, and what should we label the page(s)? And should we list the Shattered Glass issue as a separate nav item? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:40, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
::::Since there's multiple text stories, and now (finally!) multiple comics, they can easily each get their own pages. The BotCon issue can be linked to from the comics page (as well as probably an in-context link in the franchise page to mention the comic that kicked it all off).--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 17:01, 11 July 2009 (EDT)
:::::I don't see the point of separating the comics and text stories. With the sole exception of Expectations, they're all telling a single unified story, and neither category is unmanageably long. It seems far preferable to have them all on a single page: "Shattered Glass (fiction)", would be my take. I mean, with the split, we have to put Desert Heat and Eye in the Sky on different pages. That's kinda ludicrous, since they're ''the same story''. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 02:11, 12 July 2009 (EDT)
::::::Um why is this part of the Generation 1 continuity family? Is there something I missed? {{unsigned|Dead Metal|02:17, 12 July 2009}}
:::::::It's part of the "Primax" [[universal stream]], so that technically puts it in G1 despite the Armada doubles, I think.
:::::::And, honestly, my personal vote would also be for Shattered Glass (fiction) as well, rather than separating the comics and text stories. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 02:36, 12 July 2009 (EDT)

:::::::Another call for input. Anyone seriously opposed to a combined fiction page?
:::::::In its additional defense, I'd point out that we traditionally separate fiction by media because that's how the fiction itself is separated. The story of the Marvel Comics universe was (originally, anyhow) told entirely within the confines of the Marvel Comics. With SG, however, we have a single story being told across 2-3 different media. Clarity demands a single page, IMO. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 18:45, 13 July 2009 (EDT)
::::::::I'm pretty much with Rob on this one. It's all one single timeline, and splitting it out by medium is counterintuitive simply for the sake of pedantry. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:58, 13 July 2009 (EDT)
:::::::::One thing I have been pondering... if we do combine it, should we leave it in the current list format, or should we treat the comics and text stories as if they were all "issues" in a single "miniseries", stick the list in one of our issue boxes, and just have the one set of Overview and Creative Team(s) sections? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 03:51, 15 July 2009 (EDT)
::::::::::OK, I just tried doing a proper consolidated fiction write-up at [[Shattered Glass (fiction)]]. Feel free to make any necessary hacks to it, including if anyone can figure out how to pare down the Shattered Glass Overview section a bit...
::::::::::I should note that I left out ''Reunification'' Part 3's summary on purpose, since I think it's supposed to take place after ''Blitzwing Bop''.--[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 10:28, 30 July 2009 (EDT)

== New Disambiguation ==

On the [[Talk:Sideways (RID)#(RID)?|Sideways (RID) talk page]] there's been discussion of possibly moving all of the (Shattered Glass) pages to (SG) instead. Figured this was a more appropriate spot to continue the matter. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 13:00, 4 August 2009 (EDT)

:Why don't we move all the (Animated) pages to (A) while we're at it? [endsarcasm] --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 13:14, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
:: Because we also have (Armada). That's why. There is no other S____G____ franchise, however. Likely there never will be! And Shattered Glass is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY longer than either "Animated" or "Armada." Generally, dude, if you're going to use sarcasm, don't use it to make a doofus of yourself. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:24, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
:: And for the love of God, please start properly indenting your posts to the right so they flow like a proper discussion. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:25, 4 August 2009 (EDT)

I agree with the new disambiguation: since Kiss Players is now (KP), I can't think of another franchise that's actually possible to abbreviate that doesn't have an abbreviated disambiguation. -[[User:Mazenoise|Mazenoise]] 13:27, 4 August 2009 (EDT)

For reasons I went into on the Sideways talk page, I also agree with the proposal. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 13:29, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
:So long as the name of the first comic is settled on as the name of the whole continuity, than yes. ("The Dessert Heat" calls it a "Shattered Reality.") - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 14:17, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
::A fictional reference like that wouldn't take precedence. After all, nowhere in fiction is Armada really called Armada.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 14:19, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
:::Also, parentheticals are by FRANCHISE of origin, not continuity. Since "Shattered Glass" is the logo on the toys and comics, that's what we go by. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 12:43, 5 August 2009 (EDT)

On the one hand, I agree that (SG) fits with our abbreviation schema a lot better (not to mention it's a lot easier to type...) On the other hand, I'm wondering if it's really a big enough deal to be worth the logistics of having to move 120+ pages and change their links. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 14:56, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
:I question changing to (SG) because I'm reminded of Walky starting with (HH) for Henkei Hot Rod after his release, which lead to KilMichaelMcC bringing it up on the [[Talk:Hot Rod (Henkei!)|talk page]] that eventually resulted in <nowiki>[[Hot Rod (Henkei!)]]</nowiki>. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 15:32, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
::Well, we do have a precedence that stuff with two words gets abbreviated. Everything else we spell out completely is just one word. Henkei! at least is one word repeated, so we can still get away with the one word (Henkei!) instead of having to type out (Henkei! Henkei!). Every non-Shattered disambiguation with two or more words that I know of is some special individual case, rather than a disambiguation for an entire franchise. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 15:52, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
:::Agreed. Besides, that's what this conversation is for. "(HH)" was a decision made without discussion, so nobody had had a chance to bring up counterpoints. But after as much talk as we've had about this one, I don't think there's any as-yet-unmentioned alternative to either "(Shattered Glass)" or "(SG)". And as for the work of changing all the titles, well, like Jim said on the other page, better to make the change at 100 articles than 200. Given how the population of this universe is expanding, if we're going to change it, let's do it NOW.
:::(Oh, and, yeah, as I said on the other page, I vote for "(SG)".)
:::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 12:43, 5 August 2009 (EDT)

I honestly don't understand the impulse to change (Shattered Glass) to (SG). "It ain't broke, but let's fix it anyway!" --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 16:11, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
:It's just kind of unwieldy for no reason. Parentheticals should be, as a rule, as short as possible. And maybe Derik's bot could even do the work for us. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 12:31, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
::I oppose this move. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 12:50, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
:::If the community votes in favor of the move, can your bot do the job? - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 13:04, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
::::Yes. If we manage to move the pages ''once''. (So there's no 'chains'.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 13:39, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
Maybe we should be semi-organized about this? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 13:08, 5 August 2009 (EDT)

* [[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] votes (SG) ''if'' we move pages, but doesn't think it's worth the trouble to do so, bot or no bot.
* [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] votes (SG) and will personally move pages if the bot can't do it.
* [[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] votes (SG) and will help with the move.
* [[User:Derik]] '''opposes''' the change because "SG" is a type of specialized argot that makes the pages less accessible to newbies, and because there's an excellent chance we'll get a non-G1 "Shattered" universe at some point; At which point these articles would move to "(Shattered G1)," and he doesn't want to move them twice.
:*[[User:Derik]] also re-iterates an objection he had when the (Shattered Glass) disambiguation was first chosen-- it's being applied to characters who appeared exclusively in "Shattered Expectations." "(Shattered)" would be more appropriate, more informative, more in keeping with our 1-word disambigs, cover all continuities within the Negative Primax "Family" '''and''' synch with [[The Desert Heat!]]'s narration calling it a "Shattered Reality." Shattered Glass was ''always'' a crappy name for this franchise, and abrev. it doesn't fix the fundamental problems-- it just embeds them behind another layer of obfuscation.
::Well, "Shattered Glass" AFAIK is the official name for the franchise now (and thus the continuity and continuity family), crappy or not. And we've always considered "Shattered Expectations" to fall under the SG continuity family - we put SE info on the SG character pages when a character's been in both, after all, so applying the (Shattered Glass) modifier to SE-only characters is consistent. I'm opposed to the move, but I'm not opposed to (SG) if the majority votes to move. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 13:58, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
:::Established where? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 14:03, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
* [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] votes SG, it's a more convienient disambiguation, less to type and with better consideration for those with difficulty spelling the full name of the franchise.

Waspinator (BW)

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{{disambig2|the ill-destined wasp robot from the Beast Era|the ill-destined wasp robot from ''Transformers Animated''|Wasp}}
:''Waspinator is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Waspinatorbw.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Waspinator: chew-toy of fate.]]
'''Waspinator''' is the universe's whipping boy. If something goes wrong, it happens to him. If something blows up, he's usually at the epicenter of the explosion. He has been blasted, burned, shot down, torn up, crushed, slashed, smashed, bashed, and otherwise reduced to his component parts times beyond counting. Disturbingly, [[Rattrap]] has taken to collecting his severed components.

Waspinator's not the brightest 'bot in the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. Megatron has classified the harebrained Predacon as expendable, much to Waspinator's dismay; he doesn't get much more respect from anyone else, either. His speech quirks don't help: he tends to refer to himself in the third person and to most other people by nicknames like [[Cheetor (BW)|"cat-bot"]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|"two-head"]]. He's also a bit too fond of the letter "Z". (Those prone to witticisms might say he has a "lizzzzp".)

Waspinator may be dumb, but he's not stupid. He has caught on to his lot in life and tries to avoid his fate as often as possible... but fate always finds him. Thankfully, he's almost supernaturally durable and has survived the most devastating and humiliating of defeats.

{{quote|[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] blow up, Waspinator must salvage. Waspinator blow up, ''nobody'' salvage! Why universe hate Waspinator?|Waspinator laments his lot in life, "[[Deep Metal]]"}}
:''Japanese name:'' '''Waspeeter''' (ワスピーター ''Wasupītā'')<ref>This particular [[romanization]] was first used on a Japanese ''Beast Wars'' [http://www18.tok2.com/home/jackhama/transformers/bwtcard_1/img/015.jpg trading card], and later reappeared in the opening sequence for the Japanese version of the PSX ''[[Beast Wars: Transmetals]]'' fighting game.</ref> 
:''Bulgarian name:'' '''Osinator''' (''Осинатор'') 
:''French-Canadian name (original toy):'' '''Bourdon''' ("Bumblebee") 
:''French-Canadian name (cartoon, Transmetal form):'', '''Bizznator'''<ref>It is unknown at this time if Waspinator was "Bizznator" in both Quebec and France, or if there were even two separate French dubs of ''Beast Wars'' to begin with. However, it ''is'' definitely known that only Canada got packaging with actual French names on it.</ref>
:''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Hú-fēng''' (胡蜂, "Wasp") / '''Tsāng-yíng''' (蒼蠅, "Fly")
:''Italian name:'' '''Punginator'''
:''Polish name:'' '''Osator'''
:''Spanish name (cartoon):'' '''Avispaneitor''' or '''Avispanator''' (spelling uncertain)
:''Spanish name (toyline):'' '''Avispón''' ("Hornet")

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[Image:Waspinatordawn.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Waspy is mi kopilot, but hoo on Sibertron is mi spelcheker?]]
While [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], his [[Dinobot (BW)|lieutenant]], and [[Scorponok (BW)|another underling]] stole a Maximal relic, the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], the Predacon who would later name himself Waspinator stole a ship with the help of an accomplice he nicknamed "[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Beakbot]]." The two had a contest to name the ship, but "Waspinator" lost, and thus the stolen ship was dubbed the ''[[Darksyde]]''. "Waspinator" believed ''Buzzerbot'' would have been a better name. For reasons known only to [[Primus]], Megatron agreed.

After escaping [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the ''Darksyde'' was intercepted by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', but after an intense space battle, only the ''Darksyde'' and the ''Axalon'' remained. Megatron ordered "Waspinator" to ''excecute'' their planned [[transwarp]] jump, opening up a portal which both ships entered. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
''Voice Actor'': [[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese), [[Ivo Roberto]] (Portuguese)

[[Image:Better_Mousetrap_Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Waspinator not want to know "who's there?"]]
Waspinator, part of Megatron's rogue band of Predacons, landed on an unknown planet with dangerous levels of unstable [[Energon (fuel)|energon]]. To protect themselves from the energon, the Predacons took organic beast modes. In Waspinator's case, he now transformed into a large green wasp. The first conflict between the stranded Predacons and their Maximal pursuers came when the Maximal [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] stumbled across Waspinator. In a stark contrast to his later career, he actually proved to be a serious threat and had the advantage over the inexperienced Cheetor. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

He was often partnered on flying missions with [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], starting from early on {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}}, and they were a dangerous duo (and dynamic too); with casual on-job talk and Terrorsaur retrieving Waspinator from rock burial {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}}, they also seemed to be mates.

When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] had his personality program converted to that of a Predacon, he started surreptitiously taking out the various Predacons. He swung a cargo crate into Waspinator, giving him a concussion. As a result, Waspy flew around in a daze, claiming to be the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] as well as the great [[Ben Yee|Wonko the Sane]]. This dementia was apparently reversed when Cheetor later got annoyed at his yattering and shot him down. {{storylink|Dark Designs (episode)|Dark Designs}}

[[Image:Possession_Waspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Give him an orange parka and call him [[Tom Kenny|Kenny.]]]]
The "ghost" of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] traveled through time and possessed his body (even changing the Predacon sigil on his helmet to a [[Decepticon]] one). It took a major [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] explosion to dislodge Starscream's immortal [[spark]] from Waspinator's body. It also had the after-effect of giving Waspinator a headache in his ''whole'' body. {{storylink|Possession}}

After the [[Vok|mysterious aliens]] detonated the unstable energon on the planet using the [[Planet Buster|artificial second moon]], Waspinator fell into the Restoration pool on the bridge of the ''Darksyde'' as the ship was rocked by the force of the [[transwarp]] wave resultant from the moon's explosion. Bathed in the regenerative fluids, this prevented him from becoming a [[Transmetal]]. He was also the first to realize that this seemingly unknown planet was, in fact, [[Earth]]. [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] had made the same realization and stole into the ''Darksyde'' to retrieve both of Megatron's disks. Waspinator proposed the two work together to steal the disks, and much to his surprise, Dinobot agreed... and threw him into the security shield. Waspinator was crushed into a cube by the disks' security contraption, leaving Dinobot free to steal the disks unharmed, while Waspinator crawled away to the CR chamber using two fingers. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}}

[[Image:Waspinatorigor.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Igor needs to file his nails.]]
Surprisingly, he managed to easily take down Silverbolt on ''two'' occassions. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}{{storylink|Master Blaster}} This, however, would be his sole solace as his glorious missions were reduced from serious hunt/kill actions to being a decoy {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} {{storylink|Master Blaster}}, picking up bits of other guys (which nobody did for him) {{storylink|Deep Metal}}, and ''pulling levers'' so Megatron didn't have to. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}. Adding injury to insult, he increasingly became offlined in humiliating ways, such as being swatted {{storylink|Master Blaster}}, jumped up and down on {{storylink|Cutting Edge}}, being beaten up by a small girl {{storylink|Go with the Flow}}, and having a ship crash into him because the driver wasn't paying attention {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}.

On the plus side, he got to play card games with the lads when off-duty! {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

After the destruction of the ''Darksyde'' at [[Tigerhawk]]'s hands, Megatron sent Waspinator, [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] on an errand to find a new base, which was really nothing more than pointless busywork while Megatron went to do more important things. As the trio staked out an early [[human]] tribe that had taken up residence in a series of caves, Waspinator decided he'd finally had enough and ripped off his [[Faction symbols|Predacon symbol]], declaring himself out of the Beast Wars.

[[Image:Waspinatorhappyatlast.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Waspinator happy at last! ...until the [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|next series]].]]
"I said '''no!''' [[Megatron (BW)|Dragon-Bot]] command '''you,''' [[Sub-Commander]] [[Inferno (BW)|Kiss-Butt]]! Dragon-Bot not command Waspinator! Not any more! Waspinator sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator especially sick of getting blown to '''scrap''' all the time! Sooo, Waspinator '''quit!''' As of '''now,''' which means [[Inferno (BW)|Ant-Bot]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Two-Head]] can just pucker their mandibles and plant [[Kiss|big, wet, juicy one]] right here on Waspinator's big . . . fat . . . stripy . . . "

At this point Waspinator was interrupted by getting blown to scrap by Inferno and Quickstrike. It is also worth mentioning that this is the first (and only) time that he refers to himself as "I". {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

His parts recovered by the tribe, Waspinator remained on Earth while all the other surviving Transformers set off for Cybertron, and led the tribe, declaring that he was finally...happy. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

For a bit, at least.

====''15 Go! Go!''====
The time-traveling [[human]] [[Atari Hitotonari]] and the [[Sparkbot]] [[Star Dust]] witnessed a battle between Waspinator and Optimus Primal. However, the two interlopers could not be seen by either of the warriors.

====''Tales of the Beast Wars''====
[[Antagony]] threatened to blast Waspinator if Megatron did not back down. Waspinator's warranty had expired, but it didn't matter as Antagony accidently wasted her last shot when she sneezed. Do we even need to guess what happened to Waspinator? {{storylink|Visitations}}

Later, to his credit, Waspinator was the only Predacon aside from Megatron to not be paralyzed in fear at the sight of a [[Unicron]]-possessed [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]]. Of course, Waspinator had just been blown up for the umpteen millionth time. None of the Maximals expressed satisfaction. They always got Waspinator. Always. {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Paradox}}

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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
[[Image:Wazzpinator.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Why [[Vector Sigma#Beast_Era|Oracle]] hate Waspinator?]]
Sadly for Waspinator, the Protohumans he had ruled over grew tired of his presence and forced him to leave the planet and return to Cybertron (and his proper time) under his own power (quite how this could be acheived is unclear). There, his spark was removed and used to power the [[Vehicon general]] [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]. He ''loved'' being a cool biker-bot as he now got respect and was finding [[Blackarachnia (BW)|chicks]] dig the new brooding bad boy schtick!

Influences from his inner spark caused Thrust to save Blackarachnia's life several times, causing her to believe he carried [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]'s spark. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} She later tried to bring his original mind back and discovered, to her disgust, that she'd spent all her effort getting Waspinator back. Poor Waspinator was rather upset to find Blackarachnia no longer wanted to "go steady" with him, and briefly had a punch-up with a revived Silverbolt over her honour. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

Following Blackarachnia's unambigious rejection of him, Waspinator remained in the "background" and let Thrust run the show, until [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] used an [[Spark extractor|extractor]] to remove Waspinator's spark from the body shell. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall}} After Cybertron's [[technorganic]] reformatting (thanks to Optimus Primal, through the cost of his and Megatron's lives) Waspinator returned in his beast mode with Thrust's head, now the size of a standard wasp. He complained to Rattrap about how much he wanted glory and power and never gets what he wants... at which point Rattrap swatted him away. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}}

{{note|While the suggestions that Thrust was really Silverbolt turned out to be a red herring, his actions raise the question of ''how'' Waspinator's spark could influence Vehicon programming, seemingly due to having a crush, but her true love Silverbolt's ''didn't''.}}

====''Universe'' comic====
After the reformatting of Cybertron, Waspinator came under the command of [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]]. His tiny size and great speed made him an excellent scout and messenger, and he reported to Galvatron that the invading Quintessons had entered a particular canyon that the Predacons had booby-trapped. He seemed very giddy to have a commander who actually found him useful for once. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Later, Waspinator was part of a team sent to rescue victims of [[Unicron]] who had been transported to an isolated, icy planetoid. {{storylink|OTFCC 2004 Live-Action Script Reading}}

===''Beast Wars: Transmetals''===
[[Image:TMWaspinator-Render.jpg|left|thumb|180px|Full Metal Yellowjacket]]
''Voice Actor:'' [[Scott McNeil]] (English), ??? (Japanese)

[[Transmetal]] Waspinator joins his fellow Predacons in distributing various one-on-one beat downs to the Maximals. Eventually he got fed up, quit, and became God to early humanity. He did this after ''kicking everyone's ass''. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transmetals}}
{{--}}
===''Legends'' anthology===

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[Image:Waspinatorjbwtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Japanese version is more [[Playskool]].]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 1996/1997)
** ''Japanese ID number'': '''D-3'''
** ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

:Waspinator transforms into a large organic wasp. His stinger separates to become a hand-held spring-loaded missile launcher for his robot mode; the bolts are stored on the underside of his insect-wings. His head is on a vertical column that rotates around a horizontal axle; each end has a different head, one "mutant", one "robot". The "mutant" head was used as the base for his CGI model, and thus the norm for his fictional portrayals. The [[Takara]] version of Waspinator uses slightly brighter, more primary colors than the [[Hasbro]] version.

:This mold was later [[redeco]]ed for a "[[Fox Kids]]" version, as well as [[Beast_Wars_10th_Anniversary|both the Hasbro and Takara 10th anniversary versions]] of the character.

:This mold was also used to make [[Buzz Saw]] and [[Dirge (BWII)#Mutant|Dirgegun]].

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[[Image:VS3-CheetorWaspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Catbug is a cat but he's got bugness in his veins.]]
* '''Showdown of the Quickest: Cheetus VS Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1997)
** ''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-3'''
** ''Accessories:'' Launcher, 2 missiles

:In Japan, Waspinator was available both separately and in a VS pack with [[Cheetor (BW) toys#Dx1|Cheetor]]. Both toys are identical to their original releases.

:Currently, it is unknown if the latter "show-like" version of the two toys were ever released in the VS set.

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[[Image:Waspinator-TMtoy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Contains a tiny bit of Starscream in every mold.]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 1998)
** ''Japanese ID number'': '''D-42'''
** ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

:Now an almost completely robotic figure, [[Transmetal]] Waspinator transforms into a robotic wasp. He features a third "jet" mode, flipping and folding his wings into a fighter-jet configuration as well as flipping a cockpit/nosecone between his insect-head mandibles. Though he appears solid black at first glance, he is actually made of very dark transparent-black/green plastic.

:The Takara version of this toy is almost completely identical, except the "WASPINATOR" [[tampograph]] on his wing was replaced with "DESTRON" and the Predacon sigil.

:This mold was later [[redeco]]ed for a "[[Fox Kids]]" version of the character. It was slated for a ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)#Universe_.282003.29|version of Waspinator]], but that set was canceled.

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* '''Hurricane Showdown: Metals Cheetus VS Metals Waspeeter''' (VS pack, 1999)
** ''Japanese ID number'': '''VS-42'''
** ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

:In Japan, Transmetal Waspinator was available both individually and in a two-pack with [[Cheetor (BW)#TM1|Transmetal Cheetor]]. The two-pack version was unchanged from the normal individually-packaged one.

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[[Image:Waspinator-FKtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Do be a blue bee.]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 1999)
** ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

:This toy is a [[redeco]] of the first Waspinator toy. A "[[Fox Kids|FoxKids!]]" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time. Like most of the other Fox Kids redecoes, his color scheme was altered significantly, consisting primarily of slate blue and green-gold plastic, with dark blue (barely) translucent parts.

:Hasbro solicitations for this toy gave it the name "Power Flight Waspinator", but this name never made it to final packaging.

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[[Image:BW_FoxKidsTransmetal_Waspinator_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Why FoxKidzzzz hate Waspinator?]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 2000)
** ''Accessories'': Stinger-rifle

:This toy is a [[redeco]] of the Transmetal Waspinator toy. A "Fox Kids!" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time. The toy's new deco bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Buzz Saw]].

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===Universe (2003)===
[[Image:Waspinator_unreleased.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Wazzpinator... purple?]]

For a brief time, [[Hasbro]]'s official website checklist featured listings for two "Halloween Horrorcon Value Packs" that were to be Wal-Mart [[Exclusive|exclusives]]... which also likely explains why they were canceled. (Wal-Mart had taken a good half-dozen exclusives and released them more-or-less simultaneously, leading to a huge glut. A lot of other ''Transformers'' exclusives were canceled during the ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' era.)

In 2004, several test-shots appeared on eBay in a group, among them the Transmetal Waspinator toy with opaque-salmon wings and lavender insect legs. This, presumably, was to have been the ''Universe'' incarnation of Waspinator, as the other toys in the group line up with the names given for the two Halloween sets. He was to come in a "Vs." two-pack with the presumably-[[Autobot]] character [[Nightprowler]].
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===Beast Wars 10th Anniversary===
[[Image:Waspinatortenthtoy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Finally Waspinator come with pieces that aren't Waspinator's!]]
* '''Waspinator''' (Deluxe, 2006)
** ''Accessories:'' Launcher, 2 missiles, Transmutate's head

:This toy is a slight [[redeco]] of the first Waspinator toy to make it closer to Waspinator's cartoon appearance, replacing the gray with green and adding extra gold [[Paint operation|paint applications]]. He came with the head to [[Transmutate]] plus a DVD with the episode "[[Possession]]".

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===Timelines===
[[Image:Waspinator-BC06toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|This works surprisingly well on many levels.]]
* '''Darksyde Megatron and Darksyde Waspinator''' (Bagged set, 2006)
** ''Accessories'': 2-part rifle

:Available [[Exclusive|exclusively]] at the [[BotCon 2006]] event itself, this two-pack represents Waspinator and Megatron before the events of the ''Beast Wars'' show. "Darksyde Waspinator" is a Basic-sized figure, originally used for ''[[Machine Wars]]'' [[Skywarp (G1)#MW|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)#MW|Thundercracker]], which autotransforms to robot mode from a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#Dassault_Rafale|Dassault Rafale fighter jet]]. (One can surmise, however, that it is meant to represent a Cybertronic design in this case.) His rifle splits into two pieces, which store in the backs of his lower legs.

:This mold was also used to make ''[[Beast Wars II (franchise)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], and ''[[Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]].

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===Beast Wars Telemocha Series===
[[Image:Waspinatortelemocha.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Otherwise known as Dr. Wasp Itor.]]
* '''Waspeeter''' (Deluxe, 2007)
** ''Japanese ID number'': '''TM-04'''
** ''Accessories'': Launcher, 2 missiles

:This toy is a ridiculously-extensively-painted redeco of the first Waspinator toy to make it almost completely [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] to Waspinator's cartoon appearance (forgiving mold issues and [[unpaintable plastic]], of course). Due to a manufacturing error, Waspinator's crotch piece is backwards.

:He came with a DVD of the episode "The Aerial Mountains Explode", the Japanese dub of "[[Power Surge]]".

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==Merchandise==
[[Image:Robotheroesrhinoxwaspinator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Do we ''want'' to know what that is gushing out of his butt?]]
===Robot Heroes===
* '''Rhinox vs Waspinator''' (2008)
:Waspinator was released in the second wave of [[Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe'']] ''[[Robot Heroes]]'' packed with [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] as part of the "Beast Wars Series." An amalgam of toy and television show depictions, Waspinator has articulation at the neck and shoulders. He suspends himself in the air on a strong stream of fluid launching from his butt. (Okay, it's probably supposed to be a compressed air jet or something, but look at it. Eyuw.)
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==Trivia==
* Ironically, in the original toyline's continuity (which was created before the animated series), Waspinator was profiled as a cruel, cunning, highly skilled warrior who was greatly feared by the Maximals.
* Ever wonder ''why'' Waspinator became the whipping boy of ''Beast Wars''? Early in the series, his buzzing, drawling method of speaking frustrated story editors [[Larry DiTillio]] and [[Bob Forward]], as they found it was taking up too much time out of the episodes. To get around this, but still meet with the requirement that he appear regularly, they took to blasting him to bits so that he wouldn't ''have'' to talk! Of course, this only wound up endearing him to the writers and the fans, and his frequent brushes with destruction became a running gag done for fun, rather than a script requirement. <ref>[http://www.infinitefrontiers.0catch.com/AutoAssembly/BobForward.htm Auto Assembly interview with Bob Forward]</ref>
* Waspinator was originally chosen by [[Hasbro]] to be one of the characters killed off for the second season of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon to help make way for new characters ([[To sell toys|read: product]]). However, Forward and DiTillio convinced them to spare Waspinator on the grounds of his popularity with the online fan-base, so [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] took the plunge instead.
* Waspinator was originally slated to appear in the very first [[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|''Beast Wars'' video game]], and even had a character model built. However, he was ultimately unused and only appeared in footage taken from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.
* Waspinator appears to be the inspiration for [[Buzzer-Bot]] from the ''[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Playskool Go-Bots]]'' line, as well as the obvious [[Wasp]] character from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]''.
* As a side note, Waspinator's original toy contains a high number of [[Ball joint|ball]] and [[Swivel joint|swivel joints]], which more than easily separate. Makes him a little more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]], after all.
* When Waspinator is hit from behind by a stasis pod ship made by Blackarachnia, a toilet is seen falling from Waspinator's smashed body. Now Waspinator need new waste disposal unit!
* According to Waspinator's profile in ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'', he likes flying and nectar.
* Waspinator has a yellow [[tongue]] in robot mode.
* While Waspinator ''usually'' refers to other characters by nicknames, he is fairly consistent about calling Megatron and Optimus Primal by their real names. ([[Nemesis Part 1#Quotes|Fairly.]]) He also refers to Inferno by name at least twice, and Tarantulas at least once.
* Waspinator is the only member of the Beast Wars [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] lineup who was there from the beginning and remains alive and unchanged for the entire course of the show.
* Waspinator never once makes a proper landing while in his beast form. However, there are plenty of instances for which he makes ''improper'' landings while in beast form, usually when he's being blasted out of the sky.
* Technically, Waspinator's beast mode is that of a female wasp, given that males do not possess a stinger. He would probably find this objectionable, along with everything else in his life.
* Somebody give this guy a hug.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Waspinator/waspinator.htm Waspinator at TFU.info]
* [http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d75/binalternator/unreleased/nightprowler_vs_waspinator/ Gallery of Nightprowler vs. Waspinator test-shots]

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Talk:Starscream (Movie)

2009-08-02T00:59:44Z

Metal Gear NOIZE:

==Accuracy disputes==
I've noticed that there is some argument about the accuracy of Starscream's toy. Some think that the vehicle mode is accurate, while others think not. Judging from the toy gallery on Seibertron.com, it looks very accurate except for the blasters formed from his hands, which are severly oversized compared to both the movie model and the toy itself. Other than this though, the majority of the figure seems to be pretty accurate.

:If you know anything about fighters, then you'll know its an appallingly bad representation of an F-22 Raptor (has details closer to a YF-22, if I recall correctly). Hasbro/Takara have unfortunately produced better F-22-type planes in the past with Energon Starscream, and the cancelled NATF swing-wing version of the fighter with G2 Hooligan. I'm not really surprised that most Transformers fans can't tell the difference, as they generally aren't that well-versed in military hardware. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:32, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
::Yeah, we tend to be more focused on consumer goods. --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 02:42, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

::To be perfectly honest, I will agree that it fits closer to the submodel than the main fighter, but at the same time I was looking at the two pictures side-by-side. In cases such as this, color is irrelevent considering Gen 1 Starscream was originally considered a highly unlikely paint-job for an F-15... until they adopted it. Admittedly, the arms and undercarriage do make the toy itself look less like the actual jet than the movie model, but they are also grossly different; Starscream's triple guns on his hands in the movie are MUCH smaller, and had to be enlarged for the toy to meet safety regulations. And while I do not exactly have a degree in the field, I do like to study up on military hardware, especially jets, tanks, and some of the newer guns (the XM-8 in particular). I was kind of hoping they'd go with the newer F-35B, but I think it was still in the experimental stage when the movie was being scripted. [[User:Dracokanji|Dracokanji]] 03:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
:::G1 Starscream's own hull colour is very similar to the grey they used on F-15s of the 80s. I don't recall that the USAF used any of G1 Starscream's decos, did they? As I explained on [[Talk:Starscream (G1)|G1 Starscream's talk page]], Classics Starscream's colour scheme was made up from photos of the F-15 prototype that the Air Force doctored... for some reason. Real one was light blue with rather bright orange.

:::The F-35 is a piece of overpriced crap compared to the Raptor. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:03, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

::::And you're SURE these photos are doctored, and they don't just have a few or even a single fighter in that color scheme (especially since it was a prototype)? if you can cite documented proof with a link specifically saying so, I'll accept it. I might add that while not a seperate series, G2 Starscream had a more salmon/coral and bluish color scheme than G1 did (pretty much what I saw on the F-15 photos). While the detailing isn't exactly the same, the colors are fairly close. I will also clairify that I didn't mean the Air Force didn't adopt the color scheme BECAUSE of G1, but they just happened to use a similar paint scheme at one time.
::::I'll also remind you that your OPINION of the F-35 is not a fact, but regardless of that I stand by my statement on it.
[[User:Dracokanji|Dracokanji]] 12:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

:::::Yeah, I am sure. One of the moderators over at Macross World (pretty much chock full of fighter enthusiasts there) provided me with a photo of an F-15 prototype in its original, ugly colours. Same pattern as Classics Starscream, but with a light blue hull colour and orange where red is. G1 SS's own hull colour is close to FS 36375, the main grey used on real F-15's of the 80's.

:::::As for my opinion on the F-35 Lightning II, its fine here on this talk page because its not in the actual article. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

== Barrel Roll Blaster ==

It's merchandise released to coincide with the movie, yes, but the jet mode isn't particularly based on the design of Movie Starscream, and the hand is pretty clearly based on G1 Starscream. Should the Barrel Roll Blaster be considered a toy for G1 Starscream instead of for Movie Starscream?

(And while we're at it, same thing for the [[Optimus_Prime_(Movie)#Merchandise|Big Rig Blaster]]--the trailer's very G1, the truck cab is halfway between G1 and Movie, and the hand's clearly G1.)

After all, Optimash and the Robot Heroes are getting listed among their G1 counterparts. Are the Nerf guys more G1 or movie?

[[User:Awa64|Awa64]] 08:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
:Amazing, almost as if the movie were part of the g1 continuity family... -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 08:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
::Not particularly, no, considering the design elements that ARE clearly movie or ARE clearly G1 are fairly distinct from one another. I'd say it's more like they were handled by a design team external to the Transformers brand... say, the Nerf team... and weren't given particularly clear instructions on whether to follow a G1 or a Movie aestetic. However, that's just baseless conjecture and is getting off-topic from the question at hand.--[[User:Awa64|Awa64]] 08:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
:::I'd say the real reason is they want to use these sculpts after the movie for other lines. I figger that's why the Prime one is some weird place between a flatnose and a longnose semi. You make the fist inside one of those movie claws, and that's gonna be incongruous if you redeco it for Animated or whatever. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 14:58, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
::::That makes just as much sense, if not more. But in any case... does that make them more G1 Character toys than Movie Character toys? --[[User:Awa64|Awa64]] 16:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::No. Prime's got the flames, and Starscream's in solid gray. Movie roleplay. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 16:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
:::Way to harsh my hellow. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 08:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

==Mission City battle details==
In [http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Starscream_%28Movie%29&curid=13176&diff=76575&oldid=76454 this revision], FFN added several details including some stuff about the RBFATE that I wanted to get confirmation on: First, that Starscream ''rejoined'' the human raptor squardon and himself fired upon Megatron. Second, that this assault from the jets damaged Megatron's armor, providing a place for Sam to shove the All Spark in. Granted I've only seen the movie twice, but, I didn't pick up on either of those things, even remotely. Are those details from the novelization or comic adaptation? I feel like we should indicate in some way when expanding on movie synopses with supplemental material. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 00:18, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
: The last missile assault we see shows direct hits on the front of Megatron's chest, and pieces fly all over. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:32, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
:: However, although it's entirely possible that Starscream takes part in that attack, I don't believe there is enough evidence to state it conclusively in the wiki as it currently appears. It is spec. [[User:Swift|Swift]] 23:04, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
:::Watching the flick for the 3rd time I specifically looked for this... and dudes, I really don't think it's there. When bombarding Megatron, the F-22s are onscreen for about 1.5 seconds and at a pretty good distance. I didn't see any way to tell any of them apart, let alone identify one of them as Starscream. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 18:49, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
:::: From what i have seen there is some credebility to the claim. While there is no way to verify if Starscream fired on Megatron i beleive that after Starscream transforms into his altmode for the last time you see him barrel roll to the right as an order to pursue him is given. Immediately after the entire squadren pursues a raptor that is smoking. As far as I can tell that is not Starscream and the military haslost sight of him and mistakenly assumed that due to the heavy beating he has just taken that he must be the most damaged raptor. It trivially worth mentioning that Starscream appears to be fine in his last appearace and no such damage as would indicate that he actually was that plane. Addtionally I would just like to mention one thing, treating this as f it were all true; Starscream tricked the United States military into shooting down one of their own and might have then used that to his advantage to assassinate Megatron. I take back anything and everything i said about movie Starscream being out of character. {{unsigned|68.194.98.116}}

:What you describe here is that the film is ''consistent'' with the idea that Starscream participated in the attack. That is ''very differenet'' than if the film actually ''supported'' that viewpoint. From what have seen, including your description here, there is nothing in the film to support the idea. It is simply one of infinitely many things that are "possible" to have happened offscreen. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 07:01, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
::I should note that at the time of rewriting the fiction section, I did not originate the 'Starscream shooting Megatron' bit. I was unsure so I just left it there. I personally don't believe it until somebody officially confirms it. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 17:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

==Spare pic==
[[Image:moviescream.jpg|thumb|right|150px|]]

==Masterpiece==
Shouldn't the Masterpiece Starscream section be on the G1 page? -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 02:13, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
:''"Though the toy is based on G1 Starscream, and the design has been used in appalling G1-universe fiction, it serves double duty as movie Starscream thanks to the Sector Seven alternate-reality game."''
:--[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:18, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
::But doesn't that mean that Grimlock, VW Bunblebee, Kickback, and Laserbeak should also get linked to the movie section? They were in the Sector 7 clips too.--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 02:43, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
:::I think those things should all be included as trivia notes, nothing more. Listing Masterpiece Starscream as one of Movie Starscream's toys seems highly dubious to me. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 02:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
:::Starscream's a unique instance, as he's a real movie character. But ff we had a page on N.B.E. Whatevernumber, I'd think that linking him to the G1 toy wouldn't be out of line. [[User:Chip|Chip]] 03:25, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

::::I kinda agree. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 03:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
:::::Weird that they have the same toy though, almsot liek the movie was part of the Generation 1 Continuity Family... -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

:::::You agree There should be a page for every NBE number, listing them as a seperate character?
:::::That doesn't sound like you Walky. -03:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Technically there isn't actually anything internal to the ARG that says that the NBE who was cited multiple times in 1982 is the same character as Movie Starscream, is there? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 03:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

== Long time popular character ==

God Damn! Optimus, Megatron and Starscream are the 3 most popular everywhere. The 3 had been featured in Unicron Trilogy, Generation 1 and 2 and almost everywhere. How come Starscream got a high popular rating equal to everyone?

By the way a real F-22 Raptor does bombing runs and anti air roles at the same time. Starscream stands out due to that.(Spearhead 04:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC))

== Hardest Working Decepticon? ==
For a soldier that wants to take command from Megatron Starscream sure worked hard in the final battle. After mobilizing he was first on the scene at the dam and single handedly defrosted Megatron. Was first to Mission City taking out Bumblebee's legs. Messed up Ratchet and Ironhide. Took out the F-22s and destroyed the transport helicopter. Starscream is off the hook! How could Megatron fault such a performance when the likes of Barricade did not even show up.

::Frenzey defrosted Megatron.

:::[http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Megatron_%28Movie%29#Galvatron Galvatron may have a role in the sequel,] it was nice while it lasted.

==Why Are We Including Stolen Toys?==
No, really, why? I thought it was against the rules to put up stuff that we only know about because somebody stole it. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]]
:Because I like to keep toy sections updated, and if I don't do it now, I'd forget and nobody else would bother. I almost forgot about the Vardia Starscream until I saw DS Starscream. Also, I don't think Hasbro really cares. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 04:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
::"Nobody else would bother" is utter bullshit. And WE care. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 05:18, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
:::No slight upon the contributions of other members or yourself, but the toy sections on this wiki that are largely neglected beg to differ with you. In fact, toys are among the most neglected sections of character articles on a wiki, which is understandable in a way (because people are here to read or write about the fiction, mostly). But neglected toy sections also does a disservice given how important toys are to Transformers, which is why I devote most of my time here on writing about the toys. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 06:55, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
::FFN, please adhere to [[Help:Coming_soon|our established policies]]. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 05:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
:FFN, I feel your pain. But use a HTML comment.
:'''<tt></tt>'''
:That way it's hidden from view, but even if you DO forget about it, the note is still there and some future editor'll un-hide it when they see it. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 05:25, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
::That policy needs some kind of time limit. Otherwise, [[:Category:Unreleased_toys|we seem kinda silly]]. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 08:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
:::Which part now? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 13:00, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
:::I don't understand what you're getting at. That category is for toys that we know were planned, but for which any reasonable time-of-release is long passed. Granted I don't know how exactly quantifies that - except that most of those characters are from lines that have ended. If by some (not so) bizarre circumstance they end up being released later, we can always edit the relevant entries. --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 13:05, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
::::My point is that the policy is so broad that it applies to a lot of unreleased toys. "Any leaked toys [...] should not be included". It needs clarification, that's all. [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] 20:15, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

==Present Tense==
I thought we had decided to keep present tense in the episode summaries and comic issue articles, not in the actual character articles themselves? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 17:07, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
:I believe you're right. I was overly ambitious, and apologize. I'll reset it.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 17:17, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

== Fighter Markings ==

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but the Deep Space Starscream toy section mentions Starscream's fighter markings as being those of an F-22 from Langley; while I haven't seen the toy in question, if it has the same markings as the high-res promo render picture, they're wrong. The tail markings are indeed Langley AFB, but the fuselage insignia is that of the 71st, an F-15 squadron (probably a G1 homage). This is setting aside the fact that he shouldn't have Langley markings at all - theoretically got his alt-mode from a Raptor prototype, which would put him at Edwards with the 412th (and indeed in the movie he's shown at Edwards).

== Mission City battle details ==

'''Bold text'''based on the earlier scenes, human weapons are usless (except sabots) . So how could a normal missile That didn't dent scorponok damage megs so much? [[Special:Contributions/76.68.69.253|76.68.69.253]] 20:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

== RotF Starscream ==

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE GUY/GIRL WHO PUT STARSCREAM'S REVENGE OF THE FALLEN BODY AS THE MAIN IMAGE. MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!

==Quote==

Should we have one that's a bit more reflective of the profile? [[User:Eire]] 02.01 UTC April 29th 09
Seriously, the first doesn#t suit the profile and that veiled threat one is horrible [[User:Eire]] 20.05 April 29 09 (UTC)
:I'd favor dumping both if we could find a quote that's representative of his character. The problem is he has almost ''no'' lines in the movie, and his dialog in RoS is too self-serving to be representative. We'd end up with something like "you know what conquest is made of," as a fanboy-pleasing quote that illuminates nothing about the character. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 15:15, 29 April 2009 (EDT)

=="poorly edited"==

''His manual's main picture (at least in Europe) is a badly edited one.''

I can't see anything wrong with any of the main pictures in the manual. Feel free to correct me though. [[Special:Contributions/82.41.72.10|82.41.72.10]] 19:18, 1 August 2009 (EDT)

== starscream's intro ==

i just want to know, how is he a hero at all. the whole hero on the wrong side thing is wrong. starscream is a bad guy he will kill to get what he wants. just watch the movies
i didnt see no hero there.
:Read IDW's comics. That's where the hero part is introduced. [[User:Metal Gear NOIZE|Metal Gear NOIZE]] 20:59, 1 August 2009 (EDT)

Shockwave (Animated)

2009-08-01T21:40:12Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: Trivia about undisplayed "mode" if you will.

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:''Shockwave is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:TFA Shockwave.jpg|thumb|right|250px|My awesomeness is logical.]]

'''Shockwave''' is a covert agent in service to [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. This size-changing master of disguise has infiltrated the Autobot security apparatus at the highest level: his cover persona is '''Longarm Prime''', head of [[Cybertron Intelligence]], reporting directly to [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] himself. The undercover Decepticon is the perfect agent to pull this off, as he's able to change his voice, his appearance, and even his energy signature. This puts Shockwave in the perfect position to undermine and mislead the Autobots while feeding strategic information to his true master. To establish his credibility, "Longarm" attended the [[Autobot boot camp]] alongside Bumblebee and Bulkhead. Over the years, he worked his way up the Autobot hierarchy—first through [[Autobot Academy]], then through the ranks of the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] until finally he was promoted to be the very head of the Intelligence Division itself!

Befitting a double agent, Shockwave is highly secretive and fearful of detection. Befitting a cartoon villain, he can confidently give those secrets away if he thinks he's winning. If he suspects his cover may be compromised, he's given to acts of desperation.

{{bigquote|Rise, Shockwave: my most loyal servant!|Megatron|"[[This Is Why I Hate Machines]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{note|Events from IDW Publishing comic books are in italics.}}
:''Voice actor'': [[Corey Burton]] (English), [[Helmut Gauß]] (German)

[[Image:TFA Longarm.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Why am I wearing a scuba mask?]]

[[Image:TFA Shockwave DoubleAgent.jpg|thumb|right|150px|So does that mean he's Shockwave Prime?]]

Shockwave was recruited by Megatron because his mass-shifting abilities allowed him to impersonate effectively a wide variety of shapes and sizes, making it difficult for Autobots to accurately track him during missions of infiltration and sabotage. It was these traits which led to Megatron sending him to enlist in the Autobot armed services as a means of climbing the ranks and eventually taking the organization down from within.

Disguising himself, Shockwave enrolled in [[Autobot boot camp]], where his ability to stretch his limbs to great lengths earned him the name "Longarm" from his drill sergeant [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Minor]]. However, he slipped up in the early days of training and was overheard reporting to Megatron by the black sheep recruit [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]. Although Shockwave managed to avoid detection right away, Bumblebee was tipped off to the presence of a traitor in the camp and suspected fellow recruit [[Wasp]], whom he spotted leaving the building shortly afterward. Bumblebee turned to the espionage-savvy Longarm for advice, and Shockwave used the opportunity to divert attention away from himself by suggesting that the young Autobot refrain from telling their commander, [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Minor]], so that 'Bee could take all the credit when he exposed the traitor himself as a means to ensuring his career in the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]]. Unfortunately, all of Bumblebee's efforts only got him in worse trouble, and his fellow recruits began to bully him, with Longarm being the only one to stick up for him. After several failures on Bumblebee's part, Shockwave took matters into his own hands during a training exercise and switched the training equipment to live ammo in an attempt to offline the Autobot and keep the whole matter of a traitor a secret. Luckily for Bumblebee, this plan was foiled by [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]].

Eventually, Shockwave found out that Sentinel Minor intended to conduct a surprise inspection, and he contrived to set up Wasp to take the fall himself. After planting a Decepticon communicator in Wasp's locker, Shockwave, as Longarm, informed Bumblebee of the upcoming inspection, telling him that it was his last chance to find the evidence he needed. Using one of his extensible limbs to trip up Wasp, Shockwave allowed Bumblebee to palm Wasp's locker key as 'Bee helped him up, allowing him to find the communicator and show it to Sentinel. In the end, Wasp was dragged off to prison, and Longarm commended Bumblebee for his deductive work.

Subsequently, Shockwave graduated boot camp and became a member of the Cybertron Elite Guard. Now "Longarm [[Prime (rank)#Transformers Animated|'''Prime''']]", he became head of [[Cybertron Intelligence]] and remained in this position, hiding in plain sight, for the fifty stellar cycles that Megatron was lost on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}} He may have murdered [[Highbrow (Animated)|Intel director Highbrow]] to get the job. <ref>''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club]]''</ref>

''After [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]'s ship was lost, Longarm pressed Sentinel to continue the search for the ship's crew, the AllSpark and [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. His pleas fell on deaf ears. {{storylink|Dispatches}}''

After Megatron succeeded in restoring himself and the Decepticons were assembled on Earth, he re-established contact with Shockwave on Cybertron and initiated a plan to construct a [[space bridge]] that would allow the Decepticons to conquer the planet from within. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}} Wasp, now criminally insane, escaped from prison, and Megatron started receiving transmissions from his double agent on Cybertron. When Megatron's captive, [[Isaac Sumdac]], attempted to alert the Autobots to the existence of the double agent by bouncing a transmission to their base, Bumblebee again suspected Wasp. He reported the news to Longarm Prime on Cybertron, but of course, that accomplished nothing. {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}}

[[Image:Anim shockwave pinchy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Pinchy pinchy!]]

When the completed space bridge failed to function, Megatron contacted Shockwave and instructed him to locate the top space bridge specialist on Cybertron to help correct the problem. Shockwave was surprised to discover that the specialist was already on Earth; it was Bulkhead! Bulkhead was subsequently captured by Megatron and forced to perfect the space bridge. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}} The other Autobots arrived too late to stop him, and they were defeated by the Decepticons and strung up to watch as the bridge was activated. Shockwave revealed his alter ego of Longarm Prime to the Autobots, disclosing that he had already given Megatron an appropriate access code and forcing Bumblebee to feel the shame of sending an innocent Wasp to prison. When Megatron tried to test the space bridge by sending Optimus Prime through it, Shockwave assured his master that he awaited the "test subject" on the other side. Unfortunately, an attempt by Megatron to boost power caused the space bridge to overload, deleting the access code and setting the space bridge to random coordinates. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

Megacycles later, Shockwave, as Longarm once more, assured Ultra Magnus that the Decepticons would not be able to reach the Cybertron Space Bridge nexus. Shockwave then contacted [[Team Chaar]], who had successfully taken over a space bridge and were ready to use it in order to gate to Cybertron. [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] asked for permission to begin the assault, only to have Shockwave deny her request. She was to stay put with her team and wait for Megatron to arrive, even if he was megacycles overdue.

[[Image:TransWarpedBlurrLongarm.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"Whoops—there's a bug on your head, Blurr. Holllld stilll..."]]

Not long afterward, the entire Space Bridge Nexus powered down. Confused, Longarm questioned Cybertron Command, and [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] informed him that Ultra Magnus had ordered the shutdown in order to prevent the Decepticons from accessing Cybertron. Just then, Agent [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] arrived and (very) quickly informed Longarm that while on Earth, he had intercepted a transmission between Megatron and and his double agent on Cybertron, Shockwave. Further, Blurr noted that Shockwave's voice didn't match that of the suspected Wasp, but quick search of the Cybertron Intel Database would allow them to find the true identity of the traitor. Shocked, Longarm asked if Blurr had shared this information with anyone else. When Blurr replied that he had not, Shockwave decided it would be wise to quiet him down—permanently. Blurr eluded his initial attempts and escaped into the corridors around the nexus control center. Rather than give chase, Shockwave simply had the corridors' security hatches slam shut and close in on Blurr, trapping and crushing him to death.

At the Elite Guard Headquarters, Longarm handed over a small cube of "sensitive materials" to Cliffjumper to dispose, then went to his office, where he received an incoming transmission from Lord Megatron himself. They traded information on their respective setbacks, but Megatron assured Shockwave that he had [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|a method]] of preventing the Earth Autobots from blowing Shockwave's cover.

Shortly, Longarm Prime attended an Elite Guard meeting, where Ultra Magnus declared that the Decepticons' attacks were too organized to be random acts of sabotage. Rather, evidence pointed to a double agent in the Autobots' midst. Longarm nervously pointed out that the Decepticon uprisings had started after Wasp's escape, making the cause plain. Ultra Magnus agreed and ordered [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] and Sentinel Prime to organize an Elite Guard Unit to find the escapee. He then requested that the Earth-bound Autobots be contacted. Increasingly distraught, Longarm declared that all communications should be first filtered through him, without exceptions—for the sake of security and the protection of Cybertron, naturally. {{storylink|TransWarped}}

Unfortunately, Longarm's insistence on diverting blame toward Wasp was his undoing. When Wasp headed to Earth, Ultra Magnus didn't inform him about Wasp's destination until the Elite Guard's ship was in sight of the planet. Knowing he was on the verge of being exposed, Shockwave tried to contact Megatron, but still received no response. With no other orders on how to proceed, Shockwave took matters into his own hands: In an effort to inflict one last blow to the Autobots, Shockwave attacked and seriously damaged Ultra Magnus, stealing his Magnus hammer in the process. {{storylink|Where Is Thy Sting?}}

When the Autobots became trapped in [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave's]] virtual reality, Shockwave appeared to invade and attack Earth. However, he didn't seem to do much besides set an apartment on fire. {{storylink|Human Error, Part I}}

[[Image:TFAni ThisisWhyIHateMachines Shockwave TrueColors.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Wish you'd bought that repaint now, don't you?]]
After escaping, Shockwave hid in an underground tunnel, concealed from detection, waiting for Megatron to call. The Decepticon leader, trapped inside of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] along with [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] and [[Lugnut]], contacted Shockwave, who revealed a way to gain the access codes for Omega Supreme. However, Shockwave was soon discovered by [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] and [[Captain Fanzone]]. He easily defeated them and went to find the female intelligence agent [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]. To do this, he "asked" an informant-bot named [[Rattletrap]] for the directions. However, he apparently got lost, and so merely hid and waited for Fanzone and Ratchet to find her. He battled Ratchet and severely wounded the elderly Autobot. During the battle, he then found Ultra Magnus, still wounded. He was about to kill him for good when Ratchet used his EMP generator on both Shockwave ''and'' Ultra Magnus's hammer. Ratchet was then distracted by the arrival of temporary Magnus Sentinel Prime. After getting back online, Shockwave took Arcee and escaped to Omega Supreme, using the access codes to transwarp to Earth's orbit. He then celebrated his freedom to serve Megatron openly by [[electronic paint job|changing]] into more...[[Shockwave (G1)|suitable colors]], while [[Lugnut]] silently fumed at Megatron's description of him as his "most loyal servant". {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

[[Image:TFA-Endgame-ShockwavePointsAndLaughs.jpg|thumb|left|240px|It is only logical that you're an idiot.]]
Shockwave worked on the captured Arcee, initially hitting an early datatrax from her time as a teacher before the Great War. Megatron assured his "ever-loyal Shockwave" that if any bot could access the right datatrax, it was him. Combined with some taunting by Starscream, this sent Lugnut into a frenzy of jealousy, and he knocked Shockwave across the room as he begged for Megatron's favour. Shockwave in turn pointed out that while Lugnut was "fawning at Megatron's feet", he'd risked "spark and servo" as a double agent. This didn't go over well, and soon the two purple 'Cons were fighting one another. Later, with both sent to convert material from the wrecked [[Nemesis (Animated)|Decepticon flagship]] into [[Lugnut Supreme|clones of Omega Supreme]], Shockwave could be seen pointing and laughing at a misfortune on his rival's part.

After dropping a bit of stripped material from the wrecked ship, unwittingly nearly crushing a spying Bumblebee, Shockwave returned to working on Arcee and successfully restored her to the [[The Thrill of the Hunt|point at which her memory was wiped]]. Briefly returning to his grey "Longarm" mode, he confirmed that she had the activation codes, so he ripped the wires which artificially sustained her from her head, knocking her back into stasis. Outside, with the clones ready for activation, he rebooted Arcee. Despite "Longarm's" prompting, she refused to give the activation codes to Megatron voluntarily. Instead, Shockwave knocked her back into stasis and extracted the codes manually, making no comment when they ended up in Lugnut and Megatron proclaimed Lugnut his "most loyal lieutenant". As it turned out, however, the codes which Shockwave had torn from Arcee were missing a crucial "security upgrade patch", and he was forced to rig up an inelegant bypass—involving Lugnut directly puppeteering the clones—until he could retrieve the rest of the code from Arcee. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}

As Shockwave attempted to find the patch in Arcee's processor, Megatron grew impatient with Lugnut's giving a long speech on the greatness of his Glorious Leader before he would actually do anything with the clones, and angrily enquired of Shockwave if he was done yet. Shockwave replied, with great amusement in his voice, that he was still working on it and Megatron would have to relay all orders through Lugnut for the time being.

Apparently, he gave up on extracting the patch, and instead left Arcee - her datatrax once again reverted to her teaching days - on the lunar surface as a trap, while he waited to ambush any Autobots who came for her and Omega Supreme. The group which transwarped there, led by Ratchet, blundered straight into the trap, and Ratchet was forced to flee with Arcee and [[Sari Sumdac]] while Bumblebee and Bulkhead confronted their old classmate. While Shockwave initially had little difficulty as they attempted to attack from distance, he couldn't deal with Bulkhead's strength Bot-to-Con, and was left sprawled on the lunar surface, his cannon knocked out of reach. In a desperate attempt to buy time, he switched to Longarm mode - forgetting to activate his [[electronic paint job]] - but the pair of Autobots were not impressed, and Bulkhead smashed the cannon.

[[Image:TFA-Endgame-PanAcrossEveryone.jpg|thumb|240px|Decepticons have failed forevermore.]]
He was next seen as the Autobots' prisoner, being paraded before a large crowd on Cybertron. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}
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==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Longarmanimatedvoyager.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Punch.]]
[[Image:Shockwaveanimatedvoyager.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Counterpunch.]]
* '''Shockwave''' (Voyager, 2008)

:Representing his double nature in the cartoon, ''Animated'' Shockwave becomes both the Autobot Longarm and Decepticon Shockwave, featuring four distinct modes. In "Infiltration Mode," the shorter, stockier Autobot Longarm transforms into a four-legged crane platform. If one fancies, one can stretch out his Shockwave-mode limbs to emulate his limb-stretching ability in Longarm mode (abeit not very well). In "Spy Mode," he stretches and converts into the taller, lankier Decepticon Shockwave, as the crane portion of Longarm's body converts into a hand-held cannon. The center panel on his chest flips between Autobot and Decepticon symbols. Both chest symbols are vacuum metalized, with very shiny silver and gold. Curiously, while the rotating faction symbols on his chest use the usual "classic" designs, the tampographed Decepticon symbol on his cannon/crane is in the movie style, and is visible in his Autobot modes. Additionally, the only mode in which Longarm's head is not fully visible is Shockwave himself.

:All the differences between Shockwave and Longarm can be difficult to remember, even for Hasbro. In the "tank mode" picture at right, the secondary guns are incorrectly folded back. On the back of this toy's box, there are several small transformation errors, the most obvious being that only ''one'' of Shockwave's shoulders has been correctly rotated up. Also, the toy [[instruction booklet|instructions]] do not show Shockwave's neck as correctly extended (his chin is touching his chestplate in the instructions, just as for Longarm). They also fail to mention that you can push his upper torso forward as Shockwave to better replicate the slouch that he has in the cartoon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Shockwave/shockwave.htm More information on Shockwave at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:Shockwavepurplebumblebeetoys.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Chugway.<ref>According to closed captioning.</ref>]]
* '''Shockwave VS Bumblebee''' (Multi-pack, 2009)

:A predominantly purple [[redeco]] of the Voyager toy, this version of Shockwave is packaged with an apparently unaltered [[Activators]]-class [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] figure. Shockwave retains his four modes and gimmickry within each. A Target stores [[exclusive]], this set was available simultaneously with the [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]]/[[Ratchet (Animated)#Activators|Ratchet]] multi-pack. Although this version seems to be a less convincing Autobot due to its purple paintjob, in one respect he would be a better spy in this form, as the repaint doesn't have the Decepticon symbol on the cannon arm to give him away. The Autobot and Decepticon symbols are also now red and purple, as opposed to the original silver and gold.
: The official Hasbro picture at right contains several transformation errors: In robot mode, Shockwave's shoulders are not rotated up. In tank mode, the secondary guns are not deployed, the red panels which are on the robot mode's shoulders have not been flipped to show the tank's treads, and the middle panel on the side of the tank is oriented wrong (the circle should be down, not back). In addition, his head is not fully retracted. Someone at Hasbro is dozing.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/Shockwave/shockwave.htm More information on Purple Shockwave at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==

* Shockwave's toy [[bio]] reveals that he borrowed his "Longarm" identity from Autobot historical archives. This clashes with the cartoon, in which Shockwave is given the name by Sentinel Prime due to his limb-stretching powers.

* Actor Corey Burton reprises the role of Shockwave from Generation 1, reusing precisely the same British-accented, [[Wikipedia:Sark (Tron)|David-Warner-inspired]] voice for the character (while employing an American accented variation for Longarm). In an online interview with Seibertron.com in early 2009 (sadly lost owing to a server crash), Burton revealed that Shockwave's inclusion in Season 2 arose from a between-scenes conversation he had with the production team, regarding how little the original Shockwave actually had to do.

* In somewhat of a reversal, while this incarnation of Shockwave has much fewer appearances than his original incarnation, he does a heck of a lot more stuff: in just a few fleeting appearances on Animated, Shockwave manages to destroy Wasp's life, kill a [[Blurr (Animated)|popular recurring character]], bring down Cybertron's entire interplanetary transport and communications system, brutally assault the Magnus (and steal his hammer!), and give Megatron control of the Autobots' [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|most feared and powerful weapon]]. Shockwave is ''awesome''. And it is very logical indeed.

[[Image:Shockwave_goodside.jpg|thumb|right|180px|I hear this is my good side...]]

* While Shockwave possesses the single, round optic and window-chest of his Generation 1 counterpart, much of the rest of his body appears to be largely patterned after ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]; he transforms into an "H-tank", the front treads end up on his shoulders and the rear treads end up on the back of his lower legs, plus he has the large, spiky "antlers" on his head. Additionally, Shockwave's vehicle mode appears to be loosely based on one of the [[Transtech]] sketch designs for Megatron, with the high angled treads and turret. However, Shockwave is much thinner and taller than Megatron, and is also able to bend his knees.

* Shockwave's status as an Elite Guard member in his Longarm identity is an issue fraught with much confusion. His on-package [[bio]] states that, as Longarm, he rose through the ranks of the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] to reach his current position; this theoretically meshes with Longarm's cover story in "Autoboot Camp", where he states that he wishes to become an Elite Guard intelligence officer<ref>On the other hand, ''everyone else'' (outside of Bulkhead) in Sentinel Minor's recruit line-up stated that they wanted to serve some function in the Elite Guard, and none of them actually ended up in it.</ref>. However, [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] has informed this wiki that Longarm is not actually a member of that group in the cartoon continuity. Shockwave's status as a nonmember of the Elite Guard is supported by Longarm's lack of the Elite Guard's winged Autobot symbol, and the evident fact that, while Longarm ''is'' head of the Autobot Intelligence Division, the Autobot Intelligence Division is ''not'' a part of the Elite Guard; Longarm's immediate predecessor as head of the organization, [[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]], did not sport the Elite Guard symbol either.

:Adding to this confusion, Longarm was drawn with an Elite Guard symbol in [[Dispatches|''The Arrival'' #1]], but this seems to have been in error, as Sentinel Prime {{m-}} stated to be ''the second-in-command'' of the Elite Guard in the story {{m-}} sported a normal Autobot symbol throughout it, suggesting the symbol-paster got confused.

* Despite not having a face, Shockwave still manages to have a [[chin]].

*Both "Shockwave and "Longarm" have official alternate capitalizations. The credits of "[[TransWarped]]" give "LongArm Prime", and the credits for "[[This Is Why I Hate Machines]]" have "ShockWave".

*Shockwave has transformed into all but one of his modes: the purple Longarm vehicle mode.
==References==
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[[Category:Elite Guard]]
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[[Category:Spies]]

Hoist (SG)

2009-08-01T20:40:31Z

Metal Gear NOIZE: A snippet about his personality (From memory, hence the lack of content added)

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{{disambig3.5|the evil Autobot medic|his heroic counterpart|Hoist (G1)|Hoist}}
:''Hoist is an evil [[Autobot]] medic from the [[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]] [[continuity family]].''
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'''Hoist''' is an Autobot medic. Presumably, he isn't insane. If he is, he's not as insane as [[Ratchet (Shattered Glass)|Ratchet]].

He's not very enthusiastic about his job. Hey, with [[Optimus Prime (Shattered Glass)|a boss like his]], who would be?

==Fiction==
===Shattered Glass===

He fixed [[Blurr (Shattered Glass)|Blurr]].. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

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