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'''[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]''' has always looked and will always look a lot like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. There are many [[Starscream (G1)/toys|toys of Starscream]] and where there is a Starscream toy, a Skywarp toy soon follows.

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:G1toy skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|"He's a Starscream redeco, [[Thew Adams|Thew]], there's a hundred million just like him!" "Not to me there's not."]]
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Plane, 1984/1985)}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''23'''
:*''Accessories'': Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Released in the first year of ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'', Skywarp transforms into an {{w|F-15 Eagle}} fighter jet, by a process which essentially involves removing and reattaching most of his plane parts. Though it is possible to do so without removing all of them, this rather piecemeal design and the fact that neither mode uses all his parts means it can be quite difficult to find an intact original Skywarp on the secondary market. He began life as a ''[[Diaclone]]'' "Jet Robo", but unlike team-mates [[Starscream (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Thundercracker]], with whom he shares his mold, his distinctive black-and-purple deco did ''not'' originate in that line.

: Skywarp is armed with a pair of missile launchers that mount on his arms in robot mode, and under his wings in jet mode, with a pair of specialized projectiles for each. In jet mode, two short rockets are fitted into the launchers to make them resemble the drop tanks a real F-15 carries, while in robot mode, they are replaced with the long barrels of Skywarp's machine guns. The original ''Diaclone'' version of the mold featured spring-loaded firing mechanisms in these launchers; while this feature was removed for the [[Hasbro]] release of the toy, it was left intact for the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] version, and all subsequent reissues.

: While the earliest releases of Skywarp were basically identical to the ''Diaclone'' mold, some small modifications were soon made to the figure which became the standard for all subsequent reissues of the mold. These included the hollowing out of the inner edges of his wings and the tips of his tail-wings, the lengthening of the pegs on his wings to make them fit more securely, and the addition of extra clips on the inner sides of his fist-gauntlets, allowing them to grip his arms better. Like all his 1984 brethren, Skywarp gained a factory-applied [[rubsign]] in 1985, which was added to the left side of his fuselage.

: Presumably by mistake, the stats on Skywarp, Starscream and Thundercracker's [[Tech Spec]]s were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, giving him a high intelligence and rank that stood in contrast to the bio printed next to them.

: Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp (right) show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue (see below).

: The Italian release of Skywarp (as "Corvo") by [[GiG]] put him in a generic "Distructor Planes" box, featuring names and tech specs for all three planes in the assortment.

: This mold was [[redeco]]ed into [[Sunstorm (G1)#Toys|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Thrust]].

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-decepticon-jets-skywarp/339/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Skywarp at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Generation 1 Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Machine Wars''===
[[File:MW-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)
**''Accessories:'' 2-part rifle
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white {{w|Rafale|Dassault Rafale}} fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to [[KB Toys]] stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.

: This toy is [[gang-molding|gang-molded]] with the other three Basic molds in the line. Specifically, his head and inner robot parts share plastic with [[Hubcap (MW)#Toys|Hubcap]], and his jet parts share plastic with [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Mirage]], plus he shares the pearlescent-gray canopy plastic with, well, everyone.

: Curiously, Skywarp is the only Basic Decepticon to have a Decepticon symbol on him... and it's the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' Decepticon symbol at that. Which is approporate given this mold was originally developed for ''Generation 2''.

: The toy was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as the [[Skywarp drone]]s.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Collector's Edition''===
{{anchor|collectorsedition}}[[File:G1toy reissue skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (reissue, 2001)
**''ID number:'' '''Set C'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:The original Skywarp toy was reissued for the first time in 2001 as part of Takara's small "[[The Transformers: Collector's Edition|Collector's Edition]]" series, which made several Generation 1 toys available as convention [[exclusive]]s. Sold in new open-faced packaging with no notable changes from the original figure, Skywarp was an exclusive at the Japanese science fiction convention "Super Festival 21", available only in a set with Thundercracker and limited to 1000 pieces. The pair are often mistakenly identified as [[e-HOBBY]] exclusives.

::*''[http://shmax.com/part_details/3487 More information on Collector's Edition Skywarp at Shmax.com]''
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===''Commemorative Series''===
[[File:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that's okay. Jet? Not so much.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (reissue, 2003)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:The original Skywarp toy was made available again as part of Hasbro's line of [[The Transformers: Generation One Commemorative Series|Commemorative Series]] reissues. Released in the fourth wave of the series, it featured functional missile launchers for the first time on a Hasbro version of the toy, but because the launchers now worked, both sets of missiles had to be lengthened [[for safety reasons]]. His machine guns didn't turn out ''too'' bad; the missiles didn't fare so well. Rather than correct the erroneous Tech Spec numbers from Skywarp's original release, this reissue retained them and instead features a slightly re-written bio to remove the contradictions.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/CSSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Commemorative Series Skywarp TFU.info]''
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===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missiles

:''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange "energon" bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, albeit of the ''[[Transformers: Dinobots|Dinobots]]'' design, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.

:Although most previous versions of the mold have the wingtips swept forward in vehicle mode, Skywarp was packaged and depicted in his instructions with the wingtips swept back. His fictional appearances, however, use the conventional arrangement shown here.

:Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Aero Drone|Sonic Attack Jet]], ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (RID)|Jhiaxus]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Smallest Transforming Transformers''===
[[File:Smallest transforming skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2003)
**''ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, left & right wings, left & right tailfins, landing gear

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' product, Skywarp is, of course, a redeco of this line's Starscream. Like all toys in the series, he is a tiny, simplified version of the original Generation 1 toy, transforming into an F-15 fighter jet, with most of the accessories from the original toy faithfully translated save for his machine guns. As with all previous waves of ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'', these figures were sold [[blindpacking|blindpacked]], with Skywarp as one of the wave's two rare [[chase figure]]s

: This mold was redecoed into ''Smallest Transforming'' Thundercracker, and retooled to make Thrust.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Smallest Transforming Transformers Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Robotmasters''===
[[File:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[August 11]], 2005
:*''Accessories'': 2 rifles, 2 missile pods

: ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|Starscream]] from the same series, a re-imagining of the original Generation 1 figure, retaining its basic [[Transformation|transformation scheme]], but designed to be closer to the animation model, with greater articulation and integrated parts that do not require detachment during transformation. The only pieces that now need to be removed are Skywarp's rifles, which move from his wings to his arms. He has three peg-holes on each arm, allowing the rifles to be mounted on his shoulders, on his forearms, or in his fists. These holes are also designed to accommodate the generic spring-loaded missile launcher weapon included with ''Robotmasters'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|G1 Convoy]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#Robotmasters|Beast Convoy]] and [[Megatron (BW)/toys#Robotmasters|Beast Megatron]].

: Skywarp also came with two "missile pods" based on weapons Starscream used but once, in the Generation 1 cartoon episode "[[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain]]". These chromed accessories plug into the square holes in his chest, and feature opening covers that reveal (non-firing) missiles within.

: He was available only in a two-pack with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|Thundercracker]], which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robotmasters'' line, and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-HOBBY]] Generation 1 reissue box, with a small ''Robotmasters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Robotmasters Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Classics''===
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[[File:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|"TARGET acquired, lol".]]
*'''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right missile launchers, 2 missiles

: ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a redeco and slight retool of ''Classics'' Deluxe Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Classics|Starscream]], transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. Unlike previous (and future) figures, the shade of purple used for this figure has a more reddish tint to it. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]].

: Skywarp was slightly [[retool]]ed from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a fifth rectangle was added to the vertical area. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold, and was also used as a [[Variant#Running change|running change]] on Starscream.

: Skywarp was only available as part of a two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Classics|Ultra Magnus]] [[exclusive]] to [[Target]] in the United States. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager Class and Deluxe Class mold in it, which would be approximately $30 worth of toys if they had been sold separately. The pack was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.

: [[Stock photography]] of ''Classics'' Skywarp showed [[:File:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|a more detailed color scheme]] than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]], and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version mentioned above.
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::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Classics Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Masterpiece''===
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[[File:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[September 1]], [[2007]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-6'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "Machine Guns", 2 AIM missile racks, [[Doctor Arkeville#MP6|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand

: ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|MP-3 Starscream]] mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] [[Slug figure|pilot figurine]] (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet mode Skywarp to hold the gun mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Masterpiece MP-1 Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].

[[File:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb|He ''admits'' to being Cyclonus? Haha, what a prankster!]]
: The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.

:The second pressing of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior ''Masterpiece'' Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp is assembled correctly. ''Masterpiece'' Thundercracker is misassembled as well.

:It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's ''Masterpiece'' Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.

:This mold was later used for the ''Masterpiece'' version of [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Thundercracker]]. It was also redecoed and retooled to create the eleventh ''Masterpiece'' figure, [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP11|Starscream]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Masterpiece Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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[[File:MP-11SW Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Just to fool you into thinking that there isn't a third Masterpiece Seeker mold being developed.]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[January 5]], [[2015]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-11SW'''
**''Accessories:'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP11SW|Megatron Gun]], [[Doctor Arkeville#MP11SW|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot

:A redeco of the newer ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP11|MP-11 Starscream]] mold, Skywarp features some extensive retooling to wind the ''Masterpiece'' Seeker design back into the more Generation 1-accurate look, with most of the robot mode being newly tooled parts, including chunkier legs that now incorporate his tail-fins, [[retool]]ed shoulders and wingtips that no longer curve into one another, a new head (with collapsible head fins), new heel spurs that flip out for added support in robot mode, and re-engineered Machine Guns attached to extending armatures that mean they no longer have to be [[Partformer|removed]] for transformation.

:The figure features flip-up missile racks built into his pectorals. He comes with the original version of the [[Megatron (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Megatron gun]] that first came with ''Masterpiece'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|MP-1 Convoy]]. He also comes with a [[Doctor Arkeville#MP11SW|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figure identical to the previous MP-6 release.

:Skywarp's deco is heavily based on his cartoon appearance and features the rarely reproduced in toy form entirely purple shoulders and arm cannons. Despite the focus on cartoon accuracy in his deco, he carries over the striping on his forearms, shoulders, and pectorals similar to his original MP-6 Masterpiece release.

:As a redeco of the MP-11 release, Skywarp is ''likely'' to be plagued with the same quality control issues.

:Skywarp was only released in China via Hasbro Asia under the TakaraTomy label; marking the second time an original TakaraTomy Masterpiece toy wasn't released for the Japanese market ([[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP5G|''Masterpiece'' Megatron Gold Version]] was the first).

:On [[November 30]], [[2016]] MP-11SW Skywarp was released in Japan for the first time as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive. There are notable differences between this release and the original almost two years prior. The shade of purple used on the later release is more warm and less cool in tone. His biceps and knee flaps are now molded in black plastic rather than in purple plastic painted a glossy black. The inner portion of his upper chest is no longer painted silver mold molded in silver plastic. Many of the paint operations are also slightly different in color from the earlier Hasbro Asia release. Hasbro Asia also re-released the figure to coincide with the Japanese release.

:When purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, Skywarp comes with a collector coin, mounted on a card resembling his wings, complete with his signature wing stripes. The coin was reissued in 2016, without change, alongside the figure.
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[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MP-52-Skywarp.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp Ver. 2.0''' ([[December 25]], [[2021]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-52+SW'''
**''Accessories'': 3 alternate faces, 5 effect parts, 2 null rays, 2-part display base, [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP52Plus|Megatron]] gun
:A redeco of ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP52|Starscream Ver. 2.0]], the second version of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp was first announced by TakaraTomy as part of a competition—those who purchase all three Ver.2.0 Seekers will receive an add-on kit for [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP52|Starscream]]; giving him his iconic crown and cape from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. The toy's stock photography was unveiled a few months after the competition was announced.

:Skywarp comes with many accessories, including 3 alternate faces, 5 effect parts, a stand for his jet mode, a pair of null rays, and a non-transforming figure of [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP52Plus|Megatron]] in his gun mode. His jet mode can half-transform into a Gerwalk-styled "Alternate Transformation" which is based on the episode ''[[Dinobot Island, Part 2]]'', as seen in the figure's stock photography. Skywarp is colored in a cartoon-accurate lilac color, as opposed to the neon purple found on most of his toy releases.

:Like Thundercracker, Skywarp was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive to Japan.

:This mold was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#MP52|Thundercracker]].
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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|upright=1.67|thumb]]
*'''War Within Skywarp''' ([[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008 exclusive)

: [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Thundercracker]], transforming into a Cybertronian "tetrajet" as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at {{w|San Diego Comic-Con}} 2008.

: This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Starscream]], [[Sunstorm (G1)#Titanium Series|Sunstorm]], and [[Thrust (G1)#Titanium Series|Thrust]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Titanium Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Henkei! Henkei!''===
[[File:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Good luck finding me.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (September 2008)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles

: ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Henkei! Henkei!|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Henkei! Henkei!|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]] through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.

:Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and foreign collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.

:Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes was further modified from the [[Transformers: Classics|Classics]] version, this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei! Henkei!'' Thundercracker and ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' Starscream also saw most of these changes.
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===''Universe'' (2008)===
[[File:Universe2008-toy MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67]]
*'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)
**''Accessories:'' 2 "Machine Guns", 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand

: A [[Walmart]] exclusive redeco of the original ''Masterpiece'' Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version. The nosecone features black paint over purple plastic, allowing for easy customization of "Mexican Masterpiece Skywarp".
: The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet mode Skywarp to hold the gun mode Megatron that came with ''Masterpiece'' Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode.
: Masterpiece Skywarp was also available as an Argos exclusive in the [[United Kingdom]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Masterpiece Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Encore''===
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[[File:G1toy encore skywarp thundercracker.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (reissue multi-pack, 2008)
**''ID number'' '''11'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:Skywarp's original toy was reissued again as part of TakaraTomy's ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' series, this time in a two-pack with his erstwhile partner, Thundercracker. This release of the figure replaced his Decepticon symbol stickers with [[tampograph]]s, and changed his purple stickers to a much bluer shade. Curiously, although Thundercracker's wing stripes were replaced with tampographs, Skywarp's remained factory-applied stickers.
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===''Alternity''===
[[File:Alternity skywarp toy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]
*'''Skywarp [Witch Purple Pearl]''' ([[May 29]], [[2010]])
**''ID number:'' '''A-04'''

:Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Alternity|Starscream]] with a different head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale {{w|Mitsuoka Orochi}}. Like the other toys in the line, he features [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. This is also currently the only ''Alternity'' mold to feature [[Kibble#"Faux-parts"|a fake kibble chest]].

:In car mode, small wings are ''supposed to'' be able to flip out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. Unfortunately, this [[gimmick]] suffers from a rather nasty [[design flaw]]: there is simply not enough clearance under the car for the wheels to be able to pass and hinge through, and attempting to do so will result in the plastic reinforcement struts underneath ''deforming the rims and chipping the tires''. His door panels also tend to detach from their [[ball joint]]s ''very easily''.

:This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Alternity|Thundercracker]] and [[Banzai-Tron (G1)#Alternity|Banzai Tron]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Alternity Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Chronicle''===
[[File:EZCollectionSkywarpToy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Teleports right out of your pocket.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (EZ Collection, 2011)

:''[[Transformers Chronicle (toyline)|Chronicle]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Reveal the Shield]]'' [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Transformers .282010.29|Starscream]]. He transforms into an F-15 with many fuselage details borrowed from the ''Masterpiece'' version. This is also the first Seeker mold in many years to attempt an entirely new transformation, with the arms now forming the rear of the jet and the legs folding under the wings. Skywarp was available only in Japan, and like many Japanese "EZ Collection" toys, was [[blindpacking|blindpacked]].

:This toy was also '''EXCEEDINGLY''' rare to find. Think other toys have a high aftermarket price? This one has '''NO''' aftermarket price.

:This mold was also used to make ''Chronicle'' Thundercracker.
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreOtoy_KreonSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
* '''Optimus Prime''' (2011)
**''Set number'': '''30689'''
** ''Pieces'': '''542'''
** ''Kreons'': [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Bluestreak]], Skywarp, 2 [[Stunt Driver]]s
** ''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

: The [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Optimus Prime]] construction set comes with a Skywarp Kreon. He has a helmet, wing back that attaches around his neck, and two blasters that clip onto his arms. These same Kreon accessories were also used for [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Thundercracker]].

: A variation of Skywarp exists where initial versions of the figure feature chrome purple toes. Later versions omitted this detail. The [[stock photography]], by the way, shows him with purple-plastic legs rather than black.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/Kre-OSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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* '''Kreon Ultimate Collection 2''' (2013)
** ''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

:Skywarp was later made available as the "Mystery Figure" figure packed with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Bumblebee]], [[Red Alert (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Red Alert]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Mirage]], and [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Jazz]]. The identity of Skywarp is kept secret in the packaging, but his inclusion is consistent.

:This version of Skywarp does not feature the purple chromed toes of the original release.

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[[File:KreO-Toy SkywarpC84.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Kreon Class of 1984''' (Kreon figure set, 2014)
**''Set number'': '''B0090'''
**''Voted'': Most Punctual
**''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

: This version of Skywarp has much more extensive, toy-based [[tampograph]]s than his prior version. Oddly, his limbs, wings and blasters are different shades of purple plastic, rather than a more accurate-to-anything black plastic with purple detailing.

:He was only available in a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2014 [[exclusive]] pack of 30 Kreons dubbed the "[[Kreon Class of 1984]]". Remaining stock was to be sold at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online, only there ''was'' no remaining stock after the show.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/SDCCKre-OSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Class of 1984 Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Bot Shots''===
[[File:Bot Shots Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Confused by Rock-Paper-Scissors.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''B016'''
***''Fist strength'': '''620'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''160'''
***''Sword strength'': '''830'''

: Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots]]'' Series 1 single-packs, Skywarp is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Starscream]] mold, being cast in black and purple in [[homage]] to Generation 1 Skywarp, and featuring a new chest and scowling head. He transforms into a tiny [[super deformed]] jet fighter resembling [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#F-22 Raptor|F-22 Raptor]], and [[Autotransformation|autotransforms]] into robot mode when his nosecone is pressed. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BSSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Bot Shots Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BStoy-SuperBotSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|And he's still scowling.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2013)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': ''' Super Bot 003'''
***''Fist strength'': '''510'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''180'''
***''Sword strength'': '''925'''

: Part of the third wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 2 single-packs, Super Bot Skywarp transforms into a futuristic forward-swept wing fighter jet with two blasters at the front. As a Flip Shot, an impact to the front of his vehicle mode causes him to flip up when autotransforming. As a Super Bot, he has more lopsided stats, and is cast in translucent purplish-black plastic.

:He was going to be redecoed into the unreleased [[Starscream (G1)/toys#FlipShotLauncher|Flip Shot Starscream Launcher]]. Yup, Skywarp <s>came first</s> owns this mold.
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===''United''===
[[File:United Skywarp toy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Close but no cigar.]]
*'''Seekers: Aces''' ([[December 21]], [[2012]])
**''Accessories:'' Left & right launchers, 2 missiles
:''[[Transformers United|United]]'' Skywarp is a third redeco of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, and the first time he is offered with both of his wing mates [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys|Thundercracker]].
: This version of Skywarp is heavily based on his cartoon appearance. He features a glossy black, a medium warm purple, shiny metallic purple paint on most of his purple plastic, and an amber cockpit. Paint operations found on the Henkei! Henkei! release were shuffled around for the sake of cartoon accuracy, up to and including purple shoulders.
: Original photos of Skywarp showed him with show-accurate all purple arm cannons, but due to gang molding (and lack of additional paint operations) only the upper most portion of his arm cannons ended up purple.
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===''Generations''===
{{anchor|Thrilling 30}}
[[File:Generationstoy-Thrilling30Skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Will use his guns to give you cold dead hands.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe Class, 2014)
**''Series / Number'': '''02 / #012'''
**''Accessories'': Two assault cannons, tail-fin

:Part of the eighth wave of [[2012]]-onwards ''Generations'' Deluxe Class toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''Generations: [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' [[Starscream (WFC)#Generations|Starscream]], and transforms into a Cybertronian jet fighter. He comes with two spinning, triple-barreled cannons which can combine to form a larger hand-held weapon that is geared to spin its two triple-barrels together, and resembles the [[Neutron assault rifle]] from ''Fall of Cybertron''. Each of the weapon halves features two [[5 mm post]]s, as well as a peg-hole on their hollow sides, while the combined form features another peg-hole at the top, but makes the peg-holes on the hollow sides inaccessible. Skywarp features numerous 5 mm peg-holes, such as his hands, forearms, lower legs, and wing undersides.

:Skywarp's tail-fin is attached via a 5mm post on its underside, and can be detached to reveal three additional peg-holes, with two of these peg-holes being just the right distance to accommodate the combined assault cannons/rifle, with the tail-fin pegging on the rifle's top peg-hole. This allows the weapon to mount on top of the vehicle mode, and store on his back in robot mode.

:Skywarp is minimally mis-transformed in-package: his jet mode nosecone is extended, rather than folded in as it should be in robot mode. He comes packaged with a copy of [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s [[Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|''Robots in Disguise'' #23]].

:Despite using a mold matching [[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]]'s appearance in ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'', this toy ''technically'' represents G1 Skywarp, thanks to his [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] pack-in fiction. Consequently, the toy is listed in the former's page as a [[repurposing]]. This mold was also used for TakaraTomy's ''Fall of Cybertron'' Skywarp, itself repurposed as ''Cloud'' [[Hellwarp|Skywarp]], and as ''Generations Thrilling 30'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Thundercracker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/GenSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on ''Generations'' Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Hero Mashers''===
[[File:HM-toy Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The most easily-lost Skywarp hand since 1984.]]
*'''Megatron''' (Battle Upgrade, 2014)
**''Pieces'': '''18'''
**''Accessories'': Backpack, spring-loaded cannon, missile, blaster, energy flail, 2 blaster-pods, "Skywarp" right forearm

: Part of the first wave of "Battle Upgrade" ''[[Hero Mashers]]'' toys, Skywarp is represented as a spare forearm that is included with Megatron, but does not appear in the line as a complete figure. The arm is a redeco of ''Hero Mashers'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Hero Mashers|Starscream]]'s.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/HMMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Megatron at TFU.info]''
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===''Combiner Wars''===
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[[File:CombinerWarsLegendsSkywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Legends Class, 2015)
**''Accessories:'' 2 cannons
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:A redeco of ''Thrilling 30'' Legends Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#GenLegends|Starscream]], ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' Skywarp is roughly the same size as a ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' Commander Class toy. Based on a [[Guido Guidi]] [[Seeker (body-type)|seeker]] concept for the [[The Transformers (IDW)|first IDW ongoing series]], he transforms from a hybrid F-15/F-22 style jet. He features a fold out front landing gear, [[5 mm post|5 mm-compatible]] hands, and back/wings, and has [[C joint|3 mm-compatible]] upper arm ports. He comes with two removable cannons that have [[5 mm post#Multiple posts and double posting|both 5 mm and 3 mm pegs]]. As with Thundercracker his current stock photo is mistransformed: his wing assembly has not been folded up to the body.

: This figure was also used to make ''Thrilling 30'' [[Acid Storm (G1)#Generations|Acid Storm]] and ''Combiner Wars'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#CWLegends|Thundercracker]].

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[[File:CWLeaderSkywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2.2|And Warper Makes Three.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Leader Class, 2016)
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, 2 arm cannons, 2 leg cannons, 2 "Seeker guns"

:Skywarp is a redeco of ''Generations Combiner Wars'' Leader [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Thundercracker]]. He transforms from a robot into a jet fighter, and includes a missile launcher and four limb-mounted weapons, plus two guns based on the traditional Seeker arm rifles. He also features a faux cockpit. Skywarp does not include the original Jetfire mold's "Turbo Thruster" booster pack accessory, nor does he include Starscream's crown, but is still compatible with both.

:Though Skywarp was scheduled for a first quarter 2016 release, he arrived on U.S. store shelves in late 2015.

: Skywarp unfortunately became a massive shelfwarmer, prominently seen at U.S. Target stores in bulk among the ''Titans Return'' toyline.

: The original version of this mold was used to make ''Generations'' [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Generations|Jetfire]], and was redecoed into ''Combiner Wars'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Starscream]].
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===''Transformers'' (2014)===
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[[File:Transformers-2014-legion-skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Legion Class, 2015)

:Legion Class Skywarp is yet another redeco of ''Reveal the Shield'' [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] Starscream, which features the retooled wings and hands originally created for [[Transformers: Generations#Asian market exclusives ("GDO")|''Generations'' GDO]] Legends Class [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Legends|Thundercracker]]. Aside from that, the figure's deco is mostly identical to [[#Chronicle|the ''Chronicle EZ Collection'' figure]] listed above, although the purple [[paint operation]]s sport a more blue hue, the purple paint operations on his shins are omitted entirely, and the [[tampograph]]ed Decepticon insignias on the wings are purple with silver outlines rather than completely silver.<ref name="2014legion">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-feedback/1040836-classic-legion-skywarp.html Review of 2014 Legion Class Skywarp] at TFW2005, including a comparison with ''EZ Collection'' Skywarp.</ref>

:Skywarp comes in packaging that is based on the packaging design for the concurrently released ''Combiner Wars''-era ''Generations'' figures, but replaces the name ''Generations'' with "Authentic Transformers". Since Skywarp and his [[wave]]-mates ship with three figures previously released under what we consider a generic [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014) toy line]], all of them now in the new packaging style, we consider Skywarp to be part of that line as well. The wave that contains Skywarp has thus far been found at Fred's, Gordmans, Dollar General and Family Dollar stores in the United States, but was available at general retail in Hong Kong and from Australian Target stores.
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===''Q-Transformers''===
[[File:QTransformers Skywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Fatwarp]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[September 19]], 2015)
**''ID number:'' '''QT-30'''

:A redeco and minor retool of ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Starscream]], Skywarp transforms from a [[super deformed]] F-15 to a cute chubby little robot. His facial expression has been changed from Starscream's smirk into a crazy grin.

:This mold was also retooled into ''Q-Transformers'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Thundercracker]] and [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Jetfire]].

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*'''Decepticons 3-Figure Set''' (2016)
**''ID number:'' '''QTFS-03'''

:During the second ''Q-Transformers'' series, the Skywarp toy was available in a three-pack alongside [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Thundercracker]]. He is identical to the original ''Q-Transformers'' toy.
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===''Alt-Modes''===
[[File:Alt-Modes Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Alt-Modes, 2016)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Collection'': '''1, 2'''

:A redeco of ''[[Alt-Modes]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Starscream]], Skywarp is a super deformed toy whose body transforms into a jet when the Decepticon faction symbol on his head is flipped. He was [[Blindpacking|blind-boxed]] and available in the first two cases of the toyline.

:This mold was also used to make ''Alt-Modes'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Thundercracker]], [[Acid Storm (G1)#Alt-Modes|Acid Storm]] and [[Sunstorm (G1)#Alt-Modes|Sunstorm]], and would have been retooled into [[Dirge (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Dirge]].
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:SiegeWFCSkywarp.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|The fourth ''Siege'' Seeker to be revealed!? He's losing ground!]]
*'''Decepticon Phantomstrike Squadron''' (Multi-pack, [[2019]])
**''Hasbro ID number:'' '''WFC-S27'''
**''TakaraTomy ID Number:'' '''SG-EX'''
**''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[January 20]], [[2021]]
**''Hidden message code'': '''TELEPORT'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "HPI [[Null-ray|Null-Ray]] Laser Launchers", [[Battle Master]]s [[Fracas]], [[Hairsplitter|Shrute]], and [[Terror-Daxtyl]], 5 fire blasts

:This ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' four-pack version of Skywarp is a retool of Voyager Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Starscream]] from the same line with a new slightly sneering face, transforming from a heavily Generation 1-inspired robot to a Cybertronian "tetrajet" based on the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]' appearance in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" and back; although the jet mode has the robot legs sticking out from the undercarriage. In an unusual move, Skywarp's plastic is molded in a light charcoal gray rather than his traditional black. He includes two "HPI Null-Ray Laser Launchers," which can mount on his upper arms, or under the wings in jet mode, and three Battle Master figures, Fracas, Shrute, and Terror-Daxtyl, respectively redecoed from [[Firebolt (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Firedrive]], [[Aimless#War for Cybertron: Siege|Aimless]], and [[Pteraxadon#Toys|Pteraxadon]], each with their respective Fire Blasts.

:This set was made available at general retail in Taiwan without prior announcement from Hasbro, and was an [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] exclusive for North America, which also labelled the set as "Final Strike Figure Series: Part 2", and a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive in Japan. In an uncharacteristic irony, Skywarp's face features a sneer, but with the help of [[customizing]], you can swap his head for Thundercracker or Red Wing's to patch things up a bit.
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===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
[[File:SiegeERSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Teleporting directly to [[eBay]].]]
*'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, [[2020]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-E29'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''ER EX-16'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': [[January 20]], [[2021]]
**''Accessories:'' 2 "[[Null-ray|Null-Ray]] blasters"

:''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'' Skywarp is a [[redeco]] and very slight [[retool]]ing of Voyager Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Starscream]] from the same line, transforming into an F-15 jet based on his traditional alternate mode, and features a pair of G1-accurate null-rays in cartoon-accurate purple. His design and transformation scheme is heavily based on his [[#Classics|2006 ''Classics'' figure]] while adding points of articulation the earlier figure did not have such as pivoting ankles, a more expressive ball-jointed head, and hinges that allow the wings to fold backward in robot mode. He uses Starscream's pre-tooled alternate head. His head and chest are susceptible to paint chipping due to the transformation scheme. While the null-rays can be wielded by his pair of hands, it's almost impossible for him to properly hold them due to the size of his forearms.

: Skywarp was packaged with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Thundercracker]] as part of a ''Cybertronian Villains'' set exclusive to [[Target]] in the United States, and [[Toys"R"Us]] in Canada. It was also available at general retail in Hong Kong. In Japan, the set was released as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive.

:Initial samples provided by TakaraTomy depict Skywarp's head being replaced with the same piece used for Thundercracker,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=＼追加情報！／先日予約が始まりました ■ ER EX-16 スカイワープ＆サンダークラッカーの写真をいくつか撮ってみました！ ER EX-15 ダブルクロッサーとセットでのご購入でポイント20倍でお得です！ご予約はこちら！⇒https://t.co/TmuulWWdPt #トランスフォーマー #Transformers https://t.co/AkhzDnu9fa|link=https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1294811727452762113|name=TF_pr|site=Twitter|year=2020|month=08|day=16|(defunct=)}}</ref> though this was likely to be a production error as a later sample shows that he retains the original head.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=＼追加情報！／先日予約が始まりました ■ ER EX-16 スカイワープ＆サンダークラッカーの最新サンプルが届きました！ 2人の顔は写真のようになります！ご予約はこちら！⇒https://t.co/TmuulWWdPt #トランスフォーマー #Transformers https://t.co/DYIRY5LmPR|link=https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1295521667104440320|name=TF_pr|site=Twitter|year=2020|month=08|day=18|(defunct=)}}</ref>

:Like many of the toys since the ''War for Cybertron trilogy'' line, Skywarp suffers from a case of [[photodegradation]], as his unpaintable purple pieces discolors to a maroon shade.

:Like all ''Earthrise'' toys, the inside of the back of the Seeker two-pack package includes an exclusive clip-and-save piece of a larger star map. Also in the box is a thin red piece of transparent plastic with which to read the star map. The two-pack contains the unlabelled location of [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]].

:Like all other uses of the mold, Skywarp has a missing molded panel-line detail on the right wing hinge that is supposed to curve in towards the body of the jet. The reason for this missing detail is likely due to it missing from the metal mold itself.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-Core-Class-Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Hit the beat! Keep your beat!]]
[[File:TF-Legacy-Core-first-wave-Sword.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp''' (Core Class, March [[2022]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessory'': "Energon Warp Fork"
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro)|[[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept artist)}}

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy]]'' Core Class toys, Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Starscream]]. Frankly, we're surprised he didn't come ''sooner''.

: A roughly Legends-sized toy that can interact with Titan Class figures, ''Legacy'' Skywarp's sculpting is heavily inspired by his larger ''Earthrise'' counterpart, though featuring a black pelvis instead of a silver one. Instead of coming with a redeco of Starscream's Null Ray accessories, Skywarp comes with a... some kind of a tuning fork-like weapon called the "Energon Warp Fork", which can be plugged into the underside of his nose cone while in vehicle mode.

: Skywarp retains the hexagonal peg holes molded into Starscream's shoulders, so the figure can still support Starscream's Null Ray ''arm''aments. However, the Null Rays are prone to popping off when inserted into the peg holes due to their hexagonal shape. The stock render seen in the character bio (unlocked by scanning the QR code) also depicts him with both the Null Rays and the Warp Fork, with the former being removed for budget reasons. It should be noted that the Warp Fork was likely meant to have extra grey paint operations on the red paint details.

: Skywarp's head is molded in black, greatly reducing the risk of paint chipping and scratching suffered from ''Kingdom'' Starscream.

: As seen on ''Kingdom'' [[Hot_Rod_(G1)/toys#K43|Hot Rod's]] card illustration and Skywarp's instructions, the Energon Warp Fork is one of the three components of a combined sword. The horizontal 3mm post on the fork also prevents it from being adequately positioned when attached. This can be amended by slightly trimming off the post, though this method prevents the accessory from attaching to Skywarp's nose cone.

: This mold was also redecoed into Core Class [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Legacy|Thundercracker]].

<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Decepticon Nemesis''' ([[2023]])}}</ul>

: A tiny [[slug figure]] of Skywarp in his Cybertronian "tetrajet" mode was included with Titan-class [[Nemesis (G1)#Legacy|Nemesis]]. Though the [[package art]] depicting this piece was actually based on the [[IP infringement|unlicensed "Prankstor" figure]] -- whoopsie!
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===''Transformers Retro''===
[[File:TF-Retro-Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZJ7AAoDhu4| Ayo, the pizza here!]]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Walmart exclusive reissue/redeco, [[2023]])
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 null-rays, 2 cluster bombs, left & right wings, left & right tail fins, left & right tail wings, landing gear, two-piece gun mode Megatron

:Walmart once again reissued the original Skywarp toy (or is it a recolor of Starscream from the same line?) in 2023 under the ''[[Transformers Retro]]'' label. Unlike the ''Vintage G1'' release, however, ''Retro'' Skywarp has been redecoed in colors inspired by his appearance in the original ''Transformers'' animated series, more specifically ''The Transformers: The Movie''. He remains a mash-up of Starscream's ''Commemorative Series'' and ''The Transformers Collection'' reissues, with the former's elongated null rays and cluster bombs and the latter's gun mode Megatron accessory.

:The box features new art of Skywarp with ''Earthrise''-inspired detailing in robot and vehicle mode laid over a scene of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].

:''Transformers Retro'' Skywarp was officially revealed on Walmart's website<ref>https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Toys-Retro-G1-Skywarp-Converting-Action-Figure-5-5/3668943002</ref> on [[July 12]], 2023.

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==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
[[File:Decoy skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.2|Mini-wave in celebration of me! WooOOoo!]]
*'''Destron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)

:Skywarp was among the many characters rendered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] as part of their series of 1.5" ''keshigomu'' figurines. Like all the Decepticons in the series, Skywarp was molded in soft purple rubber, and featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]]s, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. He is, surprisingly enough, ''not'' identical to either Starscream or Thundercracker: the stance of his legs and the position of his Decepticon symbols differ, but he is, of course, most prominently distinguished by his raised arms.

:Skywarp was available as part of a 22-piece box set of Decepticon figures, in a peach coloration randomly packed in several box sets and with other products produced by Takara subsidiary [[Seven]], and in a wide variety of colours in "gachapon" capsule machines.

*'''Skywarp''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''33'''

: The Skywarp figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number (33, in Skywarp's case). Like all Decepticon Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]], and was, very early on in the promotion, available in an alternate red coloration that was only packed in with the Throttlebots. Unsurprisingly, this red figurine is much rarer.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Decoys/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Decoy Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Super Collection Figure''===
[[File:SCF skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.2]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)

: ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)#Super Collection Figure|Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming three-inch tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine, [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Super Collection Figure|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations (guidebook)|Transformers Generations]]'' (with the "[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]" toy as the first place prize).

: However, due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether this Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.

: This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)|Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior#Merchandise|Air Warriors]]. This mold was [[retool]]ed to make ''SCF'' [[Ramjet (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Ramjet]], [[Thrust (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Dirge]].
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===''Heroes of Cybertron''===
[[File:HOC Skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2002)

: When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. As was the standard for the line, Skywarp was made from translucent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving him [[light-piping|light-piped]] eyes. In addition, he is distinguished from his ''Super Collection Figure'' counterpart by grey knee-vents and black foot-panels, versus the respetive purple and grey applications on the original (though several samples of the figure were missing the foot-panel paint, including the one shown at the TFU link below).
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Heroes of Cybertron Skywarp at TFU.info]''

*'''Decepticon Air Cavalry Troop Builder Set''' (2003)

: The original Skywarp figurine was re-released again in this six-pack of figures available exclusively at [[OTFCC 2003]]. He came packaged with ''Heroes of Cybertron'' versions of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Heroes of Cybertron|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Heroes of Cybertron|Thundercracker]], and three [[Air Warrior#Heroes of Cybertron|Air Warriors]].

: While the three named Seekers in the set were originally intended to have a sparkly paint job to differentiate them from the normal retail versions, that ended up not happening and they ended up basically the same.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/OTFCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on 3H's Heroes of Cybertron Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends of Cybertron''===
[[File:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)

: A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[BotCon#BotCon history|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced, of those most (but not all) had the open-palm hands and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode painted blue rather than the correct purple.

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===Palisades===
[[File:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)

:A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a "hovering" pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].

: This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.
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===''Attacktix''===
[[File:G1Skywarp-atx.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Booster, <s>2007</s>)

: Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots at opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.

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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium cancelled figure checklist.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (unreleased)
:*''Accessories:'' Decepticon stand?
:The final ''[[Titanium Series]]'' catalogue listed a number of "Micro Figures" intended for release, though many of them never saw the light of day. Among those listed was a 3" Robot Masters Skywarp, which was probably a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Titanium Series|Starscream]], complete with Decepticon badge display stand.
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===''Robot Heroes''===
[[File:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]
*'''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (Multi-pack, 2007)

: Skywarp is -of course- a [[redeco]] of ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Robot Heroes|Starscream]], with swivel articulation at the neck and shoulders.

: He was only available in a [[Walmart]] exclusive multi-pack, along with [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Robot Heroes|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#RH5pack|Hologram Mirage]], and "Supermetal Finish" versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#RH5pack|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#RH5pack|Megatron]].

: This mold was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Robot Heroes|Thundercracker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/RHWMSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Robot Heroes Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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*'''Skywarp''' (Single-pack, 2008)

: In some countries outside of North America, Skywarp was released individually in a blindpack with no notable changes.
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===''3D Battle-Card Game''===
[[File:3DBattleCard Skywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2007)

: A 25-point "uncommon" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, Skywarp "transforms" into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (film)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]], [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]], [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] and [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], along with [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Classic Starscream]] and [[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]]. In addition to his standard abilities such as teleportation, one of Skywarp's weapons is the obscure [[bouncer bomb]], which he used only once in the cartoon episode "[[The Immobilizer]]".
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===Transformers Mini-Busts===
[[File:DST08 SkywarpBust.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con exclusive, 2008)

:Retooled and redecoed from [[Art Asylum]]'s Starscream mini-bust, this statue depicts Skywarp in mid-teleport via translucent purple extremities. He was offered exclusively by [[Diamond Select Toys]] through the Action Figure Xpress booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2008, limited to 400 pieces.
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===The Loyal Subjects===
[[File:TLS skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2014)
**''Accessories:'' Gun

:Skywarp was one of the chase figures in the second wave of 3-inch tall [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] vinyl figurines produced by [[The Loyal Subjects]]. Featuring eight ball-jointed points of articulation. Unlike the other [[1984]] style Seekers, a Skywarp is not a redeco of the Starscream and Thundercracker figurine from the first wave (who were later redecoed to create the [[Rainmaker]] trio and [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]), but an all new mold with different construction and parts than his predecessors. He is slightly larger than the other '84 Seekers and features more moving parts. He does share some parts with the simultaneously released [[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]], [[Thrust (G1)/toys|Thrust]], and fellow chase figure [[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]]. For every 96 figures from wave 2 of The Loyal Subjects, there is 1 Skywarp.
::*''[https://www.theloyalsubjects.com/store/transformers-series-2-bundle-8 More information on Skywarp and the rest of wave 2 at TheLoyalSubjects.com]
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===''D-Style''===
[[File:SkywarpDstyle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' (09-2015)
**''ID number:'' 48
**''Accessories:'' Scowling face, smirking face, shouting face, open hand, closed hands, mini F15 jet

:A super deformed Skywarp model kit produced by [[Kotobukiya]] as part of their franchise-spanning ''[[D-Style]]'' line. Like [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#D-Style|Megatron]] he comes with three different faces and in line with the rest of the line, comes with a mini alt mode figure, in this case an F15 jet. He also contains a replaceable open hand. His chest contains flip-up panels in his chest that reveal missile racks based on the weapons seen in the Generation 1 episode "Fire on the Mountain". The null rays can be removed and wielded as guns, and he can also hold Megatron's gun.

:In order to get the figure looking like the promotional photos, required paint applications include coloring the screaming mouth, chest fans and panel lines, missile rack surrounds, null ray panel lines, and knee vents all in black. Eyes and cockpit come in translucent colored plastic and can also be painted to improve their look. Finally, the mini F15 jet comes as a single black piece and is missing all coloring.

:He comes in a two pack along with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#D-Style|Thundercracker]].

:This mold was also used to make ''D-Style'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#D-Style|Starscream]].
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===Mecha Nations===
[[File:Mn09-skywarp.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2015)
**''ID Number:'' '''MN09'''
**''Accessories:'' alternate hands, display stand.

:Created by [[Kids Logic]], this [[super deformed]] G1 Skywarp is a redeco of Mecha Nations [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Mecha Nations|Starscream]] with a new face. He stands 6" tall and is articulated, featuring a shiny metallic color scheme, removable armor and replacement hands. He also features LED light up eyes, Decepticon insignias on his wings, null rays and thrusters in his feet, for use when he's "hovering", mounted on the included display stand.

:This figure was also redecoed with a different new face into Mecha Nations [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Mecha Nations|Thundercracker]], with whom he was a 2015 Toy Soul exhibition exclusive.
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===Bitfig===
[[File:Bitfig-Skywarp.jpg|thumb|]]
*'''Skywarp''' (06-2017)

:Part of the second wave of Transformers Bitfig capsule toys, Skywarp's is a redco of the previously released Starscream toy whose design is inspired by his appearance in the G1 cartoon. Skywarp is articulated at the neck and shoulders. Bitfig toys were packaged in capsules color coded to the toy they contained.

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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp, Sneaky Prankster''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''UT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T35/T40'''
**''Stars: ''6
:Skywarp Sneaky Prankster is one of forty double-sided character cards available in Wave 1 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]].

:The artwork on the card is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile card game.

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[[File:W2Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp, Teleporting Seeker''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T40/T46'''
**''Stars: ''10
:Skywarp, Teleporting Seeker is one of forty-six character cards released in Wave 2 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], Rise of the Combiners.

:The artwork for Bot Mode is reused from the ''[[Combiner Wars (franchise)|Combiner Wars]]'' Leader-class Skywarp toy's packaging art, while the Alt Mode artwork is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game

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[[File:W3SergeantSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Sergeant Skywarp, Black Ops-Seeker''' (2019)
**'''Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T45/T48'''
**''Stars: ''8
:Sergeant Skywarp, Black Ops-Seeker is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege I.

:The card uses reused line-art from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game, with new colors to match the aesthetic of the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' toyline's packaging art.
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===Flame Toys===
[[File:FlameToysSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Cue the inevitable <s>Bandai Hobby Online Shop</s> <s>Selects</s> Event exclusive "Invisible Mode" transluent redeco.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (December 2019)
**''Number:'' '''09'''
**''Additional parts/accessories'': 1 pair of Trigger-finger hands, 1 pair of open-palm hands

:Released as part of the ''Furai Model'' line by [[Flame Toys]], This Skywarp is an articulated, non-transforming, Voyager Class-sized {{w|Gunpla}}-style model kit, redecoed from the [[Starscream_(G1)/merchandise#Flame_Toys|Starscream]] mold. Skywarp is molded in primarily black, purple, and silver-ish gray ABS plastic. His translucent yellow plastic still remains. Like Starscream, his Null-rays can be detached for use as handheld blasters.

:For straight-assembly builders, Skywarp features a sheet of foil stickers for detail (notably the wings), though the kit can be panel-lined and touched-up with several panel-lining and paint markers (water/acrylic-based markers are recommended, as alcohol-based markers like ''Gundam Markers'' can potentially damage the ABS plastic). If one desires; the kit's pieces, aside from the translucent parts, can be fully coated with spray paints to recreate the finished sample seen in the stock photos.
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===''Zōteki''===
[[File:ZOTEKI-030-Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[2021]])
**''ID number'': '''030'''

:A collaboration between [[Hasbro]] and statue/replica brand [[Jazware]], ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|The Transformers]]'' was added as a part of the ''[[Zōteki]]'' line alongside other iconic brands such as [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]], to recreate some of the main "Generation 1" characters. The 30th figure of the ''Zōteki'' line is Skywarp, whose base figure is just a simple repaint of the previously released [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Zōteki|Starscream]].

:Skywarp was released as a "chase variant" and was only exclusive to [[Target]].

:Each statue of the line features a connection point for it to be connected to the others, in order to form a battle scene.
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===Eaglemoss===
* '''Transformers Gen-1 Chess Set''' (<s>2021</s>)
:In the planned [[Chess#Eaglemoss|Transformers Chess Set]] by [[Eaglemoss]], a relatively large and very well detailed statue of Skywarp was slated to be one of the Bishop pieces on the Decepticon side.

:A Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary funds for this project was launched, but failed to meet its goal by September 24, 2021 and the whole thing was canceled.
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===Jada Toys===
[[File:JadaNanoMetalfigsG1-18pack.jpg|upright=1.44|thumb]]
*'''Transformers Series 1 18-pack''' (4cm Die Cast Figure Multipack, 2022)
:Released by [[Jada Toys]], ''Nano Metalfigs'' Series 1 Skywarp is an incredibly small die-cast figurine molded doing an action pose. He has a little base attached to his feet for balancing reasons.

:He comes in an impressive multipack with [[Jada Toys#Nano Metalfigs|seventeen other figurines]]. This mold was later used to make Series 2 [[Red Wing#Jada Toys|Redwing]] and Series 3 [[Bitstream (G1)#Jada Toys|Bitstream]].
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===Imaginarium Art===
*'''Skywarp''' (2022)

:[[Imaginarium Art]]'s "Legacy of Cybertron" Skywarp is a 20-inch-tall statue, posed on a Decepticon insignia base that can be linked up with other statues in this series to form a larger battle scene. Only 200 pieces were produced.
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===''Transformers Character Card''===
[[File:Transformers Character Card Skywarp and Thundercracker.jpg|upright=1|thumb]]
*'''Thundercracker & Skywarp Set''' ([[August 14]], [[2023]])
**''ID number:'' '''57 & 58'''

:Released as part of the eighth wave of the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''[[Transformers Character Card]]'' series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and Skywarp along with [[bio|character profiles]] and [[Tech Spec|tech specs]].
::*''[[Source:Transformers Character Card#58|Translation of Skywarp's Transformers Character Card]]''

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===Threezero===
*'''Skywarp''' (MDLX, 2024?)
**''Known designers:'' Kelvin Sau
**''Accessories:'' wing assembly, two null-ray cannons, more TBA
:A redeco of [[Threezero]]'s MDLX Starscream, Skywarp is an original design taking inspiration from the original cartoon but with the aesthetics in the vein of the live-action movies. Skywarp is a smaller scaled, non-transforming action figure in the vein of contemporary collector-oriented lines like Figma and S.H. Figuarts. Like those lines, the figure is extremely well-articulated and detailed, features interchangeable hands and faces plus accessories. He features his ever-present null-ray cannons and two dagger-like blades.

:He and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Threezero|Thundercracker]] were revealed in a [https://www.instagram.com/p/CuIrGnDSVoP/ teaser posted to Threezero's Instagram account] showcasing Starscream.

:Skywarp retains Starscream's functionality with MDLX Optimus Prime mold, specifically the detachable wings and swappable heads.

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===Kotobukiya Bishoujo Series===
[[File:Bishoujo Skywarp.jpg|thumb|"What up, Seeker Nation? In today's video, we're looking at the effects of gravity on this chump and this staircase!"]]
*'''Bishoujo Series Transformers Skywarp''' (July 2024)
**''Known designers:'' [[Shunya Yamashita]] (artist)

:''[[Kotobukiya]] [[Bishoujo Series]]'' Skywarp is a repaint and slight retool of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Kotobukiya Bishoujo Series|Starscream]] from the same line of PVC figures. In addition to being recolored in Skywarp's usual black and purple, the statue has received some minor resculpts, tweaking the face slightly and filling in her navel so she appears to be wearing a black skintight suit beneath her clothing.

:Like Starscream, Skywarp is attached to a purple display base designed after the Decepticon insignia, but she does not include any alternate headpieces like her fellow seeker.
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==Notes==
[[File:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|upright=0.9|thumb]]
*During the development of the [[Conehead]]s, [[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]] was initially planned as new wing tooling attached to an unchanged Skywarp body. This plan lasted long enough to receive [[package art]], which was published decades later in ''[[Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging]]''.
*In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.
*In modern times, Skywarp is often the last of the three primary Decepticon Seekers to see the use of a toyline's respective Seeker mold. Consequently, his figures may become prominent [[shelfwarmer]]s at the tail end of a line's run, as notoriously seen worldwide with [[#CWLeader|''Combiner Wars'' Leader Class Skywarp]].

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Skywarp (G1)/toys

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Mzawutang: /* Masterpiece */

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[[File:G1Skywarp package art.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]

'''[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]''' has always looked and will always look a lot like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. There are many [[Starscream (G1)/toys|toys of Starscream]] and where there is a Starscream toy, a Skywarp toy soon follows.

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:G1toy skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|"He's a Starscream redeco, [[Thew Adams|Thew]], there's a hundred million just like him!" "Not to me there's not."]]
[[File:G1catalog84-DecepticonPlanes-Redeco.jpg|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Plane, 1984/1985)}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''23'''
:*''Accessories'': Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Released in the first year of ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'', Skywarp transforms into an {{w|F-15 Eagle}} fighter jet, by a process which essentially involves removing and reattaching most of his plane parts. Though it is possible to do so without removing all of them, this rather piecemeal design and the fact that neither mode uses all his parts means it can be quite difficult to find an intact original Skywarp on the secondary market. He began life as a ''[[Diaclone]]'' "Jet Robo", but unlike team-mates [[Starscream (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Thundercracker]], with whom he shares his mold, his distinctive black-and-purple deco did ''not'' originate in that line.

: Skywarp is armed with a pair of missile launchers that mount on his arms in robot mode, and under his wings in jet mode, with a pair of specialized projectiles for each. In jet mode, two short rockets are fitted into the launchers to make them resemble the drop tanks a real F-15 carries, while in robot mode, they are replaced with the long barrels of Skywarp's machine guns. The original ''Diaclone'' version of the mold featured spring-loaded firing mechanisms in these launchers; while this feature was removed for the [[Hasbro]] release of the toy, it was left intact for the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] version, and all subsequent reissues.

: While the earliest releases of Skywarp were basically identical to the ''Diaclone'' mold, some small modifications were soon made to the figure which became the standard for all subsequent reissues of the mold. These included the hollowing out of the inner edges of his wings and the tips of his tail-wings, the lengthening of the pegs on his wings to make them fit more securely, and the addition of extra clips on the inner sides of his fist-gauntlets, allowing them to grip his arms better. Like all his 1984 brethren, Skywarp gained a factory-applied [[rubsign]] in 1985, which was added to the left side of his fuselage.

: Presumably by mistake, the stats on Skywarp, Starscream and Thundercracker's [[Tech Spec]]s were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, giving him a high intelligence and rank that stood in contrast to the bio printed next to them.

: Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp (right) show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue (see below).

: The Italian release of Skywarp (as "Corvo") by [[GiG]] put him in a generic "Distructor Planes" box, featuring names and tech specs for all three planes in the assortment.

: This mold was [[redeco]]ed into [[Sunstorm (G1)#Toys|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Thrust]].

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-decepticon-jets-skywarp/339/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Skywarp at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Generation 1 Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Machine Wars''===
[[File:MW-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)
**''Accessories:'' 2-part rifle
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white {{w|Rafale|Dassault Rafale}} fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to [[KB Toys]] stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.

: This toy is [[gang-molding|gang-molded]] with the other three Basic molds in the line. Specifically, his head and inner robot parts share plastic with [[Hubcap (MW)#Toys|Hubcap]], and his jet parts share plastic with [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Mirage]], plus he shares the pearlescent-gray canopy plastic with, well, everyone.

: Curiously, Skywarp is the only Basic Decepticon to have a Decepticon symbol on him... and it's the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' Decepticon symbol at that. Which is approporate given this mold was originally developed for ''Generation 2''.

: The toy was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as the [[Skywarp drone]]s.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Collector's Edition''===
{{anchor|collectorsedition}}[[File:G1toy reissue skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (reissue, 2001)
**''ID number:'' '''Set C'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:The original Skywarp toy was reissued for the first time in 2001 as part of Takara's small "[[The Transformers: Collector's Edition|Collector's Edition]]" series, which made several Generation 1 toys available as convention [[exclusive]]s. Sold in new open-faced packaging with no notable changes from the original figure, Skywarp was an exclusive at the Japanese science fiction convention "Super Festival 21", available only in a set with Thundercracker and limited to 1000 pieces. The pair are often mistakenly identified as [[e-HOBBY]] exclusives.

::*''[http://shmax.com/part_details/3487 More information on Collector's Edition Skywarp at Shmax.com]''
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===''Commemorative Series''===
[[File:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that's okay. Jet? Not so much.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (reissue, 2003)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:The original Skywarp toy was made available again as part of Hasbro's line of [[The Transformers: Generation One Commemorative Series|Commemorative Series]] reissues. Released in the fourth wave of the series, it featured functional missile launchers for the first time on a Hasbro version of the toy, but because the launchers now worked, both sets of missiles had to be lengthened [[for safety reasons]]. His machine guns didn't turn out ''too'' bad; the missiles didn't fare so well. Rather than correct the erroneous Tech Spec numbers from Skywarp's original release, this reissue retained them and instead features a slightly re-written bio to remove the contradictions.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/CSSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Commemorative Series Skywarp TFU.info]''
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===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missiles

:''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange "energon" bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, albeit of the ''[[Transformers: Dinobots|Dinobots]]'' design, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.

:Although most previous versions of the mold have the wingtips swept forward in vehicle mode, Skywarp was packaged and depicted in his instructions with the wingtips swept back. His fictional appearances, however, use the conventional arrangement shown here.

:Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Aero Drone|Sonic Attack Jet]], ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (RID)|Jhiaxus]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Smallest Transforming Transformers''===
[[File:Smallest transforming skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2003)
**''ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, left & right wings, left & right tailfins, landing gear

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' product, Skywarp is, of course, a redeco of this line's Starscream. Like all toys in the series, he is a tiny, simplified version of the original Generation 1 toy, transforming into an F-15 fighter jet, with most of the accessories from the original toy faithfully translated save for his machine guns. As with all previous waves of ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'', these figures were sold [[blindpacking|blindpacked]], with Skywarp as one of the wave's two rare [[chase figure]]s

: This mold was redecoed into ''Smallest Transforming'' Thundercracker, and retooled to make Thrust.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Smallest Transforming Transformers Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Robotmasters''===
[[File:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[August 11]], 2005
:*''Accessories'': 2 rifles, 2 missile pods

: ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|Starscream]] from the same series, a re-imagining of the original Generation 1 figure, retaining its basic [[Transformation|transformation scheme]], but designed to be closer to the animation model, with greater articulation and integrated parts that do not require detachment during transformation. The only pieces that now need to be removed are Skywarp's rifles, which move from his wings to his arms. He has three peg-holes on each arm, allowing the rifles to be mounted on his shoulders, on his forearms, or in his fists. These holes are also designed to accommodate the generic spring-loaded missile launcher weapon included with ''Robotmasters'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|G1 Convoy]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#Robotmasters|Beast Convoy]] and [[Megatron (BW)/toys#Robotmasters|Beast Megatron]].

: Skywarp also came with two "missile pods" based on weapons Starscream used but once, in the Generation 1 cartoon episode "[[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain]]". These chromed accessories plug into the square holes in his chest, and feature opening covers that reveal (non-firing) missiles within.

: He was available only in a two-pack with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|Thundercracker]], which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robotmasters'' line, and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-HOBBY]] Generation 1 reissue box, with a small ''Robotmasters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Robotmasters Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Classics''===
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[[File:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|"TARGET acquired, lol".]]
*'''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right missile launchers, 2 missiles

: ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a redeco and slight retool of ''Classics'' Deluxe Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Classics|Starscream]], transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. Unlike previous (and future) figures, the shade of purple used for this figure has a more reddish tint to it. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]].

: Skywarp was slightly [[retool]]ed from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a fifth rectangle was added to the vertical area. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold, and was also used as a [[Variant#Running change|running change]] on Starscream.

: Skywarp was only available as part of a two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Classics|Ultra Magnus]] [[exclusive]] to [[Target]] in the United States. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager Class and Deluxe Class mold in it, which would be approximately $30 worth of toys if they had been sold separately. The pack was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.

: [[Stock photography]] of ''Classics'' Skywarp showed [[:File:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|a more detailed color scheme]] than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]], and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version mentioned above.
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::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Classics Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Masterpiece''===
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[[File:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[September 1]], [[2007]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-6'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "Machine Guns", 2 AIM missile racks, [[Doctor Arkeville#MP6|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand

: ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|MP-3 Starscream]] mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] [[Slug figure|pilot figurine]] (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet mode Skywarp to hold the gun mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Masterpiece MP-1 Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].

[[File:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb|He ''admits'' to being Cyclonus? Haha, what a prankster!]]
: The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.

:The second pressing of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior ''Masterpiece'' Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp is assembled correctly. ''Masterpiece'' Thundercracker is misassembled as well.

:It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's ''Masterpiece'' Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.

:This mold was later used for the ''Masterpiece'' version of [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Thundercracker]]. It was also redecoed and retooled to create the eleventh ''Masterpiece'' figure, [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP11|Starscream]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Masterpiece Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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[[File:MP-11SW Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Just to fool you into thinking that there isn't a third Masterpiece Seeker mold being developed.]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[January 5]], [[2015]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-11SW'''
**''Accessories:'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP11SW|Megatron Gun]], [[Doctor Arkeville#MP11SW|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot

:A redeco of the newer ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP11|MP-11 Starscream]] mold, Skywarp features some extensive retooling to wind the ''Masterpiece'' Seeker design back into the more Generation 1-accurate look, with most of the robot mode being newly tooled parts, including chunkier legs that now incorporate his tail-fins, [[retool]]ed shoulders and wingtips that no longer curve into one another, a new head (with collapsible head fins), new heel spurs that flip out for added support in robot mode, and re-engineered Machine Guns attached to extending armatures that mean they no longer have to be [[Partformer|removed]] for transformation.

:The figure features flip-up missile racks built into his pectorals. He comes with the original version of the [[Megatron (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Megatron gun]] that first came with ''Masterpiece'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|MP-1 Convoy]]. He also comes with a [[Doctor Arkeville#MP11SW|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figure identical to the previous MP-6 release.

:Skywarp's deco is heavily based on his cartoon appearance and features the rarely reproduced in toy form entirely purple shoulders and arm cannons. Despite the focus on cartoon accuracy in his deco, he carries over the striping on his forearms, shoulders, and pectorals similar to his original MP-6 Masterpiece release.

:As a redeco of the MP-11 release, Skywarp is ''likely'' to be plagued with the same quality control issues.

:Skywarp was only released in China via Hasbro Asia under the TakaraTomy label; marking the second time an original TakaraTomy Masterpiece toy wasn't released for the Japanese market ([[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP5G|''Masterpiece'' Megatron Gold Version]] was the first).

:On [[November 30]], [[2016]] MP-11SW Skywarp was released in Japan for the first time as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive. There are notable differences between this release and the original almost two years prior. The shade of purple used on the later release is more warm and less cool in tone. His biceps and knee flaps are now molded in black plastic rather than in purple plastic painted a glossy black. The inner portion of his upper chest is no longer painted silver mold molded in silver plastic. Many of the paint operations are also slightly different in color from the earlier Hasbro Asia release. Hasbro Asia also re-released the figure to coincide with the Japanese release.

:When purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, Skywarp comes with a collector coin, mounted on a card resembling his wings, complete with his signature wing stripes. The coin was reissued in 2016, without change, alongside the figure.
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[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MP-52-Skywarp.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp Ver. 2.0''' ([[December 25]], [[2021]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-52+SW'''
**''Accessories'': 3 alternate faces, 5 effect parts, 2 null rays, 2-part display base, [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP52Plus|Megatron]] gun
:A redeco of ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP52|Starscream Ver. 2.0]], the second version of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp was first announced by TakaraTomy as part of a competition—those who purchase all three Ver.2.0 Seekers will receive an add-on kit for [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP52|Starscream]]; giving him his iconic crown and cape from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. The toy's stock photography was unveiled a few months after the competition was announced.

:Skywarp comes with many accessories, including 3 alternate faces, 5 effect parts, a stand for his jet mode, a pair of null rays, and a non-transforming figure of [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP52Plus|Megatron]] in his gun mode. His jet mode can half-transform into a Gerwalk-styled "Alternate Transformation" which is based on the episode ''[[Dinobot Island Part 2]]'', as seen in the figure's stock photography. Skywarp is colored in a cartoon-accurate lilac color, as opposed to the neon purple found on most of his toy releases.

:Like Thundercracker, Skywarp was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive to Japan.

:This mold was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#MP52|Thundercracker]].
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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|upright=1.67|thumb]]
*'''War Within Skywarp''' ([[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008 exclusive)

: [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Thundercracker]], transforming into a Cybertronian "tetrajet" as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at {{w|San Diego Comic-Con}} 2008.

: This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Starscream]], [[Sunstorm (G1)#Titanium Series|Sunstorm]], and [[Thrust (G1)#Titanium Series|Thrust]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Titanium Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Henkei! Henkei!''===
[[File:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Good luck finding me.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (September 2008)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles

: ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Henkei! Henkei!|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Henkei! Henkei!|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]] through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.

:Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and foreign collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.

:Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes was further modified from the [[Transformers: Classics|Classics]] version, this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei! Henkei!'' Thundercracker and ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' Starscream also saw most of these changes.
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===''Universe'' (2008)===
[[File:Universe2008-toy MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67]]
*'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)
**''Accessories:'' 2 "Machine Guns", 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand

: A [[Walmart]] exclusive redeco of the original ''Masterpiece'' Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version. The nosecone features black paint over purple plastic, allowing for easy customization of "Mexican Masterpiece Skywarp".
: The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet mode Skywarp to hold the gun mode Megatron that came with ''Masterpiece'' Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode.
: Masterpiece Skywarp was also available as an Argos exclusive in the [[United Kingdom]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Masterpiece Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Encore''===
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[[File:G1toy encore skywarp thundercracker.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (reissue multi-pack, 2008)
**''ID number'' '''11'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:Skywarp's original toy was reissued again as part of TakaraTomy's ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' series, this time in a two-pack with his erstwhile partner, Thundercracker. This release of the figure replaced his Decepticon symbol stickers with [[tampograph]]s, and changed his purple stickers to a much bluer shade. Curiously, although Thundercracker's wing stripes were replaced with tampographs, Skywarp's remained factory-applied stickers.
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===''Alternity''===
[[File:Alternity skywarp toy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]
*'''Skywarp [Witch Purple Pearl]''' ([[May 29]], [[2010]])
**''ID number:'' '''A-04'''

:Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Alternity|Starscream]] with a different head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale {{w|Mitsuoka Orochi}}. Like the other toys in the line, he features [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. This is also currently the only ''Alternity'' mold to feature [[Kibble#"Faux-parts"|a fake kibble chest]].

:In car mode, small wings are ''supposed to'' be able to flip out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. Unfortunately, this [[gimmick]] suffers from a rather nasty [[design flaw]]: there is simply not enough clearance under the car for the wheels to be able to pass and hinge through, and attempting to do so will result in the plastic reinforcement struts underneath ''deforming the rims and chipping the tires''. His door panels also tend to detach from their [[ball joint]]s ''very easily''.

:This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Alternity|Thundercracker]] and [[Banzai-Tron (G1)#Alternity|Banzai Tron]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Alternity Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Chronicle''===
[[File:EZCollectionSkywarpToy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Teleports right out of your pocket.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (EZ Collection, 2011)

:''[[Transformers Chronicle (toyline)|Chronicle]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Reveal the Shield]]'' [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Transformers .282010.29|Starscream]]. He transforms into an F-15 with many fuselage details borrowed from the ''Masterpiece'' version. This is also the first Seeker mold in many years to attempt an entirely new transformation, with the arms now forming the rear of the jet and the legs folding under the wings. Skywarp was available only in Japan, and like many Japanese "EZ Collection" toys, was [[blindpacking|blindpacked]].

:This toy was also '''EXCEEDINGLY''' rare to find. Think other toys have a high aftermarket price? This one has '''NO''' aftermarket price.

:This mold was also used to make ''Chronicle'' Thundercracker.
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreOtoy_KreonSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
* '''Optimus Prime''' (2011)
**''Set number'': '''30689'''
** ''Pieces'': '''542'''
** ''Kreons'': [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Bluestreak]], Skywarp, 2 [[Stunt Driver]]s
** ''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

: The [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Optimus Prime]] construction set comes with a Skywarp Kreon. He has a helmet, wing back that attaches around his neck, and two blasters that clip onto his arms. These same Kreon accessories were also used for [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Thundercracker]].

: A variation of Skywarp exists where initial versions of the figure feature chrome purple toes. Later versions omitted this detail. The [[stock photography]], by the way, shows him with purple-plastic legs rather than black.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/Kre-OSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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* '''Kreon Ultimate Collection 2''' (2013)
** ''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

:Skywarp was later made available as the "Mystery Figure" figure packed with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Bumblebee]], [[Red Alert (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Red Alert]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Mirage]], and [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Jazz]]. The identity of Skywarp is kept secret in the packaging, but his inclusion is consistent.

:This version of Skywarp does not feature the purple chromed toes of the original release.

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[[File:KreO-Toy SkywarpC84.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Kreon Class of 1984''' (Kreon figure set, 2014)
**''Set number'': '''B0090'''
**''Voted'': Most Punctual
**''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

: This version of Skywarp has much more extensive, toy-based [[tampograph]]s than his prior version. Oddly, his limbs, wings and blasters are different shades of purple plastic, rather than a more accurate-to-anything black plastic with purple detailing.

:He was only available in a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2014 [[exclusive]] pack of 30 Kreons dubbed the "[[Kreon Class of 1984]]". Remaining stock was to be sold at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online, only there ''was'' no remaining stock after the show.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/SDCCKre-OSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Class of 1984 Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Bot Shots''===
[[File:Bot Shots Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Confused by Rock-Paper-Scissors.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''B016'''
***''Fist strength'': '''620'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''160'''
***''Sword strength'': '''830'''

: Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots]]'' Series 1 single-packs, Skywarp is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Starscream]] mold, being cast in black and purple in [[homage]] to Generation 1 Skywarp, and featuring a new chest and scowling head. He transforms into a tiny [[super deformed]] jet fighter resembling [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#F-22 Raptor|F-22 Raptor]], and [[Autotransformation|autotransforms]] into robot mode when his nosecone is pressed. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BSSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Bot Shots Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BStoy-SuperBotSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|And he's still scowling.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2013)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': ''' Super Bot 003'''
***''Fist strength'': '''510'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''180'''
***''Sword strength'': '''925'''

: Part of the third wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 2 single-packs, Super Bot Skywarp transforms into a futuristic forward-swept wing fighter jet with two blasters at the front. As a Flip Shot, an impact to the front of his vehicle mode causes him to flip up when autotransforming. As a Super Bot, he has more lopsided stats, and is cast in translucent purplish-black plastic.

:He was going to be redecoed into the unreleased [[Starscream (G1)/toys#FlipShotLauncher|Flip Shot Starscream Launcher]]. Yup, Skywarp <s>came first</s> owns this mold.
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===''United''===
[[File:United Skywarp toy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Close but no cigar.]]
*'''Seekers: Aces''' ([[December 21]], [[2012]])
**''Accessories:'' Left & right launchers, 2 missiles
:''[[Transformers United|United]]'' Skywarp is a third redeco of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, and the first time he is offered with both of his wing mates [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys|Thundercracker]].
: This version of Skywarp is heavily based on his cartoon appearance. He features a glossy black, a medium warm purple, shiny metallic purple paint on most of his purple plastic, and an amber cockpit. Paint operations found on the Henkei! Henkei! release were shuffled around for the sake of cartoon accuracy, up to and including purple shoulders.
: Original photos of Skywarp showed him with show-accurate all purple arm cannons, but due to gang molding (and lack of additional paint operations) only the upper most portion of his arm cannons ended up purple.
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===''Generations''===
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[[File:Generationstoy-Thrilling30Skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Will use his guns to give you cold dead hands.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe Class, 2014)
**''Series / Number'': '''02 / #012'''
**''Accessories'': Two assault cannons, tail-fin

:Part of the eighth wave of [[2012]]-onwards ''Generations'' Deluxe Class toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''Generations: [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' [[Starscream (WFC)#Generations|Starscream]], and transforms into a Cybertronian jet fighter. He comes with two spinning, triple-barreled cannons which can combine to form a larger hand-held weapon that is geared to spin its two triple-barrels together, and resembles the [[Neutron assault rifle]] from ''Fall of Cybertron''. Each of the weapon halves features two [[5 mm post]]s, as well as a peg-hole on their hollow sides, while the combined form features another peg-hole at the top, but makes the peg-holes on the hollow sides inaccessible. Skywarp features numerous 5 mm peg-holes, such as his hands, forearms, lower legs, and wing undersides.

:Skywarp's tail-fin is attached via a 5mm post on its underside, and can be detached to reveal three additional peg-holes, with two of these peg-holes being just the right distance to accommodate the combined assault cannons/rifle, with the tail-fin pegging on the rifle's top peg-hole. This allows the weapon to mount on top of the vehicle mode, and store on his back in robot mode.

:Skywarp is minimally mis-transformed in-package: his jet mode nosecone is extended, rather than folded in as it should be in robot mode. He comes packaged with a copy of [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s [[Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|''Robots in Disguise'' #23]].

:Despite using a mold matching [[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]]'s appearance in ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'', this toy ''technically'' represents G1 Skywarp, thanks to his [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] pack-in fiction. Consequently, the toy is listed in the former's page as a [[repurposing]]. This mold was also used for TakaraTomy's ''Fall of Cybertron'' Skywarp, itself repurposed as ''Cloud'' [[Hellwarp|Skywarp]], and as ''Generations Thrilling 30'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Thundercracker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/GenSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on ''Generations'' Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Hero Mashers''===
[[File:HM-toy Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The most easily-lost Skywarp hand since 1984.]]
*'''Megatron''' (Battle Upgrade, 2014)
**''Pieces'': '''18'''
**''Accessories'': Backpack, spring-loaded cannon, missile, blaster, energy flail, 2 blaster-pods, "Skywarp" right forearm

: Part of the first wave of "Battle Upgrade" ''[[Hero Mashers]]'' toys, Skywarp is represented as a spare forearm that is included with Megatron, but does not appear in the line as a complete figure. The arm is a redeco of ''Hero Mashers'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Hero Mashers|Starscream]]'s.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/HMMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Megatron at TFU.info]''
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===''Combiner Wars''===
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[[File:CombinerWarsLegendsSkywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Legends Class, 2015)
**''Accessories:'' 2 cannons
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:A redeco of ''Thrilling 30'' Legends Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#GenLegends|Starscream]], ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' Skywarp is roughly the same size as a ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' Commander Class toy. Based on a [[Guido Guidi]] [[Seeker (body-type)|seeker]] concept for the [[The Transformers (IDW)|first IDW ongoing series]], he transforms from a hybrid F-15/F-22 style jet. He features a fold out front landing gear, [[5 mm post|5 mm-compatible]] hands, and back/wings, and has [[C joint|3 mm-compatible]] upper arm ports. He comes with two removable cannons that have [[5 mm post#Multiple posts and double posting|both 5 mm and 3 mm pegs]]. As with Thundercracker his current stock photo is mistransformed: his wing assembly has not been folded up to the body.

: This figure was also used to make ''Thrilling 30'' [[Acid Storm (G1)#Generations|Acid Storm]] and ''Combiner Wars'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#CWLegends|Thundercracker]].

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[[File:CWLeaderSkywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2.2|And Warper Makes Three.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Leader Class, 2016)
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, 2 arm cannons, 2 leg cannons, 2 "Seeker guns"

:Skywarp is a redeco of ''Generations Combiner Wars'' Leader [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Thundercracker]]. He transforms from a robot into a jet fighter, and includes a missile launcher and four limb-mounted weapons, plus two guns based on the traditional Seeker arm rifles. He also features a faux cockpit. Skywarp does not include the original Jetfire mold's "Turbo Thruster" booster pack accessory, nor does he include Starscream's crown, but is still compatible with both.

:Though Skywarp was scheduled for a first quarter 2016 release, he arrived on U.S. store shelves in late 2015.

: Skywarp unfortunately became a massive shelfwarmer, prominently seen at U.S. Target stores in bulk among the ''Titans Return'' toyline.

: The original version of this mold was used to make ''Generations'' [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Generations|Jetfire]], and was redecoed into ''Combiner Wars'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Starscream]].
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===''Transformers'' (2014)===
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[[File:Transformers-2014-legion-skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Legion Class, 2015)

:Legion Class Skywarp is yet another redeco of ''Reveal the Shield'' [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] Starscream, which features the retooled wings and hands originally created for [[Transformers: Generations#Asian market exclusives ("GDO")|''Generations'' GDO]] Legends Class [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Legends|Thundercracker]]. Aside from that, the figure's deco is mostly identical to [[#Chronicle|the ''Chronicle EZ Collection'' figure]] listed above, although the purple [[paint operation]]s sport a more blue hue, the purple paint operations on his shins are omitted entirely, and the [[tampograph]]ed Decepticon insignias on the wings are purple with silver outlines rather than completely silver.<ref name="2014legion">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-feedback/1040836-classic-legion-skywarp.html Review of 2014 Legion Class Skywarp] at TFW2005, including a comparison with ''EZ Collection'' Skywarp.</ref>

:Skywarp comes in packaging that is based on the packaging design for the concurrently released ''Combiner Wars''-era ''Generations'' figures, but replaces the name ''Generations'' with "Authentic Transformers". Since Skywarp and his [[wave]]-mates ship with three figures previously released under what we consider a generic [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014) toy line]], all of them now in the new packaging style, we consider Skywarp to be part of that line as well. The wave that contains Skywarp has thus far been found at Fred's, Gordmans, Dollar General and Family Dollar stores in the United States, but was available at general retail in Hong Kong and from Australian Target stores.
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===''Q-Transformers''===
[[File:QTransformers Skywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Fatwarp]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[September 19]], 2015)
**''ID number:'' '''QT-30'''

:A redeco and minor retool of ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Starscream]], Skywarp transforms from a [[super deformed]] F-15 to a cute chubby little robot. His facial expression has been changed from Starscream's smirk into a crazy grin.

:This mold was also retooled into ''Q-Transformers'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Thundercracker]] and [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Jetfire]].

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*'''Decepticons 3-Figure Set''' (2016)
**''ID number:'' '''QTFS-03'''

:During the second ''Q-Transformers'' series, the Skywarp toy was available in a three-pack alongside [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Thundercracker]]. He is identical to the original ''Q-Transformers'' toy.
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===''Alt-Modes''===
[[File:Alt-Modes Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Alt-Modes, 2016)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Collection'': '''1, 2'''

:A redeco of ''[[Alt-Modes]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Starscream]], Skywarp is a super deformed toy whose body transforms into a jet when the Decepticon faction symbol on his head is flipped. He was [[Blindpacking|blind-boxed]] and available in the first two cases of the toyline.

:This mold was also used to make ''Alt-Modes'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Thundercracker]], [[Acid Storm (G1)#Alt-Modes|Acid Storm]] and [[Sunstorm (G1)#Alt-Modes|Sunstorm]], and would have been retooled into [[Dirge (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Dirge]].
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:SiegeWFCSkywarp.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|The fourth ''Siege'' Seeker to be revealed!? He's losing ground!]]
*'''Decepticon Phantomstrike Squadron''' (Multi-pack, [[2019]])
**''Hasbro ID number:'' '''WFC-S27'''
**''TakaraTomy ID Number:'' '''SG-EX'''
**''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[January 20]], [[2021]]
**''Hidden message code'': '''TELEPORT'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "HPI [[Null-ray|Null-Ray]] Laser Launchers", [[Battle Master]]s [[Fracas]], [[Hairsplitter|Shrute]], and [[Terror-Daxtyl]], 5 fire blasts

:This ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' four-pack version of Skywarp is a retool of Voyager Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Starscream]] from the same line with a new slightly sneering face, transforming from a heavily Generation 1-inspired robot to a Cybertronian "tetrajet" based on the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]' appearance in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" and back; although the jet mode has the robot legs sticking out from the undercarriage. In an unusual move, Skywarp's plastic is molded in a light charcoal gray rather than his traditional black. He includes two "HPI Null-Ray Laser Launchers," which can mount on his upper arms, or under the wings in jet mode, and three Battle Master figures, Fracas, Shrute, and Terror-Daxtyl, respectively redecoed from [[Firebolt (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Firedrive]], [[Aimless#War for Cybertron: Siege|Aimless]], and [[Pteraxadon#Toys|Pteraxadon]], each with their respective Fire Blasts.

:This set was made available at general retail in Taiwan without prior announcement from Hasbro, and was an [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] exclusive for North America, which also labelled the set as "Final Strike Figure Series: Part 2", and a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive in Japan. In an uncharacteristic irony, Skywarp's face features a sneer, but with the help of [[customizing]], you can swap his head for Thundercracker or Red Wing's to patch things up a bit.
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===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
[[File:SiegeERSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Teleporting directly to [[eBay]].]]
*'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, [[2020]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-E29'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''ER EX-16'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': [[January 20]], [[2021]]
**''Accessories:'' 2 "[[Null-ray|Null-Ray]] blasters"

:''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'' Skywarp is a [[redeco]] and very slight [[retool]]ing of Voyager Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Starscream]] from the same line, transforming into an F-15 jet based on his traditional alternate mode, and features a pair of G1-accurate null-rays in cartoon-accurate purple. His design and transformation scheme is heavily based on his [[#Classics|2006 ''Classics'' figure]] while adding points of articulation the earlier figure did not have such as pivoting ankles, a more expressive ball-jointed head, and hinges that allow the wings to fold backward in robot mode. He uses Starscream's pre-tooled alternate head. His head and chest are susceptible to paint chipping due to the transformation scheme. While the null-rays can be wielded by his pair of hands, it's almost impossible for him to properly hold them due to the size of his forearms.

: Skywarp was packaged with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Thundercracker]] as part of a ''Cybertronian Villains'' set exclusive to [[Target]] in the United States, and [[Toys"R"Us]] in Canada. It was also available at general retail in Hong Kong. In Japan, the set was released as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive.

:Initial samples provided by TakaraTomy depict Skywarp's head being replaced with the same piece used for Thundercracker,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=＼追加情報！／先日予約が始まりました ■ ER EX-16 スカイワープ＆サンダークラッカーの写真をいくつか撮ってみました！ ER EX-15 ダブルクロッサーとセットでのご購入でポイント20倍でお得です！ご予約はこちら！⇒https://t.co/TmuulWWdPt #トランスフォーマー #Transformers https://t.co/AkhzDnu9fa|link=https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1294811727452762113|name=TF_pr|site=Twitter|year=2020|month=08|day=16|(defunct=)}}</ref> though this was likely to be a production error as a later sample shows that he retains the original head.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=＼追加情報！／先日予約が始まりました ■ ER EX-16 スカイワープ＆サンダークラッカーの最新サンプルが届きました！ 2人の顔は写真のようになります！ご予約はこちら！⇒https://t.co/TmuulWWdPt #トランスフォーマー #Transformers https://t.co/DYIRY5LmPR|link=https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1295521667104440320|name=TF_pr|site=Twitter|year=2020|month=08|day=18|(defunct=)}}</ref>

:Like many of the toys since the ''War for Cybertron trilogy'' line, Skywarp suffers from a case of [[photodegradation]], as his unpaintable purple pieces discolors to a maroon shade.

:Like all ''Earthrise'' toys, the inside of the back of the Seeker two-pack package includes an exclusive clip-and-save piece of a larger star map. Also in the box is a thin red piece of transparent plastic with which to read the star map. The two-pack contains the unlabelled location of [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]].

:Like all other uses of the mold, Skywarp has a missing molded panel-line detail on the right wing hinge that is supposed to curve in towards the body of the jet. The reason for this missing detail is likely due to it missing from the metal mold itself.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-Core-Class-Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Hit the beat! Keep your beat!]]
[[File:TF-Legacy-Core-first-wave-Sword.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp''' (Core Class, March [[2022]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessory'': "Energon Warp Fork"
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro)|[[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept artist)}}

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy]]'' Core Class toys, Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Starscream]]. Frankly, we're surprised he didn't come ''sooner''.

: A roughly Legends-sized toy that can interact with Titan Class figures, ''Legacy'' Skywarp's sculpting is heavily inspired by his larger ''Earthrise'' counterpart, though featuring a black pelvis instead of a silver one. Instead of coming with a redeco of Starscream's Null Ray accessories, Skywarp comes with a... some kind of a tuning fork-like weapon called the "Energon Warp Fork", which can be plugged into the underside of his nose cone while in vehicle mode.

: Skywarp retains the hexagonal peg holes molded into Starscream's shoulders, so the figure can still support Starscream's Null Ray ''arm''aments. However, the Null Rays are prone to popping off when inserted into the peg holes due to their hexagonal shape. The stock render seen in the character bio (unlocked by scanning the QR code) also depicts him with both the Null Rays and the Warp Fork, with the former being removed for budget reasons. It should be noted that the Warp Fork was likely meant to have extra grey paint operations on the red paint details.

: Skywarp's head is molded in black, greatly reducing the risk of paint chipping and scratching suffered from ''Kingdom'' Starscream.

: As seen on ''Kingdom'' [[Hot_Rod_(G1)/toys#K43|Hot Rod's]] card illustration and Skywarp's instructions, the Energon Warp Fork is one of the three components of a combined sword. The horizontal 3mm post on the fork also prevents it from being adequately positioned when attached. This can be amended by slightly trimming off the post, though this method prevents the accessory from attaching to Skywarp's nose cone.

: This mold was also redecoed into Core Class [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Legacy|Thundercracker]].

<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Decepticon Nemesis''' ([[2023]])}}</ul>

: A tiny [[slug figure]] of Skywarp in his Cybertronian "tetrajet" mode was included with Titan-class [[Nemesis (G1)#Legacy|Nemesis]]. Though the [[package art]] depicting this piece was actually based on the [[IP infringement|unlicensed "Prankstor" figure]] -- whoopsie!
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===''Transformers Retro''===
[[File:TF-Retro-Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZJ7AAoDhu4| Ayo, the pizza here!]]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Walmart exclusive reissue/redeco, [[2023]])
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 null-rays, 2 cluster bombs, left & right wings, left & right tail fins, left & right tail wings, landing gear, two-piece gun mode Megatron

:Walmart once again reissued the original Skywarp toy (or is it a recolor of Starscream from the same line?) in 2023 under the ''[[Transformers Retro]]'' label. Unlike the ''Vintage G1'' release, however, ''Retro'' Skywarp has been redecoed in colors inspired by his appearance in the original ''Transformers'' animated series, more specifically ''The Transformers: The Movie''. He remains a mash-up of Starscream's ''Commemorative Series'' and ''The Transformers Collection'' reissues, with the former's elongated null rays and cluster bombs and the latter's gun mode Megatron accessory.

:The box features new art of Skywarp with ''Earthrise''-inspired detailing in robot and vehicle mode laid over a scene of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].

:''Transformers Retro'' Skywarp was officially revealed on Walmart's website<ref>https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Toys-Retro-G1-Skywarp-Converting-Action-Figure-5-5/3668943002</ref> on [[July 12]], 2023.

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==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
[[File:Decoy skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.2|Mini-wave in celebration of me! WooOOoo!]]
*'''Destron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)

:Skywarp was among the many characters rendered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] as part of their series of 1.5" ''keshigomu'' figurines. Like all the Decepticons in the series, Skywarp was molded in soft purple rubber, and featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]]s, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. He is, surprisingly enough, ''not'' identical to either Starscream or Thundercracker: the stance of his legs and the position of his Decepticon symbols differ, but he is, of course, most prominently distinguished by his raised arms.

:Skywarp was available as part of a 22-piece box set of Decepticon figures, in a peach coloration randomly packed in several box sets and with other products produced by Takara subsidiary [[Seven]], and in a wide variety of colours in "gachapon" capsule machines.

*'''Skywarp''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''33'''

: The Skywarp figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number (33, in Skywarp's case). Like all Decepticon Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]], and was, very early on in the promotion, available in an alternate red coloration that was only packed in with the Throttlebots. Unsurprisingly, this red figurine is much rarer.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Decoys/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Decoy Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Super Collection Figure''===
[[File:SCF skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.2]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)

: ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)#Super Collection Figure|Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming three-inch tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine, [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Super Collection Figure|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations (guidebook)|Transformers Generations]]'' (with the "[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]" toy as the first place prize).

: However, due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether this Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.

: This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)|Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior#Merchandise|Air Warriors]]. This mold was [[retool]]ed to make ''SCF'' [[Ramjet (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Ramjet]], [[Thrust (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Dirge]].
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===''Heroes of Cybertron''===
[[File:HOC Skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2002)

: When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. As was the standard for the line, Skywarp was made from translucent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving him [[light-piping|light-piped]] eyes. In addition, he is distinguished from his ''Super Collection Figure'' counterpart by grey knee-vents and black foot-panels, versus the respetive purple and grey applications on the original (though several samples of the figure were missing the foot-panel paint, including the one shown at the TFU link below).
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Heroes of Cybertron Skywarp at TFU.info]''

*'''Decepticon Air Cavalry Troop Builder Set''' (2003)

: The original Skywarp figurine was re-released again in this six-pack of figures available exclusively at [[OTFCC 2003]]. He came packaged with ''Heroes of Cybertron'' versions of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Heroes of Cybertron|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Heroes of Cybertron|Thundercracker]], and three [[Air Warrior#Heroes of Cybertron|Air Warriors]].

: While the three named Seekers in the set were originally intended to have a sparkly paint job to differentiate them from the normal retail versions, that ended up not happening and they ended up basically the same.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/OTFCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on 3H's Heroes of Cybertron Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends of Cybertron''===
[[File:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)

: A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[BotCon#BotCon history|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced, of those most (but not all) had the open-palm hands and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode painted blue rather than the correct purple.

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===Palisades===
[[File:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)

:A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a "hovering" pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].

: This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.
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===''Attacktix''===
[[File:G1Skywarp-atx.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Booster, <s>2007</s>)

: Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots at opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.

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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium cancelled figure checklist.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (unreleased)
:*''Accessories:'' Decepticon stand?
:The final ''[[Titanium Series]]'' catalogue listed a number of "Micro Figures" intended for release, though many of them never saw the light of day. Among those listed was a 3" Robot Masters Skywarp, which was probably a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Titanium Series|Starscream]], complete with Decepticon badge display stand.
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===''Robot Heroes''===
[[File:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]
*'''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (Multi-pack, 2007)

: Skywarp is -of course- a [[redeco]] of ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Robot Heroes|Starscream]], with swivel articulation at the neck and shoulders.

: He was only available in a [[Walmart]] exclusive multi-pack, along with [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Robot Heroes|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#RH5pack|Hologram Mirage]], and "Supermetal Finish" versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#RH5pack|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#RH5pack|Megatron]].

: This mold was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Robot Heroes|Thundercracker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/RHWMSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Robot Heroes Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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*'''Skywarp''' (Single-pack, 2008)

: In some countries outside of North America, Skywarp was released individually in a blindpack with no notable changes.
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===''3D Battle-Card Game''===
[[File:3DBattleCard Skywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2007)

: A 25-point "uncommon" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, Skywarp "transforms" into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (film)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]], [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]], [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] and [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], along with [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Classic Starscream]] and [[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]]. In addition to his standard abilities such as teleportation, one of Skywarp's weapons is the obscure [[bouncer bomb]], which he used only once in the cartoon episode "[[The Immobilizer]]".
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===Transformers Mini-Busts===
[[File:DST08 SkywarpBust.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con exclusive, 2008)

:Retooled and redecoed from [[Art Asylum]]'s Starscream mini-bust, this statue depicts Skywarp in mid-teleport via translucent purple extremities. He was offered exclusively by [[Diamond Select Toys]] through the Action Figure Xpress booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2008, limited to 400 pieces.
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===The Loyal Subjects===
[[File:TLS skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2014)
**''Accessories:'' Gun

:Skywarp was one of the chase figures in the second wave of 3-inch tall [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] vinyl figurines produced by [[The Loyal Subjects]]. Featuring eight ball-jointed points of articulation. Unlike the other [[1984]] style Seekers, a Skywarp is not a redeco of the Starscream and Thundercracker figurine from the first wave (who were later redecoed to create the [[Rainmaker]] trio and [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]), but an all new mold with different construction and parts than his predecessors. He is slightly larger than the other '84 Seekers and features more moving parts. He does share some parts with the simultaneously released [[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]], [[Thrust (G1)/toys|Thrust]], and fellow chase figure [[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]]. For every 96 figures from wave 2 of The Loyal Subjects, there is 1 Skywarp.
::*''[https://www.theloyalsubjects.com/store/transformers-series-2-bundle-8 More information on Skywarp and the rest of wave 2 at TheLoyalSubjects.com]
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===''D-Style''===
[[File:SkywarpDstyle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' (09-2015)
**''ID number:'' 48
**''Accessories:'' Scowling face, smirking face, shouting face, open hand, closed hands, mini F15 jet

:A super deformed Skywarp model kit produced by [[Kotobukiya]] as part of their franchise-spanning ''[[D-Style]]'' line. Like [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#D-Style|Megatron]] he comes with three different faces and in line with the rest of the line, comes with a mini alt mode figure, in this case an F15 jet. He also contains a replaceable open hand. His chest contains flip-up panels in his chest that reveal missile racks based on the weapons seen in the Generation 1 episode "Fire on the Mountain". The null rays can be removed and wielded as guns, and he can also hold Megatron's gun.

:In order to get the figure looking like the promotional photos, required paint applications include coloring the screaming mouth, chest fans and panel lines, missile rack surrounds, null ray panel lines, and knee vents all in black. Eyes and cockpit come in translucent colored plastic and can also be painted to improve their look. Finally, the mini F15 jet comes as a single black piece and is missing all coloring.

:He comes in a two pack along with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#D-Style|Thundercracker]].

:This mold was also used to make ''D-Style'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#D-Style|Starscream]].
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===Mecha Nations===
[[File:Mn09-skywarp.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2015)
**''ID Number:'' '''MN09'''
**''Accessories:'' alternate hands, display stand.

:Created by [[Kids Logic]], this [[super deformed]] G1 Skywarp is a redeco of Mecha Nations [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Mecha Nations|Starscream]] with a new face. He stands 6" tall and is articulated, featuring a shiny metallic color scheme, removable armor and replacement hands. He also features LED light up eyes, Decepticon insignias on his wings, null rays and thrusters in his feet, for use when he's "hovering", mounted on the included display stand.

:This figure was also redecoed with a different new face into Mecha Nations [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Mecha Nations|Thundercracker]], with whom he was a 2015 Toy Soul exhibition exclusive.
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===Bitfig===
[[File:Bitfig-Skywarp.jpg|thumb|]]
*'''Skywarp''' (06-2017)

:Part of the second wave of Transformers Bitfig capsule toys, Skywarp's is a redco of the previously released Starscream toy whose design is inspired by his appearance in the G1 cartoon. Skywarp is articulated at the neck and shoulders. Bitfig toys were packaged in capsules color coded to the toy they contained.

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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp, Sneaky Prankster''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''UT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T35/T40'''
**''Stars: ''6
:Skywarp Sneaky Prankster is one of forty double-sided character cards available in Wave 1 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]].

:The artwork on the card is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile card game.

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[[File:W2Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp, Teleporting Seeker''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T40/T46'''
**''Stars: ''10
:Skywarp, Teleporting Seeker is one of forty-six character cards released in Wave 2 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], Rise of the Combiners.

:The artwork for Bot Mode is reused from the ''[[Combiner Wars (franchise)|Combiner Wars]]'' Leader-class Skywarp toy's packaging art, while the Alt Mode artwork is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game

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[[File:W3SergeantSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Sergeant Skywarp, Black Ops-Seeker''' (2019)
**'''Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T45/T48'''
**''Stars: ''8
:Sergeant Skywarp, Black Ops-Seeker is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege I.

:The card uses reused line-art from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game, with new colors to match the aesthetic of the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' toyline's packaging art.
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===Flame Toys===
[[File:FlameToysSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Cue the inevitable <s>Bandai Hobby Online Shop</s> <s>Selects</s> Event exclusive "Invisible Mode" transluent redeco.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (December 2019)
**''Number:'' '''09'''
**''Additional parts/accessories'': 1 pair of Trigger-finger hands, 1 pair of open-palm hands

:Released as part of the ''Furai Model'' line by [[Flame Toys]], This Skywarp is an articulated, non-transforming, Voyager Class-sized {{w|Gunpla}}-style model kit, redecoed from the [[Starscream_(G1)/merchandise#Flame_Toys|Starscream]] mold. Skywarp is molded in primarily black, purple, and silver-ish gray ABS plastic. His translucent yellow plastic still remains. Like Starscream, his Null-rays can be detached for use as handheld blasters.

:For straight-assembly builders, Skywarp features a sheet of foil stickers for detail (notably the wings), though the kit can be panel-lined and touched-up with several panel-lining and paint markers (water/acrylic-based markers are recommended, as alcohol-based markers like ''Gundam Markers'' can potentially damage the ABS plastic). If one desires; the kit's pieces, aside from the translucent parts, can be fully coated with spray paints to recreate the finished sample seen in the stock photos.
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===''Zōteki''===
[[File:ZOTEKI-030-Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[2021]])
**''ID number'': '''030'''

:A collaboration between [[Hasbro]] and statue/replica brand [[Jazware]], ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|The Transformers]]'' was added as a part of the ''[[Zōteki]]'' line alongside other iconic brands such as [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]], to recreate some of the main "Generation 1" characters. The 30th figure of the ''Zōteki'' line is Skywarp, whose base figure is just a simple repaint of the previously released [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Zōteki|Starscream]].

:Skywarp was released as a "chase variant" and was only exclusive to [[Target]].

:Each statue of the line features a connection point for it to be connected to the others, in order to form a battle scene.
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===Eaglemoss===
* '''Transformers Gen-1 Chess Set''' (<s>2021</s>)
:In the planned [[Chess#Eaglemoss|Transformers Chess Set]] by [[Eaglemoss]], a relatively large and very well detailed statue of Skywarp was slated to be one of the Bishop pieces on the Decepticon side.

:A Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary funds for this project was launched, but failed to meet its goal by September 24, 2021 and the whole thing was canceled.
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===Jada Toys===
[[File:JadaNanoMetalfigsG1-18pack.jpg|upright=1.44|thumb]]
*'''Transformers Series 1 18-pack''' (4cm Die Cast Figure Multipack, 2022)
:Released by [[Jada Toys]], ''Nano Metalfigs'' Series 1 Skywarp is an incredibly small die-cast figurine molded doing an action pose. He has a little base attached to his feet for balancing reasons.

:He comes in an impressive multipack with [[Jada Toys#Nano Metalfigs|seventeen other figurines]]. This mold was later used to make Series 2 [[Red Wing#Jada Toys|Redwing]] and Series 3 [[Bitstream (G1)#Jada Toys|Bitstream]].
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===Imaginarium Art===
*'''Skywarp''' (2022)

:[[Imaginarium Art]]'s "Legacy of Cybertron" Skywarp is a 20-inch-tall statue, posed on a Decepticon insignia base that can be linked up with other statues in this series to form a larger battle scene. Only 200 pieces were produced.
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===''Transformers Character Card''===
[[File:Transformers Character Card Skywarp and Thundercracker.jpg|upright=1|thumb]]
*'''Thundercracker & Skywarp Set''' ([[August 14]], [[2023]])
**''ID number:'' '''57 & 58'''

:Released as part of the eighth wave of the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''[[Transformers Character Card]]'' series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and Skywarp along with [[bio|character profiles]] and [[Tech Spec|tech specs]].
::*''[[Source:Transformers Character Card#58|Translation of Skywarp's Transformers Character Card]]''

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===Threezero===
*'''Skywarp''' (MDLX, 2024?)
**''Known designers:'' Kelvin Sau
**''Accessories:'' wing assembly, two null-ray cannons, more TBA
:A redeco of [[Threezero]]'s MDLX Starscream, Skywarp is an original design taking inspiration from the original cartoon but with the aesthetics in the vein of the live-action movies. Skywarp is a smaller scaled, non-transforming action figure in the vein of contemporary collector-oriented lines like Figma and S.H. Figuarts. Like those lines, the figure is extremely well-articulated and detailed, features interchangeable hands and faces plus accessories. He features his ever-present null-ray cannons and two dagger-like blades.

:He and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Threezero|Thundercracker]] were revealed in a [https://www.instagram.com/p/CuIrGnDSVoP/ teaser posted to Threezero's Instagram account] showcasing Starscream.

:Skywarp retains Starscream's functionality with MDLX Optimus Prime mold, specifically the detachable wings and swappable heads.

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===Kotobukiya Bishoujo Series===
[[File:Bishoujo Skywarp.jpg|thumb|"What up, Seeker Nation? In today's video, we're looking at the effects of gravity on this chump and this staircase!"]]
*'''Bishoujo Series Transformers Skywarp''' (July 2024)
**''Known designers:'' [[Shunya Yamashita]] (artist)

:''[[Kotobukiya]] [[Bishoujo Series]]'' Skywarp is a repaint and slight retool of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Kotobukiya Bishoujo Series|Starscream]] from the same line of PVC figures. In addition to being recolored in Skywarp's usual black and purple, the statue has received some minor resculpts, tweaking the face slightly and filling in her navel so she appears to be wearing a black skintight suit beneath her clothing.

:Like Starscream, Skywarp is attached to a purple display base designed after the Decepticon insignia, but she does not include any alternate headpieces like her fellow seeker.
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==Notes==
[[File:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|upright=0.9|thumb]]
*During the development of the [[Conehead]]s, [[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]] was initially planned as new wing tooling attached to an unchanged Skywarp body. This plan lasted long enough to receive [[package art]], which was published decades later in ''[[Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging]]''.
*In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.
*In modern times, Skywarp is often the last of the three primary Decepticon Seekers to see the use of a toyline's respective Seeker mold. Consequently, his figures may become prominent [[shelfwarmer]]s at the tail end of a line's run, as notoriously seen worldwide with [[#CWLeader|''Combiner Wars'' Leader Class Skywarp]].

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Skywarp (G1)/toys

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Mzawutang: /* Masterpiece */

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[[File:G1Skywarp package art.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]

'''[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]''' has always looked and will always look a lot like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. There are many [[Starscream (G1)/toys|toys of Starscream]] and where there is a Starscream toy, a Skywarp toy soon follows.

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:G1toy skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|"He's a Starscream redeco, [[Thew Adams|Thew]], there's a hundred million just like him!" "Not to me there's not."]]
[[File:G1catalog84-DecepticonPlanes-Redeco.jpg|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Plane, 1984/1985)}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''23'''
:*''Accessories'': Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Released in the first year of ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'', Skywarp transforms into an {{w|F-15 Eagle}} fighter jet, by a process which essentially involves removing and reattaching most of his plane parts. Though it is possible to do so without removing all of them, this rather piecemeal design and the fact that neither mode uses all his parts means it can be quite difficult to find an intact original Skywarp on the secondary market. He began life as a ''[[Diaclone]]'' "Jet Robo", but unlike team-mates [[Starscream (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Thundercracker]], with whom he shares his mold, his distinctive black-and-purple deco did ''not'' originate in that line.

: Skywarp is armed with a pair of missile launchers that mount on his arms in robot mode, and under his wings in jet mode, with a pair of specialized projectiles for each. In jet mode, two short rockets are fitted into the launchers to make them resemble the drop tanks a real F-15 carries, while in robot mode, they are replaced with the long barrels of Skywarp's machine guns. The original ''Diaclone'' version of the mold featured spring-loaded firing mechanisms in these launchers; while this feature was removed for the [[Hasbro]] release of the toy, it was left intact for the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] version, and all subsequent reissues.

: While the earliest releases of Skywarp were basically identical to the ''Diaclone'' mold, some small modifications were soon made to the figure which became the standard for all subsequent reissues of the mold. These included the hollowing out of the inner edges of his wings and the tips of his tail-wings, the lengthening of the pegs on his wings to make them fit more securely, and the addition of extra clips on the inner sides of his fist-gauntlets, allowing them to grip his arms better. Like all his 1984 brethren, Skywarp gained a factory-applied [[rubsign]] in 1985, which was added to the left side of his fuselage.

: Presumably by mistake, the stats on Skywarp, Starscream and Thundercracker's [[Tech Spec]]s were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, giving him a high intelligence and rank that stood in contrast to the bio printed next to them.

: Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp (right) show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue (see below).

: The Italian release of Skywarp (as "Corvo") by [[GiG]] put him in a generic "Distructor Planes" box, featuring names and tech specs for all three planes in the assortment.

: This mold was [[redeco]]ed into [[Sunstorm (G1)#Toys|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Thrust]].

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-decepticon-jets-skywarp/339/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Skywarp at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Generation 1 Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Machine Wars''===
[[File:MW-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)
**''Accessories:'' 2-part rifle
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white {{w|Rafale|Dassault Rafale}} fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to [[KB Toys]] stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.

: This toy is [[gang-molding|gang-molded]] with the other three Basic molds in the line. Specifically, his head and inner robot parts share plastic with [[Hubcap (MW)#Toys|Hubcap]], and his jet parts share plastic with [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Mirage]], plus he shares the pearlescent-gray canopy plastic with, well, everyone.

: Curiously, Skywarp is the only Basic Decepticon to have a Decepticon symbol on him... and it's the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' Decepticon symbol at that. Which is approporate given this mold was originally developed for ''Generation 2''.

: The toy was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as the [[Skywarp drone]]s.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Collector's Edition''===
{{anchor|collectorsedition}}[[File:G1toy reissue skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (reissue, 2001)
**''ID number:'' '''Set C'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:The original Skywarp toy was reissued for the first time in 2001 as part of Takara's small "[[The Transformers: Collector's Edition|Collector's Edition]]" series, which made several Generation 1 toys available as convention [[exclusive]]s. Sold in new open-faced packaging with no notable changes from the original figure, Skywarp was an exclusive at the Japanese science fiction convention "Super Festival 21", available only in a set with Thundercracker and limited to 1000 pieces. The pair are often mistakenly identified as [[e-HOBBY]] exclusives.

::*''[http://shmax.com/part_details/3487 More information on Collector's Edition Skywarp at Shmax.com]''
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===''Commemorative Series''===
[[File:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that's okay. Jet? Not so much.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (reissue, 2003)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:The original Skywarp toy was made available again as part of Hasbro's line of [[The Transformers: Generation One Commemorative Series|Commemorative Series]] reissues. Released in the fourth wave of the series, it featured functional missile launchers for the first time on a Hasbro version of the toy, but because the launchers now worked, both sets of missiles had to be lengthened [[for safety reasons]]. His machine guns didn't turn out ''too'' bad; the missiles didn't fare so well. Rather than correct the erroneous Tech Spec numbers from Skywarp's original release, this reissue retained them and instead features a slightly re-written bio to remove the contradictions.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/CSSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Commemorative Series Skywarp TFU.info]''
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===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missiles

:''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange "energon" bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, albeit of the ''[[Transformers: Dinobots|Dinobots]]'' design, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.

:Although most previous versions of the mold have the wingtips swept forward in vehicle mode, Skywarp was packaged and depicted in his instructions with the wingtips swept back. His fictional appearances, however, use the conventional arrangement shown here.

:Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Aero Drone|Sonic Attack Jet]], ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (RID)|Jhiaxus]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Smallest Transforming Transformers''===
[[File:Smallest transforming skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2003)
**''ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, left & right wings, left & right tailfins, landing gear

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' product, Skywarp is, of course, a redeco of this line's Starscream. Like all toys in the series, he is a tiny, simplified version of the original Generation 1 toy, transforming into an F-15 fighter jet, with most of the accessories from the original toy faithfully translated save for his machine guns. As with all previous waves of ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'', these figures were sold [[blindpacking|blindpacked]], with Skywarp as one of the wave's two rare [[chase figure]]s

: This mold was redecoed into ''Smallest Transforming'' Thundercracker, and retooled to make Thrust.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Smallest Transforming Transformers Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Robotmasters''===
[[File:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[August 11]], 2005
:*''Accessories'': 2 rifles, 2 missile pods

: ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|Starscream]] from the same series, a re-imagining of the original Generation 1 figure, retaining its basic [[Transformation|transformation scheme]], but designed to be closer to the animation model, with greater articulation and integrated parts that do not require detachment during transformation. The only pieces that now need to be removed are Skywarp's rifles, which move from his wings to his arms. He has three peg-holes on each arm, allowing the rifles to be mounted on his shoulders, on his forearms, or in his fists. These holes are also designed to accommodate the generic spring-loaded missile launcher weapon included with ''Robotmasters'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|G1 Convoy]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#Robotmasters|Beast Convoy]] and [[Megatron (BW)/toys#Robotmasters|Beast Megatron]].

: Skywarp also came with two "missile pods" based on weapons Starscream used but once, in the Generation 1 cartoon episode "[[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain]]". These chromed accessories plug into the square holes in his chest, and feature opening covers that reveal (non-firing) missiles within.

: He was available only in a two-pack with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Robotmasters|Thundercracker]], which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robotmasters'' line, and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-HOBBY]] Generation 1 reissue box, with a small ''Robotmasters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Robotmasters Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Classics''===
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[[File:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|"TARGET acquired, lol".]]
*'''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right missile launchers, 2 missiles

: ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a redeco and slight retool of ''Classics'' Deluxe Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Classics|Starscream]], transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. Unlike previous (and future) figures, the shade of purple used for this figure has a more reddish tint to it. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]].

: Skywarp was slightly [[retool]]ed from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a fifth rectangle was added to the vertical area. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold, and was also used as a [[Variant#Running change|running change]] on Starscream.

: Skywarp was only available as part of a two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Classics|Ultra Magnus]] [[exclusive]] to [[Target]] in the United States. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager Class and Deluxe Class mold in it, which would be approximately $30 worth of toys if they had been sold separately. The pack was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.

: [[Stock photography]] of ''Classics'' Skywarp showed [[:File:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|a more detailed color scheme]] than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]], and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version mentioned above.
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::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Classics Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Masterpiece''===
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[[File:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[September 1]], [[2007]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-6'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "Machine Guns", 2 AIM missile racks, [[Doctor Arkeville#MP6|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand

: ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|MP-3 Starscream]] mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] [[Slug figure|pilot figurine]] (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet mode Skywarp to hold the gun mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Masterpiece MP-1 Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].

[[File:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb|He ''admits'' to being Cyclonus? Haha, what a prankster!]]
: The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.

:The second pressing of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior ''Masterpiece'' Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp is assembled correctly. ''Masterpiece'' Thundercracker is misassembled as well.

:It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's ''Masterpiece'' Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.

:This mold was later used for the ''Masterpiece'' version of [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Thundercracker]]. It was also redecoed and retooled to create the eleventh ''Masterpiece'' figure, [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP11|Starscream]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Masterpiece Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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[[File:MP-11SW Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Just to fool you into thinking that there isn't a third Masterpiece Seeker mold being developed.]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[January 5]], [[2015]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-11SW'''
**''Accessories:'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP11SW|Megatron Gun]], [[Doctor Arkeville#MP11SW|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot

:A redeco of the newer ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP11|MP-11 Starscream]] mold, Skywarp features some extensive retooling to wind the ''Masterpiece'' Seeker design back into the more Generation 1-accurate look, with most of the robot mode being newly tooled parts, including chunkier legs that now incorporate his tail-fins, [[retool]]ed shoulders and wingtips that no longer curve into one another, a new head (with collapsible head fins), new heel spurs that flip out for added support in robot mode, and re-engineered Machine Guns attached to extending armatures that mean they no longer have to be [[Partformer|removed]] for transformation.

:The figure features flip-up missile racks built into his pectorals. He comes with the original version of the [[Megatron (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|Megatron gun]] that first came with ''Masterpiece'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|MP-1 Convoy]]. He also comes with a [[Doctor Arkeville#MP11SW|Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figure identical to the previous MP-6 release.

:Skywarp's deco is heavily based on his cartoon appearance and features the rarely reproduced in toy form entirely purple shoulders and arm cannons. Despite the focus on cartoon accuracy in his deco, he carries over the striping on his forearms, shoulders, and pectorals similar to his original MP-6 Masterpiece release.

:As a redeco of the MP-11 release, Skywarp is ''likely'' to be plagued with the same quality control issues.

:Skywarp was only released in China via Hasbro Asia under the TakaraTomy label; marking the second time an original TakaraTomy Masterpiece toy wasn't released for the Japanese market ([[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP5G|''Masterpiece'' Megatron Gold Version]] was the first).

:On [[November 30]], [[2016]] MP-11SW Skywarp was released in Japan for the first time as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive. There are notable differences between this release and the original almost two years prior. The shade of purple used on the later release is more warm and less cool in tone. His biceps and knee flaps are now molded in black plastic rather than in purple plastic painted a glossy black. The inner portion of his upper chest is no longer painted silver mold molded in silver plastic. Many of the paint operations are also slightly different in color from the earlier Hasbro Asia release. Hasbro Asia also re-released the figure to coincide with the Japanese release.

:When purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, Skywarp comes with a collector coin, mounted on a card resembling his wings, complete with his signature wing stripes. The coin was reissued in 2016, without change, alongside the figure.
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[[File:TF-Masterpiece-MP-52-Skywarp.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp Ver. 2.0''' ([[December 25]], [[2021]])
**''ID number:'' '''MP-52+SW'''
**''Accessories'': 3 alternate faces, 5 effect parts, 2 null rays, 2-part display base, [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP52Plus|Megatron]] gun
:A redeco of ''Masterpiece'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP52|Starscream Ver. 2.0]], the second version of ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp was first announced by TakaraTomy as part of a competition—those who purchase all three Ver.2.0 Seekers will receive an add-on kit for [[Starscream (G1)/toys#MP52|Starscream]]; giving him his iconic crown and cape from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. The toy's stock photography was unveiled a few months after the competition was announced.

:Skywarp comes with many accessories, including 3 alternate faces, 5 effect parts, a stand for his jet mode, a pair of null rays, and a non-transforming figure of [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP52Plus|Megatron]] in his gun mode. His jet mode can half-transform into a Gerwalk-styled "Alternate Transformation" which is based on the episode ''[[Dinobots Island Part 2]]'', as seen in the figure's stock photography. Skywarp is colored in a cartoon-accurate lilac color, as opposed to the neon purple found on most of his toy releases.

:Like Thundercracker, Skywarp was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive to Japan.

:This mold was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#MP52|Thundercracker]].
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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|upright=1.67|thumb]]
*'''War Within Skywarp''' ([[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008 exclusive)

: [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Thundercracker]], transforming into a Cybertronian "tetrajet" as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at {{w|San Diego Comic-Con}} 2008.

: This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Starscream]], [[Sunstorm (G1)#Titanium Series|Sunstorm]], and [[Thrust (G1)#Titanium Series|Thrust]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Titanium Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Henkei! Henkei!''===
[[File:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Good luck finding me.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (September 2008)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles

: ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Henkei! Henkei!|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Henkei! Henkei!|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]] through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.

:Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and foreign collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.

:Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes was further modified from the [[Transformers: Classics|Classics]] version, this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei! Henkei!'' Thundercracker and ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' Starscream also saw most of these changes.
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===''Universe'' (2008)===
[[File:Universe2008-toy MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67]]
*'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)
**''Accessories:'' 2 "Machine Guns", 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand

: A [[Walmart]] exclusive redeco of the original ''Masterpiece'' Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version. The nosecone features black paint over purple plastic, allowing for easy customization of "Mexican Masterpiece Skywarp".
: The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet mode Skywarp to hold the gun mode Megatron that came with ''Masterpiece'' Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode.
: Masterpiece Skywarp was also available as an Argos exclusive in the [[United Kingdom]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Masterpiece Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Encore''===
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[[File:G1toy encore skywarp thundercracker.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (reissue multi-pack, 2008)
**''ID number'' '''11'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 "Machine Guns", left & right wings, left & right rudders, left & right tail fins, landing gear

:Skywarp's original toy was reissued again as part of TakaraTomy's ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' series, this time in a two-pack with his erstwhile partner, Thundercracker. This release of the figure replaced his Decepticon symbol stickers with [[tampograph]]s, and changed his purple stickers to a much bluer shade. Curiously, although Thundercracker's wing stripes were replaced with tampographs, Skywarp's remained factory-applied stickers.
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===''Alternity''===
[[File:Alternity skywarp toy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]
*'''Skywarp [Witch Purple Pearl]''' ([[May 29]], [[2010]])
**''ID number:'' '''A-04'''

:Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Alternity|Starscream]] with a different head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale {{w|Mitsuoka Orochi}}. Like the other toys in the line, he features [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. This is also currently the only ''Alternity'' mold to feature [[Kibble#"Faux-parts"|a fake kibble chest]].

:In car mode, small wings are ''supposed to'' be able to flip out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. Unfortunately, this [[gimmick]] suffers from a rather nasty [[design flaw]]: there is simply not enough clearance under the car for the wheels to be able to pass and hinge through, and attempting to do so will result in the plastic reinforcement struts underneath ''deforming the rims and chipping the tires''. His door panels also tend to detach from their [[ball joint]]s ''very easily''.

:This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Alternity|Thundercracker]] and [[Banzai-Tron (G1)#Alternity|Banzai Tron]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on Alternity Skywarp at TFU.info'']
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===''Chronicle''===
[[File:EZCollectionSkywarpToy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Teleports right out of your pocket.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (EZ Collection, 2011)

:''[[Transformers Chronicle (toyline)|Chronicle]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Reveal the Shield]]'' [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Transformers .282010.29|Starscream]]. He transforms into an F-15 with many fuselage details borrowed from the ''Masterpiece'' version. This is also the first Seeker mold in many years to attempt an entirely new transformation, with the arms now forming the rear of the jet and the legs folding under the wings. Skywarp was available only in Japan, and like many Japanese "EZ Collection" toys, was [[blindpacking|blindpacked]].

:This toy was also '''EXCEEDINGLY''' rare to find. Think other toys have a high aftermarket price? This one has '''NO''' aftermarket price.

:This mold was also used to make ''Chronicle'' Thundercracker.
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreOtoy_KreonSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
* '''Optimus Prime''' (2011)
**''Set number'': '''30689'''
** ''Pieces'': '''542'''
** ''Kreons'': [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Bluestreak]], Skywarp, 2 [[Stunt Driver]]s
** ''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

: The [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Optimus Prime]] construction set comes with a Skywarp Kreon. He has a helmet, wing back that attaches around his neck, and two blasters that clip onto his arms. These same Kreon accessories were also used for [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Thundercracker]].

: A variation of Skywarp exists where initial versions of the figure feature chrome purple toes. Later versions omitted this detail. The [[stock photography]], by the way, shows him with purple-plastic legs rather than black.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/Kre-OSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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* '''Kreon Ultimate Collection 2''' (2013)
** ''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

:Skywarp was later made available as the "Mystery Figure" figure packed with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Bumblebee]], [[Red Alert (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Red Alert]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Mirage]], and [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Jazz]]. The identity of Skywarp is kept secret in the packaging, but his inclusion is consistent.

:This version of Skywarp does not feature the purple chromed toes of the original release.

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[[File:KreO-Toy SkywarpC84.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Kreon Class of 1984''' (Kreon figure set, 2014)
**''Set number'': '''B0090'''
**''Voted'': Most Punctual
**''Accessories'': 2 clip-on blasters

: This version of Skywarp has much more extensive, toy-based [[tampograph]]s than his prior version. Oddly, his limbs, wings and blasters are different shades of purple plastic, rather than a more accurate-to-anything black plastic with purple detailing.

:He was only available in a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2014 [[exclusive]] pack of 30 Kreons dubbed the "[[Kreon Class of 1984]]". Remaining stock was to be sold at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online, only there ''was'' no remaining stock after the show.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/SDCCKre-OSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Class of 1984 Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Bot Shots''===
[[File:Bot Shots Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Confused by Rock-Paper-Scissors.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''B016'''
***''Fist strength'': '''620'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''160'''
***''Sword strength'': '''830'''

: Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots]]'' Series 1 single-packs, Skywarp is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Starscream]] mold, being cast in black and purple in [[homage]] to Generation 1 Skywarp, and featuring a new chest and scowling head. He transforms into a tiny [[super deformed]] jet fighter resembling [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#F-22 Raptor|F-22 Raptor]], and [[Autotransformation|autotransforms]] into robot mode when his nosecone is pressed. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BSSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Bot Shots Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BStoy-SuperBotSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|And he's still scowling.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2013)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': ''' Super Bot 003'''
***''Fist strength'': '''510'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''180'''
***''Sword strength'': '''925'''

: Part of the third wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 2 single-packs, Super Bot Skywarp transforms into a futuristic forward-swept wing fighter jet with two blasters at the front. As a Flip Shot, an impact to the front of his vehicle mode causes him to flip up when autotransforming. As a Super Bot, he has more lopsided stats, and is cast in translucent purplish-black plastic.

:He was going to be redecoed into the unreleased [[Starscream (G1)/toys#FlipShotLauncher|Flip Shot Starscream Launcher]]. Yup, Skywarp <s>came first</s> owns this mold.
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===''United''===
[[File:United Skywarp toy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Close but no cigar.]]
*'''Seekers: Aces''' ([[December 21]], [[2012]])
**''Accessories:'' Left & right launchers, 2 missiles
:''[[Transformers United|United]]'' Skywarp is a third redeco of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, and the first time he is offered with both of his wing mates [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys|Thundercracker]].
: This version of Skywarp is heavily based on his cartoon appearance. He features a glossy black, a medium warm purple, shiny metallic purple paint on most of his purple plastic, and an amber cockpit. Paint operations found on the Henkei! Henkei! release were shuffled around for the sake of cartoon accuracy, up to and including purple shoulders.
: Original photos of Skywarp showed him with show-accurate all purple arm cannons, but due to gang molding (and lack of additional paint operations) only the upper most portion of his arm cannons ended up purple.
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===''Generations''===
{{anchor|Thrilling 30}}
[[File:Generationstoy-Thrilling30Skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Will use his guns to give you cold dead hands.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe Class, 2014)
**''Series / Number'': '''02 / #012'''
**''Accessories'': Two assault cannons, tail-fin

:Part of the eighth wave of [[2012]]-onwards ''Generations'' Deluxe Class toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''Generations: [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' [[Starscream (WFC)#Generations|Starscream]], and transforms into a Cybertronian jet fighter. He comes with two spinning, triple-barreled cannons which can combine to form a larger hand-held weapon that is geared to spin its two triple-barrels together, and resembles the [[Neutron assault rifle]] from ''Fall of Cybertron''. Each of the weapon halves features two [[5 mm post]]s, as well as a peg-hole on their hollow sides, while the combined form features another peg-hole at the top, but makes the peg-holes on the hollow sides inaccessible. Skywarp features numerous 5 mm peg-holes, such as his hands, forearms, lower legs, and wing undersides.

:Skywarp's tail-fin is attached via a 5mm post on its underside, and can be detached to reveal three additional peg-holes, with two of these peg-holes being just the right distance to accommodate the combined assault cannons/rifle, with the tail-fin pegging on the rifle's top peg-hole. This allows the weapon to mount on top of the vehicle mode, and store on his back in robot mode.

:Skywarp is minimally mis-transformed in-package: his jet mode nosecone is extended, rather than folded in as it should be in robot mode. He comes packaged with a copy of [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s [[Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|''Robots in Disguise'' #23]].

:Despite using a mold matching [[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]]'s appearance in ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'', this toy ''technically'' represents G1 Skywarp, thanks to his [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] pack-in fiction. Consequently, the toy is listed in the former's page as a [[repurposing]]. This mold was also used for TakaraTomy's ''Fall of Cybertron'' Skywarp, itself repurposed as ''Cloud'' [[Hellwarp|Skywarp]], and as ''Generations Thrilling 30'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Thundercracker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/GenSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on ''Generations'' Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Hero Mashers''===
[[File:HM-toy Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The most easily-lost Skywarp hand since 1984.]]
*'''Megatron''' (Battle Upgrade, 2014)
**''Pieces'': '''18'''
**''Accessories'': Backpack, spring-loaded cannon, missile, blaster, energy flail, 2 blaster-pods, "Skywarp" right forearm

: Part of the first wave of "Battle Upgrade" ''[[Hero Mashers]]'' toys, Skywarp is represented as a spare forearm that is included with Megatron, but does not appear in the line as a complete figure. The arm is a redeco of ''Hero Mashers'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Hero Mashers|Starscream]]'s.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/HMMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Megatron at TFU.info]''
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===''Combiner Wars''===
{{anchor|CWLegends}}
[[File:CombinerWarsLegendsSkywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Legends Class, 2015)
**''Accessories:'' 2 cannons
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

:A redeco of ''Thrilling 30'' Legends Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#GenLegends|Starscream]], ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' Skywarp is roughly the same size as a ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' Commander Class toy. Based on a [[Guido Guidi]] [[Seeker (body-type)|seeker]] concept for the [[The Transformers (IDW)|first IDW ongoing series]], he transforms from a hybrid F-15/F-22 style jet. He features a fold out front landing gear, [[5 mm post|5 mm-compatible]] hands, and back/wings, and has [[C joint|3 mm-compatible]] upper arm ports. He comes with two removable cannons that have [[5 mm post#Multiple posts and double posting|both 5 mm and 3 mm pegs]]. As with Thundercracker his current stock photo is mistransformed: his wing assembly has not been folded up to the body.

: This figure was also used to make ''Thrilling 30'' [[Acid Storm (G1)#Generations|Acid Storm]] and ''Combiner Wars'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#CWLegends|Thundercracker]].

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[[File:CWLeaderSkywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2.2|And Warper Makes Three.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Leader Class, 2016)
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, 2 arm cannons, 2 leg cannons, 2 "Seeker guns"

:Skywarp is a redeco of ''Generations Combiner Wars'' Leader [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Thundercracker]]. He transforms from a robot into a jet fighter, and includes a missile launcher and four limb-mounted weapons, plus two guns based on the traditional Seeker arm rifles. He also features a faux cockpit. Skywarp does not include the original Jetfire mold's "Turbo Thruster" booster pack accessory, nor does he include Starscream's crown, but is still compatible with both.

:Though Skywarp was scheduled for a first quarter 2016 release, he arrived on U.S. store shelves in late 2015.

: Skywarp unfortunately became a massive shelfwarmer, prominently seen at U.S. Target stores in bulk among the ''Titans Return'' toyline.

: The original version of this mold was used to make ''Generations'' [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Generations|Jetfire]], and was redecoed into ''Combiner Wars'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#CWLeader|Starscream]].
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===''Transformers'' (2014)===
{{anchor|2014legion}}
[[File:Transformers-2014-legion-skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Legion Class, 2015)

:Legion Class Skywarp is yet another redeco of ''Reveal the Shield'' [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] Starscream, which features the retooled wings and hands originally created for [[Transformers: Generations#Asian market exclusives ("GDO")|''Generations'' GDO]] Legends Class [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Legends|Thundercracker]]. Aside from that, the figure's deco is mostly identical to [[#Chronicle|the ''Chronicle EZ Collection'' figure]] listed above, although the purple [[paint operation]]s sport a more blue hue, the purple paint operations on his shins are omitted entirely, and the [[tampograph]]ed Decepticon insignias on the wings are purple with silver outlines rather than completely silver.<ref name="2014legion">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-feedback/1040836-classic-legion-skywarp.html Review of 2014 Legion Class Skywarp] at TFW2005, including a comparison with ''EZ Collection'' Skywarp.</ref>

:Skywarp comes in packaging that is based on the packaging design for the concurrently released ''Combiner Wars''-era ''Generations'' figures, but replaces the name ''Generations'' with "Authentic Transformers". Since Skywarp and his [[wave]]-mates ship with three figures previously released under what we consider a generic [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014) toy line]], all of them now in the new packaging style, we consider Skywarp to be part of that line as well. The wave that contains Skywarp has thus far been found at Fred's, Gordmans, Dollar General and Family Dollar stores in the United States, but was available at general retail in Hong Kong and from Australian Target stores.
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===''Q-Transformers''===
[[File:QTransformers Skywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Fatwarp]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[September 19]], 2015)
**''ID number:'' '''QT-30'''

:A redeco and minor retool of ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Starscream]], Skywarp transforms from a [[super deformed]] F-15 to a cute chubby little robot. His facial expression has been changed from Starscream's smirk into a crazy grin.

:This mold was also retooled into ''Q-Transformers'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Thundercracker]] and [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Jetfire]].

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*'''Decepticons 3-Figure Set''' (2016)
**''ID number:'' '''QTFS-03'''

:During the second ''Q-Transformers'' series, the Skywarp toy was available in a three-pack alongside [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Q-Transformers|Thundercracker]]. He is identical to the original ''Q-Transformers'' toy.
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===''Alt-Modes''===
[[File:Alt-Modes Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Alt-Modes, 2016)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Collection'': '''1, 2'''

:A redeco of ''[[Alt-Modes]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Starscream]], Skywarp is a super deformed toy whose body transforms into a jet when the Decepticon faction symbol on his head is flipped. He was [[Blindpacking|blind-boxed]] and available in the first two cases of the toyline.

:This mold was also used to make ''Alt-Modes'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Thundercracker]], [[Acid Storm (G1)#Alt-Modes|Acid Storm]] and [[Sunstorm (G1)#Alt-Modes|Sunstorm]], and would have been retooled into [[Dirge (G1)/toys#Alt-Modes|Dirge]].
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:SiegeWFCSkywarp.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.66|The fourth ''Siege'' Seeker to be revealed!? He's losing ground!]]
*'''Decepticon Phantomstrike Squadron''' (Multi-pack, [[2019]])
**''Hasbro ID number:'' '''WFC-S27'''
**''TakaraTomy ID Number:'' '''SG-EX'''
**''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[January 20]], [[2021]]
**''Hidden message code'': '''TELEPORT'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 "HPI [[Null-ray|Null-Ray]] Laser Launchers", [[Battle Master]]s [[Fracas]], [[Hairsplitter|Shrute]], and [[Terror-Daxtyl]], 5 fire blasts

:This ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' four-pack version of Skywarp is a retool of Voyager Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Starscream]] from the same line with a new slightly sneering face, transforming from a heavily Generation 1-inspired robot to a Cybertronian "tetrajet" based on the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]' appearance in "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" and back; although the jet mode has the robot legs sticking out from the undercarriage. In an unusual move, Skywarp's plastic is molded in a light charcoal gray rather than his traditional black. He includes two "HPI Null-Ray Laser Launchers," which can mount on his upper arms, or under the wings in jet mode, and three Battle Master figures, Fracas, Shrute, and Terror-Daxtyl, respectively redecoed from [[Firebolt (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Firedrive]], [[Aimless#War for Cybertron: Siege|Aimless]], and [[Pteraxadon#Toys|Pteraxadon]], each with their respective Fire Blasts.

:This set was made available at general retail in Taiwan without prior announcement from Hasbro, and was an [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] exclusive for North America, which also labelled the set as "Final Strike Figure Series: Part 2", and a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive in Japan. In an uncharacteristic irony, Skywarp's face features a sneer, but with the help of [[customizing]], you can swap his head for Thundercracker or Red Wing's to patch things up a bit.
{{WFCSiegeStarscreamMold}}
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===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
[[File:SiegeERSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Teleporting directly to [[eBay]].]]
*'''Skywarp & Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, [[2020]])
**''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-E29'''
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''ER EX-16'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': [[January 20]], [[2021]]
**''Accessories:'' 2 "[[Null-ray|Null-Ray]] blasters"

:''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'' Skywarp is a [[redeco]] and very slight [[retool]]ing of Voyager Class [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Starscream]] from the same line, transforming into an F-15 jet based on his traditional alternate mode, and features a pair of G1-accurate null-rays in cartoon-accurate purple. His design and transformation scheme is heavily based on his [[#Classics|2006 ''Classics'' figure]] while adding points of articulation the earlier figure did not have such as pivoting ankles, a more expressive ball-jointed head, and hinges that allow the wings to fold backward in robot mode. He uses Starscream's pre-tooled alternate head. His head and chest are susceptible to paint chipping due to the transformation scheme. While the null-rays can be wielded by his pair of hands, it's almost impossible for him to properly hold them due to the size of his forearms.

: Skywarp was packaged with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Thundercracker]] as part of a ''Cybertronian Villains'' set exclusive to [[Target]] in the United States, and [[Toys"R"Us]] in Canada. It was also available at general retail in Hong Kong. In Japan, the set was released as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive.

:Initial samples provided by TakaraTomy depict Skywarp's head being replaced with the same piece used for Thundercracker,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=＼追加情報！／先日予約が始まりました ■ ER EX-16 スカイワープ＆サンダークラッカーの写真をいくつか撮ってみました！ ER EX-15 ダブルクロッサーとセットでのご購入でポイント20倍でお得です！ご予約はこちら！⇒https://t.co/TmuulWWdPt #トランスフォーマー #Transformers https://t.co/AkhzDnu9fa|link=https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1294811727452762113|name=TF_pr|site=Twitter|year=2020|month=08|day=16|(defunct=)}}</ref> though this was likely to be a production error as a later sample shows that he retains the original head.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=＼追加情報！／先日予約が始まりました ■ ER EX-16 スカイワープ＆サンダークラッカーの最新サンプルが届きました！ 2人の顔は写真のようになります！ご予約はこちら！⇒https://t.co/TmuulWWdPt #トランスフォーマー #Transformers https://t.co/DYIRY5LmPR|link=https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1295521667104440320|name=TF_pr|site=Twitter|year=2020|month=08|day=18|(defunct=)}}</ref>

:Like many of the toys since the ''War for Cybertron trilogy'' line, Skywarp suffers from a case of [[photodegradation]], as his unpaintable purple pieces discolors to a maroon shade.

:Like all ''Earthrise'' toys, the inside of the back of the Seeker two-pack package includes an exclusive clip-and-save piece of a larger star map. Also in the box is a thin red piece of transparent plastic with which to read the star map. The two-pack contains the unlabelled location of [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]].

:Like all other uses of the mold, Skywarp has a missing molded panel-line detail on the right wing hinge that is supposed to curve in towards the body of the jet. The reason for this missing detail is likely due to it missing from the metal mold itself.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-Core-Class-Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Hit the beat! Keep your beat!]]
[[File:TF-Legacy-Core-first-wave-Sword.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skywarp''' (Core Class, March [[2022]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessory'': "Energon Warp Fork"
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro)|[[Emiliano Santalucia]] (concept artist)}}

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy]]'' Core Class toys, Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Starscream]]. Frankly, we're surprised he didn't come ''sooner''.

: A roughly Legends-sized toy that can interact with Titan Class figures, ''Legacy'' Skywarp's sculpting is heavily inspired by his larger ''Earthrise'' counterpart, though featuring a black pelvis instead of a silver one. Instead of coming with a redeco of Starscream's Null Ray accessories, Skywarp comes with a... some kind of a tuning fork-like weapon called the "Energon Warp Fork", which can be plugged into the underside of his nose cone while in vehicle mode.

: Skywarp retains the hexagonal peg holes molded into Starscream's shoulders, so the figure can still support Starscream's Null Ray ''arm''aments. However, the Null Rays are prone to popping off when inserted into the peg holes due to their hexagonal shape. The stock render seen in the character bio (unlocked by scanning the QR code) also depicts him with both the Null Rays and the Warp Fork, with the former being removed for budget reasons. It should be noted that the Warp Fork was likely meant to have extra grey paint operations on the red paint details.

: Skywarp's head is molded in black, greatly reducing the risk of paint chipping and scratching suffered from ''Kingdom'' Starscream.

: As seen on ''Kingdom'' [[Hot_Rod_(G1)/toys#K43|Hot Rod's]] card illustration and Skywarp's instructions, the Energon Warp Fork is one of the three components of a combined sword. The horizontal 3mm post on the fork also prevents it from being adequately positioned when attached. This can be amended by slightly trimming off the post, though this method prevents the accessory from attaching to Skywarp's nose cone.

: This mold was also redecoed into Core Class [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Legacy|Thundercracker]].

<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Decepticon Nemesis''' ([[2023]])}}</ul>

: A tiny [[slug figure]] of Skywarp in his Cybertronian "tetrajet" mode was included with Titan-class [[Nemesis (G1)#Legacy|Nemesis]]. Though the [[package art]] depicting this piece was actually based on the [[IP infringement|unlicensed "Prankstor" figure]] -- whoopsie!
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===''Transformers Retro''===
[[File:TF-Retro-Skywarp.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZJ7AAoDhu4| Ayo, the pizza here!]]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Walmart exclusive reissue/redeco, [[2023]])
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 missile launchers, 2 null-rays, 2 cluster bombs, left & right wings, left & right tail fins, left & right tail wings, landing gear, two-piece gun mode Megatron

:Walmart once again reissued the original Skywarp toy (or is it a recolor of Starscream from the same line?) in 2023 under the ''[[Transformers Retro]]'' label. Unlike the ''Vintage G1'' release, however, ''Retro'' Skywarp has been redecoed in colors inspired by his appearance in the original ''Transformers'' animated series, more specifically ''The Transformers: The Movie''. He remains a mash-up of Starscream's ''Commemorative Series'' and ''The Transformers Collection'' reissues, with the former's elongated null rays and cluster bombs and the latter's gun mode Megatron accessory.

:The box features new art of Skywarp with ''Earthrise''-inspired detailing in robot and vehicle mode laid over a scene of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].

:''Transformers Retro'' Skywarp was officially revealed on Walmart's website<ref>https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Toys-Retro-G1-Skywarp-Converting-Action-Figure-5-5/3668943002</ref> on [[July 12]], 2023.

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==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
[[File:Decoy skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.2|Mini-wave in celebration of me! WooOOoo!]]
*'''Destron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)

:Skywarp was among the many characters rendered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] as part of their series of 1.5" ''keshigomu'' figurines. Like all the Decepticons in the series, Skywarp was molded in soft purple rubber, and featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]]s, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. He is, surprisingly enough, ''not'' identical to either Starscream or Thundercracker: the stance of his legs and the position of his Decepticon symbols differ, but he is, of course, most prominently distinguished by his raised arms.

:Skywarp was available as part of a 22-piece box set of Decepticon figures, in a peach coloration randomly packed in several box sets and with other products produced by Takara subsidiary [[Seven]], and in a wide variety of colours in "gachapon" capsule machines.

*'''Skywarp''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''33'''

: The Skywarp figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number (33, in Skywarp's case). Like all Decepticon Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]], and was, very early on in the promotion, available in an alternate red coloration that was only packed in with the Throttlebots. Unsurprisingly, this red figurine is much rarer.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Decoys/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Decoy Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Super Collection Figure''===
[[File:SCF skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.2]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)

: ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)#Super Collection Figure|Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming three-inch tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine, [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Super Collection Figure|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations (guidebook)|Transformers Generations]]'' (with the "[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]" toy as the first place prize).

: However, due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether this Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.

: This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)|Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior#Merchandise|Air Warriors]]. This mold was [[retool]]ed to make ''SCF'' [[Ramjet (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Ramjet]], [[Thrust (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Dirge]].
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===''Heroes of Cybertron''===
[[File:HOC Skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2002)

: When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. As was the standard for the line, Skywarp was made from translucent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving him [[light-piping|light-piped]] eyes. In addition, he is distinguished from his ''Super Collection Figure'' counterpart by grey knee-vents and black foot-panels, versus the respetive purple and grey applications on the original (though several samples of the figure were missing the foot-panel paint, including the one shown at the TFU link below).
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Heroes of Cybertron Skywarp at TFU.info]''

*'''Decepticon Air Cavalry Troop Builder Set''' (2003)

: The original Skywarp figurine was re-released again in this six-pack of figures available exclusively at [[OTFCC 2003]]. He came packaged with ''Heroes of Cybertron'' versions of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Heroes of Cybertron|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Heroes of Cybertron|Thundercracker]], and three [[Air Warrior#Heroes of Cybertron|Air Warriors]].

: While the three named Seekers in the set were originally intended to have a sparkly paint job to differentiate them from the normal retail versions, that ended up not happening and they ended up basically the same.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/OTFCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on 3H's Heroes of Cybertron Skywarp at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends of Cybertron''===
[[File:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)

: A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[BotCon#BotCon history|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced, of those most (but not all) had the open-palm hands and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode painted blue rather than the correct purple.

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===Palisades===
[[File:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)

:A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a "hovering" pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].

: This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.
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===''Attacktix''===
[[File:G1Skywarp-atx.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Booster, <s>2007</s>)

: Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots at opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.

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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium cancelled figure checklist.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Skywarp''' (unreleased)
:*''Accessories:'' Decepticon stand?
:The final ''[[Titanium Series]]'' catalogue listed a number of "Micro Figures" intended for release, though many of them never saw the light of day. Among those listed was a 3" Robot Masters Skywarp, which was probably a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Titanium Series|Starscream]], complete with Decepticon badge display stand.
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===''Robot Heroes''===
[[File:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]
*'''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (Multi-pack, 2007)

: Skywarp is -of course- a [[redeco]] of ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Robot Heroes|Starscream]], with swivel articulation at the neck and shoulders.

: He was only available in a [[Walmart]] exclusive multi-pack, along with [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Robot Heroes|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)/toys#RH5pack|Hologram Mirage]], and "Supermetal Finish" versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#RH5pack|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#RH5pack|Megatron]].

: This mold was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Robot Heroes|Thundercracker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/RHWMSkywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Robot Heroes Skywarp at TFU.info]''

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*'''Skywarp''' (Single-pack, 2008)

: In some countries outside of North America, Skywarp was released individually in a blindpack with no notable changes.
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===''3D Battle-Card Game''===
[[File:3DBattleCard Skywarp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2007)

: A 25-point "uncommon" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, Skywarp "transforms" into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (film)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)/toys|Starscream]], [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]], [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] and [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], along with [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Classic Starscream]] and [[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]]. In addition to his standard abilities such as teleportation, one of Skywarp's weapons is the obscure [[bouncer bomb]], which he used only once in the cartoon episode "[[The Immobilizer]]".
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===Transformers Mini-Busts===
[[File:DST08 SkywarpBust.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con exclusive, 2008)

:Retooled and redecoed from [[Art Asylum]]'s Starscream mini-bust, this statue depicts Skywarp in mid-teleport via translucent purple extremities. He was offered exclusively by [[Diamond Select Toys]] through the Action Figure Xpress booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2008, limited to 400 pieces.
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===The Loyal Subjects===
[[File:TLS skywarp.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2014)
**''Accessories:'' Gun

:Skywarp was one of the chase figures in the second wave of 3-inch tall [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] vinyl figurines produced by [[The Loyal Subjects]]. Featuring eight ball-jointed points of articulation. Unlike the other [[1984]] style Seekers, a Skywarp is not a redeco of the Starscream and Thundercracker figurine from the first wave (who were later redecoed to create the [[Rainmaker]] trio and [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]), but an all new mold with different construction and parts than his predecessors. He is slightly larger than the other '84 Seekers and features more moving parts. He does share some parts with the simultaneously released [[Ramjet (G1)/toys|Ramjet]], [[Thrust (G1)/toys|Thrust]], and fellow chase figure [[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]]. For every 96 figures from wave 2 of The Loyal Subjects, there is 1 Skywarp.
::*''[https://www.theloyalsubjects.com/store/transformers-series-2-bundle-8 More information on Skywarp and the rest of wave 2 at TheLoyalSubjects.com]
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===''D-Style''===
[[File:SkywarpDstyle.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' (09-2015)
**''ID number:'' 48
**''Accessories:'' Scowling face, smirking face, shouting face, open hand, closed hands, mini F15 jet

:A super deformed Skywarp model kit produced by [[Kotobukiya]] as part of their franchise-spanning ''[[D-Style]]'' line. Like [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#D-Style|Megatron]] he comes with three different faces and in line with the rest of the line, comes with a mini alt mode figure, in this case an F15 jet. He also contains a replaceable open hand. His chest contains flip-up panels in his chest that reveal missile racks based on the weapons seen in the Generation 1 episode "Fire on the Mountain". The null rays can be removed and wielded as guns, and he can also hold Megatron's gun.

:In order to get the figure looking like the promotional photos, required paint applications include coloring the screaming mouth, chest fans and panel lines, missile rack surrounds, null ray panel lines, and knee vents all in black. Eyes and cockpit come in translucent colored plastic and can also be painted to improve their look. Finally, the mini F15 jet comes as a single black piece and is missing all coloring.

:He comes in a two pack along with [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#D-Style|Thundercracker]].

:This mold was also used to make ''D-Style'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#D-Style|Starscream]].
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===Mecha Nations===
[[File:Mn09-skywarp.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Skywarp''' (2015)
**''ID Number:'' '''MN09'''
**''Accessories:'' alternate hands, display stand.

:Created by [[Kids Logic]], this [[super deformed]] G1 Skywarp is a redeco of Mecha Nations [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Mecha Nations|Starscream]] with a new face. He stands 6" tall and is articulated, featuring a shiny metallic color scheme, removable armor and replacement hands. He also features LED light up eyes, Decepticon insignias on his wings, null rays and thrusters in his feet, for use when he's "hovering", mounted on the included display stand.

:This figure was also redecoed with a different new face into Mecha Nations [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Mecha Nations|Thundercracker]], with whom he was a 2015 Toy Soul exhibition exclusive.
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===Bitfig===
[[File:Bitfig-Skywarp.jpg|thumb|]]
*'''Skywarp''' (06-2017)

:Part of the second wave of Transformers Bitfig capsule toys, Skywarp's is a redco of the previously released Starscream toy whose design is inspired by his appearance in the G1 cartoon. Skywarp is articulated at the neck and shoulders. Bitfig toys were packaged in capsules color coded to the toy they contained.

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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W1Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp, Sneaky Prankster''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity: '''''UT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T35/T40'''
**''Stars: ''6
:Skywarp Sneaky Prankster is one of forty double-sided character cards available in Wave 1 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]].

:The artwork on the card is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile card game.

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[[File:W2Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp, Teleporting Seeker''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T40/T46'''
**''Stars: ''10
:Skywarp, Teleporting Seeker is one of forty-six character cards released in Wave 2 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], Rise of the Combiners.

:The artwork for Bot Mode is reused from the ''[[Combiner Wars (franchise)|Combiner Wars]]'' Leader-class Skywarp toy's packaging art, while the Alt Mode artwork is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game

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[[File:W3SergeantSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Sergeant Skywarp, Black Ops-Seeker''' (2019)
**'''Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T45/T48'''
**''Stars: ''8
:Sergeant Skywarp, Black Ops-Seeker is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege I.

:The card uses reused line-art from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game, with new colors to match the aesthetic of the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' toyline's packaging art.
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===Flame Toys===
[[File:FlameToysSkywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Cue the inevitable <s>Bandai Hobby Online Shop</s> <s>Selects</s> Event exclusive "Invisible Mode" transluent redeco.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (December 2019)
**''Number:'' '''09'''
**''Additional parts/accessories'': 1 pair of Trigger-finger hands, 1 pair of open-palm hands

:Released as part of the ''Furai Model'' line by [[Flame Toys]], This Skywarp is an articulated, non-transforming, Voyager Class-sized {{w|Gunpla}}-style model kit, redecoed from the [[Starscream_(G1)/merchandise#Flame_Toys|Starscream]] mold. Skywarp is molded in primarily black, purple, and silver-ish gray ABS plastic. His translucent yellow plastic still remains. Like Starscream, his Null-rays can be detached for use as handheld blasters.

:For straight-assembly builders, Skywarp features a sheet of foil stickers for detail (notably the wings), though the kit can be panel-lined and touched-up with several panel-lining and paint markers (water/acrylic-based markers are recommended, as alcohol-based markers like ''Gundam Markers'' can potentially damage the ABS plastic). If one desires; the kit's pieces, aside from the translucent parts, can be fully coated with spray paints to recreate the finished sample seen in the stock photos.
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===''Zōteki''===
[[File:ZOTEKI-030-Skywarp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Skywarp''' ([[2021]])
**''ID number'': '''030'''

:A collaboration between [[Hasbro]] and statue/replica brand [[Jazware]], ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|The Transformers]]'' was added as a part of the ''[[Zōteki]]'' line alongside other iconic brands such as [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]], to recreate some of the main "Generation 1" characters. The 30th figure of the ''Zōteki'' line is Skywarp, whose base figure is just a simple repaint of the previously released [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Zōteki|Starscream]].

:Skywarp was released as a "chase variant" and was only exclusive to [[Target]].

:Each statue of the line features a connection point for it to be connected to the others, in order to form a battle scene.
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===Eaglemoss===
* '''Transformers Gen-1 Chess Set''' (<s>2021</s>)
:In the planned [[Chess#Eaglemoss|Transformers Chess Set]] by [[Eaglemoss]], a relatively large and very well detailed statue of Skywarp was slated to be one of the Bishop pieces on the Decepticon side.

:A Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary funds for this project was launched, but failed to meet its goal by September 24, 2021 and the whole thing was canceled.
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===Jada Toys===
[[File:JadaNanoMetalfigsG1-18pack.jpg|upright=1.44|thumb]]
*'''Transformers Series 1 18-pack''' (4cm Die Cast Figure Multipack, 2022)
:Released by [[Jada Toys]], ''Nano Metalfigs'' Series 1 Skywarp is an incredibly small die-cast figurine molded doing an action pose. He has a little base attached to his feet for balancing reasons.

:He comes in an impressive multipack with [[Jada Toys#Nano Metalfigs|seventeen other figurines]]. This mold was later used to make Series 2 [[Red Wing#Jada Toys|Redwing]] and Series 3 [[Bitstream (G1)#Jada Toys|Bitstream]].
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===Imaginarium Art===
*'''Skywarp''' (2022)

:[[Imaginarium Art]]'s "Legacy of Cybertron" Skywarp is a 20-inch-tall statue, posed on a Decepticon insignia base that can be linked up with other statues in this series to form a larger battle scene. Only 200 pieces were produced.
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===''Transformers Character Card''===
[[File:Transformers Character Card Skywarp and Thundercracker.jpg|upright=1|thumb]]
*'''Thundercracker & Skywarp Set''' ([[August 14]], [[2023]])
**''ID number:'' '''57 & 58'''

:Released as part of the eighth wave of the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''[[Transformers Character Card]]'' series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and Skywarp along with [[bio|character profiles]] and [[Tech Spec|tech specs]].
::*''[[Source:Transformers Character Card#58|Translation of Skywarp's Transformers Character Card]]''

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===Threezero===
*'''Skywarp''' (MDLX, 2024?)
**''Known designers:'' Kelvin Sau
**''Accessories:'' wing assembly, two null-ray cannons, more TBA
:A redeco of [[Threezero]]'s MDLX Starscream, Skywarp is an original design taking inspiration from the original cartoon but with the aesthetics in the vein of the live-action movies. Skywarp is a smaller scaled, non-transforming action figure in the vein of contemporary collector-oriented lines like Figma and S.H. Figuarts. Like those lines, the figure is extremely well-articulated and detailed, features interchangeable hands and faces plus accessories. He features his ever-present null-ray cannons and two dagger-like blades.

:He and [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Threezero|Thundercracker]] were revealed in a [https://www.instagram.com/p/CuIrGnDSVoP/ teaser posted to Threezero's Instagram account] showcasing Starscream.

:Skywarp retains Starscream's functionality with MDLX Optimus Prime mold, specifically the detachable wings and swappable heads.

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===Kotobukiya Bishoujo Series===
[[File:Bishoujo Skywarp.jpg|thumb|"What up, Seeker Nation? In today's video, we're looking at the effects of gravity on this chump and this staircase!"]]
*'''Bishoujo Series Transformers Skywarp''' (July 2024)
**''Known designers:'' [[Shunya Yamashita]] (artist)

:''[[Kotobukiya]] [[Bishoujo Series]]'' Skywarp is a repaint and slight retool of [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Kotobukiya Bishoujo Series|Starscream]] from the same line of PVC figures. In addition to being recolored in Skywarp's usual black and purple, the statue has received some minor resculpts, tweaking the face slightly and filling in her navel so she appears to be wearing a black skintight suit beneath her clothing.

:Like Starscream, Skywarp is attached to a purple display base designed after the Decepticon insignia, but she does not include any alternate headpieces like her fellow seeker.
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==Notes==
[[File:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|upright=0.9|thumb]]
*During the development of the [[Conehead]]s, [[Dirge (G1)/toys|Dirge]] was initially planned as new wing tooling attached to an unchanged Skywarp body. This plan lasted long enough to receive [[package art]], which was published decades later in ''[[Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging]]''.
*In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.
*In modern times, Skywarp is often the last of the three primary Decepticon Seekers to see the use of a toyline's respective Seeker mold. Consequently, his figures may become prominent [[shelfwarmer]]s at the tail end of a line's run, as notoriously seen worldwide with [[#CWLeader|''Combiner Wars'' Leader Class Skywarp]].

==References==
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Talk:Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1

2022-06-15T03:24:32Z

Mzawutang: /* Constructicons and Cybertonium */ new section

Hey, I just watched the episode but I did not see any transformers on Cybertron that turns into a Purple Spacecraft, I may have missed it but where is it?--[[Special:Contributions/92.238.181.196|92.238.181.196]] 15:41, 23 March 2010 (EDT)
:When they're repairing the Dinobots, and start complaining about how the tools on Cybertron were much better, there's a brief clip of a TF running out of a building and transforming into a flying thing. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:38, 23 March 2010 (EDT)

:Weren't there several "uniquely-designed" Transformers in the history vid Spike, Carly, and Swoop watched, some of which we even saw transform, rather than "the one-time appearance of a uniquely designed Transformer on Cybertron" referred to in the article? --[[User:Thecrookedman|Thecrookedman]] 00:01, 16 March 2010(EDT)

==Blitzwing's incomprehensible line==
The dialogue script mentions that he's supposed to be "struggling" (presumably, ad lib groans) and then says "Shift or be smashed!" Him being unintelligible is deliberate and so it shouldn't be considered an error, but maybe it should be noted somewhere else. --[[User:Kirby|Kirby]] 15:03, 2 August 2010 (EDT)

== Constructicons and Cybertonium ==

Has anyone thought that on the episode Desertion of the Dinobots, that the Constructicons were the first Decepticons to receive Cybertonium via the space bridge? This could explain why they were fully functional when battling the Dinobots

Talk:Cybertonium

2022-06-15T03:22:56Z

Mzawutang: /* Cybertonium and Constructicons */ new section

I would like to note that the Constructicons' bodies at the time are, whether they were built for the first time or rebuilt in Heavy Metal War, considerably newer than their comrades. The same goes for the Dinobots. Because they are in newer bodies, they wouldn't be depleted. [[Special:Contributions/156.3.149.15|156.3.149.15]] 15:27, 29 April 2010 (EDT)
:Not necessarily. They could have been built from scratch, but using Cybertonium from the same supply as that of the others. Or they could have had a new shell put around old internal components. Thus, their Cybertonium would be older. The point is, all of this is just SPECULATION, and does not belong on the page. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 16:19, 29 April 2010 (EDT)

== Cybertonium and Constructicons ==

Has anyone thought that on the episode Desertion of the Dinobots, that the Constructicons were the first Decepticons to receive Cybertonium via the space bridge? This could explain why they were fully functional when battling the Dinobots

Talk:Main Page

2021-06-15T02:44:51Z

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== Current Releases Series Addition ==

Dunno who added the series abbreviation before each entry under the IDW Transformers section under Current Releases (MtMtE, RiD, Spotlight, Monstrosity) but I really like it. Makes it easier to quickly tell which latest item you're looking for. Could the same be done with the other categories (Transformers Prime especially)? [[User:Excise|Excise]] 13:10, 12 June 2013 (EDT)

==Featured Article - October 2013==
It's October 4th - is there a new Featured Article ready to go? - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] 20:49, 4 October 2013 (EDT)
:We're gonna need a new one soon. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 17:23, 2 November 2013 (EDT)
I think the next featured article should be Bumper G1! - [[User:Bumblejumper|Bumblejumper]] 23:07, 4 November 2013 (EST)
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==TFP==
I noticed that Predacons Rising is still under "current releases", but it's several months old. I just wanted to mention this. - [[User:Silverboltmtmte|Silverboltmtmte]] ([[User talk:Silverboltmtmte|talk]]) 15:42, 14 December 2013 (EST)
:Though the TV premiere happened back then, the DVD release isn't that old. Besides, we have even older stuff still on that chart, like those two Rescue Bots episodes that aired over a year ago. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 17:52, 14 December 2013 (EST)
::Okay.

== Milestone page linking ==

What does everyone think about changing the Main Page disambiguation notice so that the actual number of articles links to [[Transformers Wiki:Milestones]] while the word "pages" links to the Statistics page? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 09:39, 1 August 2014 (EDT)

==Transformers Expo==
Just want to ask whether events such as the aforementioned Expo, BotCon or TFCon should be listed on the main page. [[User:Optimus Prime (Convoy)|Optimus Prime (Convoy)]] ([[User talk:Optimus Prime (Convoy)|talk]]) 09:58, 31 October 2014 (EDT)
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::BotCon is ''always'' listed on the main page. Whether it's worth listing events for Asia which the majority of our readership wouldn't be able to get to, I'm not sure. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 17:12, 31 October 2014 (EDT)
:::I don't see BotCon, could you guys tell me where it is? Anyway, the Expos are pretty big in Asia, we've got some commercials on TV and adverts on public transports. Besides, I've been to the Transformers 30th Anniversary Exhibition in Korea, so I have a lot of information on that and I'm going to the one in Singapore soon, so...[[User:Optimus Prime (Convoy)|Optimus Prime (Convoy)]] ([[User talk:Optimus Prime (Convoy)|talk]]) 21:27, 31 October 2014 (EDT)
::::BotCon is usually listed in the schedule, though no one's added BotCon 2015 yet. Info on the Asia conventions would be fantastic! --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:53, 31 October 2014 (EDT)
:::::I'll do my best. Anyway, I've found four Expos in Asia, including ones from, South Korea, Malaysia, Macau and Singapore. They all share similar names (Transformers: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Transformers Expo, Transformers 30th Anniversary Expo for the last two. They seem to be the same in a traveling exhibition, but I can't find any concrete evidence...(The one from Korea seems especially independent) Also, where should I put the events on the main page?[[User:Optimus Prime (Convoy)|Optimus Prime (Convoy)]] ([[User talk:Optimus Prime (Convoy)|talk]]) 22:04, 31 October 2014 (EDT)
::::::Events should only have a page if they're specifically organized by Hasbro and/or Takara, though we have an [[unofficial conventions]] page for conventions which aren't. I strongly suspect you're right about that being a traveling expo, and that it started with [[Transformers China Exhibition]]. If there's no way to prove it, I guess we need to make separate pages for them though, perhaps with notes linking them. If any of the (official) expos are currently running, we could stick them at the bottom of [[Main Page/featured-series]]. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 22:36, 31 October 2014 (EDT)
:::::::Could anyone give me a hand here? I don't quite know how to edit the table... Sorry for the inconvenience.[[User:Optimus Prime (Convoy)|Optimus Prime (Convoy)]] ([[User talk:Optimus Prime (Convoy)|talk]]) 11:21, 1 November 2014 (EDT)

== Transformers Universe ==

I think we can take this off the Schedule.

== Comic Schedule ==

Transformers Vol. 2 Issue is set to release on 25 Feburary according to itunes,Should i change it or not?
[[User:Hyruk|Hyruk]] ([[User talk:Hyruk|talk]]) 10:49, 21 February 2015 (EST)
:It's not on Diamond's shipping lists, so it won't be in stores next week. If iTunes actually release it, that'll be another matter. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] ([[User talk:Chris McFeely|talk]]) 14:29, 21 February 2015 (EST)

== Featured Article Oct. 2015? ==
Has there been a decision or nomination for the slot already? Because if it's not already set, I'd like to nominate [[Scourge (RID)]]. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 22:26, 24 September 2015 (EDT)
:? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 21:46, 30 September 2015 (EDT)
::Guess not! Sooo, how about considering him for Featured this May? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 10:10, 29 April 2017 (EDT)

== January ==
How about [[Star Wars]]? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 08:02, 23 December 2015 (EST)
:I like the idea of it being a Rescue Bots article - I Have Heard, or Blades if we don't want to use an episode page - in honour of IHHTRS being nominated for an Annie award. (The awards are on February 6.) Star Wars is a good option too, though. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 09:34, 23 December 2015 (EST)

::What about [[Optimus Prime (WFC)]] or [[Bumblebee (WFC)]]? -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 10:27, 23 December 2015 (EST)

==GoBox Issues==
Is the GoBox just not showing up at ''all'' for anybody else? I've been browsing the wiki and the GoBox is just...gone. It's not like the image just broke, the entire thing is gone. Did the staff get rid of it or is it just bugged out? (I'm using the latest version of Google Chrome, for the record, just in case it's a browser thing). [[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 13:04, 28 December 2015 (EST)

:I'm having the same problem browsing the wiki on my iPad, which uses Safari, so I don't think it's a browser issue. I'm gonna hop on my computer and see if it happens with Firefox. -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 13:08, 28 December 2015 (EST)

:Firefox is doing the same thing. The strange thing is, I don't even see the place where the GoBox should be. Everything below has been moved up to compensate for the loss of the GoBox. I noticed this last night, but figured I should probably wait until more people were awake to bring it up. -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 13:13, 28 December 2015 (EST)
::So this isn't a client issue, then. Good, that means that it's not on my end that the error's happening. I've sent a tweet to the Twitter account about it, and maybe that could get a head's up going on the matter. [[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 13:22, 28 December 2015 (EST)

:::[[Red Alert (G1)|It's a conspiracy, I tell you!]] -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 13:55, 28 December 2015 (EST)
::::It is fixed now! --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:15, 28 December 2015 (EST)

:::::Yep. I see them too. Thank goodness. I don't have the numbers, but I suspect the GoBoxes get us a large amount of our site traffic, not to mention being part of the site's charm. Glad to have them back!
:::::Just out of curiousity, does anyone know why they originally stopped working? -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 18:14, 28 December 2015 (EST)
::::::There's an automated process that saves a copy of [[Template:Goicons]] which is what is actually used as the gobox list. Once in a blue moon it messes up and saves a blank copy and the goboxes break. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 22:44, 28 December 2015 (EST)
:::::::Good to know. -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 22:49, 28 December 2015 (EST)

== Linking to Category:Images to be replaced ==

I was thinking it would be nice if there was a link to [[:Category:Images to be replaced]] somewhere on the main page, perhaps in [[Main Page/editing-tips]], so that new editors can find the category easier and maybe help us replace some of the sub-par images on the site. Thoughts? -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 17:26, 2 February 2016 (EST)

== Current Releases RID linking? ==

It might be helpful for the terms Cartoon, IDW Comic, Signature Publishing and Book to link to their respective articles, instead of requiring users to click on the series title then navigate to the specific pages from there. [[User:RevTibe|RevTibe]] ([[User talk:RevTibe|talk]]) 23:09, 14 February 2016 (EST)

== A Nitpick ==

Hey, ''very'' minor nitpick here, but there's no comma in the "Speak, Memory! (Part 2)" link in the main page. I get that it's not gonna matter in 20 days, but still... (please don't stab me) [[User:Genitus|Genitus]] ([[User talk:Genitus|Talk]]) 08:54, 18 February 2016 (EST)

== GoBoxes gone AWOL ==

I'm not seeing the GoBoxes at all. Is this just a problem on my end, or is it happening for everyone else? -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 17:05, 2 April 2016 (EDT)
:There was a missing close tag in the XML. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 17:58, 2 April 2016 (EDT)
::Yeah, they're back now. Thanks! -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 18:39, 2 April 2016 (EDT)

== Other wiki plagiarizing ==

So I was trying to find online stores for transformers and I found this other transformers wiki
(http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Bombshell)
pretty much all the articles are just direct copies of pages on this wiki {{unsigned|Milthar|16:11, 17 May 2016‎ }}
: That wiki didn't copy us so much as they used to ''be'' us. We used to be on Wikia, and then Wikia got [[Transformers Wiki:Community Portal/Complaints|progressively more terrible]] so [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving|we decided to leave]]. But then Wikia wouldn't delete the old version of the wiki, so it stayed up and has been shambling along as sort of a zombie-wiki ever since. --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] ([[User talk:Andrusi|talk]]) 13:12, 17 May 2016 (EDT)
::They've actually started to make some major changes lately. I'm not sure if I'd characterize the changes as good ones, but they are definitely changes. For example, pages are being broken up by universal streams and character infoboxes are being added.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 14:14, 17 May 2016 (EDT)
::: If you're ever in need of a laugh, just remember that [http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/The_Web this page] has stuck around for 1+ years without getting corrected. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 14:41, 17 May 2016 (EDT)
::::That's doubly funny because they are (finally) trying to at least reduce (if not eliminate) the humor to make themselves more distinct from us. They also seem to be writing more out-of-universe text, but that may just be due to inexperienced editors as opposed to a conscious decision. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 10:15, 18 May 2016 (EDT)

== HELP an under-construction wiki regarding ads? ==

Hello, I'm the head admin of a fellow wiki currently in the final stages of becoming independent from Wikia. There is only a very small amount of things left to do before making the official reveal, one of those (and a rather important one) being ads. Can anyone tell me how you added the "Advertisements" port on the sidebar on the left? And how you added things to that such as a Donate button? I can't seem to find any useful info online. Is it an extension that is being used, and if so, in what way and what extension is it? If you don't know how it works but maybe you know someone who does know, can you lead me to a way to contact them so I can ask? The wiki URL is my username, but add a .org at the end.

Please and thank you!! :) [[User:Wikizilla|Wikizilla]] ([[User talk:Wikizilla|talk]]) 19:06, 1 September 2016 (EDT)
:The code to insert the ads is all from [https://www.projectwonderful.com/ Project Wonderful]. Once you sign up and create advertising space with them, they provide you with some javascript and you can add it to your site's skin. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 20:49, 1 September 2016 (EDT)
::Wait, so does that include whatever is used to create the actual sidebar portlet? As in, the actual box that says "ADVERTISEMENT" and contains these ads? As in, the [http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/493titanollante/images/5/54/The_entire_ADVERTISEMENTS_thing.png/revision/latest?cb=20160902014744 entire thing] included since I have no idea how to make that new portlet {I assume the ad code works somewhat similarly to AdSense code?}. Thank you for the response though! :D [[User:Wikizilla|Wikizilla]] ([[User talk:Wikizilla|talk]]) 21:51, 1 September 2016 (EDT)
:::I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure from memory that the portlet is just hard coded into the skin, so it's not dynamically generated or anything. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 22:47, 1 September 2016 (EDT)
::::That's what I figured. Something on Skin.php in /includes/ folder or something maybe? That's my guess anyways... [[User:Wikizilla|Wikizilla]] ([[User talk:Wikizilla|talk]]) 19:26, 2 September 2016 (EDT)
:::::It's whatever your main skin file is (MonacoBook.php in our case). --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 02:42, 3 September 2016 (EDT)
::::::So in /wiki/skins/MonoBook, I edit Monobook.php? Ok. Do I add [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/SkinBuildSidebar this] to it? I can't quite seem to figure that out. [[User:Wikizilla|Wikizilla]] ([[User talk:Wikizilla|talk]]) 16:18, 3 September 2016 (EDT)
::::::Please man, I really can't get this to work... :[ [[User:Wikizilla|Wikizilla]] ([[User talk:Wikizilla|talk]]) 18:10, 8 September 2016 (EDT)
:::::::Apologies, I missed your previous message. You'd need to add the code to MonacoBook.php, yes. SkinBuildSidebar would work, but you'd still need to edit MonacoBook.php anyway because PW's code has a section of javascript that has to be added at the top of the page. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 18:42, 8 September 2016 (EDT)

== Food Network ==

Recommending a new page for Food Network shows that have Transformers specials. I'm watching an episode of Cake Wars right now, but I came in late and I don't know the full story. There was also an episode of Cake Masters where Charm City Cakes catered the 30th anniversary. I'll try to get some info scraped up to at least get some stubs started if no one beats me to it. --[[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] ([[User talk:King Starscream|talk]]) 01:34, 1 November 2016 (EDT)
:I'm pretty sure this is the kind of 'pop culture cruft' that is explicitly not covered... - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 05:05, 1 November 2016 (EDT)
::Fair point, but does it matter that it's part of an official partnership deal? The second one was explicitly an official Hasbro event as far as I can tell, with a representative of the company appearing on screen. I'm not sure if that makes a big enough difference or not. --[[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] ([[User talk:King Starscream|talk]]) 15:57, 1 November 2016 (EDT)

== Go! Box ==

Is anybody else missing the Go! box? If there are any, is there a reason it's missing?[[User:RedWingGladiator|RedWingGladiator]] ([[User talk:RedWingGladiator|talk]]) 07:43, 22 June 2017 (EDT)
:This isn't new; once in a blue moon the Goboxes break because the automated system accidentally saves a blank copy, which breaks the Gobox. [[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 10:44, 3 August 2017 (EDT)
::Though in this case it was because there was an error in the xml template itself. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 19:00, 4 August 2017 (EDT)

*And they're broken again, from [http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Template:Goicons&diff=1205657&oldid=1198508 this]. I tried editing so it matched everything else in the template, but they're still not working, so if somebody else can perform the required percussive maintenance... - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 05:35, 3 September 2017 (EDT)
::The goboxes run off a cached copy of the goicons template, which is only updated once a day, so if they break because someone messed up the coding, it'll stay broken for 24 hours unless the cache is updated manually. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 06:48, 3 September 2017 (EDT)
:::Ahh, thanks. I was wondering if that was it, but decided to speak up just in case I was wrong. I'll remember that for next time. - [[User:TBR|TBR]] ([[User talk:TBR|talk]]) 18:06, 3 September 2017 (EDT)

==Performance Matters==

SAG-AFTRA has [https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-members-vote-approve-interactive-media-video-game-agreement ratified] its video game voice acting contract. Time to take the banner down. [[User:Cr85747|Cr85747]] ([[User talk:Cr85747|talk]]) 07:27, 12 November 2017 (EST)
: Seconded. Now that the strike is 100% finished, there's no reason for it to remain up there. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 11:07, 15 November 2017 (EST)

== Navigation menu ==

Should we remove Rescue Bots from the main navigation on the left, since the series will have been over for a year by this time next week? And on a similar note, should we slot in the Prime Wars Trilogy since Titans Return is currently airing and Power of the Primes is tentatively set for next year? -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 14:38, 15 November 2017 (EST)

== Create a new page about the upcoming Studio Series toyline ==

New information has come this month. We should create the page now or we have to wait until the official announcement--[[User:Crosshairs|Crosshairs]] ([[User talk:Crosshairs|talk]]) 20:38, 11 February 2018 (EST)

== Adding BotBots to Navigation ==
We should probably do that. I don't know how to do that, or I would have. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 19:57, 3 November 2018 (EDT)
:Should we add War for Cybertron: Siege as well? --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:45, 3 November 2018 (EDT)
::So... we gonna add BotBots? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 21:30, 29 November 2018 (EST)

In fact... is there some reason we don't add currently-selling major toylines to the Navigation bar? There is NOTHING linking to Siege or Studio Series or BotBots on the mainpage first-screen (unless you get lucky with a Go! Box); you gotta scroll down and dig out a link from the "Schedule", and the most obvious direct links are at the literal bottom of the page. This seems very wrong, ''especially'' given there are now three non-continuing series in the Navigation bar (which also end up in the "Current Releases" box on the right). 
I feel like stuff like Cyberverse and Rescue Bots Academy should link to the franchise pages, not the fiction page. (Bumblebee I'm willing to quibble on (film) vs (franchise) but I lean towards the latter.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:59, 8 December 2018 (EST)
:Shoot for it! [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 21:01, 8 December 2018 (EST)
::I've been saying for a while now (at least on The Allspark's TFWiki thread) that the whole ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' line itself ought to be in the Navigation bar, since it seems to be sticking around indefinitely for the foreseeable future. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 23:17, 8 December 2018 (EST)

== TCG to navigation? ==

Am i the only one who thinks that the TCG should be on the navigation sidebar as all current toy lines get on there Arren1234 18:31, 6 January 2019 (EST)

I'd second that idea. I've helped edit the page and seeing as it is a current, ongoing part of the fandom, it would make sense to include it on the sidebar. MrRoboto
11:13, 17 April 2019 (CT)

== Go-Bots ==

Considering this wiki long ago decided to leave any non-TF-related Go Bots material to other wikis is there a reason the Go Bots comic is listed in the current release section? [[User:Indridcold13|Indridcold13]] ([[User talk:Indridcold13|talk]]) 23:44, 7 January 2019 (EST)
: Click the link to find out. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 00:04, 8 January 2019 (EST)
::I think he's asking why the comic series is included on here at all when it's not a Transformers comic nor tied to any Transformers media. Like, why not have GBWiki do that instead? Its [[gbwiki:Main Page|main page]] has a News section; for lack of a "Current Releases" section of its own (understandibly so, of course), the comic series name and issue number could go there instead. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 00:19, 8 January 2019 (EST)
:::So we'd be advertising our side-wiki even less than we already do, then. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 00:57, 8 January 2019 (EST)
:::Why not do both? It'll only be an issue for a little while. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 00:58, 8 January 2019 (EST)

== Adding icons for the IDW Hasbro and GoBots wikis ==

There was some discussion on the Allspark thread a couple of weeks ago about adding icons for the two sister wiki to the Main Page alongside our Twitter and Tumblr links (and also remove the Blogspot link) with a couple of mockups made to show what it would look like. You can find the two examples in the couple of posts starting [https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/101932-tfwikinet-thread-30/page-635#entry3881624 here]. Any feedback welcome! --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 18:47, 15 June 2019 (EDT)
:I think the version that explicitly names the other sites is preferable, but I'm not convinced by the alignment of the text over the icons in your example. You'd have to play around with it some. --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 21:43, 15 June 2019 (EDT)
::Yeah, I kinda threw that together just roughly to put across the idea. I'll be doing a sandbox to get all that right before going live. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 02:25, 16 June 2019 (EDT)
:::[[User:Abates/sandbox|Sandbox here]] --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 06:14, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
::::I wish we had a third social media account to fill that gap in the middle and make the text look less off-center, but I like it in concept. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 10:25, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
::::I kind of feel like captions indicating what the other wikis ''are'' would be preferable, but I'm not sure how to make that not look like ass... (Also, is the TFWiki.info bit actually needed?) --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 13:49, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
::::: Yeah, I feel like the ".info" bit can be safely axed. [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 14:09, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
::::::I dunno, if we're paying for another domain name for branding purposes we should keep noting it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 16:50, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
:::::::Why ''are'' we paying for another domain name? Just to stop anyone else taking it? Because I don't think anyone actually defaults to .info... --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 17:18, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
::::::::Yeah, I think that's why. A situation where Wikia/Fandom grabs tfwiki.info or whatever and points it at their Transformers Wikia would be a recipe for confusion. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 17:31, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
:::::::::Mm. But if that's the ''only'' reason we have it, why have a link on the main page that's just a redirect to itself? --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 22:28, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
::::::::::I guess it's a case of it being added back when we left Wikia (We had [https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=197671 an announcement] that linked to both URLs) and the link was kept as the Main Page changed. We could perhaps instead note it on the [[Transformers Wiki:Community Portal|Community Portal]] page. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 22:48, 18 June 2019 (EDT)
:::::::::::Yeah, I don't think there's any reason we need the link on the front page. Plus I like the balance of the text in the current sandbox. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 01:28, 19 June 2019 (EDT)

:Any more input on this or can I throw it up on the main page? --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:56, 26 June 2019 (EDT)
::I feel like the icon that Ravage should be resting his paw on ought to be the Twitter icon. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 23:56, 26 June 2019 (EDT)
:::Twitter gets pretty snippy about having things interact with their logo/icon, while Tumblr sees to be more chill about it, hence why they're positioned the way they are. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 23:59, 26 June 2019 (EDT)
::Did you experiment at all with text captions for the icons? --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 17:09, 27 June 2019 (EDT)
:::I've added a version with text captions to the sandbox, though I'm not sure it looks as good as without. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 18:24, 27 June 2019 (EDT)
::::Yeah, the text just looks out of place and unbalanced. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 20:11, 27 June 2019 (EDT)
:::::It might look more balanced if the Twitter and Tumblr icons had text beneath them too, but one could also argue that all four having text would look too cluttered. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:16, 27 June 2019 (EDT)

== Add a Breaking News Section ==

I say that they need to add a Breaking News Section for Breaking News in the Transformers Section.
→[[User:806mtson|806mtson]] ([[User talk:806mtson|talk]]) 21:56, 19 November 2020 (EST)
:We're not really a "news" kind of site. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 22:58, 19 November 2020 (EST)

== Adding a link to the "TFWiki Community" Wordpress site. ==

Wouldn't make since as it is technically a part of the site, and there isn't a link to it anywhere else on the wiki?[[User:DDog|DDog]] ([[User talk:DDog|talk]]) 00:03, 20 November 2020 (EST)
:Also on the nitpicky side, shouldn't the illustration of SG Ravage be waving as he says he is when you hover over it? It kind of bugs me.[[User:DDog|DDog]] ([[User talk:DDog|talk]]) 00:03, 20 November 2020 (EST)

== Community portal? ==

I know this isn't exactly the right place to ask this, but what happened to the community portal? I clicked the link in the sidebar and it came up as "create this page".--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 08:58, 25 November 2020 (EST)
:Okay, looking around a bit at places where I know it is linked from I have discovered that the sidebar links to [[Transformers Wiki:Community portal]] and the actual page is [[Transformers Wiki:Community Portal]]. Notice the capitalization difference. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 09:01, 25 November 2020 (EST)
::Yeah, the sidebar appears to have reset to a default, dropping the custom links to current franchises and changing to an incorrect capitalisation for the community portal. Once the sidebar's fixed we should be good. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 09:06, 25 November 2020 (EST)
:::Huh, looks like it fixed itself? --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 14:28, 25 November 2020 (EST)

== Fall of Cybertron toyline ==

I find it odd that Fall of Cybertron is the only franchise in the Series Information featurebox to not have a link to its own toyline. Even the original War for Cybertron has a redirect pointing to its five toys released on the Generations line. So wouldn't it make sense to also include a redirect for the FOC section of the Generations line under the FOC franchise here? [[User:Fritz|Fritz]] ([[User talk:Fritz|talk]]) 21:21, 25 November 2020 (EST)

== Self Transforming Optimus Prime toys ==

Any articles on the self-transforming Optimus Prime G1 toy which cost $700?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0SEYM9jHVg

Enemy (G1)

2019-03-24T00:31:29Z

Mzawutang: /* Notes */

{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon|his heroic mirrorverse counterpart|Enemy (SG)}}
{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Enemy is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Not to be confused with [[Cobra]], the Enemy.]]
'''Enemy''' takes his name seriously. He defines himself by his opposition to others; he likes to say that the long list of people who hate him shows just how important he is. It doesn't make him a great teammate. In fact, Enemy goes out of his way to ''not'' cooperate with his fellow Decepticons, solely to ensure that they don't like him.

On the other hand, his unnatural ability to be despised comes in handy on the battlefield. Enemy is cunning enough to goad the most important of his opponents into focusing on him, drawing them away from their friends and objectives and seriously compromising their usefulness.

He'll make you sound like a robot if you don't watch it.

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Enemytww.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Could it be? Is it he?]]
While [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] led most of the Decepticon army into [[Iacon (polity)|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|The War Within #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 ''Micro Change'' or ''Diaclone'' versions of toys as characters.}}
{{-}}

===''Legends'' comic===
With [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and the other Decepticon cassettes, Enemy was part of an attack on the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' to steal the new [[Transform Super Cog]] in the late 1980s. Enemy attempted to finish off the [[Jumpstarter]]s, but his attack was blocked in time by [[Nightstalker (G1)|Nightstalker]]. {{Storylink|Slugslinger's Ambition}}

==Toys==
===Encore===
[[File:Encoretoy enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Annoyingly enough, by the criteria of FIBRIR/FIRRIB, I'm actually blue.]]
*'''Soundblaster''' (2012)
**''ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right guns, cassette case

:''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' Enemy is a red and dark blue redeco of the [[Rumble (G1)/toys|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)/toys|Frenzy]] mold, based on the red version of the ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-01 Micross toy. He was included with ''Encore'' [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Encore|Soundblaster]] and [[Wingthing (G1)#Encore|Wingthing]]. As was the case with the other cassettes previously released with Soundblaster, Enemy sports a different sticker in place of his cassette spool image; an image of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] which reveals the city-bot's weak spots when viewed through Soundblaster's clear-red chest door (in the same way [[Tech Spec]] decoders work).

::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/encore/enemy/2654/1/ Image gallery of Enemy at Seibertron.com]''
{{-}}

===Masterpiece===
[[File:TF-MP-Enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."]]
*'''Cassettbot VS Cassettron''' ([[2017]]-[[December 23|12-23]])
**''Japanese ID number'': '''MP-15/16E'''
**''Accessories:'' Pink tape case, two piledrivers, piledriver mount, left & right "Thruster Guns".

:Issued in a limited edition ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' "Encore" set available from [[TakaraTomy Mall]], along with [[Stripes#Masterpiece|Stripes]], [[Nightstalker (G1)#Masterpiece|Nightstalker]], and [[Wingthing (G1)#Masterpiece|Wingthing]], Enemy is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' [[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Fru]][[Rumble (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|mble]] mold. Enemy is unique in the set, in that his weapons are not integrated into his alt mode and transformation; he comes with a redeco of the Frumble piledrivers, as well as the silver guns, which can be held in his hands, mounted on his back, or stored inside the piledrivers.

:If purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, the set includes a collector coin, featuring Enemy's face on one side and the Autobot logo and names of all the included characters on the opposite side. The coin is mounted in a card resembling a cassette, similar to the cards housing the coins for MP-15 and MP-16, but styled like Enemy's cassette mode on the "A" side, while the "B" side resembles Stripes's cassette mode.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/collector-coin-for-transformers-masterpiece-mp15-16e-cassettbot-vs-cassetron/40401/ Collector Coin for Transformers Masterpiece MP-15 / 16-E Cassettbot vs Cassetron]</ref>
{{--}}

==Merchandise==
===Generation 1===
*'''AM Radio & Headset
[[File:Am Radio decepticon.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Does he use anarchy?]]
: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]] mold. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform ''in situ''.
{{-}}

[[File:Enemy ecv inpackage.jpg|thumb|140px|And you will sound more like a Transformer than most of the cast in the ''Combiner Wars'' cartoon.]]
*'''Enemy''' (voice changer)
: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).
{{--}}

==Notes==
*By virtue of the standard sorting order of fiction, toys and merchandise established by {{SITENAME_SHORT}}, Enemy's history with the ''Transformers'' brand comes across a little muddled on this page. Here's a quick chronological order: The color scheme originally started out as one of two alternate [[variant]]s of the MC-01 Micross toy from Takara's ''Micro Change'' line. When Hasbro decided to release some of the Micro Change figures as part of their ''Transformers'' line in 1984, they picked the ''other'' version (colored in two different shades of blue) to become Frenzy, while an entirely new color scheme (black and red) was created to become Rumble. (The [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] then swapped the two characters' color schemes; see "[[FIRRIB]]" for ''that'' mess.) The unused red and blue ''Micro Change'' color scheme would subsequently inspire two licensed toys released by Nasta, first the non-transforming "AM Radio & Headset" Decepticon (which didn't have a name) and then the "Electronic Voice Changer", which gave the disembodied head the somewhat odd name "Enemy". Being the only official name ever assigned to that particular color scheme, TakaraTomy, never shy of resorting to obscure inspirations as an excuse to release a redeco of an existing toy, used it for a reissue of the original toy in its unused ''Micro Change'' colors as part of the ''Encore'' line, and subsequently also for a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' Rumble/Frenzy sculpt.

*Enemy is awesome.

*Enemy first appearance might be [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]] as a [[generic]]

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Enemy''' (エネミー ''Enemī'')
*''Italian:'' '''Nemico'''

[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Masterpiece]]
[[Category:Merchandise]]
[[Category:Mini-Cassettes]]

Enemy (G1)

2019-03-24T00:30:25Z

Mzawutang: /* Notes */

{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon|his heroic mirrorverse counterpart|Enemy (SG)}}
{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Enemy is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Not to be confused with [[Cobra]], the Enemy.]]
'''Enemy''' takes his name seriously. He defines himself by his opposition to others; he likes to say that the long list of people who hate him shows just how important he is. It doesn't make him a great teammate. In fact, Enemy goes out of his way to ''not'' cooperate with his fellow Decepticons, solely to ensure that they don't like him.

On the other hand, his unnatural ability to be despised comes in handy on the battlefield. Enemy is cunning enough to goad the most important of his opponents into focusing on him, drawing them away from their friends and objectives and seriously compromising their usefulness.

He'll make you sound like a robot if you don't watch it.

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Enemytww.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Could it be? Is it he?]]
While [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] led most of the Decepticon army into [[Iacon (polity)|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|The War Within #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 ''Micro Change'' or ''Diaclone'' versions of toys as characters.}}
{{-}}

===''Legends'' comic===
With [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and the other Decepticon cassettes, Enemy was part of an attack on the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' to steal the new [[Transform Super Cog]] in the late 1980s. Enemy attempted to finish off the [[Jumpstarter]]s, but his attack was blocked in time by [[Nightstalker (G1)|Nightstalker]]. {{Storylink|Slugslinger's Ambition}}

==Toys==
===Encore===
[[File:Encoretoy enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Annoyingly enough, by the criteria of FIBRIR/FIRRIB, I'm actually blue.]]
*'''Soundblaster''' (2012)
**''ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right guns, cassette case

:''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' Enemy is a red and dark blue redeco of the [[Rumble (G1)/toys|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)/toys|Frenzy]] mold, based on the red version of the ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-01 Micross toy. He was included with ''Encore'' [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Encore|Soundblaster]] and [[Wingthing (G1)#Encore|Wingthing]]. As was the case with the other cassettes previously released with Soundblaster, Enemy sports a different sticker in place of his cassette spool image; an image of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] which reveals the city-bot's weak spots when viewed through Soundblaster's clear-red chest door (in the same way [[Tech Spec]] decoders work).

::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/encore/enemy/2654/1/ Image gallery of Enemy at Seibertron.com]''
{{-}}

===Masterpiece===
[[File:TF-MP-Enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."]]
*'''Cassettbot VS Cassettron''' ([[2017]]-[[December 23|12-23]])
**''Japanese ID number'': '''MP-15/16E'''
**''Accessories:'' Pink tape case, two piledrivers, piledriver mount, left & right "Thruster Guns".

:Issued in a limited edition ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' "Encore" set available from [[TakaraTomy Mall]], along with [[Stripes#Masterpiece|Stripes]], [[Nightstalker (G1)#Masterpiece|Nightstalker]], and [[Wingthing (G1)#Masterpiece|Wingthing]], Enemy is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' [[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Fru]][[Rumble (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|mble]] mold. Enemy is unique in the set, in that his weapons are not integrated into his alt mode and transformation; he comes with a redeco of the Frumble piledrivers, as well as the silver guns, which can be held in his hands, mounted on his back, or stored inside the piledrivers.

:If purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, the set includes a collector coin, featuring Enemy's face on one side and the Autobot logo and names of all the included characters on the opposite side. The coin is mounted in a card resembling a cassette, similar to the cards housing the coins for MP-15 and MP-16, but styled like Enemy's cassette mode on the "A" side, while the "B" side resembles Stripes's cassette mode.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/collector-coin-for-transformers-masterpiece-mp15-16e-cassettbot-vs-cassetron/40401/ Collector Coin for Transformers Masterpiece MP-15 / 16-E Cassettbot vs Cassetron]</ref>
{{--}}

==Merchandise==
===Generation 1===
*'''AM Radio & Headset
[[File:Am Radio decepticon.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Does he use anarchy?]]
: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]] mold. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform ''in situ''.
{{-}}

[[File:Enemy ecv inpackage.jpg|thumb|140px|And you will sound more like a Transformer than most of the cast in the ''Combiner Wars'' cartoon.]]
*'''Enemy''' (voice changer)
: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).
{{--}}

==Notes==
*By virtue of the standard sorting order of fiction, toys and merchandise established by {{SITENAME_SHORT}}, Enemy's history with the ''Transformers'' brand comes across a little muddled on this page. Here's a quick chronological order: The color scheme originally started out as one of two alternate [[variant]]s of the MC-01 Micross toy from Takara's ''Micro Change'' line. When Hasbro decided to release some of the Micro Change figures as part of their ''Transformers'' line in 1984, they picked the ''other'' version (colored in two different shades of blue) to become Frenzy, while an entirely new color scheme (black and red) was created to become Rumble. (The [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] then swapped the two characters' color schemes; see "[[FIRRIB]]" for ''that'' mess.) The unused red and blue ''Micro Change'' color scheme would subsequently inspire two licensed toys released by Nasta, first the non-transforming "AM Radio & Headset" Decepticon (which didn't have a name) and then the "Electronic Voice Changer", which gave the disembodied head the somewhat odd name "Enemy". Being the only official name ever assigned to that particular color scheme, TakaraTomy, never shy of resorting to obscure inspirations as an excuse to release a redeco of an existing toy, used it for a reissue of the original toy in its unused ''Micro Change'' colors as part of the ''Encore'' line, and subsequently also for a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' Rumble/Frenzy sculpt.

*Enemy is awesome.

*Enemy first appearance might be [[More than Meets the Eyes, Part 2]] as a [[generic]]

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Enemy''' (エネミー ''Enemī'')
*''Italian:'' '''Nemico'''

[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Masterpiece]]
[[Category:Merchandise]]
[[Category:Mini-Cassettes]]

Enemy (G1)

2019-03-24T00:29:23Z

Mzawutang: /* Notes */

{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon|his heroic mirrorverse counterpart|Enemy (SG)}}
{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Enemy is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Not to be confused with [[Cobra]], the Enemy.]]
'''Enemy''' takes his name seriously. He defines himself by his opposition to others; he likes to say that the long list of people who hate him shows just how important he is. It doesn't make him a great teammate. In fact, Enemy goes out of his way to ''not'' cooperate with his fellow Decepticons, solely to ensure that they don't like him.

On the other hand, his unnatural ability to be despised comes in handy on the battlefield. Enemy is cunning enough to goad the most important of his opponents into focusing on him, drawing them away from their friends and objectives and seriously compromising their usefulness.

He'll make you sound like a robot if you don't watch it.

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Enemytww.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Could it be? Is it he?]]
While [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] led most of the Decepticon army into [[Iacon (polity)|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|The War Within #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 ''Micro Change'' or ''Diaclone'' versions of toys as characters.}}
{{-}}

===''Legends'' comic===
With [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and the other Decepticon cassettes, Enemy was part of an attack on the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' to steal the new [[Transform Super Cog]] in the late 1980s. Enemy attempted to finish off the [[Jumpstarter]]s, but his attack was blocked in time by [[Nightstalker (G1)|Nightstalker]]. {{Storylink|Slugslinger's Ambition}}

==Toys==
===Encore===
[[File:Encoretoy enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Annoyingly enough, by the criteria of FIBRIR/FIRRIB, I'm actually blue.]]
*'''Soundblaster''' (2012)
**''ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right guns, cassette case

:''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' Enemy is a red and dark blue redeco of the [[Rumble (G1)/toys|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)/toys|Frenzy]] mold, based on the red version of the ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-01 Micross toy. He was included with ''Encore'' [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Encore|Soundblaster]] and [[Wingthing (G1)#Encore|Wingthing]]. As was the case with the other cassettes previously released with Soundblaster, Enemy sports a different sticker in place of his cassette spool image; an image of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] which reveals the city-bot's weak spots when viewed through Soundblaster's clear-red chest door (in the same way [[Tech Spec]] decoders work).

::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/encore/enemy/2654/1/ Image gallery of Enemy at Seibertron.com]''
{{-}}

===Masterpiece===
[[File:TF-MP-Enemy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."]]
*'''Cassettbot VS Cassettron''' ([[2017]]-[[December 23|12-23]])
**''Japanese ID number'': '''MP-15/16E'''
**''Accessories:'' Pink tape case, two piledrivers, piledriver mount, left & right "Thruster Guns".

:Issued in a limited edition ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' "Encore" set available from [[TakaraTomy Mall]], along with [[Stripes#Masterpiece|Stripes]], [[Nightstalker (G1)#Masterpiece|Nightstalker]], and [[Wingthing (G1)#Masterpiece|Wingthing]], Enemy is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' [[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Fru]][[Rumble (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|mble]] mold. Enemy is unique in the set, in that his weapons are not integrated into his alt mode and transformation; he comes with a redeco of the Frumble piledrivers, as well as the silver guns, which can be held in his hands, mounted on his back, or stored inside the piledrivers.

:If purchased from a seller supplied by Hasbro Asia, the set includes a collector coin, featuring Enemy's face on one side and the Autobot logo and names of all the included characters on the opposite side. The coin is mounted in a card resembling a cassette, similar to the cards housing the coins for MP-15 and MP-16, but styled like Enemy's cassette mode on the "A" side, while the "B" side resembles Stripes's cassette mode.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/collector-coin-for-transformers-masterpiece-mp15-16e-cassettbot-vs-cassetron/40401/ Collector Coin for Transformers Masterpiece MP-15 / 16-E Cassettbot vs Cassetron]</ref>
{{--}}

==Merchandise==
===Generation 1===
*'''AM Radio & Headset
[[File:Am Radio decepticon.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Does he use anarchy?]]
: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]] mold. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform ''in situ''.
{{-}}

[[File:Enemy ecv inpackage.jpg|thumb|140px|And you will sound more like a Transformer than most of the cast in the ''Combiner Wars'' cartoon.]]
*'''Enemy''' (voice changer)
: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).
{{--}}

==Notes==
*By virtue of the standard sorting order of fiction, toys and merchandise established by {{SITENAME_SHORT}}, Enemy's history with the ''Transformers'' brand comes across a little muddled on this page. Here's a quick chronological order: The color scheme originally started out as one of two alternate [[variant]]s of the MC-01 Micross toy from Takara's ''Micro Change'' line. When Hasbro decided to release some of the Micro Change figures as part of their ''Transformers'' line in 1984, they picked the ''other'' version (colored in two different shades of blue) to become Frenzy, while an entirely new color scheme (black and red) was created to become Rumble. (The [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] then swapped the two characters' color schemes; see "[[FIRRIB]]" for ''that'' mess.) The unused red and blue ''Micro Change'' color scheme would subsequently inspire two licensed toys released by Nasta, first the non-transforming "AM Radio & Headset" Decepticon (which didn't have a name) and then the "Electronic Voice Changer", which gave the disembodied head the somewhat odd name "Enemy". Being the only official name ever assigned to that particular color scheme, TakaraTomy, never shy of resorting to obscure inspirations as an excuse to release a redeco of an existing toy, used it for a reissue of the original toy in its unused ''Micro Change'' colors as part of the ''Encore'' line, and subsequently also for a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' Rumble/Frenzy sculpt.

*Enemy is awesome.

*Enemy first appearance might be [[More than Meet the Eyes Part 2]] as a [[generic]]

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Enemy''' (エネミー ''Enemī'')
*''Italian:'' '''Nemico'''

[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Masterpiece]]
[[Category:Merchandise]]
[[Category:Mini-Cassettes]]

The Master Builders (episode)

2019-02-20T04:11:35Z

Mzawutang: /* Animation and technical errors */

{{disambig2|the cartoon episode|the ''Legends'' event|The Master Builders (Legends)}}
{{episode
|series=G1toon
|ep=32
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=20
|prev2=Dinobot Island, Part 2
|next2=The Insecticon Syndrome
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=10
|prev3=Dinobot Island, Part 2
|next3=A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court (episode)
|image=MasterBuilders Scrapper Grapple plans.jpg
|caption="Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches. Now, whether or not he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told." "But you're not as confused as him, are you. I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel."
|title="The Master Builders" "The Master Builder"
|production code=#700-31
|airdate=[[October 8]], 1985
|written by=[[David N. Gottlieb]] [[Herb Engelhardt]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei Animation|Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''Grapple and Hoist ally themselves with the Constructicons.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Master builders2.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|I think you'll need to join Weight Watchers.]]
[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] shows [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] a working model of a [[Solar Power Tower]] he wants to build and the two of them take it to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Optimus is occupied at the moment because [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike]] is teaching him how to play [[basketball]]. Optimus likes Grapple's concept, but rejects the plan because it would be difficult to defend the tower against an attack.

The conversation is cut short when [[Teletraan I]] alerts them that [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] has been shot down by [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]]. Hoist and Grapple leave to repair the [[Autobot]] plane. After repairs are finished, they start back, with Grapple attempting to convince Hoist to build the tower with him, regardless of Prime's orders, but Hoist points out they can't do it alone

Their conversation is cut short when they are trapped by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] says they've left the [[Decepticon]]s and proposes a joint project. Grapple, enamored with his solar tower idea, agrees, but wants proof of their partnership. They promise to bring proof back and fly off.

[[File:Master builders prime basketball.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool/and shootin' some b-ball outside of the school...]]
On their return to Decepticon headquarters, the Constructions are confronted with several weapons pointed at them, as well as an enraged [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], who confronts them with video tape of their conversation with Grapple. They all swear loyalty to Megatron, and insist they plan to betray the Autobots. Satisfied with their explanation, Megatron lets them go with a present. They return to Grapple and Hoist with "proof", an entire truckload of [[energon]], they claim they have stolen from Megatron. Convinced that they are working in good faith, Grapple and Hoist agree to the partnership. The Constructicons are soon stealing construction materials from the humans for the project.

Meantime, Optimus is playing basketball with [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]. After he shuts Tracks down during a drive to the net, Prime notices that Tracks needs maintenance, but no one knows where Hoist is. The Autobot leader sends Powerglide out to find the missing Autobots. Powerglide finds the solar tower and reports back.

[[File:MasterBuilders Devastator finishing touch.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Look, up in the sky! 
Is it a bird? 
Is it a plane? 
No, it's a sun-focusing sphere. 
Well, that's disappointing...]]
Grapple is in his element, directing the Constructicons as the tower is built, and blissfully unaware of their deception. The Constructicons merge to form [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] in order to place the sun-focusing sphere at the top of the tower. With the last piece in place, the tables turn. Megatron attacks Grapple and Hoist and claims the tower as his own. The Decepticons get to work collecting the energy.

[[File:MasterBuilders Grapple sunset.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Dammit, I've ruined another garage kit.]]
The Autobots arrive and attack, quickly overwhelming the Decepticons, who retreat behind the tower. The Autobots follow, to find that the Constructicons have formed Devastator and he's not so easy to defeat. Prime tricks Devastator into trying to kick Smokescreen but he kicks the tower instead. A few more rounds of laser fire send Devastator crashing into the tower, demolishing it. Megatron and the Constructicons retreat.

The Autobots dig in the debris to try and find Grapple and Hoist. [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] discovers them encased in a sheet of metal and punches it apart. Grapple and Hoist apologize for the trouble they've caused. Prime is in a forgiving mood, but says they have to clean up the mess themselves. As the others drive off, Grapple and Hoist fondly remember the tower.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (1)
*[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] (4)
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (5)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] (6)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (7)
*[[Teletraan I]] (9)
*[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] (20)
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (21)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (22)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (24)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (25)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cliffjumper]] (26)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (27)
|c2=
*[[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]] (2)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (3)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (10)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (11)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (12)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (13)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (14)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (15)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (16)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (17)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (18)
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (23)
|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (8)
*[[Construction Foreman]] (19)
}}

==Quotes==
"Move over, blue skies. Here comes old Powerglide, king of the cloud chasers, sultan of the stratosphere, ace of the air."
:—'''Powerglide''', king of self-esteem.

"Well, if he's not impressed, I'll... be ''de''pressed."
:—'''Grapple''' worries about whether Optimus Prime will agree on his proposal for a Solar Tower.

"Am I 'drooling' correctly?" 
"The word is 'dribbling', Optimus!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Spike''' play basketball.

'''Megatron''': "Ahhh, my loyal Constructicons. You are loyal, aren't you? No! You're traitors! And you can't deny it." 
'''Scrapper''': "Megatron, y-y-you got it all wrong!" 
'''Hook''': "We're still working for you, and for the glory of the Decepticons." 
'''Bonecrusher''': "You see we eavesdropped on their plans." 
'''Long Haul''': "Plans to build a whopper solar tower!" 
'''Scavenger''': "That'd produce megawatts of energy." 
'''Mixmaster''': "Energy we can use to destroy the Autobots. Get it, Get it, heh-huh?"
:— The Constructicons try to explain themselves to a furious Megatron.

'''Bonecrusher''': We'll just help ourselves if you don't mind. 
'''Long Haul''': Or even if you do! 
'''Construction foreman:''' Who me? M-mind? Why should I! hehe... he. [''tears up his blueprints'']
:—The Constructicons rob a hapless building site.

"As soon as my Power Tower is finished, I must find a place to sign my name... in very large letters."
:—'''Grapple''' as the Solar Power Tower is approaching completion.

"Watch out Spike! I'm driving for a layoff!" 
"It's called a layup, Prime! And watch out for Tracks!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' gets basketball lessons from '''Spike'''.

"'Get this.' 'Bring that.' I thought I was finally gonna ''build'' somethin'!"
:—'''Long Haul''' after being told to bring another solar panel.

"Man, look at that! That's so tall, the top is in a different time zone than the bottom!"
:—Observing the Solar Power Tower, '''Spike''' demonstrates that you don't need to understand geography if your best friends are giant robots.

"There'll be other towers to design and build, Grapple." 
"It ''was'' magnificent... for a little while, wasn't it, Hoist?" 
"Incredible. Absolutely incredible."
:—'''Hoist''' and '''Grapple''', amid the ruins of the Solar Power Tower.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
[[File:MasterBuilders Cliffjumper glass gas gun.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"This Master Builder will thwart the Kragle and save the realm!"]]
[[File:MasterBuilders Megatron chest compartment.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Two can play at this game, [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]]..."]]
*Scrapper claims that the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] admired Grapple's work back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. This contradicts the earlier statement in "[[Heavy Metal War]]" that the Constructicons were built recently on Earth, but fits with the later accounts of their history given in "[[The Secret of Omega Supreme (episode)|The Secret of Omega Supreme]]" and "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]".
*Gadgets and powers:
**Powerglide has a video camera that extends from his nosecone, right in front of his canopy.
**The Autobots can shoot lasers out of their headlights when they drive into battle. The idea never crossed their minds in "[[The Autobot Run]]". One is tempted to fanwank the error away by saying that the events of that episode inspired them to install these extra armaments.
**Tracks has twin missile launchers in his [[Alternate mode|car mode]] hood.
**Devastator uses his [[optic weaponry|eye beams]] yet again. He [[The Autobot Run|loves]] [[The Core|those]] things!
**Cliffjumper's [[glass gas]] resembles a snowball or comet, and can be repelled by a strong wind (possibly a call-back to his bio weakness, which says that he must remain upwind of it or fall victim to its effects.)
**Megatron has a compartment in his chest that holds a pair of binoculars. We get a look inside the same location of his chest during "[[The Revenge of Bruticus]]", and needless to say there ain't no binoculars there.

===Real-world references===
*"Here Comes the Sun!" Grapple says, completing his Solar Power Tower model and quoting the title of a [[Fab Four|Beatles]] {{w|Here Comes the Sun|tune}}.
*The Autobots make their [[Atlantis, Arise!|second foray into the sports world]], as Spike teaches Optimus Prime about basketball. Prime learns to <s>drool</s> dribble the ball, spins the ball on one finger, and orders Spike to "Compute, quickly!" as he passes the ball to him. Later, Prime quotes the stereotypical sportscaster ("He shoots, he scores!") while driving for a <s>layoff</s> lay up. Later still, he rolls the basketball across his arms and shoulders.
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**When Prime leaps toward the basketball goal, he gets the [[Death Star]] firing/Alderaan exploding sound effect sequence.
**Megatron takes off from the ruined power tower with the same sound effect. The Constructicons follow him with the rest of that sound effect, along with some [[X-wing Fighter]] diving sounds.

===Animation and technical errors===
*One gun, many lasers:
**Skywarp only has two weapons to fire, yet about a dozen different laser beams are shown streaking past Powerglide.
*Skywarp's under-wing insignia are missing throughout the opening sequence.
*As Wheeljack gives Grapple his thumbs-up, the glow effect of his flashing "ears" is misaligned from the ears themselves at the start and end of the shot.
*Teletraan I gets the radio-muffle on its voice as it announces that Powerglide has been shot down.
*Improbable viewpoints:
**As Scrapper treaties with the Autobots, a random rock opens up, and out pops a video camera. While this does explain how Megatron and Starscream can watch the conversation from Decepticon Headquarters, it raises the question of just how many random rocks the Decepticons had to load up with cameras to ensure that they'd actually catch something. Why not have [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] do the spying?
**The camera's angle changes during Scrapper's speech, even though it's clearly fixed in place.
**The camera's angle has changed ''again'' when Megatron shows it to the Constructicons.
**The view of Grapple and Hoist that Powerglide relays back to Autobot Headquarters is clearly not taken from a moving airplane.
*Scrapper's eyeband turns gray as he points toward Long Haul approaching with the energon cubes.
*Coloring errors:
**As he welds alongside Hoist, Grapple's butt changes from gray to orange.
**Scavenger's face is almost entirely dark gray as he discusses his welding troubles with Grapple.
**Devastator's back, i.e. Long Haul's cargo bed, is purple throughout the episode. It should be green.
**After Brawn finds the ruined model of the [[Solar Power Tower]], Cliffjumper steps into the frame, colored yellow like Bumblebee.
**When Grapple picks up the ruined model, one of its solar panels is gray instead of gold.
*Flying Autobots:
**Prime leaps toward the basket with a flight sound effect.
*Tracks is supposed to be emitting some kind of malfunctioning-type of noise as Prime helps him to his feet, but it's barely audible as such.
*Tracks is missing one of his missile launchers as Spike runs up to join the group on the basketball court.
*In a bizarre stylistic decision, the Constructicons' second combination sequence does not feature the transforming sound. Instead, as they convert to their combined forms, they get a sound effect normally reserved for energy effects. Each one glows blue after transforming, accompanied by an even more bizarre tinkling noise.
*As usual, the apportionment of Devastator's components is off; Long Haul forms about 90% of the torso, with Hook forming the remainder (it should be split almost evenly between them.) Everyone else is correct, which puts this episode ahead of most of its contemporaries.
[[File:MasterBuilders devastator under attack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Then later, he's this size.]]
*Not that Devastator isn't [[Scale|out of whack]] in every episode, but when the Autobots first approach them, Scrapper's shovel alone is several times taller than the Autobots. When Devastator is about to kick Smokescreen, one of [[Scrapper (G1)|Devastator's legs]] is roughly three times the size of the Autobot.
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] appears for a single shot during the battle, standing alongside Optimus as they rock in the breeze from Devastator's hand-swipe. Though he was playing basketball earlier in the episode, he's completely absent from the battle group before and after this single shot. Best guess is that it should have been Ironhide.
*As he and the others fire on Devastator, one of Powerglide's laser blasts doesn't quite line up with the corresponding sound effect.
*Prime is missing the horizontal lines on his tummy grille as the Autobots cheer.
*As Hoist and Grapple first face Prime, Grapple's front bumper is bent in the middle. This may be meant to signify damage from his captivity... but the damage disappears after this one shot.
*As Prime accepts the pair's apologies, Hoist's right arm is missing, as is the top of Grapple's left arm.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:MasterBuilders Solarpowertower.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|It's to get them closer to the sun, obviously!]]
*The solar panels seem to be the only essential component of the tower. Why do they need to be up on this huge cumbersome tower? Couldn't they simply build them into the top of the volcano, thereby satisfying Optimus Prime's security requirements? (For that matter, why aren't they already tapping into the geothermal energy of the lava beneath?)
*In [[robot mode]], Grapple and Hoist could ''easily'' have leaped over the boulder that first blocks their path. We'll give them a pass and say they were just panicked.
*Scrapper leaps ''down'' onto the boulder after the first commercial break... but he already leapt downward off the boulder when dodging the Autobots' fire.
*A giant paper blueprint? Really? The super-advanced space robots haven't switched over to a paperless office yet?
*Optimus's "Battle formation! Roll!" order is kind of strange, since the Autobots already appear to have both items covered.

===Trivia===
[[File:Masterbuilder.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The Master Bait—uh, Builders]]
*When remastered for DVD by [[Rhino Entertainment]], the re-created title card for the episode was incorrectly rendered as "The Master Builder". This title appeared on all associated material included with the DVD set, and can be seen in the screen shot at right. Oddly enough, while the same incorrect title card appears in the 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" edition by Shout! Factory, the correct title appears on the DVD menu and the box set's episode guide.
*This episode introduces a slightly modified color model for Devastator. In his previous appearances, that, erm, ''protrusion'' on the front of his pelvis was green with purple sides, but is changed to solid purple, while the portion of his torso underneath his chest plate is changed from purple to green. However, the new model mistakenly colors the "jet port" on the top of his chest plate green instead of purple. This new color model would be used for all future appearance by Devastator that were animated by [[Toei Animation|Toei]]; unsurprisingly, [[AKOM]] never got the memo.
*The Autobots have a color-coded alert system. When Teletraan I discovered that Powerglide was shot down he called for "condition magenta". When Optimus Prime discovered Grapple and Hoist were working with the Constructions, he called for "disaster code blue" and ordered a strike force to assemble.
*Unlike [[Make Tracks|Tracks]], Grapple and Hoist appear to have been unconcerned with where and how the Constructicons procured their building supplies.
*Seriously, can you imagine the [[Scale|size]] of the ball that the Autobots need to play basketball?

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title (Generation 2 dub):'' "'''Der Energieturm'''" ("The Energy Tower")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[July 2]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''Il grande progetto'''" ("The Great Project")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''I costruttori'''" ("The Builders")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Master Builder'''" (マスタービルダー, "The Master Builders")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 22]], [[1985]]
:*After Megatron looks through his binoculars, the dub has him ordering ''Blitzwing'' to intercept, not ''Ramjet'' (even though Ramjet is clearly the one who takes off at Megatron's command). Ramjet is even dubbed with Blitzwing's voice.

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Jiànzhù Dàshī '''" (建筑大师, "The Master Builders")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gore-stroyiteli'''" (Горе-строители, "The Sorry Builders")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

===Toys inspired by this episode===
*'''''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' MP-35 [[Grapple (G1)#Masterpiece|Grapple]] ([[TakaraTomy]], 2017)'''
:A redeco and retool of ''Masterpiece'' [[Inferno (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Inferno]], Grapple includes the model and the blueprint for the Solar Power Tower, a new handgun, and the screwdriver to build it, all from this episode.
{{-}}

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1994 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''The Transformers'' — Autobot Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 3 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 2: Series 2.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 04: Stagione Due Parte Seconda ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-31.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]
*[http://imdb.com/title/tt0808858/ IMDb's page for this episode]
*[http://teletran93.deepspace93.com/tf2/ep32/ Teletran93's page for this episode]

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Hoist Goes Hollywood (episode)

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{{episode
|image=Hoist goes hollywood1.jpg
|caption=Unfortunately, none of these guys made it past Michael Bay.
|series=G1toon
|ep=55
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=45
|prev2=Sea Change
|next2=Aerial Assault
|title="Hoist Goes Hollywood"
|written by=[[Earl Kress]]
|production code=700-54
|airdate=[[November 21]], 1985
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Hoist gets cast in a big [[Hollywood]] movie! Hijinks ensue.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Hoist rescue.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie! And that I was the star of the movie.]]

[[Carly]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] are on a drive through the countryside inside [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] when they are overtaken by two speeding vehicles. They pursue and see one of the cars make an improbable crash off a cliff and land on top of the other. Before they can investigate, a man on the top of the cliff yells at them for ruining the shot. It turns out they’ve driven into the middle of a movie set. Hoist saves the imperiled drivers of the crashed cars, and the [[Attack of the Alien Robots director|director]] is so impressed, he hires Hoist on the spot for his next movie. The director invites Spike and Carly along to visit the movie studio.

In the skies, [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] is having trouble transporting a mysterious, heavy load. He crashes into the swamp set on the lot of [[Major Pictures]]. [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] orders him to shut down, yells at [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] for no good reason, then sends [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] to go after Dirge and retrieve the mysterious cargo.

Hoist arrives at Major Pictures for his big-screen debut, but gets the brush-off from the director. Before filming begins, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] horn in on the set and ham it up for the director’s attention. Strangely, the director is impressed by their hi-jinks and decides to hire them all for the action picture.

[[File:Hoisthollywoodmegsseesfilm.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|''Show biz kids Making movies
of themselves'']]

Movie work doesn’t prove to be as glamorous as they had hoped. The bots wind up crashing into buildings and playing second fiddle to the human actors, [[Karen Fishook]] and [[Harold Edsel (G1)|Harold Edsel]], while Hoist pulls them out of the smoldering wreckage after each take.

Disgruntled at their bit parts, the Autobots ask Hoist to lobby the director for better roles, but the director tells Hoist to get a bagel and sit tight. The Autobots take off just as Astrotrain and the other [[Conehead]]s show up to pull Dirge and the cargo out of the swamp set, all as the cameras roll.

Back at Decepticon headquarters, Megatron looks over the [[Wheeljack's unnamed invention|strange device]]. He isn’t sure what it does; he only knows that Wheeljack built it, but he’s sure that it is some kind of potent, deadly weapon. (He doesn’t know [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] very well, does he?) When switched on by Thrust, the device sparks and smokes, but does nothing else. Enraged, Megatron bashes Starscream. Astrotrain then reveals that he and the others were filmed by the humans when they retrieved the device. Megatron orders everyone to the studio to steal or destroy the footage so the device remains a secret.

At the studio, the director is viewing the robot footage and decides to revamp the script into a science fiction epic blockbuster called ''[[Attack of the Alien Robots]]'', to the dismay of the human cast. He calls the Autobots to return with the promise of better parts. Once back, the director has the Autobots don googly-eyed, buck-toothed alien masks and stomp around after the female lead. For some reason, the Autobots still don’t like their parts as monsters from space.

[[File:Hoisthollywoodevilaliens.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|''He's in the best-selling show Is There Life on Mars?'']]

Making their rounds, Spike and Carly find the room where the film negatives are stored and discover that someone has stolen scenes from the movie. That someone was Starscream, but [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] reports to Megatron that the original negative still exists. Megatron pounds on Starscream again, this time ripping wires out of his chest! He then orders the others to get the negative.

Meanwhile, the Autobots are filming another scene with pyrotechnics, which have been switched for actual explosives by [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]. Spike and Carly are in a screening room watching a new print of the stolen footage of the Decepticons and the device. Midway through the screening, [[:File:HoistGoesHollywood Soundwave movie rip.JPG|Soundwave rips through the screen]] and destroys the projector. Spike and Carly rush to the film vault to get the original before the Decepticons do, but are interrupted by Megatron. Carly fools him by giving him an empty film canister, and they race around the studio lot with the Decepticons close on their heels. They finally meet up with Hoist, who has a plan.

[[File:Hoisthollywoodflesheatinglava.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|''Now is the time For you and I to cuddle close together All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen'']]

Megatron and the others finally catch up and find the Autobots on a movie set. Hoist threatens to drop the humans and the film into a vat of flesh-eating lava if the ‘Cons don’t withdraw. Megatron says he won’t do it, but Hoist drops them in. Content that the film is gone, the Decepticons retreat. Hoist then lifts Spike and Carly from the “lava”, which is just bubbly, muddy water mixed with special effects.

The Autobots show the film to Wheeljack in the screening room. The Autobot scientist laughs at Megatron because the device Megatron wanted so much is actually worthless. Impressed with Hoist's performance at the lava pit, the director offers him the leading part in a new film, but Hoist declines, saying that his duty as an Autobot comes first, no matter how unglamorous it is.

{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (1)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (14)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (15)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (16)
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (17)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (21)

|c2=
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (8)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (9)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (10)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (11)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (12)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (13)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (18)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (20)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] (2)
*[[Carly]] (3)
*[[Attack of the Alien Robots director#Assistant director|Assistant director]] (4)
*[[Attack of the Alien Robots director|Director]] (5)
*[[Karen Fishook]] (6)
*[[Harold Edsel (G1)|Harold Edsel]] (7)
*[[Attack of the Alien Robots director#Production assistant|Production assistant]] (19)
}}

==Quotes==
"Ready for my big scene, Mr. Director." 
"Huh? Oh, yeah, the robot. Er...okay, Moist, er...pick up a donut from the catering truck and relax until I call for ya." 
"Donut?"
:—'''Hoist''' gets the brush-off from the Major Pictures '''director'''.

"The star has arrived!"
:—'''Sunstreaker''', humble as ever

"Oh, no. The Autobots have gone movie-mad.”
 "And the director's gonna be just plain mad!"
:—'''Spike''' and '''Carly'''

"Who would want to steal scenes from ''this'' picture?"
:—'''Spike Witwicky''', movie critic

[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Sunstreaker Tracks masks.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|''Science fiction double feature'']]
"I feel like a fool!" 
"Do you wanna quit?" 
"No, but I still feel like a fool!"
:—'''Tracks''' and '''Sunstreaker''' aren't enjoying their movie careers.

"He is...no match for the alien robots...I-I mean, the ''evil'' alien robots."
:—'''Warpath''' shows his acting chops.

"Is ''this'' what you're looking for, Megatron? You and the rest of the Decepticons ''get out!'' Or I'll drop them, and your precious film, into this pit of flesh-eating lava!" 
"An Autobot would never hurt a human. You're bluffing!" 
"''Am I?!'' [''drops them''] Maybe ''you'd'' like to follow them, Megatron!" 
:—'''Hoist''' is a bit scary as he bluffs '''Megatron'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*"Dash Jordon" was referenced in the [[Buzz Dixon]]-penned episode of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' titled "My Brother's Keeper". He was said to be appearing at a science fiction convention.

===Real-world references===
[[File:AotAR.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|What do you mean, 'Flash Gordon approaching'?]]
* The characters of Harold Edsel and Karen Fishook are obvious parodies of [[Harrison Ford]] and {{w|Carrie Fisher}} from the ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' films. Karen Fishook is voiced by [[Susan Blu]], who would later voice another Princess Leia parody: [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee.]]
* Upon Powerglide's entrance, he references the {{w|Academy Awards}}, saying "I'll show you some real Oscar-winning material." No Transformers movie has won an Oscar, though [[Transformers (film)|the 2007 film]] was nominated for three awards, [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|its 2009 sequel]] for one, and [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|their 2011 sequel]] for three again.
*The role of "Dash Jordon" is an obvious reference to the character {{w|Flash Gordon}}.

===Animation and technical errors===
* Coloring errors:
** Spike's hair is colored orange in the first shot of him riding in Hoist's cab.
** One of Dirge's smaller fins is gray instead of gold after he crashes into the swamp.
** One panel of Powerglide's face is red instead of gray as he gripes about all the crashes.
** In the swamp, when Ramjet transforms and takes off, he is given Thrust's colors. He's also standing where Thrust had been a moment earlier.
** Ramjet's guns are white instead of dark gray as Thrust activates the device.
** When Megatron grabs Starscream after he learns the negative is still in existence, Starscream's hips turn white, but they immediately turn back to their normal red when he gets picked up.
** After Megatron rips Starscream a new one, Soundwave is colored like [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]].
** Aboard the space ship set, Sunstreaker is [[:file:Sunstreaker-diaclone.jpg|colored light gray]] where he should be yellow.
** When Spike and Carly view the footage, Wheeljack's invention is yellow instead of gray.
** Megatron's "eyebrow" is light gray instead of black as he listens to Hoist's spiel.
** The sides of Megatron's face are black as he runs out following the "destruction" of the negative.
** Tracks' "hood" is dark gray instead of blue during the group pan over the Autobots at the end.

* Warpath "sharpshoots" at nothing! The shot causes some kind of energy effect to radiate out of thin air.
* As the director announces the Autobots will be his stunt vehicles, Spike's "Tracks!" line is randomly played over again.
* As the director notes he wants something "extra," his glasses are missing their earpieces for a moment.
* A number of sound effects are missing or played at oddly low volume:
** Tracks drives off the building set and changes to his flight mode without the transformation sound.
** Thrust and Ramjet land at the swamp set without any sound effect at all.
** The usual "clunk" sound is barely audible as Megatron punches Starscream.
** The electrical sounds of Starscream shorting out after Megatron brutalizes him are almost inaudible.
** When the mechanical dinosaurs explode from Rumble's blasts, there are no explosion sounds.

* Thrust's mouth is missing as he and Ramjet set down the device.
* Megatron, Starscream (in [[robot mode]]!) and Soundwave leave the Decepticon base; the very next shot shows Megatron, Soundwave and three jets (one could be Starscream, but there was no transformation sound).
* Karen Fishook's attempt to console her co-star is cut off in mid-sentence by the scene edit.
* The "CLOSED" sign on the studio the Decepticons are in reads "CLLOSE".
* When Megatron is examining a reel of film, the reel is out of scale from a normal film reel.
* Warpath and Powerglide are missing their face plates after the explosion scene.
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood No Faceplate Error.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Guess they mouthed off once too often.]]
*Spike yells, "DUCK!" when Soundwave bursts through the theater screen, but he and Carly run away instead.
* Soundwave's hand cannon repeatedly uses a sound effect that's not the usual Decepticon laser noise.
* As usual, human buildings comfortably accommodate a full-size Transformer, such as Megatron or Soundwave.
* Just before they run into Megatron, Spike and Carly appear to be mouthing something, but there's no dialogue.
* When Soundwave tells Carly and Spike to "Surrender the negative," he appears as if he's sliding forward in the next scene, even though he's walking towards them, as evidenced by the sound of his footsteps.
* Megatron, Soundwave and Rumble tear through a jungle background, but it's still there as they walk through the tear.
* When Spike and Carly emerge from the cave, they are about half the height of Megatron.
* As Megatron jumps out of the cave, his head is about a third the size it should be, but returns to normal size once he lands.
*As the director offers Hoist a role in his next movie, the shots show light brown walls around them, but in the last shot of the episode, the theater is back to dark blue again.
* Near the end of the episode, Warpath says "You tell him Hoist, yeah," but Hoist's mouthplate is moving in sync with the words, and his body language reflects the dialogue. A second later, Hoist is moving around again during Powerglide's line. (Maybe really he ''is'' just that good an actor.)
* During the last shot of the Autobots congratulating Hoist, Sunstreaker is placed too high in the cel, making him appear to be floating (and clipping through the humans!).

===Continuity errors===
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Dirge in swamp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|''They're gonna put me in the movies They're gonna make a big star out of me We'll make a film about a man that's sad and lonely And all I gotta do is act naturally'']]
* Improbable viewpoints:
** From Decepticon Headquarters, Megatron and Starscream get a quarter-angle shot of Dirge flying along as he calls in his mayday.
** Then they have a nicely-framed view of him crashed in the swamp, seconds after it happens.
* Not an error ''per se'', but we never do find out exactly why Megatron blames Starscream for Dirge's crash.
* Nor is it clear why Dirge struggles to carry the device, while Ramjet seems to have no trouble with it.
* For that matter, why was Dirge the right choice to literally shuttle the device through space to Earth from Cybertron, when the Decepticons have the [[space bridge]] or Astrotrain, whose function is - again, literally - "Decepticon Military Transport"? Perhaps the best explanation was that Dirge picked up the device at the spacebridge which was transported to Earth already
* In the time it takes for Astrotrain, Ramjet, and Thrust to arrive at the studio to fish out Dirge and retrieve Wheeljack's gadget, alot of events took place. Hoist arrives at the studio, four other Autobots arrive, four extra scenes are written and filmed, the director finds Dirge in the swamp set, and a bridge is built around the Conehead, at which point the director calls wrap for the day. Even if the three Decepticons sent to recover the device flew from coast to coast, they could have arrived at the studio in about three hours. Either it was a short work day at the studio, or Astrotrain, Ramjet, and Thrust ran into some problems.
* What exactly is this movie about, anyway? Plane crash, kissing. Car crash, kissing. Another car crash, kissing.
* The [[Attack of the Alien Robots director#Production assistant|production assistant]], not to mention the entire rest of the production staff, is surprisingly uninterested in the film theft, despite the [[Attack of the Alien Robots director|director]]'s fear that "somebody is deliberately trying to shut down production. I want to know who it is!" as only Carly and Spike are seen viewing the new print.
* Hoist appears to be unfamiliar with - yet quite adamant about - how actual {{w|lava}}, at 700-1200°C, interacts with [[human]] flesh.

===Trivia===
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Starscream offline.JPG|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Who says celluloid heroes never feel any pain?]]
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Wheeljack's invention.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|''The movie wasn't so hot It didn't have much of a plot'']]
* This is one of four pre-movie episodes that doesn't feature [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]].
*Due to [[Earl Kress|the writer's]] tendency to use Starscream as a [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator-ish]] comedy relief, Megatron is ''incredibly'' abusive toward Starscream in this episode...well, more than usual. He punches him, throws him around, and pretty much does everything short of killing him. Starscream is absent for the next few episodes after his wires are pulled out; Megatron must have done some ''real'' damage.
*When the Autobots are role-playing the aliens chasing the actress, Sunstreaker looks like he's...goose-stepping?
*When the Autobots are sitting in director's chairs with their names written on the backs, Tracks’s chair is spelled "Trucks". This ''could'' be an extension of the gag where the director constantly gets Hoist's name wrong - although on Hoist's chair, his name is spelled correctly! Considering how common [[Engrish|mangled English]] lettering is in the cartoon's backgrounds, it may be an outright error (presumably stemming from a misunderstanding on the part of Japanese animators, as the English short "a" and short "u" sounds are identical to the Japanese ear). The world may never know.
*This was one of twelve episodes of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original cartoon]] released as audio adventures by the [[Germany|German]] company [[Karussell|Karussell Musik und Video]].
*We never do find out what [[Wheeljack's unnamed invention|Wheeljack's device]] is supposed to do.

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hoist geht zum Film'''" ("Hoist Goes to the Movie")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 30]], [[1989]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''Cinema!'''"
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Hoist conquista Hollywood'''" ("Hoist Conquers Hollywood")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hoist Hollywood e Iku'''" (ホイストハリウッドへ行く, "Hoist Goes Hollywood")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 23]], [[1986]]

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Zài Hǎoláiwù Pāi Diànyǐng '''" (在好莱坞拍电影, "Shooting a Movie in Hollywood")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tyagatch v Hollywoodee'''" (Тягач в Голливуде, "Hoist in Hollywood")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

===Toys inspired by this episode===
*'''''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' MP-39 [[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Sunstreaker]] ([[TakaraTomy]], 2017)'''
:In addition to the standard and alternate (smiling, shouting) faces, ''Masterpiece'' Sunstreaker includes an alien mask from this episode. For an additional homage, he can also stand on one leg.
{{-}}

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 7 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (3DVDs) ([[Flex Media]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 06: Stagione Due Parte Quarta ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-54.html Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

Hoist Goes Hollywood (episode)

2018-08-13T03:59:08Z

Mzawutang: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode
|image=Hoist goes hollywood1.jpg
|caption=Unfortunately, none of these guys made it past Michael Bay.
|series=G1toon
|ep=55
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=45
|prev2=Sea Change
|next2=Aerial Assault
|title="Hoist Goes Hollywood"
|written by=[[Earl Kress]]
|production code=700-54
|airdate=[[November 21]], 1985
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Hoist gets cast in a big [[Hollywood]] movie! Hijinks ensue.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Hoist rescue.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie! And that I was the star of the movie.]]

[[Carly]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] are on a drive through the countryside inside [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] when they are overtaken by two speeding vehicles. They pursue and see one of the cars make an improbable crash off a cliff and land on top of the other. Before they can investigate, a man on the top of the cliff yells at them for ruining the shot. It turns out they’ve driven into the middle of a movie set. Hoist saves the imperiled drivers of the crashed cars, and the [[Attack of the Alien Robots director|director]] is so impressed, he hires Hoist on the spot for his next movie. The director invites Spike and Carly along to visit the movie studio.

In the skies, [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] is having trouble transporting a mysterious, heavy load. He crashes into the swamp set on the lot of [[Major Pictures]]. [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] orders him to shut down, yells at [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] for no good reason, then sends [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] to go after Dirge and retrieve the mysterious cargo.

Hoist arrives at Major Pictures for his big-screen debut, but gets the brush-off from the director. Before filming begins, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] horn in on the set and ham it up for the director’s attention. Strangely, the director is impressed by their hi-jinks and decides to hire them all for the action picture.

[[File:Hoisthollywoodmegsseesfilm.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|''Show biz kids Making movies
of themselves'']]

Movie work doesn’t prove to be as glamorous as they had hoped. The bots wind up crashing into buildings and playing second fiddle to the human actors, [[Karen Fishook]] and [[Harold Edsel (G1)|Harold Edsel]], while Hoist pulls them out of the smoldering wreckage after each take.

Disgruntled at their bit parts, the Autobots ask Hoist to lobby the director for better roles, but the director tells Hoist to get a bagel and sit tight. The Autobots take off just as Astrotrain and the other [[Conehead]]s show up to pull Dirge and the cargo out of the swamp set, all as the cameras roll.

Back at Decepticon headquarters, Megatron looks over the [[Wheeljack's unnamed invention|strange device]]. He isn’t sure what it does; he only knows that Wheeljack built it, but he’s sure that it is some kind of potent, deadly weapon. (He doesn’t know [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] very well, does he?) When switched on by Thrust, the device sparks and smokes, but does nothing else. Enraged, Megatron bashes Starscream. Astrotrain then reveals that he and the others were filmed by the humans when they retrieved the device. Megatron orders everyone to the studio to steal or destroy the footage so the device remains a secret.

At the studio, the director is viewing the robot footage and decides to revamp the script into a science fiction epic blockbuster called ''[[Attack of the Alien Robots]]'', to the dismay of the human cast. He calls the Autobots to return with the promise of better parts. Once back, the director has the Autobots don googly-eyed, buck-toothed alien masks and stomp around after the female lead. For some reason, the Autobots still don’t like their parts as monsters from space.

[[File:Hoisthollywoodevilaliens.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|''He's in the best-selling show Is There Life on Mars?'']]

Making their rounds, Spike and Carly find the room where the film negatives are stored and discover that someone has stolen scenes from the movie. That someone was Starscream, but [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] reports to Megatron that the original negative still exists. Megatron pounds on Starscream again, this time ripping wires out of his chest! He then orders the others to get the negative.

Meanwhile, the Autobots are filming another scene with pyrotechnics, which have been switched for actual explosives by [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]. Spike and Carly are in a screening room watching a new print of the stolen footage of the Decepticons and the device. Midway through the screening, [[:File:HoistGoesHollywood Soundwave movie rip.JPG|Soundwave rips through the screen]] and destroys the projector. Spike and Carly rush to the film vault to get the original before the Decepticons do, but are interrupted by Megatron. Carly fools him by giving him an empty film canister, and they race around the studio lot with the Decepticons close on their heels. They finally meet up with Hoist, who has a plan.

[[File:Hoisthollywoodflesheatinglava.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|''Now is the time For you and I to cuddle close together All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen'']]

Megatron and the others finally catch up and find the Autobots on a movie set. Hoist threatens to drop the humans and the film into a vat of flesh-eating lava if the ‘Cons don’t withdraw. Megatron says he won’t do it, but Hoist drops them in. Content that the film is gone, the Decepticons retreat. Hoist then lifts Spike and Carly from the “lava”, which is just bubbly, muddy water mixed with special effects.

The Autobots show the film to Wheeljack in the screening room. The Autobot scientist laughs at Megatron because the device Megatron wanted so much is actually worthless. Impressed with Hoist's performance at the lava pit, the director offers him the leading part in a new film, but Hoist declines, saying that his duty as an Autobot comes first, no matter how unglamorous it is.

{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (1)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (14)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (15)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (16)
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (17)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (21)

|c2=
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (8)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (9)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (10)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (11)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (12)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (13)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (18)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (20)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] (2)
*[[Carly]] (3)
*[[Attack of the Alien Robots director#Assistant director|Assistant director]] (4)
*[[Attack of the Alien Robots director|Director]] (5)
*[[Karen Fishook]] (6)
*[[Harold Edsel (G1)|Harold Edsel]] (7)
*[[Attack of the Alien Robots director#Production assistant|Production assistant]] (19)
}}

==Quotes==
"Ready for my big scene, Mr. Director." 
"Huh? Oh, yeah, the robot. Er...okay, Moist, er...pick up a donut from the catering truck and relax until I call for ya." 
"Donut?"
:—'''Hoist''' gets the brush-off from the Major Pictures '''director'''.

"The star has arrived!"
:—'''Sunstreaker''', humble as ever

"Oh, no. The Autobots have gone movie-mad.”
 "And the director's gonna be just plain mad!"
:—'''Spike''' and '''Carly'''

"Who would want to steal scenes from ''this'' picture?"
:—'''Spike Witwicky''', movie critic

[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Sunstreaker Tracks masks.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|''Science fiction double feature'']]
"I feel like a fool!" 
"Do you wanna quit?" 
"No, but I still feel like a fool!"
:—'''Tracks''' and '''Sunstreaker''' aren't enjoying their movie careers.

"He is...no match for the alien robots...I-I mean, the ''evil'' alien robots."
:—'''Warpath''' shows his acting chops.

"Is ''this'' what you're looking for, Megatron? You and the rest of the Decepticons ''get out!'' Or I'll drop them, and your precious film, into this pit of flesh-eating lava!" 
"An Autobot would never hurt a human. You're bluffing!" 
"''Am I?!'' [''drops them''] Maybe ''you'd'' like to follow them, Megatron!" 
:—'''Hoist''' is a bit scary as he bluffs '''Megatron'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*"Dash Jordon" was referenced in the [[Buzz Dixon]]-penned episode of ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' titled "My Brother's Keeper". He was said to be appearing at a science fiction convention.

===Real-world references===
[[File:AotAR.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|What do you mean, 'Flash Gordon approaching'?]]
* The characters of Harold Edsel and Karen Fishook are obvious parodies of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher from the ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' films. Karen Fishook is voiced by [[Susan Blu]], who would later voice another Princess Leia parody: [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee.]]
* Upon Powerglide's entrance, he references the {{w|Academy Awards}}, saying "I'll show you some real Oscar-winning material." No Transformers movie has won an Oscar, though [[Transformers (film)|the 2007 film]] was nominated for three awards, [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|its 2009 sequel]] for one, and [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|their 2011 sequel]] for three again.
*The role of "Dash Jordon" is an obvious reference to the character Flash Gordon.

===Animation and technical errors===
* Coloring errors:
** Spike's hair is colored orange in the first shot of him riding in Hoist's cab.
** One of Dirge's smaller fins is gray instead of gold after he crashes into the swamp.
** One panel of Powerglide's face is red instead of gray as he gripes about all the crashes.
** In the swamp, when Ramjet transforms and takes off, he is given Thrust's colors. He's also standing where Thrust had been a moment earlier.
** Ramjet's guns are white instead of dark gray as Thrust activates the device.
** When Megatron grabs Starscream after he learns the negative is still in existence, Starscream's hips turn white, but they immediately turn back to their normal red when he gets picked up.
** After Megatron rips Starscream a new one, Soundwave is colored like [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]].
** Aboard the space ship set, Sunstreaker is [[:file:Sunstreaker-diaclone.jpg|colored light gray]] where he should be yellow.
** When Spike and Carly view the footage, Wheeljack's invention is yellow instead of gray.
** Megatron's "eyebrow" is light gray instead of black as he listens to Hoist's spiel.
** The sides of Megatron's face are black as he runs out following the "destruction" of the negative.
** Tracks' "hood" is dark gray instead of blue during the group pan over the Autobots at the end.

* Warpath "sharpshoots" at nothing! The shot causes some kind of energy effect to radiate out of thin air.
* As the director announces the Autobots will be his stunt vehicles, Spike's "Tracks!" line is randomly played over again.
* As the director notes he wants something "extra," his glasses are missing their earpieces for a moment.
* A number of sound effects are missing or played at oddly low volume:
** Tracks drives off the building set and changes to his flight mode without the transformation sound.
** Thrust and Ramjet land at the swamp set without any sound effect at all.
** The usual "clunk" sound is barely audible as Megatron punches Starscream.
** The electrical sounds of Starscream shorting out after Megatron brutalizes him are almost inaudible.
** When the mechanical dinosaurs explode from Rumble's blasts, there are no explosion sounds.

* Thrust's mouth is missing as he and Ramjet set down the device.
* Megatron, Starscream (in [[robot mode]]!) and Soundwave leave the Decepticon base; the very next shot shows Megatron, Soundwave and three jets (one could be Starscream, but there was no transformation sound).
* Karen Fishook's attempt to console her co-star is cut off in mid-sentence by the scene edit.
* The "CLOSED" sign on the studio the Decepticons are in reads "CLLOSE".
* When Megatron is examining a reel of film, the reel is out of scale from a normal film reel.
* Warpath and Powerglide are missing their face plates after the explosion scene.
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood No Faceplate Error.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Guess they mouthed off once too often.]]
*Spike yells, "DUCK!" when Soundwave bursts through the theater screen, but he and Carly run away instead.
* Soundwave's hand cannon repeatedly uses a sound effect that's not the usual Decepticon laser noise.
* As usual, human buildings comfortably accommodate a full-size Transformer, such as Megatron or Soundwave.
* Just before they run into Megatron, Spike and Carly appear to be mouthing something, but there's no dialogue.
* When Soundwave tells Carly and Spike to "Surrender the negative," he appears as if he's sliding forward in the next scene, even though he's walking towards them, as evidenced by the sound of his footsteps.
* Megatron, Soundwave and Rumble tear through a jungle background, but it's still there as they walk through the tear.
* When Spike and Carly emerge from the cave, they are about half the height of Megatron.
* As Megatron jumps out of the cave, his head is about a third the size it should be, but returns to normal size once he lands.
*As the director offers Hoist a role in his next movie, the shots show light brown walls around them, but in the last shot of the episode, the theater is back to dark blue again.
* Near the end of the episode, Warpath says "You tell him Hoist, yeah," but Hoist's mouthplate is moving in sync with the words, and his body language reflects the dialogue. A second later, Hoist is moving around again during Powerglide's line. (Maybe really he ''is'' just that good an actor.)
* During the last shot of the Autobots congratulating Hoist, Sunstreaker is placed too high in the cel, making him appear to be floating (and clipping through the humans!).

===Continuity errors===
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Dirge in swamp.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|''They're gonna put me in the movies They're gonna make a big star out of me We'll make a film about a man that's sad and lonely And all I gotta do is act naturally'']]
* Improbable viewpoints:
** From Decepticon Headquarters, Megatron and Starscream get a quarter-angle shot of Dirge flying along as he calls in his mayday.
** Then they have a nicely-framed view of him crashed in the swamp, seconds after it happens.
* Not an error ''per se'', but we never do find out exactly why Megatron blames Starscream for Dirge's crash.
* Nor is it clear why Dirge struggles to carry the device, while Ramjet seems to have no trouble with it.
* For that matter, why was Dirge the right choice to literally shuttle the device through space to Earth from Cybertron, when the Decepticons have the [[space bridge]] or Astrotrain, whose function is - again, literally - "Decepticon Military Transport"?
* In the time it takes for Astrotrain, Ramjet, and Thrust to arrive at the studio to fish out Dirge and retrieve Wheeljack's gadget, alot of events took place. Hoist arrives at the studio, four other Autobots arrive, four extra scenes are written and filmed, the director finds Dirge in the swamp set, and a bridge is built around the Conehead, at which point the director calls wrap for the day. Even if the three Decepticons sent to recover the device flew from coast to coast, they could have arrived at the studio in about three hours. Either it was a short work day at the studio, or Astrotrain, Ramjet, and Thrust ran into some problems.
* What exactly is this movie about, anyway? Plane crash, kissing. Car crash, kissing. Another car crash, kissing.
* The [[Attack of the Alien Robots director#Production assistant|production assistant]], not to mention the entire rest of the production staff, is surprisingly uninterested in the film theft, despite the [[Attack of the Alien Robots director|director]]'s fear that "somebody is deliberately trying to shut down production. I want to know who it is!" as only Carly and Spike are seen viewing the new print.
* Hoist appears to be unfamiliar with - yet quite adamant about - how actual {{w|lava}}, at 700-1200°C, interacts with [[human]] flesh.

===Trivia===
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Starscream offline.JPG|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Who says celluloid heroes never feel any pain?]]
[[File:HoistGoesHollywood Wheeljack's invention.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|''The movie wasn't so hot It didn't have much of a plot'']]
* This is one of four pre-movie episodes that doesn't feature [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]].
*Due to [[Earl Kress|the writer's]] tendency to use Starscream as a [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator-ish]] comedy relief, Megatron is ''incredibly'' abusive toward Starscream in this episode...well, more than usual. He punches him, throws him around, and pretty much does everything short of killing him. Starscream is absent for the next few episodes after his wires are pulled out; Megatron must have done some ''real'' damage.
*When the Autobots are role-playing the aliens chasing the actress, Sunstreaker looks like he's...goose-stepping?
*When the Autobots are sitting in director's chairs with their names written on the backs, Tracks’s chair is spelled "Trucks". This ''could'' be an extension of the gag where the director constantly gets Hoist's name wrong - although on Hoist's chair, his name is spelled correctly! Considering how common [[Engrish|mangled English]] lettering is in the cartoon's backgrounds, it may be an outright error (presumably stemming from a misunderstanding on the part of Japanese animators, as the English short "a" and short "u" sounds are identical to the Japanese ear). The world may never know.
*This was one of twelve episodes of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original cartoon]] released as audio adventures by the [[Germany|German]] company [[Karussell|Karussell Musik und Video]].
*We never do find out what [[Wheeljack's unnamed invention|Wheeljack's device]] is supposed to do.

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hoist geht zum Film'''" ("Hoist Goes to the Movie")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 30]], [[1989]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''Cinema!'''"
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Hoist conquista Hollywood'''" ("Hoist Conquers Hollywood")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hoist Hollywood e Iku'''" (ホイストハリウッドへ行く, "Hoist Goes Hollywood")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[May 23]], [[1986]]

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Zài Hǎoláiwù Pāi Diànyǐng '''" (在好莱坞拍电影, "Shooting a Movie in Hollywood")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tyagatch v Hollywoodee'''" (Тягач в Голливуде, "Hoist in Hollywood")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 7 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (3DVDs) ([[Flex Media]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 06: Stagione Due Parte Quarta ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-54.html Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

Human

2018-08-05T03:49:12Z

Mzawutang: /* Technology */

[[File:Human.jpg|350px|thumb|A typical human.]]

'''Humans''' (also known as: fleshlings, organics, meatbags, insects, squishies, noisy creatures, "puny flesh creatures", "dumb [[stubbie]]s", "little screamers", "bit players", ''Terrans'' or ''Homo sapiens'' as they prefer) are bipedal and usually tiny {{w|Carbon based life|organic}} beings found on [[Earth]] and like planets. Though quite fragile, and technologically backwards, they have at times aided the [[Autobot]]s and thwarted the [[Decepticon]]s once the [[Transformer]]s' age-old war spilled onto the humans' primitive homeworld. [[Movie continuity|And]] [[Aligned continuity family|sometimes]], they're the spawn of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]].

{{quote|They're such undependable creatures. Inferior lifeforms.|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] on the humans|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}

==Overview==
===Physiology===
{{quote|Humans are disgusting creatures, but worthy of study, if just to find a better way of destroying them.|[[Quintesson]] scientist|''[[The Killing Jar (episode)|The Killing Jar]]''}}
[[File:Humansize.jpg|left|thumb|Humans come in both Tall and Venti.]]
Humans are suspiciously familiar creatures. Though they are made of soft, organic materials, they share remarkable physical similarities with Transformers as a species. Most Transformers and humans walk upright on two long legs attached to a tall body, with two limbs attached at the shoulders. At the shoulders is the head, just like a Transformer's, which sports two eyes in the center at equal distance from the olfactory sensor array, above a mouth which opens for speaking and for ingesting energy. Aside from energy, they also ingest raw materials that they use in their self repair systems. This would seem to be a sensible system, as these materials can be stored anywhere in their bodies, to be used later when and if necessary. Like Transformers, they are social creatures, who trade and barter wares and develop emotional attachments to peers. Eerily enough, they possess an emotional spectrum nearly identical to that of Transformers as well, ranging from laughter, joy, and satisfaction to depression, anger, and cruelty. It is not uncommon to find Transformers who have even developed [[Transformer romance|strong spiritual bonds]] with individual creatures. This is disgusting.

Humans are physically composed of several specialized units or systems called organs. The major organs are internalized, but extremely frail. Damage is hard to repair, and as they have yet to develop a method of replicating these organs, replacement usually requires harvesting from compatible humans. Major systems include the {{w|brain}} (central processing unit, data storage), the {{w|heart}} ([[Fuel pump]]), and the {{w|lungs}} (fuel tank). Over sixty percent of their makeup is water, though they are not primarily aquatic in nature. Humans run on two types of fuel: gaseous oxygen, which is absorbed from their surroundings, and the chemical {{w|glucose}}, which is refined from ingested organic matter. Both are required by every organ in their body and an elaborate transport system utilizing a liquid known as {{w|blood}} is required to transport them throughout. Though blood is in some sense self-replicating, a tremendous loss of the liquid will result in permanent deactivation. Oxygen is equally required, and if deprived of oxygen for long enough, they run the risk of suffering major processor damage or permanent deactivation.

[[File:Sariprime.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus Prime learns of human reproduction.]]
A human's organic tissue will begin failing just one quarter into his or her lifespan, and will spend the next three quarters growing ever less efficient until the human's lifeforce can no longer sustain itself. As a result, humans are saddeningly short-lived creatures. (It is not known how they find the time to accomplish anything, though as a side effect it has made their wars mercifully short.) Interestingly, humans do not build new members of their race. To the contrary, humans are what they have deemed {{w|sexual dimorphism|sexually dimorphic}}, categorized into {{w|sex}}es, wherein members of one subvariant of their species, classified as male, implants structural data, which they call "DNA", in the other, classified as female. This process grows a new human (or occasionally more than one, although this is rare) inside the female like a {{w|gestation|parasite}} until it emerges roughly three quarters of an Earth year later. (If it exits the female too early, the new human risks death.) The new human is very fragile and stupid; it will take years to acclimate itself to their society. Even a young human who stayed inside its female for the appropriate length of time is not capable of operating self-sufficiently without extensive training. Despite this limited intelligence and understanding (or perhaps as a result of it), younger humans are often among the first to form bonds with friendly Transformers.

[[File:Wolverinemanmachine.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Some humans claim to inhabit dubiously-named places such as "Claw City."]]

Initiating the growth of a new human apparently involves much rubbing, and also [[kiss]]ing. Though the required interactions have been hinted at in [[As the Kitchen Sinks|popular media]], humans are reticent to discussing the physical mechanism, and several attempts at accumulating further data were met with what they term as "awkward silence". This is quite confusing, as humans generally give the impression that they supremely enjoy it, and have refused all suggestions that they learn the technology to build their own from spare parts.

Similar to Transformer [[outlier]]s, a small number of humans are born or gifted with fantastical abilities far beyond what one would expect a human body to be capable, such as telepathy, unaided flight, or accelerated healing. These super-powered beings often assemble themselves in groups and fight crime.

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===Technology===
{{quote|How much did technology progress much [sic] during the four million years that Autobots and Decepticons slumbered beneath a volcano on Earth? And then consider the scant three decades following their revival. [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster]]s, [[Pretender]]s, [[Scramble City]] [[Combiner]]s, [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, [[transfixatron]]s, [[immobilizer]]s, [[warp gate]]s... and then ask yourself again, how might humans outstrip my race.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime]]}}

[[File:Humansmall.jpg|left|thumb|The humans of Earth wear [[hard hat]]s regardless of their profession.]]
Although Earth is rich with natural resources, Human technology is surprisingly primitive. They had only begun to experiment with outer atmosphere travel at the time the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] (or another such first contact event) began on Earth, and they have limited communication methods. Although their locomotive devices, called "cars", are suitable for [[Transformation]], they are quite crude, potentially dangerous, and incredibly energy inefficient. Despite this, the type of car is often seen as a status symbol among humans; apparently the larger the car, the more status achieved. Some humans claim that those with large cars are "compensating" for some other sort of size deficiency—unsurprising, considering how tiny humans are compared to the average Transformer. However, one [[Chumley|human]] was able to develop advanced technology to capture and torture Transformers. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

Human military technology is equally unimpressive. They have yet to develop any form of workable energy weapons, and no shield technology either. Their primary weapons are devices called "guns", which shoot small, metallic projectiles called "bullets" using a crude explosive called "[[Dragon's Bane|gunpowder]]". These are more than capable of killing other humans, but they are extremely inefficient when fending off any attacking Decepticons. Their warhead weapons are slightly more efficient, though extremely primitive when compared to Autobot [[Photon rifle|photon]] and [[Plasma cannon|plasma]] weapons.

[[File:Intersectionality humans.jpg|thumb|One possible future outcome for human civilization.]]
In some universes humans have developed weaponry that is actually rather effective against a Transformer. In one universe, the humans used kinetic projectiles called "{{w|sabot|Sabot rounds}}" that employ an incredibly high heat to burn through [[Decepticon]] [[Armor-plating|armour]] and then detonate in the more vulnerable innards. A sufficient volley of these in the right places can bring down a fairly large Decepticon almost as effectively as Cybertronian cannons. The humans combine these with one advantage of their small size: hiding, taking cover in buildings or behind other obstacles then popping up to fire a few rounds before hiding and relocating before firing again.

In still other universes, humans have developed technology almost on par with the Transformers after reverse-engineering Cybertronian biology. These developments can range anywhere from simple suits of powered armour to full-fledged, Earth-born Transformers. Humans have also been known to upgrade themselves with technology, thus becoming cyborgs. In one notable universe, humans reached the [[Terran Singularity]] - aping, perfecting, and then eventually outstripping the technological achievements of Cybertronians- and reorganized themselves into the interplanetary [[Human Confederacy]].

===Military===
In general, human militaries are not a match for Transformer technologies. Even the smallest of countries have armed humans organised into armies, and the size of the army does not necessarily equate to strength or weakness. The wealthiest human nations often make heavy use of technological advancements as soon as they become available and so a comparatively small but wealthy nation can be far more powerful militarily compared to a nation with a larger but less well-equipped army.

As mentioned earlier, most human weapons are ineffective against Transformers. However, human technology is always advancing, and there have been occasions that human weapons are [[Rail gun|potent enough to be desirable even by Decepticon standards!]]

In addition, humans throughout the multiverse have often organised their most elite troops into special units. While some of these units [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|are worse than ineffective]], others are [[G.I. Joe (team)|capable]] [[Action Force (team)|enough]] to actively stand against Transformers with some measure of success.

===Society===
[[File:AngryArcher01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Humans require tokens representative of energy, and are not above humiliating themselves to retrieve them.]]
Like on Cybertron before the war, humans make up the fabric of their local (or global) economies. Some work as repairmen, some are drillers in search of [[Oil|un-processed lubricants]], others are retrievers of [[ruby crystal mines of Burma|rare mineral lattices and metals]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|a few]] accomplish all of these simultaneously. The humans strangely use the majority of the lubricant they extract as a highly inefficient source of energy, and adorn themselves with the harvested minerals and metals at exorbitant prices. Apparently the humans reason that because these objects are rare, they are incredibly beautiful, and therefore worth vastly more resources than were spent extracting and refining them. Instead of trading [[Energon|valuable energy]] directly for goods and services, a small piece of lumbered and processed plantgrowth is exchanged. This plantgrowth represents energy abstractly, and its worth is assumed on good faith, though it is usually backed up by various metals and crystals of economic value.

A number of unsavory humans subvert this established system to illegally or immorally obtain these plantgrowths. Many of these humans were involved in unusual accidents which empowered the individual specimen to levels above ordinary humans, while others are tempted by their relatively high intelligence levels or capacity for selfish acts. Encounters with these subversive humans happen at an alarming rate, whether they be [[Donny Finkleberg|failed entertainers who claim to own all Transformers]], [[Doctor Arkeville|mad scientists]], or [[Angry Archer|gifted archers who dress in homage to Earth folklore]]. By sheer numbers, these humans must represent half of the known population. Sometimes, these sorts will organize into groups of like-minded rogues; much like their military, these gangs can range from [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|generally ineffectual]] to [[MECH|surprisingly dangerous]].

Politically, humans are divided among various nation-states which seem to be divided primarily among ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. On occasion, these nation-states will engage in conflict over territory and resources, but as previously stated, their wars are usually quite short. Most humans seem to prefer some sort of [[democracy]] where they elect individuals to govern and legislate their nation-states, although a number of them choose their leaders due to genetic inheritance and familial succession; others still hold power through a Decepticon-style dictatorship, though the mental stability of [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|a few]] have been questioned. At times, the Decepticons have taken advantage of Earth's factional tendencies to manipulate them to their advantage, but the Autobots have usually managed to expose the Decepticon influence before a full-scale military conflict occurs.

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Humans come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.]]
Humans greatly enjoy sound patterns, termed "music". The Autobots [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] have taken a particular interest in this music, though the chosen volume has overwhelmed most other Autobots, including the mighty [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from time to time. Humans have often shown an involuntary need to move about when music is broadcast, and even the aforementioned Autobots have also shown a desire to move about. Presumably, a fear of blowback prevented the Autobots from utilizing human music as a weapon against the Decepticons.

Humans are also athletic creatures, engaging in a variety of athletic events that are designed to test their strength, stamina, and speed. While none of them could hold their own against even the weakest Transformer, many human sports have been eagerly adopted by Transformers. The Autobot [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] is particularly fond of human athletics, and his vocabulary is littered with the human sports quotes.

Humans also enjoy watching moving images, termed "[[Film]]s". Transformers also enjoy making and watching these films. Transformers have even [[Monster from Mars|appeared]] [[Attack of the Alien Robots|in]] [[The Transformers: The Movie (fictional)|some]] [[Transformers (film)|films]] [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|made]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|by]] [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|human]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|beings]].
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===Religion===
{{quote|'''''PARASITES!!!'''''|[[Unicron]] on his progeny|"[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]"}}
[[File:Deusexmachina-statue.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Common human depictions of gods incorporate long flowing [[facial hair]], staffs and other kingly apparel.]]
Despite their lack of the multi-dimensional transwarp [[Spark]], a great number of humans believe in an analogous concept, the intangible [[soul]]. This has been confirmed to be the equivalent of a Transformer's personality program in an odd experiment, when the human [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s personality was uploaded to [[Autobot X (G1)|an empty Transformer body cobbled together from spare parts]]. The human's consciousness was not suitable for digitization, and quickly deteriorated toward psychosis.

Many also believe in supernatural beings, either [[God|singular]] or [[:Category:Gods|plural]], who have a direct but intangible stake in their lives. Once a week the more religious humans will gather together and sing songs at the ceiling, as the presumed direction of these beings is away from the gravity well of their planet. Unlike the historical [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]], their holy books are not incorruptible encrypted public-key [[datatrax]]. Instead, they frequently re-encode the writings of multiple authors in an inefficient and apparently lossy process. Then they fight about which "translation" of their texts is correct instead of simply downloading the original encoding algorithm.

The [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|few sources available]] claim that their [[Unicron|progenitor/planet]] (whom they either descended from or simply formed upon its body) is quite at odds with their traditions, and is apparently totally displeased with their existence. However, the same sources have shown that ancient humans may have revered artifacts once belonging to the [[Thirteen]], Cybertron's own native deities from the ancient past. Their understanding of the artifacts was incredibly limited, making their reverence of them quite puzzling.

===Breeding grounds===
The most familiar breed of humans are native to the planet Earth, though they can be found practically anywhere in the galaxy. For example, [[Nebulos]] is such a place, though some reports claim these humans are of green colour rather than various shades of beige. [[Femax]] is populated by humans of Transformer size. [[Pz-Zazz]] is also home to Transformer-sized humans, but it is not known whether they are indigenous to that world. It is possible that the tiny version of humans found on Earth is the exception, rather than the rule.

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==Notes==
*For reasons unknown, a substantial number of human Transformers [[Fandom|fans]] appear to have a very drastic, dismissive position when it comes to the inclusion of representatives of their species in Transformers fiction, some even going as far as demanding that Transformers fiction should be devoid of ''any'' flesh creatures whatsoever, unless being depicted as helpless victims/casualties of Decepticon attacks.
*Perhaps most bizarrely, humans can hear the trans-sonic signal known as the [[Omega Frequency]], emitted by the [[Omega Lock]] and other sources of Primus's power, while Transformers cannot.
*Humans reproduce by shooting DNA into each other. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|I find that offensive!]]
*According to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a certain percentage of human physiology is composed of cowardice. This proportion increases directly according to the size of the individual. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!|Pretender to the Throne!}}
*In some universes, Transformers have come into contact with humans with strange and unusual powers. These so-called "superhumans" have been known to organise themselves into teams, sometimes [[Neo-Knights|specifically to]] [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|battle Transformers]] or to protect (or even [[Avengers|avenge]]) their less gifted fellows. [[Spider-Man|One]] such individual once managed to topple the mighty Megatron himself during a fight. While it was at best a temporary victory, it was still impressive. Even more impressive, another [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|superhuman]] once made [[Unicron]] himself recoil in pain, a feat even the combined might of the Autobot and Decepticon armies were unable to pull off. And concerning the wider [[Megaverse]], groups of humans have been known to be related to the Transformers, including a [[G.I. Joe (team)|highly-trained special mission force]] employed by the US government to stop [[Cobra|terrorist organizations]], a [[M.A.S.K.|team of specialists equipped with advanced helmets and multi-function vehicles]], and a [[Animorph|group of humans and one alien imbued with the power of shape-shifting]] fighting against a [[Yeerk|race of mind-controlling alien slugs]] attempting to conquer Earth.
*Of all the species that [[Vector Prime]] has ever encountered, humans have asked the most questions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

==External links==
*{{w|Human}}s like to write about themselves. This, too, erupts into war.

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Human

2018-08-04T18:27:11Z

Mzawutang: /* Technology */

[[File:Human.jpg|350px|thumb|A typical human.]]

'''Humans''' (also known as: fleshlings, organics, meatbags, insects, squishies, noisy creatures, "puny flesh creatures", "dumb [[stubbie]]s", "little screamers", "bit players", ''Terrans'' or ''Homo sapiens'' as they prefer) are bipedal and usually tiny {{w|Carbon based life|organic}} beings found on [[Earth]] and like planets. Though quite fragile, and technologically backwards, they have at times aided the [[Autobot]]s and thwarted the [[Decepticon]]s once the [[Transformer]]s' age-old war spilled onto the humans' primitive homeworld. [[Movie continuity|And]] [[Aligned continuity family|sometimes]], they're the spawn of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]].

{{quote|They're such undependable creatures. Inferior lifeforms.|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] on the humans|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}

==Overview==
===Physiology===
{{quote|Humans are disgusting creatures, but worthy of study, if just to find a better way of destroying them.|[[Quintesson]] scientist|''[[The Killing Jar (episode)|The Killing Jar]]''}}
[[File:Humansize.jpg|left|thumb|Humans come in both Tall and Venti.]]
Humans are suspiciously familiar creatures. Though they are made of soft, organic materials, they share remarkable physical similarities with Transformers as a species. Most Transformers and humans walk upright on two long legs attached to a tall body, with two limbs attached at the shoulders. At the shoulders is the head, just like a Transformer's, which sports two eyes in the center at equal distance from the olfactory sensor array, above a mouth which opens for speaking and for ingesting energy. Aside from energy, they also ingest raw materials that they use in their self repair systems. This would seem to be a sensible system, as these materials can be stored anywhere in their bodies, to be used later when and if necessary. Like Transformers, they are social creatures, who trade and barter wares and develop emotional attachments to peers. Eerily enough, they possess an emotional spectrum nearly identical to that of Transformers as well, ranging from laughter, joy, and satisfaction to depression, anger, and cruelty. It is not uncommon to find Transformers who have even developed [[Transformer romance|strong spiritual bonds]] with individual creatures. This is disgusting.

Humans are physically composed of several specialized units or systems called organs. The major organs are internalized, but extremely frail. Damage is hard to repair, and as they have yet to develop a method of replicating these organs, replacement usually requires harvesting from compatible humans. Major systems include the {{w|brain}} (central processing unit, data storage), the {{w|heart}} ([[Fuel pump]]), and the {{w|lungs}} (fuel tank). Over sixty percent of their makeup is water, though they are not primarily aquatic in nature. Humans run on two types of fuel: gaseous oxygen, which is absorbed from their surroundings, and the chemical {{w|glucose}}, which is refined from ingested organic matter. Both are required by every organ in their body and an elaborate transport system utilizing a liquid known as {{w|blood}} is required to transport them throughout. Though blood is in some sense self-replicating, a tremendous loss of the liquid will result in permanent deactivation. Oxygen is equally required, and if deprived of oxygen for long enough, they run the risk of suffering major processor damage or permanent deactivation.

[[File:Sariprime.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus Prime learns of human reproduction.]]
A human's organic tissue will begin failing just one quarter into his or her lifespan, and will spend the next three quarters growing ever less efficient until the human's lifeforce can no longer sustain itself. As a result, humans are saddeningly short-lived creatures. (It is not known how they find the time to accomplish anything, though as a side effect it has made their wars mercifully short.) Interestingly, humans do not build new members of their race. To the contrary, humans are what they have deemed {{w|sexual dimorphism|sexually dimorphic}}, categorized into {{w|sex}}es, wherein members of one subvariant of their species, classified as male, implants structural data, which they call "DNA", in the other, classified as female. This process grows a new human (or occasionally more than one, although this is rare) inside the female like a {{w|gestation|parasite}} until it emerges roughly three quarters of an Earth year later. (If it exits the female too early, the new human risks death.) The new human is very fragile and stupid; it will take years to acclimate itself to their society. Even a young human who stayed inside its female for the appropriate length of time is not capable of operating self-sufficiently without extensive training. Despite this limited intelligence and understanding (or perhaps as a result of it), younger humans are often among the first to form bonds with friendly Transformers.

[[File:Wolverinemanmachine.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Some humans claim to inhabit dubiously-named places such as "Claw City."]]

Initiating the growth of a new human apparently involves much rubbing, and also [[kiss]]ing. Though the required interactions have been hinted at in [[As the Kitchen Sinks|popular media]], humans are reticent to discussing the physical mechanism, and several attempts at accumulating further data were met with what they term as "awkward silence". This is quite confusing, as humans generally give the impression that they supremely enjoy it, and have refused all suggestions that they learn the technology to build their own from spare parts.

Similar to Transformer [[outlier]]s, a small number of humans are born or gifted with fantastical abilities far beyond what one would expect a human body to be capable, such as telepathy, unaided flight, or accelerated healing. These super-powered beings often assemble themselves in groups and fight crime.

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===Technology===
{{quote|How much did technology progress much [sic] during the four million years that Autobots and Decepticons slumbered beneath a volcano on Earth? And then consider the scant three decades following their revival. [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster]]s, [[Pretender]]s, [[Scramble City]] [[Combiner]]s, [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, [[transfixatron]]s, [[immobilizer]]s, [[warp gate]]s... and then ask yourself again, how might humans outstrip my race.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime]]}}

[[File:Humansmall.jpg|left|thumb|The humans of Earth wear [[hard hat]]s regardless of their profession.]]
Although Earth is rich with natural resources, Human technology is surprisingly primitive. They had only begun to experiment with outer atmosphere travel at the time the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] (or another such first contact event) began on Earth, and they have limited communication methods. Although their locomotive devices, called "cars", are suitable for [[Transformation]], they are quite crude, potentially dangerous, and incredibly energy inefficient. Despite this, the type of car is often seen as a status symbol among humans; apparently the larger the car, the more status achieved. Some humans claim that those with large cars are "compensating" for some other sort of size deficiency—unsurprising, considering how tiny humans are compared to the average Transformer. One [[Chumley|human]] was able to develop technology to capture and torture Transformers. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

Human military technology is equally unimpressive. They have yet to develop any form of workable energy weapons, and no shield technology either. Their primary weapons are devices called "guns", which shoot small, metallic projectiles called "bullets" using a crude explosive called "[[Dragon's Bane|gunpowder]]". These are more than capable of killing other humans, but they are extremely inefficient when fending off any attacking Decepticons. Their warhead weapons are slightly more efficient, though extremely primitive when compared to Autobot [[Photon rifle|photon]] and [[Plasma cannon|plasma]] weapons.

[[File:Intersectionality humans.jpg|thumb|One possible future outcome for human civilization.]]
In some universes humans have developed weaponry that is actually rather effective against a Transformer. In one universe, the humans used kinetic projectiles called "{{w|sabot|Sabot rounds}}" that employ an incredibly high heat to burn through [[Decepticon]] [[Armor-plating|armour]] and then detonate in the more vulnerable innards. A sufficient volley of these in the right places can bring down a fairly large Decepticon almost as effectively as Cybertronian cannons. The humans combine these with one advantage of their small size: hiding, taking cover in buildings or behind other obstacles then popping up to fire a few rounds before hiding and relocating before firing again.

In still other universes, humans have developed technology almost on par with the Transformers after reverse-engineering Cybertronian biology. These developments can range anywhere from simple suits of powered armour to full-fledged, Earth-born Transformers. Humans have also been known to upgrade themselves with technology, thus becoming cyborgs. In one notable universe, humans reached the [[Terran Singularity]] - aping, perfecting, and then eventually outstripping the technological achievements of Cybertronians- and reorganized themselves into the interplanetary [[Human Confederacy]].

===Military===
In general, human militaries are not a match for Transformer technologies. Even the smallest of countries have armed humans organised into armies, and the size of the army does not necessarily equate to strength or weakness. The wealthiest human nations often make heavy use of technological advancements as soon as they become available and so a comparatively small but wealthy nation can be far more powerful militarily compared to a nation with a larger but less well-equipped army.

As mentioned earlier, most human weapons are ineffective against Transformers. However, human technology is always advancing, and there have been occasions that human weapons are [[Rail gun|potent enough to be desirable even by Decepticon standards!]]

In addition, humans throughout the multiverse have often organised their most elite troops into special units. While some of these units [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|are worse than ineffective]], others are [[G.I. Joe (team)|capable]] [[Action Force (team)|enough]] to actively stand against Transformers with some measure of success.

===Society===
[[File:AngryArcher01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Humans require tokens representative of energy, and are not above humiliating themselves to retrieve them.]]
Like on Cybertron before the war, humans make up the fabric of their local (or global) economies. Some work as repairmen, some are drillers in search of [[Oil|un-processed lubricants]], others are retrievers of [[ruby crystal mines of Burma|rare mineral lattices and metals]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|a few]] accomplish all of these simultaneously. The humans strangely use the majority of the lubricant they extract as a highly inefficient source of energy, and adorn themselves with the harvested minerals and metals at exorbitant prices. Apparently the humans reason that because these objects are rare, they are incredibly beautiful, and therefore worth vastly more resources than were spent extracting and refining them. Instead of trading [[Energon|valuable energy]] directly for goods and services, a small piece of lumbered and processed plantgrowth is exchanged. This plantgrowth represents energy abstractly, and its worth is assumed on good faith, though it is usually backed up by various metals and crystals of economic value.

A number of unsavory humans subvert this established system to illegally or immorally obtain these plantgrowths. Many of these humans were involved in unusual accidents which empowered the individual specimen to levels above ordinary humans, while others are tempted by their relatively high intelligence levels or capacity for selfish acts. Encounters with these subversive humans happen at an alarming rate, whether they be [[Donny Finkleberg|failed entertainers who claim to own all Transformers]], [[Doctor Arkeville|mad scientists]], or [[Angry Archer|gifted archers who dress in homage to Earth folklore]]. By sheer numbers, these humans must represent half of the known population. Sometimes, these sorts will organize into groups of like-minded rogues; much like their military, these gangs can range from [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|generally ineffectual]] to [[MECH|surprisingly dangerous]].

Politically, humans are divided among various nation-states which seem to be divided primarily among ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. On occasion, these nation-states will engage in conflict over territory and resources, but as previously stated, their wars are usually quite short. Most humans seem to prefer some sort of [[democracy]] where they elect individuals to govern and legislate their nation-states, although a number of them choose their leaders due to genetic inheritance and familial succession; others still hold power through a Decepticon-style dictatorship, though the mental stability of [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|a few]] have been questioned. At times, the Decepticons have taken advantage of Earth's factional tendencies to manipulate them to their advantage, but the Autobots have usually managed to expose the Decepticon influence before a full-scale military conflict occurs.

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Humans come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.]]
Humans greatly enjoy sound patterns, termed "music". The Autobots [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] have taken a particular interest in this music, though the chosen volume has overwhelmed most other Autobots, including the mighty [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from time to time. Humans have often shown an involuntary need to move about when music is broadcast, and even the aforementioned Autobots have also shown a desire to move about. Presumably, a fear of blowback prevented the Autobots from utilizing human music as a weapon against the Decepticons.

Humans are also athletic creatures, engaging in a variety of athletic events that are designed to test their strength, stamina, and speed. While none of them could hold their own against even the weakest Transformer, many human sports have been eagerly adopted by Transformers. The Autobot [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] is particularly fond of human athletics, and his vocabulary is littered with the human sports quotes.

Humans also enjoy watching moving images, termed "[[Film]]s". Transformers also enjoy making and watching these films. Transformers have even [[Monster from Mars|appeared]] [[Attack of the Alien Robots|in]] [[The Transformers: The Movie (fictional)|some]] [[Transformers (film)|films]] [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|made]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|by]] [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|human]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|beings]].
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===Religion===
{{quote|'''''PARASITES!!!'''''|[[Unicron]] on his progeny|"[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]"}}
[[File:Deusexmachina-statue.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Common human depictions of gods incorporate long flowing [[facial hair]], staffs and other kingly apparel.]]
Despite their lack of the multi-dimensional transwarp [[Spark]], a great number of humans believe in an analogous concept, the intangible [[soul]]. This has been confirmed to be the equivalent of a Transformer's personality program in an odd experiment, when the human [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s personality was uploaded to [[Autobot X (G1)|an empty Transformer body cobbled together from spare parts]]. The human's consciousness was not suitable for digitization, and quickly deteriorated toward psychosis.

Many also believe in supernatural beings, either [[God|singular]] or [[:Category:Gods|plural]], who have a direct but intangible stake in their lives. Once a week the more religious humans will gather together and sing songs at the ceiling, as the presumed direction of these beings is away from the gravity well of their planet. Unlike the historical [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]], their holy books are not incorruptible encrypted public-key [[datatrax]]. Instead, they frequently re-encode the writings of multiple authors in an inefficient and apparently lossy process. Then they fight about which "translation" of their texts is correct instead of simply downloading the original encoding algorithm.

The [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|few sources available]] claim that their [[Unicron|progenitor/planet]] (whom they either descended from or simply formed upon its body) is quite at odds with their traditions, and is apparently totally displeased with their existence. However, the same sources have shown that ancient humans may have revered artifacts once belonging to the [[Thirteen]], Cybertron's own native deities from the ancient past. Their understanding of the artifacts was incredibly limited, making their reverence of them quite puzzling.

===Breeding grounds===
The most familiar breed of humans are native to the planet Earth, though they can be found practically anywhere in the galaxy. For example, [[Nebulos]] is such a place, though some reports claim these humans are of green colour rather than various shades of beige. [[Femax]] is populated by humans of Transformer size. [[Pz-Zazz]] is also home to Transformer-sized humans, but it is not known whether they are indigenous to that world. It is possible that the tiny version of humans found on Earth is the exception, rather than the rule.

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==Notes==
*For reasons unknown, a substantial number of human Transformers [[Fandom|fans]] appear to have a very drastic, dismissive position when it comes to the inclusion of representatives of their species in Transformers fiction, some even going as far as demanding that Transformers fiction should be devoid of ''any'' flesh creatures whatsoever, unless being depicted as helpless victims/casualties of Decepticon attacks.
*Perhaps most bizarrely, humans can hear the trans-sonic signal known as the [[Omega Frequency]], emitted by the [[Omega Lock]] and other sources of Primus's power, while Transformers cannot.
*Humans reproduce by shooting DNA into each other. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|I find that offensive!]]
*According to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a certain percentage of human physiology is composed of cowardice. This proportion increases directly according to the size of the individual. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!|Pretender to the Throne!}}
*In some universes, Transformers have come into contact with humans with strange and unusual powers. These so-called "superhumans" have been known to organise themselves into teams, sometimes [[Neo-Knights|specifically to]] [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|battle Transformers]] or to protect (or even [[Avengers|avenge]]) their less gifted fellows. [[Spider-Man|One]] such individual once managed to topple the mighty Megatron himself during a fight. While it was at best a temporary victory, it was still impressive. Even more impressive, another [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|superhuman]] once made [[Unicron]] himself recoil in pain, a feat even the combined might of the Autobot and Decepticon armies were unable to pull off. And concerning the wider [[Megaverse]], groups of humans have been known to be related to the Transformers, including a [[G.I. Joe (team)|highly-trained special mission force]] employed by the US government to stop [[Cobra|terrorist organizations]], a [[M.A.S.K.|team of specialists equipped with advanced helmets and multi-function vehicles]], and a [[Animorph|group of humans and one alien imbued with the power of shape-shifting]] fighting against a [[Yeerk|race of mind-controlling alien slugs]] attempting to conquer Earth.
*Of all the species that [[Vector Prime]] has ever encountered, humans have asked the most questions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

==External links==
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Human

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[[File:Human.jpg|350px|thumb|A typical human.]]

'''Humans''' (also known as: fleshlings, organics, meatbags, insects, squishies, noisy creatures, "puny flesh creatures", "dumb [[stubbie]]s", "little screamers", "bit players", ''Terrans'' or ''Homo sapiens'' as they prefer) are bipedal and usually tiny {{w|Carbon based life|organic}} beings found on [[Earth]] and like planets. Though quite fragile, and technologically backwards, they have at times aided the [[Autobot]]s and thwarted the [[Decepticon]]s once the [[Transformer]]s' age-old war spilled onto the humans' primitive homeworld. [[Movie continuity|And]] [[Aligned continuity family|sometimes]], they're the spawn of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]].

{{quote|They're such undependable creatures. Inferior lifeforms.|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] on the humans|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}

==Overview==
===Physiology===
{{quote|Humans are disgusting creatures, but worthy of study, if just to find a better way of destroying them.|[[Quintesson]] scientist|''[[The Killing Jar (episode)|The Killing Jar]]''}}
[[File:Humansize.jpg|left|thumb|Humans come in both Tall and Venti.]]
Humans are suspiciously familiar creatures. Though they are made of soft, organic materials, they share remarkable physical similarities with Transformers as a species. Most Transformers and humans walk upright on two long legs attached to a tall body, with two limbs attached at the shoulders. At the shoulders is the head, just like a Transformer's, which sports two eyes in the center at equal distance from the olfactory sensor array, above a mouth which opens for speaking and for ingesting energy. Aside from energy, they also ingest raw materials that they use in their self repair systems. This would seem to be a sensible system, as these materials can be stored anywhere in their bodies, to be used later when and if necessary. Like Transformers, they are social creatures, who trade and barter wares and develop emotional attachments to peers. Eerily enough, they possess an emotional spectrum nearly identical to that of Transformers as well, ranging from laughter, joy, and satisfaction to depression, anger, and cruelty. It is not uncommon to find Transformers who have even developed [[Transformer romance|strong spiritual bonds]] with individual creatures. This is disgusting.

Humans are physically composed of several specialized units or systems called organs. The major organs are internalized, but extremely frail. Damage is hard to repair, and as they have yet to develop a method of replicating these organs, replacement usually requires harvesting from compatible humans. Major systems include the {{w|brain}} (central processing unit, data storage), the {{w|heart}} ([[Fuel pump]]), and the {{w|lungs}} (fuel tank). Over sixty percent of their makeup is water, though they are not primarily aquatic in nature. Humans run on two types of fuel: gaseous oxygen, which is absorbed from their surroundings, and the chemical {{w|glucose}}, which is refined from ingested organic matter. Both are required by every organ in their body and an elaborate transport system utilizing a liquid known as {{w|blood}} is required to transport them throughout. Though blood is in some sense self-replicating, a tremendous loss of the liquid will result in permanent deactivation. Oxygen is equally required, and if deprived of oxygen for long enough, they run the risk of suffering major processor damage or permanent deactivation.

[[File:Sariprime.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus Prime learns of human reproduction.]]
A human's organic tissue will begin failing just one quarter into his or her lifespan, and will spend the next three quarters growing ever less efficient until the human's lifeforce can no longer sustain itself. As a result, humans are saddeningly short-lived creatures. (It is not known how they find the time to accomplish anything, though as a side effect it has made their wars mercifully short.) Interestingly, humans do not build new members of their race. To the contrary, humans are what they have deemed {{w|sexual dimorphism|sexually dimorphic}}, categorized into {{w|sex}}es, wherein members of one subvariant of their species, classified as male, implants structural data, which they call "DNA", in the other, classified as female. This process grows a new human (or occasionally more than one, although this is rare) inside the female like a {{w|gestation|parasite}} until it emerges roughly three quarters of an Earth year later. (If it exits the female too early, the new human risks death.) The new human is very fragile and stupid; it will take years to acclimate itself to their society. Even a young human who stayed inside its female for the appropriate length of time is not capable of operating self-sufficiently without extensive training. Despite this limited intelligence and understanding (or perhaps as a result of it), younger humans are often among the first to form bonds with friendly Transformers.

[[File:Wolverinemanmachine.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Some humans claim to inhabit dubiously-named places such as "Claw City."]]

Initiating the growth of a new human apparently involves much rubbing, and also [[kiss]]ing. Though the required interactions have been hinted at in [[As the Kitchen Sinks|popular media]], humans are reticent to discussing the physical mechanism, and several attempts at accumulating further data were met with what they term as "awkward silence". This is quite confusing, as humans generally give the impression that they supremely enjoy it, and have refused all suggestions that they learn the technology to build their own from spare parts.

Similar to Transformer [[outlier]]s, a small number of humans are born or gifted with fantastical abilities far beyond what one would expect a human body to be capable, such as telepathy, unaided flight, or accelerated healing. These super-powered beings often assemble themselves in groups and fight crime.

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===Technology===
{{quote|How much did technology progress much [sic] during the four million years that Autobots and Decepticons slumbered beneath a volcano on Earth? And then consider the scant three decades following their revival. [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster]]s, [[Pretender]]s, [[Scramble City]] [[Combiner]]s, [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, [[transfixatron]]s, [[immobilizer]]s, [[warp gate]]s... and then ask yourself again, how might humans outstrip my race.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime]]}}

[[File:Humansmall.jpg|left|thumb|The humans of Earth wear [[hard hat]]s regardless of their profession.]]
Although Earth is rich with natural resources, Human technology is surprisingly primitive. They had only begun to experiment with outer atmosphere travel at the time the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] (or another such first contact event) began on Earth, and they have limited communication methods. Although their locomotive devices, called "cars", are suitable for [[Transformation]], they are quite crude, potentially dangerous, and incredibly energy inefficient. Despite this, the type of car is often seen as a status symbol among humans; apparently the larger the car, the more status achieved. Some humans claim that those with large cars are "compensating" for some other sort of size deficiency—unsurprising, considering how tiny humans are compared to the average Transformer. One [[Chumley|human]] was able to develope technology to capture and torture Transformers. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

Human military technology is equally unimpressive. They have yet to develop any form of workable energy weapons, and no shield technology either. Their primary weapons are devices called "guns", which shoot small, metallic projectiles called "bullets" using a crude explosive called "[[Dragon's Bane|gunpowder]]". These are more than capable of killing other humans, but they are extremely inefficient when fending off any attacking Decepticons. Their warhead weapons are slightly more efficient, though extremely primitive when compared to Autobot [[Photon rifle|photon]] and [[Plasma cannon|plasma]] weapons.

[[File:Intersectionality humans.jpg|thumb|One possible future outcome for human civilization.]]
In some universes humans have developed weaponry that is actually rather effective against a Transformer. In one universe, the humans used kinetic projectiles called "{{w|sabot|Sabot rounds}}" that employ an incredibly high heat to burn through [[Decepticon]] [[Armor-plating|armour]] and then detonate in the more vulnerable innards. A sufficient volley of these in the right places can bring down a fairly large Decepticon almost as effectively as Cybertronian cannons. The humans combine these with one advantage of their small size: hiding, taking cover in buildings or behind other obstacles then popping up to fire a few rounds before hiding and relocating before firing again.

In still other universes, humans have developed technology almost on par with the Transformers after reverse-engineering Cybertronian biology. These developments can range anywhere from simple suits of powered armour to full-fledged, Earth-born Transformers. Humans have also been known to upgrade themselves with technology, thus becoming cyborgs. In one notable universe, humans reached the [[Terran Singularity]] - aping, perfecting, and then eventually outstripping the technological achievements of Cybertronians- and reorganized themselves into the interplanetary [[Human Confederacy]].

===Military===
In general, human militaries are not a match for Transformer technologies. Even the smallest of countries have armed humans organised into armies, and the size of the army does not necessarily equate to strength or weakness. The wealthiest human nations often make heavy use of technological advancements as soon as they become available and so a comparatively small but wealthy nation can be far more powerful militarily compared to a nation with a larger but less well-equipped army.

As mentioned earlier, most human weapons are ineffective against Transformers. However, human technology is always advancing, and there have been occasions that human weapons are [[Rail gun|potent enough to be desirable even by Decepticon standards!]]

In addition, humans throughout the multiverse have often organised their most elite troops into special units. While some of these units [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|are worse than ineffective]], others are [[G.I. Joe (team)|capable]] [[Action Force (team)|enough]] to actively stand against Transformers with some measure of success.

===Society===
[[File:AngryArcher01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Humans require tokens representative of energy, and are not above humiliating themselves to retrieve them.]]
Like on Cybertron before the war, humans make up the fabric of their local (or global) economies. Some work as repairmen, some are drillers in search of [[Oil|un-processed lubricants]], others are retrievers of [[ruby crystal mines of Burma|rare mineral lattices and metals]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|a few]] accomplish all of these simultaneously. The humans strangely use the majority of the lubricant they extract as a highly inefficient source of energy, and adorn themselves with the harvested minerals and metals at exorbitant prices. Apparently the humans reason that because these objects are rare, they are incredibly beautiful, and therefore worth vastly more resources than were spent extracting and refining them. Instead of trading [[Energon|valuable energy]] directly for goods and services, a small piece of lumbered and processed plantgrowth is exchanged. This plantgrowth represents energy abstractly, and its worth is assumed on good faith, though it is usually backed up by various metals and crystals of economic value.

A number of unsavory humans subvert this established system to illegally or immorally obtain these plantgrowths. Many of these humans were involved in unusual accidents which empowered the individual specimen to levels above ordinary humans, while others are tempted by their relatively high intelligence levels or capacity for selfish acts. Encounters with these subversive humans happen at an alarming rate, whether they be [[Donny Finkleberg|failed entertainers who claim to own all Transformers]], [[Doctor Arkeville|mad scientists]], or [[Angry Archer|gifted archers who dress in homage to Earth folklore]]. By sheer numbers, these humans must represent half of the known population. Sometimes, these sorts will organize into groups of like-minded rogues; much like their military, these gangs can range from [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|generally ineffectual]] to [[MECH|surprisingly dangerous]].

Politically, humans are divided among various nation-states which seem to be divided primarily among ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. On occasion, these nation-states will engage in conflict over territory and resources, but as previously stated, their wars are usually quite short. Most humans seem to prefer some sort of [[democracy]] where they elect individuals to govern and legislate their nation-states, although a number of them choose their leaders due to genetic inheritance and familial succession; others still hold power through a Decepticon-style dictatorship, though the mental stability of [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|a few]] have been questioned. At times, the Decepticons have taken advantage of Earth's factional tendencies to manipulate them to their advantage, but the Autobots have usually managed to expose the Decepticon influence before a full-scale military conflict occurs.

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Humans come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.]]
Humans greatly enjoy sound patterns, termed "music". The Autobots [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] have taken a particular interest in this music, though the chosen volume has overwhelmed most other Autobots, including the mighty [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from time to time. Humans have often shown an involuntary need to move about when music is broadcast, and even the aforementioned Autobots have also shown a desire to move about. Presumably, a fear of blowback prevented the Autobots from utilizing human music as a weapon against the Decepticons.

Humans are also athletic creatures, engaging in a variety of athletic events that are designed to test their strength, stamina, and speed. While none of them could hold their own against even the weakest Transformer, many human sports have been eagerly adopted by Transformers. The Autobot [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] is particularly fond of human athletics, and his vocabulary is littered with the human sports quotes.

Humans also enjoy watching moving images, termed "[[Film]]s". Transformers also enjoy making and watching these films. Transformers have even [[Monster from Mars|appeared]] [[Attack of the Alien Robots|in]] [[The Transformers: The Movie (fictional)|some]] [[Transformers (film)|films]] [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|made]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|by]] [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|human]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|beings]].
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===Religion===
{{quote|'''''PARASITES!!!'''''|[[Unicron]] on his progeny|"[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]"}}
[[File:Deusexmachina-statue.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Common human depictions of gods incorporate long flowing [[facial hair]], staffs and other kingly apparel.]]
Despite their lack of the multi-dimensional transwarp [[Spark]], a great number of humans believe in an analogous concept, the intangible [[soul]]. This has been confirmed to be the equivalent of a Transformer's personality program in an odd experiment, when the human [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s personality was uploaded to [[Autobot X (G1)|an empty Transformer body cobbled together from spare parts]]. The human's consciousness was not suitable for digitization, and quickly deteriorated toward psychosis.

Many also believe in supernatural beings, either [[God|singular]] or [[:Category:Gods|plural]], who have a direct but intangible stake in their lives. Once a week the more religious humans will gather together and sing songs at the ceiling, as the presumed direction of these beings is away from the gravity well of their planet. Unlike the historical [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]], their holy books are not incorruptible encrypted public-key [[datatrax]]. Instead, they frequently re-encode the writings of multiple authors in an inefficient and apparently lossy process. Then they fight about which "translation" of their texts is correct instead of simply downloading the original encoding algorithm.

The [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|few sources available]] claim that their [[Unicron|progenitor/planet]] (whom they either descended from or simply formed upon its body) is quite at odds with their traditions, and is apparently totally displeased with their existence. However, the same sources have shown that ancient humans may have revered artifacts once belonging to the [[Thirteen]], Cybertron's own native deities from the ancient past. Their understanding of the artifacts was incredibly limited, making their reverence of them quite puzzling.

===Breeding grounds===
The most familiar breed of humans are native to the planet Earth, though they can be found practically anywhere in the galaxy. For example, [[Nebulos]] is such a place, though some reports claim these humans are of green colour rather than various shades of beige. [[Femax]] is populated by humans of Transformer size. [[Pz-Zazz]] is also home to Transformer-sized humans, but it is not known whether they are indigenous to that world. It is possible that the tiny version of humans found on Earth is the exception, rather than the rule.

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==Notes==
*For reasons unknown, a substantial number of human Transformers [[Fandom|fans]] appear to have a very drastic, dismissive position when it comes to the inclusion of representatives of their species in Transformers fiction, some even going as far as demanding that Transformers fiction should be devoid of ''any'' flesh creatures whatsoever, unless being depicted as helpless victims/casualties of Decepticon attacks.
*Perhaps most bizarrely, humans can hear the trans-sonic signal known as the [[Omega Frequency]], emitted by the [[Omega Lock]] and other sources of Primus's power, while Transformers cannot.
*Humans reproduce by shooting DNA into each other. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|I find that offensive!]]
*According to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a certain percentage of human physiology is composed of cowardice. This proportion increases directly according to the size of the individual. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!|Pretender to the Throne!}}
*In some universes, Transformers have come into contact with humans with strange and unusual powers. These so-called "superhumans" have been known to organise themselves into teams, sometimes [[Neo-Knights|specifically to]] [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|battle Transformers]] or to protect (or even [[Avengers|avenge]]) their less gifted fellows. [[Spider-Man|One]] such individual once managed to topple the mighty Megatron himself during a fight. While it was at best a temporary victory, it was still impressive. Even more impressive, another [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|superhuman]] once made [[Unicron]] himself recoil in pain, a feat even the combined might of the Autobot and Decepticon armies were unable to pull off. And concerning the wider [[Megaverse]], groups of humans have been known to be related to the Transformers, including a [[G.I. Joe (team)|highly-trained special mission force]] employed by the US government to stop [[Cobra|terrorist organizations]], a [[M.A.S.K.|team of specialists equipped with advanced helmets and multi-function vehicles]], and a [[Animorph|group of humans and one alien imbued with the power of shape-shifting]] fighting against a [[Yeerk|race of mind-controlling alien slugs]] attempting to conquer Earth.
*Of all the species that [[Vector Prime]] has ever encountered, humans have asked the most questions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

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Human

2018-08-04T15:33:43Z

Mzawutang: /* Technology */

[[File:Human.jpg|350px|thumb|A typical human.]]

'''Humans''' (also known as: fleshlings, organics, meatbags, insects, squishies, noisy creatures, "puny flesh creatures", "dumb [[stubbie]]s", "little screamers", "bit players", ''Terrans'' or ''Homo sapiens'' as they prefer) are bipedal and usually tiny {{w|Carbon based life|organic}} beings found on [[Earth]] and like planets. Though quite fragile, and technologically backwards, they have at times aided the [[Autobot]]s and thwarted the [[Decepticon]]s once the [[Transformer]]s' age-old war spilled onto the humans' primitive homeworld. [[Movie continuity|And]] [[Aligned continuity family|sometimes]], they're the spawn of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]].

{{quote|They're such undependable creatures. Inferior lifeforms.|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] on the humans|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}

==Overview==
===Physiology===
{{quote|Humans are disgusting creatures, but worthy of study, if just to find a better way of destroying them.|[[Quintesson]] scientist|''[[The Killing Jar (episode)|The Killing Jar]]''}}
[[File:Humansize.jpg|left|thumb|Humans come in both Tall and Venti.]]
Humans are suspiciously familiar creatures. Though they are made of soft, organic materials, they share remarkable physical similarities with Transformers as a species. Most Transformers and humans walk upright on two long legs attached to a tall body, with two limbs attached at the shoulders. At the shoulders is the head, just like a Transformer's, which sports two eyes in the center at equal distance from the olfactory sensor array, above a mouth which opens for speaking and for ingesting energy. Aside from energy, they also ingest raw materials that they use in their self repair systems. This would seem to be a sensible system, as these materials can be stored anywhere in their bodies, to be used later when and if necessary. Like Transformers, they are social creatures, who trade and barter wares and develop emotional attachments to peers. Eerily enough, they possess an emotional spectrum nearly identical to that of Transformers as well, ranging from laughter, joy, and satisfaction to depression, anger, and cruelty. It is not uncommon to find Transformers who have even developed [[Transformer romance|strong spiritual bonds]] with individual creatures. This is disgusting.

Humans are physically composed of several specialized units or systems called organs. The major organs are internalized, but extremely frail. Damage is hard to repair, and as they have yet to develop a method of replicating these organs, replacement usually requires harvesting from compatible humans. Major systems include the {{w|brain}} (central processing unit, data storage), the {{w|heart}} ([[Fuel pump]]), and the {{w|lungs}} (fuel tank). Over sixty percent of their makeup is water, though they are not primarily aquatic in nature. Humans run on two types of fuel: gaseous oxygen, which is absorbed from their surroundings, and the chemical {{w|glucose}}, which is refined from ingested organic matter. Both are required by every organ in their body and an elaborate transport system utilizing a liquid known as {{w|blood}} is required to transport them throughout. Though blood is in some sense self-replicating, a tremendous loss of the liquid will result in permanent deactivation. Oxygen is equally required, and if deprived of oxygen for long enough, they run the risk of suffering major processor damage or permanent deactivation.

[[File:Sariprime.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus Prime learns of human reproduction.]]
A human's organic tissue will begin failing just one quarter into his or her lifespan, and will spend the next three quarters growing ever less efficient until the human's lifeforce can no longer sustain itself. As a result, humans are saddeningly short-lived creatures. (It is not known how they find the time to accomplish anything, though as a side effect it has made their wars mercifully short.) Interestingly, humans do not build new members of their race. To the contrary, humans are what they have deemed {{w|sexual dimorphism|sexually dimorphic}}, categorized into {{w|sex}}es, wherein members of one subvariant of their species, classified as male, implants structural data, which they call "DNA", in the other, classified as female. This process grows a new human (or occasionally more than one, although this is rare) inside the female like a {{w|gestation|parasite}} until it emerges roughly three quarters of an Earth year later. (If it exits the female too early, the new human risks death.) The new human is very fragile and stupid; it will take years to acclimate itself to their society. Even a young human who stayed inside its female for the appropriate length of time is not capable of operating self-sufficiently without extensive training. Despite this limited intelligence and understanding (or perhaps as a result of it), younger humans are often among the first to form bonds with friendly Transformers.

[[File:Wolverinemanmachine.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Some humans claim to inhabit dubiously-named places such as "Claw City."]]

Initiating the growth of a new human apparently involves much rubbing, and also [[kiss]]ing. Though the required interactions have been hinted at in [[As the Kitchen Sinks|popular media]], humans are reticent to discussing the physical mechanism, and several attempts at accumulating further data were met with what they term as "awkward silence". This is quite confusing, as humans generally give the impression that they supremely enjoy it, and have refused all suggestions that they learn the technology to build their own from spare parts.

Similar to Transformer [[outlier]]s, a small number of humans are born or gifted with fantastical abilities far beyond what one would expect a human body to be capable, such as telepathy, unaided flight, or accelerated healing. These super-powered beings often assemble themselves in groups and fight crime.

{{-}}
===Technology===
{{quote|How much did technology progress much [sic] during the four million years that Autobots and Decepticons slumbered beneath a volcano on Earth? And then consider the scant three decades following their revival. [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster]]s, [[Pretender]]s, [[Scramble City]] [[Combiner]]s, [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, [[transfixatron]]s, [[immobilizer]]s, [[warp gate]]s... and then ask yourself again, how might humans outstrip my race.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime]]}}

[[File:Humansmall.jpg|left|thumb|The humans of Earth wear [[hard hat]]s regardless of their profession.]]
Although Earth is rich with natural resources, Human technology is surprisingly primitive. They had only begun to experiment with outer atmosphere travel at the time the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] (or another such first contact event) began on Earth, and they have limited communication methods. Although their locomotive devices, called "cars", are suitable for [[Transformation]], they are quite crude, potentially dangerous, and incredibly energy inefficient. Despite this, the type of car is often seen as a status symbol among humans; apparently the larger the car, the more status achieved. Some humans claim that those with large cars are "compensating" for some other sort of size deficiency—unsurprising, considering how tiny humans are compared to the average Transformer. One [[Chumley|human]] developed technology to capture and torture Transformers. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

Human military technology is equally unimpressive. They have yet to develop any form of workable energy weapons, and no shield technology either. Their primary weapons are devices called "guns", which shoot small, metallic projectiles called "bullets" using a crude explosive called "[[Dragon's Bane|gunpowder]]". These are more than capable of killing other humans, but they are extremely inefficient when fending off any attacking Decepticons. Their warhead weapons are slightly more efficient, though extremely primitive when compared to Autobot [[Photon rifle|photon]] and [[Plasma cannon|plasma]] weapons.

[[File:Intersectionality humans.jpg|thumb|One possible future outcome for human civilization.]]
In some universes humans have developed weaponry that is actually rather effective against a Transformer. In one universe, the humans used kinetic projectiles called "{{w|sabot|Sabot rounds}}" that employ an incredibly high heat to burn through [[Decepticon]] [[Armor-plating|armour]] and then detonate in the more vulnerable innards. A sufficient volley of these in the right places can bring down a fairly large Decepticon almost as effectively as Cybertronian cannons. The humans combine these with one advantage of their small size: hiding, taking cover in buildings or behind other obstacles then popping up to fire a few rounds before hiding and relocating before firing again.

In still other universes, humans have developed technology almost on par with the Transformers after reverse-engineering Cybertronian biology. These developments can range anywhere from simple suits of powered armour to full-fledged, Earth-born Transformers. Humans have also been known to upgrade themselves with technology, thus becoming cyborgs. In one notable universe, humans reached the [[Terran Singularity]] - aping, perfecting, and then eventually outstripping the technological achievements of Cybertronians- and reorganized themselves into the interplanetary [[Human Confederacy]].

===Military===
In general, human militaries are not a match for Transformer technologies. Even the smallest of countries have armed humans organised into armies, and the size of the army does not necessarily equate to strength or weakness. The wealthiest human nations often make heavy use of technological advancements as soon as they become available and so a comparatively small but wealthy nation can be far more powerful militarily compared to a nation with a larger but less well-equipped army.

As mentioned earlier, most human weapons are ineffective against Transformers. However, human technology is always advancing, and there have been occasions that human weapons are [[Rail gun|potent enough to be desirable even by Decepticon standards!]]

In addition, humans throughout the multiverse have often organised their most elite troops into special units. While some of these units [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|are worse than ineffective]], others are [[G.I. Joe (team)|capable]] [[Action Force (team)|enough]] to actively stand against Transformers with some measure of success.

===Society===
[[File:AngryArcher01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Humans require tokens representative of energy, and are not above humiliating themselves to retrieve them.]]
Like on Cybertron before the war, humans make up the fabric of their local (or global) economies. Some work as repairmen, some are drillers in search of [[Oil|un-processed lubricants]], others are retrievers of [[ruby crystal mines of Burma|rare mineral lattices and metals]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|a few]] accomplish all of these simultaneously. The humans strangely use the majority of the lubricant they extract as a highly inefficient source of energy, and adorn themselves with the harvested minerals and metals at exorbitant prices. Apparently the humans reason that because these objects are rare, they are incredibly beautiful, and therefore worth vastly more resources than were spent extracting and refining them. Instead of trading [[Energon|valuable energy]] directly for goods and services, a small piece of lumbered and processed plantgrowth is exchanged. This plantgrowth represents energy abstractly, and its worth is assumed on good faith, though it is usually backed up by various metals and crystals of economic value.

A number of unsavory humans subvert this established system to illegally or immorally obtain these plantgrowths. Many of these humans were involved in unusual accidents which empowered the individual specimen to levels above ordinary humans, while others are tempted by their relatively high intelligence levels or capacity for selfish acts. Encounters with these subversive humans happen at an alarming rate, whether they be [[Donny Finkleberg|failed entertainers who claim to own all Transformers]], [[Doctor Arkeville|mad scientists]], or [[Angry Archer|gifted archers who dress in homage to Earth folklore]]. By sheer numbers, these humans must represent half of the known population. Sometimes, these sorts will organize into groups of like-minded rogues; much like their military, these gangs can range from [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|generally ineffectual]] to [[MECH|surprisingly dangerous]].

Politically, humans are divided among various nation-states which seem to be divided primarily among ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. On occasion, these nation-states will engage in conflict over territory and resources, but as previously stated, their wars are usually quite short. Most humans seem to prefer some sort of [[democracy]] where they elect individuals to govern and legislate their nation-states, although a number of them choose their leaders due to genetic inheritance and familial succession; others still hold power through a Decepticon-style dictatorship, though the mental stability of [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|a few]] have been questioned. At times, the Decepticons have taken advantage of Earth's factional tendencies to manipulate them to their advantage, but the Autobots have usually managed to expose the Decepticon influence before a full-scale military conflict occurs.

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Humans come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.]]
Humans greatly enjoy sound patterns, termed "music". The Autobots [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] have taken a particular interest in this music, though the chosen volume has overwhelmed most other Autobots, including the mighty [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from time to time. Humans have often shown an involuntary need to move about when music is broadcast, and even the aforementioned Autobots have also shown a desire to move about. Presumably, a fear of blowback prevented the Autobots from utilizing human music as a weapon against the Decepticons.

Humans are also athletic creatures, engaging in a variety of athletic events that are designed to test their strength, stamina, and speed. While none of them could hold their own against even the weakest Transformer, many human sports have been eagerly adopted by Transformers. The Autobot [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] is particularly fond of human athletics, and his vocabulary is littered with the human sports quotes.

Humans also enjoy watching moving images, termed "[[Film]]s". Transformers also enjoy making and watching these films. Transformers have even [[Monster from Mars|appeared]] [[Attack of the Alien Robots|in]] [[The Transformers: The Movie (fictional)|some]] [[Transformers (film)|films]] [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|made]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|by]] [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|human]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|beings]].
{{--}}

===Religion===
{{quote|'''''PARASITES!!!'''''|[[Unicron]] on his progeny|"[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]"}}
[[File:Deusexmachina-statue.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Common human depictions of gods incorporate long flowing [[facial hair]], staffs and other kingly apparel.]]
Despite their lack of the multi-dimensional transwarp [[Spark]], a great number of humans believe in an analogous concept, the intangible [[soul]]. This has been confirmed to be the equivalent of a Transformer's personality program in an odd experiment, when the human [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s personality was uploaded to [[Autobot X (G1)|an empty Transformer body cobbled together from spare parts]]. The human's consciousness was not suitable for digitization, and quickly deteriorated toward psychosis.

Many also believe in supernatural beings, either [[God|singular]] or [[:Category:Gods|plural]], who have a direct but intangible stake in their lives. Once a week the more religious humans will gather together and sing songs at the ceiling, as the presumed direction of these beings is away from the gravity well of their planet. Unlike the historical [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]], their holy books are not incorruptible encrypted public-key [[datatrax]]. Instead, they frequently re-encode the writings of multiple authors in an inefficient and apparently lossy process. Then they fight about which "translation" of their texts is correct instead of simply downloading the original encoding algorithm.

The [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|few sources available]] claim that their [[Unicron|progenitor/planet]] (whom they either descended from or simply formed upon its body) is quite at odds with their traditions, and is apparently totally displeased with their existence. However, the same sources have shown that ancient humans may have revered artifacts once belonging to the [[Thirteen]], Cybertron's own native deities from the ancient past. Their understanding of the artifacts was incredibly limited, making their reverence of them quite puzzling.

===Breeding grounds===
The most familiar breed of humans are native to the planet Earth, though they can be found practically anywhere in the galaxy. For example, [[Nebulos]] is such a place, though some reports claim these humans are of green colour rather than various shades of beige. [[Femax]] is populated by humans of Transformer size. [[Pz-Zazz]] is also home to Transformer-sized humans, but it is not known whether they are indigenous to that world. It is possible that the tiny version of humans found on Earth is the exception, rather than the rule.

{{--}}

==Notes==
*For reasons unknown, a substantial number of human Transformers [[Fandom|fans]] appear to have a very drastic, dismissive position when it comes to the inclusion of representatives of their species in Transformers fiction, some even going as far as demanding that Transformers fiction should be devoid of ''any'' flesh creatures whatsoever, unless being depicted as helpless victims/casualties of Decepticon attacks.
*Perhaps most bizarrely, humans can hear the trans-sonic signal known as the [[Omega Frequency]], emitted by the [[Omega Lock]] and other sources of Primus's power, while Transformers cannot.
*Humans reproduce by shooting DNA into each other. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|I find that offensive!]]
*According to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a certain percentage of human physiology is composed of cowardice. This proportion increases directly according to the size of the individual. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!|Pretender to the Throne!}}
*In some universes, Transformers have come into contact with humans with strange and unusual powers. These so-called "superhumans" have been known to organise themselves into teams, sometimes [[Neo-Knights|specifically to]] [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|battle Transformers]] or to protect (or even [[Avengers|avenge]]) their less gifted fellows. [[Spider-Man|One]] such individual once managed to topple the mighty Megatron himself during a fight. While it was at best a temporary victory, it was still impressive. Even more impressive, another [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|superhuman]] once made [[Unicron]] himself recoil in pain, a feat even the combined might of the Autobot and Decepticon armies were unable to pull off. And concerning the wider [[Megaverse]], groups of humans have been known to be related to the Transformers, including a [[G.I. Joe (team)|highly-trained special mission force]] employed by the US government to stop [[Cobra|terrorist organizations]], a [[M.A.S.K.|team of specialists equipped with advanced helmets and multi-function vehicles]], and a [[Animorph|group of humans and one alien imbued with the power of shape-shifting]] fighting against a [[Yeerk|race of mind-controlling alien slugs]] attempting to conquer Earth.
*Of all the species that [[Vector Prime]] has ever encountered, humans have asked the most questions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

==External links==
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Human

2018-08-04T15:32:51Z

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[[File:Human.jpg|350px|thumb|A typical human.]]

'''Humans''' (also known as: fleshlings, organics, meatbags, insects, squishies, noisy creatures, "puny flesh creatures", "dumb [[stubbie]]s", "little screamers", "bit players", ''Terrans'' or ''Homo sapiens'' as they prefer) are bipedal and usually tiny {{w|Carbon based life|organic}} beings found on [[Earth]] and like planets. Though quite fragile, and technologically backwards, they have at times aided the [[Autobot]]s and thwarted the [[Decepticon]]s once the [[Transformer]]s' age-old war spilled onto the humans' primitive homeworld. [[Movie continuity|And]] [[Aligned continuity family|sometimes]], they're the spawn of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]].

{{quote|They're such undependable creatures. Inferior lifeforms.|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] on the humans|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}

==Overview==
===Physiology===
{{quote|Humans are disgusting creatures, but worthy of study, if just to find a better way of destroying them.|[[Quintesson]] scientist|''[[The Killing Jar (episode)|The Killing Jar]]''}}
[[File:Humansize.jpg|left|thumb|Humans come in both Tall and Venti.]]
Humans are suspiciously familiar creatures. Though they are made of soft, organic materials, they share remarkable physical similarities with Transformers as a species. Most Transformers and humans walk upright on two long legs attached to a tall body, with two limbs attached at the shoulders. At the shoulders is the head, just like a Transformer's, which sports two eyes in the center at equal distance from the olfactory sensor array, above a mouth which opens for speaking and for ingesting energy. Aside from energy, they also ingest raw materials that they use in their self repair systems. This would seem to be a sensible system, as these materials can be stored anywhere in their bodies, to be used later when and if necessary. Like Transformers, they are social creatures, who trade and barter wares and develop emotional attachments to peers. Eerily enough, they possess an emotional spectrum nearly identical to that of Transformers as well, ranging from laughter, joy, and satisfaction to depression, anger, and cruelty. It is not uncommon to find Transformers who have even developed [[Transformer romance|strong spiritual bonds]] with individual creatures. This is disgusting.

Humans are physically composed of several specialized units or systems called organs. The major organs are internalized, but extremely frail. Damage is hard to repair, and as they have yet to develop a method of replicating these organs, replacement usually requires harvesting from compatible humans. Major systems include the {{w|brain}} (central processing unit, data storage), the {{w|heart}} ([[Fuel pump]]), and the {{w|lungs}} (fuel tank). Over sixty percent of their makeup is water, though they are not primarily aquatic in nature. Humans run on two types of fuel: gaseous oxygen, which is absorbed from their surroundings, and the chemical {{w|glucose}}, which is refined from ingested organic matter. Both are required by every organ in their body and an elaborate transport system utilizing a liquid known as {{w|blood}} is required to transport them throughout. Though blood is in some sense self-replicating, a tremendous loss of the liquid will result in permanent deactivation. Oxygen is equally required, and if deprived of oxygen for long enough, they run the risk of suffering major processor damage or permanent deactivation.

[[File:Sariprime.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus Prime learns of human reproduction.]]
A human's organic tissue will begin failing just one quarter into his or her lifespan, and will spend the next three quarters growing ever less efficient until the human's lifeforce can no longer sustain itself. As a result, humans are saddeningly short-lived creatures. (It is not known how they find the time to accomplish anything, though as a side effect it has made their wars mercifully short.) Interestingly, humans do not build new members of their race. To the contrary, humans are what they have deemed {{w|sexual dimorphism|sexually dimorphic}}, categorized into {{w|sex}}es, wherein members of one subvariant of their species, classified as male, implants structural data, which they call "DNA", in the other, classified as female. This process grows a new human (or occasionally more than one, although this is rare) inside the female like a {{w|gestation|parasite}} until it emerges roughly three quarters of an Earth year later. (If it exits the female too early, the new human risks death.) The new human is very fragile and stupid; it will take years to acclimate itself to their society. Even a young human who stayed inside its female for the appropriate length of time is not capable of operating self-sufficiently without extensive training. Despite this limited intelligence and understanding (or perhaps as a result of it), younger humans are often among the first to form bonds with friendly Transformers.

[[File:Wolverinemanmachine.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Some humans claim to inhabit dubiously-named places such as "Claw City."]]

Initiating the growth of a new human apparently involves much rubbing, and also [[kiss]]ing. Though the required interactions have been hinted at in [[As the Kitchen Sinks|popular media]], humans are reticent to discussing the physical mechanism, and several attempts at accumulating further data were met with what they term as "awkward silence". This is quite confusing, as humans generally give the impression that they supremely enjoy it, and have refused all suggestions that they learn the technology to build their own from spare parts.

Similar to Transformer [[outlier]]s, a small number of humans are born or gifted with fantastical abilities far beyond what one would expect a human body to be capable, such as telepathy, unaided flight, or accelerated healing. These super-powered beings often assemble themselves in groups and fight crime.

{{-}}
===Technology===
{{quote|How much did technology progress much [sic] during the four million years that Autobots and Decepticons slumbered beneath a volcano on Earth? And then consider the scant three decades following their revival. [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster]]s, [[Pretender]]s, [[Scramble City]] [[Combiner]]s, [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, [[transfixatron]]s, [[immobilizer]]s, [[warp gate]]s... and then ask yourself again, how might humans outstrip my race.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime]]}}

[[File:Humansmall.jpg|left|thumb|The humans of Earth wear [[hard hat]]s regardless of their profession.]]
Although Earth is rich with natural resources, Human technology is surprisingly primitive. They had only begun to experiment with outer atmosphere travel at the time the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] (or another such first contact event) began on Earth, and they have limited communication methods. Although their locomotive devices, called "cars", are suitable for [[Transformation]], they are quite crude, potentially dangerous, and incredibly energy inefficient. Despite this, the type of car is often seen as a status symbol among humans; apparently the larger the car, the more status achieved. Some humans claim that those with large cars are "compensating" for some other sort of size deficiency—unsurprising, considering how tiny humans are compared to the average Transformer. Some [[Chumley|human]] have developed technology to capture and torture Transformers. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

Human military technology is equally unimpressive. They have yet to develop any form of workable energy weapons, and no shield technology either. Their primary weapons are devices called "guns", which shoot small, metallic projectiles called "bullets" using a crude explosive called "[[Dragon's Bane|gunpowder]]". These are more than capable of killing other humans, but they are extremely inefficient when fending off any attacking Decepticons. Their warhead weapons are slightly more efficient, though extremely primitive when compared to Autobot [[Photon rifle|photon]] and [[Plasma cannon|plasma]] weapons.

[[File:Intersectionality humans.jpg|thumb|One possible future outcome for human civilization.]]
In some universes humans have developed weaponry that is actually rather effective against a Transformer. In one universe, the humans used kinetic projectiles called "{{w|sabot|Sabot rounds}}" that employ an incredibly high heat to burn through [[Decepticon]] [[Armor-plating|armour]] and then detonate in the more vulnerable innards. A sufficient volley of these in the right places can bring down a fairly large Decepticon almost as effectively as Cybertronian cannons. The humans combine these with one advantage of their small size: hiding, taking cover in buildings or behind other obstacles then popping up to fire a few rounds before hiding and relocating before firing again.

In still other universes, humans have developed technology almost on par with the Transformers after reverse-engineering Cybertronian biology. These developments can range anywhere from simple suits of powered armour to full-fledged, Earth-born Transformers. Humans have also been known to upgrade themselves with technology, thus becoming cyborgs. In one notable universe, humans reached the [[Terran Singularity]] - aping, perfecting, and then eventually outstripping the technological achievements of Cybertronians- and reorganized themselves into the interplanetary [[Human Confederacy]].

===Military===
In general, human militaries are not a match for Transformer technologies. Even the smallest of countries have armed humans organised into armies, and the size of the army does not necessarily equate to strength or weakness. The wealthiest human nations often make heavy use of technological advancements as soon as they become available and so a comparatively small but wealthy nation can be far more powerful militarily compared to a nation with a larger but less well-equipped army.

As mentioned earlier, most human weapons are ineffective against Transformers. However, human technology is always advancing, and there have been occasions that human weapons are [[Rail gun|potent enough to be desirable even by Decepticon standards!]]

In addition, humans throughout the multiverse have often organised their most elite troops into special units. While some of these units [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|are worse than ineffective]], others are [[G.I. Joe (team)|capable]] [[Action Force (team)|enough]] to actively stand against Transformers with some measure of success.

===Society===
[[File:AngryArcher01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Humans require tokens representative of energy, and are not above humiliating themselves to retrieve them.]]
Like on Cybertron before the war, humans make up the fabric of their local (or global) economies. Some work as repairmen, some are drillers in search of [[Oil|un-processed lubricants]], others are retrievers of [[ruby crystal mines of Burma|rare mineral lattices and metals]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|a few]] accomplish all of these simultaneously. The humans strangely use the majority of the lubricant they extract as a highly inefficient source of energy, and adorn themselves with the harvested minerals and metals at exorbitant prices. Apparently the humans reason that because these objects are rare, they are incredibly beautiful, and therefore worth vastly more resources than were spent extracting and refining them. Instead of trading [[Energon|valuable energy]] directly for goods and services, a small piece of lumbered and processed plantgrowth is exchanged. This plantgrowth represents energy abstractly, and its worth is assumed on good faith, though it is usually backed up by various metals and crystals of economic value.

A number of unsavory humans subvert this established system to illegally or immorally obtain these plantgrowths. Many of these humans were involved in unusual accidents which empowered the individual specimen to levels above ordinary humans, while others are tempted by their relatively high intelligence levels or capacity for selfish acts. Encounters with these subversive humans happen at an alarming rate, whether they be [[Donny Finkleberg|failed entertainers who claim to own all Transformers]], [[Doctor Arkeville|mad scientists]], or [[Angry Archer|gifted archers who dress in homage to Earth folklore]]. By sheer numbers, these humans must represent half of the known population. Sometimes, these sorts will organize into groups of like-minded rogues; much like their military, these gangs can range from [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|generally ineffectual]] to [[MECH|surprisingly dangerous]].

Politically, humans are divided among various nation-states which seem to be divided primarily among ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. On occasion, these nation-states will engage in conflict over territory and resources, but as previously stated, their wars are usually quite short. Most humans seem to prefer some sort of [[democracy]] where they elect individuals to govern and legislate their nation-states, although a number of them choose their leaders due to genetic inheritance and familial succession; others still hold power through a Decepticon-style dictatorship, though the mental stability of [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|a few]] have been questioned. At times, the Decepticons have taken advantage of Earth's factional tendencies to manipulate them to their advantage, but the Autobots have usually managed to expose the Decepticon influence before a full-scale military conflict occurs.

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Humans come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.]]
Humans greatly enjoy sound patterns, termed "music". The Autobots [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] have taken a particular interest in this music, though the chosen volume has overwhelmed most other Autobots, including the mighty [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from time to time. Humans have often shown an involuntary need to move about when music is broadcast, and even the aforementioned Autobots have also shown a desire to move about. Presumably, a fear of blowback prevented the Autobots from utilizing human music as a weapon against the Decepticons.

Humans are also athletic creatures, engaging in a variety of athletic events that are designed to test their strength, stamina, and speed. While none of them could hold their own against even the weakest Transformer, many human sports have been eagerly adopted by Transformers. The Autobot [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] is particularly fond of human athletics, and his vocabulary is littered with the human sports quotes.

Humans also enjoy watching moving images, termed "[[Film]]s". Transformers also enjoy making and watching these films. Transformers have even [[Monster from Mars|appeared]] [[Attack of the Alien Robots|in]] [[The Transformers: The Movie (fictional)|some]] [[Transformers (film)|films]] [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|made]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|by]] [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|human]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|beings]].
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===Religion===
{{quote|'''''PARASITES!!!'''''|[[Unicron]] on his progeny|"[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]"}}
[[File:Deusexmachina-statue.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Common human depictions of gods incorporate long flowing [[facial hair]], staffs and other kingly apparel.]]
Despite their lack of the multi-dimensional transwarp [[Spark]], a great number of humans believe in an analogous concept, the intangible [[soul]]. This has been confirmed to be the equivalent of a Transformer's personality program in an odd experiment, when the human [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s personality was uploaded to [[Autobot X (G1)|an empty Transformer body cobbled together from spare parts]]. The human's consciousness was not suitable for digitization, and quickly deteriorated toward psychosis.

Many also believe in supernatural beings, either [[God|singular]] or [[:Category:Gods|plural]], who have a direct but intangible stake in their lives. Once a week the more religious humans will gather together and sing songs at the ceiling, as the presumed direction of these beings is away from the gravity well of their planet. Unlike the historical [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]], their holy books are not incorruptible encrypted public-key [[datatrax]]. Instead, they frequently re-encode the writings of multiple authors in an inefficient and apparently lossy process. Then they fight about which "translation" of their texts is correct instead of simply downloading the original encoding algorithm.

The [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|few sources available]] claim that their [[Unicron|progenitor/planet]] (whom they either descended from or simply formed upon its body) is quite at odds with their traditions, and is apparently totally displeased with their existence. However, the same sources have shown that ancient humans may have revered artifacts once belonging to the [[Thirteen]], Cybertron's own native deities from the ancient past. Their understanding of the artifacts was incredibly limited, making their reverence of them quite puzzling.

===Breeding grounds===
The most familiar breed of humans are native to the planet Earth, though they can be found practically anywhere in the galaxy. For example, [[Nebulos]] is such a place, though some reports claim these humans are of green colour rather than various shades of beige. [[Femax]] is populated by humans of Transformer size. [[Pz-Zazz]] is also home to Transformer-sized humans, but it is not known whether they are indigenous to that world. It is possible that the tiny version of humans found on Earth is the exception, rather than the rule.

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==Notes==
*For reasons unknown, a substantial number of human Transformers [[Fandom|fans]] appear to have a very drastic, dismissive position when it comes to the inclusion of representatives of their species in Transformers fiction, some even going as far as demanding that Transformers fiction should be devoid of ''any'' flesh creatures whatsoever, unless being depicted as helpless victims/casualties of Decepticon attacks.
*Perhaps most bizarrely, humans can hear the trans-sonic signal known as the [[Omega Frequency]], emitted by the [[Omega Lock]] and other sources of Primus's power, while Transformers cannot.
*Humans reproduce by shooting DNA into each other. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|I find that offensive!]]
*According to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a certain percentage of human physiology is composed of cowardice. This proportion increases directly according to the size of the individual. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!|Pretender to the Throne!}}
*In some universes, Transformers have come into contact with humans with strange and unusual powers. These so-called "superhumans" have been known to organise themselves into teams, sometimes [[Neo-Knights|specifically to]] [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|battle Transformers]] or to protect (or even [[Avengers|avenge]]) their less gifted fellows. [[Spider-Man|One]] such individual once managed to topple the mighty Megatron himself during a fight. While it was at best a temporary victory, it was still impressive. Even more impressive, another [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|superhuman]] once made [[Unicron]] himself recoil in pain, a feat even the combined might of the Autobot and Decepticon armies were unable to pull off. And concerning the wider [[Megaverse]], groups of humans have been known to be related to the Transformers, including a [[G.I. Joe (team)|highly-trained special mission force]] employed by the US government to stop [[Cobra|terrorist organizations]], a [[M.A.S.K.|team of specialists equipped with advanced helmets and multi-function vehicles]], and a [[Animorph|group of humans and one alien imbued with the power of shape-shifting]] fighting against a [[Yeerk|race of mind-controlling alien slugs]] attempting to conquer Earth.
*Of all the species that [[Vector Prime]] has ever encountered, humans have asked the most questions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

==External links==
*{{w|Human}}s like to write about themselves. This, too, erupts into war.

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Mzawutang: /* Overview */

[[File:Human.jpg|350px|thumb|A typical human.]]

'''Humans''' (also known as: fleshlings, organics, meatbags, insects, squishies, noisy creatures, "puny flesh creatures", "dumb [[stubbie]]s", "little screamers", "bit players", ''Terrans'' or ''Homo sapiens'' as they prefer) are bipedal and usually tiny {{w|Carbon based life|organic}} beings found on [[Earth]] and like planets. Though quite fragile, and technologically backwards, they have at times aided the [[Autobot]]s and thwarted the [[Decepticon]]s once the [[Transformer]]s' age-old war spilled onto the humans' primitive homeworld. [[Movie continuity|And]] [[Aligned continuity family|sometimes]], they're the spawn of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]].

{{quote|They're such undependable creatures. Inferior lifeforms.|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] on the humans|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}

==Overview==
===Physiology===
{{quote|Humans are disgusting creatures, but worthy of study, if just to find a better way of destroying them.|[[Quintesson]] scientist|''[[The Killing Jar (episode)|The Killing Jar]]''}}
[[File:Humansize.jpg|left|thumb|Humans come in both Tall and Venti.]]
Humans are suspiciously familiar creatures. Though they are made of soft, organic materials, they share remarkable physical similarities with Transformers as a species. Most Transformers and humans walk upright on two long legs attached to a tall body, with two limbs attached at the shoulders. At the shoulders is the head, just like a Transformer's, which sports two eyes in the center at equal distance from the olfactory sensor array, above a mouth which opens for speaking and for ingesting energy. Aside from energy, they also ingest raw materials that they use in their self repair systems. This would seem to be a sensible system, as these materials can be stored anywhere in their bodies, to be used later when and if necessary. Like Transformers, they are social creatures, who trade and barter wares and develop emotional attachments to peers. Eerily enough, they possess an emotional spectrum nearly identical to that of Transformers as well, ranging from laughter, joy, and satisfaction to depression, anger, and cruelty. It is not uncommon to find Transformers who have even developed [[Transformer romance|strong spiritual bonds]] with individual creatures. This is disgusting.

Humans are physically composed of several specialized units or systems called organs. The major organs are internalized, but extremely frail. Damage is hard to repair, and as they have yet to develop a method of replicating these organs, replacement usually requires harvesting from compatible humans. Major systems include the {{w|brain}} (central processing unit, data storage), the {{w|heart}} ([[Fuel pump]]), and the {{w|lungs}} (fuel tank). Over sixty percent of their makeup is water, though they are not primarily aquatic in nature. Humans run on two types of fuel: gaseous oxygen, which is absorbed from their surroundings, and the chemical {{w|glucose}}, which is refined from ingested organic matter. Both are required by every organ in their body and an elaborate transport system utilizing a liquid known as {{w|blood}} is required to transport them throughout. Though blood is in some sense self-replicating, a tremendous loss of the liquid will result in permanent deactivation. Oxygen is equally required, and if deprived of oxygen for long enough, they run the risk of suffering major processor damage or permanent deactivation.

[[File:Sariprime.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus Prime learns of human reproduction.]]
A human's organic tissue will begin failing just one quarter into his or her lifespan, and will spend the next three quarters growing ever less efficient until the human's lifeforce can no longer sustain itself. As a result, humans are saddeningly short-lived creatures. (It is not known how they find the time to accomplish anything, though as a side effect it has made their wars mercifully short.) Interestingly, humans do not build new members of their race. To the contrary, humans are what they have deemed {{w|sexual dimorphism|sexually dimorphic}}, categorized into {{w|sex}}es, wherein members of one subvariant of their species, classified as male, implants structural data, which they call "DNA", in the other, classified as female. This process grows a new human (or occasionally more than one, although this is rare) inside the female like a {{w|gestation|parasite}} until it emerges roughly three quarters of an Earth year later. (If it exits the female too early, the new human risks death.) The new human is very fragile and stupid; it will take years to acclimate itself to their society. Even a young human who stayed inside its female for the appropriate length of time is not capable of operating self-sufficiently without extensive training. Despite this limited intelligence and understanding (or perhaps as a result of it), younger humans are often among the first to form bonds with friendly Transformers.

[[File:Wolverinemanmachine.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Some humans claim to inhabit dubiously-named places such as "Claw City."]]

Initiating the growth of a new human apparently involves much rubbing, and also [[kiss]]ing. Though the required interactions have been hinted at in [[As the Kitchen Sinks|popular media]], humans are reticent to discussing the physical mechanism, and several attempts at accumulating further data were met with what they term as "awkward silence". This is quite confusing, as humans generally give the impression that they supremely enjoy it, and have refused all suggestions that they learn the technology to build their own from spare parts.

Similar to Transformer [[outlier]]s, a small number of humans are born or gifted with fantastical abilities far beyond what one would expect a human body to be capable, such as telepathy, unaided flight, or accelerated healing. These super-powered beings often assemble themselves in groups and fight crime.

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===Technology===
{{quote|How much did technology progress much [sic] during the four million years that Autobots and Decepticons slumbered beneath a volcano on Earth? And then consider the scant three decades following their revival. [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster]]s, [[Pretender]]s, [[Scramble City]] [[Combiner]]s, [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, [[transfixatron]]s, [[immobilizer]]s, [[warp gate]]s... and then ask yourself again, how might humans outstrip my race.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime]]}}

[[File:Humansmall.jpg|left|thumb|The humans of Earth wear [[hard hat]]s regardless of their profession.]]
Although Earth is rich with natural resources, Human technology is surprisingly primitive. They had only begun to experiment with outer atmosphere travel at the time the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] (or another such first contact event) began on Earth, and they have limited communication methods. Although their locomotive devices, called "cars", are suitable for [[Transformation]], they are quite crude, potentially dangerous, and incredibly energy inefficient. Despite this, the type of car is often seen as a status symbol among humans; apparently the larger the car, the more status achieved. Some humans claim that those with large cars are "compensating" for some other sort of size deficiency—unsurprising, considering how tiny humans are compared to the average Transformer. Some [[Chumley|human]] have developed technology to capture and torture Transformers. ''[[Prime target (episode)|Prime Target]]''

Human military technology is equally unimpressive. They have yet to develop any form of workable energy weapons, and no shield technology either. Their primary weapons are devices called "guns", which shoot small, metallic projectiles called "bullets" using a crude explosive called "[[Dragon's Bane|gunpowder]]". These are more than capable of killing other humans, but they are extremely inefficient when fending off any attacking Decepticons. Their warhead weapons are slightly more efficient, though extremely primitive when compared to Autobot [[Photon rifle|photon]] and [[Plasma cannon|plasma]] weapons.

[[File:Intersectionality humans.jpg|thumb|One possible future outcome for human civilization.]]
In some universes humans have developed weaponry that is actually rather effective against a Transformer. In one universe, the humans used kinetic projectiles called "{{w|sabot|Sabot rounds}}" that employ an incredibly high heat to burn through [[Decepticon]] [[Armor-plating|armour]] and then detonate in the more vulnerable innards. A sufficient volley of these in the right places can bring down a fairly large Decepticon almost as effectively as Cybertronian cannons. The humans combine these with one advantage of their small size: hiding, taking cover in buildings or behind other obstacles then popping up to fire a few rounds before hiding and relocating before firing again.

In still other universes, humans have developed technology almost on par with the Transformers after reverse-engineering Cybertronian biology. These developments can range anywhere from simple suits of powered armour to full-fledged, Earth-born Transformers. Humans have also been known to upgrade themselves with technology, thus becoming cyborgs. In one notable universe, humans reached the [[Terran Singularity]] - aping, perfecting, and then eventually outstripping the technological achievements of Cybertronians- and reorganized themselves into the interplanetary [[Human Confederacy]].

===Military===
In general, human militaries are not a match for Transformer technologies. Even the smallest of countries have armed humans organised into armies, and the size of the army does not necessarily equate to strength or weakness. The wealthiest human nations often make heavy use of technological advancements as soon as they become available and so a comparatively small but wealthy nation can be far more powerful militarily compared to a nation with a larger but less well-equipped army.

As mentioned earlier, most human weapons are ineffective against Transformers. However, human technology is always advancing, and there have been occasions that human weapons are [[Rail gun|potent enough to be desirable even by Decepticon standards!]]

In addition, humans throughout the multiverse have often organised their most elite troops into special units. While some of these units [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|are worse than ineffective]], others are [[G.I. Joe (team)|capable]] [[Action Force (team)|enough]] to actively stand against Transformers with some measure of success.

===Society===
[[File:AngryArcher01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Humans require tokens representative of energy, and are not above humiliating themselves to retrieve them.]]
Like on Cybertron before the war, humans make up the fabric of their local (or global) economies. Some work as repairmen, some are drillers in search of [[Oil|un-processed lubricants]], others are retrievers of [[ruby crystal mines of Burma|rare mineral lattices and metals]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|a few]] accomplish all of these simultaneously. The humans strangely use the majority of the lubricant they extract as a highly inefficient source of energy, and adorn themselves with the harvested minerals and metals at exorbitant prices. Apparently the humans reason that because these objects are rare, they are incredibly beautiful, and therefore worth vastly more resources than were spent extracting and refining them. Instead of trading [[Energon|valuable energy]] directly for goods and services, a small piece of lumbered and processed plantgrowth is exchanged. This plantgrowth represents energy abstractly, and its worth is assumed on good faith, though it is usually backed up by various metals and crystals of economic value.

A number of unsavory humans subvert this established system to illegally or immorally obtain these plantgrowths. Many of these humans were involved in unusual accidents which empowered the individual specimen to levels above ordinary humans, while others are tempted by their relatively high intelligence levels or capacity for selfish acts. Encounters with these subversive humans happen at an alarming rate, whether they be [[Donny Finkleberg|failed entertainers who claim to own all Transformers]], [[Doctor Arkeville|mad scientists]], or [[Angry Archer|gifted archers who dress in homage to Earth folklore]]. By sheer numbers, these humans must represent half of the known population. Sometimes, these sorts will organize into groups of like-minded rogues; much like their military, these gangs can range from [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|generally ineffectual]] to [[MECH|surprisingly dangerous]].

Politically, humans are divided among various nation-states which seem to be divided primarily among ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. On occasion, these nation-states will engage in conflict over territory and resources, but as previously stated, their wars are usually quite short. Most humans seem to prefer some sort of [[democracy]] where they elect individuals to govern and legislate their nation-states, although a number of them choose their leaders due to genetic inheritance and familial succession; others still hold power through a Decepticon-style dictatorship, though the mental stability of [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|a few]] have been questioned. At times, the Decepticons have taken advantage of Earth's factional tendencies to manipulate them to their advantage, but the Autobots have usually managed to expose the Decepticon influence before a full-scale military conflict occurs.

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Humans come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.]]
Humans greatly enjoy sound patterns, termed "music". The Autobots [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] have taken a particular interest in this music, though the chosen volume has overwhelmed most other Autobots, including the mighty [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from time to time. Humans have often shown an involuntary need to move about when music is broadcast, and even the aforementioned Autobots have also shown a desire to move about. Presumably, a fear of blowback prevented the Autobots from utilizing human music as a weapon against the Decepticons.

Humans are also athletic creatures, engaging in a variety of athletic events that are designed to test their strength, stamina, and speed. While none of them could hold their own against even the weakest Transformer, many human sports have been eagerly adopted by Transformers. The Autobot [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] is particularly fond of human athletics, and his vocabulary is littered with the human sports quotes.

Humans also enjoy watching moving images, termed "[[Film]]s". Transformers also enjoy making and watching these films. Transformers have even [[Monster from Mars|appeared]] [[Attack of the Alien Robots|in]] [[The Transformers: The Movie (fictional)|some]] [[Transformers (film)|films]] [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|made]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|by]] [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|human]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|beings]].
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===Religion===
{{quote|'''''PARASITES!!!'''''|[[Unicron]] on his progeny|"[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]"}}
[[File:Deusexmachina-statue.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Common human depictions of gods incorporate long flowing [[facial hair]], staffs and other kingly apparel.]]
Despite their lack of the multi-dimensional transwarp [[Spark]], a great number of humans believe in an analogous concept, the intangible [[soul]]. This has been confirmed to be the equivalent of a Transformer's personality program in an odd experiment, when the human [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s personality was uploaded to [[Autobot X (G1)|an empty Transformer body cobbled together from spare parts]]. The human's consciousness was not suitable for digitization, and quickly deteriorated toward psychosis.

Many also believe in supernatural beings, either [[God|singular]] or [[:Category:Gods|plural]], who have a direct but intangible stake in their lives. Once a week the more religious humans will gather together and sing songs at the ceiling, as the presumed direction of these beings is away from the gravity well of their planet. Unlike the historical [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]], their holy books are not incorruptible encrypted public-key [[datatrax]]. Instead, they frequently re-encode the writings of multiple authors in an inefficient and apparently lossy process. Then they fight about which "translation" of their texts is correct instead of simply downloading the original encoding algorithm.

The [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|few sources available]] claim that their [[Unicron|progenitor/planet]] (whom they either descended from or simply formed upon its body) is quite at odds with their traditions, and is apparently totally displeased with their existence. However, the same sources have shown that ancient humans may have revered artifacts once belonging to the [[Thirteen]], Cybertron's own native deities from the ancient past. Their understanding of the artifacts was incredibly limited, making their reverence of them quite puzzling.

===Breeding grounds===
The most familiar breed of humans are native to the planet Earth, though they can be found practically anywhere in the galaxy. For example, [[Nebulos]] is such a place, though some reports claim these humans are of green colour rather than various shades of beige. [[Femax]] is populated by humans of Transformer size. [[Pz-Zazz]] is also home to Transformer-sized humans, but it is not known whether they are indigenous to that world. It is possible that the tiny version of humans found on Earth is the exception, rather than the rule.

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==Notes==
*For reasons unknown, a substantial number of human Transformers [[Fandom|fans]] appear to have a very drastic, dismissive position when it comes to the inclusion of representatives of their species in Transformers fiction, some even going as far as demanding that Transformers fiction should be devoid of ''any'' flesh creatures whatsoever, unless being depicted as helpless victims/casualties of Decepticon attacks.
*Perhaps most bizarrely, humans can hear the trans-sonic signal known as the [[Omega Frequency]], emitted by the [[Omega Lock]] and other sources of Primus's power, while Transformers cannot.
*Humans reproduce by shooting DNA into each other. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|I find that offensive!]]
*According to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a certain percentage of human physiology is composed of cowardice. This proportion increases directly according to the size of the individual. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!|Pretender to the Throne!}}
*In some universes, Transformers have come into contact with humans with strange and unusual powers. These so-called "superhumans" have been known to organise themselves into teams, sometimes [[Neo-Knights|specifically to]] [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|battle Transformers]] or to protect (or even [[Avengers|avenge]]) their less gifted fellows. [[Spider-Man|One]] such individual once managed to topple the mighty Megatron himself during a fight. While it was at best a temporary victory, it was still impressive. Even more impressive, another [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|superhuman]] once made [[Unicron]] himself recoil in pain, a feat even the combined might of the Autobot and Decepticon armies were unable to pull off. And concerning the wider [[Megaverse]], groups of humans have been known to be related to the Transformers, including a [[G.I. Joe (team)|highly-trained special mission force]] employed by the US government to stop [[Cobra|terrorist organizations]], a [[M.A.S.K.|team of specialists equipped with advanced helmets and multi-function vehicles]], and a [[Animorph|group of humans and one alien imbued with the power of shape-shifting]] fighting against a [[Yeerk|race of mind-controlling alien slugs]] attempting to conquer Earth.
*Of all the species that [[Vector Prime]] has ever encountered, humans have asked the most questions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

==External links==
*{{w|Human}}s like to write about themselves. This, too, erupts into war.

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Human

2018-08-04T15:28:59Z

Mzawutang:

[[File:Human.jpg|350px|thumb|A typical human.]]

'''Humans''' (also known as: fleshlings, organics, meatbags, insects, squishies, noisy creatures, "puny flesh creatures", "dumb [[stubbie]]s", "little screamers", "bit players", ''Terrans'' or ''Homo sapiens'' as they prefer) are bipedal and usually tiny {{w|Carbon based life|organic}} beings found on [[Earth]] and like planets. Though quite fragile, and technologically backwards, they have at times aided the [[Autobot]]s and thwarted the [[Decepticon]]s once the [[Transformer]]s' age-old war spilled onto the humans' primitive homeworld. [[Movie continuity|And]] [[Aligned continuity family|sometimes]], they're the spawn of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]].

{{quote|They're such undependable creatures. Inferior lifeforms.|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] on the humans|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1]]"}}

==Overview==
===Physiology===
{{quote|Humans are disgusting creatures, but worthy of study, if just to find a better way of destroying them.|[[Quintesson]] scientist|''[[The Killing Jar (episode)|The Killing Jar]]''}}
[[File:Humansize.jpg|left|thumb|Humans come in both Tall and Venti.]]
Humans are suspiciously familiar creatures. Though they are made of soft, organic materials, they share remarkable physical similarities with Transformers as a species. Most Transformers and humans walk upright on two long legs attached to a tall body, with two limbs attached at the shoulders. At the shoulders is the head, just like a Transformer's, which sports two eyes in the center at equal distance from the olfactory sensor array, above a mouth which opens for speaking and for ingesting energy. Aside from energy, they also ingest raw materials that they use in their self repair systems. This would seem to be a sensible system, as these materials can be stored anywhere in their bodies, to be used later when and if necessary. Like Transformers, they are social creatures, who trade and barter wares and develop emotional attachments to peers. Eerily enough, they possess an emotional spectrum nearly identical to that of Transformers as well, ranging from laughter, joy, and satisfaction to depression, anger, and cruelty. It is not uncommon to find Transformers who have even developed [[Transformer romance|strong spiritual bonds]] with individual creatures. This is disgusting.

Humans are physically composed of several specialized units or systems called organs. The major organs are internalized, but extremely frail. Damage is hard to repair, and as they have yet to develop a method of replicating these organs, replacement usually requires harvesting from compatible humans. Major systems include the {{w|brain}} (central processing unit, data storage), the {{w|heart}} ([[Fuel pump]]), and the {{w|lungs}} (fuel tank). Over sixty percent of their makeup is water, though they are not primarily aquatic in nature. Humans run on two types of fuel: gaseous oxygen, which is absorbed from their surroundings, and the chemical {{w|glucose}}, which is refined from ingested organic matter. Both are required by every organ in their body and an elaborate transport system utilizing a liquid known as {{w|blood}} is required to transport them throughout. Though blood is in some sense self-replicating, a tremendous loss of the liquid will result in permanent deactivation. Oxygen is equally required, and if deprived of oxygen for long enough, they run the risk of suffering major processor damage or permanent deactivation.

[[File:Sariprime.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus Prime learns of human reproduction.]]
A human's organic tissue will begin failing just one quarter into his or her lifespan, and will spend the next three quarters growing ever less efficient until the human's lifeforce can no longer sustain itself. As a result, humans are saddeningly short-lived creatures. (It is not known how they find the time to accomplish anything, though as a side effect it has made their wars mercifully short.) Interestingly, humans do not build new members of their race. To the contrary, humans are what they have deemed {{w|sexual dimorphism|sexually dimorphic}}, categorized into {{w|sex}}es, wherein members of one subvariant of their species, classified as male, implants structural data, which they call "DNA", in the other, classified as female. This process grows a new human (or occasionally more than one, although this is rare) inside the female like a {{w|gestation|parasite}} until it emerges roughly three quarters of an Earth year later. (If it exits the female too early, the new human risks death.) The new human is very fragile and stupid; it will take years to acclimate itself to their society. Even a young human who stayed inside its female for the appropriate length of time is not capable of operating self-sufficiently without extensive training. Despite this limited intelligence and understanding (or perhaps as a result of it), younger humans are often among the first to form bonds with friendly Transformers.

[[File:Wolverinemanmachine.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Some humans claim to inhabit dubiously-named places such as "Claw City."]]

Initiating the growth of a new human apparently involves much rubbing, and also [[kiss]]ing. Though the required interactions have been hinted at in [[As the Kitchen Sinks|popular media]], humans are reticent to discussing the physical mechanism, and several attempts at accumulating further data were met with what they term as "awkward silence". This is quite confusing, as humans generally give the impression that they supremely enjoy it, and have refused all suggestions that they learn the technology to build their own from spare parts.

Similar to Transformer [[outlier]]s, a small number of humans are born or gifted with fantastical abilities far beyond what one would expect a human body to be capable, such as telepathy, unaided flight, or accelerated healing. These super-powered beings often assemble themselves in groups and fight crime.

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===Technology===
{{quote|How much did technology progress much [sic] during the four million years that Autobots and Decepticons slumbered beneath a volcano on Earth? And then consider the scant three decades following their revival. [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster]]s, [[Pretender]]s, [[Scramble City]] [[Combiner]]s, [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, [[transfixatron]]s, [[immobilizer]]s, [[warp gate]]s... and then ask yourself again, how might humans outstrip my race.|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime]]}}

[[File:Humansmall.jpg|left|thumb|The humans of Earth wear [[hard hat]]s regardless of their profession.]]
Although Earth is rich with natural resources, Human technology is surprisingly primitive. They had only begun to experiment with outer atmosphere travel at the time the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] (or another such first contact event) began on Earth, and they have limited communication methods. Although their locomotive devices, called "cars", are suitable for [[Transformation]], they are quite crude, potentially dangerous, and incredibly energy inefficient. Despite this, the type of car is often seen as a status symbol among humans; apparently the larger the car, the more status achieved. Some humans claim that those with large cars are "compensating" for some other sort of size deficiency—unsurprising, considering how tiny humans are compared to the average Transformer. Some [[Chumley|human]] have developed technology to capture and torture Transformers. [[Prime Target(episode)|Prime Target]]

Human military technology is equally unimpressive. They have yet to develop any form of workable energy weapons, and no shield technology either. Their primary weapons are devices called "guns", which shoot small, metallic projectiles called "bullets" using a crude explosive called "[[Dragon's Bane|gunpowder]]". These are more than capable of killing other humans, but they are extremely inefficient when fending off any attacking Decepticons. Their warhead weapons are slightly more efficient, though extremely primitive when compared to Autobot [[Photon rifle|photon]] and [[Plasma cannon|plasma]] weapons.

[[File:Intersectionality humans.jpg|thumb|One possible future outcome for human civilization.]]
In some universes humans have developed weaponry that is actually rather effective against a Transformer. In one universe, the humans used kinetic projectiles called "{{w|sabot|Sabot rounds}}" that employ an incredibly high heat to burn through [[Decepticon]] [[Armor-plating|armour]] and then detonate in the more vulnerable innards. A sufficient volley of these in the right places can bring down a fairly large Decepticon almost as effectively as Cybertronian cannons. The humans combine these with one advantage of their small size: hiding, taking cover in buildings or behind other obstacles then popping up to fire a few rounds before hiding and relocating before firing again.

In still other universes, humans have developed technology almost on par with the Transformers after reverse-engineering Cybertronian biology. These developments can range anywhere from simple suits of powered armour to full-fledged, Earth-born Transformers. Humans have also been known to upgrade themselves with technology, thus becoming cyborgs. In one notable universe, humans reached the [[Terran Singularity]] - aping, perfecting, and then eventually outstripping the technological achievements of Cybertronians- and reorganized themselves into the interplanetary [[Human Confederacy]].

===Military===
In general, human militaries are not a match for Transformer technologies. Even the smallest of countries have armed humans organised into armies, and the size of the army does not necessarily equate to strength or weakness. The wealthiest human nations often make heavy use of technological advancements as soon as they become available and so a comparatively small but wealthy nation can be far more powerful militarily compared to a nation with a larger but less well-equipped army.

As mentioned earlier, most human weapons are ineffective against Transformers. However, human technology is always advancing, and there have been occasions that human weapons are [[Rail gun|potent enough to be desirable even by Decepticon standards!]]

In addition, humans throughout the multiverse have often organised their most elite troops into special units. While some of these units [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|are worse than ineffective]], others are [[G.I. Joe (team)|capable]] [[Action Force (team)|enough]] to actively stand against Transformers with some measure of success.

===Society===
[[File:AngryArcher01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Humans require tokens representative of energy, and are not above humiliating themselves to retrieve them.]]
Like on Cybertron before the war, humans make up the fabric of their local (or global) economies. Some work as repairmen, some are drillers in search of [[Oil|un-processed lubricants]], others are retrievers of [[ruby crystal mines of Burma|rare mineral lattices and metals]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|a few]] accomplish all of these simultaneously. The humans strangely use the majority of the lubricant they extract as a highly inefficient source of energy, and adorn themselves with the harvested minerals and metals at exorbitant prices. Apparently the humans reason that because these objects are rare, they are incredibly beautiful, and therefore worth vastly more resources than were spent extracting and refining them. Instead of trading [[Energon|valuable energy]] directly for goods and services, a small piece of lumbered and processed plantgrowth is exchanged. This plantgrowth represents energy abstractly, and its worth is assumed on good faith, though it is usually backed up by various metals and crystals of economic value.

A number of unsavory humans subvert this established system to illegally or immorally obtain these plantgrowths. Many of these humans were involved in unusual accidents which empowered the individual specimen to levels above ordinary humans, while others are tempted by their relatively high intelligence levels or capacity for selfish acts. Encounters with these subversive humans happen at an alarming rate, whether they be [[Donny Finkleberg|failed entertainers who claim to own all Transformers]], [[Doctor Arkeville|mad scientists]], or [[Angry Archer|gifted archers who dress in homage to Earth folklore]]. By sheer numbers, these humans must represent half of the known population. Sometimes, these sorts will organize into groups of like-minded rogues; much like their military, these gangs can range from [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|generally ineffectual]] to [[MECH|surprisingly dangerous]].

Politically, humans are divided among various nation-states which seem to be divided primarily among ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. On occasion, these nation-states will engage in conflict over territory and resources, but as previously stated, their wars are usually quite short. Most humans seem to prefer some sort of [[democracy]] where they elect individuals to govern and legislate their nation-states, although a number of them choose their leaders due to genetic inheritance and familial succession; others still hold power through a Decepticon-style dictatorship, though the mental stability of [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|a few]] have been questioned. At times, the Decepticons have taken advantage of Earth's factional tendencies to manipulate them to their advantage, but the Autobots have usually managed to expose the Decepticon influence before a full-scale military conflict occurs.

[[File:DancitronGang.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Humans come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.]]
Humans greatly enjoy sound patterns, termed "music". The Autobots [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] have taken a particular interest in this music, though the chosen volume has overwhelmed most other Autobots, including the mighty [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from time to time. Humans have often shown an involuntary need to move about when music is broadcast, and even the aforementioned Autobots have also shown a desire to move about. Presumably, a fear of blowback prevented the Autobots from utilizing human music as a weapon against the Decepticons.

Humans are also athletic creatures, engaging in a variety of athletic events that are designed to test their strength, stamina, and speed. While none of them could hold their own against even the weakest Transformer, many human sports have been eagerly adopted by Transformers. The Autobot [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] is particularly fond of human athletics, and his vocabulary is littered with the human sports quotes.

Humans also enjoy watching moving images, termed "[[Film]]s". Transformers also enjoy making and watching these films. Transformers have even [[Monster from Mars|appeared]] [[Attack of the Alien Robots|in]] [[The Transformers: The Movie (fictional)|some]] [[Transformers (film)|films]] [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|made]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|by]] [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|human]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|beings]].
{{--}}

===Religion===
{{quote|'''''PARASITES!!!'''''|[[Unicron]] on his progeny|"[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]"}}
[[File:Deusexmachina-statue.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Common human depictions of gods incorporate long flowing [[facial hair]], staffs and other kingly apparel.]]
Despite their lack of the multi-dimensional transwarp [[Spark]], a great number of humans believe in an analogous concept, the intangible [[soul]]. This has been confirmed to be the equivalent of a Transformer's personality program in an odd experiment, when the human [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s personality was uploaded to [[Autobot X (G1)|an empty Transformer body cobbled together from spare parts]]. The human's consciousness was not suitable for digitization, and quickly deteriorated toward psychosis.

Many also believe in supernatural beings, either [[God|singular]] or [[:Category:Gods|plural]], who have a direct but intangible stake in their lives. Once a week the more religious humans will gather together and sing songs at the ceiling, as the presumed direction of these beings is away from the gravity well of their planet. Unlike the historical [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]], their holy books are not incorruptible encrypted public-key [[datatrax]]. Instead, they frequently re-encode the writings of multiple authors in an inefficient and apparently lossy process. Then they fight about which "translation" of their texts is correct instead of simply downloading the original encoding algorithm.

The [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|few sources available]] claim that their [[Unicron|progenitor/planet]] (whom they either descended from or simply formed upon its body) is quite at odds with their traditions, and is apparently totally displeased with their existence. However, the same sources have shown that ancient humans may have revered artifacts once belonging to the [[Thirteen]], Cybertron's own native deities from the ancient past. Their understanding of the artifacts was incredibly limited, making their reverence of them quite puzzling.

===Breeding grounds===
The most familiar breed of humans are native to the planet Earth, though they can be found practically anywhere in the galaxy. For example, [[Nebulos]] is such a place, though some reports claim these humans are of green colour rather than various shades of beige. [[Femax]] is populated by humans of Transformer size. [[Pz-Zazz]] is also home to Transformer-sized humans, but it is not known whether they are indigenous to that world. It is possible that the tiny version of humans found on Earth is the exception, rather than the rule.

{{--}}

==Notes==
*For reasons unknown, a substantial number of human Transformers [[Fandom|fans]] appear to have a very drastic, dismissive position when it comes to the inclusion of representatives of their species in Transformers fiction, some even going as far as demanding that Transformers fiction should be devoid of ''any'' flesh creatures whatsoever, unless being depicted as helpless victims/casualties of Decepticon attacks.
*Perhaps most bizarrely, humans can hear the trans-sonic signal known as the [[Omega Frequency]], emitted by the [[Omega Lock]] and other sources of Primus's power, while Transformers cannot.
*Humans reproduce by shooting DNA into each other. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|I find that offensive!]]
*According to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a certain percentage of human physiology is composed of cowardice. This proportion increases directly according to the size of the individual. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!|Pretender to the Throne!}}
*In some universes, Transformers have come into contact with humans with strange and unusual powers. These so-called "superhumans" have been known to organise themselves into teams, sometimes [[Neo-Knights|specifically to]] [[Society of Ultimate Villainy|battle Transformers]] or to protect (or even [[Avengers|avenge]]) their less gifted fellows. [[Spider-Man|One]] such individual once managed to topple the mighty Megatron himself during a fight. While it was at best a temporary victory, it was still impressive. Even more impressive, another [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|superhuman]] once made [[Unicron]] himself recoil in pain, a feat even the combined might of the Autobot and Decepticon armies were unable to pull off. And concerning the wider [[Megaverse]], groups of humans have been known to be related to the Transformers, including a [[G.I. Joe (team)|highly-trained special mission force]] employed by the US government to stop [[Cobra|terrorist organizations]], a [[M.A.S.K.|team of specialists equipped with advanced helmets and multi-function vehicles]], and a [[Animorph|group of humans and one alien imbued with the power of shape-shifting]] fighting against a [[Yeerk|race of mind-controlling alien slugs]] attempting to conquer Earth.
*Of all the species that [[Vector Prime]] has ever encountered, humans have asked the most questions. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

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Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5

2018-06-12T04:20:31Z

Mzawutang: /* Quotes */

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|series=G1toon
|ep=70
|series2=2010
|ep2=5
|prev2=Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4
|next2=Thief in the Night
|title="Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5"
|image=FFOD5_Galvatron_lever.jpg
|caption=How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to pull the lever that could erase his very existence?
|airdate=[[September 19]], 1986
|written by=[[Flint Dille]]
|production code=700-90
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[AKOM]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''With Earth and Cybertron under joint Decepticon-Quintesson assault, the Autobots raise a last stand against their old enemies... and the race which created them.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:FFOD5 Decepticons attack.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Galvatron, can he join my armada?]]

The [[Decepticon]]s open a sortie against the [[Autobot]]s on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and the initial attack took out the whole defense system. [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] tells the others to go, while he holds them off. [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] says that Magnus's courage will be remembered. Unsaid is the possibility that there will be no one to remember it. From their ship, the [[Quintesson]]s calculate that it will take less than a day to completely defeat the Autobots. After all, they've given [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] something worth fighting for...

On Earth, the new Decepticon battle station heads for [[Ark (G1)|Autobot headquarters]]. [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] lead a counter offensive, but their efforts are stymied when the station [[Transformation|transforms]] into [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Warpath orders [[Teletraan I]] to activate the defense systems, but Trypticon causes [[Mount St. Hilary|the volcano]] to collapse on the ship, destroying it. With his task there complete, Trypticon heads to his next target: [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].

[[File:FFOD5 Predacons.JPG|right|upright=0.85|thumb|Know that there are five Predacons. The other guys are posers!]]

On [[Io]], [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] hurries to rescue [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], and [[Marissa Faireborn]] from certain death from the natives. However, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] arrive to steal the [[Transformation cog|Transformation Cog]] intended for [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. Initially, the Predacons turn out to be all bark with no bite. However, they merge into [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], and manage to disorient Wheelie, Blurr, and Faireborn. However, Sky Lynx attacks Predaking, and causes him to separate. Sky Lynx orders the others to board him, and Wheelie discovers the cog.

Meanwhile, Galvatron orders [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to give a status report to the Quintessons. However, Blitzwing overhears that the Quintessons don't have the [[Decepticon Matrix]]. What's worse, they want the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] to pull a [[large switch]] which will deactivate the [[Transformer]]s all over the galaxy. Blitzwing tries to tell Galvatron, but the psychotic [[Decepticon leader]] merely beats him. Blitzwing realizes that there is one other option...side with the Autobots to stop the Quintessons.

[[File:FFOD5 Metroplex Trypticon.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Godzilla vs. Megazord!]]

On Earth, Trypticon has arrived at Autobot City, but Wheelie is able to get the cog to Pipes, who installs it in Metroplex. Coming online, Metroplex and Trypticon throw down. Their battle extends into another city (which everyone manages to evacuate from). Finally, Metroplex manages to overwhelm Trypticon, and throws Trypticon a great distance, where he lands in the ocean and sinks.

On Cybertron, Blitzwing, Rodimus Prime, and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] manage to stop the Sharkticons, but Galvatron, thinking the switch is the key to the Decepticon Matrix, pulls it. With the Transformers offline, the Quintessons land on Cybertron. As the Quintessons enjoy how great it is to be home, Spike grabs Rodimus' weapon, and destroys the lever. Reactivating, an incredibly angry Galvatron begins chasing the Quintessons, who manage to escape. Galvatron then prepares to fight Rodimus, but Blitzwing pulls his weapon on Galvatron, telling him that this has to end. Galvatron banishes Blitzwing from the Decepticons, and orders the Decepticons to retreat.

[[File:FFOD5 Rodimus victory speech.JPG|right|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus would have given a more rousing speech.]]

Rodimus notes that the battle is over for now, but the Autobot leader also notes that the Transformers may well have met their greatest enemies...
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*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (5)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (6)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] (8)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (9)
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (12)
*[[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] (13)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (14)
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] (15)
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] (16)
*[[Outback (G1)|Outback]] (17)
*[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] (18)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (19)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (20)
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (21)
*[[Eject (G1)|Eject]] (22)
*[[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (23)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (24)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (26)
*[[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] (27)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (30)
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (31)
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (32)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (33)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (48)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] (49)

|c2=
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (1)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (2)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (3)
*[[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] (4)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (11)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (28)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (29)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (34)
*[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] (35)
*[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]] (36)
*[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] (37)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (38)
*[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (39)
*[[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] (30)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (31)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (32)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (33)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (34)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (35)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (38)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (36)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (37)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (39)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (40)
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (41)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (42)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (43)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (44)
*[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (45)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (46)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (47)

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*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (7)
*[[Marissa Faireborn]] (25)
*Cornpone
*Cornpone's Wife

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*[[Quintesson]]s (10)
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (35)

}}

==Quotes==
'''Ramjet''': "One call Ultra Magnus stands on our way." 
'''Dirge''': "That will be the reward for his heroism." 

'''Dirge''' and '''Ramjet''' going after '''Ultra Magnus'''

'''Ultra Magnu'''s: "We meet again." 
'''Galvatron''': "Why did you not flee? Did our last encounter teach you nothing?" 
'''Ultra Magnus''': "Not coward certainly." 
'''Galvatron''': "Your sense does not recognize that your struggle is hopeless." 

'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Galvatron''' met first time after the movie.

"Olé, sucker!" 
:—'''Wheelie''' the bullfighter!

'''Sky Lynx''': "If that's the worst the Predacons can do, we have little to fear from." 
('''Predacon''' than merged to '''Predaking''') 
'''Melissa Fairborne''': "Your don't suffer from overconfident or anything" 
'''Predaking''': "He does but he suffers more from the hand of Predaking. 
'''Sky Lynx''' vs '''Predaking''' first battle

"Mighty Galvatron, there is no Decepticon Matrix!" 
[''smacks him away''] "Tell it to the Autobots!"
:—'''Blitzwing''' gets some inspiration from '''Galvatron'''.

"Faster, Pipes, faster faster faster faster faster! You gotta work faster because if you don't Trypticon's gonna stomp us and that's why we're gonna get..." 
"Blurr...shut up!"
:—'''Blurr''' annoys '''Pipes'''.

"This planet's not big enough for the both of us." 
"Me crush Metroplex!"
:—'''Metroplex''', the gung-ho cowboy, meets '''Trypticon''', the ravaging dinosaur.

"We Transformers have looked into the face of our creators...and seen the face of an enemy."
:—'''Rodimus Prime'''

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:PrimeEmergencyBeaconMohawk.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|Prime's mohawk has many practical functions you never knew about.]]

[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] and [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] meet in the barren wasteland and Tommy wants to know why Optimus is late again. Optimus explains that [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] slowed him down, but not to worry, he "demolished them". However, the whole sector is currently on alert, just in case they come back. Despite all this danger, Tommy asks Prime to finish the story...

In the end, Tommy is thrilled to hear that it took a ''human'' to ultimately save the day. Optimus says that the Autobots owe the humans their lives and Tommy volunteers to help him out next time there are any Decepticons to fight. Suddenly, Prime's flashing red emergency mohawk beacon goes off: The Decepticons are back! Optimus tells Tommy to get ready for battle and Tommy begins to renege on his offer to help fight. Prime accuses Tommy of being frightened which spurs the youth into declaring "let's do it!" Together, they blast off into space to meet the Decepticons in deadliest combat.

{{--}}

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Pipes cites the late Optimus Prime and quotes his catchphrase, "Transform and [[roll out]]!"
*Gadgets and powers:
**Bumblebee is shown with a rooftop cannon in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] during the first attack run on Trypticon. The weapon appears to be based on that of Outback.
*Galvatron makes reference to his last meeting with Ultra Magnus, on the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]].
*This episode is the first and only appearance of Tailgate. Swerve would later reappear briefly in "[[Forever Is a Long Time Coming (episode)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming]]".
*The [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s make their debut (excepting an anomalous appearance by [[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] in [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1|Part 1]].) They are either newly created, or have not been encountered by the Autobots before, as neither Blaster nor Sky Lynx are familiar with them. There's no indication of their origin; a Quintesson simply states that "We shall see how your Sky Lynx fares against... the Predacons." The team then arrives on Io in balls of fire.
**An origin for the Predacons' sudden arrival, as well as their affiliation with the Quintessons, was provided by ''[[TV Magazine]]'' in their [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)|''Transformers 2010'' story pages]]. Evidently, the Predacons were built by the Quintessons during their alliance with the Decepticons.
**There's also an easy-to-miss gag there - the Quintessons intercept Blaster's statement that Sky Lynx is on his way to Io, and presumably pass it along to the Predacons. The egotistical Sky Lynx expresses surprise when the Predacons actually show up, saying they must not have received "Blaster's warning", that presumably being the intercepted transmission about Sky Lynx himself!
*[[Teletraan I]] would apparently survive destruction, in Japanese continuity, anyway. It would appear one final time in ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]'' episode "[[Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!]]".

===Real-world references===
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**Laserbeak and Thrust emerge from Trypticon's chest with the sound of the ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'''s engine burst.
*It must be more than coincidence that the force attacking the city-scale Trypticon is made up entirely of characters from the Mini Vehicle range (plugging the new Decepticon's playset potential).

===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:Cyclonus oddity armadaesque.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|The worst part is, somebody in charge looked at all this and said, "Great job! AKOM, we're giving you the rest of Season 3!"]]
*During the recap, Galvatron's "Very well, Junkions" line is not flanged.
*AKOM episode. Wrong color models. Colored mouths. You know the drill:
**Rodimus and Galvatron are both consistently colored using outdated color models; Rodimus's shoulder indentations are red instead of white, his pelvis-windshield details are white instead of light burgundy, while Galvatron has pale purple "underpants." Rodimus's gun is back to being the same odd blue/gray combo he had in Part 2; AKOM usually colors it red, though it should be black. It's also missing its "wings" when Spike borrows it.
**Blurr's mouth is blue. Almost everyone else, shockingly enough, has the normal grayish-black.
**Soundwave has a white backpack (visible as Sky Lynx flattens him.)
*The generic Decepticon army:
**In the opening pan, the entire Decepticon army seems to be made up of randomly recoloured Sweeps and Cyclonuses. Among the more visible examples are Sweeps colored like Breakdown and Wildrider.
**As Magnus turns to open fire, the foreshortening of his arm is bizarrely misdrawn.
**As Galvatron continues to descend and fire, an extra Cyclonus appears in Dirge's colors, alongside the actual Cyclonus.
***A Dirge-colored Cyclonus strafes Cybertron after the first commercial break.
*Coloring errors:
**Rodimus's spoiler ridge is colored yellow instead of orange as Kup laments the loss of the defense system.
**Scrapper's faceplate changes from grey to red as he listens to Bonecrusher.
**"We have no choice but to make our stand here" - one of Bumblebee's horns is drawn and colored as though it was part of Swerve's leg, which is behind it.
**In the second shot of Warpath's team of [[Mini Vehicle]]s outside Autobot Headquarters, Beachcomber is colored like Wildrider.
**As the Autobots watch Trypticon walk off, Warpath's back is grey rather than red.
**Ultra Magnus punches Ramjet, who spirals out of control. When he hits a wall and explodes, he's colored like Dirge. The error is particularly visible since Dirge himself gets the same punch-and-explode treatment a second later.
**Streetwise has a red chest (Red Alert's color scheme?) as he stands next to Perceptor and Slingshot, firing.
**As he delivers the "Meet your fate valiantly, Autobots!" line, Perceptor's Autobot logo is all grey rather than just a grey outline.
**As Blaster despairs over Sky Lynx's absence, his helmet is white instead of red.
**Headstrong's [[beast mode]] head has a huge swath of black on it in two different shots.
**As Blurr throws the cog, Thrust flies past in Laserbeak's colors. This was probably intended to be Laserbeak himself, since Thrust just got swatted.[[File:FFOD5 Insecticons.png|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Maybe Cyclonus ''was'' [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. Or [[Insecticon clone|a clone.]]]]
**When Wheelie faces off against the big line of Decepticon troops, all three Insecticons are present, including two Shrapnels. Bombshell's eyes aren't colored in. Blast Off and Swindle are also in the lineup, despite appearing on Cybertron at the start of the attack there.
***When Sky Lynx jumps over/through the lined up Decepticons, the second Shrapnel is replaced by Soundwave.
**The late Ratchet is among the Autobots cheering Metroplex's victory, in Blaster's colors. And is that ''another'' Ratchet in the background?
**Springer and Arcee are shown among the frozen Autobots on Earth, despite being on Cybertron. Sludge is shown in the same shot in Grimlock's colors (and possibly with Grimlock's head.)
**As the Quintessons venture onto Cybertron, a frozen Sweep is shown with red (pink?) wings.
**A second later, the Quintessons walk past a frozen [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (or [[Eject (G1)|Eject]]), drawn at the size of an ordinary Transformer and colored like [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]].
**Blitzwing's helmet is missing its yellow bits as he starts off after Galvatron and the fleeing Quintessons.
*Springer changes places between shots, going from Magnus's right to directly behind him (and back again when the first shot is recycled.)
*The click sound of the button pushed by the Quintesson to activate his monitor doesn't coincide with the actual push of the button.
*The Quintessons' view of Earth initially shows partly cloudy skies... then Trypticon just appears out of nowhere against the same sky. We'll be kind and not count this monitor view under "Improbable Viewpoints".
*Warpath neither moves his faceplate nor flashes his cheek blinkers when he speaks.
[[File:FFoD5 MiniVehicles.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*From shot to shot, Swerve's head goes from pink helmet and visor, to pink helmet and blue visor, to red helmet and blue visor.
*Swerve disappears after the initial shot of the Autobot ambush, and is replaced by Beachcomber.
[[File:Giantscamper.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*An establishing shot of Metroplex shows him sitting in the desert all by himself, without [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] anywhere in sight. He also has Scamper sitting in his "garage", drawn to toy-based scale... which means he'd be a hundred foot long car.
*Sky Lynx flies behind a smooth, featureless reddish celestial body. If it's supposed to be Io, it's ''waaaaaay'' too small, not more than a couple hundred feet across. In fact it's too small to be a regular round body.
*Io has changed colors; an establishing shot shows it to be red instead of the gray it was last time. Of course, the ''real'' Io actually ''is'' red.
*In the first shot of Blurr, Wheelie, and Marissa fighting the lipoles, none of them is standing on Io's surface; they're floating several feet above it.
*Also, Marissa's ship is intact, but it was blown up in the previous episode.
*Improbable viewpoints:
**How does Blaster get an eye-level view of Marissa fighting on Io?
*Sudden starry night:
**The view of Trypticon smoking and damaged is set against a starry night sky, despite the scene occurring during the daytime.
**When Wheelie loses the transforming cog, three of the next four shots are shown against a blue sky with clouds, rather than the night sky of Io.
**Night sky is shown behind Marissa as she orders Blurr to "stop babbling"...
***And again behind Blurr as he prepares for his "lateral"...
****And again behind the cog as Wheelie throws it to Sky Lynx...
*****And again behind Sky Lynx as he flattens the Decepticon lineup...
*Once again, the animation fails to convey that the lipoles are an actual threat.
*Powerglide gets a descending-pitch transformation sound as he changes to his plane mode and takes off. Launching aerial Transformers normally get the rising-pitch version.
*The Constructicons watching Trypticon on the hill are much larger than they should be.
*Five Autobots drive toward Trypticon, but the next shot shows only three getting kicked away.
*Pipes and Swerve seem to be firing lasers right out of their windshields.
*As Trypticon approaches Autobot Headquarters, the ship only has two engines sticking out rather than three.
*The sound effect for the shot that Trypticon fires at the camera lags behind the shot itself.
[[File:Cycloni ffod5.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Cyclonus and his Armada:
**Four Cyclonuses are shown strafing Cybertron after the first commercial break.
**The next shot shows two Cyclonuses.
**While retreating from Cybertron, there are five Cyclonuses flying with Galvatron.
*When Galvatron transforms to fire on Ultra Magnus, his arm cannon flies off screen, and a new one comes out of his head to take its place in cannon mode. (Again!)
*Magnus and Galvatron's voices are muffled as if they were speaking by radio, even though there's no reason for them to do so. Dirge and Ramjet suffer from a similar though less obvious effect in the same scene.
*Bumblebee and Powerglide are briefly visible fighting alongside Perceptor against the Sweeps on Cybertron, despite being on Earth at the time.
*Blitzwing's voice isn't properly flanged as he acknowledges Galvatron's command to report to the Quintessons.
*Throughout the episode, the area around Blitzwing's Decepticon symbol changes. Sometimes it has lines above and below it, sometimes only above, sometimes none. Sometimes red, sometimes purple.
*In the establishing shot before Sky Lynx arrives, Marissa and the 'bots aren't even trying to fight off the lipoles! Incidentally, Io's gone back to being gray.
*Sky Lynx's first transformation sequence lacks any transformation sound.
*The squawks that Sky Lynx lets loose after transforming are not by his voice actor! (The whole animal noise shtick for him would be dropped after this episode.)
*The Predacons get some bizarre use of the transformation noise. It plays as they emerge from the balls of fire that carried them to Io (a means of transport that they never used again.)
*Headstrong and Tantrum arrive carrying their guns, but a second later they charge into battle with their swords. They then proceed not to use either weapon.
*Sky Lynx's transporter section transforms to lynx mode, but is back in transporter mode when Blurr and Marissa run away from it.
*Blurr lacks a transformation noise as he changes modes to cross the canyon.
*Predaking gets the transformation sound ''every time he moves''.
*Sky Lynx's transporter section lacks the transformation sound as it converts to lynx mode again. Apparently, Predaking sucked up all the transformation noises from the whole scene.
*When Predaking fires his foot weapons, a laser emerges. The weapon's effect, however, is shown as a windstorm.
*Sky Lynx's combining sequence is a little messed up; his lynx legs are shown unfolding, but since his lower half was already in lynx mode, they should be unfolded already.
*Predaking's head is on backwards as Sky Lynx wraps his tail around it.
*As Trypticon approaches Autobot City, the city is shown in a barren desert. It had [[The Transformers: The Movie|previously been shown]] to be located in a lush mountain valley, and is shown that way again at the end of the episode.
*Slingshot is seen running about in Autobot City as it transforms, even though he was last seen on Cybertron with Perceptor.
*Scrapper's mouthplate continues moving even as Mixmaster gives the order to fire. (And why is Mixmaster giving the orders, anyway?)
*As the Autobots exit Sky Lynx, the transforming cog is shown as a large gear wheel, instead of an orb-shaped device. Sky Lynx's windows aren't colored in, either.
*As the Constructicons try to tackle Wheelie, they're shown on a metal floor, despite the preceding and following shots being shown in the desert. Motormaster likewise goes from desert to metal floor as he accidentally tackles Bonecrusher.
*Sky Lynx clearly throws the cog horizontally, yet it somehow arcs so high that Trypticon can't catch it. As Trypticon lunges for the cog, it's the size of his fist—the same fist that easily held Outback earlier in the episode.
*When the Autobots are celebrating the safety of the transformation cog after the little game of catch with the Decepticons, two Constructicons and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] are seen "raising the roof" along with them. Slingshot shows up again, too, along with a generic model colored like Dead End.
*Metroplex is back in city mode as Trypticon prepares to stomp him.
*The hand that topples Trypticon does not come from the actual location where Metroplex's arms are stored in city mode.
*When Metroplex transforms, Autobot City is nowhere in sight.
*Metroplex's single line is delivered in a different voice than that of his later appearances.
*Who knew Trypticon was so aerodynamic? After Metroplex throws him, he falls ''up'' in the second shot of him sailing over the landscape.
*The [[large switch]] stops glowing after the Sharkticons arrive.
*For some reason, a view of Cybertron is used as an establishing shot for Earth.
[[File:FFoD Part5 Frozen Metroplex.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Blitzwing is shown with a purple Autobot insignia while being offered membership in their ranks by Rodimus Prime.
*The energy beams of the fleeing Quintessons don't line up with their bodies.
*Rodimus's gun disappears after Spike shoots the switch, but several shots later Rodimus suddenly has it again.
*As the Quintessons blast off in the escape pod, we see a group of generic Transformers who look a lot like those seen in Rodimus's flashback during the previous episode!
*Mixmaster and Scrapper are seen on Cybertron as the Quintessons escape, despite the Constructicons being on Earth.
*Sky Lynx is far too small as he and the others watch Rodimus on screen.
*Although both the [[Rhino Entertainment|Kid Rhino]] and [[Shout! Factory]] versions of this episode contain the correct unique opening titles for the story (one of only two parts of "Five Faces of Darkness" on DVD that do), the Shout! version incorrectly uses the soundtrack to the standard season three opening as now found on the broadcast masters to all five parts.

===Continuity errors===
*The opening pan over Cybertron shows it with two moons, even though Unicron ostensibly devoured both of Cybertron's moons during ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. One moon appears again as the Quintessons make their battle projection.
*Kup says that "that blast took out the whole defense system". But it wasn't a ''blast''; it was a crashing space ship.
*Superhuman Spike:
**Survives a blast that trashes the room he's in and sends his Autobot friends flying.
**Has amazingly little trouble hoisting Rodimus's gun onto his shoulder.
*Powerglide notes that Trypticon has "''another'' transform," but at this point he's only seen it in the battle platform mode.
*So if everyone actually retreated to Level 2, per Rodimus's order, then who are all those Decepticons firing at? How long would it take them to gang up and overpower Magnus, if he's really the only one left?
*The answer comes a moment later, when Perceptor and company are seen to have ignored that order.
[[File:G1 FFODPart5 UltraMagnus punch Dirge.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Dirge and Ramjet both appear to explode rather fatally after Magnus punches them. Both will nevertheless show up alive and well in later episodes. Considering they were already seen eaten by Unicron in the Movie, this is not so surprising.
*Despite the absence of the transforming cog, both Autobot City ''and'' Metroplex are showing transforming to their respective battle station modes. Apparently, Metroplex only needs the cog to change into [[robot mode]].
*Most of the battle on Cybertron is shown happening on the surface, with no ceilings and blue night skies, despite Rodimus's order to retreat below ground. Yet Blitzwing still flies underground to report to Galvatron.
*Most of the Constructicon's appearances shows that Scrapper leads the team, so why the hell is Mixmaster giving the orders?
*There appears to be a human city quite close to Autobot city, but previously in the [[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]], there were no signs or suggestions of a human city being nearby. In addition, this poses the question of why the Autobots or humans built their cities so near to each other despite the fact that Autobot City is often under attack by Decepticons.
*The Quintessons' wariness over the humans, previously touched upon in [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2|Part 2]] and [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4|Part 4]], appears to have been well-founded, as Spike single-handedly foils their plan. Considering the nature of their endgame and that they were aware of the Autobots' "association with these humans," it begs the question of why the master manipulators never factored human intervention - and [[Large switch|kill switch]] immunity - into their schemes. On the other hand, it's not clear why Spike waited for the Quintessons to land and make their way "deep into Cybertron" before destroying the switch. Unless it was just his way of making a particularly showy point to both Galvatron and the Quintessons.

===Trivia===
*Just from the episode alone, it's impossible to tell who the line "It'll be passing above us soon" is being spoken by, as it doesn't correspond to any of the known voices of the Autobots present. This just left Swerve and Tailgate as possible candidates for the line (since neither was ever seen to speak any other lines, it could have been either of them). The episode's script would later confirm that the line belonged to Tailgate, and was delivered by the eternally overlooked [[Ted Schwartz]].
*This episode is the last appearance of the volcano, Autobot Headquarters, and Teletraan I. It was not initially scripted as being Teletraan's outright destruction, as the computer was slated to reappear in future episodes, but subsequent events led to its voice actor, [[Casey Kasem]] departing the series. The events of "Five Faces," then, provided fortuitous in-story justification for replacing Teletraan I with the new [[Teletraan II]].

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die fünf Gesichter der Finsternis, Teil 5'''" ("The five Faces of Darkness, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''I cinque volti del male, Parte 5'''" (First dub, "The Five Faces of Evil, Part 5"), "'''Le cinque facce dell'oscurità, Parte 5'''" (Second dub, "The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' クインテッサ星人の陰謀 (''Quintessa Seijin no Inbō'', "Conspiracy of the Quintessons")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 12]], [[1986]]
:*[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)|Part 3]] of the ''Transformers 2010'' [[story page]]s published in ''[[TV Magazine]]'' crafts an origin to explain the sudden existence of the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s in this episode. According to the story page, the Predacons were built by the [[Quintesson]]s during their brief alliance with the Decepticons to aid their allies in battle.
:*When Pipes's name caption appears onscreen, though the narrator correctly refers to him as "Pipes", the caption misspells his name as パイプ (''Paipu'' "Pipe") instead of パイプス (''Paipusu'' "Pipes").

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Wǔmiànguài (5)'''" (五面怪 (五), "Five-Faced Monsters (5)")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1990 — ''The Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness ([[Family Home Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1990 — ''The Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness (Family Home Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness: Parts 1-5 ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 4: Series 3.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-3/synopses/700-90.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5

2018-06-12T04:16:00Z

Mzawutang: /* Quotes */

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|ep=70
|series2=2010
|ep2=5
|prev2=Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4
|next2=Thief in the Night
|title="Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5"
|image=FFOD5_Galvatron_lever.jpg
|caption=How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to pull the lever that could erase his very existence?
|airdate=[[September 19]], 1986
|written by=[[Flint Dille]]
|production code=700-90
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[AKOM]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
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'''With Earth and Cybertron under joint Decepticon-Quintesson assault, the Autobots raise a last stand against their old enemies... and the race which created them.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:FFOD5 Decepticons attack.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Galvatron, can he join my armada?]]

The [[Decepticon]]s open a sortie against the [[Autobot]]s on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and the initial attack took out the whole defense system. [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] tells the others to go, while he holds them off. [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] says that Magnus's courage will be remembered. Unsaid is the possibility that there will be no one to remember it. From their ship, the [[Quintesson]]s calculate that it will take less than a day to completely defeat the Autobots. After all, they've given [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] something worth fighting for...

On Earth, the new Decepticon battle station heads for [[Ark (G1)|Autobot headquarters]]. [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] lead a counter offensive, but their efforts are stymied when the station [[Transformation|transforms]] into [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Warpath orders [[Teletraan I]] to activate the defense systems, but Trypticon causes [[Mount St. Hilary|the volcano]] to collapse on the ship, destroying it. With his task there complete, Trypticon heads to his next target: [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].

[[File:FFOD5 Predacons.JPG|right|upright=0.85|thumb|Know that there are five Predacons. The other guys are posers!]]

On [[Io]], [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] hurries to rescue [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], and [[Marissa Faireborn]] from certain death from the natives. However, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] arrive to steal the [[Transformation cog|Transformation Cog]] intended for [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. Initially, the Predacons turn out to be all bark with no bite. However, they merge into [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], and manage to disorient Wheelie, Blurr, and Faireborn. However, Sky Lynx attacks Predaking, and causes him to separate. Sky Lynx orders the others to board him, and Wheelie discovers the cog.

Meanwhile, Galvatron orders [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to give a status report to the Quintessons. However, Blitzwing overhears that the Quintessons don't have the [[Decepticon Matrix]]. What's worse, they want the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] to pull a [[large switch]] which will deactivate the [[Transformer]]s all over the galaxy. Blitzwing tries to tell Galvatron, but the psychotic [[Decepticon leader]] merely beats him. Blitzwing realizes that there is one other option...side with the Autobots to stop the Quintessons.

[[File:FFOD5 Metroplex Trypticon.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Godzilla vs. Megazord!]]

On Earth, Trypticon has arrived at Autobot City, but Wheelie is able to get the cog to Pipes, who installs it in Metroplex. Coming online, Metroplex and Trypticon throw down. Their battle extends into another city (which everyone manages to evacuate from). Finally, Metroplex manages to overwhelm Trypticon, and throws Trypticon a great distance, where he lands in the ocean and sinks.

On Cybertron, Blitzwing, Rodimus Prime, and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] manage to stop the Sharkticons, but Galvatron, thinking the switch is the key to the Decepticon Matrix, pulls it. With the Transformers offline, the Quintessons land on Cybertron. As the Quintessons enjoy how great it is to be home, Spike grabs Rodimus' weapon, and destroys the lever. Reactivating, an incredibly angry Galvatron begins chasing the Quintessons, who manage to escape. Galvatron then prepares to fight Rodimus, but Blitzwing pulls his weapon on Galvatron, telling him that this has to end. Galvatron banishes Blitzwing from the Decepticons, and orders the Decepticons to retreat.

[[File:FFOD5 Rodimus victory speech.JPG|right|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus would have given a more rousing speech.]]

Rodimus notes that the battle is over for now, but the Autobot leader also notes that the Transformers may well have met their greatest enemies...
{{-}}

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (5)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (6)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] (8)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (9)
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (12)
*[[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] (13)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (14)
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] (15)
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] (16)
*[[Outback (G1)|Outback]] (17)
*[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] (18)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (19)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (20)
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (21)
*[[Eject (G1)|Eject]] (22)
*[[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (23)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (24)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (26)
*[[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] (27)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (30)
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (31)
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (32)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (33)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (48)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] (49)

|c2=
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (1)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (2)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (3)
*[[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] (4)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (11)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (28)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (29)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (34)
*[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] (35)
*[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]] (36)
*[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] (37)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (38)
*[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (39)
*[[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] (30)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (31)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (32)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (33)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (34)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (35)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (38)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (36)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (37)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (39)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (40)
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (41)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (42)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (43)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (44)
*[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (45)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (46)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (47)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (7)
*[[Marissa Faireborn]] (25)
*Cornpone
*Cornpone's Wife

|c4=
*[[Quintesson]]s (10)
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (35)

}}

==Quotes==
Ramjet: "One call Ultra Magnus stands on our way." 
Dirge: "That will be the reward for his heroism." 

Dirge and Ramjet going after Ultra Magnus

Ultra Magnus: "We meet again." 
Galvatron: "Why did you not flee? Did our last encounter teach you nothing?" 
Ultra Magnus: "Not coward certainly." 
Galvatron: "Your sense does not recognize that your struggle is hopeless." 

Ultra Magnus and Galvatron met first time after the movie.

"Olé, sucker!" 
:—'''Wheelie''' the bullfighter!

Sky Lynx: "If that's the worst the Predacons can do, we have little to fear from." 
(Predacon than merged to Predaking) 
Melissa Fairborne: "Your don't suffer from overconfident or anything" 
Predaking: "He does but he suffers more from the hand of Predaking. 
Sky Lynx vs Predaking first battle

"Mighty Galvatron, there is no Decepticon Matrix!" 
[''smacks him away''] "Tell it to the Autobots!"
:—'''Blitzwing''' gets some inspiration from '''Galvatron'''.

"Faster, Pipes, faster faster faster faster faster! You gotta work faster because if you don't Trypticon's gonna stomp us and that's why we're gonna get..." 
"Blurr...shut up!"
:—'''Blurr''' annoys '''Pipes'''.

"This planet's not big enough for the both of us." 
"Me crush Metroplex!"
:—'''Metroplex''', the gung-ho cowboy, meets '''Trypticon''', the ravaging dinosaur.

"We Transformers have looked into the face of our creators...and seen the face of an enemy."
:—'''Rodimus Prime'''

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:PrimeEmergencyBeaconMohawk.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|Prime's mohawk has many practical functions you never knew about.]]

[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] and [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] meet in the barren wasteland and Tommy wants to know why Optimus is late again. Optimus explains that [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] slowed him down, but not to worry, he "demolished them". However, the whole sector is currently on alert, just in case they come back. Despite all this danger, Tommy asks Prime to finish the story...

In the end, Tommy is thrilled to hear that it took a ''human'' to ultimately save the day. Optimus says that the Autobots owe the humans their lives and Tommy volunteers to help him out next time there are any Decepticons to fight. Suddenly, Prime's flashing red emergency mohawk beacon goes off: The Decepticons are back! Optimus tells Tommy to get ready for battle and Tommy begins to renege on his offer to help fight. Prime accuses Tommy of being frightened which spurs the youth into declaring "let's do it!" Together, they blast off into space to meet the Decepticons in deadliest combat.

{{--}}

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Pipes cites the late Optimus Prime and quotes his catchphrase, "Transform and [[roll out]]!"
*Gadgets and powers:
**Bumblebee is shown with a rooftop cannon in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] during the first attack run on Trypticon. The weapon appears to be based on that of Outback.
*Galvatron makes reference to his last meeting with Ultra Magnus, on the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]].
*This episode is the first and only appearance of Tailgate. Swerve would later reappear briefly in "[[Forever Is a Long Time Coming (episode)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming]]".
*The [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s make their debut (excepting an anomalous appearance by [[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] in [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1|Part 1]].) They are either newly created, or have not been encountered by the Autobots before, as neither Blaster nor Sky Lynx are familiar with them. There's no indication of their origin; a Quintesson simply states that "We shall see how your Sky Lynx fares against... the Predacons." The team then arrives on Io in balls of fire.
**An origin for the Predacons' sudden arrival, as well as their affiliation with the Quintessons, was provided by ''[[TV Magazine]]'' in their [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)|''Transformers 2010'' story pages]]. Evidently, the Predacons were built by the Quintessons during their alliance with the Decepticons.
**There's also an easy-to-miss gag there - the Quintessons intercept Blaster's statement that Sky Lynx is on his way to Io, and presumably pass it along to the Predacons. The egotistical Sky Lynx expresses surprise when the Predacons actually show up, saying they must not have received "Blaster's warning", that presumably being the intercepted transmission about Sky Lynx himself!
*[[Teletraan I]] would apparently survive destruction, in Japanese continuity, anyway. It would appear one final time in ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]'' episode "[[Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!]]".

===Real-world references===
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**Laserbeak and Thrust emerge from Trypticon's chest with the sound of the ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'''s engine burst.
*It must be more than coincidence that the force attacking the city-scale Trypticon is made up entirely of characters from the Mini Vehicle range (plugging the new Decepticon's playset potential).

===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:Cyclonus oddity armadaesque.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|The worst part is, somebody in charge looked at all this and said, "Great job! AKOM, we're giving you the rest of Season 3!"]]
*During the recap, Galvatron's "Very well, Junkions" line is not flanged.
*AKOM episode. Wrong color models. Colored mouths. You know the drill:
**Rodimus and Galvatron are both consistently colored using outdated color models; Rodimus's shoulder indentations are red instead of white, his pelvis-windshield details are white instead of light burgundy, while Galvatron has pale purple "underpants." Rodimus's gun is back to being the same odd blue/gray combo he had in Part 2; AKOM usually colors it red, though it should be black. It's also missing its "wings" when Spike borrows it.
**Blurr's mouth is blue. Almost everyone else, shockingly enough, has the normal grayish-black.
**Soundwave has a white backpack (visible as Sky Lynx flattens him.)
*The generic Decepticon army:
**In the opening pan, the entire Decepticon army seems to be made up of randomly recoloured Sweeps and Cyclonuses. Among the more visible examples are Sweeps colored like Breakdown and Wildrider.
**As Magnus turns to open fire, the foreshortening of his arm is bizarrely misdrawn.
**As Galvatron continues to descend and fire, an extra Cyclonus appears in Dirge's colors, alongside the actual Cyclonus.
***A Dirge-colored Cyclonus strafes Cybertron after the first commercial break.
*Coloring errors:
**Rodimus's spoiler ridge is colored yellow instead of orange as Kup laments the loss of the defense system.
**Scrapper's faceplate changes from grey to red as he listens to Bonecrusher.
**"We have no choice but to make our stand here" - one of Bumblebee's horns is drawn and colored as though it was part of Swerve's leg, which is behind it.
**In the second shot of Warpath's team of [[Mini Vehicle]]s outside Autobot Headquarters, Beachcomber is colored like Wildrider.
**As the Autobots watch Trypticon walk off, Warpath's back is grey rather than red.
**Ultra Magnus punches Ramjet, who spirals out of control. When he hits a wall and explodes, he's colored like Dirge. The error is particularly visible since Dirge himself gets the same punch-and-explode treatment a second later.
**Streetwise has a red chest (Red Alert's color scheme?) as he stands next to Perceptor and Slingshot, firing.
**As he delivers the "Meet your fate valiantly, Autobots!" line, Perceptor's Autobot logo is all grey rather than just a grey outline.
**As Blaster despairs over Sky Lynx's absence, his helmet is white instead of red.
**Headstrong's [[beast mode]] head has a huge swath of black on it in two different shots.
**As Blurr throws the cog, Thrust flies past in Laserbeak's colors. This was probably intended to be Laserbeak himself, since Thrust just got swatted.[[File:FFOD5 Insecticons.png|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Maybe Cyclonus ''was'' [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. Or [[Insecticon clone|a clone.]]]]
**When Wheelie faces off against the big line of Decepticon troops, all three Insecticons are present, including two Shrapnels. Bombshell's eyes aren't colored in. Blast Off and Swindle are also in the lineup, despite appearing on Cybertron at the start of the attack there.
***When Sky Lynx jumps over/through the lined up Decepticons, the second Shrapnel is replaced by Soundwave.
**The late Ratchet is among the Autobots cheering Metroplex's victory, in Blaster's colors. And is that ''another'' Ratchet in the background?
**Springer and Arcee are shown among the frozen Autobots on Earth, despite being on Cybertron. Sludge is shown in the same shot in Grimlock's colors (and possibly with Grimlock's head.)
**As the Quintessons venture onto Cybertron, a frozen Sweep is shown with red (pink?) wings.
**A second later, the Quintessons walk past a frozen [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (or [[Eject (G1)|Eject]]), drawn at the size of an ordinary Transformer and colored like [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]].
**Blitzwing's helmet is missing its yellow bits as he starts off after Galvatron and the fleeing Quintessons.
*Springer changes places between shots, going from Magnus's right to directly behind him (and back again when the first shot is recycled.)
*The click sound of the button pushed by the Quintesson to activate his monitor doesn't coincide with the actual push of the button.
*The Quintessons' view of Earth initially shows partly cloudy skies... then Trypticon just appears out of nowhere against the same sky. We'll be kind and not count this monitor view under "Improbable Viewpoints".
*Warpath neither moves his faceplate nor flashes his cheek blinkers when he speaks.
[[File:FFoD5 MiniVehicles.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*From shot to shot, Swerve's head goes from pink helmet and visor, to pink helmet and blue visor, to red helmet and blue visor.
*Swerve disappears after the initial shot of the Autobot ambush, and is replaced by Beachcomber.
[[File:Giantscamper.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*An establishing shot of Metroplex shows him sitting in the desert all by himself, without [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] anywhere in sight. He also has Scamper sitting in his "garage", drawn to toy-based scale... which means he'd be a hundred foot long car.
*Sky Lynx flies behind a smooth, featureless reddish celestial body. If it's supposed to be Io, it's ''waaaaaay'' too small, not more than a couple hundred feet across. In fact it's too small to be a regular round body.
*Io has changed colors; an establishing shot shows it to be red instead of the gray it was last time. Of course, the ''real'' Io actually ''is'' red.
*In the first shot of Blurr, Wheelie, and Marissa fighting the lipoles, none of them is standing on Io's surface; they're floating several feet above it.
*Also, Marissa's ship is intact, but it was blown up in the previous episode.
*Improbable viewpoints:
**How does Blaster get an eye-level view of Marissa fighting on Io?
*Sudden starry night:
**The view of Trypticon smoking and damaged is set against a starry night sky, despite the scene occurring during the daytime.
**When Wheelie loses the transforming cog, three of the next four shots are shown against a blue sky with clouds, rather than the night sky of Io.
**Night sky is shown behind Marissa as she orders Blurr to "stop babbling"...
***And again behind Blurr as he prepares for his "lateral"...
****And again behind the cog as Wheelie throws it to Sky Lynx...
*****And again behind Sky Lynx as he flattens the Decepticon lineup...
*Once again, the animation fails to convey that the lipoles are an actual threat.
*Powerglide gets a descending-pitch transformation sound as he changes to his plane mode and takes off. Launching aerial Transformers normally get the rising-pitch version.
*The Constructicons watching Trypticon on the hill are much larger than they should be.
*Five Autobots drive toward Trypticon, but the next shot shows only three getting kicked away.
*Pipes and Swerve seem to be firing lasers right out of their windshields.
*As Trypticon approaches Autobot Headquarters, the ship only has two engines sticking out rather than three.
*The sound effect for the shot that Trypticon fires at the camera lags behind the shot itself.
[[File:Cycloni ffod5.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Cyclonus and his Armada:
**Four Cyclonuses are shown strafing Cybertron after the first commercial break.
**The next shot shows two Cyclonuses.
**While retreating from Cybertron, there are five Cyclonuses flying with Galvatron.
*When Galvatron transforms to fire on Ultra Magnus, his arm cannon flies off screen, and a new one comes out of his head to take its place in cannon mode. (Again!)
*Magnus and Galvatron's voices are muffled as if they were speaking by radio, even though there's no reason for them to do so. Dirge and Ramjet suffer from a similar though less obvious effect in the same scene.
*Bumblebee and Powerglide are briefly visible fighting alongside Perceptor against the Sweeps on Cybertron, despite being on Earth at the time.
*Blitzwing's voice isn't properly flanged as he acknowledges Galvatron's command to report to the Quintessons.
*Throughout the episode, the area around Blitzwing's Decepticon symbol changes. Sometimes it has lines above and below it, sometimes only above, sometimes none. Sometimes red, sometimes purple.
*In the establishing shot before Sky Lynx arrives, Marissa and the 'bots aren't even trying to fight off the lipoles! Incidentally, Io's gone back to being gray.
*Sky Lynx's first transformation sequence lacks any transformation sound.
*The squawks that Sky Lynx lets loose after transforming are not by his voice actor! (The whole animal noise shtick for him would be dropped after this episode.)
*The Predacons get some bizarre use of the transformation noise. It plays as they emerge from the balls of fire that carried them to Io (a means of transport that they never used again.)
*Headstrong and Tantrum arrive carrying their guns, but a second later they charge into battle with their swords. They then proceed not to use either weapon.
*Sky Lynx's transporter section transforms to lynx mode, but is back in transporter mode when Blurr and Marissa run away from it.
*Blurr lacks a transformation noise as he changes modes to cross the canyon.
*Predaking gets the transformation sound ''every time he moves''.
*Sky Lynx's transporter section lacks the transformation sound as it converts to lynx mode again. Apparently, Predaking sucked up all the transformation noises from the whole scene.
*When Predaking fires his foot weapons, a laser emerges. The weapon's effect, however, is shown as a windstorm.
*Sky Lynx's combining sequence is a little messed up; his lynx legs are shown unfolding, but since his lower half was already in lynx mode, they should be unfolded already.
*Predaking's head is on backwards as Sky Lynx wraps his tail around it.
*As Trypticon approaches Autobot City, the city is shown in a barren desert. It had [[The Transformers: The Movie|previously been shown]] to be located in a lush mountain valley, and is shown that way again at the end of the episode.
*Slingshot is seen running about in Autobot City as it transforms, even though he was last seen on Cybertron with Perceptor.
*Scrapper's mouthplate continues moving even as Mixmaster gives the order to fire. (And why is Mixmaster giving the orders, anyway?)
*As the Autobots exit Sky Lynx, the transforming cog is shown as a large gear wheel, instead of an orb-shaped device. Sky Lynx's windows aren't colored in, either.
*As the Constructicons try to tackle Wheelie, they're shown on a metal floor, despite the preceding and following shots being shown in the desert. Motormaster likewise goes from desert to metal floor as he accidentally tackles Bonecrusher.
*Sky Lynx clearly throws the cog horizontally, yet it somehow arcs so high that Trypticon can't catch it. As Trypticon lunges for the cog, it's the size of his fist—the same fist that easily held Outback earlier in the episode.
*When the Autobots are celebrating the safety of the transformation cog after the little game of catch with the Decepticons, two Constructicons and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] are seen "raising the roof" along with them. Slingshot shows up again, too, along with a generic model colored like Dead End.
*Metroplex is back in city mode as Trypticon prepares to stomp him.
*The hand that topples Trypticon does not come from the actual location where Metroplex's arms are stored in city mode.
*When Metroplex transforms, Autobot City is nowhere in sight.
*Metroplex's single line is delivered in a different voice than that of his later appearances.
*Who knew Trypticon was so aerodynamic? After Metroplex throws him, he falls ''up'' in the second shot of him sailing over the landscape.
*The [[large switch]] stops glowing after the Sharkticons arrive.
*For some reason, a view of Cybertron is used as an establishing shot for Earth.
[[File:FFoD Part5 Frozen Metroplex.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Blitzwing is shown with a purple Autobot insignia while being offered membership in their ranks by Rodimus Prime.
*The energy beams of the fleeing Quintessons don't line up with their bodies.
*Rodimus's gun disappears after Spike shoots the switch, but several shots later Rodimus suddenly has it again.
*As the Quintessons blast off in the escape pod, we see a group of generic Transformers who look a lot like those seen in Rodimus's flashback during the previous episode!
*Mixmaster and Scrapper are seen on Cybertron as the Quintessons escape, despite the Constructicons being on Earth.
*Sky Lynx is far too small as he and the others watch Rodimus on screen.
*Although both the [[Rhino Entertainment|Kid Rhino]] and [[Shout! Factory]] versions of this episode contain the correct unique opening titles for the story (one of only two parts of "Five Faces of Darkness" on DVD that do), the Shout! version incorrectly uses the soundtrack to the standard season three opening as now found on the broadcast masters to all five parts.

===Continuity errors===
*The opening pan over Cybertron shows it with two moons, even though Unicron ostensibly devoured both of Cybertron's moons during ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. One moon appears again as the Quintessons make their battle projection.
*Kup says that "that blast took out the whole defense system". But it wasn't a ''blast''; it was a crashing space ship.
*Superhuman Spike:
**Survives a blast that trashes the room he's in and sends his Autobot friends flying.
**Has amazingly little trouble hoisting Rodimus's gun onto his shoulder.
*Powerglide notes that Trypticon has "''another'' transform," but at this point he's only seen it in the battle platform mode.
*So if everyone actually retreated to Level 2, per Rodimus's order, then who are all those Decepticons firing at? How long would it take them to gang up and overpower Magnus, if he's really the only one left?
*The answer comes a moment later, when Perceptor and company are seen to have ignored that order.
[[File:G1 FFODPart5 UltraMagnus punch Dirge.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Dirge and Ramjet both appear to explode rather fatally after Magnus punches them. Both will nevertheless show up alive and well in later episodes. Considering they were already seen eaten by Unicron in the Movie, this is not so surprising.
*Despite the absence of the transforming cog, both Autobot City ''and'' Metroplex are showing transforming to their respective battle station modes. Apparently, Metroplex only needs the cog to change into [[robot mode]].
*Most of the battle on Cybertron is shown happening on the surface, with no ceilings and blue night skies, despite Rodimus's order to retreat below ground. Yet Blitzwing still flies underground to report to Galvatron.
*Most of the Constructicon's appearances shows that Scrapper leads the team, so why the hell is Mixmaster giving the orders?
*There appears to be a human city quite close to Autobot city, but previously in the [[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]], there were no signs or suggestions of a human city being nearby. In addition, this poses the question of why the Autobots or humans built their cities so near to each other despite the fact that Autobot City is often under attack by Decepticons.
*The Quintessons' wariness over the humans, previously touched upon in [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2|Part 2]] and [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4|Part 4]], appears to have been well-founded, as Spike single-handedly foils their plan. Considering the nature of their endgame and that they were aware of the Autobots' "association with these humans," it begs the question of why the master manipulators never factored human intervention - and [[Large switch|kill switch]] immunity - into their schemes. On the other hand, it's not clear why Spike waited for the Quintessons to land and make their way "deep into Cybertron" before destroying the switch. Unless it was just his way of making a particularly showy point to both Galvatron and the Quintessons.

===Trivia===
*Just from the episode alone, it's impossible to tell who the line "It'll be passing above us soon" is being spoken by, as it doesn't correspond to any of the known voices of the Autobots present. This just left Swerve and Tailgate as possible candidates for the line (since neither was ever seen to speak any other lines, it could have been either of them). The episode's script would later confirm that the line belonged to Tailgate, and was delivered by the eternally overlooked [[Ted Schwartz]].
*This episode is the last appearance of the volcano, Autobot Headquarters, and Teletraan I. It was not initially scripted as being Teletraan's outright destruction, as the computer was slated to reappear in future episodes, but subsequent events led to its voice actor, [[Casey Kasem]] departing the series. The events of "Five Faces," then, provided fortuitous in-story justification for replacing Teletraan I with the new [[Teletraan II]].

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die fünf Gesichter der Finsternis, Teil 5'''" ("The five Faces of Darkness, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''I cinque volti del male, Parte 5'''" (First dub, "The Five Faces of Evil, Part 5"), "'''Le cinque facce dell'oscurità, Parte 5'''" (Second dub, "The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' クインテッサ星人の陰謀 (''Quintessa Seijin no Inbō'', "Conspiracy of the Quintessons")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 12]], [[1986]]
:*[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)|Part 3]] of the ''Transformers 2010'' [[story page]]s published in ''[[TV Magazine]]'' crafts an origin to explain the sudden existence of the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s in this episode. According to the story page, the Predacons were built by the [[Quintesson]]s during their brief alliance with the Decepticons to aid their allies in battle.
:*When Pipes's name caption appears onscreen, though the narrator correctly refers to him as "Pipes", the caption misspells his name as パイプ (''Paipu'' "Pipe") instead of パイプス (''Paipusu'' "Pipes").

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Wǔmiànguài (5)'''" (五面怪 (五), "Five-Faced Monsters (5)")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1990 — ''The Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness ([[Family Home Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1990 — ''The Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness (Family Home Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness: Parts 1-5 ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 4: Series 3.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-3/synopses/700-90.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5

2018-06-12T04:13:37Z

Mzawutang: /* Quotes */

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|series=G1toon
|ep=70
|series2=2010
|ep2=5
|prev2=Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4
|next2=Thief in the Night
|title="Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5"
|image=FFOD5_Galvatron_lever.jpg
|caption=How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to pull the lever that could erase his very existence?
|airdate=[[September 19]], 1986
|written by=[[Flint Dille]]
|production code=700-90
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[AKOM]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''With Earth and Cybertron under joint Decepticon-Quintesson assault, the Autobots raise a last stand against their old enemies... and the race which created them.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:FFOD5 Decepticons attack.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Galvatron, can he join my armada?]]

The [[Decepticon]]s open a sortie against the [[Autobot]]s on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and the initial attack took out the whole defense system. [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] tells the others to go, while he holds them off. [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] says that Magnus's courage will be remembered. Unsaid is the possibility that there will be no one to remember it. From their ship, the [[Quintesson]]s calculate that it will take less than a day to completely defeat the Autobots. After all, they've given [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] something worth fighting for...

On Earth, the new Decepticon battle station heads for [[Ark (G1)|Autobot headquarters]]. [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] lead a counter offensive, but their efforts are stymied when the station [[Transformation|transforms]] into [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Warpath orders [[Teletraan I]] to activate the defense systems, but Trypticon causes [[Mount St. Hilary|the volcano]] to collapse on the ship, destroying it. With his task there complete, Trypticon heads to his next target: [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].

[[File:FFOD5 Predacons.JPG|right|upright=0.85|thumb|Know that there are five Predacons. The other guys are posers!]]

On [[Io]], [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] hurries to rescue [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], and [[Marissa Faireborn]] from certain death from the natives. However, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] arrive to steal the [[Transformation cog|Transformation Cog]] intended for [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. Initially, the Predacons turn out to be all bark with no bite. However, they merge into [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], and manage to disorient Wheelie, Blurr, and Faireborn. However, Sky Lynx attacks Predaking, and causes him to separate. Sky Lynx orders the others to board him, and Wheelie discovers the cog.

Meanwhile, Galvatron orders [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to give a status report to the Quintessons. However, Blitzwing overhears that the Quintessons don't have the [[Decepticon Matrix]]. What's worse, they want the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] to pull a [[large switch]] which will deactivate the [[Transformer]]s all over the galaxy. Blitzwing tries to tell Galvatron, but the psychotic [[Decepticon leader]] merely beats him. Blitzwing realizes that there is one other option...side with the Autobots to stop the Quintessons.

[[File:FFOD5 Metroplex Trypticon.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Godzilla vs. Megazord!]]

On Earth, Trypticon has arrived at Autobot City, but Wheelie is able to get the cog to Pipes, who installs it in Metroplex. Coming online, Metroplex and Trypticon throw down. Their battle extends into another city (which everyone manages to evacuate from). Finally, Metroplex manages to overwhelm Trypticon, and throws Trypticon a great distance, where he lands in the ocean and sinks.

On Cybertron, Blitzwing, Rodimus Prime, and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] manage to stop the Sharkticons, but Galvatron, thinking the switch is the key to the Decepticon Matrix, pulls it. With the Transformers offline, the Quintessons land on Cybertron. As the Quintessons enjoy how great it is to be home, Spike grabs Rodimus' weapon, and destroys the lever. Reactivating, an incredibly angry Galvatron begins chasing the Quintessons, who manage to escape. Galvatron then prepares to fight Rodimus, but Blitzwing pulls his weapon on Galvatron, telling him that this has to end. Galvatron banishes Blitzwing from the Decepticons, and orders the Decepticons to retreat.

[[File:FFOD5 Rodimus victory speech.JPG|right|upright=0.85|thumb|Optimus would have given a more rousing speech.]]

Rodimus notes that the battle is over for now, but the Autobot leader also notes that the Transformers may well have met their greatest enemies...
{{-}}

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (5)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (6)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] (8)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (9)
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (12)
*[[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] (13)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (14)
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] (15)
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] (16)
*[[Outback (G1)|Outback]] (17)
*[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] (18)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (19)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (20)
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (21)
*[[Eject (G1)|Eject]] (22)
*[[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (23)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (24)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (26)
*[[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] (27)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (30)
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (31)
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (32)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (33)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (48)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] (49)

|c2=
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (1)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (2)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (3)
*[[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] (4)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (11)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (28)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (29)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (34)
*[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] (35)
*[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]] (36)
*[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] (37)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (38)
*[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (39)
*[[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] (30)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (31)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (32)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (33)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (34)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (35)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (38)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (36)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (37)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (39)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (40)
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (41)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (42)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (43)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (44)
*[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (45)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (46)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (47)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (7)
*[[Marissa Faireborn]] (25)
*Cornpone
*Cornpone's Wife

|c4=
*[[Quintesson]]s (10)
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (35)

}}

==Quotes==
Ramjet: "One call Ultra Magnus stands on our way."
Dirge: "That will be the reward for his heroism."

Dirge and Ramjet going after Ultra Magnus

Ultra Magnus: "We meet again."
Galvatron: "Why did you not flee? Did our last encounter teach you nothing?"
Ultra Magnus: "Not coward certainly."
Galvatron: "Your sense does not recognize that your struggle is hopeless."

Ultra Magnus and Galvatron met first time after the movie.

"Olé, sucker!" 
:—'''Wheelie''' the bullfighter!

Sky Lynx: "If that's the worst the Predacons can do, we have little to fear from."
(Predacon than merged to Predaking)
Melissa Fairborne: "Your don't suffer from overconfident or anything"
Predaking: "He does but he suffers more from the hand of Predaking.
Sky Lynx vs Predaking first battle

"Mighty Galvatron, there is no Decepticon Matrix!" 
[''smacks him away''] "Tell it to the Autobots!"
:—'''Blitzwing''' gets some inspiration from '''Galvatron'''.

"Faster, Pipes, faster faster faster faster faster! You gotta work faster because if you don't Trypticon's gonna stomp us and that's why we're gonna get..." 
"Blurr...shut up!"
:—'''Blurr''' annoys '''Pipes'''.

"This planet's not big enough for the both of us." 
"Me crush Metroplex!"
:—'''Metroplex''', the gung-ho cowboy, meets '''Trypticon''', the ravaging dinosaur.

"We Transformers have looked into the face of our creators...and seen the face of an enemy."
:—'''Rodimus Prime'''

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:PrimeEmergencyBeaconMohawk.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|Prime's mohawk has many practical functions you never knew about.]]

[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] and [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] meet in the barren wasteland and Tommy wants to know why Optimus is late again. Optimus explains that [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] slowed him down, but not to worry, he "demolished them". However, the whole sector is currently on alert, just in case they come back. Despite all this danger, Tommy asks Prime to finish the story...

In the end, Tommy is thrilled to hear that it took a ''human'' to ultimately save the day. Optimus says that the Autobots owe the humans their lives and Tommy volunteers to help him out next time there are any Decepticons to fight. Suddenly, Prime's flashing red emergency mohawk beacon goes off: The Decepticons are back! Optimus tells Tommy to get ready for battle and Tommy begins to renege on his offer to help fight. Prime accuses Tommy of being frightened which spurs the youth into declaring "let's do it!" Together, they blast off into space to meet the Decepticons in deadliest combat.

{{--}}

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*Pipes cites the late Optimus Prime and quotes his catchphrase, "Transform and [[roll out]]!"
*Gadgets and powers:
**Bumblebee is shown with a rooftop cannon in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] during the first attack run on Trypticon. The weapon appears to be based on that of Outback.
*Galvatron makes reference to his last meeting with Ultra Magnus, on the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]].
*This episode is the first and only appearance of Tailgate. Swerve would later reappear briefly in "[[Forever Is a Long Time Coming (episode)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming]]".
*The [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s make their debut (excepting an anomalous appearance by [[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] in [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1|Part 1]].) They are either newly created, or have not been encountered by the Autobots before, as neither Blaster nor Sky Lynx are familiar with them. There's no indication of their origin; a Quintesson simply states that "We shall see how your Sky Lynx fares against... the Predacons." The team then arrives on Io in balls of fire.
**An origin for the Predacons' sudden arrival, as well as their affiliation with the Quintessons, was provided by ''[[TV Magazine]]'' in their [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)|''Transformers 2010'' story pages]]. Evidently, the Predacons were built by the Quintessons during their alliance with the Decepticons.
**There's also an easy-to-miss gag there - the Quintessons intercept Blaster's statement that Sky Lynx is on his way to Io, and presumably pass it along to the Predacons. The egotistical Sky Lynx expresses surprise when the Predacons actually show up, saying they must not have received "Blaster's warning", that presumably being the intercepted transmission about Sky Lynx himself!
*[[Teletraan I]] would apparently survive destruction, in Japanese continuity, anyway. It would appear one final time in ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]'' episode "[[Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!]]".

===Real-world references===
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**Laserbeak and Thrust emerge from Trypticon's chest with the sound of the ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'''s engine burst.
*It must be more than coincidence that the force attacking the city-scale Trypticon is made up entirely of characters from the Mini Vehicle range (plugging the new Decepticon's playset potential).

===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:Cyclonus oddity armadaesque.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|The worst part is, somebody in charge looked at all this and said, "Great job! AKOM, we're giving you the rest of Season 3!"]]
*During the recap, Galvatron's "Very well, Junkions" line is not flanged.
*AKOM episode. Wrong color models. Colored mouths. You know the drill:
**Rodimus and Galvatron are both consistently colored using outdated color models; Rodimus's shoulder indentations are red instead of white, his pelvis-windshield details are white instead of light burgundy, while Galvatron has pale purple "underpants." Rodimus's gun is back to being the same odd blue/gray combo he had in Part 2; AKOM usually colors it red, though it should be black. It's also missing its "wings" when Spike borrows it.
**Blurr's mouth is blue. Almost everyone else, shockingly enough, has the normal grayish-black.
**Soundwave has a white backpack (visible as Sky Lynx flattens him.)
*The generic Decepticon army:
**In the opening pan, the entire Decepticon army seems to be made up of randomly recoloured Sweeps and Cyclonuses. Among the more visible examples are Sweeps colored like Breakdown and Wildrider.
**As Magnus turns to open fire, the foreshortening of his arm is bizarrely misdrawn.
**As Galvatron continues to descend and fire, an extra Cyclonus appears in Dirge's colors, alongside the actual Cyclonus.
***A Dirge-colored Cyclonus strafes Cybertron after the first commercial break.
*Coloring errors:
**Rodimus's spoiler ridge is colored yellow instead of orange as Kup laments the loss of the defense system.
**Scrapper's faceplate changes from grey to red as he listens to Bonecrusher.
**"We have no choice but to make our stand here" - one of Bumblebee's horns is drawn and colored as though it was part of Swerve's leg, which is behind it.
**In the second shot of Warpath's team of [[Mini Vehicle]]s outside Autobot Headquarters, Beachcomber is colored like Wildrider.
**As the Autobots watch Trypticon walk off, Warpath's back is grey rather than red.
**Ultra Magnus punches Ramjet, who spirals out of control. When he hits a wall and explodes, he's colored like Dirge. The error is particularly visible since Dirge himself gets the same punch-and-explode treatment a second later.
**Streetwise has a red chest (Red Alert's color scheme?) as he stands next to Perceptor and Slingshot, firing.
**As he delivers the "Meet your fate valiantly, Autobots!" line, Perceptor's Autobot logo is all grey rather than just a grey outline.
**As Blaster despairs over Sky Lynx's absence, his helmet is white instead of red.
**Headstrong's [[beast mode]] head has a huge swath of black on it in two different shots.
**As Blurr throws the cog, Thrust flies past in Laserbeak's colors. This was probably intended to be Laserbeak himself, since Thrust just got swatted.[[File:FFOD5 Insecticons.png|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Maybe Cyclonus ''was'' [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. Or [[Insecticon clone|a clone.]]]]
**When Wheelie faces off against the big line of Decepticon troops, all three Insecticons are present, including two Shrapnels. Bombshell's eyes aren't colored in. Blast Off and Swindle are also in the lineup, despite appearing on Cybertron at the start of the attack there.
***When Sky Lynx jumps over/through the lined up Decepticons, the second Shrapnel is replaced by Soundwave.
**The late Ratchet is among the Autobots cheering Metroplex's victory, in Blaster's colors. And is that ''another'' Ratchet in the background?
**Springer and Arcee are shown among the frozen Autobots on Earth, despite being on Cybertron. Sludge is shown in the same shot in Grimlock's colors (and possibly with Grimlock's head.)
**As the Quintessons venture onto Cybertron, a frozen Sweep is shown with red (pink?) wings.
**A second later, the Quintessons walk past a frozen [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (or [[Eject (G1)|Eject]]), drawn at the size of an ordinary Transformer and colored like [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]].
**Blitzwing's helmet is missing its yellow bits as he starts off after Galvatron and the fleeing Quintessons.
*Springer changes places between shots, going from Magnus's right to directly behind him (and back again when the first shot is recycled.)
*The click sound of the button pushed by the Quintesson to activate his monitor doesn't coincide with the actual push of the button.
*The Quintessons' view of Earth initially shows partly cloudy skies... then Trypticon just appears out of nowhere against the same sky. We'll be kind and not count this monitor view under "Improbable Viewpoints".
*Warpath neither moves his faceplate nor flashes his cheek blinkers when he speaks.
[[File:FFoD5 MiniVehicles.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*From shot to shot, Swerve's head goes from pink helmet and visor, to pink helmet and blue visor, to red helmet and blue visor.
*Swerve disappears after the initial shot of the Autobot ambush, and is replaced by Beachcomber.
[[File:Giantscamper.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*An establishing shot of Metroplex shows him sitting in the desert all by himself, without [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] anywhere in sight. He also has Scamper sitting in his "garage", drawn to toy-based scale... which means he'd be a hundred foot long car.
*Sky Lynx flies behind a smooth, featureless reddish celestial body. If it's supposed to be Io, it's ''waaaaaay'' too small, not more than a couple hundred feet across. In fact it's too small to be a regular round body.
*Io has changed colors; an establishing shot shows it to be red instead of the gray it was last time. Of course, the ''real'' Io actually ''is'' red.
*In the first shot of Blurr, Wheelie, and Marissa fighting the lipoles, none of them is standing on Io's surface; they're floating several feet above it.
*Also, Marissa's ship is intact, but it was blown up in the previous episode.
*Improbable viewpoints:
**How does Blaster get an eye-level view of Marissa fighting on Io?
*Sudden starry night:
**The view of Trypticon smoking and damaged is set against a starry night sky, despite the scene occurring during the daytime.
**When Wheelie loses the transforming cog, three of the next four shots are shown against a blue sky with clouds, rather than the night sky of Io.
**Night sky is shown behind Marissa as she orders Blurr to "stop babbling"...
***And again behind Blurr as he prepares for his "lateral"...
****And again behind the cog as Wheelie throws it to Sky Lynx...
*****And again behind Sky Lynx as he flattens the Decepticon lineup...
*Once again, the animation fails to convey that the lipoles are an actual threat.
*Powerglide gets a descending-pitch transformation sound as he changes to his plane mode and takes off. Launching aerial Transformers normally get the rising-pitch version.
*The Constructicons watching Trypticon on the hill are much larger than they should be.
*Five Autobots drive toward Trypticon, but the next shot shows only three getting kicked away.
*Pipes and Swerve seem to be firing lasers right out of their windshields.
*As Trypticon approaches Autobot Headquarters, the ship only has two engines sticking out rather than three.
*The sound effect for the shot that Trypticon fires at the camera lags behind the shot itself.
[[File:Cycloni ffod5.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Cyclonus and his Armada:
**Four Cyclonuses are shown strafing Cybertron after the first commercial break.
**The next shot shows two Cyclonuses.
**While retreating from Cybertron, there are five Cyclonuses flying with Galvatron.
*When Galvatron transforms to fire on Ultra Magnus, his arm cannon flies off screen, and a new one comes out of his head to take its place in cannon mode. (Again!)
*Magnus and Galvatron's voices are muffled as if they were speaking by radio, even though there's no reason for them to do so. Dirge and Ramjet suffer from a similar though less obvious effect in the same scene.
*Bumblebee and Powerglide are briefly visible fighting alongside Perceptor against the Sweeps on Cybertron, despite being on Earth at the time.
*Blitzwing's voice isn't properly flanged as he acknowledges Galvatron's command to report to the Quintessons.
*Throughout the episode, the area around Blitzwing's Decepticon symbol changes. Sometimes it has lines above and below it, sometimes only above, sometimes none. Sometimes red, sometimes purple.
*In the establishing shot before Sky Lynx arrives, Marissa and the 'bots aren't even trying to fight off the lipoles! Incidentally, Io's gone back to being gray.
*Sky Lynx's first transformation sequence lacks any transformation sound.
*The squawks that Sky Lynx lets loose after transforming are not by his voice actor! (The whole animal noise shtick for him would be dropped after this episode.)
*The Predacons get some bizarre use of the transformation noise. It plays as they emerge from the balls of fire that carried them to Io (a means of transport that they never used again.)
*Headstrong and Tantrum arrive carrying their guns, but a second later they charge into battle with their swords. They then proceed not to use either weapon.
*Sky Lynx's transporter section transforms to lynx mode, but is back in transporter mode when Blurr and Marissa run away from it.
*Blurr lacks a transformation noise as he changes modes to cross the canyon.
*Predaking gets the transformation sound ''every time he moves''.
*Sky Lynx's transporter section lacks the transformation sound as it converts to lynx mode again. Apparently, Predaking sucked up all the transformation noises from the whole scene.
*When Predaking fires his foot weapons, a laser emerges. The weapon's effect, however, is shown as a windstorm.
*Sky Lynx's combining sequence is a little messed up; his lynx legs are shown unfolding, but since his lower half was already in lynx mode, they should be unfolded already.
*Predaking's head is on backwards as Sky Lynx wraps his tail around it.
*As Trypticon approaches Autobot City, the city is shown in a barren desert. It had [[The Transformers: The Movie|previously been shown]] to be located in a lush mountain valley, and is shown that way again at the end of the episode.
*Slingshot is seen running about in Autobot City as it transforms, even though he was last seen on Cybertron with Perceptor.
*Scrapper's mouthplate continues moving even as Mixmaster gives the order to fire. (And why is Mixmaster giving the orders, anyway?)
*As the Autobots exit Sky Lynx, the transforming cog is shown as a large gear wheel, instead of an orb-shaped device. Sky Lynx's windows aren't colored in, either.
*As the Constructicons try to tackle Wheelie, they're shown on a metal floor, despite the preceding and following shots being shown in the desert. Motormaster likewise goes from desert to metal floor as he accidentally tackles Bonecrusher.
*Sky Lynx clearly throws the cog horizontally, yet it somehow arcs so high that Trypticon can't catch it. As Trypticon lunges for the cog, it's the size of his fist—the same fist that easily held Outback earlier in the episode.
*When the Autobots are celebrating the safety of the transformation cog after the little game of catch with the Decepticons, two Constructicons and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] are seen "raising the roof" along with them. Slingshot shows up again, too, along with a generic model colored like Dead End.
*Metroplex is back in city mode as Trypticon prepares to stomp him.
*The hand that topples Trypticon does not come from the actual location where Metroplex's arms are stored in city mode.
*When Metroplex transforms, Autobot City is nowhere in sight.
*Metroplex's single line is delivered in a different voice than that of his later appearances.
*Who knew Trypticon was so aerodynamic? After Metroplex throws him, he falls ''up'' in the second shot of him sailing over the landscape.
*The [[large switch]] stops glowing after the Sharkticons arrive.
*For some reason, a view of Cybertron is used as an establishing shot for Earth.
[[File:FFoD Part5 Frozen Metroplex.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Blitzwing is shown with a purple Autobot insignia while being offered membership in their ranks by Rodimus Prime.
*The energy beams of the fleeing Quintessons don't line up with their bodies.
*Rodimus's gun disappears after Spike shoots the switch, but several shots later Rodimus suddenly has it again.
*As the Quintessons blast off in the escape pod, we see a group of generic Transformers who look a lot like those seen in Rodimus's flashback during the previous episode!
*Mixmaster and Scrapper are seen on Cybertron as the Quintessons escape, despite the Constructicons being on Earth.
*Sky Lynx is far too small as he and the others watch Rodimus on screen.
*Although both the [[Rhino Entertainment|Kid Rhino]] and [[Shout! Factory]] versions of this episode contain the correct unique opening titles for the story (one of only two parts of "Five Faces of Darkness" on DVD that do), the Shout! version incorrectly uses the soundtrack to the standard season three opening as now found on the broadcast masters to all five parts.

===Continuity errors===
*The opening pan over Cybertron shows it with two moons, even though Unicron ostensibly devoured both of Cybertron's moons during ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. One moon appears again as the Quintessons make their battle projection.
*Kup says that "that blast took out the whole defense system". But it wasn't a ''blast''; it was a crashing space ship.
*Superhuman Spike:
**Survives a blast that trashes the room he's in and sends his Autobot friends flying.
**Has amazingly little trouble hoisting Rodimus's gun onto his shoulder.
*Powerglide notes that Trypticon has "''another'' transform," but at this point he's only seen it in the battle platform mode.
*So if everyone actually retreated to Level 2, per Rodimus's order, then who are all those Decepticons firing at? How long would it take them to gang up and overpower Magnus, if he's really the only one left?
*The answer comes a moment later, when Perceptor and company are seen to have ignored that order.
[[File:G1 FFODPart5 UltraMagnus punch Dirge.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]
*Dirge and Ramjet both appear to explode rather fatally after Magnus punches them. Both will nevertheless show up alive and well in later episodes. Considering they were already seen eaten by Unicron in the Movie, this is not so surprising.
*Despite the absence of the transforming cog, both Autobot City ''and'' Metroplex are showing transforming to their respective battle station modes. Apparently, Metroplex only needs the cog to change into [[robot mode]].
*Most of the battle on Cybertron is shown happening on the surface, with no ceilings and blue night skies, despite Rodimus's order to retreat below ground. Yet Blitzwing still flies underground to report to Galvatron.
*Most of the Constructicon's appearances shows that Scrapper leads the team, so why the hell is Mixmaster giving the orders?
*There appears to be a human city quite close to Autobot city, but previously in the [[The Transformers: The Movie|Movie]], there were no signs or suggestions of a human city being nearby. In addition, this poses the question of why the Autobots or humans built their cities so near to each other despite the fact that Autobot City is often under attack by Decepticons.
*The Quintessons' wariness over the humans, previously touched upon in [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2|Part 2]] and [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4|Part 4]], appears to have been well-founded, as Spike single-handedly foils their plan. Considering the nature of their endgame and that they were aware of the Autobots' "association with these humans," it begs the question of why the master manipulators never factored human intervention - and [[Large switch|kill switch]] immunity - into their schemes. On the other hand, it's not clear why Spike waited for the Quintessons to land and make their way "deep into Cybertron" before destroying the switch. Unless it was just his way of making a particularly showy point to both Galvatron and the Quintessons.

===Trivia===
*Just from the episode alone, it's impossible to tell who the line "It'll be passing above us soon" is being spoken by, as it doesn't correspond to any of the known voices of the Autobots present. This just left Swerve and Tailgate as possible candidates for the line (since neither was ever seen to speak any other lines, it could have been either of them). The episode's script would later confirm that the line belonged to Tailgate, and was delivered by the eternally overlooked [[Ted Schwartz]].
*This episode is the last appearance of the volcano, Autobot Headquarters, and Teletraan I. It was not initially scripted as being Teletraan's outright destruction, as the computer was slated to reappear in future episodes, but subsequent events led to its voice actor, [[Casey Kasem]] departing the series. The events of "Five Faces," then, provided fortuitous in-story justification for replacing Teletraan I with the new [[Teletraan II]].

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die fünf Gesichter der Finsternis, Teil 5'''" ("The five Faces of Darkness, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''I cinque volti del male, Parte 5'''" (First dub, "The Five Faces of Evil, Part 5"), "'''Le cinque facce dell'oscurità, Parte 5'''" (Second dub, "The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' クインテッサ星人の陰謀 (''Quintessa Seijin no Inbō'', "Conspiracy of the Quintessons")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 12]], [[1986]]
:*[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)|Part 3]] of the ''Transformers 2010'' [[story page]]s published in ''[[TV Magazine]]'' crafts an origin to explain the sudden existence of the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s in this episode. According to the story page, the Predacons were built by the [[Quintesson]]s during their brief alliance with the Decepticons to aid their allies in battle.
:*When Pipes's name caption appears onscreen, though the narrator correctly refers to him as "Pipes", the caption misspells his name as パイプ (''Paipu'' "Pipe") instead of パイプス (''Paipusu'' "Pipes").

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Wǔmiànguài (5)'''" (五面怪 (五), "Five-Faced Monsters (5)")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1990 — ''The Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness ([[Family Home Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1990 — ''The Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness (Family Home Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Five Faces of Darkness: Parts 1-5 ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 4: Series 3.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-3/synopses/700-90.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

Masquerade

2017-11-12T05:04:09Z

Mzawutang: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode
|image=Masquerade Menasors.JPG
|caption=Menasor crush...destroy knockoff.
|series=G1toon
|ep=64
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=61
|prev2=War Dawn (episode)
|next2=Fire in the Sky
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=21
|prev3=The Revenge of Bruticus
|next3=Ghost in the Machine (G1)
|title="Masquerade"
|written by=[[Donald F. Glut]]
|production code=700-63
|airdate=[[December 16]], 1985
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''After defeating the Stunticons, five of the Autobots pose as the crazed combiners to learn of Megatron's newest plan.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Masquerade prime vs mmaster.jpg‎|left|thumb|Shortly after this, Menasor threw up.]]
[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] sends the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] on a mission to find components for an unrevealed purpose, including the world's largest, most perfect ruby. While searching for their components, the actions of the Stunticons catch the attention of the [[Autobot]]s, who track their movements and their crimes. Breakdown and Wildrider get the first component: laser lenses from a scientist. Dead End and Drag Strip get the second component: an experimental generator from the Army. Motormaster gets the last one: a perfect ruby from a museum.

The Autobots split into teams and manage to be extremely effective at capturing the Stunticons in the middle of their capers. [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] take on [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] take on [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] and [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]. Finally, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] go for [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], who challenges the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] to a game of “chicken” and ends up in a head-on collision. Spike, Bumblebee, and Blaster peer through the dust to see who survived, and it turns out that Optimus is the clear victor with merely a minor headache, while Motormaster lies in a wreck.

[[File:Masquerade Wheeljack Optimaster.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|No Motormaster disguise is complete without a hunk of Big League Chew.]]

Although all five Stunticons have been captured, the Autobots still don’t know what their plans were for the components they stole for Megatron. [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] guesses that the parts are going to be made into a weapon. (Nooo, really?) Optimus hatches a scheme to disguise Autobots using [[camouflage paint]] and penetrate the Decepticon camp disguised as Stunticons: Optimus Prime as Motormaster, [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] as Dead End, [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] as Breakdown, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] as Drag Strip, and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] as Wildrider.

[[File:Sideswipe FakeBreakdown.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Sideswipe? I, Breakdown, have never heard of such a being!]]

The disguised Autobots infiltrate the Decepticons, although their arrival causes [[Starscream (G1)|some]] raised eyebrows because they are driving too "safely". They deliver the stolen components to Megatron without being detected.

Back at [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], the Stunticons manage to shimmy and shake their way out of their cells, merge into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and overcome their Autobot captors. They then head back to the Decepticon base.

[[File:Masquerade Megatron manning gun.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|We've been here before.]]

The Constructicons complete Megatron’s new weapon, and he reveals its power, but just then Menasor arrives and declares the Autobots as infiltrators. Using Windcharger’s magnetic field ability and Mirage’s illusion power, the Autobots merge into their own Menasor. The two giants battle it out, and the Autobots are overcome. Megatron trains the new weapon on the Autobots, but the device blows up in his face after a few scattered shots.

Autobot reinforcements arrive, and the Decepticons flee without their usual promises for revenge. It is revealed that Ironhide had made adjustments to the ruby back at Autobot HQ, which caused the device to explode. The Autobots head for home, victorious.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (9)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (10)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (12)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (13)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (14)
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (18)
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (19)
*[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] (20)
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (21)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (22)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (23)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (24)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (25)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (26)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (27)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (28)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (29)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (30)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (31)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (32)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] (2)
*[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (3)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (4)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (5)
*[[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]] (6)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (7)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (8)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (33)
*[[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (34)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (35)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (36)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (37)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (38)
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (39)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (11)
*Dr. [[Rickel]] (15)
*US Army troops (16)
*Museum guards (17)
}}

==Quotes==
"A near miss deserves a couple o' near-missiles!"
:—'''Inferno'''

"I'll probably hate myself in the morning, but..."
:—'''Inferno''' before he douses the flames on the Stunticon Breakdown

"Well, look who's here! The old King of the Road! When I'm finished with ya, you'll be King of the Junkyard!"
:—'''Motormaster''' taunting '''Optimus Prime''' into a game of chicken

''[The Autobots are towing the defeated Stunticons to Autobot Headquarters]'' 
'''Wheeljack''': Here they come. 
'''Ratchet''': I won't bother asking who won. 
'''Breakdown''': ''(taking note of the Autobots looking at them)'' They're gawking at us! How mortifrying! 
'''Dead End''': The word, Breakdown, is mortiFYing, my sentiment exactly. 
'''Motormaster''': I'm in no mood for your big words, Dead End. 
'''Ironhide''': For you, motormouth, this '''IS''' a dead end.
:—Motormaster complains about Dead End's SAT-level vocabulary

"Man, Optimus. You're a dead ringer for Motormaster." 
"Did you have to say ''dead'' ringer, Spike?"
:—'''Spike Witwicky'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s vocabulary causes '''Optimus Prime''' to wince.

[[File:Masquerade as i preducted.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
"Everybody out on bad behavior!"
:—'''Breakdown''' after freeing himself and taking out Inferno, Grapple, and Hoist.

"Imagine my turning that ray on the Autobots' headquarters. Perhaps when it's gone, someone will put up a memorial parking lot. Mwahaha!"
:—'''Megatron'''

"Machine appears unstable. Suggest abandoning it." 
"Suggestion noted—and ignored!"
:—'''Soundwave''' warns '''Megatron''', for all the good it does.

==Notes==
===Animation or technical glitches===
*Coloring errors:
**As Motormaster hands out assignments, Drag Strip has a random rectangle drawn in the middle of his visor, and Dead End's face is miscolored - his mouthplate is light gray instead of yellow, and his visor is red instead of purple.
**As Optimus gets his idea after watching the broadcast, the triangles on his waist are gray instead of yellow.
**As Laserbeak returns to Soundwave, Soundwave is missing his Decepticon insignia, as well as the gold stripes around his cassette door (which is drawn too small as well). He also doesn't move his mouthplate when he speaks.
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) drives up to Megatron, his door is colored purple like his windows (and his window rims are colored purple too.) A shot later, it's back to black, but the ''next'' shot (Starscream asking about his voice) shows his grille as black instead of gray. The same thing happens as the real Motormaster busts out of the Autobot cell.
**Just after dismissing the Constructicons, Megatron's face is white.
**"And the Autobots are totally unaware of its existence" - "Breakdown" is colored as Sideswipe. (Of course, he IS Sideswipe, but should be... oh, you get the point.)
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) asks about the weapon, Megatron's forehead colors are reversed (black forehead with gray triangles).
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) says, "Too many head-on collisions!," his headlights are black instead of white.
**"Motormaster"'s black grille returns again as Megatron explains the weapon, recurring in numerous shots.
**Soundwave's cheekguards and eject button are both blue instead of white as Starscream mocks Megatron.
**Soundwave's missing the gold rim around his tape door as he and Starscream move toward the impostor Stunticons.
**"No, he's the imposter!" - "Drag Strip" is missing his Decepticon symbol (and possibly some striping, depending on which color model you trust.)
**"There's one absolute test, 'Stunticons'" - Dead End's tires are white; Soundwave's cheekguards are blue instead of white again. The same error repeats when Starscream calls out for Menasor to destroy the Autobots.[[File:Masquerade Megatron manning gun.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
**When Megatron first grabs the laser, he's colored in reverse (light gray body with a dark gray face).
**Drag Strip is white instead of yellow as Menasor swings his sword. When Menasor hits the fake with the sword, Drag Strip is attached backwards, with his wheels pointing outward.
**When "Motormaster" reverts to Optimus Prime, his headlights aren't colored white and he's missing the horizontal lines on the crest of his helmet.
**"No need for the disguises anymore" - Prime's face is a darker gray than his mouthplate in most of this shot; they should be the same tone. For a second, the faceplate darkens then lightens again.
**When the Autobots begin firing on Menasor, his face is entirely black.
**Just before Megatron fires the laser, Windcharger is miscoloured in green and gray (with yellow stripes on his arms, like Hound).
**As he stares at the destroyed weapon, Sideswipe's fist is white instead of black.
*When Motormaster says "Breakdown and Wildrider", he points to each robot as he says the other's name.
*The Stunticons land on a beach and each of them kicks up sand when they land. A few moments later, they transform and drive off, and no sand is disturbed by their tires.
*The Stunticons clearly never had detailed transformation models worked out:
**Every time the four cars transform to [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], they more or less just morph into their Earth forms. When they transform back to [[robot mode]], all the robot bits just slide out from under their car modes, which disappear into their backs.
**Motormaster's transformation is similarly wonky; his arms are just kind of absorbed lengthwise into his torso, which then morphs into his trailer - rather than the arms ''becoming'' the trailer's roof, as they should. Every time he transforms, his trailer/torso rather blatantly changes color from light to dark gray (or vice versa.)
*Ventriloquist bots:
**Ratchet's voice actor in this episode is [[Wally Burr]], not the usual [[Don Messick]], and it shows. Burr uses the same generic deep voice he used for Thundercracker in "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]" and Jazz in "[[Kremzeek!]]".
**"Yeah, but I don't have to like it" - Ironhide's mouth doesn't move for the first part of this line.
**Menasor's mouth doesn't move as he says his own name.
**As he flies off to "Destroy fake Stunticons", Menasor's mouth - again - doesn't move.
**As Bumblebee says, "Great Cybertron," Spike is mouthing the words.
**The Autobot Menasor gets knocked to the ground, but one who delivers "The generator..." line in Optimus' voice is the one standing up (with the sky behind him).
*Wildrider is missing his transformation sound effect as he approaches the optics shop; Breakdown does get one a second later.
*The experimental generator is inordinately tiny when it's sitting on the flatbed truck.
*Motormaster somehow transforms into (a ''tiny'') truck mode while still inside the museum. Also, a moment later as he drives away, he has a dark gray stripe on his trailer that shouldn't be there.
*While firing on Drag Strip, Warpath is shown driving forward while his treads are stationary.
*As Tracks goes into flight mode, the sandy beach suddenly has squares on it for one shot (as if it were pavement).
*As Motormaster comes into view before the crash with Prime, his bumper extends to the sides of his trailer rather than the sides of his cab.
*When rushing to inspect the aftermath of Optimus and Motormaster's game of chicken, Spike exclaims "I can't see anythi-". Before he can spit out "ng," Blaster cuts him off saying "I'm not getting any radio response."
*After the crash, just before Optimus transforms into robot mode, his cab's grille is missing the vertical line in the middle. His subsequent transformation looks very crude, especially around his legs.
*Blaster contacts the other Autobots and his chest lights up, but during Warpath's report it's no longer flashing.
[[File:G1 cartoon Motormaster slagged.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*As often happens, the animators mistake Motormaster's panel lines for the start of a second trailer. It's particularly visible in the last shot of his wrecked form after his collision with Prime.
*Optimus strokes his faceplate during the discussion of the Stunticons' plans, and his finger disappears for a moment.
*The broadcast of the doctor's announcement shows a building with the word "OPTCS" behind him. Earlier it was correctly shown as "REPUBLIC ''OPTICS'' COMPANY".
*The doctor's bow tie has grown to twice the size when he appears on TV.
*Jazz's waist is huge as he stands outside the paint chamber.
*When approaching the crater, Jazz appears to be driving above and not under rocks, and as Windcharger breaks formation to test their disguises, he clips into the cliff edge above them. In the same shot, "Wildrider"'s windows are the same gray as his body, rather than red.
[[File:Huge Ironhide and Small Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Introducing Ultra class Ironhide and Scout class Ratchet.]]
*As a result of animation cels being stacked incorrectly, Ratchet appears teeny-tiny in the front of a crowd shot, making Ironhide look colossal by comparison. The tiny Ratchet should, of course, be (barely visible) at the ''back'' of the crowd.
[[File:Masquerade-menasor-modelchange.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Model make no sense! Menasor confused."]]
*Menasor's limbs:
**When the Stunticons combine at Autobot Headquarters, Motormaster transforms to robot mode... and then the other Stunticons just clip onto him, rather than forming additional new limbs. Of course, it kinda sorta fits with the screwed-up way Menasor is often drawn, but this version has ''Motormaster's feet''.
**During his escape, Menasor constantly changes back and forth between having Dead End and Drag Strip attached ''to'' his arms, and having them ''as'' his arms. (It should be the latter.)
**As Menasor lands at the crater, two successive shots show him from exactly the same angle. In the first, his Drag Strip arm is drawn as the "clip-onto-Motormaster" model... and in the very next shot, it's drawn as the "Drag Strip forms the whole arm" model.
*When Menasor takes off to warn Megatron, he has a purple [[Autobot]] insignia.
*Menasor's under-arm lasers only appear when the plot calls for them - when he fires them in Autobot Headquarters, and again when he fires them on the fake Menasor. The first time, they're dark gray; the second time, they're white.
*Mirage's Autobot symbol is missing as he transforms.
*The weapon's beam comes from ''beside'' the barrel, rather than coming out of it.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:G1 Masquerade Warpath crushes DeadEnd.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Masquerade BreakdownWildriderdefeated.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*During their construction in "[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1]]", Megatron notes that he has outfitted the Stunticons with "automatic force fields that make their hulls impenetrable", which accounts for how well they did in battle. Yet in this episode they are easily taken down by second string Autobots, including non-fighters such as Grapple and Hoist. Warpath even manages to simply punch right through Dead End! Clearly they have been skimping on their scheduled maintenance.
*Motormaster's [[transformation scheme]] greatly differs from that of Optimus Prime - yet after donning his Motormaster disguise, Optimus transforms exactly like Motormaster does. (However bizarre this seems, it was clearly scripted - so we also count it as a possible technology, under Continuity Notes below.)
*The Stunticons are all badly beaten up after their capture. But when they escape, they're suddenly in perfect shape - able to drive, transform, combine and fight with no problems.
*"The weapon [is] but minutes from completion. And then..." "And then... what?" A fine question, indeed! Megatron's crazy laser thing is stuck down in the bottom of a crater, with no obvious way to move about or blow up anything that doesn't come popping down into the crater.
*The Autobots account for their ability to merge (Windcharger's magnetic field) and for the fake Menasor's face (Mirage's hologram) but where do they get working ''hands'' for their fake Menasor?
*Toward the end, Menasor, a powerful combiner cowardly retreated from average size Autobots instead of fighting them. Who knows, perhaps Superion and Defensor were present but not shown.

===Sci-Fi Channel edits===
*In the mid-1990s, many G1 episodes were aired on the [[Cartoon Quest|SciFi]] [[Animation Station|Channel]]. To allow expanded advertising time, they were edited down, cutting "unnecessary" dialog and scenes out. Some of the "unnecessary" dialog cut from this episode included parts of Grapple and Inferno's lines, resulting in them collectively uttering "Time to add firobably hate myself in the morning, but..."

===Continuity notes===
[[File:Masquerade Jazz camouflage paint.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Soundwave fly.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Huh? Tape-bot cannot fly!]]
*It's never explained just how the Autobots disguise themselves. Sideswipe says something about camouflage paint and the Autobots are transformed, details and all, into the Stunticons. It's apparently some high-tech stuff, because it even lets Optimus totally change his transformation scheme. And it just turns right off once Optimus decides the gig is up.
*Gadgets and powers:
**Soundwave informs us that Menasor has "special powers"... which seem to consist of a couple of under-arm mounted guns.
**Sideswipe and Mirage both fire their shoulder missiles, which the writers and animators usually seem to forget about.
**Soundwave can fly in his tape deck mode! When the Decepticons retreat, he transforms and then flies off behind Starscream. It is tempting to assume that the animators took a script direction like "the Decepticons transform and fly off in retreat" a bit too literally.
**Mirage can project a hologram of Menasor's face. This runs contrary to his usual schtick, which is invisibility. His original bio described him as being able to create "the illusion of a different appearance" for up to six minutes, but this is the only time it pops up in the cartoon (presumably because holograms were Hound's gimmick... though per the bio, Hound's great power is to create ''maps'', and simple images on rare occasions.)
*Megatron explains his weapon-du-jour thusly: "The most destructive weapon known to Decepticon science...Utilizing that ruby's light, focused through those perfect lenses, it will fire the most destructive ray of all. More powerful than any laser, it will create a chain reaction in whatever it touches... producing instantaneous destruction." Based on the animation, this appears to be a long-winded way of saying "It blows up rocks."
*Hasn't Megatron learned his lesson about building [[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|giant superlasers that can't be moved]]? [[B.O.T. (episode)|Apparently not]]!
*Megatron's line "Suggestion noted...AND IGNORED!" when Soundwave warns him would be revisited during the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[Nemesis Part 2]]" when his [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|namesake]] utters those exact sentiments to [[Dinobot II]] on board the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''.
*Two scenes deleted from this episode feature the individual Stunticons talking with each other ''while'' combined as Menasor, only for Menasor himself to then silence all of his components, because their chatter is confusing him! Even without this dialogue, the finished episode portrays Menasor as almost adorably dumb and easily bamboozled - utterly baffled, for example, when Prime accuses him of being an imposter.
*This episode marks the final appearances of [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] in the American version of the original ''Transformers'' cartoon.

===Real-life references===
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' engine roar as Laserbeak flies over the faux Stunticons.
**A lengthy sequence of borrowed effects follows as Laserbeak flies onwards - sounds include the ''Falcon'' engine burst, a [[TIE Fighter]]'s targeting computer, [[Death Star]] superlaser, and ''Falcon'' engine whine. As he returns to Soundwave, he gets another ''Falcon'' engine burst.
**''Falcon'' engine and [[X-wing Fighter|X-Wing]] diving whine as Menasor flies away from Autobot Headquarters.
**X-Wing and TIE Fighter roar as the Constructicons fly off... and again as Menasor flies off... and again as Starscream and Soundwave fly off.
**A variety of [[lightsaber]] noises as Megatron fires his super not-a-laser weapon.

===Trivia===
[[File:Dragstripcartoon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Dead End and Drag Strip, your job is to upsell."]]
*In full sell-my-toy mode, Motormaster gives a quick introdump at the episode's start, naming off his troops, and then ''again'' a moment later as he hands out assignments.
*In case you missed it, the Autobots chosen to impersonate the Stunticons are based specifically on [[alternate mode]]s. Given this attention to detail, it's not infeasible to think that the plot of this episode may have originally called for the Autobots to simply have their alternate modes painted, since they consistently refrain from transforming once in the Decepticon camp:
**Although the specific models don't line up, Prime and Motormaster both transform into semi trucks
**Jazz and Dead End are both Porsches
**Breakdown and Sideswipe are Lamborghinis
**Mirage and Drag Strip are both Formula 1 race cars (albeit very different-looking ones)
**And.... weeeeell, Windcharger's a Pontiac Firebird and Wildrider's a Ferrari, but the plot demanded Windcharger for his magnetic abilities. This would also explain why a different device, a projector of some sort, is used to disguise him rather than the camouflage paint.
*Whether by inspiration or by parallel reasoning, several toy redecos have followed the pattern of this episode:
**''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[:File:ClassicsLOCMenasor.jpg|Menasor]] is a [[redeco]] from ''[[Legends Class|Legends of Cybertron]]'' [[:File:LOC CybertronPrime.jpg|Optimus Prime]], [[Transformers: Generations#Asian market exclusives .28.22GDO.22.29|GDO]] [[:File:GenerationsMotorbreathToy.jpg|Motorbreath]] is a retool of ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'' [[:File:TF2010-toy Legends Optimus Prime.jpg|Optimus Prime]] and ''Animated'' Motor Master is a retool of ''Animated'' Optimus Prime. ''[[Transformers: Generations#Combiner Wars .282015-.29|Combiner Wars]]'' Voyager class [[:File:GenerationsVoyOP.jpg|Optimus Prime]] also got [[:File:Generations-CW Voyager Motormaster stock.jpg|a Motormaster retool]].
**''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[:File:Universe2008 DragStrip.jpg|Drag Strip]] is made from ''Classics'' [[:File:Classics Mirage toy.jpg|Mirage]]. ''Combiner Wars'' [[:File:CWDlxMirage.jpg|Mirage]] is also a [[:File:Generationstoy-Dragstrip.jpg|Dragstrip]] retool.
**At one point there was intended to be a ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Binaltech]]'' [[Wildrider (G1)#Notes|Wildrider]] created from ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[:File:AltWindcharger toy.jpg|Windcharger]] (or rather, his ''Binaltech'' [[:File:Binaltech Overdrive Toy.jpg|counterpart]]), but that never eventuated.
**[[Don Figueroa]] used ''Universe'' [[:File:Universe2008 SideSwipe toy.jpg|Sideswipe]] as a basis for the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] version of Breakdown, and the toy's mold was used for both the ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[BotCon 2010]] [[:File:BreakdownBotcon.JPG|''Generation 2''-esque Breakdown]] toy and the ''Timelines'' [[Transformers Collectors' Club|TFCC:]] [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service|TFSS]] [[:File:TFSS Preview Breakdown.jpg|Generation 1-esque Breakdown]] toys! Furthermore, ''Animated'' Breakdown uses the same mold as ''Animated'' Sideswipe (the Rodimus Minor mold).
**''[[Titanium Series]]'' [[:File:ROTF-toy DeadEndTitanium.jpg|live-action movie Dead End]] reuses [[:File:Movie TitaniumRM Jazz.jpg|live-action movie Jazz]]'s mold, while the ''Timelines'' toy of an [[:File:Animated Dead End Toy.JPG|''Animated''-esque Dead End]] is a redeco of ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' [[:File:Animated jazz both mode1.JPG|Jazz]].
*If any one episode served to cement Megatron's poor reputation among certain (more snarky) elements of the fandom, this is surely it. He comes up with a madcap scheme to build a useless weapon, doesn't listen to any of his troops' rather intelligent suggestions, insults his underlings for no reason, misses the obvious, toys with his enemies, pouts when he loses, and flies off with nothing in the end.
*Man, Starscream saw through the whole charade in about two seconds, didn't he?
*Admit it, when you were a kid you wanted those Autobots to actually combine. [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Happy now?]]

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title (Generation 2 dub):'' "'''Perfekte Tarnung'''" ("Perfect Disguise")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 17]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''I falsi Stunticons'''" ("The Fake Stunticons")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Sotto copertura'''" ("Undercover")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Masquerade'''" (マスカレード)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 19]], [[1986]]

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Shēn Rù Hǔ Xué '''" (深入虎穴, "Deep Through the Decepticon's Lair")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1990 — ''Transformers'' — Cosmic Rust / Masquerade ([[Tempo Video]])
;[[Wikipedia:LaserDisc|LaserDisc]]
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 8 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 06: Stagione Due Parte Quarta ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-63.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

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

The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1

2017-11-12T05:02:35Z

Mzawutang: /* Continuity errors */

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|series=G1toon
|series2=2010
|ep=94
|ep2=31
|prev2=The Desperate Struggle of Justice
|next2=The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2
|image=ReturnOptimusPrime1 Optimus lives.JPG
|caption=And there was much rejoicing (yay).
|title="The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1"
|production code=700-115
|airdate=[[February 24]], [[1987]]
|written by=[[Marv Wolfman]] [[Cherie Wilkerson]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''An embittered scientist uses the body of Optimus Prime to unleash a dangerous plague on the Autobots and, ultimately, the universe.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:ReturnofOptimus1 Prime rescue.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|"You're right, it is athlete's foot."]]
While on a deep-space mission in the ''[[Solaris]]'' to test a new [[Impervious alloy|heat-and-radiation-resistant alloy]] that they have developed, scientists [[Jessica Morgan]] and [[Gregory Swofford]] detect a ship carrying [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s body on a collision course with a planetoid orbiting a star they are researching nearby. Despite Gregory's reservations (his face was scarred in a previous scuffle between Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], which he blames on Optimus), he is talked into helping Jessica rescue Prime's body before the ship collides with the planetoid, the impact of which also sets off the star into a supernova and coating their ship with unusual spores.

[[File:ReturnofOptimus1 Scattershot rescues Jessica.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Don't worry, I'll help you rescue your daug-OOH LOOK, A BUNNY!]]
Upon their return to [[Earth]], [[Mark Morgan|Jessica's father]] studies the spores and learns that they are not only alive, but are an [[Hate Plague|incredibly contagious viral agent]] that induces hatred and destructive urges into whoever they contaminate. After a new scuffle between the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] and [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] over the new alloy gravely injures Jessica, her father is convinced by Gregory to try and resurrect Prime's body as a carrier of the spores against the [[Autobot]]s, a sentiment exacerbated when it's learned Jessica was paralyzed from the waist down in the accident and now needs a special [[exosuit]] to walk. However, when reviving Prime's body turns out to be impossible for them, Gregory and Jessica's father decide to use it as bait for the other Autobots. Dr. Morgan forces Jessica to lure them into a spore trap at the lab.

The trap goes off without a hitch, mostly due to [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus]]' reckless haste in recovering his predecessor's corpse in lieu of caution, and several Autobots—including [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]], two of the most powerful Autobot gestalts—are infected. The [[Decepticon]]s have learned about Optimus Prime's recovery as well, and have shown up to terminate the former Autobot leader permanently, but are instead infected themselves. Fortunately, Rodimus, Jessica, and [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] manage to escape unharmed, the former two with Optimus' body; a few other Autobots manage to escape infection as well, but are badly wounded while attempting to subdue a sickened and crazed Superion.

[[File:ReturnofOptimus1 Magnus sneaks up.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Rodimus has [[Energy vampire|no reflection]]?]]
Back at Autobot City, Rodimus pleads to [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] to try and repair Prime, but Prime is too far gone even for [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]] medical experience. Desperate, Rodimus contacts [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] and orders him to locate and bring back a [[Quintesson]], remembering that they had [[Dark Awakening (episode)|once before restored Optimus to life]]. He then sets about disconnecting [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] to keep the city-former from becoming infected. However, just as he finishes the final steps to do so, an infected [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] appears. He gives chase to Rodimus before he's temporarily subdued by Wreck-Gar...who ends up becoming infected, and infecting Rodimus in return.

[[File:ReturnofOptimus1 Quintesson fixing Prime.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|You put your right arm in. You put your right arm out.]]
TV station [[KSUN]] reports that the Hate Plague, as it's now called, has spread like wildfire across the planet. Scenes of chaos and destruction unfold in [[Washington, D.C.]] and elsewhere. The plague has even made its way off-world, sending the Quintessons into hiding at the ends of the galaxy. Sky Lynx finds [[Klementia|an uninfected Quintesson]] who he saves from infected Sharkticons in exchange for reviving Optimus. The Quintesson warns that—should anything go too awry during the process — there's a good chance that Optimus will never live again. It's touch-and-go for a while, but eventually, the Quintesson manages to pull through and Optimus is restored to full life, declaring that "no force in the Universe can stop me."

[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2|To be continued]]...
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
{{collist|2|
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (4)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (11)
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (12)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (13)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (14)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (15)
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]] (17)
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (18)
*[[Blades (G1)|Blades]] (19)
*[[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] (20)
*[[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]] (21)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (22)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (23)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] (24)
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (26)
*[[Groove (G1)|Groove]] (27)
*[[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (28)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (29)
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (30)
*[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (31)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (32)
*[[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (33)
*[[Chase (G1)|Chase]] (34)
*[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]] (35)
*[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]] (36)
*[[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] (37)
*[[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] (38)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (39)
*[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] (40)
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (51)
*[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] (52)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (53)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (54)
}}
|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (5; flashback)
*[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] (6)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (7)
*[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]] (8)
*[[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (9)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurrr]] (10)
*[[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] (16)
*[[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] (25)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (41)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (42)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (43)
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (44)
*[[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (45)
*[[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]] (46)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (47)
*[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (48)
*[[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] (49)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (50)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (56)
*[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]] (57)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (58)
|c3=
*[[Gregory Swofford]] (1)
*[[Jessica Morgan]] (2)
*[[Mark Morgan]] (3)
*[[Bonnie Carlson]] (55)
|c4=
*[[Klementia|Quintesson judge]] (59)
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (60)
}}

==Notable quotes==
"Computron think too much!"
:—'''Abominus''', who subsequently shoots Computron

"Why do I keep seeing you in my dreams, Optimus? Are you telling me I'm not the leader ''you'' were? I already know that, Optimus. I always have."
:—'''Rodimus''' ponders in front of [[Optimus Prime memorial|Optimus's memorial statue]] in Metroplex.

[[File:ReturnOptimusPrime1 hate-plague Magnus.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
"Where's that punk Rodimus Prime?! I want him!" 
"There you are, you puny wimp!" 
"You can't escape, Rodimus! I can track your gas fumes anywhere!"
:—Several lines from infected '''Ultra Magnus''' as he tracks down Rodimus Prime. ''In virus veritas,'' indeed.

"The Autobots are acting like madmen!" 
"It's a madness plague, Galvatron. If one of those Transformers touches you, you're infected." 
"You're lying!" 
"Fine. Whatever makes you a happy Decepticon. Just watch your rear thruster."
:—'''Galvatron''' and '''Rodimus Prime'''

"I'm a doctor, not a forklift!" 
"His engines, they cannae take the strain!" 
"He's dead, Jim." 
:—'''Wreck-Gar'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s inspired medical descriptions of Optimus Prime's condition

"It's over, kid. I've won!" 
"Don't believe it, old friend!"
:—Infected '''Ultra Magnus''' blocks '''Rodimus Prime''', who evades him.

"Like I said before, kid. It's all over. What...? ARGH!" 
"And as ''I'' said before: Don't believe it."
:—Infected '''Ultra Magnus''' corners '''Rodimus Prime''', only to be lassoed by Wreck-Gar.

"I'm a pepper! Wouldn't you like to be a pepper, too?"
:—'''Wreck-Gar''' merrily spreads the infection.

"They've all gone mad. This is no place for me!"
:—The irony is lost on '''Galvatron.'''

"The world needs a leader now!"
:—'''Sky Lynx''' on the reactivation of Optimus Prime

"I've done it! Optimus Prime lives!" 
"It's true. Our leader is back." 
"Yes, Sky Lynx, and this time, no force in the universe can stop me."
:—'''Quintesson''' and '''Sky Lynx''' as the decidedly confident '''Optimus Prime''' is revived

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}
[[File:PrimeTommyInterviewAgain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] meets with [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] in the barren wasteland to continue his interview inquiring as to how Optimus came back from the dead. Tommy recaps the time Prime came back as a zombie and was blown to smithereens and is curious how Optimus escaped ''that'' one. Optimus proceeds to relate the adventures of his inanimate corpse...

Tommy wants to know the rest of the tale, but Optimus only teases the conclusion. Apparently, he promised [[Cloudburst]] that he would help him redesign his retro-rockets and the appointment can't wait. Prime sets Tommy down, but promises to return soon to transform his day into an adventure.
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
[[File:Swindle TROOP.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|"So we bought your daughter's exosuit from a Decepticon...what's so bad about that?"]]
*The first shot of Prime's ship shows it colored in orange. In all other shots, it's white with orange landing gear. And it looks totally different from its [[Dark Awakening (episode)|last appearance]].
*The first shot of Optimus Prime on Gregory's display shows him sitting in a red chair. It's yellow in other shots.
*As the duo first come upon Prime's body, he's missing the vertical line on his abs/grille.
*The animation and editing seem to conflate Prime's ship hitting the asteroid (shown using rather incongruently recycled animation from "Dark Awakening") with the star going nova at the same instant, conveying them as though they were the same event.
*If the star is going nova - shouldn't its light be visible outside the windows behind Jessica?
*In the first interior shot of Morgan's lab, the two test rats are already red before they've been infected. One is layered behind the glass box that's containing him, too.
*The screen separating the infected rats rises up out of solid table. In the same shot, the three humans' colors all change shade several times; meanwhile, the infected rats aren't glowing anymore.
*As Computron falls through the lab's ceiling, the hand that breaks through the building is colored purple like Abominus's.
*Abominus's visor is white instead of red as he stomps on the building; his helmet has some gray parts that should be purple as well.
*There's no transition between the Terrorcons being merged as they stomp on the building, and them showing up separated just a shot or two later.
*The Terrorcons grab the alloy in their beast modes, yet in the next shot they're running out with it in robot mode.
*As Jessica is being loaded into First Aid, Gregory and Mark are wearing smocks, not the suits and ties they wear in other shots.
*When Gregory and Jessica's father rush at the hospital and find the Autobots, [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] is amongst them. This does at least explain why Hot Spot is standing around in a ''hospital'' with a gun in his hand. Hot Spot's chestplate is also blue, instead of its proper red.
*Jessica grabs tops of Optimus' arm to try and save him from the incinerator (though one of her hands fails to actually connect with Prime's arm, instead floating just above it.) The next shot shows it towering over her.
*As he drives Jessica into Autobot City, Ultra Magnus is shown driving into a tunnel in one shot, but in the next he's in open air.
*Optimus' statue is missing the smoke stacks on its arms.
*The depressions on Rodimus' shoulders are white again in this episode. They were burgundy in the previous one.
*Rodimus' helmet is missing its horizontal line in this episode.
*When Rodimus is done talking to Optimus' statue, his head slides backwards. Twice.
*Rodimus' helmet is missing its horizontal line in this episode.
*When Defensor is shown after the Protectobots combine, his left arm is missing, and his forehead is colored blue instead of his eyes.
*After transforming to jet mode during Magnus's rollcall, Silverbolt sort of floats along at an angle.
*Steeljaw just pops into the frame during the Autobot rollcall.
*When Ratbat returns:
**A layering error has him in front of Soundwave's chest compartment door, instead of disappearing behind it.
**His cassette form is white instead of purple.
**Soundwave looks down after his chest closes up, but his faceplate stays in its previous position of looking upwards.
**Soundwave's vocoded voice processing (provided by [[Scott Brownlee]]) sounds higher pitched than usual.
*When Galvatron says, "So Optimus Prime may yet live." For a second his chin turns black.
*When the Jessica exits Rodimus, she's wearing her space suit and not wearing her exoskeleton.
*When Jessica points at the lab, her neckline is layered over her hand.
*When Rodimus dispatches some of the Autobots to watch the area around the lab, Wheelie is missing his Autobot symbol.
*Before entering the lab to retrieve Prime's body, Rodimus gives orders to Defensor...though Defensor is shown as the one mouthing all of those orders. In the same shot, Chase is colored as Goldbug (who hasn't even been built yet!)
*The red glow around infected characters seemed to create all kinds of problems for the animators:
**The glow aura is frequently out of step with the animation or visible through objects in front of them
**Infected characters often become briefly transparent, allowing background objects to be seen through them.
**Often characters are just red, without the glowing aura effect, as when Superion breaks through the lab roof.
*When the Autobots get infected, several are shown clipping through each other.
*Slingshot is shown mouthing Magnus's lines about "that punk Rodimus Prime".
*Jessica's bracelet disappears from and re-appears on her right wrist throughout the episode - including during the shot when she turns to run back to the lab (when Rodimus says "We've got to get Optimus outta here!")
[[File:ROOP1 superion hateplague.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*Superion shoots a gun with the sound effect of Megatron's cannon. Defensor fires back with Optimus Prime's usual sound effect.
**Superion's still using the same sound effect later, along with a whining after-effect, when he takes out Kup and company.
**Then Ultra Magnus gets in on the act as he blasts his way into the Autobot lab with the same sound effects.
*Superion is not nearly as huge as he should be when he takes on the police officers.
*As Rodimus first makes his escape from Magnus, he drives past two [[Throttlebot]]s... with the Decepticon Wildrider standing between them. (at this point, the Decepticons have yet to arrive on the scene, let alone become infected.)
*Mark's thrown jar doesn't leave behind any pieces after it shatters.
*Galvatron's chin is gray in some shots, dark gray in others.
*As the Decepticons walk into the loading area, Bruticus is the same size as all the regular Decepticons.
*Rodimus's windshield is colored solid as he makes his escape from the lab.
*First Aid is shown brawling with the Decepticons at the lab; at this point he is out with the Protectobots, not yet infected.
*Kup's vehicle mode is drawn like a van instead of a truck as he pulls up behind Superion.
*Flying Autobots:
**Blurr sort of floats along sideways as he shoots at Superion.
*Superion manages to hit all the Autobots attacking him... without lifting his gun arm to shoot!
*Defensor's chest plates are blue instead of black as he tries to clear the bridge.
*Rodimus's mouth doesn't move as he starts talking about Quintessons.
*Sky Lynx is shown flying out of the solar system past Saturn, but it's colored white instead of yellow.
*When Rodimus notices Magnus behind him, his eyes are lined thicker than usual. He sees Magnus's reflection in the viewscreen, but not his own.
*When Wreck-Gar is about to infect Rodimus, Rodimus is all red before he's been infected.
*During Brawl's rampage, he somehow manages to infect an inanimate truck.
*As an unconscious man leans against this truck, a pair of infected people fight over both him and the truck, overlapping them as if it they weren't there.
*Headstrong bumps into Razorclaw; as Razorclaw gains the infected glow effect, a layering error causes him to jump from behind Headstrong to in front of him, and back again.
[[File:ReturnOptimusPrime1 InfectedVortex.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*Vortex, meanwhile, flies into a commercial jetliner through its passenger door! In the same shot, he's visible through the arm of a passing human. He also gets the Autobot laser sound effect when he opens fire.
*The rioting humans at the Lincoln Memorial are wielding bats which also glow infection-red.
*When Defensor picks up a stone monument to throw, the monument gains a red aura around it, but does not become red. The red aura disappears when the monument is thrown.
*Before being picked up by Sky Lynx, one of the Quintesson's faces flashes red for a moment.
*The Quintesson's death face is missing its left-side cresting as he prepares to reactivate Prime.
*The Quintesson's Egyptian-styled head is facing Optimus at the end, but one shot shows it facing backwards.
*During his famous line at the end of the episode, Optimus Prime's mouthplate isn't moving.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:Retcon.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Someone fixed Prime's body, but no one can fix the story.]]
*More or less this entire episode is a massive continuity error, as it purports to pick up at the end of Optimus Prime's last prior appearance in "[[Dark Awakening (episode)|Dark Awakening]]", yet actually presents entirely different conditions. In the prior episode, Optimus Prime lost an arm and half of his face (on top of his longstanding physical damage still left from the [[The Transformers: The Movie|animated movie]]), but was still alive as he managed to steer his ship at high speed through the heavy fire of a massed Quintesson spacefleet, deliberately ramming a detonator that caused a binary supernova and obliterated the ship and the entire solar system around it. Yet in this new episode, Optimus Prime is shown completely intact and pristine, albeit dead, as his (completely different) ship drifts, slowly and alone, through the system.
**Some of these inconsistencies can be attributed to the fact that "Dark Awakening" was animated by AKOM, and this episode by Toei.
**The original script addressed the events of "Dark Awakening," right down to his severely damaged state. It included sequences in which he was repaired by Dr. Morgan and Dr. Swofford in order to weaponize him with the spores. Interestingly enough, there were also scenes showing Rodimus Prime experiencing nightmares playing out in the celestial Autobot tomb, where he encountered his zombified predecessor. For some reason, most likely running time, these scenes didn't make it into the final episode.
*Jessica Morgan and Gregory Swofford detect life-signs aboard Optimus Prime's ship, but the Autobot is dead.
*Gregory says Prime's ship is about to collide with a planet, while the animation shows the ship approaching a small, irregular asteroid.
*Unlikely viewpoints:
**Gregory and Jessica get a shot of Prime sitting inside his ship.
*Superhuman <s>Spike</s> humans:
**Jessica Morgan and Gregory Swofford are able to lift, push and pull Optimus Prime's massive body out of his chair and onto their ship without any mechanical assistance or devices except a rope. There's no gravity in space, but objects still have mass and therefore inertia.
*Why didn't any of the Autobots notice Optimus Prime's body when they were loading Jessica into the ambulance? Sure he was half buried under rubble, but a truck-sized leader of your own faction shouldn't be ''that'' hard to notice?
*Why is Steeljaw part of the Autobot roll call when Blaster is not?
*Even though Ratbat's reconnaissance recording consists of nothing more than an ambiguous, one-line statement by Jessica Morgan - "My father has his body in the lab." - Galvatron immediately knows that she's referring to Optimus Prime.
*Why have the Protectobots merge before traveling to the lab? Did Defensor have to [[:File:Loveandsteel-runfortmaxrun.jpg|run the whole way?]]
*Doctor Morgan throws spores at Rodimus, apparently not noticing that ''his own daughter'' is inside him, even though we see her clearly through his windows in several other shots.
*When Jessica Morgan asks who built Optimus Prime in the first place, Rodimus Prime responds by saying the Quintessons did so - but it was [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] who rebuilt Orion Pax into Optimus. While the Quintessons are credited with creating the Transformer race, the timeline shown by "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]" and "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]" would have to be seriously stretched out of shape for Orion Pax to have been directly created by them - Orion's clearly meant to be a youngish 'bot in "War Dawn", long after the Quints have been driven off Cybertron.
*Why is Rodimus so desperate to bring Optimus back from the dead even after he's aware of the much more pressing concern of the Hate Plague?
*Improbable viewpoints:
**Rodimus contacts Sky Lynx and gets an exterior visual of him somehow.
*Rodimus decides to deactivate Metroplex to stop him from catching the plague, but Magnus is infected and already walking around on him well before Rodimus pushes the last switch.
*If the Quintessons really are "in hiding in the far reaches of the galaxy" as Sky Lynx claims, then how did any of the at-the-time-still-Earthbound Hate Plague carriers manage to find them, much less get all the way out there to infect them in the first place?
*For that matter, how the hell did these theoretical Hate Plague carriers manage to ''beat Sky Lynx to the Quintessons''?
*How are Sky Lynx and the Quintesson able to take the time to revive Optimus Prime without being attacked? Did all the other Autobots and humans leave Autobot City?
*And how does Sky Lynx know the Quintesson is repairing Prime back to the way he was before he died, rather than the brainwashed version from "Dark Awakening"? It's possible he stood and watched as they worked to ensure they didn't do just that.
*Sky Lynx seems to have shrunk to an average size Transformer when he was with the Quintesson repairing Optimus Prime.

===Continuity notes===
[[File:ReturnOptimusPrime1 Chase infected.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Here begins an almost criminal legacy of scriptwriters abusing the Throttlebots.]]
*Seemingly thrown in at the last moment, the [[Throttlebot]]s make their debut. They're only visible in a handful of shots, Rollbar is missing, and none of them are identified by name.
*Swofford and Morgan must've spent ''one hell of a long time'' repairing Optimus Prime if they managed to retrieve him from the Quintessons' detonator all the way back to [[Dark Awakening (episode)|"Dark Awakening"]]. Either that, or Optimus died before his ship hit the detonator and his ship drifted precariously off course for the last several months.
*It's not clear what Rodimus means by "disconnecting" Metroplex; he apologizes as though it's a terrible thing, leading some fans to speculate that he was shutting him down for good - but later he says that Metroplex is "safe", implying that he's just... separated somehow.
*The Hate Plague can apparently infect any creature, both purely mechanical and biological.
*The Autobots are implied to have created the exosuit for Jessica so she can walk again. Hmm, one wonders if this technology could have been [[Chip Chase|useful before now]]…
*Even though it occurs in a flashback, this is ''technically'' the last appearance of Megatron in the original American series.

===Real-world references===
*Jessica mentions World War II.
*Courtesy of Wreck-Gar:
**"Lucy, Lucy, what have you done now?" Is a reference to ''[[wikipedia:I Love Lucy|I Love Lucy]]''.
**"I'm a doctor, not a forklift!" and "He's dead, Jim," reference popular quotes from ''[[Star Trek]]'' medic [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Leonard_H._McCoy Dr. Leonard H. McCoy].
**Similarly, "His engines, they cannae take the strain!" comes from another ''Star Trek'' character, namely [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Montgomery_Scott Montgomery Scott] (AKA Scotty), though this is often claimed to not be attributed to the character except for its use in parodies.
**"I'm a pepper! Wouldn't you like to be a pepper, too?" is a reference to an old [[wikipedia:Dr Pepper|Dr Pepper]] ad campaign in the late '70s to early '80s.
**"Well, excuuuuse us!" is a reference to a catchphrase of [[wikipedia:Steve Martin|Steve Martin]].
*A couple of the infection rioting scenes seem to portray [[Washington, D.C.]]. Humans are shown rioting at a badly-drawn Lincoln Memorial; the monument that Defensor throws ''may'' be intended to be the [[Washington Monument]], though it's awfully stumpy and shouldn't have a projecting cap on top. He throws it into a Classically styled building, another common DC element.

===Trivia===
*The resurrection of Optimus Prime in the show was a direct result of children's reactions to his death in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' and subsequent letters, as acknowledged by a Hasbro exec in a 1986 newspaper article. He didn't even have a toy on the shelves (which changed in 1988 with the release of Powermaster Optimus Prime).
*Jessica Morgan is named after co-writer Marv Wolfman's daughter.<ref>http://www.marvwolfman.com/marv/Speaking_With_Larry_Ditillio.html</ref>
*When Rodimus wants to put together a team to pick up a dead body from a couple of humans, he doesn't mess around, does he?

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime, Teil 1'''" ("The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Il ritorno di Commander, Parte 1'''" (First dub, "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1"), "'''Il ritorno di Optimus Prime, Parte 1'''" (Second dub, "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' コンボイの復活パート1 (''Convoy no Fukkatsu Part 1'', "The Resurrection of Convoy Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 18]], [[1987]]
:*A "[[Secret Files of Teletraan II]]" segment unique to Japan was attached to the end of this episode. It focuses on the many battles between the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s and the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]]s. It replaces the original "Secret Files" segment which focused on the Autobots.

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Qíngtiānzhù Fùhuó (shàng)'''" (擎天柱复活（上）,"Optimus Prime Revives, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1987 — ''The Transformers'' — The Return of Optimus Prime ([[Family Home Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 1987 — ''Transformers'' — Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime (Erster Teil) ([[Polyband]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''Transformers'' — The Return of Optimus Prime: Optimus Prime the Ultimate Robot ([[Tempo Video]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1989 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime / Cosmic Rust (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2000 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 7: The Return of Optimus Prime ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;[[Wikipedia:LaserDisc|LaserDisc]]
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 2 & Season 4 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 5: Series 3.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-3/synopses/700-115.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}
[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

Masquerade

2017-11-11T18:20:59Z

Mzawutang: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode
|image=Masquerade Menasors.JPG
|caption=Menasor crush...destroy knockoff.
|series=G1toon
|ep=64
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=61
|prev2=War Dawn (episode)
|next2=Fire in the Sky
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=21
|prev3=The Revenge of Bruticus
|next3=Ghost in the Machine (G1)
|title="Masquerade"
|written by=[[Donald F. Glut]]
|production code=700-63
|airdate=[[December 16]], 1985
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''After defeating the Stunticons, five of the Autobots pose as the crazed combiners to learn of Megatron's newest plan.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Masquerade prime vs mmaster.jpg‎|left|thumb|Shortly after this, Menasor threw up.]]
[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] sends the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] on a mission to find components for an unrevealed purpose, including the world's largest, most perfect ruby. While searching for their components, the actions of the Stunticons catch the attention of the [[Autobot]]s, who track their movements and their crimes. Breakdown and Wildrider get the first component: laser lenses from a scientist. Dead End and Drag Strip get the second component: an experimental generator from the Army. Motormaster gets the last one: a perfect ruby from a museum.

The Autobots split into teams and manage to be extremely effective at capturing the Stunticons in the middle of their capers. [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] take on [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] take on [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] and [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]. Finally, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] go for [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], who challenges the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] to a game of “chicken” and ends up in a head-on collision. Spike, Bumblebee, and Blaster peer through the dust to see who survived, and it turns out that Optimus is the clear victor with merely a minor headache, while Motormaster lies in a wreck.

[[File:Masquerade Wheeljack Optimaster.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|No Motormaster disguise is complete without a hunk of Big League Chew.]]

Although all five Stunticons have been captured, the Autobots still don’t know what their plans were for the components they stole for Megatron. [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] guesses that the parts are going to be made into a weapon. (Nooo, really?) Optimus hatches a scheme to disguise Autobots using [[camouflage paint]] and penetrate the Decepticon camp disguised as Stunticons: Optimus Prime as Motormaster, [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] as Dead End, [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] as Breakdown, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] as Drag Strip, and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] as Wildrider.

[[File:Sideswipe FakeBreakdown.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Sideswipe? I, Breakdown, have never heard of such a being!]]

The disguised Autobots infiltrate the Decepticons, although their arrival causes [[Starscream (G1)|some]] raised eyebrows because they are driving too "safely". They deliver the stolen components to Megatron without being detected.

Back at [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], the Stunticons manage to shimmy and shake their way out of their cells, merge into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and overcome their Autobot captors. They then head back to the Decepticon base.

[[File:Masquerade Megatron manning gun.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|We've been here before.]]

The Constructicons complete Megatron’s new weapon, and he reveals its power, but just then Menasor arrives and declares the Autobots as infiltrators. Using Windcharger’s magnetic field ability and Mirage’s illusion power, the Autobots merge into their own Menasor. The two giants battle it out, and the Autobots are overcome. Megatron trains the new weapon on the Autobots, but the device blows up in his face after a few scattered shots.

Autobot reinforcements arrive, and the Decepticons flee without their usual promises for revenge. It is revealed that Ironhide had made adjustments to the ruby back at Autobot HQ, which caused the device to explode. The Autobots head for home, victorious.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (9)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (10)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (12)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (13)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (14)
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (18)
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (19)
*[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] (20)
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (21)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (22)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (23)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (24)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (25)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (26)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (27)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (28)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (29)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (30)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (31)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (32)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] (2)
*[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (3)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (4)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (5)
*[[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]] (6)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (7)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (8)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (33)
*[[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (34)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (35)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (36)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (37)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (38)
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (39)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (11)
*Dr. [[Rickel]] (15)
*US Army troops (16)
*Museum guards (17)
}}

==Quotes==
"A near miss deserves a couple o' near-missiles!"
:—'''Inferno'''

"I'll probably hate myself in the morning, but..."
:—'''Inferno''' before he douses the flames on the Stunticon Breakdown

"Well, look who's here! The old King of the Road! When I'm finished with ya, you'll be King of the Junkyard!"
:—'''Motormaster''' taunting '''Optimus Prime''' into a game of chicken

''[The Autobots are towing the defeated Stunticons to Autobot Headquarters]'' 
'''Wheeljack''': Here they come. 
'''Ratchet''': I won't bother asking who won. 
'''Breakdown''': ''(taking note of the Autobots looking at them)'' They're gawking at us! How mortifrying! 
'''Dead End''': The word, Breakdown, is mortiFYing, my sentiment exactly. 
'''Motormaster''': I'm in no mood for your big words, Dead End. 
'''Ironhide''': For you, motormouth, this '''IS''' a dead end.
:—Motormaster complains about Dead End's SAT-level vocabulary

"Man, Optimus. You're a dead ringer for Motormaster." 
"Did you have to say ''dead'' ringer, Spike?"
:—'''Spike Witwicky'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s vocabulary causes '''Optimus Prime''' to wince.

[[File:Masquerade as i preducted.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
"Everybody out on bad behavior!"
:—'''Breakdown''' after freeing himself and taking out Inferno, Grapple, and Hoist.

"Imagine my turning that ray on the Autobots' headquarters. Perhaps when it's gone, someone will put up a memorial parking lot. Mwahaha!"
:—'''Megatron'''

"Machine appears unstable. Suggest abandoning it." 
"Suggestion noted—and ignored!"
:—'''Soundwave''' warns '''Megatron''', for all the good it does.

==Notes==
===Animation or technical glitches===
*Coloring errors:
**As Motormaster hands out assignments, Drag Strip has a random rectangle drawn in the middle of his visor, and Dead End's face is miscolored - his mouthplate is light gray instead of yellow, and his visor is red instead of purple.
**As Optimus gets his idea after watching the broadcast, the triangles on his waist are gray instead of yellow.
**As Laserbeak returns to Soundwave, Soundwave is missing his Decepticon insignia, as well as the gold stripes around his cassette door (which is drawn too small as well). He also doesn't move his mouthplate when he speaks.
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) drives up to Megatron, his door is colored purple like his windows (and his window rims are colored purple too.) A shot later, it's back to black, but the ''next'' shot (Starscream asking about his voice) shows his grille as black instead of gray. The same thing happens as the real Motormaster busts out of the Autobot cell.
**Just after dismissing the Constructicons, Megatron's face is white.
**"And the Autobots are totally unaware of its existence" - "Breakdown" is colored as Sideswipe. (Of course, he IS Sideswipe, but should be... oh, you get the point.)
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) asks about the weapon, Megatron's forehead colors are reversed (black forehead with gray triangles).
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) says, "Too many head-on collisions!," his headlights are black instead of white.
**"Motormaster"'s black grille returns again as Megatron explains the weapon, recurring in numerous shots.
**Soundwave's cheekguards and eject button are both blue instead of white as Starscream mocks Megatron.
**Soundwave's missing the gold rim around his tape door as he and Starscream move toward the impostor Stunticons.
**"No, he's the imposter!" - "Drag Strip" is missing his Decepticon symbol (and possibly some striping, depending on which color model you trust.)
**"There's one absolute test, 'Stunticons'" - Dead End's tires are white; Soundwave's cheekguards are blue instead of white again. The same error repeats when Starscream calls out for Menasor to destroy the Autobots.[[File:Masquerade Megatron manning gun.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
**When Megatron first grabs the laser, he's colored in reverse (light gray body with a dark gray face).
**Drag Strip is white instead of yellow as Menasor swings his sword. When Menasor hits the fake with the sword, Drag Strip is attached backwards, with his wheels pointing outward.
**When "Motormaster" reverts to Optimus Prime, his headlights aren't colored white and he's missing the horizontal lines on the crest of his helmet.
**"No need for the disguises anymore" - Prime's face is a darker gray than his mouthplate in most of this shot; they should be the same tone. For a second, the faceplate darkens then lightens again.
**When the Autobots begin firing on Menasor, his face is entirely black.
**Just before Megatron fires the laser, Windcharger is miscoloured in green and gray (with yellow stripes on his arms, like Hound).
**As he stares at the destroyed weapon, Sideswipe's fist is white instead of black.
*When Motormaster says "Breakdown and Wildrider", he points to each robot as he says the other's name.
*The Stunticons land on a beach and each of them kicks up sand when they land. A few moments later, they transform and drive off, and no sand is disturbed by their tires.
*The Stunticons clearly never had detailed transformation models worked out:
**Every time the four cars transform to [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], they more or less just morph into their Earth forms. When they transform back to [[robot mode]], all the robot bits just slide out from under their car modes, which disappear into their backs.
**Motormaster's transformation is similarly wonky; his arms are just kind of absorbed lengthwise into his torso, which then morphs into his trailer - rather than the arms ''becoming'' the trailer's roof, as they should. Every time he transforms, his trailer/torso rather blatantly changes color from light to dark gray (or vice versa.)
*Ventriloquist bots:
**Ratchet's voice actor in this episode is [[Wally Burr]], not the usual [[Don Messick]], and it shows. Burr uses the same generic deep voice he used for Thundercracker in "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]" and Jazz in "[[Kremzeek!]]".
**"Yeah, but I don't have to like it" - Ironhide's mouth doesn't move for the first part of this line.
**Menasor's mouth doesn't move as he says his own name.
**As he flies off to "Destroy fake Stunticons", Menasor's mouth - again - doesn't move.
**As Bumblebee says, "Great Cybertron," Spike is mouthing the words.
**The Autobot Menasor gets knocked to the ground, but one who delivers "The generator..." line in Optimus' voice is the one standing up (with the sky behind him).
*Wildrider is missing his transformation sound effect as he approaches the optics shop; Breakdown does get one a second later.
*The experimental generator is inordinately tiny when it's sitting on the flatbed truck.
*Motormaster somehow transforms into (a ''tiny'') truck mode while still inside the museum. Also, a moment later as he drives away, he has a dark gray stripe on his trailer that shouldn't be there.
*While firing on Drag Strip, Warpath is shown driving forward while his treads are stationary.
*As Tracks goes into flight mode, the sandy beach suddenly has squares on it for one shot (as if it were pavement).
*As Motormaster comes into view before the crash with Prime, his bumper extends to the sides of his trailer rather than the sides of his cab.
*When rushing to inspect the aftermath of Optimus and Motormaster's game of chicken, Spike exclaims "I can't see anythi-". Before he can spit out "ng," Blaster cuts him off saying "I'm not getting any radio response."
*After the crash, just before Optimus transforms into robot mode, his cab's grille is missing the vertical line in the middle. His subsequent transformation looks very crude, especially around his legs.
*Blaster contacts the other Autobots and his chest lights up, but during Warpath's report it's no longer flashing.
[[File:G1 cartoon Motormaster slagged.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*As often happens, the animators mistake Motormaster's panel lines for the start of a second trailer. It's particularly visible in the last shot of his wrecked form after his collision with Prime.
*Optimus strokes his faceplate during the discussion of the Stunticons' plans, and his finger disappears for a moment.
*The broadcast of the doctor's announcement shows a building with the word "OPTCS" behind him. Earlier it was correctly shown as "REPUBLIC ''OPTICS'' COMPANY".
*The doctor's bow tie has grown to twice the size when he appears on TV.
*Jazz's waist is huge as he stands outside the paint chamber.
*When approaching the crater, Jazz appears to be driving above and not under rocks, and as Windcharger breaks formation to test their disguises, he clips into the cliff edge above them. In the same shot, "Wildrider"'s windows are the same gray as his body, rather than red.
[[File:Huge Ironhide and Small Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Introducing Ultra class Ironhide and Scout class Ratchet.]]
*As a result of animation cels being stacked incorrectly, Ratchet appears teeny-tiny in the front of a crowd shot, making Ironhide look colossal by comparison. The tiny Ratchet should, of course, be (barely visible) at the ''back'' of the crowd.
[[File:Masquerade-menasor-modelchange.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Model make no sense! Menasor confused."]]
*Menasor's limbs:
**When the Stunticons combine at Autobot Headquarters, Motormaster transforms to robot mode... and then the other Stunticons just clip onto him, rather than forming additional new limbs. Of course, it kinda sorta fits with the screwed-up way Menasor is often drawn, but this version has ''Motormaster's feet''.
**During his escape, Menasor constantly changes back and forth between having Dead End and Drag Strip attached ''to'' his arms, and having them ''as'' his arms. (It should be the latter.)
**As Menasor lands at the crater, two successive shots show him from exactly the same angle. In the first, his Drag Strip arm is drawn as the "clip-onto-Motormaster" model... and in the very next shot, it's drawn as the "Drag Strip forms the whole arm" model.
*When Menasor takes off to warn Megatron, he has a purple [[Autobot]] insignia.
*Menasor's under-arm lasers only appear when the plot calls for them - when he fires them in Autobot Headquarters, and again when he fires them on the fake Menasor. The first time, they're dark gray; the second time, they're white.
*Mirage's Autobot symbol is missing as he transforms.
*The weapon's beam comes from ''beside'' the barrel, rather than coming out of it.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:G1 Masquerade Warpath crushes DeadEnd.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Masquerade BreakdownWildriderdefeated.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*During their construction in "[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1]]", Megatron notes that he has outfitted the Stunticons with "automatic force fields that make their hulls impenetrable", which accounts for how well they did in battle. Yet in this episode they are easily taken down by second string Autobots, including non-fighters such as Grapple and Hoist. Warpath even manages to simply punch right through Dead End! Clearly they have been skimping on their scheduled maintenance.
*Motormaster's [[transformation scheme]] greatly differs from that of Optimus Prime - yet after donning his Motormaster disguise, Optimus transforms exactly like Motormaster does. (However bizarre this seems, it was clearly scripted - so we also count it as a possible technology, under Continuity Notes below.)
*The Stunticons are all badly beaten up after their capture. But when they escape, they're suddenly in perfect shape - able to drive, transform, combine and fight with no problems.
*"The weapon [is] but minutes from completion. And then..." "And then... what?" A fine question, indeed! Megatron's crazy laser thing is stuck down in the bottom of a crater, with no obvious way to move about or blow up anything that doesn't come popping down into the crater.
*The Autobots account for their ability to merge (Windcharger's magnetic field) and for the fake Menasor's face (Mirage's hologram) but where do they get working ''hands'' for their fake Menasor?
*Toward the end, Menasor, a powerful combiner cowardly retreated from average size Autobots instead of fighting them. Who knows, perhaps Superion and Defensor were in the background not shown.

===Sci-Fi Channel edits===
*In the mid-1990s, many G1 episodes were aired on the [[Cartoon Quest|SciFi]] [[Animation Station|Channel]]. To allow expanded advertising time, they were edited down, cutting "unnecessary" dialog and scenes out. Some of the "unnecessary" dialog cut from this episode included parts of Grapple and Inferno's lines, resulting in them collectively uttering "Time to add firobably hate myself in the morning, but..."

===Continuity notes===
[[File:Masquerade Jazz camouflage paint.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Soundwave fly.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Huh? Tape-bot cannot fly!]]
*It's never explained just how the Autobots disguise themselves. Sideswipe says something about camouflage paint and the Autobots are transformed, details and all, into the Stunticons. It's apparently some high-tech stuff, because it even lets Optimus totally change his transformation scheme. And it just turns right off once Optimus decides the gig is up.
*Gadgets and powers:
**Soundwave informs us that Menasor has "special powers"... which seem to consist of a couple of under-arm mounted guns.
**Sideswipe and Mirage both fire their shoulder missiles, which the writers and animators usually seem to forget about.
**Soundwave can fly in his tape deck mode! When the Decepticons retreat, he transforms and then flies off behind Starscream. It is tempting to assume that the animators took a script direction like "the Decepticons transform and fly off in retreat" a bit too literally.
**Mirage can project a hologram of Menasor's face. This runs contrary to his usual schtick, which is invisibility. His original bio described him as being able to create "the illusion of a different appearance" for up to six minutes, but this is the only time it pops up in the cartoon (presumably because holograms were Hound's gimmick... though per the bio, Hound's great power is to create ''maps'', and simple images on rare occasions.)
*Megatron explains his weapon-du-jour thusly: "The most destructive weapon known to Decepticon science...Utilizing that ruby's light, focused through those perfect lenses, it will fire the most destructive ray of all. More powerful than any laser, it will create a chain reaction in whatever it touches... producing instantaneous destruction." Based on the animation, this appears to be a long-winded way of saying "It blows up rocks."
*Hasn't Megatron learned his lesson about building [[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|giant superlasers that can't be moved]]? [[B.O.T. (episode)|Apparently not]]!
*Megatron's line "Suggestion noted...AND IGNORED!" when Soundwave warns him would be revisited during the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[Nemesis Part 2]]" when his [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|namesake]] utters those exact sentiments to [[Dinobot II]] on board the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''.
*Two scenes deleted from this episode feature the individual Stunticons talking with each other ''while'' combined as Menasor, only for Menasor himself to then silence all of his components, because their chatter is confusing him! Even without this dialogue, the finished episode portrays Menasor as almost adorably dumb and easily bamboozled - utterly baffled, for example, when Prime accuses him of being an imposter.
*This episode marks the final appearances of [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] in the American version of the original ''Transformers'' cartoon.

===Real-life references===
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' engine roar as Laserbeak flies over the faux Stunticons.
**A lengthy sequence of borrowed effects follows as Laserbeak flies onwards - sounds include the ''Falcon'' engine burst, a [[TIE Fighter]]'s targeting computer, [[Death Star]] superlaser, and ''Falcon'' engine whine. As he returns to Soundwave, he gets another ''Falcon'' engine burst.
**''Falcon'' engine and [[X-wing Fighter|X-Wing]] diving whine as Menasor flies away from Autobot Headquarters.
**X-Wing and TIE Fighter roar as the Constructicons fly off... and again as Menasor flies off... and again as Starscream and Soundwave fly off.
**A variety of [[lightsaber]] noises as Megatron fires his super not-a-laser weapon.

===Trivia===
[[File:Dragstripcartoon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Dead End and Drag Strip, your job is to upsell."]]
*In full sell-my-toy mode, Motormaster gives a quick introdump at the episode's start, naming off his troops, and then ''again'' a moment later as he hands out assignments.
*In case you missed it, the Autobots chosen to impersonate the Stunticons are based specifically on [[alternate mode]]s. Given this attention to detail, it's not infeasible to think that the plot of this episode may have originally called for the Autobots to simply have their alternate modes painted, since they consistently refrain from transforming once in the Decepticon camp:
**Although the specific models don't line up, Prime and Motormaster both transform into semi trucks
**Jazz and Dead End are both Porsches
**Breakdown and Sideswipe are Lamborghinis
**Mirage and Drag Strip are both Formula 1 race cars (albeit very different-looking ones)
**And.... weeeeell, Windcharger's a Pontiac Firebird and Wildrider's a Ferrari, but the plot demanded Windcharger for his magnetic abilities. This would also explain why a different device, a projector of some sort, is used to disguise him rather than the camouflage paint.
*Whether by inspiration or by parallel reasoning, several toy redecos have followed the pattern of this episode:
**''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[:File:ClassicsLOCMenasor.jpg|Menasor]] is a [[redeco]] from ''[[Legends Class|Legends of Cybertron]]'' [[:File:LOC CybertronPrime.jpg|Optimus Prime]], [[Transformers: Generations#Asian market exclusives .28.22GDO.22.29|GDO]] [[:File:GenerationsMotorbreathToy.jpg|Motorbreath]] is a retool of ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'' [[:File:TF2010-toy Legends Optimus Prime.jpg|Optimus Prime]] and ''Animated'' Motor Master is a retool of ''Animated'' Optimus Prime. ''[[Transformers: Generations#Combiner Wars .282015-.29|Combiner Wars]]'' Voyager class [[:File:GenerationsVoyOP.jpg|Optimus Prime]] also got [[:File:Generations-CW Voyager Motormaster stock.jpg|a Motormaster retool]].
**''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[:File:Universe2008 DragStrip.jpg|Drag Strip]] is made from ''Classics'' [[:File:Classics Mirage toy.jpg|Mirage]]. ''Combiner Wars'' [[:File:CWDlxMirage.jpg|Mirage]] is also a [[:File:Generationstoy-Dragstrip.jpg|Dragstrip]] retool.
**At one point there was intended to be a ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Binaltech]]'' [[Wildrider (G1)#Notes|Wildrider]] created from ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[:File:AltWindcharger toy.jpg|Windcharger]] (or rather, his ''Binaltech'' [[:File:Binaltech Overdrive Toy.jpg|counterpart]]), but that never eventuated.
**[[Don Figueroa]] used ''Universe'' [[:File:Universe2008 SideSwipe toy.jpg|Sideswipe]] as a basis for the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] version of Breakdown, and the toy's mold was used for both the ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[BotCon 2010]] [[:File:BreakdownBotcon.JPG|''Generation 2''-esque Breakdown]] toy and the ''Timelines'' [[Transformers Collectors' Club|TFCC:]] [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service|TFSS]] [[:File:TFSS Preview Breakdown.jpg|Generation 1-esque Breakdown]] toys! Furthermore, ''Animated'' Breakdown uses the same mold as ''Animated'' Sideswipe (the Rodimus Minor mold).
**''[[Titanium Series]]'' [[:File:ROTF-toy DeadEndTitanium.jpg|live-action movie Dead End]] reuses [[:File:Movie TitaniumRM Jazz.jpg|live-action movie Jazz]]'s mold, while the ''Timelines'' toy of an [[:File:Animated Dead End Toy.JPG|''Animated''-esque Dead End]] is a redeco of ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' [[:File:Animated jazz both mode1.JPG|Jazz]].
*If any one episode served to cement Megatron's poor reputation among certain (more snarky) elements of the fandom, this is surely it. He comes up with a madcap scheme to build a useless weapon, doesn't listen to any of his troops' rather intelligent suggestions, insults his underlings for no reason, misses the obvious, toys with his enemies, pouts when he loses, and flies off with nothing in the end.
*Man, Starscream saw through the whole charade in about two seconds, didn't he?
*Admit it, when you were a kid you wanted those Autobots to actually combine. [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Happy now?]]

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title (Generation 2 dub):'' "'''Perfekte Tarnung'''" ("Perfect Disguise")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 17]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''I falsi Stunticons'''" ("The Fake Stunticons")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Sotto copertura'''" ("Undercover")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Masquerade'''" (マスカレード)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 19]], [[1986]]

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Shēn Rù Hǔ Xué '''" (深入虎穴, "Deep Through the Decepticon's Lair")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1990 — ''Transformers'' — Cosmic Rust / Masquerade ([[Tempo Video]])
;[[Wikipedia:LaserDisc|LaserDisc]]
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 8 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 06: Stagione Due Parte Quarta ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-63.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

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

Masquerade

2017-11-11T18:20:32Z

Mzawutang:

{{episode
|image=Masquerade Menasors.JPG
|caption=Menasor crush...destroy knockoff.
|series=G1toon
|ep=64
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=61
|prev2=War Dawn (episode)
|next2=Fire in the Sky
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|The Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=21
|prev3=The Revenge of Bruticus
|next3=Ghost in the Machine (G1)
|title="Masquerade"
|written by=[[Donald F. Glut]]
|production code=700-63
|airdate=[[December 16]], 1985
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''After defeating the Stunticons, five of the Autobots pose as the crazed combiners to learn of Megatron's newest plan.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Masquerade prime vs mmaster.jpg‎|left|thumb|Shortly after this, Menasor threw up.]]
[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] sends the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] on a mission to find components for an unrevealed purpose, including the world's largest, most perfect ruby. While searching for their components, the actions of the Stunticons catch the attention of the [[Autobot]]s, who track their movements and their crimes. Breakdown and Wildrider get the first component: laser lenses from a scientist. Dead End and Drag Strip get the second component: an experimental generator from the Army. Motormaster gets the last one: a perfect ruby from a museum.

The Autobots split into teams and manage to be extremely effective at capturing the Stunticons in the middle of their capers. [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] take on [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] take on [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] and [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]. Finally, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] go for [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], who challenges the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] to a game of “chicken” and ends up in a head-on collision. Spike, Bumblebee, and Blaster peer through the dust to see who survived, and it turns out that Optimus is the clear victor with merely a minor headache, while Motormaster lies in a wreck.

[[File:Masquerade Wheeljack Optimaster.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|No Motormaster disguise is complete without a hunk of Big League Chew.]]

Although all five Stunticons have been captured, the Autobots still don’t know what their plans were for the components they stole for Megatron. [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] guesses that the parts are going to be made into a weapon. (Nooo, really?) Optimus hatches a scheme to disguise Autobots using [[camouflage paint]] and penetrate the Decepticon camp disguised as Stunticons: Optimus Prime as Motormaster, [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] as Dead End, [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] as Breakdown, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] as Drag Strip, and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] as Wildrider.

[[File:Sideswipe FakeBreakdown.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Sideswipe? I, Breakdown, have never heard of such a being!]]

The disguised Autobots infiltrate the Decepticons, although their arrival causes [[Starscream (G1)|some]] raised eyebrows because they are driving too "safely". They deliver the stolen components to Megatron without being detected.

Back at [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], the Stunticons manage to shimmy and shake their way out of their cells, merge into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and overcome their Autobot captors. They then head back to the Decepticon base.

[[File:Masquerade Megatron manning gun.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|We've been here before.]]

The Constructicons complete Megatron’s new weapon, and he reveals its power, but just then Menasor arrives and declares the Autobots as infiltrators. Using Windcharger’s magnetic field ability and Mirage’s illusion power, the Autobots merge into their own Menasor. The two giants battle it out, and the Autobots are overcome. Megatron trains the new weapon on the Autobots, but the device blows up in his face after a few scattered shots.

Autobot reinforcements arrive, and the Decepticons flee without their usual promises for revenge. It is revealed that Ironhide had made adjustments to the ruby back at Autobot HQ, which caused the device to explode. The Autobots head for home, victorious.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (9)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (10)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (12)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (13)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (14)
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (18)
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (19)
*[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] (20)
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (21)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (22)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (23)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (24)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (25)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (26)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (27)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (28)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (29)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (30)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (31)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (32)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] (2)
*[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (3)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (4)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (5)
*[[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]] (6)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (7)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (8)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (33)
*[[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (34)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (35)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (36)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (37)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (38)
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (39)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (11)
*Dr. [[Rickel]] (15)
*US Army troops (16)
*Museum guards (17)
}}

==Quotes==
"A near miss deserves a couple o' near-missiles!"
:—'''Inferno'''

"I'll probably hate myself in the morning, but..."
:—'''Inferno''' before he douses the flames on the Stunticon Breakdown

"Well, look who's here! The old King of the Road! When I'm finished with ya, you'll be King of the Junkyard!"
:—'''Motormaster''' taunting '''Optimus Prime''' into a game of chicken

''[The Autobots are towing the defeated Stunticons to Autobot Headquarters]'' 
'''Wheeljack''': Here they come. 
'''Ratchet''': I won't bother asking who won. 
'''Breakdown''': ''(taking note of the Autobots looking at them)'' They're gawking at us! How mortifrying! 
'''Dead End''': The word, Breakdown, is mortiFYing, my sentiment exactly. 
'''Motormaster''': I'm in no mood for your big words, Dead End. 
'''Ironhide''': For you, motormouth, this '''IS''' a dead end.
:—Motormaster complains about Dead End's SAT-level vocabulary

"Man, Optimus. You're a dead ringer for Motormaster." 
"Did you have to say ''dead'' ringer, Spike?"
:—'''Spike Witwicky'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s vocabulary causes '''Optimus Prime''' to wince.

[[File:Masquerade as i preducted.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
"Everybody out on bad behavior!"
:—'''Breakdown''' after freeing himself and taking out Inferno, Grapple, and Hoist.

"Imagine my turning that ray on the Autobots' headquarters. Perhaps when it's gone, someone will put up a memorial parking lot. Mwahaha!"
:—'''Megatron'''

"Machine appears unstable. Suggest abandoning it." 
"Suggestion noted—and ignored!"
:—'''Soundwave''' warns '''Megatron''', for all the good it does.

==Notes==
===Animation or technical glitches===
*Coloring errors:
**As Motormaster hands out assignments, Drag Strip has a random rectangle drawn in the middle of his visor, and Dead End's face is miscolored - his mouthplate is light gray instead of yellow, and his visor is red instead of purple.
**As Optimus gets his idea after watching the broadcast, the triangles on his waist are gray instead of yellow.
**As Laserbeak returns to Soundwave, Soundwave is missing his Decepticon insignia, as well as the gold stripes around his cassette door (which is drawn too small as well). He also doesn't move his mouthplate when he speaks.
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) drives up to Megatron, his door is colored purple like his windows (and his window rims are colored purple too.) A shot later, it's back to black, but the ''next'' shot (Starscream asking about his voice) shows his grille as black instead of gray. The same thing happens as the real Motormaster busts out of the Autobot cell.
**Just after dismissing the Constructicons, Megatron's face is white.
**"And the Autobots are totally unaware of its existence" - "Breakdown" is colored as Sideswipe. (Of course, he IS Sideswipe, but should be... oh, you get the point.)
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) asks about the weapon, Megatron's forehead colors are reversed (black forehead with gray triangles).
**As "Motormaster" (Optimus) says, "Too many head-on collisions!," his headlights are black instead of white.
**"Motormaster"'s black grille returns again as Megatron explains the weapon, recurring in numerous shots.
**Soundwave's cheekguards and eject button are both blue instead of white as Starscream mocks Megatron.
**Soundwave's missing the gold rim around his tape door as he and Starscream move toward the impostor Stunticons.
**"No, he's the imposter!" - "Drag Strip" is missing his Decepticon symbol (and possibly some striping, depending on which color model you trust.)
**"There's one absolute test, 'Stunticons'" - Dead End's tires are white; Soundwave's cheekguards are blue instead of white again. The same error repeats when Starscream calls out for Menasor to destroy the Autobots.[[File:Masquerade Megatron manning gun.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
**When Megatron first grabs the laser, he's colored in reverse (light gray body with a dark gray face).
**Drag Strip is white instead of yellow as Menasor swings his sword. When Menasor hits the fake with the sword, Drag Strip is attached backwards, with his wheels pointing outward.
**When "Motormaster" reverts to Optimus Prime, his headlights aren't colored white and he's missing the horizontal lines on the crest of his helmet.
**"No need for the disguises anymore" - Prime's face is a darker gray than his mouthplate in most of this shot; they should be the same tone. For a second, the faceplate darkens then lightens again.
**When the Autobots begin firing on Menasor, his face is entirely black.
**Just before Megatron fires the laser, Windcharger is miscoloured in green and gray (with yellow stripes on his arms, like Hound).
**As he stares at the destroyed weapon, Sideswipe's fist is white instead of black.
*When Motormaster says "Breakdown and Wildrider", he points to each robot as he says the other's name.
*The Stunticons land on a beach and each of them kicks up sand when they land. A few moments later, they transform and drive off, and no sand is disturbed by their tires.
*The Stunticons clearly never had detailed transformation models worked out:
**Every time the four cars transform to [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], they more or less just morph into their Earth forms. When they transform back to [[robot mode]], all the robot bits just slide out from under their car modes, which disappear into their backs.
**Motormaster's transformation is similarly wonky; his arms are just kind of absorbed lengthwise into his torso, which then morphs into his trailer - rather than the arms ''becoming'' the trailer's roof, as they should. Every time he transforms, his trailer/torso rather blatantly changes color from light to dark gray (or vice versa.)
*Ventriloquist bots:
**Ratchet's voice actor in this episode is [[Wally Burr]], not the usual [[Don Messick]], and it shows. Burr uses the same generic deep voice he used for Thundercracker in "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]" and Jazz in "[[Kremzeek!]]".
**"Yeah, but I don't have to like it" - Ironhide's mouth doesn't move for the first part of this line.
**Menasor's mouth doesn't move as he says his own name.
**As he flies off to "Destroy fake Stunticons", Menasor's mouth - again - doesn't move.
**As Bumblebee says, "Great Cybertron," Spike is mouthing the words.
**The Autobot Menasor gets knocked to the ground, but one who delivers "The generator..." line in Optimus' voice is the one standing up (with the sky behind him).
*Wildrider is missing his transformation sound effect as he approaches the optics shop; Breakdown does get one a second later.
*The experimental generator is inordinately tiny when it's sitting on the flatbed truck.
*Motormaster somehow transforms into (a ''tiny'') truck mode while still inside the museum. Also, a moment later as he drives away, he has a dark gray stripe on his trailer that shouldn't be there.
*While firing on Drag Strip, Warpath is shown driving forward while his treads are stationary.
*As Tracks goes into flight mode, the sandy beach suddenly has squares on it for one shot (as if it were pavement).
*As Motormaster comes into view before the crash with Prime, his bumper extends to the sides of his trailer rather than the sides of his cab.
*When rushing to inspect the aftermath of Optimus and Motormaster's game of chicken, Spike exclaims "I can't see anythi-". Before he can spit out "ng," Blaster cuts him off saying "I'm not getting any radio response."
*After the crash, just before Optimus transforms into robot mode, his cab's grille is missing the vertical line in the middle. His subsequent transformation looks very crude, especially around his legs.
*Blaster contacts the other Autobots and his chest lights up, but during Warpath's report it's no longer flashing.
[[File:G1 cartoon Motormaster slagged.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*As often happens, the animators mistake Motormaster's panel lines for the start of a second trailer. It's particularly visible in the last shot of his wrecked form after his collision with Prime.
*Optimus strokes his faceplate during the discussion of the Stunticons' plans, and his finger disappears for a moment.
*The broadcast of the doctor's announcement shows a building with the word "OPTCS" behind him. Earlier it was correctly shown as "REPUBLIC ''OPTICS'' COMPANY".
*The doctor's bow tie has grown to twice the size when he appears on TV.
*Jazz's waist is huge as he stands outside the paint chamber.
*When approaching the crater, Jazz appears to be driving above and not under rocks, and as Windcharger breaks formation to test their disguises, he clips into the cliff edge above them. In the same shot, "Wildrider"'s windows are the same gray as his body, rather than red.
[[File:Huge Ironhide and Small Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Introducing Ultra class Ironhide and Scout class Ratchet.]]
*As a result of animation cels being stacked incorrectly, Ratchet appears teeny-tiny in the front of a crowd shot, making Ironhide look colossal by comparison. The tiny Ratchet should, of course, be (barely visible) at the ''back'' of the crowd.
[[File:Masquerade-menasor-modelchange.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Model make no sense! Menasor confused."]]
*Menasor's limbs:
**When the Stunticons combine at Autobot Headquarters, Motormaster transforms to robot mode... and then the other Stunticons just clip onto him, rather than forming additional new limbs. Of course, it kinda sorta fits with the screwed-up way Menasor is often drawn, but this version has ''Motormaster's feet''.
**During his escape, Menasor constantly changes back and forth between having Dead End and Drag Strip attached ''to'' his arms, and having them ''as'' his arms. (It should be the latter.)
**As Menasor lands at the crater, two successive shots show him from exactly the same angle. In the first, his Drag Strip arm is drawn as the "clip-onto-Motormaster" model... and in the very next shot, it's drawn as the "Drag Strip forms the whole arm" model.
*When Menasor takes off to warn Megatron, he has a purple [[Autobot]] insignia.
*Menasor's under-arm lasers only appear when the plot calls for them - when he fires them in Autobot Headquarters, and again when he fires them on the fake Menasor. The first time, they're dark gray; the second time, they're white.
*Mirage's Autobot symbol is missing as he transforms.
*The weapon's beam comes from ''beside'' the barrel, rather than coming out of it.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:G1 Masquerade Warpath crushes DeadEnd.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Masquerade BreakdownWildriderdefeated.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*During their construction in "[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1]]", Megatron notes that he has outfitted the Stunticons with "automatic force fields that make their hulls impenetrable", which accounts for how well they did in battle. Yet in this episode they are easily taken down by second string Autobots, including non-fighters such as Grapple and Hoist. Warpath even manages to simply punch right through Dead End! Clearly they have been skimping on their scheduled maintenance.
*Motormaster's [[transformation scheme]] greatly differs from that of Optimus Prime - yet after donning his Motormaster disguise, Optimus transforms exactly like Motormaster does. (However bizarre this seems, it was clearly scripted - so we also count it as a possible technology, under Continuity Notes below.)
*The Stunticons are all badly beaten up after their capture. But when they escape, they're suddenly in perfect shape - able to drive, transform, combine and fight with no problems.
*"The weapon [is] but minutes from completion. And then..." "And then... what?" A fine question, indeed! Megatron's crazy laser thing is stuck down in the bottom of a crater, with no obvious way to move about or blow up anything that doesn't come popping down into the crater.
*The Autobots account for their ability to merge (Windcharger's magnetic field) and for the fake Menasor's face (Mirage's hologram) but where do they get working ''hands'' for their fake Menasor?
*Toward the end, Menasor, a powerful combiner cowardly retreated from average size Autobots instead of fighting them. Who knows, perhaps Superion and Defensor were in the background not shown

===Sci-Fi Channel edits===
*In the mid-1990s, many G1 episodes were aired on the [[Cartoon Quest|SciFi]] [[Animation Station|Channel]]. To allow expanded advertising time, they were edited down, cutting "unnecessary" dialog and scenes out. Some of the "unnecessary" dialog cut from this episode included parts of Grapple and Inferno's lines, resulting in them collectively uttering "Time to add firobably hate myself in the morning, but..."

===Continuity notes===
[[File:Masquerade Jazz camouflage paint.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Soundwave fly.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Huh? Tape-bot cannot fly!]]
*It's never explained just how the Autobots disguise themselves. Sideswipe says something about camouflage paint and the Autobots are transformed, details and all, into the Stunticons. It's apparently some high-tech stuff, because it even lets Optimus totally change his transformation scheme. And it just turns right off once Optimus decides the gig is up.
*Gadgets and powers:
**Soundwave informs us that Menasor has "special powers"... which seem to consist of a couple of under-arm mounted guns.
**Sideswipe and Mirage both fire their shoulder missiles, which the writers and animators usually seem to forget about.
**Soundwave can fly in his tape deck mode! When the Decepticons retreat, he transforms and then flies off behind Starscream. It is tempting to assume that the animators took a script direction like "the Decepticons transform and fly off in retreat" a bit too literally.
**Mirage can project a hologram of Menasor's face. This runs contrary to his usual schtick, which is invisibility. His original bio described him as being able to create "the illusion of a different appearance" for up to six minutes, but this is the only time it pops up in the cartoon (presumably because holograms were Hound's gimmick... though per the bio, Hound's great power is to create ''maps'', and simple images on rare occasions.)
*Megatron explains his weapon-du-jour thusly: "The most destructive weapon known to Decepticon science...Utilizing that ruby's light, focused through those perfect lenses, it will fire the most destructive ray of all. More powerful than any laser, it will create a chain reaction in whatever it touches... producing instantaneous destruction." Based on the animation, this appears to be a long-winded way of saying "It blows up rocks."
*Hasn't Megatron learned his lesson about building [[Fire on the Mountain (episode)|giant superlasers that can't be moved]]? [[B.O.T. (episode)|Apparently not]]!
*Megatron's line "Suggestion noted...AND IGNORED!" when Soundwave warns him would be revisited during the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[Nemesis Part 2]]" when his [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|namesake]] utters those exact sentiments to [[Dinobot II]] on board the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''.
*Two scenes deleted from this episode feature the individual Stunticons talking with each other ''while'' combined as Menasor, only for Menasor himself to then silence all of his components, because their chatter is confusing him! Even without this dialogue, the finished episode portrays Menasor as almost adorably dumb and easily bamboozled - utterly baffled, for example, when Prime accuses him of being an imposter.
*This episode marks the final appearances of [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] in the American version of the original ''Transformers'' cartoon.

===Real-life references===
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' engine roar as Laserbeak flies over the faux Stunticons.
**A lengthy sequence of borrowed effects follows as Laserbeak flies onwards - sounds include the ''Falcon'' engine burst, a [[TIE Fighter]]'s targeting computer, [[Death Star]] superlaser, and ''Falcon'' engine whine. As he returns to Soundwave, he gets another ''Falcon'' engine burst.
**''Falcon'' engine and [[X-wing Fighter|X-Wing]] diving whine as Menasor flies away from Autobot Headquarters.
**X-Wing and TIE Fighter roar as the Constructicons fly off... and again as Menasor flies off... and again as Starscream and Soundwave fly off.
**A variety of [[lightsaber]] noises as Megatron fires his super not-a-laser weapon.

===Trivia===
[[File:Dragstripcartoon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Dead End and Drag Strip, your job is to upsell."]]
*In full sell-my-toy mode, Motormaster gives a quick introdump at the episode's start, naming off his troops, and then ''again'' a moment later as he hands out assignments.
*In case you missed it, the Autobots chosen to impersonate the Stunticons are based specifically on [[alternate mode]]s. Given this attention to detail, it's not infeasible to think that the plot of this episode may have originally called for the Autobots to simply have their alternate modes painted, since they consistently refrain from transforming once in the Decepticon camp:
**Although the specific models don't line up, Prime and Motormaster both transform into semi trucks
**Jazz and Dead End are both Porsches
**Breakdown and Sideswipe are Lamborghinis
**Mirage and Drag Strip are both Formula 1 race cars (albeit very different-looking ones)
**And.... weeeeell, Windcharger's a Pontiac Firebird and Wildrider's a Ferrari, but the plot demanded Windcharger for his magnetic abilities. This would also explain why a different device, a projector of some sort, is used to disguise him rather than the camouflage paint.
*Whether by inspiration or by parallel reasoning, several toy redecos have followed the pattern of this episode:
**''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[:File:ClassicsLOCMenasor.jpg|Menasor]] is a [[redeco]] from ''[[Legends Class|Legends of Cybertron]]'' [[:File:LOC CybertronPrime.jpg|Optimus Prime]], [[Transformers: Generations#Asian market exclusives .28.22GDO.22.29|GDO]] [[:File:GenerationsMotorbreathToy.jpg|Motorbreath]] is a retool of ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'' [[:File:TF2010-toy Legends Optimus Prime.jpg|Optimus Prime]] and ''Animated'' Motor Master is a retool of ''Animated'' Optimus Prime. ''[[Transformers: Generations#Combiner Wars .282015-.29|Combiner Wars]]'' Voyager class [[:File:GenerationsVoyOP.jpg|Optimus Prime]] also got [[:File:Generations-CW Voyager Motormaster stock.jpg|a Motormaster retool]].
**''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[:File:Universe2008 DragStrip.jpg|Drag Strip]] is made from ''Classics'' [[:File:Classics Mirage toy.jpg|Mirage]]. ''Combiner Wars'' [[:File:CWDlxMirage.jpg|Mirage]] is also a [[:File:Generationstoy-Dragstrip.jpg|Dragstrip]] retool.
**At one point there was intended to be a ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Binaltech]]'' [[Wildrider (G1)#Notes|Wildrider]] created from ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[:File:AltWindcharger toy.jpg|Windcharger]] (or rather, his ''Binaltech'' [[:File:Binaltech Overdrive Toy.jpg|counterpart]]), but that never eventuated.
**[[Don Figueroa]] used ''Universe'' [[:File:Universe2008 SideSwipe toy.jpg|Sideswipe]] as a basis for the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] version of Breakdown, and the toy's mold was used for both the ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[BotCon 2010]] [[:File:BreakdownBotcon.JPG|''Generation 2''-esque Breakdown]] toy and the ''Timelines'' [[Transformers Collectors' Club|TFCC:]] [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service|TFSS]] [[:File:TFSS Preview Breakdown.jpg|Generation 1-esque Breakdown]] toys! Furthermore, ''Animated'' Breakdown uses the same mold as ''Animated'' Sideswipe (the Rodimus Minor mold).
**''[[Titanium Series]]'' [[:File:ROTF-toy DeadEndTitanium.jpg|live-action movie Dead End]] reuses [[:File:Movie TitaniumRM Jazz.jpg|live-action movie Jazz]]'s mold, while the ''Timelines'' toy of an [[:File:Animated Dead End Toy.JPG|''Animated''-esque Dead End]] is a redeco of ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' [[:File:Animated jazz both mode1.JPG|Jazz]].
*If any one episode served to cement Megatron's poor reputation among certain (more snarky) elements of the fandom, this is surely it. He comes up with a madcap scheme to build a useless weapon, doesn't listen to any of his troops' rather intelligent suggestions, insults his underlings for no reason, misses the obvious, toys with his enemies, pouts when he loses, and flies off with nothing in the end.
*Man, Starscream saw through the whole charade in about two seconds, didn't he?
*Admit it, when you were a kid you wanted those Autobots to actually combine. [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Happy now?]]

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title (Generation 2 dub):'' "'''Perfekte Tarnung'''" ("Perfect Disguise")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 17]], [[1994]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''I falsi Stunticons'''" ("The Fake Stunticons")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''Sotto copertura'''" ("Undercover")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Masquerade'''" (マスカレード)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 19]], [[1986]]

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Shēn Rù Hǔ Xué '''" (深入虎穴, "Deep Through the Decepticon's Lair")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1990 — ''Transformers'' — Cosmic Rust / Masquerade ([[Tempo Video]])
;[[Wikipedia:LaserDisc|LaserDisc]]
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 8 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 3: Series 2.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 06: Stagione Due Parte Quarta ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part Two (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume Two: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-63.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

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

The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1

2017-11-11T18:14:54Z

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{{episode|
|series=G1toon
|series2=2010
|ep=94
|ep2=31
|prev2=The Desperate Struggle of Justice
|next2=The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2
|image=ReturnOptimusPrime1 Optimus lives.JPG
|caption=And there was much rejoicing (yay).
|title="The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1"
|production code=700-115
|airdate=[[February 24]], [[1987]]
|written by=[[Marv Wolfman]] [[Cherie Wilkerson]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''An embittered scientist uses the body of Optimus Prime to unleash a dangerous plague on the Autobots and, ultimately, the universe.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:ReturnofOptimus1 Prime rescue.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|"You're right, it is athlete's foot."]]
While on a deep-space mission in the ''[[Solaris]]'' to test a new [[Impervious alloy|heat-and-radiation-resistant alloy]] that they have developed, scientists [[Jessica Morgan]] and [[Gregory Swofford]] detect a ship carrying [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s body on a collision course with a planetoid orbiting a star they are researching nearby. Despite Gregory's reservations (his face was scarred in a previous scuffle between Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], which he blames on Optimus), he is talked into helping Jessica rescue Prime's body before the ship collides with the planetoid, the impact of which also sets off the star into a supernova and coating their ship with unusual spores.

[[File:ReturnofOptimus1 Scattershot rescues Jessica.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Don't worry, I'll help you rescue your daug-OOH LOOK, A BUNNY!]]
Upon their return to [[Earth]], [[Mark Morgan|Jessica's father]] studies the spores and learns that they are not only alive, but are an [[Hate Plague|incredibly contagious viral agent]] that induces hatred and destructive urges into whoever they contaminate. After a new scuffle between the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] and [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] over the new alloy gravely injures Jessica, her father is convinced by Gregory to try and resurrect Prime's body as a carrier of the spores against the [[Autobot]]s, a sentiment exacerbated when it's learned Jessica was paralyzed from the waist down in the accident and now needs a special [[exosuit]] to walk. However, when reviving Prime's body turns out to be impossible for them, Gregory and Jessica's father decide to use it as bait for the other Autobots. Dr. Morgan forces Jessica to lure them into a spore trap at the lab.

The trap goes off without a hitch, mostly due to [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus]]' reckless haste in recovering his predecessor's corpse in lieu of caution, and several Autobots—including [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]], two of the most powerful Autobot gestalts—are infected. The [[Decepticon]]s have learned about Optimus Prime's recovery as well, and have shown up to terminate the former Autobot leader permanently, but are instead infected themselves. Fortunately, Rodimus, Jessica, and [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] manage to escape unharmed, the former two with Optimus' body; a few other Autobots manage to escape infection as well, but are badly wounded while attempting to subdue a sickened and crazed Superion.

[[File:ReturnofOptimus1 Magnus sneaks up.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Rodimus has [[Energy vampire|no reflection]]?]]
Back at Autobot City, Rodimus pleads to [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] to try and repair Prime, but Prime is too far gone even for [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]] medical experience. Desperate, Rodimus contacts [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] and orders him to locate and bring back a [[Quintesson]], remembering that they had [[Dark Awakening (episode)|once before restored Optimus to life]]. He then sets about disconnecting [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] to keep the city-former from becoming infected. However, just as he finishes the final steps to do so, an infected [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] appears. He gives chase to Rodimus before he's temporarily subdued by Wreck-Gar...who ends up becoming infected, and infecting Rodimus in return.

[[File:ReturnofOptimus1 Quintesson fixing Prime.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|You put your right arm in. You put your right arm out.]]
TV station [[KSUN]] reports that the Hate Plague, as it's now called, has spread like wildfire across the planet. Scenes of chaos and destruction unfold in [[Washington, D.C.]] and elsewhere. The plague has even made its way off-world, sending the Quintessons into hiding at the ends of the galaxy. Sky Lynx finds [[Klementia|an uninfected Quintesson]] who he saves from infected Sharkticons in exchange for reviving Optimus. The Quintesson warns that—should anything go too awry during the process — there's a good chance that Optimus will never live again. It's touch-and-go for a while, but eventually, the Quintesson manages to pull through and Optimus is restored to full life, declaring that "no force in the Universe can stop me."

[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2|To be continued]]...
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
{{collist|2|
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (4)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (11)
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (12)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (13)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (14)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (15)
*[[Computron (G1)|Computron]] (17)
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (18)
*[[Blades (G1)|Blades]] (19)
*[[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] (20)
*[[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]] (21)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (22)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (23)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] (24)
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (26)
*[[Groove (G1)|Groove]] (27)
*[[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (28)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (29)
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (30)
*[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (31)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (32)
*[[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (33)
*[[Chase (G1)|Chase]] (34)
*[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]] (35)
*[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]] (36)
*[[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] (37)
*[[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] (38)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (39)
*[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] (40)
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (51)
*[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] (52)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (53)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (54)
}}
|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (5; flashback)
*[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] (6)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (7)
*[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]] (8)
*[[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (9)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurrr]] (10)
*[[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] (16)
*[[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] (25)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (41)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (42)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (43)
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (44)
*[[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (45)
*[[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]] (46)
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (47)
*[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (48)
*[[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] (49)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (50)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (56)
*[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]] (57)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (58)
|c3=
*[[Gregory Swofford]] (1)
*[[Jessica Morgan]] (2)
*[[Mark Morgan]] (3)
*[[Bonnie Carlson]] (55)
|c4=
*[[Klementia|Quintesson judge]] (59)
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (60)
}}

==Notable quotes==
"Computron think too much!"
:—'''Abominus''', who subsequently shoots Computron

"Why do I keep seeing you in my dreams, Optimus? Are you telling me I'm not the leader ''you'' were? I already know that, Optimus. I always have."
:—'''Rodimus''' ponders in front of [[Optimus Prime memorial|Optimus's memorial statue]] in Metroplex.

[[File:ReturnOptimusPrime1 hate-plague Magnus.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
"Where's that punk Rodimus Prime?! I want him!" 
"There you are, you puny wimp!" 
"You can't escape, Rodimus! I can track your gas fumes anywhere!"
:—Several lines from infected '''Ultra Magnus''' as he tracks down Rodimus Prime. ''In virus veritas,'' indeed.

"The Autobots are acting like madmen!" 
"It's a madness plague, Galvatron. If one of those Transformers touches you, you're infected." 
"You're lying!" 
"Fine. Whatever makes you a happy Decepticon. Just watch your rear thruster."
:—'''Galvatron''' and '''Rodimus Prime'''

"I'm a doctor, not a forklift!" 
"His engines, they cannae take the strain!" 
"He's dead, Jim." 
:—'''Wreck-Gar'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s inspired medical descriptions of Optimus Prime's condition

"It's over, kid. I've won!" 
"Don't believe it, old friend!"
:—Infected '''Ultra Magnus''' blocks '''Rodimus Prime''', who evades him.

"Like I said before, kid. It's all over. What...? ARGH!" 
"And as ''I'' said before: Don't believe it."
:—Infected '''Ultra Magnus''' corners '''Rodimus Prime''', only to be lassoed by Wreck-Gar.

"I'm a pepper! Wouldn't you like to be a pepper, too?"
:—'''Wreck-Gar''' merrily spreads the infection.

"They've all gone mad. This is no place for me!"
:—The irony is lost on '''Galvatron.'''

"The world needs a leader now!"
:—'''Sky Lynx''' on the reactivation of Optimus Prime

"I've done it! Optimus Prime lives!" 
"It's true. Our leader is back." 
"Yes, Sky Lynx, and this time, no force in the universe can stop me."
:—'''Quintesson''' and '''Sky Lynx''' as the decidedly confident '''Optimus Prime''' is revived

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}
[[File:PrimeTommyInterviewAgain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] meets with [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] in the barren wasteland to continue his interview inquiring as to how Optimus came back from the dead. Tommy recaps the time Prime came back as a zombie and was blown to smithereens and is curious how Optimus escaped ''that'' one. Optimus proceeds to relate the adventures of his inanimate corpse...

Tommy wants to know the rest of the tale, but Optimus only teases the conclusion. Apparently, he promised [[Cloudburst]] that he would help him redesign his retro-rockets and the appointment can't wait. Prime sets Tommy down, but promises to return soon to transform his day into an adventure.
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==Notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
[[File:Swindle TROOP.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|"So we bought your daughter's exosuit from a Decepticon...what's so bad about that?"]]
*The first shot of Prime's ship shows it colored in orange. In all other shots, it's white with orange landing gear. And it looks totally different from its [[Dark Awakening (episode)|last appearance]].
*The first shot of Optimus Prime on Gregory's display shows him sitting in a red chair. It's yellow in other shots.
*As the duo first come upon Prime's body, he's missing the vertical line on his abs/grille.
*The animation and editing seem to conflate Prime's ship hitting the asteroid (shown using rather incongruently recycled animation from "Dark Awakening") with the star going nova at the same instant, conveying them as though they were the same event.
*If the star is going nova - shouldn't its light be visible outside the windows behind Jessica?
*In the first interior shot of Morgan's lab, the two test rats are already red before they've been infected. One is layered behind the glass box that's containing him, too.
*The screen separating the infected rats rises up out of solid table. In the same shot, the three humans' colors all change shade several times; meanwhile, the infected rats aren't glowing anymore.
*As Computron falls through the lab's ceiling, the hand that breaks through the building is colored purple like Abominus's.
*Abominus's visor is white instead of red as he stomps on the building; his helmet has some gray parts that should be purple as well.
*There's no transition between the Terrorcons being merged as they stomp on the building, and them showing up separated just a shot or two later.
*The Terrorcons grab the alloy in their beast modes, yet in the next shot they're running out with it in robot mode.
*As Jessica is being loaded into First Aid, Gregory and Mark are wearing smocks, not the suits and ties they wear in other shots.
*When Gregory and Jessica's father rush at the hospital and find the Autobots, [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] is amongst them. This does at least explain why Hot Spot is standing around in a ''hospital'' with a gun in his hand. Hot Spot's chestplate is also blue, instead of its proper red.
*Jessica grabs tops of Optimus' arm to try and save him from the incinerator (though one of her hands fails to actually connect with Prime's arm, instead floating just above it.) The next shot shows it towering over her.
*As he drives Jessica into Autobot City, Ultra Magnus is shown driving into a tunnel in one shot, but in the next he's in open air.
*Optimus' statue is missing the smoke stacks on its arms.
*The depressions on Rodimus' shoulders are white again in this episode. They were burgundy in the previous one.
*Rodimus' helmet is missing its horizontal line in this episode.
*When Rodimus is done talking to Optimus' statue, his head slides backwards. Twice.
*Rodimus' helmet is missing its horizontal line in this episode.
*When Defensor is shown after the Protectobots combine, his left arm is missing, and his forehead is colored blue instead of his eyes.
*After transforming to jet mode during Magnus's rollcall, Silverbolt sort of floats along at an angle.
*Steeljaw just pops into the frame during the Autobot rollcall.
*When Ratbat returns:
**A layering error has him in front of Soundwave's chest compartment door, instead of disappearing behind it.
**His cassette form is white instead of purple.
**Soundwave looks down after his chest closes up, but his faceplate stays in its previous position of looking upwards.
**Soundwave's vocoded voice processing (provided by [[Scott Brownlee]]) sounds higher pitched than usual.
*When Galvatron says, "So Optimus Prime may yet live." For a second his chin turns black.
*When the Jessica exits Rodimus, she's wearing her space suit and not wearing her exoskeleton.
*When Jessica points at the lab, her neckline is layered over her hand.
*When Rodimus dispatches some of the Autobots to watch the area around the lab, Wheelie is missing his Autobot symbol.
*Before entering the lab to retrieve Prime's body, Rodimus gives orders to Defensor...though Defensor is shown as the one mouthing all of those orders. In the same shot, Chase is colored as Goldbug (who hasn't even been built yet!)
*The red glow around infected characters seemed to create all kinds of problems for the animators:
**The glow aura is frequently out of step with the animation or visible through objects in front of them
**Infected characters often become briefly transparent, allowing background objects to be seen through them.
**Often characters are just red, without the glowing aura effect, as when Superion breaks through the lab roof.
*When the Autobots get infected, several are shown clipping through each other.
*Slingshot is shown mouthing Magnus's lines about "that punk Rodimus Prime".
*Jessica's bracelet disappears from and re-appears on her right wrist throughout the episode - including during the shot when she turns to run back to the lab (when Rodimus says "We've got to get Optimus outta here!")
[[File:ROOP1 superion hateplague.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*Superion shoots a gun with the sound effect of Megatron's cannon. Defensor fires back with Optimus Prime's usual sound effect.
**Superion's still using the same sound effect later, along with a whining after-effect, when he takes out Kup and company.
**Then Ultra Magnus gets in on the act as he blasts his way into the Autobot lab with the same sound effects.
*Superion is not nearly as huge as he should be when he takes on the police officers.
*As Rodimus first makes his escape from Magnus, he drives past two [[Throttlebot]]s... with the Decepticon Wildrider standing between them. (at this point, the Decepticons have yet to arrive on the scene, let alone become infected.)
*Mark's thrown jar doesn't leave behind any pieces after it shatters.
*Galvatron's chin is gray in some shots, dark gray in others.
*As the Decepticons walk into the loading area, Bruticus is the same size as all the regular Decepticons.
*Rodimus's windshield is colored solid as he makes his escape from the lab.
*First Aid is shown brawling with the Decepticons at the lab; at this point he is out with the Protectobots, not yet infected.
*Kup's vehicle mode is drawn like a van instead of a truck as he pulls up behind Superion.
*Flying Autobots:
**Blurr sort of floats along sideways as he shoots at Superion.
*Superion manages to hit all the Autobots attacking him... without lifting his gun arm to shoot!
*Defensor's chest plates are blue instead of black as he tries to clear the bridge.
*Rodimus's mouth doesn't move as he starts talking about Quintessons.
*Sky Lynx is shown flying out of the solar system past Saturn, but it's colored white instead of yellow.
*When Rodimus notices Magnus behind him, his eyes are lined thicker than usual. He sees Magnus's reflection in the viewscreen, but not his own.
*When Wreck-Gar is about to infect Rodimus, Rodimus is all red before he's been infected.
*During Brawl's rampage, he somehow manages to infect an inanimate truck.
*As an unconscious man leans against this truck, a pair of infected people fight over both him and the truck, overlapping them as if it they weren't there.
*Headstrong bumps into Razorclaw; as Razorclaw gains the infected glow effect, a layering error causes him to jump from behind Headstrong to in front of him, and back again.
[[File:ReturnOptimusPrime1 InfectedVortex.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*Vortex, meanwhile, flies into a commercial jetliner through its passenger door! In the same shot, he's visible through the arm of a passing human. He also gets the Autobot laser sound effect when he opens fire.
*The rioting humans at the Lincoln Memorial are wielding bats which also glow infection-red.
*When Defensor picks up a stone monument to throw, the monument gains a red aura around it, but does not become red. The red aura disappears when the monument is thrown.
*Before being picked up by Sky Lynx, one of the Quintesson's faces flashes red for a moment.
*The Quintesson's death face is missing its left-side cresting as he prepares to reactivate Prime.
*The Quintesson's Egyptian-styled head is facing Optimus at the end, but one shot shows it facing backwards.
*During his famous line at the end of the episode, Optimus Prime's mouthplate isn't moving.

===Continuity errors===
[[File:Retcon.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Someone fixed Prime's body, but no one can fix the story.]]
*More or less this entire episode is a massive continuity error, as it purports to pick up at the end of Optimus Prime's last prior appearance in "[[Dark Awakening (episode)|Dark Awakening]]", yet actually presents entirely different conditions. In the prior episode, Optimus Prime lost an arm and half of his face (on top of his longstanding physical damage still left from the [[The Transformers: The Movie|animated movie]]), but was still alive as he managed to steer his ship at high speed through the heavy fire of a massed Quintesson spacefleet, deliberately ramming a detonator that caused a binary supernova and obliterated the ship and the entire solar system around it. Yet in this new episode, Optimus Prime is shown completely intact and pristine, albeit dead, as his (completely different) ship drifts, slowly and alone, through the system.
**Some of these inconsistencies can be attributed to the fact that "Dark Awakening" was animated by AKOM, and this episode by Toei.
**The original script addressed the events of "Dark Awakening," right down to his severely damaged state. It included sequences in which he was repaired by Dr. Morgan and Dr. Swofford in order to weaponize him with the spores. Interestingly enough, there were also scenes showing Rodimus Prime experiencing nightmares playing out in the celestial Autobot tomb, where he encountered his zombified predecessor. For some reason, most likely running time, these scenes didn't make it into the final episode.
*Jessica Morgan and Gregory Swofford detect life-signs aboard Optimus Prime's ship, but the Autobot is dead.
*Gregory says Prime's ship is about to collide with a planet, while the animation shows the ship approaching a small, irregular asteroid.
*Unlikely viewpoints:
**Gregory and Jessica get a shot of Prime sitting inside his ship.
*Superhuman <s>Spike</s> humans:
**Jessica Morgan and Gregory Swofford are able to lift, push and pull Optimus Prime's massive body out of his chair and onto their ship without any mechanical assistance or devices except a rope. There's no gravity in space, but objects still have mass and therefore inertia.
*Why didn't any of the Autobots notice Optimus Prime's body when they were loading Jessica into the ambulance? Sure he was half buried under rubble, but a truck-sized leader of your own faction shouldn't be ''that'' hard to notice?
*Why is Steeljaw part of the Autobot roll call when Blaster is not?
*Even though Ratbat's reconnaissance recording consists of nothing more than an ambiguous, one-line statement by Jessica Morgan - "My father has his body in the lab." - Galvatron immediately knows that she's referring to Optimus Prime.
*Why have the Protectobots merge before traveling to the lab? Did Defensor have to [[:File:Loveandsteel-runfortmaxrun.jpg|run the whole way?]]
*Doctor Morgan throws spores at Rodimus, apparently not noticing that ''his own daughter'' is inside him, even though we see her clearly through his windows in several other shots.
*When Jessica Morgan asks who built Optimus Prime in the first place, Rodimus Prime responds by saying the Quintessons did so - but it was [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] who rebuilt Orion Pax into Optimus. While the Quintessons are credited with creating the Transformer race, the timeline shown by "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]" and "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]" would have to be seriously stretched out of shape for Orion Pax to have been directly created by them - Orion's clearly meant to be a youngish 'bot in "War Dawn", long after the Quints have been driven off Cybertron.
*Why is Rodimus so desperate to bring Optimus back from the dead even after he's aware of the much more pressing concern of the Hate Plague?
*Improbable viewpoints:
**Rodimus contacts Sky Lynx and gets an exterior visual of him somehow.
*Rodimus decides to deactivate Metroplex to stop him from catching the plague, but Magnus is infected and already walking around on him well before Rodimus pushes the last switch.
*If the Quintessons really are "in hiding in the far reaches of the galaxy" as Sky Lynx claims, then how did any of the at-the-time-still-Earthbound Hate Plague carriers manage to find them, much less get all the way out there to infect them in the first place?
*For that matter, how the hell did these theoretical Hate Plague carriers manage to ''beat Sky Lynx to the Quintessons''?
*How are Sky Lynx and the Quintesson able to take the time to revive Optimus Prime without being attacked? Did all the other Autobots and humans leave Autobot City?
*And how does Sky Lynx know the Quintesson is repairing Prime back to the way he was before he died, rather than the brainwashed version from "Dark Awakening"? It's possible he stood and watched as they worked to ensure they didn't do just that.
*Sky Lynx seems to have shrunk to an average size Transformer when he with the Quintesson repairing Optimus Prime.

===Continuity notes===
[[File:ReturnOptimusPrime1 Chase infected.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Here begins an almost criminal legacy of scriptwriters abusing the Throttlebots.]]
*Seemingly thrown in at the last moment, the [[Throttlebot]]s make their debut. They're only visible in a handful of shots, Rollbar is missing, and none of them are identified by name.
*Swofford and Morgan must've spent ''one hell of a long time'' repairing Optimus Prime if they managed to retrieve him from the Quintessons' detonator all the way back to [[Dark Awakening (episode)|"Dark Awakening"]]. Either that, or Optimus died before his ship hit the detonator and his ship drifted precariously off course for the last several months.
*It's not clear what Rodimus means by "disconnecting" Metroplex; he apologizes as though it's a terrible thing, leading some fans to speculate that he was shutting him down for good - but later he says that Metroplex is "safe", implying that he's just... separated somehow.
*The Hate Plague can apparently infect any creature, both purely mechanical and biological.
*The Autobots are implied to have created the exosuit for Jessica so she can walk again. Hmm, one wonders if this technology could have been [[Chip Chase|useful before now]]…
*Even though it occurs in a flashback, this is ''technically'' the last appearance of Megatron in the original American series.

===Real-world references===
*Jessica mentions World War II.
*Courtesy of Wreck-Gar:
**"Lucy, Lucy, what have you done now?" Is a reference to ''[[wikipedia:I Love Lucy|I Love Lucy]]''.
**"I'm a doctor, not a forklift!" and "He's dead, Jim," reference popular quotes from ''[[Star Trek]]'' medic [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Leonard_H._McCoy Dr. Leonard H. McCoy].
**Similarly, "His engines, they cannae take the strain!" comes from another ''Star Trek'' character, namely [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Montgomery_Scott Montgomery Scott] (AKA Scotty), though this is often claimed to not be attributed to the character except for its use in parodies.
**"I'm a pepper! Wouldn't you like to be a pepper, too?" is a reference to an old [[wikipedia:Dr Pepper|Dr Pepper]] ad campaign in the late '70s to early '80s.
**"Well, excuuuuse us!" is a reference to a catchphrase of [[wikipedia:Steve Martin|Steve Martin]].
*A couple of the infection rioting scenes seem to portray [[Washington, D.C.]]. Humans are shown rioting at a badly-drawn Lincoln Memorial; the monument that Defensor throws ''may'' be intended to be the [[Washington Monument]], though it's awfully stumpy and shouldn't have a projecting cap on top. He throws it into a Classically styled building, another common DC element.

===Trivia===
*The resurrection of Optimus Prime in the show was a direct result of children's reactions to his death in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' and subsequent letters, as acknowledged by a Hasbro exec in a 1986 newspaper article. He didn't even have a toy on the shelves (which changed in 1988 with the release of Powermaster Optimus Prime).
*Jessica Morgan is named after co-writer Marv Wolfman's daughter.<ref>http://www.marvwolfman.com/marv/Speaking_With_Larry_Ditillio.html</ref>
*When Rodimus wants to put together a team to pick up a dead body from a couple of humans, he doesn't mess around, does he?

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime, Teil 1'''" ("The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Il ritorno di Commander, Parte 1'''" (First dub, "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1"), "'''Il ritorno di Optimus Prime, Parte 1'''" (Second dub, "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' コンボイの復活パート1 (''Convoy no Fukkatsu Part 1'', "The Resurrection of Convoy Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 18]], [[1987]]
:*A "[[Secret Files of Teletraan II]]" segment unique to Japan was attached to the end of this episode. It focuses on the many battles between the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s and the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]]s. It replaces the original "Secret Files" segment which focused on the Autobots.

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Qíngtiānzhù Fùhuó (shàng)'''" (擎天柱复活（上）,"Optimus Prime Revives, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 1987 — ''The Transformers'' — The Return of Optimus Prime ([[Family Home Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 1987 — ''Transformers'' — Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime (Erster Teil) ([[Polyband]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''Transformers'' — The Return of Optimus Prime: Optimus Prime the Ultimate Robot ([[Tempo Video]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1989 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime / Cosmic Rust (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2000 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 7: The Return of Optimus Prime ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;[[Wikipedia:LaserDisc|LaserDisc]]
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 2 & Season 4 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 5: Series 3.2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-3/synopses/700-115.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

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